The water was stagnant and filled with a foul stench. When the fluorite fell, Angor could clearly see the floating black substance.
Soon, the fluorite reached the bottom.
The huge shadow at the bottom of the lake also revealed its true appearance.
"Is this … a ship?" Tattered sails were stuck to the wooden pillars, which looked like they were floating in the water. The bare mast, the black substance hanging on it, and the faintly discernible cabin … all pointed to a sunken ship.
Sunken ships weren't unusual. But it was strange that something like this was at the bottom of the lake.
The lake wasn't small, but Angor had already circled around it and didn't find any outlet to the sea. There were no tributaries connected to the sea outside. How did the ship sink? Or rather, how did the ship reach the lake?
There shouldn't be a shipwright who decided to fix a ship at the edge of the lake, only to find that it couldn't get out, and simply sunk it.
The mere thought of it made him feel stupid.
No shipwright would come to a dead lake to fix a ship. Also, from what he saw, the ship should be a cargo ship. A cargo ship would travel across the vast ocean. There was no way it would stay in a small lake like this.
So where did this ship come from?
Angor decided to check it out.
He activated his Purification Field and removed all the filth around him. Then he walked around the lake to make sure there was no hidden passage before he returned to the sunken ship.
The sunken ship was right at the center of the lake. Angor thought the ship was huge when he looked down. But when he got closer, he realized that the ship was smaller than The Limpet, about the size of The Feather Fan.
It was a cargo ship, but Angor couldn't tell which era it came from. If Helen or Erwin were here, they might be able to tell him.
He went into the cabin and saw nothing but stinky black wadding. He did not find anything that could prove the identity of the ship under the illumination of the fluorite.
When he reached the bottom of the ship, he saw that the central beam of the keel was broken. Broken pieces of wood were floating in the water.
Judging from the cracks, it seemed that the ship broke the beam due to a strong impact.
But the damage was at the bottom of the ship. Only a giant sea monster could cause such a strong impact. However, there weren't any sea beasts in this lake. There weren't even any living creatures.
Then how did the crack in the bottom of the ship come about?
He didn't find anything valuable on the ship apart from a bunch of corpses. Even the cargo on the ship was empty, and there was nothing in the captain's room.
He gave up and returned to the lake.
Putting aside the origin of this ship, there were currently two doubts about this ship. Why did it sink to the bottom of a dead lake with no way out? Also, who was the one who caused the keel to break?
There were no sea beasts in the lake, so where did the force from the bottom come from?
"It didn't fall from the sky, did it?" Angor mumbled to himself. Then he froze on the spot.
A thought flashed through his mind, as if he had caught onto some clues.
He silently floated in the air. On the surface, he looked motionless, but in his mind, the memory box was quickly flipping through the memories of the past, and then combining them with the things he saw after entering this area.
"Why can't it fall from the sky? The Feather Fan went from here to the mist, then disappeared from the mist and came back here. Doesn't that mean something? "Angor tried to figure out the possible facts in his mind.
Angor looked up at the dark sky.
Perhaps the space in this strange area was extremely unstable, which caused ships to fall into this place from time to time. One day, a spatial crack appeared above the lake, and the ship fell from the sky.
The violent impact broke the ship's girders and caused it to sink.
"Falling from the sky explains why the cargo ship appeared in this lake without any tributaries. And it also explains why the bottom of the ship was broken. "
He glanced at the iron pot on the edge of the river and imagined a scene in his mind. Perhaps the people inside the ship didn't all die when it fell. Some luckily survived, swam to the shore, and built a stove.
"But even if they did, they couldn't find any food in this dead place. They must have died in the end. "Angor considered the possibility that the bodies of the survivors were nearby.
There was no light, no food, and even the water was dirty. They must have been injured, and they couldn't have run far.
Soon, Toby returned with two skeletons from several hundred meters away.
Angor also found an iron necklace around the neck of one of the skeletons. He saw similar necklaces worn by some of the sailors on The Limpet before.
The sailors themselves knew very well that they had to endure the precarious fate of making a living at sea. This was why it was necessary to leave a will before setting sail.
As for this iron necklace, it was actually similar to a suicide note. The contents of the iron box were usually personal information and precious items of the sailor. The sailors hoped that if they were lucky enough to be found, the discoverer would be able to identify them through the contents of the iron box, and then send their bones back to their hometowns.
