Chapter Forty-Four: The Fishmen of the South Shore

87_87057Since you can't buy a warship, you have to find another way, Bai Qi and Adrian discussed for a long time and came up with a way to fish.

Although it is now impossible to buy warships due to the cloud of war, the sale of ordinary cargo ships is not affected.

Due to the approaching war, the water armies of the city-states have no regard for the safety of the trade routes, and the water thieves have been rampant recently, and the trade routes are difficult.

As a result, many families have even begun to reduce the size of their fleets, and the price of cargo ships has fallen.

In the process of purchasing the warship, Adrian also learned that the owners of several cargo ships being built in the shipyards of the city-state of Leoni had plans to cancel their subscriptions, but were hesitating due to the high cost of default.

Bai Qi immediately asked Adrian to contact the owner of the fastest cargo ship to be launched, and find a way to win a cargo ship at the reserve price.

In the next few days, the three of them began to get busy, Adrian was still in charge of buying cargo ships because she was a man in Leoni City, Bai Qi concentrated on training the three disciples, and Barrian went to the slave market with the help of Bode to select a group of pulp slaves with experience in handling ships.

Bai Qi selected a part of this batch of pulp slaves, promoted them to sailor apprentices, and made them a promise that if they did a good job, they would be able to erase the slave mark, and asked Barian to erase the slave mark of the sailor apprentices he had promoted before in front of these oar slaves.

Staffing both ships with a sufficient number of sailors, Bai Qi asked Bode to leave the harbor every day with a warship for training.

The sailors on the other ship were summoned back to the Merchant Castle to receive some training in martial arts.

Three days later, Adrian told him that he had taken over a cargo ship at the Leoni shipyard that would be launched in a dozen days at 20% below the market price.

After completing this matter, Bai Qi assigned another task to Adrian, asking her to dispose of the remaining batch of high-grade black fish teeth in her hand. Got the largest weapons shop in Leoni City, commissioned them to process them into war spears, and bought a batch of primary enchanted armor by the way. Scimitars and other weapons, which were used to arm sailors.

After doing these things. Bai Qi's loot from the previous raid on the fish-man's lair was once again gone.

Facts have proved that Bai Qi's vision is quite accurate, and half a month later, the day before the cargo ship that Bai Qi and the others bought was launched, Nonda successfully stimulated the power of qi and blood!

Looking at Nonda, who was wrapped in blood-colored flames in the center of the military hall, feeling the strong suffocating fluctuations of qi and blood, Bai Qi couldn't help but feel deep jealousy.

No wonder he was jealous. When he successfully activated the power of qi and blood, the qi and blood flames on his body were only a layer of nothing, which was nothing compared to Nonda.

The suffocating qi and blood fluctuations that Roundup emitted were not even much worse than the blood wolf Leo who had already stepped into the great warrior with half a foot, and this was just the power of qi and blood that had just been stimulated! What kind of bloodline is this kid?

With such an exclamation, Bai Qi took Roundup, Adrian, and Barrian to drive the brand-new merchant ship that had just been launched. A batch of ballast grain was procured and the fishing trip began.

Gunder and Lenka were left behind at the Merchant Castle to continue their training according to the methods taught by Bai Qi.

The so-called fishing is actually driving a cargo ship on the Suo Luo River. Attract pirates to loot and see if you can grab another pirate battleship.

The ship left the city of Leony, and Bai Qi ordered Bode to cross the river and sail upstream along the south bank of the river.

Due to the influence of topography and altitude, the climate and environment on both sides of the Saluo River are very different, and the north bank of the Saluo River is relatively dry due to the high terrain and the shelter of the Aralei Mountain, so the climate is relatively dry and the rainfall is moderate. Ideal for agricultural production.

However, due to the low topography of the Sara and the south bank, many parts of the coast are eroded by the river water that rises during the rainy season. Large and small marshes have been formed, and this erosion by the river has become more severe the further downstream. Eventually, in front of the limestone mountains, the Blackwater Swamp, a super swamp, was formed.

Therefore, most of the city-states along the Suluo River are concentrated on the north bank of the Suluo River, and in addition to the four or five human city-states distributed in the upper reaches of the southern bank, they are all desolate within thousands of kilometers downstream.

This has also caused the swamps on the south bank to become a haven for water thieves, locust-like creatures who hide in deep swamps or hidden lakes during the day, and enter the river like wolves at night, looking for targets for plunder, as Captain Will's Blackstone Bend actually is.

So, in general, human merchant ships will travel along the north shore.

On the other hand, the swampy terrain in the south is also very suitable for the survival of the fish-people, which also makes the fish-man tribes on the south shore far more numerous and more powerful than the fish-people tribes on the north shore.

This is also the reason why Bai Qi and the others have been sweeping the fishmen on the north shore before.

Bai Qi felt that since he wanted to fish, he naturally had to come to the south shore with more fish.

