In the twelfth year of Tianfu, in May, Nanhai.

Su Jingchen looked out from the railing, the sky was high and the clouds were light, the sea breeze was slow, and occasionally an unknown fish jumped out of the water, bringing up a splash, and the seabirds flew by the sky, leaving only a crisp chirp. There is still less than half a month away from Yunzhou, and there are no dangers along the way, except for the occasional disturbing sea storm that greatly slows down their travel, and no other major events have happened.

This large cargo ship named "Yun'an" has been traveling to and from Yunzhou for nearly ten years, and has experienced countless ups and downs, only in this "sinking abyss" sea area, they will be especially vigilant, because this is the most likely place to encounter pirates.

A few discerning crew members climbed up to the mast to guard the surroundings, others who had nothing to do gathered on the side of the ship to gossip, and those assigned to the task came and went, and the slightest slack would be reprimanded by the co-owner.

Yu Zhi walked up to Su Jingchen and stood still, glanced at him, and asked, "Are you really going to sea for the first time?" ”

"yes, what's wrong?" Su Jingchen still looked at the sky, as if he couldn't get enough of the scenery on the horizon.

"It's not like that," Yu Zhi also looked at the sky like him, "You said that you are from Gyeongju, it is the inland in the north, not to mention the sea, even the bigger rivers are not there, the first time you went to sea was so far away, you didn't get seasick?" ”

"This ...... I don't know. Su Jingchen scratched his head.

Yu Zhi smiled, turned around and walked away.

When Su Jingchen got on the boat, in addition to a change of clothes and some things needed for daily life, he only brought a bow and a bag of arrows, Yu Zhi still laughed at him in his heart when he saw his outfit, and brought a bow and arrows, did he plan to sell arrows? Or do you plan to learn from the heroes in Romance and go outside to break into the world? But if that's the case, why not bring a sword? That's more temperamental, more chivalrous, but if you choose to go to Yunzhou, you really go to the wrong place, no matter how chaotic the north is now, it can't be compared to Yunzhou. If it weren't for the old man surnamed Tang who asked him to help, Yu Zhi probably wouldn't have let him get on this ship, and letting such a thin young man with no skills to save his life go to Yunzhou is almost like killing him.

"Captain, look over there!" Su Jingchen suddenly called him loudly.

"What's wrong?" Yu Zhi immediately turned around, this young man rarely shouted, probably because he saw something unusual, but he followed Su Jingchen's line of sight, but he didn't see anything, he glanced at Su Jingchen and scolded, "What's nothing, what are you kid yelling about?"

Su Jingchen shook his head vigorously, still looking over there, "No! Look closely!"

Yu Zhi had no choice but to look over there again, but after looking at it for a while, there was nothing but the sea and the sky, and he was about to scold, when a voice suddenly came from the mast above his head, "Ship owner!" A big ship is approaching us in the southwest! They...... There was no sea flag hoisting. ”

Yu Zhi was taken aback, this young man was able to find the ship on the mast before the crew on the deck, and he could also find out that it might be a pirate, you must know that you just mentioned that the ship going to Yunzhou would hang the sea flag on the mast when he was on the ship.

"All of them! Stay on your guard!" And before he had time to admire, Yu Zhi ordered the crew to take up arms, at this time Yun'an was in a headwind, and the ship was going with the wind, and now it is impossible to escape, judging from the size of the ship, this will probably be an inevitable battle.

When the crew heard this, they immediately put down what they were holding, turned their heads to look for the box containing the weapon, and then rudely pried it open, each of them picked up his weapon, and waited for it.

Su Jingchen also returned to his cabin, and when he came out, he had an extra bow on his back and a quiver full of arrows.

"You're a guest, stay honest in your cabin." Yu Zhi glanced at him, looked at his thin arms, and deeply doubted whether he had pulled away the Xiliang bow behind his back.

Su Jingchen smiled, but shook his head, "I can help a little, even if you miss, it can be regarded as a deterrent, and you can have a little advantage when you fight against them." ”

"That's life and death," Yu Zhi also smiled, his affection for this young man suddenly increased, and he joked with him, "When you die, I won't return the ship when I go back to give you your relics." ”

"No, no, it's all buried with me," Su Jingchen's eyes didn't have a trace of fear, he looked at the little enlarged ship with calm eyes that would never exist at this age, and said softly, "If you send it back, a little guy will probably be very sad, right?"

"Turn the rudder left!" Yu Zhi suddenly yelled.

