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"'Emperor Cleon' has finally arrived. ”

"Are you in control?"

"Everything is under control. The plans arranged in the New World have been thwarted by the other side, and this time it will definitely succeed. ”

"The Lord must not be allowed to set foot on land. All those who can reconcile the contradictions must die. The issue of Duke Soma's inheritance must be brought to the table. ”

"If you want to rely on a puppet to lure the beacon fire to the south, there will be no such wishful thing in the world. ”

As the Eastern proverb goes, even if a person is not sinful, as long as he carries expensive gems, he is guilty. ”

While Anne Seiffel was fighting on deck, her sister was preparing lunch in the kitchen.

Since Bonnie started learning to cook, the food on board has changed dramatically, dramatically, dramatically.

Lesa does still go to the kitchen, but her interest has changed from "disrupting the cooks' work" to "instructing Slave B to cook". The most amazing thing is that even if the cooking process is carried out exactly according to the instructions of the alchemist, as long as it is Bonnie Sefir who is in charge, the food will always stay within the scope of "delicious". In a way, it can also be said that she saved the ship from the brink of the sailors' rebellion.

Now, even though she is still a slave of an alchemist, no one will disobey her in any way. The quiet girl who saved everyone's stomach has become an idol on the ship.

As usual, Bonnie was still wearing that sexy tight leather armor, standing next to the soup pot, stirring the soup for lunch with a large spoon.

The soup is made up of dried vegetables with salt, bacon, pepper and saltolives for seasoning. The materials are not complicated or rare, but the heat is mastered greatly. The aroma wafts out from the huge iron pot, causing the appetite to move.

"Good, that's it. She put down the spoon, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and withdrew some coal.

In the earliest ocean-going vessels, it was not possible to catch fire. Fortunately, coal stoves are now available, which greatly reduces the mortality rate of navigation.

"It's getting hot when we get to Emerald Bay...... girl tugging at her neckline, letting fresh air into the cracks in her clothes.

"Oh, the aroma is great today, too! You can make good porridge with just one spice, and you can travel the whole world with this hand, Bonnie." ”

Bonnie turned her head and realized that it was the head chef who had followed the scent. The head chef is a human in his mid-forties who claims to have been a chef for 20 years — a caution about this. Generally speaking, a chef with 20 years of experience should not be discouraged from coming to sea.

"Thank you for the compliment. The brown-haired girl bowed slightly and replied. She was always very respectful and low-key.

"Your progress is amazing. To be honest, I can't believe you made those meals the other day. The head chef scooped a spoonful of soup from the pot and tasted it, letting out a "tsk" of praise. "With your current technology, if you are the daughter of a famous restaurant in the metropolis, everyone will believe it. ”

"Joked, if I'm the daughter of the restaurant, what about my sister?"

"Uh...... Makes sense. Annie, isn't she?" the head chef smiled reassuringly, looking around. "So how did you develop such a good technique?"

"My sister is not good at cooking, but she is picky when she eats. "However, since we were separated for a while, the technology was rusty. finally decided to go to the New World together, but encountered a shipwreck. ”

"Lost all your possessions in that shipwreck, isn't it? People who go to the New World are always like that, so the pirates are especially fond of passenger and merchant ships sailing in the open seas. The head chef put down the spoon and pulled over the stool to sit down. "It's good that you didn't encounter a slave ship or a pirate ship, nor did they rescue you, otherwise a young girl like you would be in danger. You're in luck, too. ”

The girl pursed her lips and replied, "I am still a slave, how can I say that I am lucky?"

"It's really a big lady who doesn't know the dangers of the world. To tell you the truth, your hostess is a little more irritable and stiff in her way of doing things, but she is still very good in other aspects......" At this point, the head chef couldn't help but look around again, making sure that the alchemist was indeed not nearby before continuing. “...... Of course, as far as a woman is concerned, she cannot be regarded as a good woman, but as far as the master is concerned, she is a good master who protects her shortcomings. If it was for the man to be rescued, you would be miserable by now. ”

"However, even if it's not Miss Lessa, it's the other soldiers on this ship, so it shouldn't be a big deal, right? Bonnie smiled, seemingly unimpressed.

