"Fresh cod fillet ~ pour lemon juice on it, fry over low heat for seven minutes, top with hot oyster sauce..."
In the galley on the ship, Nora hummed softly while skillfully flipping the cod pieces in the pan with a spatula and letting the low heat continue to heat to absorb the juice.
The sea breeze blew in through the open porthole, taking away the oil smoke in the kitchen. She pulled her hair to her ears with some comfort, and then turned down the fire slightly to avoid being disturbed by the wind.
Suddenly, the boat accelerated rapidly, and the pan on the stove was thrown up by the inertia. Nora subconsciously dodged sideways, and the pan hit the wall behind her, and the soup inside splashed all over her.
Nora:………………
Well, the burns caused by the soup were nothing, just that the clothes were stained, the fish pieces were fried in vain, and the good mood just now was completely ruined.
She silently cleaned the floor, threw the dirty fish pieces into the trash can, then picked up the pan and put it away.
Then Nora left the kitchen and walked toward the captain's cabin without saying a word.
In the captain's cabin, Peggy was so frightened that she almost cried. She kept flipping through the operation manual and looking at here and there on the dashboard, looking timid as if she wanted to try but was afraid of making things worse. She was really
I felt pity for him.
"Peggy?" Nora's voice sounded from behind.
"Nora!" Peggy pulled her over as if she was a savior, and explained at a loss, "I just... pushed the speed gear, and then the boat suddenly accelerated... I, I didn't do anything.
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"Let me see." Nora looked at the power dial carefully, "Yes, the power is only the first gear. But why is the boat going so fast..."
"What are you doing?" Sheila's voice sounded outside the door.
The two of them looked back and saw Sheila standing outside the captain's room with an unhappy look on her face, her hair also wet... Thinking of what happened to the fish fillets in the pan in the kitchen, they also thought that they had seen Sheila sitting in the rest area, holding a piece of fish.
While reading a book with a cup of black tea, Nora seemed to have guessed something.
Well, we are in the same boat, and we will go back to Fire Island to clean up later.
"It's not a problem with the driving." Nora stared at the sea rushing backwards out of the porthole, "It should be some kind of external force pushing the ship forward."
"External force?" Sheila was slightly stunned, then she opened the porthole and looked out.
As soon as she opened the porthole, the sound of fierce waves, splashing water, and some kind of faint shouts came to her face. Sheila listened silently for a while.
Hidliefa, it seems to be Hidliefa’s laughter.
"They are on the deck." Sheila turned around and said.
When the three girls came to the deck, they saw Aske standing next to him, hesitant to speak, while Sidley stepped on the side of the ship and laughed excitedly into the wind, holding a steel rope tightly in her hand.
One end of the steel cable is fixed to the whaling gun on the side of the ship, and the other end is deep into the sea ahead. A huge figure is swimming desperately below, dragging the entire ship forward quickly through the straight steel cable.
It's like a motorboat driving at full speed.
"That's..." Nora was stunned for a moment, "Whale?"
"That's right." Sidrifa stopped laughing and turned to explain to everyone, "After it is exhausted and bled, we will have whale meat to eat tonight!"
Seeing the dizzy scarlet on the sea, and sensing the painful, fearful and helpless emotions of the giant beasts in the sea, Nora couldn't bear it a little, and persuaded Sidrifa:
"It's a little pitiful. Why don't we let it go? Anyway, we don't lack food."
"Why?" Hidrifa immediately became unhappy, "You must not let go of a prey that has fallen into a trap! Otherwise, it will come back to take revenge!"
Revenge? Nora was a little angry when she heard this, but also a little funny: "You have hurt it so much, will it come back to take revenge on you? I don't believe it."
"Nora, if someone stabbed me and didn't kill me, I would definitely take revenge!" Sidrifa said matter-of-factly.
Nora:………………
Well, this is indeed the case with Sidliefa's character, but whales are just animals without intelligence. How can they hold grudges like humans?
Seeing that she couldn't move Sidrifa, Nora turned her eyes to Ask for help next to her.
Ask:???
So don’t drag me into the disputes between you!
Of course, this idea is actually a bit disdainful, because the leader has the responsibility to mediate the conflicts between subordinates, so he did not complain out loud.
But your contradiction is a bit too simple and crude.
Asker himself is neither an animal protectionist nor a whaling enthusiast. To him, whales are probably just a source of food, and they can be killed or not, it doesn't matter.
But in this situation, if he stopped whaling, he would offend Hilda, and if he didn't stop it, he would offend Nora. For a moment, he didn't know how to make a choice.
If it's just a whale, that's it. I'm afraid that the two of them will understand the ranking of their favorability in their hearts. For example, if she chooses Hilda, Nora will feel that she has been slighted, which will make it even more troublesome...
Thinking of this, Aske had a headache.
Suddenly, a spear with condensed light shot from the air behind, directly cutting off the tight steel cable, and the originally speeding ship also fell heavily into the sea, creating a huge amount of waves.
"Eleanor!" Hildrifa turned around and shouted angrily. You actually let my prey go!
"You have to watch the front clearly before talking." Eleanor jumped from the bridge and landed firmly on the deck.
After hearing the words, everyone looked forward. As the seriously injured whale hurried away, the surrounding "curtain wall" made of splashing water collapsed, and everyone saw clearly that there seemed to be an island not far ahead.
If the giant whale continues to swim in this direction, there is a high probability that it will drag the entire ship and run aground on the island... Being stranded is actually not terrible. What is terrible is that it hits some rocks and knocks the ship out. Then everyone can only build a raft.
Went back to the mainland.
"Ah, this..." Hidrifa also choked on her words. She had never encountered such a "strong" whale. She would rather risk being stranded than go to hell with the whaler's ship that assassinated it.
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Well done! Ask silently gave Eleanor a thumbs up...inwardly of course.
"That side should be the Azores Islands." Sheila looked into the distance, briefly estimated the ship's itinerary, and said, "It is also the westernmost boundary of the civilized world."
"Further west, there is the endless Atlanta Ocean. About two thousand kilometers away, we will enter the edge of the storm. As for our destination, according to the memory of the deceased, it is probably more than three thousand kilometers away from the mainland."
Everyone was speechless after hearing this. The distance from Constantinople to Lusitania, the westernmost tip of the mainland, is only about three thousand kilometers. Now that we have to drift on the sea for so long, it is really worrying and frightening to think about it.
"Let's resupply on the Azores Islands now," Asker said.