60. The merchant ship Nautilus

The Slave Traders sailed to the waters east of Waski, where the island of Dunai is located, and from here it was less than a day's journey to the island.

Along the way, I tried to contact the lords on the islands, but unfortunately with little success, and even some of the lords on the islands wanted to imprison us in exchange for a reward from Marquis Boris, but because we have Dylan senior who is good at space magic, we can easily get out of those lords who want to arrest us.

The Slave Traders occasionally encountered merchant ships during their voyages at sea, but I found that when the merchant ships returned to the Slave Traders, they would stay away from us, treating us like plague gods.

Later, we learned from an old sailor that the 'Slave Trader' was completely in the style of a pirate ship, because this kind of pirate ship needs to sail at sea all year round, the hull has undergone a very extreme embalming treatment, that is, the entire hull skin has been burned, so that the hull will not be eaten by insects, and there will be no shellfish parasitism on the bottom of the ship. It's just that the ships that have been burned by the fire will turn black all over, and they will look very ugly.

The sails on the Slave Trader are also old canvas from many years, and some places have even been patched.

Most merchant ships on the Vasqui plane will not use this kind of embalming treatment, most merchant ships will paint the hull surface with a thick layer of lacquer, and the sails on those ships will not need to be so worn, in short, the reason why those merchant ships avoid the "Slave Trader" when they see it is that the "Slave Trader" looks like a complete pirate ship.

I want to inquire about the Kraken on Dunai so that I can't arouse the hostility of the inhabitants of Dunai.

So I parked the Slave Trader at a reef stand more than 100 nautical miles away, ran aground on the beach, and camouflaged it a little, and the black hull of the Slave Trader blended in with the black reef around it.

The sailors remained on board and were responsible for guarding the 'Slave Traders'.

Senior Dylan didn't come with him this time, and he stayed on the Slave Trader to complete our new idea of building a ship that could be teleported. Fearing that we would be in danger on the island, he gave me a random teleportation scroll before leaving.

I asked Senior Dylan if there was anything he needed to procure that I could bring back from Dunai Island, and Senior Dylan thought for a moment and said, "Then try to bring as much magic parchment as possible, you may need to draw a lot of design drawings for the teleportation magic array, and in addition, be sure to pay attention to safety!"

I said to Senior Dylan, "You are the same, stay safe!"

We got into a dinghy and left the reef area.

I sat with Ying Li, Helena, Becky, Katarina, Karantso, Minotaur Ruka, and Deborah on a group of eight people, this is an oak dinghy that can carry ten people, the dinghy is painted with this layer of primary color varnish, you can clearly see the dense wood grain on it, the bow and stern at both ends of the dinghy, high up, full of streamlining.

Ruka the Minotaur was in charge of the oars, his muscular arms stretched rhythmically and then retracted.

Each time the oars were inserted diagonally into the water, the dinghy jerked forward.

The sea seemed calm, but that was the feeling on the Slave Trader, and when we sat in the dinghy, we felt how rough the sea was.

Of course, we didn't plan to just row to the island of Dunai more than 100 nautical miles away in a small boat. Instead, he planned to meet a merchant ship in the nearby waters and take a merchant ship to Dounai Island.

Deborah flew through the air, constantly watching for ships coming from the surrounding waters.

Our luck was not bad, our dinghy had only been in the sea for half a day, and Deborah spotted the merchant ship bound for Dunai more than twenty nautical miles away.

Next, we rowed the dinghy to the front of the merchant ship channel in unison, and waited quietly for the merchant ship that was about to leave here.

When I saw the shadow of the ship, I opened the portal in the dinghy, and Karantso and the Minotaur Ruka and Deborah returned to the Willow Valley for refuge, leaving only Winli, Helena, Becky, Caterina and me on the dinghy.

I took off my magic robe and changed into an extremely ordinary aristocratic costume, looking like a troubled aristocratic boy.

