CH.55 The Hidden Hunter

The two ships, the Dragon and the Tuna, sailed one after the other on the sea, maintaining a speed of about 12 knots, neither fast nor slow.

The two ships had been sailing on the sea for several days, and they had already left behind the port of Zijinhua, where they had started.

On this voyage, there were many new faces on both ships, the most eye-catching of which was of course the Princess Alice.

In fact, not many people on the ship really knew Alice's identity, so for the sake of convenience, Anrui deliberately blocked the news and secretly told several insiders not to reveal it. So most people don't know that Alice is a princess, just that she is a beautiful and enchanting archer.

Some of the crew were captivated by Alice's beauty and became her suitors, and the bold ones even professed her love.

The fragrant flowers will inevitably attract bees and butterflies.

It's a pity that none of these bee butterflies could get their wish, and they all hit the nail.

This morning, the sky was overcast and the weather was cool.

Feeling that the weather was good, Anrui ran to the stern of the Dragon, cast a fishing net, and played fishing. Casting nets during the voyage is a lot of fun, and you can occasionally catch some particularly rare fish.

After casting the net, he found a chair and sat down, waiting for the moment to retract the net.

"What are you doing?" A beautiful voice rang out from behind.

"Cast your nets to fish." Anrui heard Alice's voice and turned around and replied.

In the past few days, Alice has been very honest, at least she has not stolen indiscriminately. So Anrui's impression of Alice is still okay. I'm afraid that Alice won't last long, and she will soon relapse again.

If Alice's hands itch one day, the people on board will suffer.

"Casting nets seems like a lot of fun. Can you teach me? Alice asked with a smile.

"Why are you learning this?" An Rui muttered.

"You don't want to preach."

"If you want to learn, just sit down and listen to the lectures." An Rui had to agree, he is the kind of person who eats soft rather than hard, and is always embarrassed to refuse other people's requests.

Alice smiled, found another chair, and sat next to An Rui, looking humble and listening.

"Cast your nets to catch fish. The most important thing is, of course, to learn to cast the net, and when casting the net, grab the three corners with one hand...... "An Rui became a teacher." Tell me what you know about fishing. As he spoke, Alice, who was next to him, kept staring at him with a small face, and a hint of a woman's scent penetrated the tip of his nose, making him a little apprehensive.

The two of them teach one seriously. A serious learner. Didn't notice that another person was walking towards him.

"What are you two doing?" Shafi's voice rang out from behind the two of them.

An Rui's lecture came to an abrupt end, he turned around, looked at Sha Fei, and found that this person's expression was strange, with the feeling of smiling but not smiling.

"Captain Anrui is teaching me how to fish." Alice replied calmly, stretched out her white jade hand, and nodded on An Rui's shoulder.

"It turned out to be teaching you fishing, I don't know if it's over?" Shafi asked casually.

"It's not done yet. There's still a lot I don't understand. ”

"I've got something to do with Anrui, fishing or something. Let someone else teach you. Everyone on this ship knows this, so you don't have to let An Rui teach you. As she spoke, she grabbed An Rui's arm and pulled her towards the bow of the ship.

The strength of the Sapphira was quite strong, and Anrui was pulled to stagger a few steps.

"Sophie, what are you looking for me?" An Rui asked as he walked.

"I want you to rub my sunscreen for me." Shafi grabbed Anrui's arm and replied.

"There is no sun today......

Alice looked at the backs of the two of them with affection, and her beautiful eyes narrowed.

Shafi's other hand was quietly behind her back and raised her middle finger, and it was self-evident who this gesture was for.

Alice's narrowed eyes had two more cold lights.

An Rui, who was kept in the dark, didn't notice the secret confrontation between the two women around him, otherwise he would definitely cry and laugh.

……

After a long voyage, the two ships finally reached their destination.

The destination is a seemingly ordinary sea area with a lot of turmoil and a few small islands and reefs around it.

The reason why Anrui chose to stop the boat here is to find someone to buy a fish-man boat.