And he didn't plan to just wait, he planned to take this opportunity to continue to sweep the fish-man tribe, loot the loot, and hone Roundda's combat skills.

Nonda's powerful qi and blood power, in terms of quantity alone, has reached the level of space soldier's qi and blood power lv6, if it weren't for the fact that his combat skills are too poor, with such a helper, Bai Qi even wants to touch the tigers.

Even so, Nonda's existence also greatly increased Bai Qi's strength, and the number of fishmen they could deal with head-on greatly increased, so Bai Qi dared to hit the fishman tribe on the south coast.

If the 500-strong Fish-Man tribe is a rare large tribe on the northern shore, it can only be regarded as a small tribe on the southern shore, of course, this is not only caused by the environment, but also related to the fact that the city-state army on the northern shore will regularly clear the fish-man tribe along the coast.

The superior environment on the south bank of the Suluo River makes it easy for the fish-man tribe here to reach the size of 1,000 people, and after the number of fish-man tribes increases, not only the water village will become larger, but also the number of hunting teams they send out will also increase.

Bai Qi and the others had not had the idea of fighting the fish-man tribe on the southern shore before, but after observing them twice, they gave up.

As the number of fish-man tribes increases, their food needs will also increase greatly, which forces the fish-people to hunt and kill large creatures that they did not dare to kill before, and as a result, the number of hunting teams sent out by large fish-man tribes will also increase significantly. A thousand-person fish-man tribe often has a hunting team of more than 50 people, and sometimes even sends a hunting team of more than 100 people to hunt large creatures such as jungle elephants.

If it was just an increase in the number of people, Bai Qi's kite tactics would still be able to drag them down, but what was even more troublesome was that I don't know if it was caused by the different environments on the south bank, or because there was no regular clearance by the army of the human city-state, the proportion of strong people in the fish-man tribe on the south bank was much higher than that on the north bank, and in a fish-man tribe of a thousand people, there were often seven or eight chosen warriors and several shaman powerhouses.

The fishmen on the south shore are also far better equipped than those on the north shore, and on the north shore, Bai Qi often encounters the Chosen Warriors of the Fishmen holding ordinary black fish tooth war spears.

However, on the south shore, the Chosen Warriors are not only armed with blackfish kingtooth war spears, but even javelins are made of inferior blackfish kingfangs.

The wild and ferocious Fishman Chosen Warrior, paired with the penetrating Blackfish King's Tooth War Spear and Javelin, is even more difficult to deal with than the Human Chosen Warrior of the same level.

And even more terrifying than the fish-man warriors is the fish-man shaman, Bai Qi they have not encountered many fish-man shamans on the north shore, and they have swept more than a dozen fish-man tribes, and they have only seen two fish-man shamans in total, and these two fish-man shamans are also old and decrepit.

But on the South Shore, most fish-man shamans are in their prime, capable of spell casting, powerful melee abilities, and blazing speed.

The most direct reason for completely dismissing Bai Qi's hunting on the south shore was that Adrian watched a fishman hunting jungle elephants during a reconnaissance.

The jungle elephants of this world are far more terrifying than the elephants of the real world.

Jungle elephants are not much different in size from real-life African elephants, but they are estimated to weigh only half as much as real-life African elephants, and their lean size makes them far more agile than real-life elephants, even running and jumping like antelopes, and their snouts are longer and more powerful than real-life elephants.

In order to hunt the jungle elephants, the tribe sent more than a hundred fishmen, plus a fish-man chosen warrior and a fish-man shaman.

In order to separate the jungle elephant herd, the group of fishmen drove the group of elephants to run for dozens of kilometers, and the fish-man shaman in the team always walked like a fly, running in second place in the group, according to Adrian's eyesight, the fish-man shaman was even slower than Bai Qi at all.

Eventually, the herd was separated, and the young elephant was separated from the old elephant, and the young elephant was quickly killed, but the old elephant was old and strong, and it was very difficult to deal with.

In the end, it was the fishman shaman who made a move, used a spell to greatly weaken the old elephant, and was blinded by the fishman chosen warrior with a javelin before being killed.

When Adrian saw that the fish-man shaman cast a spell to weaken the old elephant, he actually cast an ice spell that could slow down, and this spell completely ruined the possibility of Bai Qi and them hunting the fish-man by flying a kite.

This time, Bai Qi set his sights on the south bank, and he was also forced to do so.

After such a long time, most of the more powerful space soldiers have accumulated enough feats and wealth, and although they can't buy warships, most of them have purchased their own cargo ships and began to sweep the fish-man tribes on the north shore like Bai Qi and them.

Bai Qi's strength is far inferior to those large and medium-sized teams, and they can't fight against vicious competition, so they can only retreat to the second best thing and try their luck on the south bank.

They didn't dare to touch a large tribe of more than a thousand people, and a medium-sized tribe with a population of five or six hundred could barely give it a try with the rich experience they had accumulated in sweeping the fishmen on the northern shore during this time. (To be continued).