Chapter 42: The Scam Succeeds
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Back to Will's lair, invite Dunkel to the living room, Bai Qi told the other party, this kind of top red wine, it is the most delicious with tender fried beef, and waved his hand to Huo Mi to prepare.
A few minutes later, Barrian's pretended Homi served a hot fried steak.
These pan-fried steaks were carefully prepared by Barian last night and kept fresh in the storage space.
Bai Qi took out a whole bottle of Twenty-Year-Old Lafite, opened it, poured a glass for himself and Dunkel, picked up a knife and fork, and cut a small piece of steak into his mouth.
To tell the truth, Bai Qi had basically never eaten Western food before, and some of the most basic movements and etiquette when eating Western food were taught to him by Barian overnight, and it was not standard to do it at this time, but in Dunkel's opinion, Bai Qi's movements were very elegant in both the action of pouring wine and the posture of cutting meat.
This is the advantage of the times.
Although Dunkel was born into a nobleman, in this era of city-states, the etiquette of human beings is still very simple, even from the perspective of modern ordinary people, the nobles of this era are some vulgar guys.
Looking at Bai Qi's elegant movements, Dunkel couldn't help but guess that this Lucas might be a descendant of that great nobleman, and out of curiosity, he took the liberty of asking about Bai Qi's origin.
Bai Qi smiled slightly and said, "I don't know if Your Excellency has heard of the Bahrain family in Yasuo City?" β
Dunkel said with some surprise: "Of course, it is also a fairly old family. β
However, what Dunkel did not say was that although the Bahrain family still had some history, the city of Yasuo was a wild city-state in the eyes of the city-states along the Sara River.
He couldn't believe that a family in a savage city-state could raise such an elegant child.
Of course, Dunkel won't speak his mind. He cut off a piece of steak and put it in his mouth, his eyes widened suddenly. Then he closed his eyes again and chewed slowly. After a moment, he swallowed the steak and let out a satisfied sigh.
Intoxicated for a while, Dunkel said with a hint of emotion: "I didn't expect that there is such a clever cooking method in the world, and a piece of beef is so delicious!" β
Bai Qi smiled slightly with a reserved and proud attitude, and did not answer, making Dunkel a little unfathomable.
These delicacies are Barrian's masterpieces.
Barian is a food lover in reality, after entering the space. He found that everything was terrible, and the only good thing was that it was a foodie paradise.
After the survival point is sufficient, he will go to the cooking auxiliary skill and strengthen it to lv20.
This kind of craftsmanship, in the real world, is already the world's top chef level.
In fact, these delicacies do not represent the cooking skills of Barian LV20, because the conditions of this place are too poor, and Barian can only be simplified, and the condiments are all seasonings that they prepared casually to solve the food in order to prevent the food from running out. Otherwise, Dunkel, a barbarian who thinks he is an aristocrat, will swallow his tongue eighty percent.
Bai Qi raised his wine glass and said to Dunkel: "Using this kind of fried steak with this wine from the elven realm is the highest food enjoyment in the world. Give it a try. β
Dunkel took a sip of red wine and swallowed it with the aroma of steak, and suddenly showed a look of intoxication.
Dunkel then plunged into the world of food and wine.
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Shortly after Bai Qi accompanied Dunkel into the gate of Will's lair, a person walked out of an abandoned and gloomy shack not far from Will's lair.
That person, of course, is Roundup.
Roundup took a deep breath as she looked at the closed door of Will's lair. With a hint of determination, he turned and walked towards the docks.
When he arrived at the docks. Leo the Blood Wolf has just been welcomed into the shipyard by the steward of the Blackwater Shipyard.
Accompanied by the steward, Leo boarded the ship that had just been launched.
This is a brand new Barracuda warship. The length was even more than thirty meters, which was larger than the ordinary pirate warships and the thief hunters in the city-state army.
This warship is modeled after the second-class warship in the human city-state navy, and it is also designed and manufactured in the shape of the main battle ship of the current city-state navy.
The flagship of the city-state's naval forces was generally a large water fortress that abandoned speed in favor of tonnage, defense, and attack power, and the kind of warship could often reach a terrifying forty meters in length, and the hull was broad, equipped not only with hundreds of oars and hundreds of sailors, but also with several large siege crossbows.
The flagship, as the anchor of the city-state's water power, will only be dispatched in the event of a major war, and will never appear in the queue to escort merchant ships.