"Remember what I told you, after finding those 'Golden Shrimp People', they said that you want to buy a fish-man ship, and they happen to have one in their hands that is idle, and they will definitely sell it to you. When the time comes, you bargain with them and buy them for 5,000 gold coins, no more than 10,000 gold coins. If they ask you why you want to buy this boat, they say they want to study it and see if they can master the art of making a fish-man ship. You don't have to mention me to them, you don't have to talk nonsense, just buy it in your own name, it's easier for the fish-people to deal with the fish-people, and when it comes to the ashore race, things will be complicated. Standing on the port side, Anrui leaned down and admonished a group of big-headed whale people floating on the surface of the sea.

The leader nodded again and again, and wrote down what An Rui said.

This time to buy a boat, you have to buy a boat from a kind of fish man called the golden shrimp people, so it is better for this group of toothed whale people to come forward.

If An Rui had come forward, it would probably have started a fight before the talks began.

Although the temper of the Golden Shrimp Man is better than that of the White Shark Man, it is not much better, and he is also very irritable, cruel and ruthless.

After jotting down all the key points, the toothed whales took the order and dived into the water.

The green tendons on the big tendon's head bulged, and he swam to the forefront, leading the team to lead a large group of his kind.

Toothed whales dive towards the bottom of the sea, and the further down they go, the darker it becomes, but this does not affect their vision, and they can still see the environment around the bottom of the sea through various special sensory organs.

After swimming for a long time, they finally swam to the underwater tribe where the golden-armored shrimp people were.

For those who live on the shore, it is difficult to imagine that there will be such a sight at the bottom of the sea.

There are hundreds of houses large and small. There are three main types of houses, one is made directly by stone excavation and the other is reconstructed from shipwrecks. One is made of marine plants. The three types of houses are mixed together, which seems chaotic, but there is a certain hidden architectural pattern.

Numerous golden shrimp people shuttled through it, these guys looked like lobsters, but much larger than lobsters, more than one person tall, and covered in golden carapaces. It's like a general in armor. They have humanoid limbs, except that their hands are shrimp claws and their feet are shrimp feet. Their shrimp claws are huge. Half a yard long, it looks extremely destructive. In fact, their shrimp claws are large enough to clip an iron rod and are a good weapon.

The Golden Shrimp People tribe soon discovered the uninvited Toothed Whale People. aroused their high vigilance. The tribal chieftain immediately sent a large group of soldiers to meet him, at least twice as many as the toothed whale people.

"Stop!" Da Jian waved his hand, quite commanding, and the toothed whales behind him all stopped. But the undercurrents they set off as they swam were still moving forward, stirring up the waters below and scaring away a school of small fish and shrimp.

"Who are you, and why did you come to our 'Fine Sand Tribe'?" One of the leading golden-armored shrimp people asked. As he spoke, the two long whiskers on the side of his mouth would move with him.

"I heard you have an abandoned fish-man ship here. I want to buy it from you. We are here just to buy a boat, no malice. You don't have to be nervous. Dajin recalled his master's explanation and replied.

"We're not a shipyard here, we don't sell ships!" The golden shrimp man shouted.

"I know you don't sell ships here, but I'd like to talk to your chief. I have brought a lot of gold coins with me this time, and I will give you a satisfactory price. ”

"This ...... All right. You wait here, and I'll go and ask the chieftain and see what he means. The golden-armored shrimp man turned and swam back to the tribe.

After a while, another group of golden-armored shrimp people swam up, led by a golden-red golden-armored shrimp man wearing a golden-red carapace, which looked much more majestic than its kind.

"I'm the tribal chief here, Redbeard, and I've heard that you're going to buy a boat from us." The golden-red golden-armored shrimp man said.

"Yes, I want to buy that abandoned fish-man ship from your tribe." Osuji nodded.

"Where did you hear that there is a fish-man ship in our tribe?"

"I heard it by accident."

"We do have such a ship, but this ship is broken, and no one can drive it away, why did you buy it?"

"I bought it for research, and I wanted to find out how the fish-man ship was made."

"Do research?" Red Beard tilted his head slightly, revealing a look of confusion.

"Yes, do research."

"That's a surprising reason."

"The reason doesn't matter, the important thing is the transaction, I give you the money, you give me the boat, it's as simple as that."

"Although the fish-man ship is broken, it is also a fish-man ship after all, and I will not sell it if the money is less."

