Chapter 239: Luo Zhengdao's Fantasy Drift
The pirates lined up to walk into the narrow cabin of the submarine, and they soon realized that it was not a pleasant journey, because of the need to fight against water pressure, the submarine used a lot of pressure structures, and the internal space was cramped.
"Secure everything, buckle up, check again, I don't want to see someone stoned to death, or turned into a bumper ball."
After a pause for half a minute, waiting for the pirates to check whether their bodies were secured firmly enough with the harness modified with sail ropes, Luo Zhengdao asked:
"Are you all ready?"
"That's it!"
In a neat answer, Luo Zhengdao also sat in his seat, he turned his head to look at the boatswain, and said:
"Zora, get ready to light the fire!"
"Bang! Boom! Boom! ”
Hearing this, Zorrah Hegel pulled the fuse hard, and with a few low explosions, the temporary slipway fastener on the underground slope was blown off, and the barrel-like wooden submarine slid downward with gravity until it fell into the raging current.
"Boom, boom...... Bang-"
If you ask how it feels to a mouse falling into a drum washing machine, Luo Zhengdao has already tasted this uncomfortable taste of turning over the river and the sea, and perhaps he hopes that he will never know this secret. Under the impact of the turbulent underground river current, the unpowered barrel submarine moved irregularly with the rushing water, rolling quickly and slowly in the river, and from time to time there was a super tumbling of 360 degrees, or 3,600 degrees. Even in the face of the most violent Mana storm, it is impossible to toss the ship like this, and it is a big deal to just disassemble it and end it in one go, which is a living sin!
Soon, a strong smell of vomit filled the barrel submarine, and Luo Zhengdao, who had been prepared for this, raised his hand and touched the silk handkerchief that was plugged in his nostrils, and couldn't help but be complacent about his foresight.
"Whoa......
There was a sudden splash above the calm and dark water, followed by a black behemoth leaping out from under the water, jumping a few times and finally coming to a stop, which was exactly the submarine that the pirates had high hopes for.
The jolting hull finally stopped shaking, the hatch at the top was lifted, and Zola Hegel was the first to appear, and he shouted with joy at the sight of his surroundings:
"It's out, we're finally out!"
If it weren't for the tireless deducing the feasibility of the escape plan through Guò Moka in advance, Luo Zhengdao would never dare to entrust his life to a wooden submarine that had never been tested in practice, but fortunately, he only needed to consider the strength of the submarine and whether it could block the invasion of external water bodies, and the most complex power and control propulsion systems were omitted. Even so, the success of the plan was a blessing of luck that the submarine did not encounter unforeseen danger as it did not get stuck in an underground channel that was too narrow somewhere. Although the plan to escape from the dark area through the Guò underground river seems to be extremely simple on the surface, the hidden danger is one of the top three adventures since the crossing of Luo Zhengdao.
Coming to the top of the submarine and looking around, Luo Zhengdao asked the half-elf beauty:
"Vena, where is our location?"
It happened to be night, looking up at the sky and trying to determine the location according to the astrology of the celestial dome, Vina Dubov finally shook her head in disappointment and said:
"I don't know, the observation conditions are so poor that I estimate that we have deviated at least five hundred miles from the landing site, and the underground river is outcropping from this lake, and we have not been able to reach the sea."
Luo Zhengdao faintly felt that his bad luck this time was not an ordinary luck problem, if someone deliberately set up, it is estimated that he would prepare later, and he couldn't help but be careful. Thinking of this, Luo Zhengdao clapped his hands to attract everyone's attention and said:
"Guys, get the oars out, let's go ashore first."
The materials were readily available, and making a few oars was too simple for a person who had been soaking in the sea all day to make a living, and after ten minutes, the submarine was safely moored in shallow water, and although the water was still deep enough to make a person go without a roof, it was no longer enough for the submarine to float. Leading his subordinates to assemble a raft and land on the shore, Luo Zhengdao greeted loudly and said:
"Well, have a good rest tonight, and tomorrow we'll dismantle the submarine and join the fleet."
"Well, you said you found an orc?"
After waking up in the morning, he had just eaten a piece of dry and hard bacon by the campfire, when Luo Zhengdao learned about the enemy situation from the boatswain, frowned and said:
"Zora, do you know where these orcs come from?"
Zola Hegel's familiarity with the Sea of Darkness was no less than that of his own garden, and he snorted disdainfully, and said:
"Those orcs were once Drow's slaves, and then they fled, an uncivilized bunch of brutes."
"Really? Didn't you send it from Drow? ”
Luo Zhengdao's statement was agreed by the boatswain, and Zora unabashedly despised the orcs, saying:
"Those guys are not warriors at all, a bunch of soft eggs who bully the weak and are afraid of the hard."
