Father Mavey Text Volume 241 Pursuit, Whales Under the night cover, the fleet spread out in a circle, encircling the Dickey main ship in the middle, and then a small frigate sailed out, barrels of kerosene
Pour it into the sea, and the viscous liquid floats up and rises slightly with the waves.
Fires at sea are often more terrifying than fires on land. Some sailors are worried about being unable to control the fire. Fortunately, not much kerosene is dumped, so it will not cause too much disaster.
After preparations were completed, Archbishop Brandon nodded, and a demon hunter walked to the bow of the ship, breathed out a fire dragon, and ignited the kerosene.
Flames shot up into the sky, black smoke billowed, the sea surface was burned red by the flames, and the high temperature hit his face. The second prince standing by the boat was blown by the heat wave, and he quickly took two steps back, and his breathing became difficult.
"Don't be afraid, Your Highness." Archbishop Brandon comforted: "Mermaids are afraid of light. After they find a fire on the sea, they usually stay away from the fire point, but it is their breeding season now, and they will not leave the estuary easily. At the same time, in order to
To prevent your partner from approaching the flames when they see them, they will also take the initiative to extinguish the flames.”
"Now that the sea is on fire, when will they appear?"
"It's hard to say." Archbishop Brandon said uncertainly: "First of all, this area must have mermaids. If mermaids did not move around in this area, naturally they would not be able to detect the fire on the sea surface. However, some fishermen have seen mermaids nearby.
, so as long as they find it, they will surface."
"Our entire fleet is here, do they dare to come?"
Archbishop Brandon smiled and shook his head: "Your Highness, mermaids are social creatures, and there are many more of them than us. They will either not show up, or they will form a group. Go and invite the saint out."
"yes!"
Several priests who were on board the ship walked into the cabin, and soon came back with a masked girl. The saint sent by the church was named Melissa. She was a follower of the sin goddess Tilde. She was 17 years old and came from Birmingham.
Ma Wei is not sure how many saints there are in the Church of the Three Goddesses of Destiny. Archbishop Brandon said there are two to three hundred, and most of them are arranged to sit in churches in various cities. However, there are many candidates for saints. Once the Saint
If there are casualties among women, they can be supplemented immediately.
As long as the daughter of the family is elected as a saint, she will receive rewards and subsidies from the church. Even if she does nothing, she can live a life without worries about food and clothing. If the saint unfortunately dies, she will also receive a large amount of pension.
Gold, you will basically have nothing to worry about in the rest of your life.
Thanks to this, many parents with daughters at home will rush to send their daughters to the church for testing. As long as the soul strength reaches the standard, the body is holy and they believe in any goddess, they can become candidates and go to the Holy See in London for training. This
It's not a bad thing, at least not before she actually becomes a saint.
Before becoming a saint, the church must ask candidates in the name of the goddess. Only candidates who are truly willing to dedicate themselves to the gods can become saints. Girls who are not firm in their faith or unwilling to become saints will also be sent home.
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After becoming saints, the missions shouldered by the girls are different. The church can meet most of their requirements, but they must obey the orders and restrictions of the church and stand up when the church needs it, otherwise.
You will end up like Deirdre.
This is the biggest advantage of believing in God. There will basically be no forced behavior against the will of believers. Everything is to ensure the base of believers.
To be honest, the life of the saints is indeed good. Their quality of life has reached the standards of the nobility. They have ceramic bathtubs, expensive mattresses, aromatherapy toys, and gorgeous clothes. There is only one thing - they need to apply to the church to go out.
, freedom is restricted, only half a day off per week, and the rest of the time must be spent in church.
No believer dares to behave obscenely towards the saint, as this is disrespectful to the goddess.
Melissa boarded the deck, her figure covered by a black robe, and stood at the bow of the ship, quietly overlooking the sea below that was dyed red by the fire, remaining silent.
As time passed, the mermaid did not appear at all, and the fire became smaller and smaller. The kerosene burned very quickly. Without the support of combustibles, the flame quickly disappeared into the vast sea. When the sea breeze blew, it completely dissipated.
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"Do it again! We have prepared a lot of kerosene! We will definitely lure the mermaids out!" Archbishop Brandon refused to give up and ordered the frigate to continue pouring kerosene into the sea.
"It's not enough to light a fire."
Melissa suddenly said: "Mermaids are extraordinary creatures with intelligence. They must be aware of the threat, so they dare not appear."
