Volume 7 The Ferryman of the River Styx Chapter 1 The Beginning of the Age of Discovery

After sending off the empress and his wife, Wang Wei took his father-in-law to the dungeon and showed him a thing.

A bug, to be exact.

"This is the Stygian Locust, a creature from the underworld, its biggest characteristic is its strong regenerative ability, and its other characteristic is its large number. ”

Wang Wei said to his father-in-law.

"What do you want to do, to replace our army?"

Grand Duke Fernando asked curiously.

"Of course not. ”

Wang Wei shook his head.

"These locusts are creatures of the underworld, and they have an ability that I really value. When they make a contract with humans, they do not occupy any contract space, and to be precise, they are parasitic on the host. When summoned, they will merge with the host's body to form a complex. ”

Wang Wei nodded to Master Freud on the side, and layers of light appeared on the master's body, and his clothes were suddenly torn by some tissues that appeared out of thin air, and those tissues wrapped Master Freud's thin body, forming a tall and strong four-armed giant. He is two meters tall and has four strong arms. Covered in hard armor, plus a pair of hard wing sheaths like a cloak on the back. From the outside, it's like an enlarged version of the locust!

The face of the locust automatically opened, revealing the face of Master Freud.

"To be honest, this thing is really good, and it's really exciting!"

The Master waved his four arms to explain to Fernando.

"Hard armor, almost no worse than the defense of metal plate armor of the same level, huge strength, even if the warriors have trained for a lifetime, this effect cannot be defeated. Four arms, to be honest, although it feels awkward at first, but once you get used to it, you know that two arms with a shield and two arms with a sword are definitely a perfect combination!"

The master was full of praise for this thing.

In fact, when Wang Wei just learned about the ability of the Dark Locust, Master Freud immediately strongly asked to try it, because when he was there at that time, he was the only human besides Wang Wei, and Wang Wei also wanted to know how far this complex of the Dark Locust and human could do, so he agreed to the master's request.

Anyway, there is no harm to such a thing as a contract.

The result was very surprising, the originally thin Master Freud immediately turned into a strong Hercules, which made the Master who had always used his brain power to despise physical strength become a strong man. This also made Wang Wei think of something, if these dark locusts were really equipped with troops, the effect would be extremely amazing. But he was still a little worried about how these soldiers would react after turning into monsters, and whether they could accept it or not.

But now, he didn't need to worry, just looking at Daddy's eyes was enough to prove that this thing was attractive to him.

"With this thing, we can save most of the metal and make heavier swords, bigger shields. ”

Wang Wei is kind and persuasive.

"How many of this?"

The old man finally couldn't resist the temptation and asked.

"A lot. ”

Wang Wei said with a smile.

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How many days does it take to build a freighter? Wang Wei told you that it only took a month, a month, and the ocean-going freighter provided by Wang Wei was finally launched in his own town, and when the first batch of merchants saw the huge freighter in front of them, some of them even thought that the warships of the gods had fallen from the sky.

First of all, it was a large ship, there was almost nothing on the whole ship except for a flat deck, and the bridge was at the end of the entire huge ship. Obviously, the huge space in front of the front can be stacked with goods. On the shore, a huge container dock was built at some unknown time to help merchants sort their goods into different containers, all marked with Isaac's ocean. Whenever a container is filled, it is delivered to the dock in the distance almost into the sea by a conveyor device, and a huge lifting device lowers the heavy container and lifts it onto the ship. Nearby, on a mid-level corridor, some workers are delivering a small number of bulk cargo to the ship.

Merchants were generally surprised by this new way of transporting goods, and at the same time they were surprised that there were such a large ocean-going freighter in their own country, and some people even looked at the huge ship with ill intentions.

