The Bauhinia left the White Night Harbor to make room for another cargo ship carrying stones.
After nightfall, Rudolph flew away from the Bauhinia. Some people also found that Rudolph often left at night, but Rudolph was a level 4 wizard and must have many secrets. Only by not asking about anything could he live long.
After leaving the Bauhinia for a distance, Rudolph asked Larry to appear. Larry drew the star power from the sky and began tonight's divination. The result of the divination was to continue eastward, then northward, until it reached a place that all evil gods considered desolate.
The Bauhinia continued to move away from the coast, and after another half a month, it entered an archipelago.
Each of these archipelagos was not large. There was no temple of the evil god here, and it was desolate enough. A large ship like the Bauhinia could not even enter the port, and could only anchor in the shallow sea and go ashore in a small boat.
There was actually a small druid tribe on this small island. Pilot Pilot was familiar with dealing with the small tribe of druids on this island. Rudolf guessed that Pilot was also from a druid on an island. The living environment of druids was somewhat primitive, and they could survive on such a small island.
After chatting, he learned that the custom of sea burial was preserved here.
After waiting for several days, Rudolf came to a remote beach. When the sun set from the sea level, the sea burial on the island began.
The specially made boat was the coffin for sea burial. The deceased would be placed in the boat with a black sail, and the sea breeze would take the deceased to the place where he would sleep forever.
The deceased today was a little girl with red hair.
She lay motionless in the boat, imagining that one day, you would be like that corpse, no longer wake up, and you would no longer have any connection with this world. The fear of death invaded the psychological defense line of every mourner.
"Village chief, do you know where the destination of the sea burial is?"
The village chief was sufficiently vigilant against strangers other than the druids.
"I don't know. This is our custom. What do you want to do by asking about the destination of the sea burial? Our ancestors and family members are buried there!"
In the eyes of the village chief, Rudolf did not look like a good person.
He was wearing a black robe and holding a cane that only rich people would use. The cane was decorated with beads and gold ornaments, and it looked expensive.
The village chief's simple experience told him that there were no good people among the rich. This experience was not wrong. The accumulation of primitive capital was mostly accompanied by plunder and blood. Rudolf's cane was stained with blood and countless wronged souls.
Rudolf left the village because he could not get anything out of the village chief.
After returning to the Bauhinia by boat, Rudolf hurriedly used the Eye of the Sea Fish to track the sea burial boat.
The three fish found the boat and swam slowly under it.
On a night without the sun, the temperature became lower and lower, and the temperature of the sea water also became lower and lower. The three fish following the sea burial boat became more and more stiff in their tail-wagging movements, and the pictures they sent back became more and more dim.
At a certain moment, the three fishes' vision became lower and lower, and they began to sink to the bottom of the sea.
Rudolph controlled the three fishes to stand in the sea water and let them look at the boat buried at sea, but they were completely dead, and they could not collect any useful information.
When Rudolph said that the Bauhinia should move in the direction of the boat buried at sea, he was opposed by Mackenzie and other crew members.
"Mr. Shipowner! You must have enough respect for the customs on the sea!"
In the eyes of Mackenzie and others, Rudolph's behavior was extremely rebellious.
"The custom of burial at sea is a traditional custom in the eastern waters of the Saragu Sea. People around here will perform burial at sea, even some believers of evil gods do the same. After death, they are buried in the sea that nurtures them. This is a custom formed over thousands of years.
The same is true for the sailors who leave this sea area. Even if they die in other sea areas, they will choose burial at sea.
After death, the body gradually becomes cold and the soul will leave the body. No one knows where the soul goes in the end, and no one knows where the body goes after the burial at sea.
Mr. Rudolph, you can't explore the destination of the burial at sea because of your excessive curiosity. This is a blasphemy to the custom of burial at sea!" Mackenzie was so indignant that she didn't even care about Rudolf's identity as a wizard.
"Okay, okay, you're right. It's my problem. I won't blaspheme the custom of burial at sea again."
Rudolf and Cooper looked at each other and knew that they couldn't make sense with these crew members.
Rudolf and the other two came from the land. In their view, the ocean was just a large lake, and the ship was just a kind of transportation that was larger than a carriage. But for people like Mackenzie who have lived on the sea all their lives, the sea is an awe-inspiring existence.
The ocean is selfless, and she has nurtured people on both sides of the Saragu Sea; the ocean is also ruthless, and her rage will overturn any ship. Faced with this ocean that is simply irresistible, people gradually formed many customs, and burial at sea is one of them.
The ocean can make death peaceful and make people no longer afraid of death.
Although he said that he would not explore burial at sea again, Rudolf was a materialist fighter. How could he back down?
The Bauhinia was docked in Redbeard Port, the largest port in the archipelago.
Rudolph and Cooper left the port, leaving only Yvonne to help watch over the Bauhinia.
They came to the edge of the island, where a sea burial was being carried out. The deceased was an elderly couple. After the old man died, the old woman also died two days later.
"Rudolph, is this really okay for us?"
Cooper was not afraid of corpses, but he was influenced by Mackenzie's words and felt that exploring the destination of the sea burial was somewhat blasphemous.
At this time, Cooper and Rudolph were lying in a sea burial boat, and above each of them lay a corpse, which was the elderly couple who had just passed away.
Floating on the black sea, the corpse on his body made Cooper very uncomfortable. Using a corpse is one thing, and being pressed by a corpse is another.
"Have you forgotten what I told you? A thorough materialist is fearless! In the face of the truth, death is just a trivial matter!"
Cooper sometimes felt that Rudolph was talking nonsense, more like a priest than a priest, so he chose to close his eyes and stop thinking about it. Maybe after drifting, they reached their destination, the end of the sea burial that Rudolph wanted to go to.
The boats used for sea burials are specially built disposable boats, and they are not strong. Many boats cannot hold on for long and will sink due to leakage. Rudolph did not know where he would drift to.
After drifting for an unknown period of time, Rudolph was a little sleepy. Cooper suddenly shouted, "It's leaking!"
Rudolph's boat had been leaking for a long time, but he just didn't say it.
"Don't panic! The charity of sea fish and the punishment of storms are all the grace of Mother Ocean..."
The two boats sank one after another, and the seawater poured into the bottom of the boat, submerged the planks, and finally even the sails disappeared in the seawater.
The temperature of the seawater here is much lower than that of other seas. This low temperature makes Rudolph feel like he is soaking in a mixture of ice and water. If it is a little lower, the seawater will freeze into ice.
Just when Rudolph had to use the fish-swimming technique to get oxygen in the seawater, an undercurrent suddenly surged.
The undercurrent rolled up the sea burial boat and rushed to a certain direction on the seabed.
Rudolph grabbed the arm of the old man's body, because the target of this undercurrent was not him, but the body.
Rudolph has the 4th level of Fish Swimming Skill, and Cooper also has the Pisces Magical Device, which allows them to stay in the sea for a very long time.
After drifting with the undercurrent for an unknown period of time, the undercurrent disappeared.
A fishing net slowly sank and caught Rudolph and Cooper.
"There are two people here!"