Chapter 20: Merchant Ships Strayed into Dangerous Passages
"What are you doing? It's too dangerous!"
On the outskirts of the Somnus Strait, a sloop ran aground on a rocky reef of more than ten square meters at an angle of thirty degrees, and on the deck of the shipwrecked ship, several sailors were trying to lower their lifeboats and row into the sea, when a majestic voice stopped several people, and the sailors immediately lowered the lifeboats on the sail line and turned to apologize to them. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Mr. Manid, we must get out of here now, or something might happen to us......"
Listening to the sailors' answers, the leader of the merchant ship, the merchant Manid Lares, who was running around, nodded, wiped the sweat from his forehead due to the sun, and replied: "This is an outer ocean, and other merchant ships bound for Gronia will not interrupt their voyages for us, so they can only wait here for rescue!" First mate, how many days will the food and fresh water on board last?"
"Excluding the materials used after the escape, it can only last two days...... Sir, let's row a dinghy back to the main channel!" The first mate also suggested that Manid use the lifeboat to return to the channel.
"Don't you understand what I'm saying, if we are lucky enough to return to the main channel, and they are waiting for us there, it is nothing more than to fall into the well and let us die in the sea, after all, this time the three of us will go to the paradise city to trade, and they will not lend a helping hand to me as a competitor......
"Then we can only wait to die...... This should be Somnus, only the people with their brains in the water will sail here...... Wait!Sir, look what that is!!"
Several sailors pointed to the distant sea level together, and Manid also took out his binoculars and looked at the target, and around the endless sea, he saw a three-masted galleon with a white eagle flag on a blue background approaching in this direction, and Manid, who often dealt with outlaws, happened to know the sign and began to order the sailors to be armed......
"Goshawk...... Damn, I didn't expect the destroyed goshawk regiment to come again! I'm so angry, hurry up and prepare for battle!!"
The sailors of the merchant ship had heard of the once powerful pirate Hero Nabar, so they put down their tools, took up their bows and crossbows, and formed an armed force of more than twenty men, Manid was very confident in his tactical arrangement, so he took out a pocket flintlock pistol from the pouch at his waist, and drew the sword at his waist and stood in front of the captain's room waiting for the goshawk to approach.
At this moment, a middle-aged man wearing a leather apron appeared from below deck and came to Manid's side, this person was Chris Zarvis, the owner of Chanda's grocery store, who had become a layman because of his lack of cash, and accidentally joined Manid's caravan to go to Gronia to trade.
"Lares, are you sure you can stop them?"
"Don't worry, Kerves, I'm also trained in the military, and I'm pretty good at arranging my troops, and it's enough to deal with a reckless man like Nabal!" he replied to Kerves by patting his chest, and then commanded beside the longbowed first mate.
"The Goshawk is a special warship, if we can win against them, we may be able to grab the Goshawk and go to Gronia, but the chances of victory are extremely small, we must grasp the timing to subdue the bandit leader Nabar, everyone work hard!"
About a quarter of an hour later, the Goshawk calmly sailed near the merchant ship, dropped anchor and lowered the lifeboat, and Nabal and Mo Cha rowed to the merchant ship that had run aground to reconnoitre, and Shoy also boarded the lookout and grabbed the telescope in Raguil's hand to look at the position of the merchant ship.
When the dinghy landed on the reef, Nabal jumped out of the boat first, raised his head and shouted at the deck of the merchant ship......
"Hey!!Is there anything alive!?"
Mo Mocha immediately kicked him and yelled, "Stinky seal......! Use your pea-sized brain!"
"you, aren't you also an imbecile horse thief! Lao Tzu is just used to shouting, and he just comes to such a voice!"
"I'm stupid, I'm much smarter than you retarded, you don't know how to learn!"
"What's the matter!?I want to fight!!If it wasn't for the head of the regiment to stop me, I would have wanted to beat you up a long time ago!!"
