The body of Ju Meng which perished in matter of seconds, made the crew afraid and felt eeire on this sea and shuddered.
"Captain shouldn't we leave this sea as soon as possible?" Navigator asks as he felt eerie about the atmosphere.
While the crew are also hoping that they should leave faster and don't want to stay any second longer.
"The ship-" Jia Liang was about to say when his sentence got cut off by Shipwright, "What happened to the ship?" Shipwright asks.
Over the days, he don't pay attention to anything, except that when matters are serious or casual talks about ship or refinery, his eyes always get perked up regarding this matter and is not interested in any other topics except this.
Seeing this, Jia Liang sighed, "How long can this ship travel to next destination?"
Jia Liang already knew the situation that their ship, as soon as they leave the Sea of Trilands, their ship will be shattered to pieces and will be broken down and they will have nowhere to go but perish in here.
Seeing the seriousness of this question, all crew knew something happened and the fox lady asked, "Is something bad about the ship?"
The Shipwright turned serious regarding this and took out the blue print of their ship and with his spiritual sense, he marked every nook and crany of the ship after checking.
All of them gathered and checked where Shipwright marked on blue print of ship.
Seeing that each of the parts of vulnerable parts of ship are marked, they sensed imminent danger.
Jia Liang, asks the Shipwright, "How is it?"
Unable to think of a situation, Shipwright answered helplessly, "Captain, I'm afraid that as soon as we leave this sea, the ship will be shattered."
"I have analysed and already came to this conclusion. Now what important is, what are we gonna do now? The ship can't hold for long. We need to find a place to anchor our ship even if it's the Sea of Trilands." Jia Liang seemed to be lost in thought and his words made some sense.
But reality is cruel than imagined, the ship started to creak and the water started filling up the ship in the base of ship, making it heavier.
"We can't wait for that long, let's hurry up. Take up the oars, fighter and Cook, both of you go down to base and hold down the water as much as possible and rest of you take up oars and furl the sails." Jia Liang ordered. They all went to their positions and hurriedly took up oats and sailed through sea.
The crew of Jia Liang consists of:- a Cook-cum-Archaeologist; an Alchemist-cum-Physician; Talisman-cum-Inscriptionisnt; Array-cum-Formation; Musician -cum-Illusionist; Fighter-cum-Sleuth; Shipwright-cum-Refiner; Painter-cum-Forgery and lastly the Helmsman-cum-Navigator.
In this crew there are two woman.
The cook mainly uses his legs while fighting and is adept at using the art of legs and can trace any origin of the treasure after years of decay and tell the story from any signs of destroyed ruins.
The Alchemist is proficient in poison arts and vulnerable pressure points in any parts of body of all living beings and is adept in medicine and plants regarding their nature and conditions where it grows. The Talisman is highly knowledgeable in the dao of Talisman and Inscriptions.
The Array maniac likes to toy with enemies keeping them in trap under the formations.
The musician is moreover adept in soothing the atmosphere and giving them illusions. One doesn't know how they die once they are trapped in it.
The fighter is all brawl, always like to fight and is very adept in the art of tracking, erasing the tracks, or even fooling the enemy to lure them into different locations.
The Shipwright is proficient in the art of weapons and refining weapons, and repairing ships.
The painter is adept in painting and forgery, and creating a different environment trapping the enemy into the painting world.
Lastly, the Helmsman is adept in handling the ship's course and navigating the seas.
The two girls in this crew are - the Musician and the Painter.
The higher ups and people living nearby seas knows that there is a huge bounty placed on them.
The bounty is enough for the livelihood of people to live without any worries in their lifetime.
But those who dared to venture out for their crew all were screwed off and ran away with their tails between their legs.
Those who suffered first, didn't dare tell the newbies as they also want to watch a show of schadenfreude.
After oaring through seas, they reached their destination and they anchored the ship nearby, which the place had enormous stony peaks as high as mountains.
As soon as they disembarked, they saw their ship turning into shattered pieces and turning to ashes within minutes.
"Crack... Crack... Crack... Boom.... Boom... Boom...!"
The noises continued until their ship faded away from this world.
Feeling sad and remorse, Jia Liang felt pity on the ship. This ship had accompanied him and his crew through many journeys and travelled through many mysterious places.
There were times where the ship had been badly ambushed and had to repair with different materials. Feeling remorse, the crew cried with tears, slipping down from their eyes.
No words need to be said.
Jia Liang took out a bottle of wine, which is an elixir, as the scent permeated in air with fragrance, making one drunk in ecstasy and poured it down where the ship perished as a farewell as ship accompanied him through many journeys before accepting the crew.
Silently he muttered, "Farewell, my dear friend. There are no banquets in this world that is everlasting. One or other day we eventually have to part ways."
With that said, Jia Liang turned around and took out items to cook as to replenish their hunger.
While the others are in emotionally down to, it may take sometime to recover.
After some hours, the scent permeated in air, making the crew wake up from their stupor.
Just by the smell, they could tell that it made them salivating and all woke up from their emotional farewells.
"Woke up? Come come have some meal." Jia Liang waved his hand to come and have meal.
"Captain, how could you?" They all said in their hearts. They all know that their captain is good at cooking meals better than the ship's cook.
It's not an exaggeration. But it's very rare for captain to cook.
Only the Shipwright and Musician have known Jia Liang for many years but they haven't seen his full potential till now.
Seeing the meals enjoyed by, Jia Liang smiles. It can be said to be a rare serenity of peace.
Shipwright pats his back and says with mouthfull of food, "It's been many years since we boarded the ship, it's a pity that after many years of maintenance and repairing, it couldn't hold on until her last leg of voyage."
"No need to worry, It's just that the ship we all boarded knew this day would come, isn't?" Jia Liang throws a wood to the campfire to keep the fire burning at all times regardless of the situation.