Dawn once again descended upon the sea.
Hoffa was sitting cross-legged in his cabin, deep in meditation. Suddenly, an ear-piercing whistle sounded from outside the cabin.
It didn't sound like the ringing of a bell, nor was it the noise of sailors playing cards on the deck.
It was the alarm.
He stood up from his bed. He walked to the deck in a few steps.
The weather was foggy at the moment, and the air was heavy with the calm before a storm. Several sailors stood on the deck with binoculars.
"What happened?"
Hoffa asked the sailor.
The sailor saw him coming and handed him the binoculars without hesitation. "Someone is chasing us."
Hoffa took the binoculars without any explanation and looked into the distance. Through the round lenses, he could see a warship braving the wind and waves. It was fully armed, and the turret on top was as grand as a steel building.
Compared to the warship, his cargo ship was as small as a mouse under the feet of an elephant.
It was obvious that this was a German warship.
He put down the binoculars with a stunned expression and gripped the railing tightly.
It wasn't difficult to pinpoint a ship in the vast sea, but he happened to be on the ship. With such a large formation, it was obvious that they knew his location.
He cursed in a low voice, "Damn it, how can these guys pinpoint my location so accurately?"
When he first set out with Chloe, he vaguely knew that the German wizards hadn't given up. But he had clearly run to the sea, and they still hadn't given up.
He felt that something was wrong.
At this time, Chloe and the widow also ran to the deck because of the alarm and began to ask the sailors what had happened.
Hoffa's gaze turned to Chloe and stared at her for a long time.
How did those people know where he was?
When he was in Paris, they could accurately pinpoint his location. Even when he escaped to the sea, it was still the same.
He walked to Chloe's side.
When the nun saw him coming, she was still angry about yesterday's matter and ignored him. The widow, Mary, on the other hand, grabbed his arm immediately.
"What's going on? Are there German wizards looking for Frank? Are you lying to me?!"
She didn't know Chloe's identity or ability. She only thought that the warship was looking for Frank.
Hoffa did not answer the uneasy widow. He only looked at Chloe.
Chloe snapped, "Why are you looking at me?"
"Is there something on your body?"
"Ah?"
"Did they do anything to you? Otherwise, how could they always chase after you so accurately?"
"I don't know."
I don't know … He circled around Chloe and closed his eyes, using only his mind to observe him. Sure enough, in the black-and-white spiritual world, he could see a faint black aura lingering behind Chloe's back. This black aura was very weak and couldn't be seen if one didn't look carefully.
The others did not understand why he was turning in circles with his eyes closed. Only the nun was angry. No one would like the feeling of having X-ray vision.
She crossed her arms. "Don't tell me you suspect that I've revealed something unknown."
Hoffa opened his eyes, pulled her to a corner, and lifted her clothes. With this lift, he sucked in a breath of cold air and staggered back two steps.
He saw that on Chloe's back, which was originally white and smooth, there were five or six pairs of eyes. The eyes were constantly blinking, and there were many green and red veins around them.
Looking at the squirming eyeballs and the green and red tentacles behind them, he couldn't help but feel his stomach churn.
The Eye Devil Touch. No wonder those dark wizards could pinpoint his location so accurately.
In the year since he left the Hogwarts, he had encountered many strange curses. He had to admit that although this was not the most dangerous, it was one of the most disgusting.
Chloe was still unaware of the horror on her back. She only knew that Hoffa had suddenly pulled her to a corner and lifted her clothes, even her bra.
As a woman, she pulled her clothes down with all her strength, and her face was ashen. "Get lost, Bach, what are you doing!?"
"Don't you feel it?" Hoffa asked while sticking to the wall.
"I only feel that you're a bastard!!"
The veins on the nun's forehead bulged under her makeup.
"On your back."
"My back has been itching for a few days, but what does that have to do with you? Do I have to tell you that my back is itchy!?"
"See for yourself."
He did not want to explain to her and directly pressed on the wall of the cabin.
Under the effect of Transfiguration, the metal cabin formed a narrow triangular prism, and Chloe was trapped inside. Then, the interior of the triangular prism turned into a smooth refractive mirror.
In less than three seconds, a shrill and terrified scream came from the triangular prism.
Hoffa raised his hand and removed the Transfiguration, and the triangular prism slowly disappeared.
At this moment, the nun was no longer angry. She sat on the ground, and her face was pale as if she had seen a ghost.
"What … What … What's going on!?"
"Touch of the Eye," Hoffa explained softly. "It can be used as a parasite on a living being, feeding on sight and information, and sharing the location of the parasite with the caster. Those Dark Wizards must have planted a mark on you when they came into contact with you. "
"I … I don't know anything about … Ugh!"
Before she finished speaking, she threw herself on the railing and vomited on the sea surface.
Mary poked her head out from the corner. She thought that Hoffa was going to harm Chloe, but when she saw Chloe vomiting on the railing, she rushed out and patted Chloe's back with concern.
"What's wrong with you?"
Chloe said with tears in her eyes. "Help me … remove this evil curse."
Hoffa looked into the distance with a grave expression and shook his head.
"No, not now."
"Why not!?"
Chloe grabbed Hoffa's arm forcefully.