The 30-meter-long, high-speed and tonnage-type barracuda warship in front of him is the main combat force of the human city-state, and this kind of warship is named an assault warship by the human city-state.
Generally speaking, an assault warship, coupled with four or five light thief hunters, is a basic battle sequence in a human naval army.
Once an assault warship appeared in the escort sequence of a merchant fleet, few water thieves dared to pay attention to it, because the appearance of this kind of warship might mean the existence of a great samurai, and it was for this reason that Captain Leo was willing to spend a lot of money to customize this expensive guy.
The shipbuilding capacity of the Blackwater Shipyard is no worse than that of any human city-state, and there is no problem in manufacturing assault warships, in fact, most powerful water thieves will find a way to get one of these warships as their flagship.
The steward of the shipyard, a bald middle-aged man who was not tall, took Leo to visit the warship, and at the same time introduced his masterpiece endlessly: "Captain Leo, you see, the appearance of this ship was made according to your requirements to look like the main assault warship of the city-state, but in fact, he also retains many of the advantages of our Blackwater warship, and it is one percent faster than ordinary assault warships in speed......"
As the steward introduced, he led Leo and his two first mates to the roof of the aft cabin, where there was a wide platform with a huge siege crossbow in the center.
The steward pointed to the bed crossbow and said, "Your Excellency, look. This bed crossbow looks like a normal bed crossbow, but you take a closer look. β
As he spoke, he pointed to a winch on the side of the bed's crossbow. "The winding of this bed crossbow was not done by the sailor who operated the bed crossbow, but was connected to the cabin below by a winch called guΓ². It was done by four oars slaves with a foot winch, so the bed crossbow was more elastic and wound faster, and the effective range could even reach four hundred and fifty meters, which was one hundred and fifty meters farther than the bed crossbow on the main warship of the city-state. β
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Accompanied by this steward, Leo looked inside and out of the warship, and the look on his face was extremely satisfied.
What pleased Leo most about this ship was its speed, which was faster than that of the city-state assault ships. Even if its identity is exposed and it is chased by the city-state assault warship, it can get rid of it with its speed advantage, and even if the ordinary thief ship catches up with it, it is helpless in the face of its powerful attack.
After getting off the ship with the steward, Leo waved his hand to the two sailors who were waiting under the ship and the two sailors carrying the box, and the man turned around and opened the box carried by the two sailors, which was full of gold coins, which immediately dazzled everyone's eyes.
The two sides completed the handover very happily, and Leo boarded the ship with his men. The sailors and oarsmen belonging to the shipyard slowly started the ship and left the dock with a wave from the steward. Heading towards the locks of the shipyard......
Standing at the bow of the Barracuda freighter, looking wistfully at the mouth of the river bay on the west side of the dock, Roundup waited for half an hour before he saw a brand new ship sail out of the bay at an astonishing speed.
At the same time that the warship came into view, Roundup immediately withdrew his gaze and pretended to be on the freighter to check it, while Bode and the sailors also lowered their eyebrows and went about their work.
The warship quickly passed through half of the harbor and came to the exclusive dock of the Blood Wolf Water Pirates.
Piloted by the skilled sailors of the shipyard, the ship rushed into the dock at unabated speed. Gently slid into the berth, and quickly braked under the backstroke of the oarsmen. In the end, the miraculous one came to a complete stop less than three meters away from the cargo ship inside.
After receiving Leo's approval, the sailors and oarsmen on board disembarked. Returned to the shipyard on its own.
Leo and Manka reluctantly jumped off the dock with a few of their sailors.
Round, pretending to be Dunkel, also jumped off the cargo ship at the same time, took a deep breath, and walked towards Leo.
He came to Leo, who was still looking at the warship with reluctance, pointed to the cargo ship behind him and said, "Boss, this cargo ship is the cargo ship that Lucas wants to sell." β
Leo glanced back at the cargo ship absentmindedly, nodded indifferently and said, "yes, how much does he ask." β
Nonda said: "The asking price is three hundred gold coins, but I think there is room for negotiation." β
The price quoted by Roundup finally caught Leo's attention, and he asked with some puzzlement, "Why is the price so low?" There is no problem with the boat, right? β
Rounda said: "There is no problem with the boat, this Lucas doesn't seem to know much about the market of our Blackwater City." β
According to Bai Qi's speculation, it has become a scale, and it has a complete channel for selling stolen goods, and the price of the stolen goods in Blackwater City is definitely higher than that of other water thieves.
