The Strait of Gibraltar guards the entrance to the Mediterranean, an important strait shipping lane that is about 50 nautical miles long and less than seven nautical miles at its narrowest point.

The northern shore of the strait is the territory of Spain, which belongs to the limestone plateau, most of the terrain is steep and stretching, the highest altitude reaches 120 meters, and there are horned lampstands built on the rock peaks, and the southern shore of the strait is the Spanish North African colonial port of Port Ceuta. On a clear day, Gibraltar offers a direct view of the African continent on the other side.

At this time, it was the middle of the night when the moon was dark and the wind was high. There was a slight sound of water on the sea, and a large black shadow slipped silently into the channel of Gibraltar from the mist of the sea.

"Poof!" From time to time, frightened schools of fish jump out of the sea, causing small ripples. After the shadows were far away, they regrouped together, staring in horror at the behemoth in the distance, which did not look like its own.

The dark shadow that entered the Strait of Gibraltar was naturally the Vasa. Under Xu Mo's order, the sailors on the Vasa put away most of the sails and extinguished all the lights. In the darkness, he passed Gibraltar with bated breath and at the lowest speed, like a vicious wolf sneaking into the sheepfold.

Despite the fact that Gibraltar was an international waterway and hundreds of ships entered and exited the channel every day, the Spaniards did not necessarily recognize the Vasa as a Swedish battleship. However, Gibraltar's geographical location was too precarious, and the horn lampstand on the rocky peak, if the Spaniards discovered the Vasa and blocked it in the middle of the channel, the consequences would be unimaginable.

At the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, shortly after the Vasa departed, two small heads emerged from the sea. The sea sand bit her red lip lightly, and pearl-like tears welled up from her beautiful turquoise pupils.

The king squid was the companion she summoned from the bottom of the deep sea with the song of the kraken, what Xu Mo and the others didn't know was that this king squid was Haisha's childhood companion. He once accompanied her through the long juvenile period of the Kraken, and her wisdom was actually no less than that of a human, otherwise she would not have become a legendary third-order creature.

"Admiral, Wood said, we're followed by another boat!" There was a slight sound of footsteps behind Xu Mo, and Tie Lilie led Wood towards the bow of the ship.

"What?" Xu Mo was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at Wood, and asked, "Wood, it's such a dark night...... Can you be sure? ”

"This ...... Admiral, in fact, my eyes are a little different, and the night has no effect on my vision, as if ...... Cats alike! Wood explained, somewhat embarrassed.

"That'...... Can you see what kind of ship it is? Xu Mo nodded noncommittally. In another plot, the Admiral may be skeptical of Wood's statement, but Xu Mo knows that this is Wood's reincarnation talent, and since he said that the Vasa is followed by a ship, then there must be a ship.

"I don't know, but it's definitely a big ship, and I've never seen a style before, and I've already roughly described it to the first mate of Tielilie!" Wood said in a deep voice.

"According to Wood, I guess it's a big Nordic dhow!" Tie Lilie pondered for a moment, and then spoke.

"Nordic dhow!" Xu Mo's pupils shrank.

During this time, the young admiral felt his lack of knowledge of ships, and had frequent exchanges with the Iron Rites. However, the Nordic dhows are one of the few ships that Xu Mo does not use to explain with Tie Lilie, and he knows it very well.

This kind of ship has no sails, the sails on the ship are all spinnakers, and the speed is not as fast as the sail when downwind, but the performance is stronger than that of the sail when it is headwind, and the biggest advantage is that the hull is narrow and the steering is flexible. However, this kind of ship has few cabins and low carrying capacity, and has basically been eliminated by the merchant fleets of various countries, and the people who use this kind of ship are generally ...... Pirate.

"Wood, when are they going to keep up with us!" Xu Mo asked quickly.

"This ...... I wasn't on duty in the afternoon, and when I found the ship, it was almost night. At first I thought it was a passing merchant ship, but then it followed us into Gibraltar late at night, and I realized that it was trying to deal with us! Wood said with a twinkle in his eyes.

As a reincarnator, Wood's energy is far greater than that of the average sailor. Whether he is on duty or not, in order to fight for some more honor points, under normal circumstances, he will look for opportunities on the watchtower. However, Xu Mo knew why he hadn't been able to find the boat in the afternoon, because at that time, he was negotiating with Max.

As for the Wood team's desire for some materials and recovery items on the King Squid, Xu Mo is completely understandable. In addition to the sea beast neurons that can increase the physical attributes of the reincarnation, Xu Mo instructed Max to give some Wood, and even gave them a small piece of the broken cuticle plate, in exchange for Wood to provide information about the other reincarnation teams in the Y space.