"Hurry up, when I think of that thing on me …"
She was about to throw up again.
"Those people must have used the Eye Devil to locate your location. I'm afraid that they have seen everything that we've done these days.
If we remove the curse now, the last location that the Eye Devil saw would be this ship. They will definitely come to this ship, and once they come, everyone on this ship will be doomed. "
Chloe calmed down a little.
"Then, you mean …"
"Stay away from this ship, or at least divert their attention. Remove the curse somewhere else on the sea, and then return to this ship."
"Okay."
Chloe did not have the slightest intention to refuse.
The two of them came to the side of the ship, and Hoffa unfastened a small lifeboat from the cargo ship, threw it into the sea, and jumped on as well.
The group of sailors and armed thugs were stunned.
"Brother, what are you doing?"
"Running away like this, you're too cold-blooded!"
Some of them even cried. "Don't leave us behind!"
.....
They were still at loggerheads yesterday, but today they saw Hoffa as their savior. They looked at him like how the Romans looked at Caesar.
Hoffa roared angrily. "What's all this noise, I'll be back soon!"
It was to no avail. The warship in the distance was like the Sword of Damocles hanging over everyone's heads.
They believed that Hoffa was going to leave them behind, so they started unfastening their lifeboats. The cargo ship was in chaos. Children were crying, sailors were cursing, and thugs were raising their guns.
"Enough!"
Chloe roared again. Her voice seemed to have a strong calming effect.
"I won't leave you behind, but we have to lure those people away, or none of you will be able to escape."
"How do I know you're telling the truth?" A sailor yelled.
"What if they …"
Chloe: "I …"
At this time, Hoffa sneered again. He didn't hold back. "Do you think that with your status, if they really wanted to capture you, they would send out a warship? They're looking for us. You should feel lucky that we're leaving now. "
His words contained a certain insulting nature, but inexplicably made the crowd calm down. They all left the ship, as if they wanted to distance themselves from him so that he could escape.
However, just as the two were about to leave, Widow Mary suddenly climbed onto the ship's bow and shouted, "Wait a minute."
Chloe, Hoffa, and Zizi looked up from the lifeboat.
"Take me with you!"
Cried Mary, her white porcelain face glistening with perspiration.
"This …."
Hoffa didn't expect her to make such a decision. He had made it very clear, so why was she still so stubborn?
Chloe: "Wait for me on the ship, I'll be back soon."
"No!"
Mary turned around and glanced at the crew. Gritting her teeth, she lifted her skirt and jumped down from the deck onto the lifeboat without saying a word.
She got up and grabbed Chloe's arm with a pale face. "I'll go with you, dear."
"You …."
Chloe still wanted to persuade her, but Hoffa stopped her.
"Come with me if you want."
After taking a deep look at her, he started the motorboat and sped off into the distance.
.....
.....
On the battlecruiser Scharnhorst.
Three black-robed wizards sat cross-legged on the ground with their eyes closed. Some unknown power connected their minds.
Mance, on the other hand, walked around them with his hands behind his back.
After a while, one of the black-robed wizards opened his eyes. "They've left. They're thirty degrees away from the scheduled course and are heading southeast."
"Abandoned the ship to divert their attention?"
Manse rubbed his chin. "It seems that Grindelwald's student has discovered the magic mark on Miss Lemour."
"What should we do? Which one should we chase?"
"Leave Lemour and Bach to Major Dominic," Manse said. "We'll take control of the ship."
"It's a ship without Lemour. Why should we care?"
"Then you don't know."
Mance laughed. "For someone like Lemay, abandoning someone and running away on her own is even worse than killing her.
So, although she's left now, she'll definitely go back. As long as we take control of the ship, she'll come back to us sooner or later. "
.....
.....
On the turbulent sea, three speedboats broke through the waves and sped toward a lifeboat in the distance.
When they were ten nautical miles away from the ship, Hoffa stopped his lifeboat and pulled out a dagger from his waist. He looked at Chloe. "Do you want to take it off yourself, or …"
Looking at the Sparkle of the dagger, Chloe swallowed, her face turning pale.
"Is there no other way?" she said bitterly.
Hoffa put down the dagger and looked at Mary, who was covering her mouth with her hands. "Why don't you do it?"
"What … do I do it for?"
Mary looked at the dagger in front of her, confused. "Shouldn't we be running away?"
"Help her do an operation."
Hoffa stuffed the dagger into Mary's hand. "Gouge out the eyes on her back."
With that, he turned around and stopped looking at the two.
Mary looked at the dagger in her hand, still not knowing what had happened.
Chloe sighed and took off her bra through her jacket. She handed it to Chloe, then knelt on the deck and lifted her clothes.
"Ah!!!"
But when she saw Chloe's back, Mary was scared out of her wits. She threw the white bra and dagger away and screamed while covering her mouth.
"What's that?!"
Chloe said, "Tracking black magic. Quick, get rid of it and we'll go back."
"Don't … don't … don't let me do it!"
Mary covered her face and retreated to the edge of the lifeboat.
"Mary, that thing won't eat you!"
"No, let him do it!"
She pointed at Hoffa and shouted without hesitation.
Hoffa sighed and picked up the dagger on the ground.
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