He reduced the purchase and sale price of the cargo ships in Blackwater City by one hundred gold coins from the inquired about, and asked Roundup to mislead Leo into thinking that he was from other water thieves and did not understand the market of Blackwater City.
One hundred gold coins was not a small amount even for Leo, and sometimes he took the fleet out on an adventure, and his personal net income was actually only fifty or sixty gold coins, which was the benefit of risking a month or two on the water.
So this price immediately aroused the interest of Leo, who immediately asked: "What about Captain Lucas?" β
Rounda said: "After he accompanied me to see the boat, he left, saying that he was going to the Blood Wolf Tavern to wait for you to talk, and I stayed at the dock to see our new buddy." β
Leo laughed, pointed to the new warship and said, "Take a good look, hahaha, this awesome guy will belong to us from now on!" β
He patted Rounda on the shoulder vigorously, and said, "Look at it, I'm going to meet our lovely Captain Lucas, I can't let him have time to understand the market in Blackwater City, I have to finalize this deal quickly." β
With that, Captain Leo waved his hand and left the docks with Manka and a few of his henchmen.
It wasn't until Captain Leo walked off the dock that Roundup said loudly, "Chief, Lucas said that the oarsmen and crew of this cargo ship have also been given to us for free, and I want to go out for a ride with our new buddies." β
Captain Leo waved his hand without looking back, "Go, go!" β
Watching Captain Leo's figure disappear into the tavern group, his heart was so excited that his cheeks were a little red, Roundup, took a deep breath, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and said loudly to the cargo ship: "Get down, get off the ship, get off the ship." β
Gunder and BodΓΈ, who had been ready for a long time, led the crew and oarsmen to quickly disembark from the merchant ship, and boarded the brand new warship amid the call of Round.
Roundup just said," Lucas said, and the oars on the cargo ship were given to us for free. And "I want to drive our new buddy out for a ride." The two sentences were said together, and to Captain Leo, they were exactly two sentences. However, when Nonka asked the sailors and oarsmen on the cargo ship to change ships, it naturally made the sailors of the Blood Wolf Pirates who stayed on the docks think that Leo had promised Dunkel to let these free sailors and oars slaves go out for a ride.
Therefore, the blood wolf sailors all watched with envy as Rounda brutally commanded these free sailors and oars slaves to drive the warship slowly away from the dock and accelerate towards the depths of the Blackwater Lake......
Hiding in the kitchen of Will's lair, Barrian, who was monitoring the dock with the communicator in his hand, saw this scene, waved his hand excitedly, took the communicator, and carried a large tray of lake fresh food and desserts that he had carefully cooked, and went up to the living room on the second floor.
After understanding the look of the serving Barrian, Bai Qi stood up after he left, and said to Dunkel very politely: "Please try these lake freshness and desserts, especially these desserts, I promise you will never taste them anywhere else...... Allow me to miss the company. β
Dunkel picked up a piece of dessert and said, "Please." β
When Bai Qi passed by a table, his footsteps paused slightly, and he seemed to hesitate for a moment, and then walked straight out of the door.
After Bai Qi left, Dunkel stuffed the dessert in his hand into his mouth, and his eyes widened suddenly, and this never-before-seen delicacy immediately conquered him.
Dunkel chewed the dessert greedily, stood up, and walked towards the table where Bai Qi had stopped slightly, and on this table there were two bottles of Twenty-Year-Old Lafite very conspicuously.
Before, after Bai Qi took out a bottle of red wine and drank it, he didn't agree with Dunkel's "open another bottle".
Half of the first bottle of red wine went into Bai Qi's stomach, and half a bottle of red wine was not even appetizing enough for a drunkard like Dunkel, at this time Bai Qi carelessly left two bottles of red wine, how could Dunkel be polite.
Bai Qi walked out of the dining room, and together with Barrian, he quickly left Will's lair and disappeared into the chaotic slum.
By the time Leo, who couldn't wait for Lucas in the Blood Wolf Tavern, impatiently sent sailors to find Dunkel, who was drinking wine and wondering why Lucas had never returned, it was already almost half an hour later.
Dunkel returned to the Blood Wolf Tavern with the bottle in his arms, and talked to Leo for a long time, and by the time Leo realized that he might have been fooled, it was already a full hour later.
At this time, the Blood Wolf Water Pirate Group had just arrived, and the warship, which had not yet warmed up, had already disappeared into the vast Blackwater Lake, and Bai Qi and Barian also burrowed into the dense shrubs along the lake in the west of Blackwater City...... (To be continued).