There was a strong shaking of the deck, and fine debris flew down the sand. Qiu Xuan held on to the railing to stabilize herself and Liu Qing on her back, and her face began to look ugly.

That pirate ship, with its weapons and equipment and range, was enough to press dozens of small wrecked ships like them to the ground. And with such a range and power, it would not take a few rounds for the Fool ship to completely sink it without the ability to resist.

Some of the executioners around him had already begun to curse, and even the dimensions of the cabins on the side of the deck began to tilt. Liu Qing lay on her back, also holding on to the mast, which was still quite strong for the time being, and her other hand was already on her wooden bow.

Qiu Xuan reluctantly found a shelter to avoid the falling wreckage of the building, and said, "Although I also know that the strength of the archers cannot be calculated by ordinary values, but it is too outrageous for you to use this small bow and arrow to shoot them from a position of a few nautical miles." ”

"I—I'm not ......" Liu Qing's voice sounded a little embarrassed, "I'm just subconscious, I'm ...... I'm sorry. ”

"I'm not talking about you, it's ......"

"First mate! You're here! ”

On the left side of the deck, with the shouts of surprise from several sailors, the strong man who had been in the wheelhouse before stepped onto the deck, he turned out to be the first mate of the Fool's ship. The man named Arthur nodded, and then drew his sword at his waist and stood with the sailors.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the opponent we are facing is the Phantom Shark, which can be regarded as an old enemy." Arthur snorted twice, "Survive this wave, if they still want to fight the broadside, then we will accompany them to the end!" ”

"Yes! Accompany you to the end! ”

With the first mate in charge, the aboriginal sailors on the ship seemed to be calmed. Qiu Xuan even saw a few crazy people in white robes also take advantage of the chaos to get onto the deck, brandishing their homemade and rudimentary weapons one by one, and shouting slogans along with the sailors.

Therefore, the pirate ship called the Phantom Shark has not been burned and plundered in this sea area once or twice, and judging from Arthur's words, they are extremely good at broadside combat, and it seems that they are ready to board the ship and rob it.

Sure enough, after three waves of demonstrative artillery attacks, the opposing ships stopped firing at long range. By this time the deck of the Fool's ship had been destroyed, and the sailors were busy fetching water to extinguish the fire.

If you really want to get close to the broadside battle, then it is no longer safe to send Liu Qing to the cabin now, it is better to take her with you.

"What are you doing here?"

In the chaotic crowd, Qin Jiuyuan went up against the flow of people and came to her. Qiu Xuan pulled Liu Qing to look at him, even in such a scene, compared to the embarrassment of the people around him, he still casually seemed to be walking in his back garden.

"I'll wait until the pirates get on board, and it's not safe anywhere."

"You can go to the cellar in the bilge and lock the door and they won't search there."

Qiu Xuan looked back at Liu Qing.

Liu Qing shook her head at her. "I can fight again, at least there is no problem with self-preservation, I won't hold you back, I'm going to stay here."

"Look." Qiu Xuan shrugged at him, "Let's not talk about whether there will be extra points, if the pirates really get on the ship and take this place down, then we executioners will have to finish the game." So it's a part to be able to contribute. ”

The man in front of him seemed to turn his head and sigh heavily, but he didn't try to persuade him again.

Qiu Xuan looked at the phantom shark that broke through the heavy night and was full of wind and was heading towards this side at full speed, and suddenly his face was cold. A finger rubbed lightly, and found that it was a few small droplets.

Following the movements of the people around her, she looked up.

It's raining.

These few drops of rain were like a signal, and when the Fool's ship had barely stabilized itself as it crossed another big wave, the few drops of rain poured down against the gray sky.

The rain that obscured the sky and the sun instantly obscured part of his vision, and Arthur shouted orders to get the tarp in the rolling wind and waves. The heavy rain cloth was propped up by the crew, but then it was swept away by the wind and waves on the pavement.

Looking up, there was no longer a trace of the dawn light, and in the gray, which had lost all color, the whole picture of the colossus made of steel appeared before everyone.

