After a long time, his frown gradually relaxed, and his eyes gradually brightened......

Bai Qi, who understood everything, slapped his thigh hard and ordered Roundup to set sail immediately and return to the port of Leoni City.

Returning to the port, Bai Qi asked Adrian to gather all the sailors of the merchant castle and come to the port to make peace, leaving only Lenka and a small number of old and weak caretakers.

After all the men had reconciled at the docks, Bai Qi asked Roundup to return to his Roundup with his men, and asked Bode and Gund to temporarily exercise the captaincy of the two newly captured pirate ships, while he and Adrian Barian sat on the Dawn, and with all four warships, they left the port of Leoni and headed for the Blackwater Marsh.

After passing through the Blackwater Swamp and entering the Blackwater Lake, Bai Qi made the four warships raise the water thief flag and sail towards Blackwater City at full speed.

The four warships gradually approached the dock of Heishui Lake in the night, and Bai Qi stood at the bow of the ship, looking at the several empty piers in the harbor through the moonlight, and let out a long sigh, seeing that his guess should be correct.

Bai Qi could see at a glance that the several docks in the port that were completely empty belonged to the three gangs of the Black Water Thieves, the Black Fish Water Thieves, and the Blood Wolf Water Thieves.

In Blackwater City, without these three gangs, it can be said that half of the strength is missing.

With a wave of Bai Qi's hand, the four warships were moored on the exclusive dock of the Blood Wolf Water Pirates, and Bai Qi was the first to jump off the dock.

Already aware of their purpose, the sailors who replaced their uniforms with their messy armor jumped off the dock in a state of apprehension under the leadership of the boatswain, leaving only the most basic manpower needed to operate the ships on each boat.

Under the leadership of Bai Qi, more than a hundred sailors boarded the harbor and picked up a path through the tavern area and into the cluttered slums on the periphery.

After Bai Qi and they had disappeared into the cluttered port tavern area, the four warships set sail again, leaving the docks and sailing into the night.

Bai Qi took all the sailors to Captain Will's lair.

It was now empty, the inside of the fortress was in shambles, and looking at the shattered furniture all over the floor, Bai Qi could even imagine the blood wolf or Dunkel venting their anger here.

Looking at this messy scene, Bai Qi couldn't help but show a smug smile, the matter of deceiving an assault warship from the hands of the Blood Wolf Water Pirate Group without a single soldier can be said to be one of Bai Qi's proud masterpieces in life.

Ordering Roundup and Quinine to stay in Will's lair with the sailors, Bai Qi and Adrian and Barrian leave Will's lair and blend into the tavern area.

Although Bai Qi and the others had done something sensational in Blackwater City not long ago, and his physical characteristics were more prominent, Bai Qi was not worried about being recognized.

The last time they came to Blackwater City, the main people they dealt with were the blood wolf's people, but eighty percent of the blood wolf's people were not in the blackwater city at this time.

Bai Qi and the three of them walked through the tavern area filled with the smell of ale wine, and came to the lair of the Black Water Water Thieves.

Located in the middle of the entire tavern district, the Blackwater Thieves' Lair is a city within a city surrounded by a circular wall with a diameter of more than 100 meters, and within the wall is a huge circular castle.

Outside the wall of the Black Water Thief Castle, there is a circular square about twenty meters wide, and the outer part of the square is the largest tavern in the area of more than a dozen taverns, and these dozen taverns are also distributed in a ring, forming three concentric circles with the circular stone castle in the center of the black water lair and the circular stone wall on the periphery.

These dozen taverns are also the lair of a dozen of the most powerful water thieves in Blackwater City.

If you don't look at the signboard at the entrance, I'm afraid no one can associate these huge round stone buildings with the tavern.

These taverns are more fortresses than taverns.

These more than ten fortresses are very similar in appearance and internal structure, all of which are three-story structures, the ground floor is used to entertain the water thieves, the second floor is the narrow guest room where the water thieves rest, and the top floor is the place where the water thieves leaders live and rest.

Although the appearance is similar, the size of the stone castles is quite different, among the more than ten stone castles, the largest four are more than 30 meters in diameter, and the smallest ones are about 20 meters in diameter.

The four largest fortresses are the lair of the four most powerful water thieves in Blackwater City except for the Blackwater Water Thieves, they are guarding the four directions of the Blackwater Castle, located in the north, and the fortress facing the gate of the Blackwater Castle belongs to the Blackfish Water Thieves who are most closely related to the Blackwater Thieves.

Although the more than ten fortresses surrounding Blackwater Castle are of different sizes, their height is very uniform, all of them are ten meters, which is the same height as the outer wall of Blackwater Castle.

Another feature of these forts is that their gates face the central Blackwater Castle.

From the perspective of warfare, this circle of stone forts undoubtedly forms a very tricky crossfire with the Blackwater Castle in the middle, the fortress group for the Blackwater Castle to resist attacks from the periphery, and the Blackwater Fortress can provide cover for the weak gates of the fortress group through long-range attacks.

Bai Qi and the three of them first went to a tavern on the outermost part of the room to buy a large glass of ale, and mixed it around the tavern area with the wine glass.