The co-owner was stunned, "Turn the rudder left?!" ”

"Yes!" Yu Zhi jumped on the bow of the boat, reached out and grabbed a suspended rope, and held his sword tightly in the other hand, he laughed wildly, suddenly raised his sword, and pointed at the big ship in the distance, "Full speed ahead, let's crash directly!" ”

Su Jingchen's face was full of astonishment, and he thought that he had heard it wrong, "Bump into it?" ”

"yes, crash into it!" A crew member patted Su Jingchen's shoulder, with the same almost crazy smile on his face, "Our Yun'an, the bow is no less solid than the Daxi military ship!" Speaking of that keel, it is made of dragon fir wood that is as good as the Daxi warship, if they dare to collide with us, they will be allowed to prevent their hull from falling apart! ”

The corners of Su Jingchen's eyes twitched, and he said in his heart that other merchant ships are afraid of encountering pirates, you are good, you are more excited to meet pirates, are they pirates, or are you pirates......

The pirate ship flying the huge black flag also hedged towards Yun'an at full speed, Wang Ji squinted his eyes, and suddenly couldn't help laughing, such a person who is not afraid of death, he is also the first time to meet it, is it possible that there will be official ships disguised as cargo ships, waiting for pirates to send them to the door? However, this idea was quickly denied by him, Daxi had long given up the management of this sea area, not to mention now, I heard that even Emperor Laozi's Apocalypse City had been breached, where did they have the heart to care about this place thousands of miles away from them?

Wang Ji also stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the vague figure standing on the bow of the "Yun'an" in the distance, suddenly pulled out the long knife at his waist, pointed at Yun'an, and laughed maniacally, "Little ones! Burn the wind! Bump it into me! Smash that wrecked ship of theirs to pieces! ”

The huge impact force almost overturned the two large ships, and the waves were two people high, leaving a puddle of sea water on the deck, but surprisingly, the two ships collided without too much damage, the pirates screamed loudly, laughed wildly and threw out their hooks to fix the two ships, not letting them get too far apart, and a group of pirates who were not afraid of death, they held knives in one hand, and grabbed the many ropes hanging from the mast with the other, and swung directly to Yun'an.

Yun An's crew did not rush to cut the ropes, but let them hook their own ship, as if they were deliberately waiting for the pirates to board the ship.

Su Jingchen shot an arrow, and the first pirate to swing out of the boat was still in mid-air, and fell into the abyssal sea.

Since these pirates have to swing by ropes, let's just shoot those ropes!

In the interval between Su Jingchen's bow and arrows, five or six pirates had already come to Yun'an. Yu Zhi didn't know when he returned to the rudder at the stern, he watched his sailors fight with those pirates, the knife was dazzling, blood and sea water were entangled and scattered in all directions, but Yu Zhi's face was full of smiles.

Su Jingchen frowned, could it be that this Yu Zhi didn't take the lives of his crew seriously? But if Su Jingchen looked closely, he would find that the blood was all pirates.

Su Jingchen fired three arrows in a volley, several tangled ropes were broken together, and the pirates screamed and fell into the sea, and the sailors here scolded Su Jingchen while fighting with the pirates, and spat at him, probably because he was a dog with a mouse and meddling.

Su Jingchen sighed and had no choice but to put down his bow. Well, since you want to fight them, then I'll let you fight them.

Sure enough, without Su Jingchen's obstruction, more and more pirates swung to Yun'an through ropes, and at the same time, several long and thick planks stretched out from the pirate ship and directly put them on the side of Yun'an's ship, there were more and more pirates, although the crew on the Yun'an ship was good at fighting, the number was small, plus the cooks, there were less than fifty people, while the pirate ship that was almost the same size had no less than hundreds of people, and their combat effectiveness seemed to be much higher than those ordinary pirates.

Wang Ji sneered and looked at the man who was pretending to be calm standing by the main helm opposite, from the time you started not to stop us from getting on the boat, your ship was already in my Wang Ji's bag.

Why? Because of my men, the waste pirates can't compare, to use an analogy, it's like a well-trained soldier against an unarmed civilian.

Yu Zhi couldn't stand any longer, he jumped off the stern of the boat, drew his knife forward, stabbed a pirate in front of him with a knife, and then kicked the body of the pirate away, pulled up a sailor in front of him, and rushed forward with a yell, "Cloud piercing crossbow!" Get that thing out of here! ”。