The blue water turned dark, and the calm waves turned into turbulent waves in an instant.
The strong wind carried the heavy rain, like countless whips, lashing hard against the hull of the Black Pearl.
Aisha stood at the stern of the ship, holding on to the steering wheel, shouting something at the crew. The sound of wind and waves covered her voice, and the sailors could only hear a few intermittent words - mast, ship's side and equipment.
Heavy.
The experienced crew members immediately guessed the captain's intention. They loudly called to their companions, and together they stood on the right side of the ship, grabbed the edge of the ship, and adjusted the counterweight, so that the Black Pearl's hull regained its balance.
Todd hurriedly walked down the deck, and as soon as he stepped on the first step, he was hit by a wave of waves and fell heavily.
Struggling to get up from the floor of the cabin, Todd touched his forehead, and his palm touched a piece of warm blood. Fortunately, the wound had slowly healed under the influence of regeneration.
Stumbling up, he took a breath and walked toward the cabin while holding on to the wooden wall.
When he opened the cabin door, the room was already in a mess. Rachel was lying on the floor, rummaging around for something.
Todd, who was swaying, rushed forward and grabbed her hand, shouting: "Follow me!"
The woman's face showed a rare look of panic and helplessness: "Our luggage! And the map the contact gave me!"
"Don't worry about that!" Todd pulled Rachel toward the door with force.
Walking in the aisle, the two saw the sailors throwing supplies and cargo from the cargo hold into the sea through the window, while scooping out the incoming seawater.
Back on the deck again, Todd heard Aisha yelling.
"Prepare for impact!"
Following everyone's gaze towards the bow of the ship, Todd and Rachel were so shocked by the scene in front of them that they forgot to breathe.
A black wave with a height of fifteen meters covered the sun and cut off the sky, like an ancient mountain, rushing straight towards the tiny black pearl.
Feeling the hull beneath him, it was like climbing a mountain, moving upward at an angle of 30 degrees. After reacting, Todd pulled Rachel and ran to the stern of the ship, hugging the wooden fence tightly.
The hull climbs up along with the slope of the sea water, and the slope becomes larger and larger, 45 degrees, 60 degrees, 70 degrees, and finally the hull climbs almost vertically to the top of the wave slope.
Aisha wiped the salt water off her face, her heterochromatic pupils showed her enthusiasm for the sea and adventure: "Come on! Let the wind blow harder! Let the rain fall harder! This is who I am.
Love life!”
The black pearl climbed over the first wave, fell from the top of the wave, and plummeted to the sea.
Everything on the ship entered a state of weightlessness, and the barrels, ropes and even the body slowly floated into the air.
Immediately afterwards, a huge shock spread throughout the entire hull, which felt like a roller coaster descending from top to bottom.
Just when Todd thought he could breathe a sigh of relief, a bigger wave swept over.
Aisha controlled the rudder of the ship. Under people's astonished gaze, she laughed and shouted loudly, and once again drove the Black Pearl onto the waves.
Just like that, I don’t know how long it took during the up and down arduous journey, but the wind and waves gradually subsided.
Todd sat on the stern of the boat with Rachel in his arms, drenched in the cold water, and looked at the sky tremblingly.
The rolling dark clouds gradually faded away, and a clear sky appeared overhead again.
"The storm is over?!"
Todd stood up, and the joy of surviving the disaster made him laugh.
Unfortunately, this joy did not last long.
"We are now in the center of the storm, also known as the eye of the storm." Ayesha asked her men to make emergency preparations for the Black Pearl while raising her hand and pointing to the bow of the ship.
Todd followed his hand and looked around. Dark clouds and heavy rain filled the four directions, southeast, northwest, and only the location of the ship's hull was quiet.
Aisha twisted the seawater on her clothes, shook her hair, and said in a deep voice: "We will have to think of a way to sail out of the eye of the storm later. This journey will be more dangerous than before..."
Before he finished speaking, a sailor shouted in panic: "Under the boat! What are those black things under the boat!"