They found that except for the Blood Wolf Tavern and the Blackfish Tavern, which were relatively deserted, the other taverns were still lively.

From the small talk of the water thieves, Bai Qi learned that due to the frequent transfer of the armies of the major city-states recently, the Suo Luo River has become very dangerous, and most of the water thieves have retracted back to Blackwater City.

Bai Qi and the three of them held wine glasses, and after wandering around the tavern area for a while, they walked into the door of the slightly deserted Blackfish Tavern.

In the huge hall of hundreds of square meters of the Blackfish Tavern, there are more than ten huge tables that can seat more than 20 people, and at this time, only seven or eight groups of water thieves are gathered in the corners of the surrounding corners, and each group of water thieves occupies a table, talking and laughing together unbridledly.

The arrival of Bai Qi and the three of them did not attract much attention, and they walked to the tables near the tavern bar and sat down, and the tavern waiter lazily brought the grilled fish and ale they wanted.

Although the waiter's attitude was very bad, the grilled fish and ale here were really good, and the three of them pretended to talk and laugh in a low voice, and after a while, they drank several large glasses of ale.

Adri, who was disguised as a man, walked out of the tavern as if he was about to be relieved, and did not come back for a long time, Bai Qi and the two did not seem to care about the whereabouts of their companions, chatting and laughing in a low voice while nibbling on grilled fish and drinking ale.

After about half an hour, Adrian returned to the tavern, and the three of them put their heads together with lewd smiles on their faces, as if they were talking about something that some of the men had on their minds.

If someone approached at this time, they could hear Adrian's tone of voice diametrically opposed to the expression on his face, "Chief, as you guessed, the inside of Blackwater Castle is empty, leaving only three Chosen Warriors and less than a hundred guards, most of the guards are concentrated on the outer city wall, making outsiders think that there are enough guards in the castle, and there are only three Chosen Warriors and more than twenty guards in the central fortress, and more than twenty guards are all concentrated on the top of the fortress, guarding four giant crossbows, The three Chosen Warriors were all gathered in the command hall on the fourth floor of the fortress. ”

After listening to Adrian's report, a trace of excitement flashed in Bai Qi's eyes, and he turned his head to Barian and asked, "How is it, are the spells ready?" ”

Barrian nodded.

Bai Qi waved his hand and said, "Action!" ”

The three of them dropped a few silver coins, staggered out of the Blackfish Tavern with the wine glass, and walked to the dim light behind the tavern, the three of them dropped the wine glass in their hands, Bai Qi and Barian took out a scroll from the storage space and unfolded it, injecting a trace of spiritual power, an invisible ripple unfolded from the scroll, and the figures of the two shook for a while, and disappeared without a trace.

Adrian also shook his body and activated the stealth technique.

The scroll Bai Qi and Barian used was the kind of stealth scroll they used to escape the Tiger and Downey's tracking when they first entered the space. Just in case, both of them prepared two stealth scrolls.

Originally, Bai Qi didn't plan to use this kind of expensive scroll that could be used to save his life, but on the wall of the Blackwater Castle and on the gate of the outer tavern, there was a very bright arcane lamp, which illuminated the square around the castle as bright as daytime, and the Blackwater thieves patrolling the castle wall were very vigilant, and there was no sign of laziness, in order to hurry up, Bai Qi had to reluctantly decide to use this precious scroll.

The three of them who disappeared touched the wall of Blackwater Castle, the ten-meter-high wall was made of hewn stones, and white mortar was poured into the gaps of the stones, which ordinary people couldn't climb at all, but it couldn't help Adrian of the Darkwalker profession, climbing is one of the basic skills of the Darkwalker.

Adrian first climbed up the fence with his bare hands, and then pulled Bai Qi and the two up with a rope. The three of them silently climbed over the wall and entered the castle.

Between the castle wall and the central fortress there is a ring of stone houses connected together, the doors and windows of the stone houses are facing the middle fortress, and the smooth outer wall forms a five-meter-high wall, forming a defensive circle between the central fortress and the outer wall.

I don't know if it's because of the lack of manpower, or because of the confidence in the outer wall, there are no water thieves patrolling this circle of stone houses.

It was Adrian who climbed onto the roof first and pulled Bai Qi and the two up.

Climbing over the stone house, the three of them came to the gate of the central fortress, the gate of this fortress is designed very firmly, the door frame made of stone is concave inward more than two meters deep, at the bottom of the door frame is a wooden gate, and there is a log tied gate one meter in front of the gate, there is a one-foot-wide stone groove under the gate, if the gate falls, the lower end is just stuck into the stone trough, there are two half-foot-wide gaps in the top wall of the stone bar at the top of the door frame, only three or five soldiers, armed with bows and crossbows, can suppress the attack on the gate below.

At this time, the gate in front of the gate did not fall, but the gate inside was tightly closed, and the figures of soldiers patrolling back and forth could be faintly seen in the stone cracks above the door frame.

Adrian waved his hand and led Bai Qi and the two around to the rear of the central fortress. R1152