Episode 171 The Moon Lacks a Tavern
Donk spent a night of indulgence, and Alyssa's body made him feel mesmerized. In the process of picking and invading, he got great satisfaction. Alyssa's expression when she reached the clouds was extreme**, and the crazy shaking shot also made Donk remember it deeply. After the passion was released, Donk fell asleep with a limp Alyssa in his arms and slept soundly.
The next afternoon's sun woke Tang Ke, and when he got up, he found that Alyssa was long gone, but in the folds of the futon on the side of the bed, there was still a faint body fragrance of the beautiful woman.
"Is this a mark of love?" Tonk twisted his body, leaving an extra scratch on his left shoulder that Alyssa had scratched last night. Last night was a crazy night for both him and Alyssa, unforgettable.
Time passed, and as night approached, Tang Ke sent a letter to make an appointment for One-Eye to meet at the Moon Lack Tavern. He was going to listen to the one-eyed hair scratch and study the recruitment of sailors by the way. Not only does the Tavern provide drinks and women's services, but it is also a good place to recruit sailors, and it can be used as a recruiting office.
A suckling pig is roasting in the fireplace of the tavern, dripping grease crackling in the flames, and the aroma wafting out of it seduces the greed of the guests. Women in short skirts sway from seat to seat, and they don't scream even if they are taken advantage of. The pirates were clinking glasses and drinking, and several people were bragging on the tables and chairs, and their flawed words often provoked a burst of laughter.
The tavern was a place where solitude was not allowed, and before Donk's chair was hot, a half-elf woman with slightly pointed ears came to talk to him, and because he had to talk about business later, he politely declined the half-elf's tempting request.
Donk didn't wait long before he was tapped on the back, and before he could turn around, One-Eye had already appeared in his peripheral vision and sat aside.
"Bring me a glass of wine too." One-eye snapped his fingers at the handsome bartender behind the bar.
"How's it going?" Donk asked with a smile.
"These days are busy with some trivial matters, although it is difficult for me, but those things that sign documents and negotiate with the port staff are really troublesome." One-eyed tucked his gray hair back to reveal his closed left eye, "It's a pity that my beloved musket can't help me settle accounts, and I still don't know how much the docking fee should be paid for the six ships, and I feel that the port master who looks like a merchant has cheated me out of my money." ”
"In the future, I will summon a butler-type talent to come out, but not recently, my strength has run out." The power that Tang Ke said naturally refers to reward points, but he didn't say anything about the system in detail to the outside world, and he has been prevaricating with the term summoner.
"You really need someone to take care of your accounts, and summoning one will at least be reliable. Your summoning power is really useful, it's a springboard for you to achieve great things. ”
"It's not just my cause, it's our cause, and we want to stand together on the top and overlook the beautiful view of the sea."
"Let's make a toast to the great cause." The two smiled together and clinked glasses gently.
Actually, One-Eye doesn't have that much ambition, but he wants to help Donk get to the top.
The two of them chatted while drinking, and Tang Ke told him about shipbuilding and being a student in one ear, and after listening to it, One-Eye seemed very happy, and the frequency of drinking became much faster. One-Eye also recounted his experience in the past few days, some of the pirates who had no collective consciousness disappeared after coming ashore, and some pirates had friction with other pirate groups, and One-Eye personally came forward to resolve two conflicts, one of which he had a duel with the other party's commander, and used a blood-stained bullet hole to deter the hostile pirate group.
"Donk, we're running out of manpower, and now there are plenty of empty seats on every ship, and a large number of men are very helpful for looting. And we lack experienced captains, and now the captains of several ships are not qualified. After three rounds of one-eyed wine, he clinked glasses with Donk and said.
Tang Ke nodded and said, "I came to you today to talk about this matter, and the matter of recruiting people must be done as soon as possible." This port is the largest of the pirate ports, and the recruits are all brave and skilled old pirates, and there are a large number of half-elf archers here, I think a group of good ones will be recruited. ”
"Is this up to you or me?"
"Let's check the newcomers together, the requirements for recruiting personnel this time must be stricter, and the timid guys must not stay."
"Understood." One-eyed drank the wine from his glass.
The two of them were talking lively, and an uninvited figure leaned in from behind, without a sound at all, like a disembodied undead. Donk watched the shadows spreading across the bar, raised his alertness, and turned back sharply to see a pigtail pirate in his eyes.