The request of the old K-group overjoyed Wood and the others, offending the Temple of the Gods, and they didn't want to stay in the Y space in the first place. Anyway, they are about to enter X-space, but they are not afraid of offending people, and almost all the information they know is poured into Max, and they are even willing to use space agreements to ensure the authenticity of information.

However, the people of the old K group were a little disappointed, because Wood and the others belonged to the middle and lower reincarnations in the Y space. At present, only the head of the team, Wood, is a newly promoted second-order transfer, and the others are all first-order and cannot access the core information of the temple.

Of course, Wood gave them several very important pieces of information. From the information of Wood and others, when the old K group finally learned that the Temple of the Gods was still in Y space, they sent an invitation to all the reincarnation groups who entered the space-time battlefield. Although the exact number is unknown, according to Wood's observations, the Temple of Gods has at least three or more collaborative teams this time.

In addition, the original Great Han who died with Frango in the naval battle on the Golden Elephant was also recognized by Wood as the sub-head trench of the Temple of the Gods.

Although Wood did not know exactly how many members of the Temple of Gods had entered the era of sea power, he speculated that there were at least fifteen or more. Because when he entered the era of sea power, he recognized the people in the crowd who had two sub-divisions of the Temple of the Gods, and the Temple of the Gods only had two real core sub-groups.

Wood's intelligence shocked Xu Mo, the least probable event he expected had happened, and it was very likely that the Temple of the Gods had entered the era of sea power. Perhaps Wood couldn't understand why a super team at the top of the Y-space like the Temple of the Gods would go so far against a small team in the nascent space.

However, Xu Mo, who was also standing at the top of the space, knew that the Temple of the Gods was not only dealing with the old K group, it was very likely that they wanted to change the court. Don't look at the Temple of Gods standing at the apex of space, it is very beautiful, but in fact, the danger it faces is greater than that of ordinary teams.

Now Xu Mo finally understood why Black-eyed Lut was in such a hurry to return to Y-space. This strategic wise man even knew that Xu Mo had set a trap for him, and he had to jump into it in a daze.

Obviously, Black-Eyed Lut had anticipated the danger that the Temple of the Gods would suffer, so he would be desperate to challenge the old K-group when all the conditions were not ripe, and he would fall to Azeroth.

Thinking of this, Xu Mo couldn't help but feel some emotion, he could understand Lute's thoughts. If the situation of the two sides is reversed, then it is very likely that the person who loses will be him.

"Admiral, what are we going to do?" Wood looked at Xu Mo with a little awe and asked.

This newly promoted second-order transferor, after watching Xu Mo's battle against the king squid, completely put aside the worries of offending the temple of the gods. For him, the benefits of following such a brave and skilled admiral and powerful warship would seem to be very rich. At the moment it seems that the loss of living space for conversion is completely bearable.

"What do you think the Nordic dnahow will be trying to do?" Xu Mo frowned a little suspiciously and asked, "Could it be that the current pirates are so crazy that even a heavily armed battleship dares to challenge?" ”

"Alfred, I guess it was probably late evening when they met us. If they didn't have Wood like this on their ship...... Lookouts with special vision, they must know that we are a battleship! Tie Lilie said with a smile.

"You mean, they took the Vasa as a fat prey?" Xu Mo nodded, in fact, he also made the same judgment in his heart.

"When they get out of the strait and the sky is bright, I guess they will take the initiative to retreat!" "We don't have to be nervous. ”

"No, we're going to get nervous!" Hearing Tie Lilie's words, a cold light flashed in Xu Mo's eyes, "Wood, go wake up all the sailors." Don't ring the alarm though, we're going to ambush this pirate ship outside the strait! ”

"Yes, Admiral!" Wood returned with a little excitement.

"Alfred, the pirate ship is not our target, is it necessary to engage them?" Looking at Wood's departing back, Tie Lili asked softly.

"Well, I know! However, the Vasa can't leak its whereabouts here! Our mission in the Mediterranean is dangerous, and the later it is exposed, the better. If you run into us, these pirates are out of luck! Xu Mo said in a deep voice, "Tie Lilie, how long do we have to sail out of the strait?" ”

"About two and a half hours!" Tie Lilie looked down and calculated, and then immediately replied.

"Two and a half hours...... It shouldn't be dawn yet, and it looks like we're going to have a night artillery battle! Xu Mo looked up at the dark sky and said faintly.