Luca's original plan was to set up some magic circles in advance at the agreed location, and then use the magic item crafting techniques he had just learned to make some weapons with offensive power, such as magic bombs and the like. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Coupled with the illusion magic that he is best at, he should be able to use the same tactics as this raid on Gravel Island: use the Silent Death as a guise and sneak up on the Peregrine Falcon to perform a clean decapitation operation.

As long as Edward Hugh is killed, even if the Black Sails Group is not disbanded on the spot, it will be chaotic for at least a year and a half, and then it will be much more convenient to continue to rob or break through each other, or even directly raid Tata Island.

However, this little negligence disrupted all his plans, and the Silent Reaper had to return to port to resupply, after all, there was no one on board except Daniel who could not eat or drink. Fortunately, there was still a little stock on the Peregrine Falcon, although it was not much, and it was barely enough for them to make it back to Sail Harbor.

If you can run into one or two black sails, it won't be so much trouble to grab some supplies. For more than ten days on his way to Huifan Harbor, Lukka stood almost always on the deck, holding a telescope and looking around, hoping that such a short-sighted pirate ship would appear in his field of vision.

Reality disappointed him. It was as if the pirates of the Black Sails had completely disappeared from this sea, and not only at sea, but also at Huifan Harbor could not be seen.

So, where did they go?

By this time, most of the Blacksail Corsairs had already returned to their home ports. The islands occupied by Blacksail are centered around the town of Rotten Sail on Tata Island, and dozens of outlaws that are not under the jurisdiction of the Alliance or the Empire. Almost within a week, all of the ships had received orders from Edward Hugh via Sunset Express, and the pirate leader was determined to do so this time by mobilizing all the pirate ships.

Of course, not all ships could be used as warships, Lukka had robbed a transport ship carrying stone before, and there were several ships in the Blacksail fleet that looked like small fishing boats.

These ships are not combat-ready, but they are still qualified to transport things. Edward Hugh had another consideration for letting them all return to Hong Kong: the war was imminent, and his secret weapon was being prepared in full swing, and if any of the fools were caught by Lukka and leaked the news, the secret weapon would not be called "secret".

At the same time that Lukka arrived at the port of return sails, Edward Hugh received the first shipment of secret weapons on Tata Island.

A few pirates cautiously carried a box into the storeroom, and without daring to breathe, they slowly put the box on the ground.

Edward Hugh walked over and opened the lid of the crate with the same care. The huge wooden box was stuffed with cushions such as cotton, and a glass bottle was placed in the middle, and the yellowish grease liquid was quietly dormant in the bottle, making people completely unimaginable how terrible it was.

Edward Hugh looked at the bottle and asked a young man next to him, "Bane, is this what you're talking about?"

The man looked to be in his early twenties, his face was pale, and his fingers were stained with ink, completely different from the style of the pirates around him. In fact, he is indeed not a member of Black Sails, and the imperial insignia embroidered on his clothes indicates his identity.

Bain Soban nodded and replied, "Yes, this is the latest achievement of our laboratory, you must be careful when transporting it, as it will explode if you drop it slightly." ”

"Do you still have to say that?" snorted Edward Hugh, a new weapon known as nitroglycerin, which had already cost him four or five transports in a matter of days. But really, this thing is not as powerful as the original black powder, and a small bottle can make a big hole in a medium-sized ship.

Fortunately, the previous advice from this guy from the Imperial Lab had some effect, and no matter how much cargo each ship could hold, it would not carry more than ten bottles of such things. Even if there are always some careless fools, after seeing what happened to them, the pirates who transport this thing are much more cautious.

Sorban re-stuffed the cushioning in the box, closed the lid, took out a roll of drawings from his backpack, spread it out on the table in front of Edward Hugh, and explained:

"This kind of thing, which we now call 'mines', has two shells, and between the two layers is a buffer layer. Put nitroglycerin on the inner layer, wait for it to be placed on the water, remove the buffer between them, and when the time comes, as long as the enemy ship touches it lightly, it will be blown up by such a small thing. ”

Edward Hugh nodded and said, "I've seen you demonstrate this, but I'd like you to improve it a little bit this time. ”

Soban frowned, as if he was a little reluctant: "This is already a perfect model!"

"It's good to deal with boats on the water. Edward Hugh pointed to his feet and said, "But what if the enemy I'm dealing with is under the water?"

"Underwater, are you going whaling?" Soban couldn't comprehend the pirate leader's thought circuit.

"Whatever you do, can you do it?" Edward Hugh was not going to explain too much, the other party was just an engineer, and even if the Imperial Navy came, he didn't necessarily have to tell the whole story.

Soban lowered his head and thought for a while, then replied: "It's not a big problem, add a weight underneath and connect it with a chain, you can levitate below the surface of the sea, as long as you adjust the length of the chain, you can make it float wherever you want." ”

"Okay, give you ten days. Edward Hugh pointed out the window of the storehouse, where there was a newly built building not far away, "Craftsmen, materials, and slaves are all you can choose, and I only need you to make me three thousand of these 'mines' within ten days!"

Ten days is not a long time, but all Soban needs to do is put a tail on the shell, and he doesn't need to use the knife on the original design, so it is not very difficult.

During these 10 days, ships continued to come to transport away a batch of prepared mines and place them near the agreed battlefield. Edward Hugh had his navigator draw a map of the currents there, marking the best places to place them.

Perhaps the pirates were much more cautious, and for half a month, less than ten ships were sunk in the process of transporting such things, and the mines placed were also sleeping quietly under the water, except for one or two large animals such as whales that triggered the explosion, the others were all waiting in that nameless sea.

This was only the pirate leader's first card, and with less than a week to go, he finally received a long-awaited letter.

It was a letterhead stamped with the seal of the Imperial Navy, and the whole bunch of greetings characteristic of official letterheads, the real content of which was only one sentence:

The transaction is ready to be received.