HCB Chapter 1269 Lost?
Chapter 1269 Lost?
Half a month later...
"Your Highness! Your Majesty! Something terrible has happened!"
It's Elizabeth.
She didn't even have time to knock before she pushed the door open and rushed in, looking panicked.
Her beautiful face, which was always full of confidence and wildness, was now filled with unprecedented solemnity and a trace of...fear.
"Something...something happened!"
"We...we think we're lost!"
"be lost?"
Lin Zhen and Murong Yan were both stunned.
They looked at the pirate queen in front of them, who had been shouting that she wanted to be the "Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Navy's Privateering Fleet" one moment and was now as flustered as a headless fly the next, their minds filled with questions.
This is on the high seas!
You, a legendary pirate who has roamed the world for decades and calls yourself the "strongest queen of the Caribbean," actually got lost in your own familiar territory?
Isn't this a joke?
"Elizabeth, have you been drinking too much rum and are you out of your mind?" Lin Zhen frowned, her tone slightly displeased.
What he hates most is people who let him down at crucial moments.
"No! Your Highness! I swear, I haven't touched a drop of alcohol!" Elizabeth was almost crying with anxiety. She pointed to the sea outside the window, which looked calm but had an indescribable eeriness about it, her voice trembling slightly.
"You...you see for yourself!"
Lin Zhen and Murong Yan walked to the window and looked in the direction she was pointing.
What should have been a vast, blue expanse of the South China Sea was now completely shrouded in an extremely eerie, thick black fog.
The fog was so thick, so black.
As a result, the entire massive combined fleet was instantly plunged into complete darkness.
Visibility was less than ten meters!
Even more bizarrely, this black mist seemed to have a life of its own, completely enveloping their massive fleet of hundreds of warships, forming an enormous, sealed black cage.
Outside the cage, the sun still shone brightly and the sea breeze was gentle.
It was as if they were completely isolated from the outside world by an invisible wall.
"What's going on?" Murong Yan looked at the bizarre scene before her, which seemed to be the work of gods and ghosts, and a rare look of solemnity appeared on her beautiful face.
"Why is there such a thick fog all of a sudden?"
"And this fog is black, it looks really eerie..."
"I...I don't know either." Elizabeth's voice was trembling with tears. "I've been sailing for so many years, I've been to the Devil's Triangle, I've ventured into the Bermuda Triangle, what kind of bizarre weather haven't I seen? But a black fog like this, which completely encircles an area of the sea, I've never even heard of it before!"
"All our compasses and sextants have failed! We have no idea where we are or which direction to go!"
"We're like a bunch of blind men with their eyes covered, trapped in this damned, black maze!"
She became more and more agitated as she spoke, and eventually broke down.
For the first time, a feeling of "despair" surfaced in those blue eyes that were always full of confidence and wildness.
She felt that she and her fleet were like a moth that had accidentally wandered into a spider web.
No matter how much they struggled, they could not escape their predetermined fate of being swallowed up.
However, just when she was about to be completely overwhelmed by this immense fear and powerlessness.
The Eastern man, who had been silently watching the black fog outside the window without uttering a word, suddenly spoke.
"Why are you panicking?"
Lin Zhen's voice remained calm and serene.
The bizarre scene before him, which would have driven even the most seasoned sailor to despair and collapse, seemed to him nothing more than a harmless after-dinner pastime.
He turned his head and looked at Elizabeth's pretty face, which was filled with panic and helplessness, and a mysterious smile appeared on his lips.
"It's just a little trick, why are you so scared?"
“A...sleight of hand?” Elizabeth was slightly taken aback upon hearing this.
“That’s right.” Lin Zhen nodded, his deep eyes gleaming with a hunter’s confidence and amusement.
"If I'm not mistaken, this should be the first 'gift' our 'old friend' has prepared for us."
"An old friend? A gift?" Elizabeth was even more confused.
"It's that East India Company, the one that's been sabotaging us from behind, trying to control the trade lifeline of the entire East," Lin Zhen explained with a smile.
"They are using this method to show off their 'muscle' to us, to tell us that this part of Southeast Asia is their territory, and to make us back down."
"The East India Company?!" Upon hearing this, Elizabeth's blue eyes instantly blazed with terrifying fury!
"Was it the work of those damned, despicable villains who only know how to hide behind the scenes and stab people in the back?!"
She finally understands!
No wonder this black fog is so eerie and illogical!
It turns out this wasn't a natural disaster at all, but a man-made one!
It was a conspiracy meticulously planned by those dirty businessmen who would stop at nothing for money and profit!
"Those damned bastards! I'll hang them all on the mast and scald them to death with the hottest tar!"
Elizabeth roared through gritted teeth, her beautiful face contorted with rage and bloodlust.
However, Lin Zhen seemed not to have heard her harsh words at all.
He simply turned his head and glanced at his beloved woman, whose pretty face had also turned pale with fright at the same bizarre sight.
"Yan'er, are you scared?" he asked softly.
“With my husband here, Yan’er is not afraid of anything.” Murong Yan shook her head, her beautiful phoenix eyes filled with absolute trust in Lin Zhen without reservation.
She knew that as long as this man was there, he could easily hold back even the sky if it fell down, let alone a small black mist.
"That's good." Lin Zhen nodded in satisfaction.
He reached out and gently stroked the tip of her small, pert nose, then spoke in a tone full of doting affection and confidence.
"Then stand firm."
"Let your husband take you to see a grand sea spectacle that is even more spectacular and exciting than the fireworks of Japan."
As he spoke, he turned to Elizabeth, who was already in a panic, and gave her and everyone else present a crazy order that left them speechless.
"Pass on my order!"
"Full fleet, sails full! rudders full!"
"Full speed ahead!"