Everyone ran to the side of the boat, looked down, and noticed something strange about the sea water.
The color of the seawater within a fifty-meter radius of the Black Pearl is somewhat different from other places. The area around the ship's hull is black, and a little further away is blue.
"Seaweed? School of fish?" Aisha held her hands on the edge of the boat, looked at the sea, and said with a frown: "The water is too dark, it's like a bottomless pit."
While everyone was still talking about it, what happened next completely broke everyone's psychological defense.
One eye.
A huge eye opened, and it appeared in the black water. It was about the same size as the entire Black Pearl!
Screaming, crying, and cursing kept ringing out on the deck, and some of the less courageous sailors fainted.
Aisha's legs went weak and she collapsed directly on the ground, muttering something to herself.
A taboo name gradually spread among the people - Balor, the Evil-Eyed Demon King.
Todd looked at the huge eyeball under the hull, listened to the name mentioned repeatedly by the sailors, and asked Rachel: "What on earth is Balor?!"
Rachel's face lost all color, and her teeth were chattering: "Balor, the Evil Eye Demon King, is the king of the deep-sea giants Fermor in the myth of the Northern Barbarian Kingdom. It is said that he can use the Evil Eye to kill people."
Drop any living thing!"
"This is unreasonable! Why would you meet a mythical god here?!" Todd asked, shaking his head.
The magic eye seemed to feel the movement on the water, turned its eyes, and turned its attention to the Black Pearl.
"Oh my god! It's looking at us!"
"We will all die!"
Ayesha climbed up from the ground and ordered to her men: "Raise the sail! Go at full speed! Leave this water as soon as possible!"
It was too late when the order was issued. Several huge tentacles stretched out from the seabed and tightly wrapped around the Black Pearl. The hull of the ship, which had experienced the storm, collapsed in the face of the huge power of the tentacles, and let out a dying cry.
's mournful cry.
"Damn it! Cut off these disgusting things!" Aisha drew out her dagger and stabbed the tentacle closest to her. Unexpectedly, this move completely angered the magic eye.
More tentacles stretched out from the black water. They grabbed the anchor and swept away the crew, causing chaos on the deck.
To make matters worse, storms gradually invaded this sea area, and everything that was originally calm was once again occupied by strong winds, showers, huge waves and lightning.
In this situation, it was no longer the time to hide one's strength. Todd used metal skin, speed, strength enhancement and debilitating abilities, while Rachel used her mind power to attack these giant tentacles together.
However, one tentacle was knocked back, and another tentacle rose from the sea.
Some of the sailors on the ship had the idea of abandoning the ship. They hugged a piece of wood or a barrel, jumped into the sea, and swam forward, but they were caught by tentacles under the sea and disappeared in an instant.
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Rachel looked at Todd, her eyes filled with despair.
Todd still did not give up hope of survival. He observed everything around him that might be a source of life. When he found that the hurricane was blowing on the open sails and gradually tilted the entire ship, his eyes lit up and he pulled
Rachel ran to the bottom of the mast.
He grabbed the mast cables that were fluttering around in the wind and rain, found two, and tied them around Rachel's and his own waists respectively. Then, he took a few steps back and hit the mast heavily.
The mast, which was already crumbling, had some cracks in the base and the pole was slightly tilted under the impact of the supernatural force.
Ayesha, who saw Todd's plan, jumped off the steering wheel, avoided the tentacles attacking from all directions, grabbed a cable, and tied it to her body.
After estimating the distance and strength, Todd took a few steps back and bumped into the mast again.
The base of the pole broke with a sound, and the entire mast separated from the hull.
Todd roared, activated his strength-enhancing ability to the maximum, grabbed the fallen mast with both arms, and raised it.
A hurricane blew on the sails, like flying a kite, blowing the mast and three people into the air.
Glancing at the Black Pearl beneath his feet, which was gradually being dragged into the seabed by the tentacles, Todd closed his eyes and moved further and further into the storm.