Seeing her ignorant and sinister appearance, the chef continued: "Soldiers? Soldiers can be trusted? Most of the sailors and sailors on this ship are gangsters. The navy is much more dangerous than the army, and low-ranking sailors have almost no chance of promotion. Died in a naval battle, and a pension will not be given above. On weekdays, I don't have the opportunity to see women...... It's been a pack of hungry wolves for a long time. ”

"That's a bit of an exaggeration to describe them, uncle? I think they're all very polite and exemplary soldiers. ”

The head chef shook his head: "They're all rough people, but because you're there, they're pretending to be polite." When you leave the ship, you will know their true colors, there will be a lot of love letters waiting for you, and those literate guys have been making crazy money for the past two days. By the way, do you know how to read?"

"Recognize a few. ”

"Well, after reading those so-called love letters, you will definitely blush. However, you don't have to worry too much about it, it's just their delusion about the lover of their dreams. The biggest dream of these young people is to marry a perfect girl who is quiet, innocent, honest, and capable like you...... Of course, they also know very well that it is just delusional and will not be taken seriously. ”

"You're overrated...... Actually, I'm not that good. For some reason, when she heard the comment of "quiet, innocent, honest, and competent", Bonnie quietly lowered her head.

She stood up evasively, walked over to the cauldron, and found that the soup had begun to tumble. "The soup is ready, can we serve the meal?"

"Forget it, don't irritate the young people anymore. Do you want to collect more love poems?" the head chef pointed to the several cast-iron boxes on the table that were already filled with food, which he had brought with him early in the morning. "It's better for you to bring your sister and master's food over, you don't have to be busy here. ”

"Thank you. Well, Bonnie Seiffel quit. ”

The girl bowed politely and walked out.

Bonnie walked slowly along the walkway on the side of the deck, as close as she could, to let the sailors who had heard the lunch bell rush to assemble past her.

"Bonnie, is it time to eat?" her sister heard her footsteps and poked her head out of Rysa's room.

"Well, the food is a little better today, and the chef plans to use up all the food reserves, and the cured meat in the main course today is about three times as much as usual. There are also some vegetables, and the radishes grown in the bottom pit are finally willing to eat. Chatting with her sister, Bonnie walked into the room with her lunch box.

The alchemist's room was slightly cleaner than usual - and only slightly, still messy in nature.

The owner of the room was sitting at his desk, illuminating the work table in front of him by a lighting magic. There was a lot of gold on the table, divided into many small pieces scattered around. With a magnifying glass in her left eye and tools made of silver in her hands, Lesa carefully carved the gold-rich alloys into intricate parts and gears, and poured magic potions on them to harden each one. The greatest advantage of gold is that it resembles tin, which can be precision machined with very simple tools, and it has a high magic guide rate, which can complete very complex magical operations.

"I still just need to eat a little, eating too much is not good for my body. Lesa didn't look back, just raised her left hand and pointed to the table. "It's good to put it here, I'll eat it when I have time. ”

"Then I'll leave it here. Even though you'll be on the shore in less than two days, you might as well eat some. ”

"Uh-huh. Lesa snorted twice in reply, not knowing whether to agree or disagree. What is certain is that she is also fully immersed in her research. Bonnie sighed lightly and gently put down the cast-iron lunch box. There were a few pieces of paper full of words on the table next to her, and she picked them up and looked at them, and found that they were the structural design drawings of the golem's leg cannon, and the data from the previous tests.

"It's amazing to design something like this under these conditions......" she couldn't help but admire.

"Oh, do you know the words?" the alchemist asked, hearing her admiration. "Can you read my blueprints?"

"I can barely read the account books, and my family used to be a businessman. Bonnie replied cautiously.

"Do you keep accounts?" Lesa snapped to a halt to what she was doing and turned her head. "Do you really know how to keep accounts?"

"Yes, a little......" The brown-haired girl was startled and stammered.

"Great!" the alchemist pulled open the drawer and pulled out a black chest. "I've been looking for an accountant for a long time! I'll leave these things to you, Bonnie!

"But I haven't had a demerit for a long time, and I don't have much confidence ......"

"It's okay, I believe in your abilities!" Lesa said in a tone that she couldn't refuse.

Bonnie smiled helplessly and opened the not very large but heavy box.

The chest was divided into four compartments, three of which were filled with gold and platinum coins, or tens of thousands, and the last compartment was filled with scraps of paper filled with numbers that looked like stocks, money orders, and the like.

She was a little frightened by the amount of money, and she was stunned for a moment before she spoke: "This, this is too much." You just kept all these gold and silver coins for me, and you didn't worry about it at all?"