Saying that, the two scuffled together, and before they knew it, they were surrounded by Manid's sailors, and the two quickly pushed each other away and picked up their weapons to resist, but in the face of dozens of heavy crossbows and longbows, the two raised their hands in embarrassment......
"Uh...... Shall we negotiate?" said Nabal, looking at the sharp crossbow pointed at him, lowered his saber and demanded negotiation.
At this moment, Manid came from behind the ship, and as he went, he said, "Yes, Nabal Gershak, I wanted to restrain you, a brave old pirate, in battle, but I didn't expect to send it to the door, and it really took no effort to come!
"Hey, Manid Lares, you're not dead yet!!" shouted at Manid's smiling face with disdain as soon as he saw him.
"Huh? Tea Tristan...... You have stolen all the freight horses in my caravan, and caused me a lot of losses!I didn't expect to get mixed up with Nabar, the pirate leader!!I must make you look good!!" Manid replied angrily.
Mo Mocha replied aggrievedly: "Didn't I replace you with dozens of donkeys to hurry...... What is the loss is not small......"
Manid was already furious, and angrily rebuked: "That's enough! Back then, I went to Djerkhala to make pottery, and I wanted to make a fortune, but you claimed to be a professional horse dealer and walked with me, and in the end, the donkey left behind by stealing the beams and changing pillars was actually bred in captivity by the Djerkhara Chamber of Commerce! As a result, I lost tens of thousands of dinars for no apparent reason! I was also imprisoned by the lord for theft...... Damn horse thief!!"
"Hah...... Anyway, you're still alive and haven't been hanged, so why can't you get along with me...... Just let us go, your ship is running aground anyway, so let's get on board the Goshawk." He suggested with a wry smile.
"No way! we won't fall for you, Nabal is the captain, as long as we hold him, we can still requisition the Goshawk, now honestly call your men over!" Manid pointed his pistol at Nabal's head, but Nabar laughed.
"Correct! Lao Tzu is not the captain of the Goshawk now, look! Our captain is there!!" Taking advantage of Manid's attention being diverted, Nabal immediately stepped forward to pounce on him, and Mo Cha also took advantage of the chaos to rush out of the encirclement, and in the rain of arrows to shake off the sailors behind him, and just after Nabar restrained Manid, the pole of the Goshawk's sails, Shoey aimed his two guns at the merchant ship flag in the distance......
The two guns rang out in unison, and the two steel bullets flew at high speed towards the flag on the top of the mast of the Manid merchant ship dozens of meters away, and broke the flagpole, and the flag tattooed with the horse of the Lares family gradually fell and fell on the sea......
Manid felt that he had miscalculated, and immediately pushed Nabal away, and looked at the flag on the sea, only to see it drifting farther and farther along the current, and Corves on the deck of the merchant ship took out a long axe and jumped down, and asked Tea, "What do you want, stealing the horse!?"
When he saw that Kervez was here, he immediately bypassed the guards and went up to talk, but Kelvais sprayed him directly in the face......
"How can you be a pirate, and what is Zenda's sorry for you?"
"What! I haven't seen you for so long, and I'm still talking nonsense...... We're just on a mercenary mission, and Nabal isn't a pirate anymore!" he retorted, wiping the spit off his face.
Manid chimed in and said, "Okay, he's not a pirate, is he?"
At this moment, another dinghy was lowered to the surface, and Shoy and Sieg rowed in their direction.
"The Goshawk Regiment is gone!Lao Tzu now serves the Wings of Freedom, and now the Commander is here!" Nabal explained.
Corvis looked at Shaw on the dinghy in the distance, and couldn't help but rub his eyes and continue to stare, after confirming that it was Shaw, he couldn't close his mouth in shock, and said intermittently.
"Xiao ...... Shaw!!What is this girl ...... Why are you here?"
Tea and Nabal immediately stepped aside, the dinghy approached the reef at Sieg's paddling, and Shoy jumped out of the dinghy to meet Clarvis and Manid......