"Level 1 alert! Raise the flag! Broadside Battle!! ”

All the people who were currently on the deck were shocked, and they couldn't help but clench their weapons in their hands. The three of them stood in the corner of the deck, Qin Jiuyuan glanced at the short knife held in Qiu Xuan's hand, and suddenly said, "Your knife is very easy to use, but it will be too short and a little inconvenient." ”

"Then you're going to get me a forty-meter-long knife?" As she spoke, there was a sudden sound of breaking the air, and a steel hook rope stretched out of the gray rainstorm and hooked the flag on the ship's drapery.

Everyone looked intently and prepared for battle, but after looking closely, they found that there was no figure on the other end of the hook rope.

“……”

"There it is!"

Qiu Xuan seemed to hear the voice of Jiao Guancheng hidden in the crowd, and with a shout from that rough voice, one of the sailors standing on the outermost side was the first to be wiped by the sneak attack behind him. Splatters of blood mingled with the downpour, and soon were washed away into the sea with the texture of the deck. The hapless sailor's eyes were still wide in disbelief, revealing the sneak attacker behind him at the moment when his body was completely dead and collapsed.

It was a woman in an ochre-brown bandeau and leather skirt, with long, wavy curly hair, and she shook the blood from the big knife. "Oh, Arthur, it's been a long time, have you missed me?"

Apparently alone on board the Fool's ship, the woman smiled at Arthur as if she hadn't seen the sailors surrounding her.

The sturdy first mate's face was solemn. "Qing Baichuan," he called her, "you also know the situation of the Fool's Ship, and we don't have much material or wealth to give you. ”

"Oh, no matter how you say it, it's a little money, who would have trouble with gold, what do you say?" A woman named Qing Baichuan, who has no name at all with pirates, laughed charmingly. "You know that we almost fell into the hands of the sirens last time, and since it's been the off-season lately, we won't be able to rob merchant ships at all. No, I was lucky enough to meet you again, so I came up to say hello. ”

"It's better for us to say less of that."

"It's so sad."

With Qing Baichuan's feigned action of raising his hand to wipe his tears, ropes as dense as spider webs were thrown towards this side. Some of them had already taken their sabers to cut the ropes, but after all, the pirates were faster.

The distance between the two ships had reached the nearest safe distance at this point, and they were driving side by side in the waves that were swept up by the wind and waves. The distance and waves were too close, and Qiu Xuan couldn't help but suspect that in the next second, their little wrecked ship would be completely sucked into the pirate ship's chassis by pressure, and then it would become sea garbage and float forever.

As far as the eye could see, countless pirates approached the ship with ropes in their way, and the reacting crew and executioners began to take up arms and fight with them. The first mate, Arthur, took out his saber against the long knife that Qing Baichuan had attacked in his laughter, and roared at everyone in the face of the storm.

"Everyone! A pirate's head is 100 percent, you can do it yourself! ”

At this moment, all the executioners on the deck were boiling. You must know that the publisher of some score tasks is so bad that they may not be able to earn 500 points even if they work hard for half a day. And this time, you only need to kill one pirate to get a hundred points, which is probably the most likely to turn over before the next landing.

People used all kinds of magical physical techniques like chicken blood, Qiu Xuan followed the crowd to mix people's heads, and from time to time followed Liu Qing to release cold arrows next to him.

"Aren't you going?" In such a scuffle, Qin Jiuyuan seemed to be the most abrupt and weird one, because he was not equipped with any weapons in his hands, and the whole person was so leisurely and indifferent as if he had nothing to do with this struggle at all. "Is your hand not good? I can lure them here, and then you can do it. ”

"No, not necessarily." Qiu Xuan looked around, and raised an eyebrow when she noticed that the onboard pedals had been propped up between the two boats.

On the occasion of the previous quarrel in Acke, Qiu Xuan had mentioned a few bits and pieces of speculation about pirates and sailors, half-jokingly and half-seriously. Judging from Arke's reaction that day, at least 60 percent of that speculation was true.

In other words, at the very least, it is true that Akeer wants to use this opportunity to send the two groups of people into the belly of the herd together, which is why Qing Baichuan said just now, "We almost broke in the hands of the sirens last time." It's just that the motive for doing this is not good, it's because of the strange money transaction, or if there is something else hidden.

