A month later, Bai Qi returned to the river near the city of Leoni with two ships laden with booty.

Here he and Adrian parted ways, with Adrian returning to Leoni with the booty and using the newfound loot to order a new ship from the Leony City shipyard, while he himself sailed with Barian to the Blackwater Marshes on the southern shore of the city.

On the south bank of the Suluo River, in the thousand-kilometer basin near the limestone mountain, there is a huge swamp with an area of tens of thousands of square kilometers, which is called the Blackwater Swamp because of the black color of the rotting sewage in the swamp, and the Blackwater Lake is hidden in the depths of the Blackwater Swamp.

There are many deep-water channels leading to Blackwater Lake hidden in the Blackwater Swamp, but most of these channels are covered by floating grass in the swamp, and no one dares to enter this swamp without the guidance of old water thieves who are familiar with the roads.

Sometimes, you see a lake in front of you, but when you sail inside, you find that the lake is only a few feet deep, and the bottom is full of sticky silt.

Sometimes, you see a green grassland in front of you, but in fact, there is a deep water of several meters or even tens of meters below the floating grass on the surface.

The reason why Bai Qi dared to go deep into the Blackwater Swamp without authorization was because he had found a route through the Blackwater Swamp to the Blackwater Lake, a completely new route that even the water thieves didn't know.

In the previous month, during the sweep of the Fish-Man Tribe, Bai Qi had involved Gunde, Bod, Lenka, and Nonda in the battle, mainly putting them in charge of collecting the loot.

In the process, Bai Qi's fierce and calm mixture, like an artist's superb combat skills, conquered Gunde, and he finally made up his mind to be loyal to Bai Qi, of course, Bai Qi believes that the bigger reason is that he knows that Bai Qi is already the patriarch of Leoni City.

Regardless, Gunder came up with the new route map that his father had unearthed when he was forced to conquer the Blackwater Thieves.

With this route map and learning about the chaos in Blackwater City from Roundda, Bai Qi decided to sneak into Blackwater City to see if he could exchange the merchant ship in his hand for a water pirate warship.

Since this ship is a merchant ship, the system does not count this ship when calculating his completion of the advanced mission "fleet".

Although Bai Qi seized this ship because Captain Du Bo was unfavorable to him, his behavior was indeed a water thief, once discovered, even if he was now the patriarch of Leoni City, he would be annoyed, so this ship could not see the light in his hands, and he could only go to Blackwater City to think of a way.

After entering the Black Water Swamp, Bai Qi found that this was simply the world of fishmen, and almost every other distance, they would encounter a fish-man tribe, but fortunately, although there were many fish-people in the swamp, the scale of the tribe was not large, at most it was only a hundred, and there were no strong people such as God's Chosen Warriors and Shamans.

If you think about it carefully, this is not surprising, although the swamp environment is suitable for the survival of the fishmen, the food here is relatively scarce, and it cannot support the survival of large tribes, and the environment here is relatively comfortable, neither the hunting of aquatic beasts such as blackfish, nor the threat of terrestrial life, so the probability of the fishmen here producing strong people is also lower.

The swamp fishmen feel even more ignorant than the fishmen of the Sara River, they are terrified of spells, and often only need a few scorching rays from Barian to disperse a large group of fishmen.

Following the route provided by Gander, it took the ship three days to cross the dangerous blackwater swamp and enter a wide lake.

The water quality of the lake is grayish-black, cold and silent, and it seems lifeless, but according to Roundup, this seemingly dead lake is actually extremely rich in water. In the past, whenever Captain Will returned to Blackwater, the food of their oars would turn into a fishy, thick fish and shrimp soup, which undoubtedly showed that the price of fish and shrimp in Blackwater was cheaper than the cheapest brown bread.

It is precisely for this reason that the physical condition of the oars on the pirate ships is much better than that of ordinary oars, which is one of the reasons why Roundup's body has not completely collapsed after three years of destruction of the oars' slave career.

After sailing in the Blackwater Lake for a day and a night, the merchant ships finally saw the city of Blackwater shrouded in mist in the rising morning sun.

It was a very chaotic town, and on the shore of the town's lake, there was a very chaotic wharf, all kinds of piers were inserted into the lake, and hundreds of large and small ships were moored in a mess on the lake's edge.

Among these hundreds of ships, about half are large ships, including merchant ships and pirate warships, of which merchant ships account for the majority, and there are less than 100 pirate warships. Most of these large ships are hung with the "skull flag", the symbol of the water thieves, and next to the skull flags are also hung with flags of different styles, which are the unique symbols of each water thief gang.

