In order to survive, Tsukamoto honestly told everything he said about Black Gold Island.

Blackcastle is a Tier 1 city located on Blackgold Island, a freeland that does not belong to any country.

More than 30 years ago, a large pirate group first came to Black Gold Island, because this pirate group is very strong, and it can rob many merchant ships every day, and many of the looted supplies are too late to sell. In order to make it easier to take care of the supplies that were too late to sell, the pirate group used Black Gold Island as a material transit base.

Pirates will not only sell stolen goods from the black market, but also sell them to maritime merchants with better relations, and the brave maritime merchants will gradually find that it is easiest to find the materials they need on Heijin Island, so more and more maritime merchants will come to visit, and over time, Heijin Island will prosper. The pirates also accepted this semi-public place to sell stolen goods, and they took the looted materials to Heijin Island to sell.

The pirate forces that built the Black Gold Castle have been wiped out after a serious internal split, and the four pirate forces of the current Karins island group were split back then. In order to stop the huge internal friction of the war for several years, the pirates could only shake hands and make peace, but the Black Gold Castle, as the most important stronghold of the pirates, has also become the focus of contention between all parties, because the interests are too great, the pirates cannot watch the Black Gold Castle fall into the hands of other pirate forces, so the final signed covenant stipulates that the Black Gold Castle and other cities are neutral cities, and no one can interfere, so the Black Gold Castle will become a free territory.

Decades later, the increasingly prosperous island grew to a growing population, and today, there are more than 55,000 people in the castle, a few of whom are civilians, and most of whom are pirates and maritime merchants.

In the past few years, there has been constant friction between the four major pirate forces, especially the Western Pirate King, who inherited the main body of the pirate group back then, has surpassed the other three pirate forces in strength after many years of recuperation, and has gradually shown his fangs. First of all is the Pirate King of the North and the South, and after so many years of fighting in secret, the friction between the two sides has become so intense that they will go to war regardless of tearing their faces.

Black Gold Island is located in the east of the island group, and it is the most difficult for the Western Pirate King to penetrate a free territory, so in recent years, Black Gold Fort has nominally been a public area of the Pirate Alliance, but in fact it has become a control area for the Northern, Southern and Eastern Pirate Kings, and the Western Pirate King's power has almost been cleaned up.

Of course, the Western Pirate King will not easily give up control of the Black Gold Castle, and now he is just unable to extend his power due to the distance. The Western Pirate King has basically controlled the 3 important strongholds on the west side of the island group, and the other 3 Pirate Kings together control 3 strongholds, including the Black Gold Castle.

Capturing a stronghold means having more income and more warships, which means more powerful combat power, so the strength of the Western Pirate King will continue to grow over time, while the other 3 Pirate Kings have not controlled a lot of strongholds, but because of the internal friction in the cooperation, they have actually fallen into disadvantage.

"It's interesting."

Lu Cheng nodded thoughtfully.

Lu Cheng has always been worried about whether the Northern Pirate King will come to find trouble, but judging from the current situation, the Northern Pirate King's own troubles are not small, it is estimated that he has no time to deal with himself, this is good news, as long as he gives himself enough time to develop, what is the Northern Pirate King afraid of?

"Black Gold Island is open to everyone?" Lu Cheng once again confirmed with Tsukamoto whether the information was correct.

Tsukamoto nodded: "Yes, Black Gold Island is a free territory open to everyone, of course, it is the security team composed of people from the north, south and east who manage Black Gold Island. ”

"Is it okay if we just wiped out a group of pirates?" Lu Cheng asked.

Tsukamoto smiled bitterly: "My lord, pirates kill a lot of people every day, and who knows how much of them are consumed and who cares?" Everyone lives a life of drinking blood, and no one cares about the dead. ”

It's really sad that you're alive, and of course, people who do a lot of evil should be happy to see such an end.

Lu Cheng thought about it, since this is the case, it is better to go to Heijin Island to have a look, maybe you can find a way back to the territory, it is much better than wandering around the sea.

According to Tsukamoto's introduction, it took more than a day and a half for the Doom to depart from Black Gold Castle here, because of the wind direction, it needs to sail against the wind, and the time will be slightly longer, but it will definitely be there in more than two days.

Tsukamoto is often active in this sea area, so the route is very familiar, and all the navigation matters are left to Tsukamoto.

......

Black Gold Castle, night, rain.

Harvey, the dock dispatcher, shuddered, this damn ghost weather said it would rain when it rained, and he was drenched in soup before he could change into his coat.

Harvey pulled out the bottle hanging from his backpack and shook it.

Damn, there's no alcohol again, I'm soaking wet and there's no alcohol to drink, and I have to continue to be on duty for 2 hours to change shifts, I don't know if the guy who took over Fei Rui can get there in advance, otherwise it will be a cold if it goes on like this.

No, even if you go back and get deducted by your superiors, you have to get some wine to warm up, or go and change your clothes.

