Chapter 450: The Gulf of Aden and the Pirates of the Apollo
However, Celicia's words gave the gray-haired boy a lot of motivation, and the thought of the elf's turbulent figure suddenly made his blood boil.
Another aristocratic boy who didn't make a move looked sorry, he also coveted the beautiful and touching elven female swordsman with a hot body, but Celicia had already spoken, and he couldn't interfere.
Rachel heard Celicia's words, but her shoulders kept shaking with anger, if Ruan Chi hadn't stopped her just now, she would have rushed up to teach this noble girl who didn't know what to do.
"Don't worry, I'll keep them hungry." Ruan Chi said with a smile.
"You beat me hard, don't spare any strength." Rachel gritted her teeth.
"Ruan Chi, you have to be careful." Although she knew that Ruan Chi was very powerful, Betty still said subconsciously.
After comforting Betty, who looked worried, Ruan Chi also walked to the opposite side of the gray-haired boy, but did not draw his sword. And there are already a lot of people around to watch the excitement.
As for what mentality these people have, it's hard to say.
"You still don't draw your sword?" Seeing Ruan Chi with a smile on his face, his hands folded, and a calm and relaxed look, the gray-haired young man was a little angry. After all, if you are underestimated by your opponent before you have even fought each other, anyone will be dissatisfied.
But Ruan Chi didn't intend to save face for the other party, and directly spit out a sentence that could make people vomit blood: "You are not qualified to let me draw a sword." ”
"Wow!"
As soon as these words came out, boos erupted all around, and the gray-haired boy's face had turned the color of pig liver.
At this time, Cecilia, a red-haired aristocratic girl, immediately sarcastically said, "Hey, boy, don't be reckless. Ratz is a mid-level knight. Received a formal oracle blessing. ”
Though. She knew that Ruan Chi was a swordsman. But she didn't think he was strong, after all, he was just a commoner from the way he looked at his clothes, so could he be the opponent of a noble knight who had been trained in a systematic martial arts academy? Although she is willful and rude, she doesn't want to kill people.
Cecilia's words immediately made the gray-haired boy proud, and he said confidently: "Boy, did you hear that? Don't regret that I didn't give you a chance. ”
"You're so annoying, you can do it quickly, I really don't have time to play with you." Ruan Chi said lazily.
"Good. Then you take it. The gray-haired young man Ratz was furious when he saw that the other party did not accept his kindness and spoke like this.
What is the bullshit, a lowly civilian? See how Lao Tzu teaches you!
Holding back his anger, after giving Ruan Chi a noble duel etiquette, he raised his sword and stabbed it, instantly stabbing Ruan Chi in the chest, and the speed made the surrounding onlookers applaud.
However, in the eyes of ordinary people, Ratz's swordsmanship is as fast as lightning, but in the eyes of Ruan Chi. It's slower than a snail.
Ruan Chi calmly stretched out a hand and grasped the sword that Latz had stabbed at steadily.
Yes. Grabbed it with bare hands.
The onlookers took another breath of cool air, even more shocked than just now.
Ratz was also startled, at first when he saw Ruan Chi meet the tip of his sword with his bare hands, he thought he was crazy, but he didn't expect that his sword was really caught by him with his bare hands now, not only that, but Ratz found that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't pull the sword back.
Also shocked is Cecilia, what kind of trick is this? Empty-handed?
"It's boring."
Ruan Chi yawned, and in the surprised gaze of everyone, punched Ratz in the body-
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Although he had already reined in his strength and had not equipped a weapon beforehand, Ratz still had a big injury floating on his head, fortunately, this guy's profession is a knight, and his blood is relatively thick, otherwise ordinary people would have hung up a long time ago.
"Wow!"
Ratz covered his beaten abdomen, his body curled up in an exaggerated ball, like a cooked prawn kneeling on the ground and spitting up.
"Okay, you guys lose, trouble for a while to let this guy strip naked and run naked in this square." Throwing away the sword in his hand, Ruan Chi walked up to the aristocratic girl with a shocked face and said.
"You, you, you ......"
One move knocked out Rats, who had the strength of an intermediate knight, Cecilia couldn't keep calm at all, beads of sweat fell from his forehead, and another noble boy was also pale with fright, and now he was glad that the person who fought the duel just now was not himself, otherwise the consequences were estimated to be worse than Rats.
I didn't intend to continue talking nonsense with these people at all, so I turned around and pulled Rachel and Betty away together, because of this little friction, Salith's side had already gone a long way, and she had to catch up with them as much as possible.