Caterina was wearing a long linen skirt and wrapped her long red hair in a handkerchief, the little dancer of the dance troupe nine years ago has now grown into a warrior who has been on the battlefield and experienced death, and now she is wearing red makeup, and there is a kind of shyness in her smile that she has not seen for a long time.

Although for a while, she and I faced each other day and night, but at this time, my eyes fell on the fair skin of her neckline, and I felt like I had seen her for the first time in my life.

Ying Li was wearing a long skirt of a palace-style aristocratic girl, and her calm and calm, noble and elegant temperament, no matter where she went, even if she was wearing a thick linen dress, she could not hide it in the crowd, and Ying Li's body had been branded with the brand of aristocrats.

Compared to Ying Li and Caterina, Helena and Becky did not hide their identity as swordsmen and fighters, Helena wore a crystal lion thorntail light leather armor, and two crimson swords hung from her slender waist. Becky wore a suit of chain mail, a type of armor woven with magical wires, lined with soft leather, gloves, and curly hair like green algae tied into a ponytail.

Then we sat quietly in the dinghy, waiting for the sailors on the merchant ship to discover us.

The sailors of the merchant ship found some young nobles in distress at sea, and then shouted and told the captain of the merchant ship, and then the merchant ship began to lower its sails and slow down, and anchored more than fifty meters away from us, and the sailors of the merchant ship began to wave excitedly at me, and shouted at us: "Hey, row, row, you are saved!"

'Yes, we've been waiting for you here for a long time!' I said silently in my mind, and then I found an oar from the dinghy and swung it vigorously, but the dinghy only spun in circles, refusing to go any further.

The sailors on the merchant ship burst into laughter, but when they saw that there was only a group of young and beautiful girls on the dinghy except me, the last bit of vigilance was removed, and several able-bodied sailors stood on the side of the ship, and they leaped into the sea, and swam towards me, and they pushed our dinghy in the middle of the sea, little closer to the merchant ship, and then were pulled up by the ropes hanging down from the ship's spreader.

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This is a merchant ship with a large draft, although its entire hull is less than fifty meters, and the whole merchant ship looks like a pointed scalp boot, but almost all of its decks have been converted into cargo holds, and even the deck is full of all kinds of goods, and the goods on the deck are covered with canvas, and it is impossible to see what they are.

Two sailors stood on the lookout of the mainmast, the sails embroidered with the image of a blue devil whale, the sails blown up again by the sea breeze, and the merchant ship slowly increased in speed.

It was a three-masted galleon, with only three floors at the stern, and the sailors on board excitedly gathered on deck, enclosing a few of us in the middle.

A middle-aged man in the light leather armor of a sea beast and a captain's fur hat walked down from the ship's stairs, with a delicate Roman sword hanging from his waist and a monocular on the other side, and walked to the deck, where the sailors around him avoided him and made way for him to walk to us.

The middle-aged captain stood in front of me, slightly tugged at the corners of his mouth, and said: "Good afternoon, young gentlemen and ladies, welcome to the 'Nautilus', the destination of our merchant ship is Dunai Island, I hope the next trip can be helpful to you." ”

I gave him a noble salute and said to him, "Thank you for your help at sea, we are ......"

I described myself as a nobleman who had escaped from Conason Island and had traveled all the way to Dounai by boat, but our ship had sunk in the nearby waters, and only a few of us had been put into a lifeboat and drifted slowly with the current.

The middle-aged captain kept looking at me for a long time before he shouted, "Lydia, Lydia, you take our new guests to their rooms to rest, they may have not slept for several nights, and they still have plenty of time before dinner." ”

"Yes, Captain!" replied a lady upstairs.

I looked up at the stern of the boat and saw that there were many ladies on the second floor, who were lying on the lever to watch the excitement, pointing at us for a while.

A woman in a red linen dress with a white apron over her chest and front quickly appeared in front of me.

She had long brown hair, wheat-colored skin, big bell-like eyes, thick lips, and a kind smile on her face when she saw us.

