In the small mirror he carried with him, Martha appeared from a black fog, and her voice broke into Lawrence's ears: "Did you see the light in the distance?"
"I saw it," Lawrence nodded, and at the same time looked up at the incredible sight in front of him - a large black phantom floating on the sea, vaguely like the outline of a city-state, but no details could be seen, and under the water
But it reflected the brightly lit port terminals and various buildings on the edge of the city-state. The White Oak gradually approached the inverted light and shadow without being controlled by anyone, and countless shadowy ships were phantoms on the distant sea.
Floating, as if caught in a fierce battle, in this chaotic vision of light and shadow, virtuality and reality, he even felt that even he was illusory, "It's really an unimaginable sight...it turns out that when observing the world from the side of the mirror, it looks like this
appearance···
"Light and shadow are reversed in your field of vision, but in my eyes it is a normal scenery - but soon, everything will be reversed again," Martha said with a smile on her face, "Go and get ready.
, I will dock soon, at an abandoned trestle in the southern corner of Donggang Pier. I will try to get the boat as close to a sewer inspection port as possible. Bring your mirror, and I will guide you all the way to the second waterway.
"
"Then...the other fakes will react, right?" Lawrence still couldn't help but worry, "If you really can't beat them, you can retreat first with the White Oak and the Black Oak. With our current
Speed, those fakes will definitely not be able to stop you."
Martha rolled her eyes: "Of course, I'm not stupid - my mission is just to send you here and delay a little bit, but I have no intention of killing the entire Mirror Frost fleet with just two twin ghost ships. They
But they can’t be killed cleanly.”
Anomaly 077 was squatting on the deck, fiddling with a rope he found somewhere. From time to time, he would raise his head and look at the chimney and flagpole of the White Oak. He looked quite troubled.
"Isn't it no longer fashionable for people in your time to hang sailors who have made mistakes on the mast?" the mummy muttered in confusion.
"Still thinking about your noose?" Lawrence suddenly raised his eyebrows and said in a bad tone, "Put down the rope and go find the first mate to get a machete and guns and ammunition. We are ready to go ashore."
"I fell asleep after putting one on my neck before, why didn't it work..." Anomaly 077 was still muttering in confusion, and then suddenly realized, "Huh? Going ashore?! You still have to wear it this time?"
I?"
It is very suitable to use evil anomalies to deal with evil city-states," Lawrence said with a serious face, "We are going to enter the depths of the frost through the second waterway - don't waste time, go get your weapons.
The sailor was startled for a moment, then reacted and stood up immediately: "Yes, Captain!"
The White Oak gradually approached the inverted darkness and the lights reflected in the sea. An elite and powerful marine team had already gathered behind Lawrence.
First mate Gus was not in the team, but was arranged by Lawrence to stay on the ship.
The old captain made arrangements with a serious face: "There will be a fierce battle afterwards. All the fake warships near the port will react and attack the White Oak and Black Oak. You have to stay on the ship to command the battle - drag it out as long as possible.
If we can’t hold on any longer, we’ll retreat with Martha.”
"I understand," Gus nodded, but still glanced uneasily at the "Sailor" who was playing with his newly received weapons behind Lawrence. "But... is he really reliable?"
Lawrence looked back and saw Anomaly 077-Sailor also raised his head. The mummy had a scimitar on his waist, but he threw the rifle and bullet bag in his hand onto the wooden barrel aside, muttering: "
I just need to bring a machete, I don’t know how to use it.”
"It's up to you. If you think a machete is enough for you to deal with the second waterway in the mirror city state," Lawrence said casually, "it will only have the opposite effect if someone who can't use a gun gets a gun."
The sailor thought for a while, but still did not touch the rifle. Instead, he went to the box where weapons were stored and took a machete from it and hung it on his belt.
Lawrence didn't say anything, he just lowered his head and glanced at his palms.
He is slow
Slowly exerting force, clenching and opening his fists, he adjusted his breathing, unfamiliarly sketching in his mind the phantom of a ship burning with ghostly flames, with the sails of the spirit body raised high, recalling the flames that burned his body, and his body was
The feeling of transformation in the flames.
After a long time, he saw a faint green emerge from his palm lines, and small flames slowly flowed through the lines.
There was a slight vibration on the deck underfoot, and the White Oak began to brake. The hazy darkness outside the ship's side was close at hand, and Martha's voice came from the small mirror on the chest——
"Pay attention, the ship will dock soon, and then I will reverse the phase again and cancel the twin projection. You jump onto the pier from the left, then go straight, and I will show the way."
"I'm ready." Lawrence breathed softly and slowly came to the side of the boat.