Donk glanced at the man, his eyes calm, but there was danger lurking, like a turbulent undercurrent beneath the surface of a calm sea.
"Hey, it's worthy of the legendary man who had an agreement with Goldbeard, and the murderous aura in his body is so heavy." The man said in a strange voice, with a sly glint in his eyes, and beckoned, all five fingers with jeweled rings, and his other left hand was a prosthetic hand made of metal.
Donk is also well-known in pirate circles, and with the typical characteristic of Orientals, it is not surprising that he is recognized by strangers.
Judging from his first impression, Tang Ke felt that the man in front of him was like an old fox in human form, full of bad water, and extremely cunning. As for the other party's claim that he was murderous, he reluctantly took this as a compliment.
"It's you. Kristen? One-eyed recognized the person at a glance and said in amazement.
"One-eyed old man, long time no see." The visitor turned his gaze to One-Eye, "It turns out that you are now following the famous Captain Tangke, I think this is a wise choice." He shook the long pigtails of his head and sat down on the other side.
"Christine," Donk rummaged through his memory, a flash of inspiration, "You're the leader of the Ghost Pirates?" ”
The ghost card, which refers to the playing cards in the magician's hand, represents the consistent style of this pirate group.
"It's me." Christine smirked, "Flintlock pistol and rum on top, let's shake hands and make friends." There is an old saying at sea, one more friend is one more route. He stretched out his shiny left hand and stopped in mid-air.
Donk is a man who likes to make friends, and even though he is a well-established pirate leader, he still shakes hands with the other party and shows friendship.
"Ding! If you have a friendship with a Ghost Pirate group, you will be able to view the basic stats of that pirate group. ”
A system sounded, and then the data data of the Ghost Pirate Group popped up, in which the Friendship column was activated, and it is now positive. The system's description of the Ghost Pirate Group is similar to what Tang Ke knows, and in the area of the Sea of Dreams, the Ghost Pirate Group has a place. In Tang Ke's [Pirate Group] column, there is a ranking of the strength of the pirate group in the Sea of Dreams, among which the Goldenbeard Pirate Group is naturally firmly in the first place, and the Ghost Pirate Group ranks eleventh, as for the Evil Dragon Pirate Group, it has only climbed to forty-five now.
The Goldenbeard Pirate Regiment had about 1,500 ships, and the number of ships of the next few pirate regiments plummeted to less than 300, a huge disparity. The Ghost Pirate Regiment currently has a total of more than sixty ships. As for the fifteen pirate regiments away, the number of ships was about a dozen. Of course, this is only the ranking of the Sea of Dreams, and in the other oceans, there are pirate governors whose strength is no less than that of Goldbeard.
As Donk let go of his hand, he used the investigative technique, and by the way, he figured out the details of Christine himself.
Name: Christine. Sea loach.
Class: Rogue (5th Order) Captain (4th Order) Race: Human.
Title: Sea Loach (He has completed several magical sea raids and escaped from the capture of the Navy several times, and is known as a person who is even more difficult to catch than a loach, Deterrence +2, Charisma +2) Special Surname: Silent (his movements are as quiet as the night, even the corners of his clothes do not make a sound, stealth +2) Keen (he can capture the details of his surroundings in a short period of time, hit rate +2, agility +1) Trickster (He is good at making up lies, many times he can turn danger invisible with his mouth, and the success rate of lies +.) 2) Old sailor (he has been at sea for many years, the sea is like his lover, seafaring ability +2) Agility: ★★★★★★★★★★★★ (the most important value of thieves, affecting the lethality of attack skills, and the success rate of stealing skills) Stealing skills: ★★★★★★★★★★★ physical attack: ★★★★★ commanding power: ★★★★★★★★ charm: ★★★★★★ ☆ seafaring ability: ★★★★★★★★ equipment one: universal hand (multi-functional prosthetic hand, Among them, there are hidden muskets and darts and other attack weapons) The strongest skill: 100 shots (this is a superb throwing skill, thieves like to throw knives, smoke grenades, Molotov cocktails and other items to hit the enemy) Mysterious (use lightning-fast body to complete stealing or combat actions) Scatter (command the fleet to rush into the enemy fleet and disrupt the formation of the enemy fleet) Language: The lingua franca of the Light Alliance. Pirate language (the language used by pirates in ancient times, there were not many words, and they were all code words, often used when discussing the distribution of spoils) Physical condition: occupational disease (he has become addicted to stealing, if he does not steal, his sailors will suffer if he sails at sea...... Affiliation: Comanso Empire, Ghost Pirate Regiment.