On the first day of the freighter's voyage, Wang Wei, as the actual owner of the freighter, led Her Majesty's envoy, that is, Luna, and some of the personal guards to go to sea in person. Due to the uncooperative attitude of some coastal countries, the giant ship can not sail in their territorial waters, so this ocean-going giant ship made a slight detour, and it took three full days to arrive at Wellington City, the seaport of the Tolkien Empire, as a typical coastal city, Wellington City has a unique cultural heritage and developed economy of a coastal city, as an old commercial and financial center, it brings together businessmen from almost all countries in the world, and can buy specialties from almost any country in the world here.

This time as the captain of the ocean-going freighter is an old captain in his sixties, before that, he was a captain of the Isaac Navy, although he is no longer piloting a warship, but still feels honored, because he knows that this ocean-going freighter represents not only Isaac's merchants, but also Isaac's military strength!

Because the man who built this ship, that Kane, once said: If you encounter a pirate, you don't need to stop the ship, you can just hit it, because our ship is steel!

As a navy, he naturally knew that what this person said was true, and he still remembered the terrifying battleship vividly, so he could hardly find any other adjectives for him to be able to steer this ship today, except for excitement.

The entire ship, excluding the guards, consisted of only thirty or so crew members, including five elemental technicians urgently trained from the Royal Academy, and ten dwarven blacksmith repairmen provided by the old dwarves. The rest of the technology is responsible for some chores. The driving of the whole giant ship is extremely simple, only a simple rotation of the steering wheel, and the accurate scale on it can make it easy for you to control this big guy.

Wellington Harbour also widened the harbour, dug the seabed, and installed three dispatch planes from Isaac, but when the ship was actually docked on the shore of Wellington Harbour, the whole of Wellington was still boiling.

No other country has ever seen such a large ocean-going freighter, and looking at the dense containers on it, everyone knows the difference between shipping in such boxes and directly in thick twine pockets.

Despite all the preparations, the person in charge of the port of Wellington was in a cold sweat by the big ship, because the cargo was so large that only three dispatchers could not effectively organize the transportation of goods, and the containers were so heavy that the average worker could not move them except for the dispatchers. In the end, the only way to do this is to lift one container, and the workers quickly remove the goods, and then send the container back to the ship, and then transfer the next one.

Wang Wei and Luna left secretly after getting off the ship, and the captain of the remaining ship was arguably the proudest of all, and after the crew followed the captain off the ship, they immediately felt the sight of the captains of the other ships around them to be that kind of hot. That's what captains compare, and who doesn't want their boat to be the kind of big guy who can pull the wind as soon as it is taken out?

Especially when they got into a tavern together, it caused a stir.

The old captain proudly said to everyone around him.

"We are Isaac Ocean Shipping Services. ”

Despite the unfamiliarity with the term company, the old captain was still proud.

As soon as they got off the boat, Wang Weiluna and Elidan went straight to the bustling city center, where they were making an investigation for the future. Wellington is known as the hub of the mainland, and the commercial transport industry here is very developed, with professional transport teams going to various countries around the world every day to help merchants who do not have their own caravans to send goods to the world, which is already a very embryonic logistics industry.

"I have to say that Tolkien is really a smart country, he knows that there are people who have things that will change the world, and they can be at the forefront of trends. ”

That's what Luna said about Tolkien's response to the incident.

"This continent is not big, but a large proportion of the countries are coastal countries, and some large island countries are real water countries. But the gap between terrestrial and marine life has long made ocean development a difficult process. But now the situation is different, and marine life has found a way to coexist peacefully, whether or not this way can really build mutual trust between land and sea in the coming time, and anyone with a brain should know that moving forward with the ocean is the opportunity for national development. Hugo was a landlocked country, he was not near the sea, he never dealt with the sea, and Verne was not, to be precise, both were typical mountain peoples, they were arrogant, but they could not really keep up with the rhythm of the times. They think they can trap us just from the land, but they don't know that it is a role in the development of our oceans. ”

Luna looked at the various specialty products sold by the vendors around her, and said to Wang Wei with emotion.

"Cut, don't look at who's so powerful. ”

Wang Wei said proudly holding Luna's waist.

"Of course, Wang Weige is the most powerful!"

Elidan's immediate follow.

"Clever!"

Wang Wei immediately praised.