"Young ladies and gentlemen, come with me, I think you may want to wash up a little, but now it happens that the Nautilus is in a period of water conservation, although it is expected to arrive at Tounai in the evening, but before we actually land on Tounai Island, anything can happen, our ship has to keep the reserve of fresh water above the emergency line, and there is no way for you to take a comfortable hot shower, so you can only wash up a little. "Lydia greeted us very warmly.

She led us to the aft boat and said, "But if the sailing goes well, we'll arrive at Dunai in the evening, where there are several hotels with good reputations." ”

The sailors on the deck stared at the Victorious Ladies like a swarm of stinky flies.

Delia scolded the sailors unceremoniously: "Get back to work, you toads, don't think that there will be noble swans, instead of always daydreaming, you should use your excess energy to wipe the deck of the ship." ”

The sailors were afraid of the captain, but not of Delia, and immediately someone said: "Forget it, Lydia, we will dock later, and we will have to recharge for a 'big war', and there will probably be a whole ship of cargo to be unloaded, but we will not have the strength to help you scrub the deck!"

Seeing that the ship's tower was full of people, the women who snuggled up to the railing with a curious look at us looked like a group of rich people or aristocrats, they were wearing imitation court evening dresses, each of them wore skirts like a huge flower umbrella, the upper body was girded, but the breasts were exposed a large piece of snow white, and the groove squeezed out was so deep.

The woman, Delia, led us to a narrow room with only four beds on the first floor of the ship, and she called the sailors to move out the only desk and chair in the room, and spread a camp bed on the vacant floor with a thick quilt on it.

Delia said to me apologetically: "I'm really sorry, the other rooms on the ship are overcrowded, I really can't find other empty rooms for you, fortunately, I will arrive at Dunai Island in a while, just rest for a while, it should be okay!"

"Of course!" I said to her, "and we're grateful to be able to provide such a comfortable room to rest!"

As I spoke, I took out five silver bells from the purse at my waist and stuffed them into her hands.

Delia did not show any squirming, took it generously, stroked her hair, smiled at me, and said, "If you need anything, just come to me." ”

Then her eyes fell on Helena and Caterina, winked at me extremely ambiguously, and whispered, "Of course, there are all kinds of special services, but I believe you don't need them!"

I didn't expect Delia to mention this at all, I was a little embarrassed, I didn't expect this merchant ship to have a passenger service.

It seems that many people in the aft shipyard are guests on the ship, so it's no wonder that even when they are rescuing people, they still look leisurely and watching.

After saying this, Delia turned and withdrew, and after a while, she led a few maids to bring us two basins of water, a plate of cookies, and a pot of very light fruity wine.

I sat in the cabin for a while, and then I pushed the door open with Caterina and gave the waiter at the door of the ship a silver bell, and asked her, "Where is the captain?"

The squire tightened his grip on the silver bell, wiped it vigorously on the placket of his coat, and then quickly put it in his pocket, and said to me, "Normally, our captain stays in the captain's quarters all day, but I think it's best not to disturb him at this time!"

The attendant led me outside the captain's room, looking a little cramped, and pointed gently to me inside, signaling that the captain was inside.

He seemed reluctant to stay at the door any longer, and when he saw that his mission was complete, he turned and left.

At this moment, there was a faint sound in the captain's room, the rapid breathing of a man and the ...... of a woman Caterina and I stood at the door of the captain's quarters, looking at each other.

I thought to myself: If I knocked on the door and interrupted them at this time, even if I said some words of thanks to the captain of the merchant ship, I guess he would inevitably be hated by him!

When a snow-white leg was attached to the glass window, Katerina and I hurriedly crept away from the door of the captain's quarters and ran to the roof of the ship, which had no pool on the top, but a few round tables and wooden chairs and a few parasols on the top floor.

Under the shaded parasols, there were some gentlemen and ladies, some were talking quietly, some were lying on chairs and pretending to sleep, and some beautiful women were soaking in the pool in cool gauze clothes.

The waiter at the doorway at the top of the building ignored me when he saw me pulling Caterina up the stairs and glancing at the badge of nobility on my chest.