Lin Jue put down the binoculars and cast a puzzled look at Gloria.

Gloria understood what Lin Jue meant, sighed softly, and said, "It seems that this ship has experienced a storm, and in order to stabilize its balance and prevent it from falling into the water, it cut down all the masts, and it is estimated that it has drifted all the way here." ”

"But the strange thing is that this ship is like an empty ship, not only is there no one to see, but since it has escaped the storm, the broken debris on the deck has not been cleaned up, which is a strange phenomenon. Your Excellency the Governor, give the order. ”

After a moment of silence, Lin Jue said, "Let's lean over and take a look first." ”

As Gloria gave one order after another, the Ice (the ship's name, mentioned in the previous chapters) lowered its sails and leaned towards the ship's position.

Perhaps it had something to do with her years of experience as a pirate, she was prepared for everything, and she also gave an order for everyone to bring weapons and prepare for battle.

The sailors even pushed out the guns in the deck compartment and stuffed them with shells, even though the ship was so broken that it could barely maintain its basic function of floating, and it felt like it could be kicked into the water with a casual kick, there were still seven or eight guns ready to attack.

"It's ...... Brandon text, the name of the ship is the Salvation. Lin Yue pointed to the line engraved on the stern of the opposite ship and said.

Lin Jue nodded, it seems that this ship was built by the Brandon Federation.

From this position, everything on the ship can be seen at a glance and can be seen clearly with the naked eye without the help of tools such as telescopes. Moreover, this ship is much smaller than the Ice and Snow, the most intuitive thing is the height, Lin Jue estimates that the Ice and Snow is at least about two meters taller than this small ship.

In Lin Jue's eyes, the deck of this ship was empty, not to mention people, except for a large piece of broken wooden planks, the entire deck was completely bare, with no masts, no boxes, no barrels, no complete objects, and even the deck was damaged a lot.

On the other hand, Gloria, seeing this scene, frowned tightly.

Seeing that there were no masts before, she analyzed that the ship was likely to experience a storm and had to cut off all the masts, and even when she came closer, she could see the three bare wooden stakes, which indeed had traces of axe chiseling.

A storm alone can indeed cause a lot of damage to the hull, but in her opinion, there are many damaged places in the hull, such traces, no matter how strong the storm can not be made, such as the broken place on the deck, if this storm is really strong enough to tear the deck, then the ship should also sink, and it is impossible to float here calmly waiting for them to find it.

On the right side of the ship, the sailors had prepared the ropes, the anchors had been lowered, and the Ice was still slowly moving forward by inertia, and when the positions of the two ships were getting closer and closer, the sailors threw out the ropes one after another, connecting the two ships together.

"Go up and have a look. ”

With a one-handed sword pinned to her waist, Gloria was the first to climb the rope and glide over.

The sailors followed, and the distance between the two ships was estimated to be only about ten meters, and it was not long before they reached the deck of the other ship.

They drew their weapons and walked cautiously on the deck, though the empty deck was unlikely to pose any danger to them.

After a while, when the sailors had finished their assignments, only three sailors were left on deck rummaging through the pile of debris, while the rest followed Gloria down the gangway into the cabin, and two sailors pushed open the door to the captain's quarters and entered.

Of course, Lin Jue was still standing on the deck of the Ice and Snow, patiently waiting for the results of their search. He didn't have the rope to climb a rope, and with his ability, he might have just slipped out of the deck before his hand fell into the sea.

It took about five minutes or so for the sailors to appear on the deck and gather, in addition to some paper books and other materials, there were also two large boxes, and even two cannons, in Lin Jue's puzzled gaze, the two cannons were pulled out of the cabin by the sailors with a winch temporarily tied to a rope.

Since the masts were cut down, there was much less point of effort, and even with the use of a winch, it was not easy for the sailors to pull or push, and it was a long time before they were transported to the deck.

But in Lin Jue's opinion, these two cannons look very strange, and they are completely different from ordinary artillery structures.

The artillery of this world is still the most basic front-loading gun, even if with the passage of time, the development of weapons may develop into a rear loader, but the loading method of these two guns is completely irrelevant to these two, at the top of the bottom of the barrel, there is a round hole just the size of a cannonball.

Lin Jue even wondered if he had seen it wrong, maybe the place was just a decoration, but he saw with his own eyes that a sailor was holding an equally strange-looking cannonball and put it in.

The cannonball was different from the black ball that he usually saw, it was red all over, even if he stood more than ten meters away, Lin Jue could see clearly, and the surface of the cannonball was actually glowing with a layer of slowly flowing luster.

Just when Lin Jue was puzzled, Gloria stood on the opposite deck and beckoned to him, and then shouted a sentence to relieve his doubts, but this confusion instantly changed into surprise.

"Look at this, good thing, two magic cannons, and two boxes of shells. ”

Although Lin Jue hadn't seen the magic cannon with his own eyes, he had heard of it.

In essence, magic cannons are actually no different from ordinary artillery, they are all equipped in the army or ships as heavy firepower, the difference is that the power of magic cannons is much stronger than ordinary artillery, and a magic cannon sends out a cannonball, which is equivalent to inspiring a first-level magic.

This magic is distinguished by the magical properties of the cannonball, for example, the most common fire projectile, when released, it is equivalent to releasing a first-level meteorite magic, which can smash the ground within 20 meters of the attack point into a hemispherical crater. If it is used as a naval gun, when two ships are close together, such a cannonball really attacks the ship's hull, I am afraid that no ship can retreat with its whole body.

Such an anti-heaven effect represents the expensive cost and scarce quantity of magic cannons, the number of magic cannons is not much, and they are often stored as a country's strategic reserve resources, even if they are as powerful as the Yan Empire, they may not be able to find twenty magic cannons.

Not to mention the cannonballs of the magic cannon, each of which represents a first-level high-level magic, it is not easy to store a huge amount of magic power, and it is necessary to set up a mechanism that can be fired with artillery, the cost, materials and craftsmanship may be much cheaper than the magic cannon, some people have calculated, a magic cannonball, everything else is counted as free, just the price of the material, are as high as 10,000 gold coins.

At this time, Lin Jue was not thinking about the value of these two magic cannons and two boxes of cannonballs, he was thinking, what is this ship for? It is actually equipped with such powerful weapons? Also, where did they get so many magic cannonballs? You know, such a small boat, maybe a cannonball is much more expensive than her.

At this time, Gloria waved her hand again and shouted loudly: "In addition to this, there are living people on this ship. ”