The valuable items in the iron boxes were the goods they prepared for the people who found them.
If the people who found them took the items away, they would have accepted the promise. However, if they didn't do anything, they would be cursed by the dead for revenge. Of course, this was only a legend without any proof.
Angor couldn't find any clues about the ship at the bottom of the lake. He thought that he might be able to find some clues in this iron box necklace.
The iron box wasn't big. It was about one-third the size of an adult's palm. The outer layer of the box was already rotten, revealing rusty red spots.
Angor opened the box, releasing a cloud of dust. When the dust settled, Angor saw the contents of the box.
There was a ruby ring with broken patterns on it, and a piece of parchment that was folded into a small piece.
The ring was an ordinary item. It was probably the money used to buy the bones back to their hometowns.
Angor unfolded the parchment to see who this person was and whether he had anything to do with the sunken ship.
At the top of the parchment, the owner of the bones was Geblin Frando. His hometown was Maple Kingdom, Magic Eaves Promenade.
The personal information was written neatly. Angor guessed it was written before he set sail. However, at the bottom of the information, it was written very carelessly. This must have been done in a hurry before his death. Angor could tell that Geblin wasn't calm when he was writing down the information.
When he finished reading, he realized what was going on.
His guess was correct.
The sunken ship was called The Night Lotus. It was a cargo ship that was heading to Ferran Land from Magic Eaves Promenade. When it passed by Cogwheel Abyss, it suddenly got caught in the mist and fell from the sky into the dead lake before anyone could react. The ship fell, and the people died. Geblin was lucky enough to survive. However, he didn't have enough food and water, so he had to hold on for a while. After that, he went into eternal slumber with The Night Lotus.
Apart from that, he also got two more pieces of information from the paper.
The first was the time. The Night Lotus fell into the lake three hundred years ago, which wasn't a long time. The second was that Geblin wrote something in a puzzled tone on the last row of the parchment.
"Am I seeing things? Why did I see a shadow that looked so similar to the legendary Ruthless King? "
The legendary Ruthless King?
If this wasn't Geblin's illusion, did it mean there was someone else here?
Angor suddenly remembered the shadow he saw not long ago. Was that the so-called Ruthless King?
If so, the Ruthless King must have lived for hundreds of years.
No matter what, Angor had to stay alert. He couldn't afford to let his guard down in this strange place.
He put the parchment and the ring back into the iron box and put them back on the neck of the skeleton. He didn't plan to bring Geblin's body back to his hometown. If Magic Eaves Promenade was a convenient place, he wouldn't mind doing a good deed. Unfortunately, it wasn't anywhere near the Land of Revelation.
Angor prepared to leave the lake. The pressure from a truth-finder wizard was too much for him to bear. He had to find Lucas' treasure as soon as possible and leave this place.
Together with Toby, Angor kept moving downward.
It didn't take long for them to leave the mountain area. At the same time, Angor also sensed the coast on the other side of the island. The smell of fish in the wind was getting stronger, which meant they weren't far from the sea.
Angor took a look around the area and didn't see any signs of humans except for dead trees.
But when he came out of a withered palm forest, he was surprised by what he saw.
The coast was right in front of him. But compared to the area behind the cliff where The Feather Fan ran aground, this place was much more lively. In his sight, he saw countless … ships!
There were all kinds of ships, including exploratory ships, icebreakers, cargo ships, cruise ships, sailing ships, pirate ships, and so on. However, all of these ships were covered in an aura of decay. Just like The Feather Fan, they had all died here.
Some of the ships still had the light of fluorites, which made the coast look a little brighter.
However, the light from the fluorites and the lifeless ships gave Angor goosebumps all over his body. It was just like how he couldn't see anything in the dark forest. But when he saw a bunch of phosphorescent lights, he felt even more terrified.
"This place is a graveyard for ships," Angor muttered to himself.
If the Night Lotus had fallen into this strange land of death due to spatial instability, it would have been impossible for them to escape. What about the ships here? Was it because of unstable space as well? But even if they were unstable, they should have landed in different areas like the Night Lotus and the Feather Fan. They shouldn't be piled up on this coast.
Besides, Angor traveled in a straight line from the other side of the island to where The Feather Fan was, and he didn't see any possible treasure. It couldn't be that this graveyard was Lucas' treasure, right?
Angor had no idea what was going on.
There were more and more mysteries surrounding this strange island.
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