"Doo!" The sharp arrows stuck in the shield trembled violently.

"Lord Arres, are you alright?" A young Spartan warrior held a shield to cover Xu Mo.

"Augerthius!" Xu Mo looked at this Spartan young man who suddenly appeared beside him in surprise.

"It's me, my lord!" Ogthyus happily replied, "You said you would take us back to Sparta, and you couldn't have an accident!" ”

"Of course, Ogthius, of course!" Xu Mo said with a smile, a hint of color flashed in his eyes. He didn't expect that in the valley at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, the casual words he said to this Spartan boy would always be remembered by him.

"It seems that the Watermark Horse people who spread their wings have not given up, Arres, according to the distance between the merchant ships and the warships, we may be caught up by them at dawn!" Chisonis walked up to Xu Mo's side and said worriedly.

"They are warships after all, and the oarsmen are more cooperative than ours." Xu Mo said expressionlessly, "However, we don't need to compete with them!" Chisionis, you know, as prey, sometimes we don't need to run faster than the hunter, we just need to be a little faster than the other prey, and that's enough! ”

It seemed that the gods were also responding to Xu Mo's words, and the merchant ship they were on quickly overtook another Carthaginian merchant ship that was ahead of them, and the two pursuing watermark horse warships that were Luo Zhan Wings quickly split up to attack, the merchant ship that was the first to fall behind in this death match.

"Arres, are we going to go back and help them?". Omes said hesitantly.

"No, Omus, we can't help them. Not only are there more Watermark Horsemen than we are, but they are also regular navies and are familiar with fighting on rocky ships. It's okay for our gladiator brothers to sit and paddle, let them stand, let alone fight, it's difficult to even stand firm! Xu Mo shook his head resolutely.

"Although there were some unexpected factors in the process of burning down Luo Zhanyi's Watermark Horse battleship, if these Carthaginians could be a little more tenacious in their fighting will, Luo Zhanying's Watermark Horse people would have no warships available. Now, the Carthaginians must pay for their weakness, and I will never let my brothers bear this mistake with them! ”

"You're right, Arres!" Eumes sighed and turned away. Cabal's death made him feel a duty to the Carthaginians, but if that responsibility required the lives of his gladiator brothers, Eumes could not convince himself to take the risk.

……

"Rose, your perception is the strongest in the team, I want you to tell me, I feel that the old K's ship is faster than us, and it is slowly catching up with us, is this my delusion!" Qin Long, who was standing at the stern of the boat, frowned and asked Rose next to him.

"No, it's not that their ships are faster than us, it's that our ships are decreasing. I think we'll have to call Joseph over, as if something isn't quite right......" said Rose with a solemn face.

"Old K!" Standing in front of the cell where the prisoners of war were originally kept, Joseph muttered to himself with an ugly face.

The cell is on the bottom floor of the merchant ship, which is originally relatively humid and very steamy, and during this time, the people on the merchant ship are busy and very nervous. When Qin Long and the others found that the speed of the merchant ship was decreasing, they found that the water in this layer was nearly half a meter deep.

"There are a few small holes down there, they've been leaking, and I've plugged them!" Qin Long shook the seawater from his hair, "It seems to have been cut out by someone with a hand axe, but the hole is not big, and the ship will not be sunk!" ”

"How long does it take to clean up the stagnant water?" Roland asked in a deep voice.

"In this era, there are no pumps, we have to rely on manpower to scoop water, we don't have enough manpower on the boat, and there are not enough oarsmen to scoop water, anyway, ......" Rose's face turned pale, as if she thought of something.

"Anyway, no matter how we organize people to scoop water by hand, or whether the water continues to move forward, we will be caught up by Lao K and surpassed. One hunter, two prey, the hunter will only want the one that is left behind, won't he? ”。 Joseph said with a wry smile, "Old K should have made this backup plan a long time ago, as long as Luo Zhanyi's watermark horse battleship was not burned, he would take the other two merchant ships as outcasts!" ”

"No wonder when we took over this ship, a bunch of Spartan warriors came out of the bilge, I should have checked it out." Anon said remorsefully.

"It's not your fault, even if you looked at it at the time, you couldn't see it, these holes are right in the gaps in the wood, and you can't detect them if you cover them up a little." Joseph shook his head, "This was my mistake, I should have known that Old K's layout wouldn't be so easy to crack!" ”

"Isn't that his style?". Qin Long sneered, "Even if there is no us, he will also arrange this backhand, and leave his companion as an outcast whenever he is in danger!" ”

"It looks like we're going to fight the Watermark Horse Man with Luo Zhan Wings head-on!" Joseph glanced around the group and said with a heavy face.