Harvey looked at the sea again, as if there was no boat, and he might be able to get back before his superiors noticed him slipping away.

Well?

Harvey, who had taken a few steps back, suddenly felt that something was wrong, there seemed to be a black shadow moving on the sea just now?

Harvey stared back for a moment.

It was really a boat docking, and he had been guarding the front for hours without seeing the boat, so he had to come when he was going to change his clothes and get some wine.

Harvey didn't dare to leave, once the ship docked, he would be stabbed by the crew to his superiors immediately, and he might be driven away if he deducted the money, and he couldn't bear the consequences.

Quickly took out the lantern to signal the ship, although there is a lighthouse on Heijin Island, it still needs the instructions of their dispatcher when it docks at night.

The captain and crew of the ship were obviously not skilled in docking at night, and under Harvey's worried gaze, the ship tossed for twenty minutes before it landed safely, and Harvey, who blew in the cold wind for another twenty minutes, had already begun to curse his mother.

"You pigs! Won't it slow down!? "Are you a male dog?" Don't put your head on the dock! "Eat X! Don't put the sails away yet! "Is your mind empty? Don't see a boat ahead? ”......

And to Harvey's surprise, he scolded the people on the ship for so long and didn't squeak, this is not a pirate style, if it is a pirate's ship, it should be scolded back at this time, and even it is possible to jump down and find him "theory" directly in excitement.

Although the merchant ship will be better, those short-tempered seafarers will scold back a few words to relieve their anger.

But what is the routine in front of you? Can't fight back, don't scold back?

Aboard.

Lu Cheng and Li Tiezhu, who looked embarrassed, stood in the dark and listened to the dispatcher on the dock scolding for ten minutes, this guy is really a talent, scolding people without repeating the same, and he didn't breathe after scolding for so long.

Black Gold Island is really an interesting place.

Lu Nan, who had a black line on his face, took the lead in getting off the boat from the gangplank, and the dispatcher directly spread his hands without blushing.

"Your boat occupies 2 standard berths, charging 8 gold coins per day, pay a deposit of 40 gold coins first, if the berthing time is too long, be sure to renew before the deposit is used up, and if you do not pay it overdue, you will be charged at double the price."

Lu Nan glared at Harvey fiercely, then took out the prepared money bag and threw it to Harvey: "You count, a total of 45 gold coins, and the extra 5 gold coins are your tip." ”

Harvey, who was still arrogant, almost dropped the money bag on the ground with a shudder.

it, a tip of 5 gold coins?

Harvey felt that he must be hallucinating, where had he ever seen such a generous captain, although he had received tips before, but at most it was only 1 silver coin, was the other party who scolded too fiercely just now playing tricks?

Quickly counted the gold coins.

45 pieces, one no more, one less!

Harvey's expression immediately changed, and he happily bent down and saluted Lunan: "Thank you, captain, the little one apologizes for the gaffe just now, the little one is a pig or a dog, I hope the captain doesn't care, if you have any instructions, please mention it, I can do it and I will definitely help." ”

Lu Nan actually didn't want to talk to this dispatcher at all, if it weren't for Lu Cheng asking him to bribe him to get some information by the way, he wouldn't want to deal with this kind of person.

Putting away his face, Lu Nan squeezed out a very reluctant smile on his face: "Our Chamber of Commerce has just come to this good place on Black Gold Island, and I don't know much about everything here, if it's convenient, I hope you can help introduce me to the situation of Black Gold Castle." ”

Although Tsukamoto explained a lot of the situation of the Black Gold Castle, but just in case, Lu Cheng decided to spend money to buy off the locals to verify the situation first.

"Captain, please speak, the little one must know everything."

"Otherwise, if it's convenient, come to my boat and sit and chat for a while, you see that your clothes are also wet, and the rain is so heavy, I have a brazier over there to keep warm."

"Uh, but the small ones are on duty......"

"It's okay, I'll ask my crew to help you watch first, and he'll let you know if a ship is coming."

Harvey nodded happily: "As you wish, let's go to the boat and talk." ”

After saying that, Lu Nan took Harvey to the gangplank to the captain's room in the aft building and chatted.

An hour later.

Lu Nan found Lu Cheng to report the situation.

"My lord, I've already checked with Harvey, the dispatcher at the docks."

"How?"

"What Tsukamoto said is basically true, although there are some places that are a little different, but it may also be a different way of understanding, and I didn't find a big problem."

"Oh, I didn't expect this guy to be so honest, I'm worried about being cheated by him."

Lu Nan hesitated and asked cautiously, "My lord, do you need to click him?" ”

Lu Nan, you have become bad, I am not a big demon, I will not kill people at every turn.

Lu Cheng shook his hand: "No, no, no, it's useful to keep him alive, but you must send someone to keep an eye on him!" He must not be allowed to escape. ”

"Obey your lordship."

"Hmm." Lu Cheng nodded, looked at the Black Gold Castle that was still in the dark night, and had more expectations in his heart.

Black Gold Castle, I hope to have a harvest here.