It wasn't until the crowd of onlookers was gone that Cecilia, who was so frightened, came back to her senses, and when she wanted to find Ruan Chi's figure, she found that the other party had already left.
"Miss Cecilia, what shall we do now?" Another aristocratic boy shuddered.
"What to do? It's all because of Rats, this useless ghost, I've lost all my face. After Ruan Chi's men left, Cecilia regained the eldest lady's temper, pointed to Lats, who was still kneeling and spitting out, and scolded: "Take off his clothes and run naked for him immediately." ”
"Do you really want to do this? It's ......a public place," the aristocratic boy hesitated.
"The duel was proposed by himself, and if he loses, he must be willing to gamble and lose." Cecilia didn't have a good airway.
Damn, it's obvious that you rushed to promise someone.
The aristocratic boy said so in his heart, but he still ran over very honestly, who made Cecilia's background very big, although they are also nobles, but compared to Cecilia's background, it is not enough to see at all, and now the aristocratic boy has to mourn for Ratz in his heart.
In this way, there was such a strange scene in the square of Modern Castle, a gray-haired aristocratic boy took off his clothes and limped around the square with the support of another aristocratic boy, attracting countless surprised eyes.
Ruan Chi naturally didn't know about this matter, and probably didn't have the interest to go back and watch it.
After a day at Fort Modern, the students of the Hyred Combat Academy returned with a lot of fun, and none other than Jana was thrilled to visit the tavern where the protagonists of the book "The Forbidden Fruit" and the great adventurers Julian and Reisa once lived and ran.
Following.
Everyone returned to Dream Town, and Ruan Chi stayed at home for a few days before asking Sharisy for leave to go out. Get ready to head to the east of the continent. Go to sea to do the second turn of the professional task.
Rachel seemed to be used to the way Ruan Chi went out at every turn. I didn't ask him where he was going and what he was doing, and the night before he left, he personally prepared a lot of dry food for him.
Ruan Chi was naturally moved, and pressed her under her that night to "love" her, and only at dawn did he reluctantly take Jialan and An Peiqi to set off.
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Two later, the Miracle Continent is eastern, the Kingdom of Aden, and the Gulf of Aden.
It is the bay closest to the Sea of Bitterness. It is also one of the most developed countries in the Free Federation, where millions of tons of seafood are caught every day and then shipped to the markets of the Free Federation countries.
Although Ruan Chi now has the entire flight prop of the Ice Crystal Wings, considering that the wind and waves are very strong, it is obviously not very realistic to fly out of the vast sea to find the legendary Neptune Island.
As for Ampiki, although her ability to jump mental power is very useful, her ability must have a condition to activate, that is, to leave a spiritual mark on the destination, otherwise she will not be able to reach the destination like teleportation.
Ruan Chi didn't even know where the specific location of Haihuangdao was, so An Peiqi's ability was naturally useless for the time being.
Flying doesn't work. Mental power jumping is not good, then the remaining means. There is only the most primitive sail out to sea.
The waves in the bitter sea are very large, and the weather is also very bad, so ordinary ships naturally can't do it, and they have to travel as far as 500 nautical miles away to find Haihuangdao, which can only be done by large merchant ships.
However, when Ruan Chi first came to the Gulf of Aden, he realized that finding a qualified ship to go to sea was not as easy as he had imagined.
The Kingdom of Aden has very strict control over every ship that sails out of the Gulf of Aden, and ordinary people are not allowed to go to sea without permission, not even to spend money to rent a ship to go to sea.
In desperation, Ruan Chi had no choice but to think of another way, and after thinking and meditating, he finally thought of his other profession - adventurer.
The fishing industry in the Gulf of Aden is very developed, but when fishing boats go out to sea to carry out fishing operations, they are not only faced with bad weather at sea, but also pirates who ask about the smell of fish.
The well-developed fishing industry in the Gulf of Aden has led to a rampant piracy industry around the Gulf of Aden, the most famous of which are the Apollo pirates, who are the closest to the Gulf of Aden, and are the superpirates feared by the fishermen and fishermen in the vicinity.
The Apollo pirate's lair is located on the Apollo Peninsula in the northeasternmost part of the Miracle Continent, bordering the Fox Country of the Orc Race to the west, the Gulf of Aden to the south, and the Bitter Sea to the east, with a coastline of 3,700 kilometers, which is the closest continent to the east ocean in the Miracle Continent.
