Chapter 71: Escape and Pursuit IV

The elven girl's voice pierced the rain and entered the eardrums of the young people. She looked anxiously at her companions in her sight, raising her arm to point in the direction of the right side of the deck, lest Fein, Raymond, and Arroyo didn't understand what she had just said.

The next moment when he heard Arya's reminder, Finn turned his head in the direction that Arya's raised hand pointed, and suddenly found that Arroyo Arroyo had accidentally turned the direction of the ship in a nearly ninety degree turn when he was fighting against the wind and waves with all his might, and completely exposed the side of the hull in front of the three pirate ships that were chasing their group, and the pirates on the three pirate ships naturally could not give up this hard-won opportunity, and without saying a word, they used several ballistas placed on the deck to launch a distant attack on them.

Throughout the history of Ferdia, the skilled fireplace dwarves used torsion springs to invent the ballista, spreading their creations to the realm of mankind through commercial means, thus further enhancing the status of mechanical equipment in military warfare.

The dwarves who built their clan palace in an extinct volcanic crater designed ballistae with sturdy brackets with main beams resting on top of them, and two torsion spring sets on either side of the forehead, each of which drove a crossbow arm with a bowstring attached to it in the center of which was a braided mesh bag for the projectile. This dwarven ballista uses the torsion generated by two bundles of tensioned horsehair, leather rope or animal tendons as power, and drives the crossbow arm to drive the bowstring to throw projectiles or arrows, and the good performance of the model can even throw a stone projectile weighing about 40 kilograms 300 yards away.

The pirates mounted the ballista on the bow of the ship, and used the terrifying thrust function of the ballista to nail several giant crossbow arrows into the side of the black sail ship with a few "bang bang" sounds, and several strong thick ropes were immediately tied to the tail of the giant crossbow arrow and flew out, instantly connecting the three pirate ships with the black sail ship where everyone was.

The pirates cheered, and some of them drew their scimitars from their waists and put them in their mouths, trying to jump off the deck and grab the ropes in the air and quickly crawl towards the black-sailed ship.

However, when the group of people tried to do so, a few more ruthless pirate captains raised their hands to stop the reckless actions of the pirates.

The blacksail ship on which Finn and his party were located was now connected to the three pirate ships by a giant crossbow bolt with a rope.

Neither of them can suddenly have a brain cramp and sit down with the other side to make peace, if this conflict has to be brought to a final conclusion, then the simplest and most brutal way is for one of them to be completely wiped out by the other side - just like in the barbarian tribes of the Western Wasteland, if the two heads of a strange two-headed ogre are tied to each other, then the most tragic end of that two-headed ogre is undoubtedly that one of the heads is blown out with a stick by a limb controlled by the other head.

Unless, unless, there is an accident that intervenes in this dispute - for example, when the two-headed ogre is "attacking itself", a Beamon beast suddenly appears out of nowhere and bites off both of its heads and swallows them.

The people on the Black Sails understood this simple truth, and so did the pirates on the three pirate ships.

Several pirate captains on the three pirate ships use their usual gestures to communicate with each other about their plans, and then come to a consensus with the help of their tacit understanding.

After that, instead of using the ropes that connected the two sides to order the pirate minions under their command to try to board the ship, they had their fellow deckers continue to load their ballistas for a second long-range strike on the Black Sail Ship, which their captain loved during his lifetime.

Finn and Arya each had a sum that ordinary humans didn't have, and the two of them looked where the pirates were, and immediately subconsciously smelled danger.

"Get cover!"

Finn yelled at the others to warn them, then pulled his leg and ran in the direction of the bow of the ship, pulling Arroyo, who had fallen on the deck, up.

"What's going on, my lord?" The young thief finally got up from the deck again, and his eyes were a little stunned.

"I don't have time to explain to you, so follow me first." Finn sent him away briefly, and then hurriedly crouched down and put a free hand around Lilith's waist, lifting the unconscious warlock girl to his shoulder.

Lilith's weight was lighter than Finn's imagination, Finn's strength was already much greater than that of ordinary people, and he felt that the pressure Lilith brought to him was only as heavy as a slightly larger luggage baggage.

Finn used his arms and shoulders to hold Lilith steady, then briskly ran to the nearest mast on the left side of the deck.

Arroyo didn't quite know why Finn had suddenly become so anxious, but he still had a basic sense of crisis, so he followed Finn and hid behind the mast that was holding the sails without thinking.

By the time Finn carried Lilith and Arroyo to a barely decent bunker, Arya and Raymond had already taken refuge in the cabin staircase, and several ballistas on the decks of the three pirate ships burst into the sound of ammunition being discharged.

This time, instead of using ballistas to shoot giant arrows with ropes attached, the pirates threw a large pile of rubble into the air as a scattershot pack.

Countless fist-sized pieces of rubble scattered in the high air filled with rain and mist, and then fell like solid hail to the deck of the blacksailing ship, and Jackson the Redbeard's favorite ship was suddenly slammed by the air raid that fell from the sky, and several small holes were even broken in the wooden deck and several places on the side of the ship under the continuous hit of several pieces of rubble.

"Damn, are those pirates crazy? It's their own ship! Arroyo crouched by the mast with his head crossed, looking up at the sail with dozens of holes in the rubble, and for a moment he didn't know whether to show his anger or surprise.

"But the ship is now under our control." Finn gritted his teeth and gave an answer to Arroyo's question, "They want us to bury Redbeard, and some scheming people can also take advantage of Redbeard's death to seize power." ”

As the words fell, taking advantage of the barrage cooldown caused by the ballista reloading, Finn resisted the black-haired girl lying on his shoulder, and quickly ran towards the cabin where Arya and Raymond were, and Arroyo naturally followed without thinking about anything.

Soon, Finn and Arroyo ran into the cabin from the outside deck to join Arya and Raymond, and the pirates' third barrage of strikes followed, raining down on the sky again.

For a while, the deck above the cabin was once again smashed with a muffled sound of "dong dong", and everyone hiding in the cabin could almost imagine what a "spectacular" scene on the deck was at this time.

"Damn, how much ammo do those bastards have? Don't they dare to come on board and confront us? Raymond leaned against one of the walls of the cabin corridor in great displeasure, and his hands burst out with two bruised tendons, and he was so angry that he wanted to slam the curved sword to the floor at his feet.

"Calm down, Raymond."

Arya comforted the swordsman youth beside her with a half-helpless tone, and then turned the gaze cast by her two emerald green pupils to the holy warrior youth on the other side, and asked, "Finn, do you have any way?" We're in a bad situation. ”

"There are no absolutes. There's always a way, but I haven't thought of it yet. Finn shook his head helplessly, and then crouched down and put down the warlock girl he was carrying on his shoulder, "But ...... By the way, do you hear anything else? ”

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This is the second update~

Because of obsessive-compulsive disorder and the fact that the chapters of this chapter have not been thought out well, the chapter names of the first three chapters have been slightly modified in conjunction with this chapter, please don't pay attention to this small detail.

The third is expected to be around 12 o'clock to 1 o'clock, friends who stay up late can wait, friends who go to bed early...... Well, good night ^_^