His words lowered the temperature inside the cockpit to below zero.
Even today, thousands of years later, Theresa and Princess Summer felt chilled to the bone when they heard it.
Captain Gao Zhunlong was dazed for half a minute. Then his fury burst out uncontrollably like magma bursting out of a cracked earth.
Pointing at the nose of First Officer Quirke, he bellowed, "Quirke, this is betrayal!"
"We once had faith. Now that we've abandoned it, we are no longer traitors. But we have never chosen any faith on our own. We are just stray dogs that are being hunted by the tides. What kind of betrayal is that?
First mate Quake said with a smile.
He threw caution to the wind and did not care about anything.