On the other side, the more he fought, the more Qing Baichuan who was fighting against Arthur felt that something was not quite right. Originally, they had already thought about it, and when they passed through Pingping City, they recruited a few new crew members with unique skills, and after undergoing special training, they found that all of them were amazingly talented. So they began to discuss the idea of taking the opportunity to destroy "that ghostly little wrecked ship full of madmen" in one fell swoop. ”

But now the more I fight, the more I feel powerless and tired, the stronger I feel. She wasn't the only one who felt this way, and it was only when she confronted what they thought was a "madman" that the other pirates really realized the seriousness of the situation.

It was a completely different group of people from the sick and crazy fools they usually faced, as if those crazy people had all gone crazy overnight, and even they were a little helpless in the current situation.

"Yes, Arthur." Qing Baichuan gritted his teeth against Arthur's blade, and after seeing the situation in front of him, he did not laugh angrily. "Where did you get another bunch of crazy helpers, it looks like this. But ......"

"Can they be as strong as our new members?"

As the woman's voice fell, the crowd seemed to echo her words, and in an instant, several executioners who had just smiled and said, "This two hundred points are in hand again", instantly turned their heads in different places. The people on the side of the Ship of Fools began to panic at this sudden turn, and in the chaos of the crowd, several shadows with strange shapes turned to the next target.

Since he was not seriously involved in the bastard behavior on the battlefield at all, Qiu Xuan could see it clearly from the sidelines. The new members recruited by the so-called pirates in Pacification City all have an aura that is clearly different from that of the natives of this world, and they clearly belong to the special magnetic field of the executioner.

What's going on, are the venues of this trial still different?

"Can you take care of her?" Qiu Xuan turned his head to look at Qin Jiuyuan, "I'll be back right away." ”

The latter reluctantly glanced back to indicate that she knew, and after being reassured, she was relieved, and in a few sliding steps, she shuttled through the crowd and blended in perfectly.

Jiao Guancheng wears a fist buckle in his hand, if such a punch can be completely hit, then the opponent's brain will be concave into a deep pit on the spot. It's just that he is facing another speed-type executioner, and since he is not familiar with the desperate situation, Qiu Xuan doesn't know which guild that person belongs to, and the two seem to be on the same page, and they can't tell who wins and who loses for a while.

She pulled out her knife and slashed it at Jiao Guancheng's back.

With a bang, another heavy scimitar was intercepted in mid-air at the back of the knife. Hearing the sound, Jiao Guancheng glanced back, just wanted to thank him, and then saw that the person who blocked the knife for him was Qiu Xuan, and was a little embarrassed, obviously thinking that she was still holding a grudge against the water when she was hiding and seek.

"Uh, thank you...... Sorry. ”

"There's nothing to be sorry about," Qiu Xuan stood behind him with her back to him, and with a flick of her wrist, she went straight to the sneak attack executioner. "If it were me, I wouldn't have hesitated to do it at the time, so no one is qualified to say anyone."

Jiao Guancheng smiled, it was a difficult matter, and he finally put his mind at ease. They were never rivals, or rather, no one in a desperate situation could be a temporary and permanent rivalry or cooperation.

"By the way, Afu, they are also executioners."

Qiu Xuan kicked another pirate who had come to act as a-stirring stick with a kick on her calf, gritting her teeth and facing the executioner again. The executioner was wrapped in a strange black cloth, and his body and appearance were completely invisible, but it could be seen from the fierce movements of his hands that he was definitely not a newcomer, at least a half-veteran of more than six or seven worlds.

"I know, I just saw it." With a numb mouth, she held the hilt of the knife to resist the continuous attack, found a gap and said: "Uh, brother, the first time you were teleported to Pingping City, right, you are also a executioner." ”

For some reason, the strange black-robed executioner didn't say a word.

"Then how many people are still on your ship, can you reveal it, and you were also forced to become a pirate because of the content of the trial? Doesn't that feel a bit too far? ”

“……”

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