Chapter 411: Ind With Sulfur Smell
Trantor: Tim Editor: GlobeGlotter
The ship barely skimmed past the cier Ning Qingxue was on. It was as though the people on the ship didn’t care at all if it would crash.
Ning Qingxue didn’t even dare move. This ship seemed too quiet. There wasn’t any sound at all. Ning Qingxue had a sudden thought; was the ship moving on its own? Or was it indeed a pirate ship that had had a fight with another group and had everyone on the ship died?
But even then, there should be some battle scars at least. What she was seeing was a perfectly fine ship. The sails even looked brand new.
If this really was an empty ship, then wouldn’t she have greater chances of survival? Ning Qingxue rejoiced and didn’t give it much further thought. Just as she wanted to get up and check the ship out, a sudden boisterous sound came from it, as though people were partying and drinking.
There are people on the ship? Ning Qingxue quickly bobbed her head down, but the sound seemed to have disappeared again. Hold on, this wasn’t right. The sound hade suddenly but also left just as suddenly. Ning Qingxue even wondered if she hadn’t heard wrong. But no matter what, she didn’t dare go on the ship anymore nor did she dare even enter the water.
This ship was too eerie. If there were people on it, they wouldn’t let it brush past the cier and still be drinking loudly inside. If there weren’t people on it, the ship seemed to be moving a bit too fluently, right?
Ghost ship? Ning Qingxue once again felt goosebumps.
She had received a high level of education and was an atheist. If it had been before, perhaps she would’ve gotten on the ship already.
But after having experienced the defensive artefact, the fireball charms and all those things, her atheism had gotten a bit shaky. Perhaps there really were ghosts in this world.
The ship was scraping past the cier without a stop, but Ning Qingxue didn’t dare move and hid within the ice, listening carefully. Even after the ship had gone a long way, she didn’t hear any sound. Had it just been her imagination?
The sea surface got colder once again due to the sun being covered in clouds, and fog was also starting to form, while the ship disappearead from her sight.
Ning Qingxue shivered. She didn’t dare go into the water and search fornd anymore. She might as well just stay on this cier.
In order to resist the cold, Ning Qingxue cultivated non-stop. When she got tired, she would eat a bit. During the day, as the sun came out, she stood on the cier looking around in hopes of finding a normal ship.
Yet Ning Qingxue grew more and more disappointed. The only fortunate thing was that the ne had recovered some of its luster. She believed that it could indeed auto-repair as long as it didn’t break.
However, Ning Qingxue realized that her cier was getting smaller and smaller. In some time, it would melt.
Once the cier melted, she would fall into the ocean again. Ning Qingxue looked around the ocean but didn’t find another cier. She reached her hand into the water and felt that it was a bit warm.
What was this? Ning Qingxue climbed to the top of the cier and looked around. Suddenly, she saw a ck figure far away.
It was an ind! Ning Qingxue jumped around excitedly. If it wasn’t for the fact that she didn’t like being around a lot of people originally and that she had a cultivation method at her disposal, she might’ve gone crazy staying on a cier by herself for days on end.
She fretted whether the cier she was on would somehow float over to that ind. She was afraid of getting in the water again and swimming over if it didn’t.
Luckily, Ning Qingxue saw after a while that her cier was indeed floating towards the ind. She rested easy.
Even if she wouldn’t be saved by people in the end, she would rather die onnd than being engulfed by the ocean. She hated the salty seawater yet had to use it to wash herself everyday.
Ning Qingxue packed her things. The bag was already almost empty, so other than the slightly heavy gun, everything else was very light.
Around the time it was getting dark again, the cier neared the ind. Only now did Ning Qingxue notice that this ind wasn’t small. She estimated it had to be more than 10 km2. She rejoiced at seeing vegetation on the ind and even seeing a few seagulls fly over the ind. This meant that it was habitable.
There was a smell of sulfur and as Ning Qingxue looked up, she could see that at the centre of the ind, there was a spacious area. Ning Qingxue frowned; this ind might be a volcano. If this volcano erupted, she would have nowhere to run to.
But even if she knew this volcano could erupt, she would still go on it, because she had nowhere else to go now.
When Ning Qingxue scanned around the ind, she was dumbfounded. An eerie ship with sails had stopped by the ind!
Ning Qingxue didn’t dare stand at the highest point of the cier anymore. She quickly climbed down as the cier was getting closer and closer to the ship. Ning Qingxue could see clearly that although the ship had stopped at the ind, it hadn’t thrown out its anchor. Ning Qingxue was sure that there was indeed no one on the ship, but she was still scared and prayed for the cier not to get close to the ship.
But the cier still kept nearing the vessel, and with its current direction and speed, it would definitely crash into it.
Should she jump into the water? Ning Qingxue hesitated. If there wasn’t this eerie ship, she would. But with this ship around, she was all the more afraid of jumping into the water. After all, on the cier she could still look around. Once she was in the water however, who knew what could happen in there?
A gust of wind blew and Ning Qingxue shivered. She suddenly came to realize that the cier’s course was being changed a little by the wind. This way, the cier might not crash into the ship after all.
Ning Qingxue felt a little relieved but still held onto the gun tightly, hiding on one side of the cier.
As the cier brushed past the ship, Ning Qingxue subconsciously wanted to be aware of what was on the ship and as soon as this thought rose up, the scene inside the ship was immediately projected inside her brain!
Ning Qingxue was astonished; what was this? The moment she got startled, that image in her brain disappeared, but Ning Qingxue could clearly feel that there really was no one on the ship. Though in thergest room of the ship there was a table which even had meals on it.
Ning Qingxue grew scared. She didn’t understand how an image of the ship could have appeared inside her brain when she’d thought about it.
Although Ning Qingxue was cultivating a dao cultivation method, she still didn’t know about spirit sense. She had mobilized her spirit sense just then and checked the inside of the ship, but had gotten so scared, not knowing how to use it, that she’d subconsciously retrieved it because of it.
Ning Qingxue pondered, ’There is no one managing the ship, yet it didn’t crash into any ciers or corals and managed to sail to this small ind. If this isn’t eerie then what is!’
As she thought this, Ning Qingxue didn’t dare even move anymore. She felt her hand sweat from holding the gun. If she had a choice, she would never want to get on the ind due to this eerie ship, but she didn’t.
Suddenly, Ning Qingxue felt goosebumps all over again, as if a bleak wind had blown from the crevice of the cier towards her. Ning Qingxue could clearly feel that before the bleak wind could near her, it was blocked by the ne and disappeared.
There was a warm flow of energying from the ne that flowed through her body and calmed her down.
Ning Qingxue grabbed the ne and murmured, "Did you save me again? Thank you."
The cier finally touched the ind. Ning Qingxue was afraid of staying on it, not because it was getting smaller, but because the cier was right next to the ship.
Ning Qingxue jumped onto the ind. She didn’t even dare look back as she just ran in the opposite direction of the ship.