Chapter 213: Where Is Your Ship?
The next day, Lukka still couldn't shake off the mountain of reports of the war. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The crew gathered in the Lord's study, which was also a habit developed on the Silent Death, and everyone used this study as a rest room on the ship, with the same comfortable sofas, and the only inconvenience was that there was no stove for boiling water to make tea and coffee. However, as long as you open the door and say a few words to the corridor, the servants of the station will bring you food and drink, which perfectly solves this regret.
While Lukka was staring at the location of several powder magazines in the Brohn Empire, Daniel pushed the door open.
Today, he's a little late. He looked around the room and saw that there were only two other than the crew, Kate and Leon, and that Phil and Lind were not here, but were setting up the equipment in the laboratory upstairs. To Daniel's concern, Gray wasn't there either.
He nodded in satisfaction, walked over to Luca and said, "That spy is not the best, I thought about it all night yesterday and had a question. ”
"What's the doubt?" Lukka asked, looking up.
"We've got him on the side with all these plans, especially those related to the June Alliance, aren't you afraid he'll get the word out?" Daniel asked, pressing his hands on the table.
Ollie was also reminded by him, and then said: "Yes, even if he can't get in touch with the Alliance Navy now, as long as he writes a letter to Sunset Express and publishes a statement in their daily newspaper, our plans will soon be exposed?"
Lukka laughed: "Even if he doesn't go, Taylor knows what I'm going to do." ”
"Then why?"
"This letter was sent last night," Lukka pointed to an envelope on the table, "the letter was sent after the start of the war, but it was still the same as before, and there was no mention of the war at all." ”
"He didn't ask you for help?" Daniel asked, surprised.
Lukka shook his head: "No. Taylor is a smart man, and he certainly can judge our position and will not make such a request that would surely be denied. ”
With that, he handed the letter to the nearest Daniel and motioned for everyone to circulate it.
"Then what is he sending this letter for?
Kate also finished reading the letter, thought for a moment and said, "You see the time on the letter, it happens to be the second day of the war. At such times, Taylor wrote this letter, presumably to tell us that he had known that we would not help him, but hoped that we would not fall on the side of the Empire. And he seems pretty sure about that. ”
"How do you see so much of a piece of paper full of nonsense, if you want me to say, he's just bored!" Thea lay on the couch, didn't even bother to lift her upper body, and reached out and handed the letter she had just finished reading to Nora next to her.
"Taylor probably wasn't that idle. Lukka laughed and said, "What he meant, I think it's what Kate said, tell me: I know you're going to do it." ”
There was a knock on the door, followed by the voice of the resident servant: "Lord Lord, Captain Haken asks to see you." ”
"The butcher, please let him in. Luca said.
A few minutes later, Haken walked into the study.
"Captain Haken, it's just in time, I was looking for you just now, please sit down and talk. Lukka said, pointing to the chair opposite.
"Captain Lester, you're so polite, just call me Argus. Haken glanced at the row of chairs and chose the one furthest away from Daniel and Ollie, his wrists and back still hurting.
"I'm here to deliver the list of merchant cargo coming in and out of port this week. Before the fat man could sit down, he stood up again, and handed Luca a roll of parchment that he had been holding in his hand.
Lukka looked at the list and said, "Sit, I have something to ask you." ”
Haken threw himself back into the chair.
After reading it, Luca handed the list to Kate, and said to Thea on the sofa: "Don't be lazy, you can also look at the numbers on it, and if you count it, you can file it." ”
"Oh. Reluctantly, Thea got up from the couch and leaned over to Kate's side to check it out.
"Captain Hakon," Lukka said, turning around, "where has your ship gone?"
"This ......" Haken didn't expect Luca to ask so directly, so he had to answer directly: "Sinking!"
"Why did it sink? I remember your ship was pretty sturdy!"
Haken hung his head and said: "Don't mention it, didn't I go to trouble the Imperial Navy in the original strength test? Those ships are really not easy to deal with, and my ship came back with a lot of injuries at that time." ”
"Although I found someone to repair it, I carelessly did not tow the whole ship to the shore for maintenance, but I did not expect that at that time, the keel of the ship was already damaged, and I drove her around with Captain Emmondson's boat for nearly a month," he pointed to Leon, and wiped his sweat, "When I came back, I happened to encounter a crosswind, so I ...... Fortunately, she was near Tata Island at the time, and everyone on the boat was rescued. ”
"You really need a better boat carpenter. Daniel said.
"Then why don't you buy a boat again?" Lukka asked, knowing that on Tata Island, unless you are a senator, no ship is necessarily dwarfed.
"I want to, too, but I can't afford a big boat, and I can't afford a small boat. After a week's delay, my sailors couldn't stay any longer, and they all found their own way out, and I really don't know what I would have done if it hadn't been for the opportunity that Ms. Kate had offered me this opportunity on the docks. Haken replied.
"And if you have a three-masted warship now, how long will it take to reassemble the sailors?"
"It's fast, and my first mate and boatswain won't want to carry boxes on the docks all the time!"
After saying this, Haken jumped up from his chair in hindsight: "Ahhh
"Not for you, but for you. "Of course Luca wouldn't be so generous.
"But I don't have that much money right now. Haken was deflated again.
"You pay 30% of the money for buying a boat, and the rest can be paid in installments, and you can take out one-tenth of the balance every month, and pay it for a year in a row, and the extra two months will be used as interest. "Luca's condition is actually quite dark.
But Haken doesn't have much choice right now, as long as there is a ship stronger than anything else.
"The ship needs to be given to you in a few days, remember to find a better carpenter this time!" Lukka instructed Haken himself as he left.
"How do you have a ship?" asked Ollie, who would have almost thought Lukka was going to sell the Peregrine Falcon if it hadn't been for Luca's clarification that it was a three-masted warship that he was selling to Hakon.
"Not yet, let's go grab one. Luca said.