Chapter 351 – Sea Mist Siege
Chapter 351: Sea Mist Surrounding the City
After nightfall, the snow fluttered down again, hazy as fog in the background of the night, the world’s creation of the cold light was blocked by the clouds, only a few pieces of chaotic glow in the gap between the clouds to diffuse out, there are streets and alleys of the gas lights on, reflecting those fluttering snowflakes in the mid-air, revealing a kind of quiet atmosphere that is different from that of the Prand.
Vanna stood in front of the narrow window, staring out at the night scene for a short while, and sighed, “I think they must not have made the call – and by this time they should have gathered up a bunch of experts to decipher the ‘secret number’ you left in the letter… .”
Duncan turned his head, “As far as that goes?”
Vanna whipped her head around and looked at her now temporary boss with a serious face, “…… Did you include in the letter what that string of numbers was for?”
“It wasn’t written, but isn’t that the standard format for a whistleblower letter?” Duncan straightened up, “Just attach the account number directly at the end of the report letter, and City Hall will make the payment, that’s the way it works over in Prand. And I’ve heard that a lot of places deliberately don’t put extra notes in front of the account number as a subtle euphemism – I think I’m supposed to be euphemistic.”
Vanna looked at Duncan fixedly, and after a long moment, couldn’t help but sigh again, “Ugh ……”
Duncan thought about it, in fact, when it comes to this heart more or less B number, the tone of voice then can not help but more than a few points of embarrassment to, “to them seems to be not very understandable?”
Vanna’s tone was tinged with exhaustion, “It’s good that you can understand it.”
Duncan lowered his head and thought carefully, “Isn’t it not a good idea to turn back and write a second letter now?”
“You …… might as well hope that they’ll understand the intent of that whistleblower letter soon.” Vanna couldn’t help but rub her brow, she felt that she had once again discovered something surprising about Captain Duncan, this powerful and fearsome captain …… turned out to have such a distinct and interesting personality as well?
Duncan, on the other hand, didn’t care what Vanna was lamenting in her mind, but just asked seemingly offhandedly, “You sent Anne back today, is everything okay at her home?”
Vanna immediately nodded: “Everything is normal in Annie’s home, there are no traces of being eroded by transcendental visions, and no traces of annihilationists have been found in the vicinity, and there are no suspicious characters in the surrounding households, and Mrs. Belloni,…… that is, the lady who is our current landlady, also seems to be a ……”
“Stop, stop, stop, stop,” Duncan did not wait for the other party to finish but hurriedly waved his hand, “I am asking you about the situation of her family and the current situation of her life, I didn’t ask you to report according to the process of investigating heretics, occupational disease control.”
Vanna was stunned, instantly responded, dry cough two times, “Ahem, sorry, I’m a little …… occupational habit. Everything is fine over there, although I only stayed for a few moments and talked to Ms. Belloni for a few sentences, but I can roughly tell that, after all, it has been six years in the past, and both their mother and daughter have already stepped out of the shadow of that year.
“Now Anne is studying in the public school of the city-state, and Ms. Belloni has some clerical work enough to support her family in addition to renting out her house for income, and they are after all the family of a captain, the Frost authorities take care of such bereaved family members, just as in the other city-states. Overall …… there is no need to worry about them.”
Duncan listened in silence and nodded.
Vanna, on the other hand, hesitated for a moment and finally couldn’t help but ask, “Do you not mind if Anne tells the truth about what happened here …… Is this really good? Perhaps it won’t be long before that cemetery caretaker learns that you’re just living in the city in such a big way, after which the matter will be immediately reported to the cathedral, and both the keeper and the bishop will be alerted.”
“And then what?” Duncan asked in a quiet voice as he turned his head.
“And then …… more or less trouble?” Vanna spoke, but under Duncan’s gaze her tone was suddenly a little less confident, “Intervention by the city-state authorities might ……”
“How would they intervene against us? Would a team of Guardians be sent to arrest people?” Duncan smiled, “Or will that keeper come out to talk to me? As for me, what would I care about them? Is it fear of exposure of their whereabouts? Or worry about hostile action by the authorities?”
Duncan said, spreading his hands.
“It’s not like I took the Lost Country over.”
Vanna opened her mouth, she always felt as if there was something wrong with this, but froze, unable to think of how to respond to the Captain’s frankly massive string of words, and after half a day of holding her tongue she could only come up with, “Why do I get the feeling that you actually just thought this might be fun?”
“Right.”
Vanna: “……”
Duncan laughed and refocused his eyes on the night outside the window, not caring about the expression on the Inquisitor lady’s face beside him that had gone up in splendor for a split second, only to say suddenly and casually after a few minutes of silently admiring the night view, “Vanna, why do I suddenly feel that you’re becoming less and less of an Inquisitor- Under normal circumstances, when you mention the church and authorities of a certain city-state, shouldn’t your first reaction be that of a reliable ally?”
