"Pack your bags, this operation is very dangerous, you must be mentally prepared not to come back."

After returning to Wake Reef from Qiongzhou for the last docking and replenishment, Luo Zhengdao did not forget to remind the sailors accompanying him, but he did not think that they would refuse to participate because of the danger, and he would not hide when it was time to remind him. Luo Zhengdao doesn't think that the idiotic idea that keeping a secret is better than a qiē is correct, and the lie will eventually be exposed, and it will ultimately damage his credit, and the price of losing credibility is more terrible than a small benefit of a momentary profit.

Hearing this, the heavily armed sailors sharpened their swords and filled their ammunition with fire. The gun was stuck in his waist, and he said in a rambling voice:

"Your Majesty, I'm willing to serve you."

"If the treasure hunt is successful, can we also give out more bonuses?"

"Shut up, you idiots! I'm sorry, His Majesty the King. ”

The first stop is the Sea of Floating Light, which is a pure seaweed paradise, but it is easy to cause people to look at it when it is too vibrant. This kind of environment with a greatly limited field of vision induces claustrophobia or something, and even people who do not have this problem will not like to stay and live in the Sea of Light for a long time, which is completely inconsistent with the living habits of intelligent beings. If it weren't for the drow elves' nest of dark skins who were extremely averse to sunlight, the Sea of Light would have been a good place for them to settle in, and the view of this place would not be much better than that of the underground space.

The demons of the orderly evil camp have much better credibility than the demons of the chaotic evil camp, as long as they don't get fooled by their agreement documents, in the execution stage, the devils have always been reliable.

That being said, the clues provided by the devil are still cluttered and vague, and the previous expedition spent nearly a year reconnoitering back and forth to find the suspected target, and what happened next was clearly a tragedy. The entire expedition was almost wiped out, and the strange fate of no one alive or dead was terrifying, except for the last five survivors who were attacked by the Sea Dragon on the way back or returned to Wake Reef to recover, and the other members of the expedition either died on the way to the Sea of Light, or ended up missing in a state of mystery and missing.

Knowing that this act was auspicious, as he approached the suspected location, Zola Hegel's eyes were particularly vigilant as he scanned the bare black reef in front of him, and he complained to Luo Zhengdao with some impatience:

"I've seen a lot of rocks, and this one is very weird no matter how you look at it! 陛xià! ”

Indeed, the reef, which is made up entirely of thick black rocks, is already a heavy feeling in the eyes, and the complex topography of the reef also proves that this place is not welcome to tourists, and what disturbs Luo Zhengdao the most is the mystery of the place.

Those dangers that can be seen and felt can always be avoided or resisted, and the mysterious places that are incomprehensible will produce a sense of oppression psychologically, no matter how strong they are, they must be cautious enough in the face of unknown mysteries. However, there are also advantages, precisely because this place is extremely mysterious and dangerous, the possibility of hiding the evidence of the overlord is higher, although this sounds contradictory, but in fact there is an inherent rationality. The old pirate kings were not timid and fearful, and presumably they would not agree that the soft-footed shrimp was worthy of being on the same list as themselves, as the treacherous search for the cup of life has clearly revealed. If you want to get the proof of the hegemon, strength, courage and luck are all three indispensable.

"How magnificent and charming is the sea of stars, the sea of floating light is like a girl's heart, you can never guess her hidden secrets, the frozen sea can make you calm and ponder, the sea of death is the graveyard of the weak, the sea of darkness makes you sleepy! The most beautiful scenery of the sea of blood will always appear after a fierce battle. The Sea of Storms is so vast that we must conquer it. Sail pirates wow! Want a proof of overlordship? Want to become the Pirate King? Want to make your wish come true? Then prove it with wisdom, courage and strength! You'll have to prove that you're worthy of this glorious title. ”

The short poems sung by the boatswain were often played and sung by the bards in the taverns, though the tunes were too old to be old-fashioned. However, this is still a classic that pirates never get tired of listening to when they are drunk, and pirates who don't want to be pirate kings will be looked at with contempt, just as rare as ordinary people in the old world who don't fantasize about getting rich overnight.

At present, Luo Zhengdao's focus is not on the natural environment, but on the risk factors hidden outside the naked eye, and before disembarking from the ship, he admonished his subordinates in a deep voice:

"You immediately report if you find something abnormal, and you are not allowed to investigate in depth without permission, do you understand?"

"Yes, His Majesty the King."

It is said that the survey of this reef is not a difficult task, it is not a large area, the longest point of the east and west ends is not more than ten miles, and the width from south to north is about five miles, but the topography of the reef is a little more complicated. Almost everywhere there are deep ravines and winding caves, it is simply a natural rat nest, none of the expedition members who know the exact location of the incident came back alive, the survivors' descriptions can only save Luo Zhengdao some search time, narrow the search area, tossing back and forth for two or three days, a more credible news finally came.