"Uncle Celvis, aren't you bankrupt and going out to do business, how can you bully my members with this outsider?"
Shaw's question directly stumped Corvis, and Manid replied on his behalf: "Kervis is my old friend, every time he goes to Zenda, he will be calculated by me, this time he really can't help it, so he asked me to cooperate in business." ”
"You...... I remember, you are the cunning caravan leader that Brother Xia Yan brought back...... I didn't expect you to be a big man. ”
Manid smiled and ordered his sailors to remove their weapons, and said to Shaw, "That's a commercial means, little girl, I've heard of you, Zenda's Shaw, right...... I didn't expect to be successful at a young age and re-prop up the wings of freedom!"
"Hmph...... I didn't expect your cunning uncle to know about me...... We are the wings of freedom!" she pinched her nose proudly, very proud.
"Of course, Freedom Wings is famous, and Freeman, the Eagle of Freedom, who created this team, owes our family a few thousand dinars...... But I'm not in debt, you mean Nabal is your subordinate?"
Manid was taken aback when Shoey revealed the truth, and immediately apologized to Nabal and Mocha, and Shoy agreed to give Manid and his sailors a ride, and the group discussed.
"Manid...... How are you going to Gronia, then how are you going to Somnus......
Shoey's question was very concise, and it was true that the Somnus Strait was outside the Western Sea shipping lane, and Manid's reply was: "It was bad luck at the time, a hurricane a few days ago caused a tsunami, and we sailed northeast with all our might to escape the fate of being submerged, and who knew that we got lost and came here, and we hit this reef early this morning......"
Nabal immediately laughed and said, "Don't worry...... There are a lot of Somnus reefs, and the tides are unstable, so the sea level will rise a lot at night, and then you can sail again!"
"Really, but our ship was damaged, the bottom of the ship was shattered, and we couldn't continue sailing...... Or can it only be yours...... Captain Shaw's boat. Manid shook his head helplessly.
"It's okay to take a boat...... But we're going to find a pirate ship called Heart of the Sea in the center of the Somnus Strait, wouldn't you mind coming with us?" Shoy asked Manid again for his opinion, to which Manid said it didn't matter, and Shoy nodded and continued.
"Then let's load the goods on the ship!It seems that our Wings of Freedom have to go to Gronia, which is known as the capital of paradise~"
Regarding Shaw's decision, Sieg on the side asked, "Commander, are you familiar with Gronia?"
"Of course not...... By the way, when the time comes, I'm going to go to the famous places in Dabaran, and the order on the ship will be handed over to you, the deputy commander~" she commanded.
"I, the deputy head of the regiment, have not been forgotten...... In fact, the technologically advanced continent of Dabaran is very likely to be related to those two Assassins, and I would like to go to Gronia...... "Sieg said that he was willing to follow, and Xiao Yi's plan could only be put on hold for the time being......
When Manid and his sailors got on board to unload the cargo, Sieg returned to the Goshawk and called a large crew to help, and used five dinghys to repeatedly transport the cargo to the Goshawk for storage, and after Sieg returned to the Goshawk with Manid and Klevis, only Nabal, Mocha, and the sneering little regiment standing in front of them were left on the reef......
"Hee-hee-hee...... I can see what you two idiots are doing just now! There's time to fight, right? I'll leave all the chores on the ship to you from today! Don't be ashamed, go back!!" Xiao Yi's attitude changed suddenly, and Mo Cha and Nabal nodded helplessly, and got into the dinghy and rowed towards the Goshawk.
Shaw jumped into the dinghy and said, "Don't pay attention to what I said to Sieg...... What matters now is the blessings of the sea! To do this, we must first go deep into the Strait of Somnus, which we don't know much about!"
In the sunlight, Xiao Yi took out the gemstone badge from his bosom, and now it still radiates gold, as if the light of an ancient hero is displayed, and it shines especially brightly in the daylight, but the place where the revelation of the fire was once inlaid is empty, and only the guidance of the firmament sleeps where it belongs......