C73 (1/2)
Before they left, the islanders had a celebratory feast of octopus for them to carry out. When Yao Ling saw that the group of women were setting up a big pot and preparing to cut up the chunks of herring, he actually shook off Ashley's support and walked quickly to the chopping board, carefully searching for something in the pile of minced meat.
”Third brother!” What are you doing! ”Third brother!” Ashley came up to him and asked in concern.
Yao Yun didn't bother replying to her question. Frowning, he lowered his head and looked at each and every piece of the meat until he had almost searched through them all. Finally, he picked out a thick, tubular object from within.
He happily said to Ashley, ”This is good stuff. I'll give it to you after I finish processing it. You can blow it when you want to see a whale when you go out to sea. Maybe there'll be a surprise.”
Ashley was puzzled and asked him, ”What is this? Disgusting. Is it an octopus intestines?”
She suddenly thought of how this octopus had once eaten the Great Sage. In theory, there might still be a Great Sage in its body that hadn't digested everything yet. She didn't want lunch anymore.
Yao said, ”This is the body tube of an octopus. Since it is a bit like a funnel, it is also called a funnel tube. It is used to spray water outwards, propelling the body to move, and even to attack prey.” After drying it in the air, it would become a small trumpet. If you blew on it in the sea, you could attract some whales to approach it. However, this thing was too small, and only the funnel on the body of the giant seal could be used as a trumpet. ”As for the principle behind this, I'm not too sure, this was something I saw on the ancient books in the besieging camp, and I thought it would be useless, but who would have thought that I would catch this guy here? I heard you say that you like watching whales on the sea, so I just happened to give this to you.”
Ashley heaved a sigh of relief. She saw that Yao Ling had no intentions of blaming herself for her injuries, but instead seemed to still have some feelings for her, just like in the past. She was very happy, smiling as she took his arm and helped him walk to the side to rest.
Jensa and Wei Wuji were directing their men and crew to move the luggage, supplies, and fresh water to the Indra. Chen had accompanied Mae to the wizard's thatched cottage for the last time.
The blind old woman scolded Mae for not being a guide, but she took out a talisman and handed it to her chief. On the base was a structure similar to a compass, but it was replaced by two miniature sculptures. On one side was a fairy riding a cow, and on the other was an old woman pulling a donkey, but no one knew the meaning behind it.
After lunch, the Indra left the island and headed southwest, following Mae's orders.
Ashley felt that it was very unreliable for a blind person to lead the way without using any navigational equipment or tools. However, Chen had sufficient trust in Mayer, and the rest of the people didn't oppose this decision.
”Where is he taking us?” Ashley could not suppress his suspicions.
”Mae said that Ranga is not an immutable city. It is moving in his mind, so we can't say where it will go. We can only change the route according to his imagination at any time,” Chen said to her while looking at the map.
Ashley simply could not believe the answer she had heard, especially when she saw Chen Changsheng calmly say it out loud. She felt that these people were crazy to actually believe these words!
”So if the city keeps moving, do we always have to chase after it? We're going to spend the rest of our lives on this ship? ”
”Don't worry, no one will risk their life just to deceive us into playing around in circles in the sea. Since we have already invested so much, we should trust him. Moreover, we don't have any other choice, so we'll just leave it to fate.”
He took out the trumpet-shaped whistle made from octopus's body pipe from his pocket and handed it to Ashley. ”This octopus whistle is ready. Take a look and blow it. It won't make a sound.”
Ashley felt that he had also lost his composure. In order to ease up the atmosphere, he put the octopus whistle into his mouth and blew on it. Surprisingly, no skill was needed to blow on this thing. However, the sound it produced was very oppressive and gave off a feeling of suffocation.
”Aiyo, big sister, stop it quickly. What is this? This is so f * cking unpleasant. ” Chen Changsheng held onto his chest and pretended to look like an old Mai Long Zhong in order to coax Ashley to be happy.