Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Ship in Disguise and the Intruder in Disguise
At first, the fireworks show didn't go unnoticed by Luca. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Although he was confident in the strength of his crew, there had never been a situation where he had lost contact for so long since the three men came on board.
Having a conflict with the Black Sails, and being discovered by the Alliance Navy, Luca listed one possibility after another in his mind, and ruled out one by one, completely ignoring the fireworks in the sky and the chatter of the crowd on the docks:
"Am you mistaken? This year's fireworks are not quite right!"
"Isn't it supposed to be 'Celebrating the opening of the Glacier Carnival'?"
"What's this 'Luca XXXX' thing?"
It wasn't until his name floated into his ears that Lukka jerked his head up.
Lucca: 9M4CSD
This sentence is completely incomprehensible in the eyes of onlookers, and the reason is mainly on the 9M4CSD in the back.
The Sunset Islands' writing is very different from the earth and the wizarding world, and although Lukka didn't encounter communication barriers, he still misses his original voice, and wants to recite two lines of poetry or something. However, his native language is "the most difficult language in the world" to master, and no one on board has ever succeeded in writing it, even with all his efforts.
His efforts were not all fruitless, the numbers and pinyin were not so difficult to remember, and Crete even helped him figure out a set of code words using this symbol. The combination of numbers and English, which Lukka had thought was nothing more than a boring play on words, actually came in handy.
9M: Pier 9.
4C: 4th ship.
The SD Luca in the back didn't understand what it meant, but with a specific location, just look for it.
As for how to get this string of handwriting on the fireworks? Crete was originally a master of transforming this kind of thing, and the fifty smoke bombs of the bear child could be done before, not to mention that these fireworks used in the celebration were originally combined sentences, from "celebrating the opening of the glacier carnival" to such a string of secret words, but it was just to disassemble the shell of the fireworks and let the materials inside move a little.
Of course, the easier said is only for Crete, and if Luca were to get it, he would probably only blow up the entire fireworks arsenal into the sky.
Daniel was to rest on the Silent Death until the next morning, when Lukka locked the door to the Peregrine Falcon's captain's quarters and walked to the docks with a source of mana in his pocket.
The walnut box wasn't too big, and it was a bit of a fuss in the pocket of the garment. However, Lukka could only put it in his pocket now, he did not dare to leave it on the unguarded ship, nor could he immediately absorb the magic inside.
Shut up, no textbooks, hours of meditation were too dangerous, and most importantly, he couldn't calm down now that his crew was missing.
The port of Layton Harbour faces east, while Pier 9 is at the southernmost corner.
It's the farthest pier from the main square of the port, and it's now one of the quietest places in Layton Harbour, and most of the crew members of the boats also follow the parade of floats to enjoy the carnival atmosphere, except for the fixed lights on the narrow trestle, there is no movement of the boats moored here.
Counting from the direction close to the shore, the fourth boat.
After more than a month of wandering at sea, Lukka now has some basic understanding of the class of ships in this world. The ship as a whole is not very large, it is a D-class brig. The flags on the ship and the signs on the trestle are on the surface, this is an ordinary merchant ship. But Lukka clearly sensed that something was wrong with the ship.
In order to increase the cargo capacity of ordinary merchant ships, most of the hulls are relatively wide. But this ship is long and narrow as a whole, and the draft is very shallow, and it looks a little similar to the light cruiser used for pursuit warfare, and it is clearly a pirate ship disguised as a merchant ship!
Not to mention, on the bow of this ship, the bust of the vicious dog with teeth and claws hanging, how could it be the bow of a merchant ship?
The name of the ship written on the side of the Sea Dog is a good match for this ship, and it seems that the SD in that code word refers to this?
The message left by Crete was very clear that it pointed to the ship, and it was definitely necessary to go up and check it out. But with such a swagger of a man on a ship with what appeared to be black sails, Lukka felt that he hadn't lived enough.
After weighing that he was not full in the first place, and that he had consumed a lot of mana pool in the Knight's Temple, Lukka felt not very optimistic.
He cast two disguises (level 1) in the morning, another miniature fireball (level 1) and one stealth (level 2) in the afternoon, and now his mana pool has consumed more than half, and he can use up to one more level 2 spell, two or three level 1 spells, and this little bit of magic power is still what he has accumulated for a whole month.
In this case, it would be too extravagant to use invisibility again, and Lukka grabbed the Amethyst Staff and cast a disguise spell on himself.
With greasy hair, a dirty face, and a red rosacea, he now looked like a drunken sailor who had drunk too much in the tavern and had been kicked out.
With this appearance, Lukka did a good job, carrying a half-empty rum bottle (an amethyst staff illusion) in his hand, and walked onto the brig step by step.
Even if the man with the black sail is on the ship, he will probably think that it is just a drunken sailor, and there are at least dozens of people on a pirate ship, and almost every ship is indispensable to such low-level sailors who hardly attract attention, and the possibility of being detected is very small. If it is really discovered, it will be too late to use invisibility to escape.
Walking around the deck, Lukka couldn't tell whether he was disappointed or glad that such a good disguise was completely flattering to the blind, and the ship really seemed to be empty.
You're not going to the carnival, are you?
Lukka didn't believe that the Black Sail Pirates would have this kind of leisure, and he planned to inspect the ship thoroughly. Putting the amethyst staff disguised as an empty wine bottle back into the leather bag hanging from his belt, he reached for an oil lamp from the deck and lit it.
The ship had two decks, the upper and lower decks, and the wooden door that led to the lower deck was unlocked, and Lukka pushed open the half-hidden door and walked inside.
The lower deck remained empty. It seems that the sailing habits of these pirates are really not very good, and the cargo boxes on this level are stacked in a mess, and the powder kegs and ammunition are also crowded together.
Lukka stood near the hatch and looked inside, and several barrels at the end of the passage caught his attention. The barrel is not only clearly marked with the emblem of the Empire, but also painted with a pattern of three-color crystals clustered together, which is highly consistent with the poison "pansy" that Shut Mouth said before.
He checked again to make sure there didn't seem to be any sign of pirates around him, and then walked over, ready to take a closer look at the barrels of poison, if only he could sneak them away.
Who knew that the next moment, Luca's right ankle suddenly tightened, and then the whole person was hung upside down by his head and feet!