"Your Majesty, we found some of the kitchen debris and campfire ashes left by the expedition team after their meal around here, and the last place they arrived at should be outside this cave."

Hearing the sound, Luo Zhengdao, who was led to the place of the incident, raised his eyes and looked up and down at the dark and cold entrance not far away, which could only accommodate an adult to bend down to enter, and his heart couldn't help but feel tired. The pirate kings don't have a good taste either, and they pick out this kind of rat hole to hide things, and those who don't know think they are miners!

Luo Zhengdao, who had slandered his predecessors, waved his hand slightly, and several of his subordinates understood that they would tie each other's waists with ropes to prevent accidental stumbling and falling, and then they lit torches, took out the lighting crystals, and crouched into the hole. Hearing the sound of small footsteps gradually lowering, the people waiting outside began to talk in a low voice, unexpectedly, in less than half a minute, how these people got in just now, and how they would retreat.

Seeing this scene, Luo Zhengdao, who was almost shocked by his jaw, asked repeatedly:

"Why did you guys come out? Found danger? ”

A soldier panted with palpitations, shook his head and said:

"Your Majesty, I'm at the front of the line, the entrance to the cave is still normal, and I can't see anything if I go a little deeper. The torches and lighting crystals were useless, and when I found out that the situation was not good, I immediately pulled the rope, and it was they who pulled me out. ”

While telling the personal experience of the frightened moment, while wiping the cold sweat dripping down, the frightened scout's face was still pale, and his breathing was as fast as a terminally ill patient. This is the instinct of human beings, when encountering a situation that violates common sense, the inexplicable fear will naturally deepen and aggravate, and it cannot be overcome by the rationality of acquired education. For example, when people see a group of fanged and clawed beasts eating people alive, they will also feel frightened, but they will not be too stimulated, and suddenly see a group of zombies gnawing the living, and immediately have a strong psychological impact that is uncontrollable, even if the results of the two are the same, there is a huge difference in the intuitive feelings of witnesses.

Knowing that he couldn't blame these subordinates, Luo Zhengdao simply comforted them and said:

"You've worked hard, go down and rest for a while!"

People inevitably have tempers, and they have suffered a lot of hardships and suffered a lot of sins before they have found the way to the door, why should they teach it to you for no reason? The cliff of a person with this extraordinary measure is not an ordinary man, not to mention a saint, but at least a generation of sages who abandon the ego and become the greater self. In the same way as the previous example, there are very few people who have been deliberately embarrassed by their predecessors who do not maliciously make things difficult for those who come after them, and this dark psychology with the nature of revenge against society is an evil of human nature that is difficult to remove. The predecessor pirate king is undoubtedly not an ordinary person, in order to pursue the dream of the proof of the hegemon, they will naturally pay no less hard price, seize the great opportunity to be difficult for the latecomer, who dares to expect them to be kind and not set up any obstacles? Wash up and go to bed early!

"Uhhh

Suddenly a long howl came, and Zola Hegel was stirred, and the qualified old pirate knew the sea as meticulously as his own bedroom, and he reflexively shouted:

"It's the sea dragon, and it's closing in on us."

Seeing this, he turned around and looked at the mystery. Cave, Luo Zhengdao said stupidly:

"Everyone retreats back to the battleship and immediately executes the order."

The so-called sea dragon genus is not a standard name, it is a general term for all aquatic anamonian creatures by New World navigators, and it is estimated that even naturalists who specialize in the study of sea dragons are not clear about the number of these wurm species and how they are divided. There's no way to do that, who calls those dragons to lewd. If you want to flood, you have to go to see a mother, this thing is not easy to say too much, too vulgar and easy to be harmonized. In short, at this time, the sea dragons that roamed around the reef were of various sizes, the small ones were the size of war horses, and the large ones were like a high-speed moving train, their open mouths full of sharp teeth that glittered with cold light.

Compared with the bodies of these behemoths, these sharp teeth are quite small, and the average size of each dragon tooth is several times larger than the palm of an ordinary person.

Paying attention to these sea dragons walking back and forth by the side of his boat, Luo Zhengdao lowered his head and thought about it, and said:

"Gun Commander, fire the cannon and try to drive them out."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Expedition is different from combat operations, the ship is light and flexible, and the loading capacity is far more important than the strength of the battle, so Luo Zhengdao did not drive those most fashionable new ironclad ships to hang out. Recently, with the upgrading of the technology of the Wake Reef Iron and Steel Works, the old wooden sail warship Yangwei on which the expedition team was traveling was also replaced with a batch of the latest types of cannons, which is the first batch of qualified products made of cast steel instead of bronze. Due to the significant increase in the strength of the barrel of the gun, the charge and the number of chamber pressures were significantly increased, and the first 12-pound stone projectile easily hit 2,000 yards away, which was much better than the performance and accuracy of the previous similar guns.