"You show me the boat first, and then we will negotiate the price, and I promise that we will not treat you badly."

"Okay. You come with me alone, but your companions cannot come with you, so they can only stay here. Redbeard turned around and beckoned with the massive shrimp claws.

Da Jian explained a few words to his companions, and then shook his body and followed behind Red Whisker, surrounded by several golden shrimp people, and swam into the fine sand tribe.

The golden-armored shrimp people in the tribe looked at the strange visitor of Dajiu, full of vigilance, and some young golden-armored shrimp people were still hiding at home.

Akasu brought Oji all the way to the fish-man ship and pointed it out to Oji.

The fish-man ship, half-buried in the sediment of the seabed, looked to be eighty yards long, considered a medium-sized ship, and its hull was crawling with seaweed plants, and it had lost its former appearance, so it was impossible to see why.

"This ship was discovered by our tribe on the bottom of the sea a few years ago, I saw that there were a lot of underwater totems on it, recognized it as a fish-man ship, and found a few fish-man shamans to do some research, but unfortunately this boat didn't know what was wrong with it, and it couldn't drive away at all. I turned the ship into my home, and now it's my chief's house. As he spoke, Redbeard wiped the hull with shrimp tongs, revealing the underwater totem on the hull.

The seabed totem attached to the hull of the ship was very dim, just like the ordinary relief.

"I want to see the name of the ship." Otsuji asked. He had learned the name of the fish-man ship from An Rui before, and the underwater totem might be able to use the relief to fake, but the name of the ship could not be changed temporarily.

"The name of the ship is here." Redbeard wiped another part of the ship's hull, revealing the ship's name.

The lurking Hunter.

On a metal plaque, such a line of words is engraved.

Da Jin nodded, this name is completely consistent with An Rui's explanation, it shouldn't be wrong.

"Let's negotiate the price." Otsuji didn't understand the fish-man ship, and after confirming the name of the ship, he had no intention of looking at it anymore.

"What's the price...... "Red Whisker dragged out a long voice, a pair of round black eyes turned a few times, "Although this ship is broken, it is a genuine fish-man ship, soaked for so many years, the wood of the hull is still intact, and some weapons have not been broken, at least it is worth 30,000 'shell coins'." ”

Shellfish coins are unique currency on the bottom of the sea, made of a special shell, which can be exchanged with gold coins on the shore, the exchange ratio is about four to one, and four shellfish coins can be exchanged for one gold coin, which is much cheaper than gold coins.

"I didn't bring shellfish coins, only gold coins, five thousand gold coins, what do you think of the price?" Osuji bargained.

"You can buy it with gold coins, but you have to pay a little more, just 8,000 gold coins." Not only did the red beard not reduce the price, but raised it a lot.

The two fishmen engage in a fierce price battle that feels like a merchant on the shore.

The price was finally set at 6,500 gold coins, a price that could be concluded by both sides, and it was not much higher than the minimum standard set by An Rui.

And Osuji is also tired of bargaining, and he is too lazy to talk about it anymore.

"Deal, I'll go back and get the money, you can simply clean up this ship and move all the sundries inside. However, I said before that the weapons fixed inside cannot be moved, let alone disassembled. Otsuji admonished.

"Don't worry. There must be a lot of things that should be given to you. Redbeard made a promise, and then called a few of his men and burrowed into the lurking Hunter to carry its contents out.

Dajin went back to get the money, and it didn't take long for a large box to be moved, which contained a full 6,500 gold coins.

This amount of money is also a huge amount of money for the fine sand tribe, enough to trade with the races on the shore and buy a lot of things.

Red Whisker was very happy to receive the money, and ordered dozens of golden-armored shrimp people to help dig the fish-man boat out of the mud and sand, and help transport it for a short distance to the large group of toothed whale people above.

The toothed whales completed their mission, and under the leadership of Oji, dragged the lurking Hunter away.

"Hehe, these idiots are willing to spend so much money on a broken ship." Redbeard counted the gold coins and grinned as he looked at the toothed whales that were fading away.

If he knew that someone could get the ship away, he wouldn't have laughed at this point. (To be continued......)