……

"Simon, it looks like Old K's ship is about to catch up with another merchant ship, they're so fast!" Cher said a little surprised.

"It's not that Old K's ship has become faster, it's that the other merchant ship has slowed down, it seems that this is Old K's backhand!" Simon raised an eyebrow and said admiringly, "It's perfect! Old K is a criminal genius, and he's almost turned conspiracy into an art! ”

"It's just using others as shields, what's the big deal!" The brute shrugged nonchalantly.

"No, no, you don't understand, in fact, this plan of his is only a backup plan, prepared to fill the flaws in the original plan. And the best part is that whatever choice Joseph and we make, it doesn't affect him. Now, I only have one doubt left to figure it out! Simon propped his chin and frowned.

"What is it?" Cher, who was wearing a princess dress, asked curiously.

"The gladiator led by the old K should not belong to the Sicilian slave rebels, why did he come to Sicily? Sicily belongs to the secondary battlefield, and with the strength of the old K, it should go to the side of Hannibal, Spartacus, and Leonidas. Why did he come all the way to Sicily to grab these side tasks with us, is there something very important that I have missed? ”。 Simon muttered to himself a little depressed.

"Yes! We are also forced to f8 bad patrol gull and the rest of the hook cape is ÷ > to make up for the tribute and the reward to grab the profits, Simon, I hate him! Cher cocked her mouth and waved her small fists.

……

“

OSS, don't look at it, Joseph's gang is self-inflicted! "If it weren't for them, Cabal, Claudia, and those Carthaginian prisoners of war wouldn't have died!" ”

Xu Mo retracted his gaze and no longer paid attention to the battle between Joseph's ship and the last watermark horse battleship in the distance, "Cabal and Claudia can't be blamed entirely for their deaths, they were born in the wrong era. By the way, haven't you guys finished the 'revenge' mission yet? ”

"yes, we see that you haven't received the reward for this quest, and we thought it was ......," Dinah said sneeringly.

"Haha, let's receive the task reward! This quest has the option to destroy Pompeii, and now there is no way to do it! Xu Mo couldn't help but laugh.

“

OSS, is it really impossible to complete the third item of this competing surname task? ”。 Dinah asked, confused.

"Hehe, do you remember, the difficulty of this task is C- to A-level, in fact, the difficulty of the task is not floating, but increasing. According to my estimates, killing Bardax is C-class, and killing Lucius is a matter of achievement

Around the level, Destroy Pompeii is an A- level difficulty. Xu Mo pondered for a moment and continued to answer, "I once explained in the 'Rescue' mission that the strength of the Gladiator Rebel Army is only enough to complete the C-rank mission!" ”

"Then Lucius ......," Dinah retorted, curling her lips.

"Lucius is an accident, when the spatial statistics are difficult, he will not count the watermark of the accident of Joseph and others storming the Governor's Palace. Half of the credit for our mission goes to the 500-odd gladiator rebels who stormed the Doge's Palace. Xu Mo sighed lightly.

"Isn't it possible to destroy Pompeii by accident?" Dinah twisted her body and said unconvincedly.

"The destruction of Pompeii, in my calculations, can only be achieved in two ways. Dinah, do you remember the 'Apollo Elixir' and the 'Olympus Herb' I got? ”。 Xu Mo's face was a little solemn.

“

OSS, you don't mean that there are unnatural forces in this world? Dinah frowned and said in surprise.

"Quite possibly! I remember in the real world, ancient Pompeii was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. However, in this world, we do not know when Vesuvius will erupt, and we cannot affect the movement of the earth's crust by our own efforts. Therefore, only unnatural forces are left to be able to make Vesuvius erupt at a fixed time, which is the first way to complete the mission! Xu Mo raised a finger and said to Dinah.

"And what about another way?" Dinah nodded, agreeing with Xu Mo's point of view.

"Another way is to work with Elise's gang and lead the Spartacus rebels to attack Pompeii. At the same time, it is another way to ask Sappis not to mistreat him! Xu Mo raised his second finger and said helplessly.

"This method seems to be more difficult than asking the gods on Mount Olympus to detonate Mount Vesuvius, no wonder the difficulty of the mission has reached the A-level!" Dinah said with a wry smile.

"Alright, you can tell Max and Serna to receive the mission reward!" After Xu Mo finished speaking, he also clicked on the rewards of the "Revenge" mission and the "Emancipation of the Slave Ship" mission. However, the prompt message from the instant message screen made him stunned......

(To be continued.)

Chapter 55 Aftermath Strike

Chapter 55 is preemptive, to the website