Reward amount: 178,000 gold.
After Tang Ke glanced at it a few times, he only had one feeling in his heart, this guy in front of him should not be underestimated, it is better to be careful.
"Lad, bring me a cup of hot water." Christine said to the bartender that he was in his forties and qualified to hold the elders' shelves.
"Drinking hot water as a pirate?" The bartender was stunned.
"yes, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, just rare." The bartender shrugged, he wasn't going to argue with any of the pirates in the shop, because these guys would pull out their guns and hurt people if they turned on their faces.
Christine smiled and turned her head, he had two disproportionate dimples and two upturned mustaches. "I drink a lot of alcohol, and a little bit of alcohol dulls my mind, which I can't tolerate, so I only drink coffee, sugar water and tea. In fact, the taste of these three is no worse than rum, you say? After he finished speaking, he took the cup of hot water handed by the bartender, and then, under the gaze of Donk, he broke the little finger of the metal prosthetic hand, and from the opening of the finger, some coffee powder flowed, and the hot water in the cup began to become cloudy, and the aroma wafted out.
"It's the most handsome hand I've ever seen." Attracted by the odd metal prosthetic hand, Donk looks like he's looking at a toy.
"I call it the all-purpose hand, it can uncork a wine bottle, peel an apple, smash a walnut, and a retractable tickle, in short, it's so versatile. If you need it in the future, you can come to me and I'll ask someone to make one for you. ”
"Hopefully I don't need it one day." Donk didn't want his hand to be cut off one day.
"Don't be afraid of doom in the future," Christine said with her prosthetic hand at Donk, as if to demonstrate, "pirates are destined to be accompanied by doom in their lives, so learn to treat doom as a part of your life." He said and looked at One-Eye, "Speaking of bad luck reminds me of Cam, I heard about him, it is very sad, I have recently been betrayed by my own brother, that feeling will be the most bitter memory of my life." ”
After such a long time, One-Eye was able to treat Cam calmly when he mentioned it again.
Christine opened the conversation to the story of the recent catastrophe of the pirate group, claiming that the captain of the pirate group had betrayed him, and that the captain of the pirate group had taken more than half of the pirate group's ships, including a second-order magic ship.
"It was my most powerful ship, the Bloody Magic, which had the ability to change hull color and become invisible, and every time I drove her on the night seas, I sneaked up on the enemy ships, and then opened fire on them while they were asleep, pulling them into a nightmare." Christine sighed decently, like a poet moaning innocently, "But now, she doesn't belong to me anymore, and that's a great loss to my ghost pirate group." ”
"Is that so?" Tang Ke smiled and casually answered, in the information of the other party's pirate group, it was clearly shown that he still had the Bloody Magic, but the other party claimed that the Bloody Magic had been abducted, and it was estimated that nine out of ten of these words were lies, but he didn't know what bad ideas the other party was playing.
"We also had a fight at sea, I returned with a crushing defeat, countless sailors struggled in the sea of fire, this account, sooner or later I will get it back." Christine smiled, "Otherwise, when I tell my grandson about my life experience in the future, I will have to skip this paragraph, how shameful it is." ”
"I wish you success." Donk raised his glass.
"I also wish you a good two years...... Well, it's been less than two years, and it's the same agreement, and I wish you all the best of luck in that agreement. IMHO, it's always dangerous to play games between small fish and sharks, right? ”
"Thank you for the reminder."
The two clinked glasses together, making a crisp crashing sound.
"What are your plans for coming to the Little Pirate City? Or do you just happen to be here, or do you want me to introduce you to two profitable businesses? Christine behaves like a helpful elder in casual conversation, making people unconsciously let go of their guard and feel good.
Only by doing this can you be a liar.
"We're just passing through here, so we're here to rest for a few days and hire a few people by the way, I like the lively feeling on the boat, and it's not okay if there are fewer people." Donk said casually, but he wasn't going to talk to Christine about business.
"Oh, that's a coincidence, I've been severely understaffed in the pirate group since my last fiasco, so I'd like to add to that here as well. I think there will be a lot of people here who are willing to go along with me. ”
Donk was about to open his mouth to reply to Christine's words, when a chime came to mind.
"Ding! You have inspired a competitive quest with the goal of recruiting as many sailors as possible in three days, recruiting at least 30 sailors more than the Ghost Pirates, with a reward of 1,300 bonus points. ”