"Um"
Archbishop Brandon also thought of this possibility and sighed: "Mermaids can swim into the deep sea, but if they refuse to come out, there is nothing we can do."
"There is still a way."
"Holy girl, what do you mean?"
Melissa looked at Ma Wei and said in a clear voice: "I heard that Mr. Nicholas bought the mermaid's tears, right?"
".Yes."
"The tears of mermaids are priceless, and we can use them to attract mermaids." Melissa said, "Mermaids are extremely racial creatures. As long as they drop their tears into the sea, they can attract the same kind. We use tears as bait."
"What a joke!"
Before Ma Wei could say anything, the second prince couldn't help but rushed forward: "The tears of the mermaid are ready-made! How can we use ready-made things to invest in uncertain things? Wasting a tear may not necessarily attract the mermaid.
Even if you attract them, you may not be able to catch them, and if you catch them, you may not be able to find tears. Instead of doing this, it is better to save your tears for future use!”
The words of the second prince were not unreasonable. Archbishop Brandon was a little hesitant. He knew the feasibility of Melissa's suggestion, but the problem was that they were catching mermaids for the sake of tears, and they used tears for the sake of tears. In the end, they might be in vain.
"I believe Nicholas can get more mermaid tears, just a drop. The church can fully bear the consequences of trial and error, right?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Hearing this, everyone looked at Ma Wei, wanting to hear what he meant.
Under the gaze of everyone, Ma Wei shrugged: "It's just a tear. The cost is only 1,000 gold pounds. If you can catch a live mermaid, it will definitely be a good deal."
Even Ma Wei said this, and the second prince stopped insisting. Soon, Ma Wei took out a drop of mermaid tears in a glass bottle, opened the cork, and poured it into the ocean.
"ignition!"
call!
There was a raging fire on the sea surface again. Everyone looked at the sea water expectantly, hoping to attract the mermaid, but after more than ten minutes, the sea water was still calm and there was no reaction.
"Well, I just said it shouldn't be wasted."
The second prince sighed, feeling a little heartbroken. He didn't care about the 1,000 gold pounds, but he cared about the mermaid tears bought with 1,000 gold pounds. Gold pounds are common, but mermaid tears are rare. They can be encountered but not sought, and they are often expensive but not marketable.
The flames dissipated, the sea surface became calm again, and the high-pitched whistle also subsided. Archbishop Brandon shook his head: "Forget it, it seems that the mermaid has left this sea area. We are unlucky. There is nothing to say. Let's go back to sleep.
Let’s set sail for Paris tomorrow.”
After working hard for most of the night, they came back without success. Everyone was not very interested and walked towards the cabin. Ma Wei stepped into the cabin with one foot, suddenly his body was shaken and he covered his chest.
The magic wooden box trembled rapidly!
At the same time, Yunia raised her head, and Melissa and Archbishop Brandon looked behind them. Under the bright moonlight, they saw a strong man with disheveled hair standing on the bow deck of the ship, holding a hand in his hand.
Holding a trident covered with barnacles, his long black hair was dripping with water, and his pair of pale golden eyes stared coldly at the people who were about to enter the cabin, and his lower body
It turned out to be a fish tail!
Sirens!
"Everyone, mermaid!" A sailor yelled, whether because of excitement or fear, his voice was trembling: "The mermaid has appeared!!!"
The legendary mermaid was right in front of him. Archbishop Brandon could not conceal his excitement, but he did not dare to act rashly for fear of scaring the other party away.
Mermaids don't act alone, as long as they find one, there will be a swarm behind them!
The sound of splashing water came from both sides of the warship. The sailors standing on the watchtower saw countless creatures with human bodies and fish tails leaping under the sea. They surrounded the Dickey and did not know what they wanted to do.
After a confrontation for a while, Archbishop Brandon could no longer hold back. He glanced at Saint Melissa, rubbed the gold ring in her hand, and exchanged glances with the surrounding demon hunters and bishops, intending to catch her with lightning speed.
Live with the mermaids on the boat, and then capture the mermaids below the boat.
At this moment, the mermaid who jumped onto the deck seemed to have figured out what Archbishop Brandon was thinking. He smiled strangely, turned around and jumped into the ocean. Everyone rushed over and found the mermaid swimming straight ahead, looking like he was about to escape.
"No! They are trying to escape! Chase them quickly!"
