"Is it necessary for you to do this, Qin Lang? I just ate your sausage without telling you, and I didn't do anything bad. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Besides, it's not like you can't afford another sausage......"

"Shut up, easy water." From the moment he left the hotel, Yi Shui had been nagging in his ear incessantly, and it had been going on for an hour now, and Qin Lang's patience had been completely exhausted. It reminded him of the robbery of Rachel's jewelry store, and he was nagging in his ear like this. Qin Lang really didn't understand where he learned this Tang monk-like skill.

But he didn't want to figure it out at all—at least not yet. He was in a rather bad mood, in addition to Yi Shui's constant nagging, another problem was that although he had been wandering around the dock for nearly an hour, he still hadn't found a suitable boat.

He wanted to buy a cheap and high-performance boat, but the situation in Los Angeles was no different from San Diego, the performance of cheap ships was not good, and the ships with excellent performance were not cheap, and it seemed that this situation could not be changed at all now, Qin Lang felt very annoyed.

Of course, his anger was vented on Yi Shui's head. "Hell, Yi Shui, can't you just help me pick it? I'm buying you a boat! ”

"Okay." Yi Shui was still very afraid that Qin Lang would be angry. In fact, this is true of Rachel, Duncan, and O'Connor. Qin Lang is the kind of person who advocates the use of violence to solve problems, and is more aggressive than he is willing to admit to himself. Therefore, obedience was the wisest choice in front of him, even if Yi Shui did not know how to choose a ship.

Picking a random ship is better than nothing. "That's the one, it's beautiful." He pointed to a cargo ship in the distance.

Qin Lang looked in the direction he was pointing. Yi Shui chose a white flying scissor cargo ship. The ship is indeed very beautiful and looks very new from the outside. But Qin Lang was not satisfied with her. "It's a sailboat! Easy water, we have to choose a steamboat. ”

And it would have been better to use a ship with a three-expansion steam engine - although he also found that a bit unrealistic. The triple-expansion steam engine was still a new generation of engines, and all his possessions probably couldn't afford to buy a ship that would use it as power. But in any case, sailing ships are not good.

"Pick another one."

"If you want the horses to run, but also to let the horses not eat grass, how can there be such a good thing in the world." Yi Shui muttered and shook his head slowly. Even if he lacked an understanding of the general transaction prices in the U.S. second-hand ship market, he knew that Qin Lang's request was completely unlikely.

He only picked one for him at random, so that he would not continue to get angry. "Then that one."

Qin Lang will look at his new choice. It was indeed a steamship, but it seemed to be a little smaller, about sixty meters long and six meters wide, and the standard displacement probably wouldn't exceed three hundred tons. After thinking about it for a while, he still didn't think it was appropriate. "The ship—"

"You want to buy that ship? As long as fifteen thousand, she's yours. A calm voice spoke.

Qin Lang and Yi Shui turned around at the same time—and the guards of Umbrella—and saw a middle-aged American with a wrinkled face standing behind them.

"Fifteen thousand, she belongs to you, Chinese."

"Actually, I didn't really want to buy her. Your boat seems to be a little too small. Qin Lang shook his head. He needed a ship to smuggle weapons, so her cargo hold volume must not be too small, and that steamship was not suitable for use as a cargo ship no matter how you look at it.

"She's small, but she's fast." The middle-aged man said in a slightly proud tone, "Her steam engine has an output of 3,500 horsepower, and it does not need to be ventilated under strong pressure. ”

"You mean, you put a steam engine with a total power of 3,500 horsepower on a small ship with a standard displacement of probably less than three hundred tons?" Qin Lang felt that this was incredible. Who, apart from the Navy and the steamship companies competing for the Blue Streamer, will install high-power engines on their own ships?

This is a serious lack of economy.

