Chapter 145: Fighting Wits and Courage! Benevolence and violence! Midnight!
Lin Qing thought about it and decided decisively, smash!
But not repression, but smashing with gold coins. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Sailors need to be appeased, and gold can play a role, at least initially.
Lin Qing smashed down 100,000 gold coins in one breath and distributed them to the remaining 400 or so sailors on the ship, each of whom could get an average salary equivalent to 5 years of living at sea.
This rain of gold coins relieved the tense atmosphere, but Lin Qing knew that if he didn't see the land for another 3 or 4 days, the sailors who felt that the chances of survival were getting lower and lower would become irrational again. Next time, it won't be settled with money.
Lin Qing took a small boat for the second time and came to Shinji Mikami's boat, but saw an extremely bloody scene.
More than 20 Japanese sailors were lined up, and with the order of an adventurer with a fierce face, more than 20 bloody human heads rolled to the ground, and the blood stained the deck red.
"This is the end of disobedience to the orders of the superiors! You pigs! The Japanese adventurer shouted: "Now throw these corpses into the sea, clean the deck, tie the human head to the mast for me, let the seagulls peck, and let the others go back to work for me!" ”
He drew his whip and struck it viciously on the shoulder of the nearest old sailor.
The old sailor staggered, but it was like a reef in the sea, and after the tide had passed, it was still strong, and his eyes looked at the adventurer calmly, as deep as the sea. After a few seconds, he went down to work with the sailors.
Looking at the headless corpses being thrown into the sea, a thought flashed in Lin Qing's heart, but he didn't say anything.
When he met Shinji Mikami, the hero was studying something on a map with a gloomy face.
"This map. Is that the route map to Hawaii? The secret dungeon map you got your hands on? Lin Qing said in a deep voice.
"Yes!" Probably under great pressure, Shinji Mikami put down the map. Rubbing his eyes tiredly, he said, "As you can see, this kind of map is very rough. I can only be sure that we are in the right direction. But when I'll be able to get to Hawaii, I can't say. ”
"You guys are so powerful, you can actually get 3 hidden world maps." Lin Qing said sincerely.
"It's 4 sheets" Shinji Mikami was also not modest, and said bluntly: "If you know how much resources and energy our Takeshita Gang has invested in this world of great navigation, you will not be surprised by the progress we have made. Your Chinese Xunzi said that there is no ambition for the underworld, and there is no clarity; Those who have nothing to worry about have nothing to do, no great achievements. ”
Lin Qing grinned: "You know a lot about China. But I'll give you a word of advice. Water can carry a boat, and it can also capsize a boat. If you blindly use a high-pressure posture to suppress your sailors, I am afraid that if we do not reach Hawaii, your ship will riot. ”
"Don't worry" Shinji Mikami smiled coldly and said, "Even if all the sailors on my ship are dead, I can reach Hawaii, but you have to pay attention to your sailors." ”
Lin Qing sighed in his heart.
This guy is really full of confidence, but where does his confidence come from?
"Let's go back." Shinji Mikami said coldly: "Rationing is imposed on the sailors. We are very short of supplies. Hold on for another two or three days at most. The storm destroyed three of our ships. Also sabotage took away a lot of supplies, I tell you that next time there is a big storm, definitely don't save your sailors. Human life is at sea, and no supply is important. ”
The fleet sailed for another 3 days.
These 3 days. Lin Qing's fleet had already used up all its supplies. After all, he lost two ships and a lot of supplies. Only 50% of the supplies remained, but 70% of the sailors had to be supplied. The consumption is naturally large.
In order to make up for the consumption, Zhou Zhiruo mobilized sailors. Go fishing in a small boat, or go fishing on deck. Lin Qing also mobilized the adventurers to take out the supplies, water and food in his space and supply them to the fleet. But the magician and the others refused.
They have a good reason, their storage space is only one cubic meter in size, and all the materials in it are used to survive in the depths of this desperate Pacific Ocean. Even if these supplies were given to the fleet, they would be a drop in the bucket.
Lin Qing took out all the materials he had stored and contributed them to the fleet, and took the initiative to reduce the supply of the captains and commanders, so that he could barely maintain the minimum standard of living.
Encouraged by Zhou Zhiruo and Lin Qing's example, even in the desperate situation of running out of food and water, the ships of the three Zhou family caravans, at least on the surface, were very calm, and the sailors performed their duties without rioting.
On the contrary, on the relatively well-supplied Japanese fleet, riots broke out one after another, and explosions and shouts of killing were heard from time to time. Every morning, Lin Qing looked over and could see the Takeshita Gang killing people on a large scale. Lin Qing estimated that more than 200 sailors had died in the past few days.
Lin Qing's eyes narrowed.
Obviously, such a large-scale killing act will have a bad impact, whether it is the next exploration or the prestige after returning, but the Takeshita Gang doesn't seem to care.
In their eyes, these plot sailors are tools that can be discarded when they run out.
In response to Shinji Mikami's words, human life is not worth anything now.
Another day passed, and Lin Qing's fleet was completely out of supplies. All the supply cabins were empty, and even the corpses of starving rats were found.