Looking at the fantasy new world through the perspective of a traverser, the intelligent races here actually made Luo Zhengdao feel that they were two creatures that were incompatible with him, except for those subordinates who had been in contact for a long time, from his own heart, he saw that these otherworldly creatures were no different from uncivilized barbarians.
Those foreign wars are so speechless that the combat power of the internal fighting is broken to a top ten, not to mention the human nobles who have a fight with waste dim sum, and the Yaling Empire and the Elven Federation, which have the highest civilization, are not good birds. To be precise, the moral standards and rule of law of the so-called civilization and civilization in the New World, in Luo Zhengdao's personal opinion, are at best stuck in the Middle Ages before the Second Industrial Revolution in the Old World. Because of this, the comparison psychology of fifty steps and a hundred steps of laughter may be shared by the natives of the New World, and it is unlikely that Luo Zhengdao will feel that the other party has more common language with him because a certain race is a little more civilized than others.
Any problem that can be solved with money is not a problem, since the orcs that haunt the lake are not instructed by the drow elves, Luo Zhengdao hopes to reach some kind of tacit understanding and deal with the other party, and then, after consulting with the boatswain, he brought more than 100 musketeers to negotiate.
"This is our gift, and we hope to make friends with your tribe."
At the gate of the humble wooden barracks, where the bark had not been peeled, the entire bag of grain and gold coins was ordered to be kept at a safe distance, while the boatswain acted as an emissary to negotiate with the orc tribe.
The shape is stronger than people, it's not that Luo Zhengdao can afford to look down on these half-orcs, he has to make a friend, it's really the pirates' recent situation is not good. Falling aggrievedly in such a ghost place where there is no place for the world and no land, if you want to leave this place, you lack animal power to travel, and act in an area like the Dark Sea, where the land occupies a larger proportion than the water area, the pirates are not used to it, not to mention that the place where the submarine surfaced happened to be an inland lake cut off from the sea, although Luo Zhengdao, who carried a lot of supplies with him, could not provide daily necessities, how to say that he could not take out a group of pack horses!
Overland marching was not a pirate's forte, and if a day or two of the journey was fine, traveling hundreds of miles through the wilderness with no ready-made roads, without supplies and livestock to ride on, God knows how many days it would take to reach the coastline. In addition, the guide is also a big trouble, traveling on unfamiliar land is different from sailing in the unknown sea, not that you draw a straight line between two points on the map is the shortest path for a certain distance, not being familiar with the road situation is a very fatal thing, to be able to spend a little money to solve these two thorny problems, Luo Zhengdao will never mind giving up some face to deal with orcs.
"Yes! OK! Friends are welcome! ”
In the face of Luo Zhengdao's silver bullet attack, the half-orc tribe quickly fell without even a little ability to resist, and immediately opened the door to invite the pirates to eat.
The atmosphere of the welcome banquet was naturally quite warm, and the orcs couldn't take out any decent food and drink, nothing more than fish from the nearby lake and some birds and beasts that Luo Zhengdao didn't know, but he began to feel that something was wrong while eating.
"What's wrong?"
Zola Hegel took the opportunity of the toast to come to Luo Zhengdao's side, he covered his mouth and nose with a wine bowl, and whispered:
"Half-orcs drink when they're happy, and when they drink too much, they shout, and now it's too quiet, it's not their habit!"
Hearing this, the smile on Luo Zhengdao's face was still bright, but his tone was much colder all of a sudden, and he said:
"That means ...... Are they pretending to be happy? ”
"Well, I think so!"
In the eyes of the boatswain, Luo Zhengdao is obviously a qualified leader, not to mention anything else, in terms of ruthlessness alone, he is more powerful than most pirates. When he was sure that he had no stake in each other, he would be very gentle, and even if he was provoked, he would quickly calm down, and once it was confirmed that the other party was an enemy, the morality and law of the world could not restrain the regent from what His Royal Highness wanted to do. Listening to Luo Zhengdao's gloomy tone, Zola Hegel immediately understood that he was not defenseless, but had been looking for flaws, and he would not rashly turn his face if he was not sure that he would annihilate the orcs.
"Zola, do you know what connection Drow has to do with these orcs?"
Swallowing a bowl of ill-tasting wine, Zola Hegel replied in a low voice as he raised his hand to wipe his lips:
"I don't know, I've heard that some city-states will raise slaves on the surface, but I can't say what the specific situation is."
The evidence at the moment was enough, Luo Zhengdao took the wine bowl and toasted to the pirates and half-orcs around him, and when he came to the side of the half-elf beauty, he said with a smile:
"Vena, inform our people, be ready for battle!"
A few minutes later, Vena Dubov, who had drunk too much, disappeared into the open-air banquet with two retinues, and then the pirates also withdrew under various pretexts.
Luo Zhengdao, who was originally staggering, was excited, and jumped out of the camp in three or two steps, while the boatswain blew the horn and shouted:
"Musketeers, get ready...... Fire! ”