The sound of the whistle echoed in the night sky, and the Dickey was running at full power, chasing the group of mermaids in front of it. The giant spears were shot out one after another, but they were still unable to hit the flexible mermaids. The two sides went one after the other and gradually went deeper into the sea.
"Brother, something is wrong." Levin whispered: "Why don't the mermaids escape to the deep sea and have to run forward? The ocean is their home field. No matter how fast the Dickey is, it can't catch up with them!"
"They want to lure us deep into the ocean."
Ma Wei took out the compass, looked at the sun and stars in the sky, began to measure the direction, and found that they were moving away from the land.
"Archbishop Brandon! This is a mermaid trap! We can't pursue it any longer!"
"I know this is a trap." Archbishop Brandon, who was standing at the bow of the ship, said: "The mermaids are very fast, and the current human ships cannot catch up with them. But now we have bitten them hard. The answer is only
It could be that they deliberately lured us."
"Since you know, why are you pursuing me?"
"Because this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!" Archbishop Brandon said excitedly: "I just counted, there are at least hundreds of mermaids! If we can catch a few and bring them back to London for breeding, how big a impact will it have on the church?
benefit?"
"But we know nothing about the mermaid's trap!" Ma Wei retorted: "If we continue chasing like this, who knows what we will encounter! We are rapidly approaching the sea of death!"
Archbishop Brandon nodded: "You cannot enter the Sea of Death. It is a taboo for navigation. Let's go this way. We will pursue for a while. Once we get close to the Sea of Death, we will stop the pursuit."
Ma Wei could see that Archbishop Brandon didn't know that the mermaid had set a trap, he just wanted to rely on the saint Melissa, or the sin goddess Tilde who could descend from the gods at any time, to defeat the mermaid's conspiracy head-on!
If Siren's Tears could be used, these mermaids would have no room to escape. Ma Wei had already controlled the sea water to imprison them, but Archbishop Brandon and others were present, so he could not take action.
"It's okay, Nicholas." Archbishop Brandon comforted: "The sin goddess Tilde can come forcibly. With the goddess here, the mermaid trap is nothing to fear."
With the medium of the Saint, Tilde, the goddess of sin, can indeed descend, but it also depends on the way she descends.
The first method is ordinary divine descent. Only the projection descends, allowing Tilde's will to control Melissa's body. The further away from the location of the god, the weaker the power that can be borrowed.
The second way is to force the gods to descend, just like Anatole at the beginning, by dedicating the soul and body of the saint to guide Tilde's true body to descend, at the cost of the saint Melissa's soul being destroyed.
Obviously, in order to catch the mermaid, Archbishop Brandon had the idea of sacrificing the Saint Melissa. Perhaps in his view, the Saint was a consumable. After using one, there will be another one, which is inexhaustible.
Inexhaustible.
The fleet pursued the mermaids until the next morning. When the sun slowly rose from the skyline, the pursuit was not over yet. Many sailors were exhausted and sleepy, but the mermaids ahead showed no signs of slowing down.
"In half an hour at most, we have to return."
Captain Joshua came to the deck with bloodshot eyes and said to Archbishop Brandon: "Now we have deviated from the safe channel and will enter the death sea in half an hour. It is almost time to end."
Archbishop Brandon was a little reluctant, but he also understood in his heart the consequences of entering the sea of death rashly. Even with the protection of the goddess, it would be difficult to escape from the forbidden land of death shrouded in storms.
"Archbishop! The mermaid has slowed down!"
Hearing the shouts of the sailors, everyone looked up. Sure enough, the mermaids were no longer as active as before. Their speed had slowed down a lot. The fleet had already rushed into their ranks. Under the sea, the fish tails could be clearly seen shaking.
"They're exhausted!"
Archbishop Brandon's eyes lit up and he was about to order the capture of the mermaid when he suddenly heard the slightly trembling voice of the second prince: "Whale Whale"
"Whale? What whale?"
Archbishop Brandon looked in the direction that the second prince was looking, and found a group of whales swimming rapidly toward the sea of death shrouded in storm clouds in the distance. There were humpback whales, blue whales, and sperm whales of all kinds, and all kinds of strange things.
Seeing the whales approaching quickly, Joshua's pupils contracted slightly, and he suddenly remembered the Royal Navy that was attacked by an unknown creature two years ago.
According to survivors, they also saw a pod of whales before they were attacked!