The corners of Vanna’s mouth visibly trembled for a moment, as if a thousand words had welled up in her heart, but in the end, not a single word popped out.
At the same time, outside of the Frost City State, on the infinite sea with a pale night, a huge fleet was slowly decelerating and maintaining a low-speed cruise between the cold freezing fog and the encircling ice floes.
The majestic steel bow of the Sea Mist loomed in the darkness, the glow of beacon lights from the side illuminating one corner of it, and nearby another light spilling down the side of the ship illuminating the dark sea, with faint reflections undulating vaguely between the shimmering waves of the sea.
It was a fine ice floe.
All the captains of all the ships on this cold sea have heard the saying–
When the mist suddenly appears, and the ice floes appear out of the mist and gradually imprison your ship like shackles, then get ready, the Sea Mist is coming. The Sea Mist is here now. The whole Sea Mist fleet is here.
Tirion stood on the high bridge, gazing through the wide windows into the distance.
It was actually impossible to see the Frost City State directly at this current distance – but he could still see a little shimmer floating there in the dark background, and that was the direction of the City State.
The Sea Mist fleet was actually heading towards Dagger Island, and Tirion himself didn’t have the slightest intention of landing on Frost Island – but to the Frost people, who had already been on edge for half a century, it didn’t make any difference, as long as the flag of the “Iron Lieutenant General” appeared in the nearby sea, it was already enough to make them sleep. But for the Frost people, who had been nervous for half a century, it made no difference.
He could almost imagine the city-state’s defenders in a tizzy.
The sound of footsteps came from the side, the first mate Aiden came to Tirion’s side, the rough-looking bald man looked quite pleasant: “Captain, the Sea Raven and Fjord have left with their respective frigates, they are expected to arrive at the scheduled position in twelve hours and block the shipping lanes, the Sea Mist has lifted the light control…. -those Frostbite guys won’t be able to get a good night’s sleep all night today.”
Tirian nodded, a slight smile on his face as he swept his gaze across the sea around the Sea Mist.
In the darkness, the entire Boundless Sea maintained its silence, and only the Sea Mist, which had lifted its light control, floated here, as if it was as striking as a gas lamp in the dark night.
Under normal circumstances, night navigation battleships performing military missions are required to carry out light control, unnecessary illumination will expose their own position, but also easy to lead to confusion when a friendly party recognizes the light signals – but the Sea Mist ship is so generous to put itself out, as if provocative to Frost to show their presence.
Tirian wasn’t the least bit concerned that this would irritate Frost’s city-state navy, much less the supposed incident of a gunfight.
In this world, except for the Lost Country ship, no one can defeat the Sea Mist ship this “living ship” in the night battle, and on the other hand …… if the Frost Navy is really stupid enough to take the initiative to attack today, the other six warships hidden in the sea around the Sea Mist ship would also immediately teach them to be human.
Of course, Tirion’s high-profile behavior here wasn’t just to provoke Frost like an outburst of anger, his more important purpose was to accomplish what his father had entrusted to him – to
Make the Frost City-States nervous, the more nervous the better, better yet, make them just blockade the whole of Frostbourne Island, banning all shipping routes in and out.
From what he had observed so far, this purpose should have already been achieved – the Frost City State’s garrison navy had already blocked the harbor and sent out signals to the neighboring city-states to suspend shipping.
Everything was developing as Father had planned.
Just then, a sudden sound came from one of the nearby copper pipes, and Aiden immediately walked over and spoke with one of the posts on the opposite side of the pipe, before he returned to Tirion with a smile on his face, “Captain, the Frosts seem to be sitting on their hands a little bit – there’s a small ship that has appeared in the nearby sea. ”
Tirian raised an eyebrow, “A small ship?”
“Yes. It appears to be unarmed, and is actively lighting three yellow and one white signaling light, looking afraid of causing some kind of misunderstanding,” Aiden said, “The ship is carefully anchored just outside the range of the searchlights, as if it wants to carry out its observation mission in a non-negotiable and non-hostile state. ”
“Observation …… is okay, at least it has some stamina,” Tirian shrugged, “Let it observe and fire a warning shot if it gets too close.”
“Aye.” Aiden immediately led the way, but before he turned around, Tirian suddenly called out to him again, “Wait.”
“What else do you command?”
“Give them a light signal.” Tirian said.
“Light signals?” Aiden was slightly startled, “What’s it about?”
The corner of Tirian’s mouth curled up, the great pirate who had a reputation for ferocity on the cold sea now had a mischievous smile on his face, “Content? To what content – a blind flash.”
Aiden: “…… Huh?”
“Let the signaler flash randomly,” Tirian said pleasantly as he stroked his chin, “A little bit of the century’s problem for Frost’s expert advisors.”
A meaty grin instantly appeared on Aiden’s face, and even his bald head seemed to gleam.
“Aye, Captain!”
(End of chapter)