But there is still no trace of land on the sea level ahead. All the lookouts were crowded with anxious sailors, looking around for the horizon.
Lin Qing was under tremendous pressure.
He was hesitating whether he should go to Shinji Mikami to borrow some food and water.
But needless to say, at this time under the separation of life and death, Shinji Mikami, who has an absolute motive to take the opportunity to kill himself, will never give himself food and water.
Suddenly, Lin Qing felt a throbbing sensation.
It's Xiaosha!
He rushed down the bottom cabin.
Sure enough, it was Xiaosha.
After not seeing him for half a month, Xiaosha ate the fish carried by the ship in the early stage, and closed the cabin in the later stage and completely began to stock. This cabin is connected to the bottom of the sea, and there is a movable door, which when opened, Xiaosha can freely travel between the ship and the sea.
Lin Qing is still worried that Xiaosha, who is in the period from infancy to early childhood, will be able to find enough food on the bottom of the sea without delaying its evolutionary development.
The drain button was activated, and 5 minutes later, when the hatch was opened, Lin Qing was stunned.
A huge sperm whale, 20 meters long, was covered in scaly wounds and was dragged in the pool, and lay there quietly.
"This is Xiao Sha dry?" Lin Qing was stunned.
In the pool water, Xiaosha was triumphant, shaking his head and tail.
Its current size has risen to 8 meters long, which is already the length of an adult great white shark if it is a shark. But for a megalodon, it's just a 1-2 year old baby.
Relying on Lin Qing's extravagant feeding method of burning money before, Xiaosha has been developing beyond schedule, so he can grow to such a long time in a short period of time.
However, now Lin Qing's investment has been rewarded handsomely.
Xiaosha has not reached the juvenile stage, and it is true that it does not have combat effectiveness, but it does not mean that it cannot hunt.
Today, the 9-meter-long Xiaosha, with a 20-meter-long sperm whale, proved his hunting instincts.
It seems to understand human nature and knows that its master is at the most difficult juncture, so it uses this hunt to feed back for its master!
Lin Qing sighed, stroked Xiao Sha's head with satisfaction, and found that Xiao Sha also had bruises on his body from being hit by sperm whales. He pointed to the sperm whale's head and signaled to Sha to enjoy the most delicious part of the sperm whale.
Xiaosha wagged his tail in satisfaction.
When Lin Qing let go of Xiao Sha and then informed the sailors who were so hungry and thirsty that they were ready to do a big job to go to the bilge to cut the juicy and delicious whale meat, everyone was shocked.
One sperm whale is enough for 3 ships and 400 Ming Dynasty sailors to eat for 3 days!
When the smell of stir-fried whale meat wafted from Lin Qing's ship's galley, a wave of jade-like riots broke out again on the nearby Japanese ships.
The Japanese sailors, who had been able to survive under high pressure and barely subsisting on supplies, smelled the aroma of small roasted whale meat, and immediately could no longer suppress the fury in their hearts, and raised their knives against the Takeshita Gang.
This time, three Japanese ships were plunged into chaos.
Lin Qing gulped down whale meat and sneered as he watched as Takeshita Gang lifted a stone and shot himself in the foot.
"Now, your conspiracy is bankrupt, right?"
Lin Qing sneered.
Xiaosha is a reliance that he is not afraid of Shinji Mikami playing tricks.
Indeed it is.
They were supposed to arrive in Hawaii two days earlier.
Why didn't it arrive?
The only plausible explanation is that Shinji Mikami, who has a nautical chart, has no intention of letting him arrive in Hawaii easily!
He wanted to starve Lin Qing's sailors to death and weaken Lin Qing's strength.
Unexpectedly, Lin Qing could not starve to death, but greatly weakened the strength of the Takeshita Gang.
Shinji Mikami looked at the three Lin Qing boats with smoke curling, and angrily crushed the sake in the cup!
"Damn!"
"It seems that they have a way that we don't know about, they can hunt whales and replenish food." Tanaka was reluctant to say: "Whale meat contains a lot of water, which is enough to replenish the needs. ”
"Let's wait!" Another Japanese adventurer's face twitched: "I don't believe that these people will die of hunger." Nautical charts are in our hands, we have the absolute initiative! ”
"It's just that it's a rare opportunity. Otherwise, we must use force, and the casualties will be large."
"No need" Shinji Mikami shook his head and said, "Our sailors have killed a lot of land." We originally planned to use attrition tactics to drag down Lin Qing's fleet. I didn't expect the doctor to have the ability to hunt whales. If we hold on any longer, the only sailors will defect. Breaking through the threshold, maybe we'll be eaten by the doctors. ”
Japanese adventurers lamented in unison.
Lure Lin Qing out with heavy profits, use the advantages of nautical charts, and drag the Chinese adventurers to death, thirst to death, starvation to death, bloodless soldiers, and solve problems, what a good opportunity?
But now it seems that they are the ones who have fallen into passivity.
The next day, when Lin Qing and the others were still eating whales, the watchtower was pleasantly surprised to report that the horizon had been discovered! (To be continued.) )