With a total area of 630,000 square kilometers and a population of only a million people, the Apollo Peninsula is one of the least developed countries in the human realm.
The difference is that since the establishment of the Free Federation, the Apollo Peninsula has been in a state of anarchy with various wars and armed divisions, fragmentation of the country, and continuous civil wars.
The civil war, which lasted for nearly 100 years, killed at least half of the country's population. During Ron's reign as Federal Prime Minister, he sent troops to the Apollo Peninsula with the intention of forcibly occupying the country, only to be defeated in a naval battle with the local militants.
The Free Federation spent so much energy, and still had no way to deal with this chaotic country, and then under the pressure of the seventy-two seats in the federal parliament, Ron had no choice but to order the withdrawal of all Terran troops from the local area.
As a result, the large and small pirate and bandit forces of the Apollo Peninsula took the opportunity to develop and grow, becoming the predecessor of today's Apollo pirates.
As a result of the ongoing civil war, the security situation in Apollo has deteriorated, prices have skyrocketed, necessities have been in short supply, the population is insecure, and the level of health care is the worst among the 26 Terran countries.
For nearly 100 years, in order to make a living, these residents of the island joined the pirates, which made the pirates more powerful, and then they began to pay attention to the fishing boats in the nearby Gulf of Aden, and used all kinds of extortion and money to grab money.
For this reason, the rulers of the Gulf of Aden had a great headache, and although they had organized more than 100 encirclement and suppression campaigns over the years, they had never been able to completely remove this cancer.
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The adventurer's union in the Gulf of Aden City gathered a large number of adventurers early this morning, and Ruan Chi took Jialan and An Peiqi to leave the hotel where they stayed early and came here in order to receive a task from the adventurer's union to encircle and suppress pirates.
Only in this way can Ruan Chi board the fishing boat that goes to sea openly.
This news of encirclement and suppression of pirates, Ruan Chi heard it when he stepped into the Gulf of Aden on the first day, and he didn't expect to be able to use it today.
"There are so many of them?"
Standing at the door of the Adventurer's Union, looking at the large number of people blocking in front, Ruan Chi couldn't help but be a little speechless, he thought that it was just a very ordinary encirclement and suppression mission, and it should not be possible for too many people to participate, but he didn't expect that there would be so many people taking over the task this time.
"Ampyge, use your ability to see what the mission number on that bulletin board is." Because there were too many people in front, Ruan Chi couldn't get the task, so he had to ask An Peiqi to help watch it.
"I see." An Peiqi nodded slightly, then closed her beautiful eyes, and under her control, her spiritual power turned into invisible spiritual silk threads, passing through the dense crowd.
Soon, the contents of the billboard appeared in An Peiqi's mind, and without saying a word, she connected these contents to Ruan Chi's mind through guò spiritual power.
Receiving the image transmitted by An Peiqi, Ruan Chi immediately understood the content on the billboard.
"Joint clearance?"
After reading it, Ruan Chi showed an intriguing expression on his face, he didn't expect that he would encounter this kind of thing for the first time in the Gulf of Aden.
According to the task issued by the Adventurers' Union today, Ruan Chi probably knew that this operation to eliminate pirates was not a small fight in the past, but a joint clean-up operation personally supervised by the ruler of the Gulf of Aden.
The purpose of this operation is obvious, it is to fight the pirates of the Apollo Peninsula, as for why such a large-scale operation was suddenly carried out, the reason is related to an incident that happened half a month ago.
It is rumored that two years ago, a fisherman in the Gulf of Aden, while fishing in the waters off the Gulf of Aden, accidentally discovered the ruins of the Pearl Sea Country where the mermaid tribe once lived.
After the rulers of the Gulf of Aden learned about this, the fishermen received a rich reward, and the rulers of the Gulf of Aden began to secretly organize personnel to develop the ruins of this pearl sea country, hoping to dig up the treasures left by the merfolk in the past.
Just half a month ago, the excavation team finally came with good news, there was an artifact of the mermaid clan unearthed, the excavation team originally planned to escort the artifact back, but it was intercepted by the Abra pirates halfway, and finally the artifact also fell into the hands of the pirates.
For this reason, the ruler of the Gulf of Aden was furious and began to organize his troops to start the operation to eliminate the pirates, and in order to ensure that nothing went wrong, he also issued a mission through the Guò Adventurers' Union, summoned powerful adventurers to participate, and promised a huge prize.
"Artifact?"
Ruan Chi touched his chin, an interested expression on his face. (To be continued......)