Chapter 80: Return to Sail Harbor
This time, Luca did understand the true meaning of ship grabbing. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
If you just go with the flow on the sea and grab something, there are probably not a few pirates who are so casual, and even if they do, they will be poorer than Luka. Identifying the areas with the most looted targets and leading the crew to turn them into tangible trophies is the first step to becoming a good pirate captain.
As it turned out, Luka's judgment this time was accurate. To the south of Tata Island, near the two warm currents, there are several fully loaded black sailing boats that can be seen every day.
This allowed Lukka to even pick and choose his target: the brig was too shallow to look like it was worthless, the dhow was probably a loser, and the sails were all broken, and it must have been repaired in this way, and the three-masted ship in front looked good, with a big belly, and it looked like it was rich and carried, and it was it!
The Silent Death resounded again, and an hour later Lukka returned again dejected:
"It's a stone! What does Black Sail want this thing for?"
"Presumably to strengthen the forts on the island, if the war really starts as we thought before, and they are on the side of the Empire, the alliance will definitely send a large number of troops to attack Tata Island. Crete spoke out of his judgment.
"Well, it doesn't look like it's for robbery!" said Ollie.
Lukka turned his head and glanced at the three-masted ship behind him from a distance, and suddenly realized his mistake just now: although this ship was flying the flag of the black sail, it basically had no firepower, and the hull was wide and the speed was obviously not very fast, it was simply the appearance of a transport ship, and the black sail pirates had no brains and would not use this kind of ship to rob. It seems that the role of hanging the flag is more for fear of accidental injury to its peers.
The next time, Lukka adjusted his strategy and set his sights on a three-masted Carrak, but the ship was so powerful that Lukka refused to let Nora and Daniel destroy the hull, so the Silent Death could only circle it and fire grapeshotpie bullets that were largely undamaging to the hull.
It took more than two hours for Lukka to find the right moment and freeze the last of his opponent's artillery.
Even if the hail technique caused a large number of opponents to lose a lot of troops in advance, the number of pirates on this three-masted ship was really quite large, and when all the enemies were subdued, even Ollie took off his helmet and gasped for a long time, and Lukka was even more at the bottom of the magic pool. At the end of the count, the ship was full of 120 pirates!
Having driven all the surviving pirates onto the sampan, Lukka clasped the fir mainmast with his hand, and he was pleased with the largely intact ship.
Not only the ship itself, but also the cargo is quite good, not to mention that the captain's room has a large box full of silver coins. Luka hasn't been so proud since he started his heist career.
Towing the ship behind the Silent Death, the cargo was carried back into the cabin, and he immediately divided the silver coins. According to the previous agreement, the other people divided fifty percent equally, Ollie added an additional one, and Luca took forty percent.
In the captain's room, Lukka held the pile of silver coins, and the pupils of his eyes almost turned into the shape of $.$, and he couldn't help himself until Daniel interrupted his intimate date with Little Money.
The ghost finally took on the appearance of some lieutenants, walked in with a list of goods and asked, "Captain, what to do with these goods?"
Oh yes, sell the stolen goods! Lukka had to face that problem again.
The Golden Tooth road, to be honest, he really didn't want to go anymore. What the fat man said before was not a lie, and the little business he was hiding in Twilight Town was probably going to be difficult to swallow Luca's growing cargo. And even if he could swallow it, the price would be blacker than coke.
Besides, Twilight Island is the commercial town of the June Alliance after all, not only the strength of the guards, but also the navy patrols the neighborhood all year round, with Luca's ability, it is not a problem to sneak in once or twice, but it is difficult to guarantee that he will not be targeted if there are too many times, so this option was completely crossed out by Lukka from the optional range.
"Is there a problem with selling these as ordinary goods or not for Leon?" Luca has a trade license.
Daniel checked the list and replied, "Most of them are fine, and there won't be any flaws if you repackage them." ”
"Is there a problem with that small part?" Lukka only cared about the problematic part.
"Yes, there is a box of porcelain in the goods, and the decorative pattern on it is the official emblem of the June Alliance, which should be specially customized by the Alliance government, and there is no circulation on the market at all. Daniel replied.
Luca thought for a moment: "A total of sixty-four boxes of goods, one box is not easy to sell, I can accept this ratio." I'll leave it to Leon to sell. ”
This decision was made, so the question came: so many goods, you can't use Sunset Express to mail Leon over, right? After all, they are a courier company, and they don't accept large-scale logistics.
Crete gave Luca an idea: he could go back to Saila Island and rent a private warehouse, which was also the Sunset Express business, with double insurance for passwords and keys. Luca: They load the goods in, and Leon just picks them up every once in a while.
"That's a good idea," Lukka patted Crete on the shoulder, "but the warehouse isn't cheap, is it?"
"It's better than the gold teeth are blackened. Ollie agrees with the idea, "And the shipyard in Huifan Harbor can directly recycle the whole ship, and we always drag these things to run at sea." ”
"It's okay, anyway, we'll just scrape the money out of the black sails. Lukka decided, "I don't know if the bear child is still there, I still have the note." ”
More than 20 days later, Luca returned to Huifan Harbor.
This time, the Silent Death did not stop in the open sea, but swaggered directly into the port. Anyway, this is a neutral area, and this time there are too many cargoes, and it is not practical to use the Peregrine Falcon to carry it one trip at a time, so Lukka simply let the giant ship appear directly in Huifan Harbor.
"Hey, you still don't charge berthing fees?" Lukka reached out and patted the stunned dockmaster.
"Yes, of course!" the dock warden finally came back to his senses and checked the charge in his hand, "The B-class ship is berthed for 12 silver coins a day, and the A-class ship is 30 silver coins, your ship is bigger than the A-class, right? I have to ask for instructions on how much to charge." ”
Luca shook his head, and then the port officer who arrived finally gave a solution: add an S-class on top of the A class, and the berthing fee would be 50 silver coins per day, or 1800 per month.
"That's not right, why is it expensive to stop for a long time?" Lukka cried out in dissatisfaction.
The port officer pointed to the dock helplessly: "Our other businesses have run away!"
Only then did Lukka discover that the Black Sail Pirate Ships of the entire neutral island, from the moment the Silent Death entered the port, had all sailed away as fast as they could, and they could run as far as they could.