Rounda stood beside Bai Qi and pointed to the dock to tell him that on the large dock in the center of the port, the dozen or so largest warships docked were the rulers of Blackwater City and the warships of the Blackwater Pirates.

The flags flown by these ships are somewhat unusual, they do not fly the "skull flag", the emblem of the water thieves, but only a separate flag with two crossed white scimitars painted on a black background.

Roundup told him that the flag was the symbol of the Blackwater Water Thief, and it was also the symbol of Blackwater City.

On the pier on the left side of the Blackwater Pier, there are seven warships, and like the Blackwater Warship, there is no skull flag, only a flag with a hideous black fish drawn on a red background, which is the warship of the Blackfish Water Pirates.

On the left side of the Blackfish Pier is the special pier for the Blood Sail Water Thieves, and there are eight large and small warships parked on this pier, and the characteristics of the Blood Sail Warship are the most obvious, they do not fly any flags, but only use the blood-red sails to show their existence.

On the right side of the Blackwater Pier, the two piers are dedicated to the Blade Water Thief and the Winged Serpent Water Thief.

The banner of the Bladed Water Thief is a pair of crossed white swords painted on a red background, and the flag of the Winged Serpent is also red, and it is painted with a winged viper, a ferocious monster unique to the Limestone Mountains.

In addition to large vessels, more than 300 fishing boats are crammed into the wharves on both sides of the harbor.

Bai Qi found that in the harbor, the pirate warships were anchored in the best places, occupying several excellent docks in the center of the harbor.

On either side of the pirate warships, large merchant ships occupied the second-class docks, and the largest number of fishing boats were crowded on some of the humble small docks on both sides of the harbor.

At this time, the sun is rising, and the fishing boats have already begun to get busy, and from time to time the fishing boats leave the port and enter the blackwater lake. But there was still silence on the big ships.

Bai Qi ordered Gund to raise the skull flag they had prepared long ago and a flag with a red trident painted on a black background.

After raising the flag, the cargo ship slowly approached the dock.

As the merchant ships approached, passing fishing boats avoided its course far away.

Standing at the bow of the ship, Bai Qi observed that most of the docks were moored with ships, except for one on the east side of the harbor that was sandwiched between several merchant ships and several pirate warships.

Bai Qi hesitated for a moment, although considering that the dock closer to the center of the port was vacated, Bacheng said that it was the exclusive dock of the water thieves, but at this time, there was really no other berthing place on the dock, he hesitated for a moment, and ordered Gunde to drive the boat towards the dock.

The cargo ship approached the dock, and to their surprise, no one came out to stop them, or even pay attention to them at all.

This large and chaotic town seems to be asleep, except for a few ragged fishermen and a few drunks sleeping soundly under the eaves.

Parking the boat, Bai Qi left the docks with Barian and walked deeper into the town.

It took nearly an hour for the two of them to walk through the city of pirates.

In the middle of this small town is actually the port just now.

Not far behind the port, there is a large, rough round stone castle, which is surrounded by a circular stone wall ten meters high. On the heavy wall, a wooden gate opened facing the harbor, and on the gatehouse and the surrounding walls were guarded by well-armoured and spear-wielding guards, who seemed to be the only sober people in the town, except for fishermen and drunkards.

Inside the stone wall is a huge stone fort with a height of more than 15 meters, and four giant crossbows are placed on the top of the stone fort, and there are also guards stationed there.

The castle is almost identical to the fortress-shaped village of a human city-state, except that there is no large farmland outside the castle.

Bai Qi's gaze even aroused the vigilance and reprimand of the guards.

There is a circle of large and small stone buildings built around this castle, except that there are no walls, these stone buildings are small fortresses, which makes Bai Qi feel a little strange that the doors of these small stone castles are actually hung with the logo of the xx tavern.

Among the stone forts in this circle, there are four stone forts that are the largest, with a height of more than ten meters and an area of thousands of square meters. These four stone castles also hang the signs of the tavern, which are the Blackfish Tavern, the Winged Serpent Tavern, the Bloodsail Tavern, and the Blade Tavern.

It turns out that these taverns are the nests of various water thief gangs, but I don't know why these water thieves made their nests into the form of taverns.

Behind this circle of stone taverns, there are also quite a few wooden house taverns, which should be the lair of some small gang of water thieves.

These jumble taverns form the heart of Blackwater.

In addition to the city center of a large area of dozens of acres there are streets and roads, in the periphery of the city can hardly see the street planning, the house is messy like a labyrinth, and the farther away from the city center, the more shabby the house, in the periphery of the city, it is simply a shack.