Chapter 81 Second Day at Sea
The bow of Big Maritime Windmill shot out a red light onto a small iceberg one hundred meters ahead, shattering it. Even the mountain under the sea was cracked by of the red light. The huge ship rammed against the shattered ice, scattering it as it continued to sail to the depths of North Sea.
With the safety rope around his waist, Lin Qi complacently stood next to the statue of the ship. With his left hand pressing onto the mermaid statue – the mascot of Big Maritime Windmill and his right hand gripping a sharp harpoon, he was staring at the sea.
Suddenly, a cyan shark around three meters long leaped out of the water, opening its mouth to bite the bloody beast meat hanging by the ship’s railing. Lin Qi laughed out loud. With a flash of his yellow qi, the harpoon shot out, splitting the wind while leaving a trace of yellow light. Following an ear-piercing whistling sound of wind, it firmly stabbed into the shark’s head.
The harpoon penetrated the shark’s head, killing it in one hit. Lin Qi laughed heartily and pulled the tenacious rope made of beast muscles behind the harpoon to pull the shark up. Lin Qi’s eyes shone. He rushed to several sailors on the deck who were similarly holding a harpoon waiting for a target and said with a smile, “Guys, a fresh Hammerhead Shark! Good stuff, you know, its liver is extremely delicious! Thor, Thor!”
Under the caress of the cold wind, a sturdy sailor as tall as a bear chuckled and walked over bare-chested. He helped Lin Qi pulled the hammerhead shark that weighed at least 500 kilograms onto the deck. Thor Zhang, a sailor of Big Maritime Windmill, pulled out a sharp fish blade and swiftly cut the shark’s belly open, cutting out its liver carefully.
Hammerhead Shark was an aquatic magical beast commonly seen in North Sea. Its skin was an excellent material for leather armors while its fins were worth a lot of money in the East. The Hammerhead Shark fins Dunerk exported every year to the East were numbered in the hundred thousand, earning a lot of money for Dunerk. Yet the most delicious and, at the same time, the most precious thing of a Hammerhead Shark was still its liver.
Several sailors also came over while carrying a huge wooden plate. Thor sliced the liver on the deck, then mixed in a little soy sauce before adding a little wasabi with stinging smell. Lin Qi greedily grabbed a piece of liver and put it in his mouth. The fresh and tender liver practically transformed once entering his mouth. A hint of spicy and sweet mixed with a hint of exotic fishy taste simultaneously entered his stomach, quickly making a hint of heat spread from his stomach.
“Good stuff, I haven’t eaten fresh Hammerhead Shark liver for three years!” Lin Qi sighed emotionally. He use a small knife to take several pieces of fish liver then walked over to the hold of the ship in large strides.
On the upper floor of the hold of Big Maritime Windmill were several single cabins specifically set aside for the captain, vice captain, and noble guests. At the moment, Enzo was laying on his stomach on the bed in one of the cabins. His hands were holding a wooden basin he was throwing up into. Since yesterday, he hadn’t drunk a drip of water nor had he eaten a grain of rice. He had vomited everything in his stomach that not even bile was left. Now he was opening his mouth wide to retch, vomiting as if even his internal organs were going to burst out of his mouth.
Enzo, whose body was weak all over and whose vision was a black blur, didn’t even realize when Lin Qi entered the cabin.
Lin Qi took the wooden basin from Enzo’s hands and opened his mouth to put in the several pieces of fish liver. Enzo instinctively chewed and swallowed the fish livers into his stomach. Enzo who had never ea
ten wasabi before violently sneezed several times. With strength of unknown origin, he suddenly jumped out of the bed.
Laughing complacently, Lin Qi strongly slapped Enzo’s shoulder, “A Hammerhead Shark’s liver, good stuff! For a rookie like you, after eating several pieces you can adapt to a life on a boat! Oh, look alive, look alive, there are still many interesting things waiting for us!”
Enzo shook his head. The heat in his stomach swept through his whole body and his downcast spirit was indeed restored by a lot, even his internal organs that originally suffered extreme pain also got better. He rolled his eyes at Lin Qi and said with a bitter smile, “Boss, you should have given me this stuff yesterday!”
Lin Qi helplessly shrugged his shoulders and pulled Enzo to leave the smelly cabin. He gave a long sigh and said, “There’s nothing to be done, we haven’t entered the territory of Hammerhead Sharks yesterday. The magical beasts in the sea are similar to those on land, they have their own territory!”
There were countless aquatic magical beasts in the territory of North Sea. Those middle-leveled and low-leveled magical beasts scattered to various places in the sea as they pleased. However, powerful magical beasts like Single-Horned Wild Whales and Hammerhead Sharks possessed their own specific living areas. A Single-Horned Wild Whale wouldn’t rashly cross the border into the territory of another powerful magical beast while other magical beasts naturally also followed this rule.
After tying a safety rope around Enzo’s waist, Lin Qi brought Enzo, whose spirit and physical strength already recovered by a lot, back to the deck. Enzo still stood unstably on the deck, making it difficult for him to walk, but with the support of the several fish livers with miraculous effects, he no longer felt dizzy.
Big Maritime Windmill continued to sail to the depths of North Sea as its high-spirited sailors freely hunt from the deck.
These aquatic magical beasts were greedy and stupid. As long as fish bait were hung by the side of the ship, they would take the initiative to jump out of the water, exposing their vitals to the sharp harpoons. If it was in water, a Hammerhead Shark could effortlessly killed an Earth Knight, but when they were out of the protection of the sea, they were indeed unable to withstand even a single blow from the sharp harpoons.
Very quickly, close to one hundred Hammerhead Sharks were arranged neatly on the deck. These creatures’ skin, fins, livers, and teeth were cut out while their meat were carefully minced. By mixing their blood and several unusual medicines, buckets of fishy-smell blood plasma were produced.
Lin Qi kicked a fish fin and said with a sneer, “In the East, those wealthy big shots can pay more than one thousand gold coins just for one piece of high-quality Hammerhead Shark fin! They like this stuff, but us, we only like their livers. By eating the livers of Hammerhead Sharks, even a rookie like you can quickly turn into a veteran sailor!”
Inhaling deeply, Lin Qi looked at Enzo with malice, “Enzo, my good brother, how about I teach you how to swim? Conveniently, you can also be a fish bait, maybe you can attract several high-leveled Hammerhead Sharks? Ck ck, the fin of a high-leveled Hammerhead Shark, it’s worth over ten thousand gold coins in the East!”
Enzo suddenly shivered. Swimming in this awfully cold weather, in this North Sea filled with icebergs?
Furthermore, who knew how many vicious sharks were swimming around down there!
Enzo righteously rejected Lin Qi’s demands. He gnashed his teeth and said, “No! I would rather duel you, I absolutely won’t learn swimming in this damned place!”
Rolling his eyes, Enzo craftily said, “If it was that small river next to Wright Town, maybe I will be interested to learn!”
Lin Qi spread his hands expressing his disappointment. The prow of the ship suddenly shot out another red light, shattering yet another small iceberg ahead into pieces.
Suddenly, the person keeping a lookout on the mast loudly shouted, “Boat! There is a boat there!”
After a pause, he shouted as if he saw a ghost, “A boat less than three meters long, damn it!”