"I'm ready too!" Anomaly 077 followed closely behind the captain, with a hint of excitement and expectation in his hoarse and dark voice, "Go ashore! Fight! The pirates are coming!"
"We are not pirates," Lawrence looked back at the mummy, "we are honorary sailors."
"Come to shore," Martha's voice came from the mirror almost at the same time, "Three, two, one... reverse phase!"
In an instant, light and shadow change, reality and reality interchange.
Everything around Lawrence seemed to flicker violently, and then the reflection in the sea rose up. The darkness in front of him reversed, as if he had passed through an invisible mirror in an instant, and the frosty pier and trestle appeared in front of him.
The damp and cold feeling lingering around, as if immersed in sea water, also dissipated in an instant!
The next second, he saw a black shadow suddenly appear on the sea next to the White Oak, and the silhouette of the Black Oak quickly emerged from the black shadow.
After the light and shadow were inverted, the Black Oak and the White Oak simultaneously ceased to be reflections of each other, and instead appeared on the sea as twin battleships, preparing to cooperate with their sister ships.
In an instant, lampposts appeared on the pier, sirens blared in the streets and alleys in the distance, chaotic wind whimpered and howled in the port, and the sound of warships firing hastily sounded from the distance, like chaotic thunder.
The response came so quickly?!
Lawrence was shocked, but his reaction was not slow at all. He kicked the rope ladder down and was the first to rush out: "Let's go!"
A marine team composed of more than a dozen capable sailors rushed to the dock and rushed to the distant intersection along the route suggested by Martha, with Lawrence leading the way.
The cold wind whistled in his ears, and the sound of sirens and gunfire in the distance had an intermittent and distorted quality. Under the chaotic and dim skylight, Lawrence held the revolver tightly in one hand and held a sharp sword in the other, running wildly through this mirror-distorted ghost city.
, Martha’s voice kept coming.
"At the intersection ahead, turn left, bypass the guard box...go straight, take the alley on the right, the entrance is at the end...
Behind you are the hurried and chaotic footsteps of the sailors, in your hands are trustworthy weapons, and in your ears is the sound of your lover's cooperation.
Lawrence ran faster and faster. In a daze, he seemed to feel that the old age and fatigue accumulated in the past few decades were gone from this body. He felt that his heart was beating like a young man, and the blood and energy of youth and strength were rushing through his veins.
The same blood - those wanton and high-spirited years returned to his mind.
It's back, it's all back.
He stepped forward, swinging his arms, and faint green flames appeared behind him like a phantom. Beside him and behind him, green flames began to appear on each sailor, and their flesh and blood bodies were reflected in the flames.
It has a ghostly and illusory texture.
Anomaly 077's voice sounded like a ghost crying and wolf howling from the side: "Captain! I'm afraid!"
"If you're afraid, just move closer to the team!" Lawrence grinned, with inexplicable joy in his voice, "This city
You can't stop us!"
Anomaly 077 followed Lawrence and ran forward while continuing to wail and howl: "You are the ones I'm afraid of!"
"Then just try your best to adapt - I won't retire, so don't even think about it!"
Lawrence said loudly happily. He didn't mind at all that his voice would reveal the team's whereabouts. He didn't worry about this careless person walking on the street.
The head-rushing behavior will attract the "guards" of this city-state.
Because from the beginning, this could not be "infiltration" - the moment the uninvited guest stepped into the mirror city, the living city had already reacted.
Fog gradually filled the street, and something vague and shadowy appeared in the strange and dim fog.
"There's fog in the streets!" he shouted. "Martha, is this normal?"
"Fog is a sign of criticality, and it is most difficult to distinguish reality from reality in a mirror in fog - keep moving forward, don't pay attention to the fog that diffuses from the real world, it is just ahead."
"good!"
Lawrence responded loudly, leading the sailors towards the fog, and in the fog, swaying and twisted figures stood up one after another. They had deformed bodies and the wrong number of eyes. They roared and whispered in the fog, shaking.
Came staggeringly.
Lawrence raised the muzzle of his gun, but before he and the sailors could fire, a series of intensive gunshots rang out from the other side of the fog.
A spider-like steam walker suddenly appeared in the fog. The heavily armed city-state guard soldiers built a barricade around the walker. The rifles in the hands of the soldiers and the gun turret placed on the top of the steam walker were spitting out flames. In an instant,
Tear the monsters in the fog to pieces.
Lawrence ran past the edge of the fighting area. He looked at the city-state guards who suddenly appeared in shock. However, the next second, those soldiers and steam walkers disappeared into the thick fog, leaving only a pile of messy people.
rubble.
"Here we go, the entrance to the sewers - there is an elevator at the end, which leads directly to the second waterway!"