But the middle-aged man's expression showed that he was not lying. "Two hundred and eighty tons, to be exact." He was even more proud, "My boat can run to twenty-four knots, and the patrol boats of the Coast Guard can't catch up with her at all!" ”

Twenty-four verses? Qin Lang was a little tempted. If the ship really ran as fast as her owner claimed, she should be bought. For smugglers, the carrying capacity is important, but the speed is even more important, otherwise, if caught by the coast guard, the more you load, the more you lose.

That ship should indeed be bought.

But...... He glanced at Yi Shui. They all agreed that things should be investigated more clearly. A clipper built to evade the Coast Guard's patrol boats...... Why was she built? Is it for smuggling? "Sir, why did you build that ship?"

"Why should I tell you?" The middle-aged man didn't seem to want to talk about the problem in depth, and he urged: "Fifteen thousand, she belongs to you." If you don't want to buy it, then there's no point in continuing the conversation. ”

Qin Lang's brows furrowed slightly, he didn't like someone to speak to him in this tone. However, since Los Angeles is not yet his sphere of influence, he can only try to be polite. "Please wait a few minutes, sir." He laughed and said, "I have to talk to my friends." ”

Then he turned to Yi Shui. "What do you think of that boat, and is there any need for us to buy her?"

He used Chinese, and Yi Shui understood what he meant, so he also replied in Chinese: "I think it can be bought, and the American's willingness to build a ship that runs so fast is his own business, and we don't need to care, right?" ”

"I just think it's weird." Qin Lang said, and then glanced at the ship again. This time, he suddenly realized that her line type was a bit like an early destroyer. He recalled the history he knew: in 1892, the British built the first torpedo destroyers, and the standard displacement was exactly 280 tons, and the size was not much different from that ship, but the power was increased to 4,000 horsepower, so the speed rose to 27.5 knots......

Could it be that this American built an unarmed torpedo destroyer without permission? For such a speculation, Qin Lang was both strange and vigilant. There's something so unusual in this, and until he finds out what the hell is wrong, he'd better not act rashly.

"Yi Shui, we'd better not make a decision lightly. I don't want to buy a hassle or a lab product. ”

"Okay, Qin Lang." Yi Shui nodded, and then they turned to the middle-aged American, who was gradually becoming impatient. "Sir, we'd like to visit your ship." Qin Lang said. "We agreed that having a more intuitive understanding of your ship would be a good help in our decision."

"You Chinese, you are really wordy. If it weren't for the fact that the bank forced me to repay the loan and threatened to throw me in jail, I wouldn't have sold my boat to you. Although he said that, he still walked towards his boat with Qin Lang and Yi Shui, and of course he didn't forget to nag: "Listen, you can only look with your eyes when you get on the boat, don't touch around, and don't break things......"

"Hell, does he think we're Heihachiro Togo?" Qin Lang grunted unhappily.

"Who?" The Americans didn't hear it, but Yi Shui did.

Qin Lang shrugged. "A captain of the Japanese Navy. It is said that he could feel the dust from the barrel of the gun on any ship he went to. ”

"What's this?" Of course, Yi Shui couldn't understand his jokes, and Qin Lang didn't want to explain them to him. "It's nothing, I'm just very unhappy with that Yankee's attitude."

"I don't like him either."

Then they boarded the ship of the middle-aged Americans. As soon as he got on the boat, his attitude changed 180 degrees. "Gentlemen, welcome aboard the Agile, she was designed and supervised ......by me," he began, introducing his treasures—or rather, showing off—and showing them around, with Qin Lang and Yi Shui on a tour.

It was a long process that lasted thirty minutes.

The Agile is indeed a good ship. Qin Lang finally commented. The steel hull, the new parts and equipment, and the navigation equipment is quite complete - of course, the 1893 sea ships did not have any navigation equipment in fact - and the living facilities are quite comfortable...... At least the captain's room is nice.

He thought he could buy her. Although, according to the general procedure, she should also be subjected to a long sea trial to test her speed, endurance, and seakeeping...... And so on, but apparently everyone can't wait that long, and fifteen thousand is actually very cheap.

“Nice.Boat。” He said, "I'm going to have her." ”