"Why should I worry? We're already our own, aren't we? If you need it, just take a little. If you don't need it, you won't take it, will you?"

Although Raisa's tone was still very flat, Bonnie still felt a burst of sincerity and warmth from these words.

"Thank you for your trust, I will do my best!"

She opened the box again and began to examine the securities inside. She picked up one with the words "I owe the Rams Brothers Bank 500 gold marks for a period of three years at an annual interest rate of 8 percent." She flipped through another one, which meant the same thing.

"All, all IOUs?"

"So it's a headache. Someone keeps accounts, and it is much more convenient to calculate...... I can finally pay it all off this time. The alchemist's expression was as cold as ever, and there was some sigh in her tone. The sight of these IOUs reminded her of her youth—although, not so long ago.

"Master, have you mortgaged the entire Helmont family?" Bonnie couldn't help but look at the IOUs. "The Helmont family back then should have been a great nobleman of Soma. ”

"My father was also a former royal alchemist. Cavendy Baron Helmont, but you probably won't hear of it. "But now...... Lesa shook her head. As much as you can redeem, count as much. Those properties have been mortgaged at least twice. One can leave the past behind, but one cannot leave behind the debts left by the past. "When we get to Soma, I can show you the old site of the family. ”

"Principality of Soma...... Is there no problem?" Bonnie looked a little apprehensive when she heard that she was going to Soma. "Before we left the mainland, we seemed to hear that the situation in the Principality of Soma was unstable......"

"The situation is unstable?" Lesa clapped her hands and said excitedly, "That old and immortal duke is finally not good, right? is about to ascend to heaven? That guy caused our family to go bankrupt, and he deserves it!"

Bonnie smacked her tongue secretly: based on what she had just seen and heard, she felt that as long as this lady was in charge, the family would definitely go bankrupt.

"Well, I heard that it's dying, and the heir issue has stumped the entire continent. ”

"When we get ashore, if the old guy is really dead, we'll go and celebrate...... But did I tell you I was from a Soma nobleman?" Lesa suddenly remembered another question.

"Didn't you tell us when we first met and introduced each other?" asked Bonnie, stunned for a moment, with a surprised look on her face.

"Oh, I guess so. I'm really old, and I don't have a good memory......" Lesa thought about it, as if there was such a thing, so she picked up the parts again and threw herself into the work. "You can take the box and finish it for me before you go ashore, can you do it?"

Looking at the IOUs that were complicated to calculate, with unclear terms, and almost all of them were overdue or lucrative, Bonnie vaguely felt as if she had been deceived. Two days...... Oh, my God.

While Bonnie Seiffel was busy calculating her debts under the dim oil lamp, her sister was at the top of the boat, enjoying the bright sunshine.

The "Emperor Cleon" was a three-masted full-beam schooner. As the name suggests, it has three mainmasts, and the foresail, mainsail, and aftersail are all sails. At the top of each main mast, there is a small lookout platform – on the one hand, for lookouts, and on the other hand, to facilitate the maintenance of the high sail lines. However, there is usually only one lookout on duty.

"It's so comfortable...... It's best to do some exercise after eating. ”

Grabbing a sail rope as a safety rope and tying a rope loop around her waist, Anne lay on the low parapet overlooking the nearby sea. At this height, the coastline to the north can be faintly seen, which is supposed to be the green land owned by the spirits of the Holy Forest. The coastline of Emerald Bay stretches lazily from west to east and then slowly winds south, leaving a warm and humid climate band on the west coast of the Old World. From here, the damp sea breeze blew northwestward, rendezvous with the hot winds from Interre, and moistened the whole of South Saint-Sen and the Republic of Italy—and also moistened her delicate skin and blonde hair.

With a faint southwesterly wind, she could see the sailboat drifting unhurriedly. Unlike solitary solitary sailing on the endless oceans, ships and seabirds can often be spotted on the surface of the Emerald Bay.

Dotted with white sails in the turquoise waters, they skimmed the side of the great ship from time to time, and among them there were a few galleys and small sailboats suitable for offshore sailing, but most of them were small sails with one or two sails. However, the blonde girl had no interest in these boats, and she did not come here for sightseeing or sightseeing.

"Ah, sleeping here, no one will disturb you, I really didn't expect someone to step on it when I hid in the rope pile......"

Unbeknownst to him, as soon as he lay down, the direction of the wind suddenly changed. The angle of inclination of the hull changed a little - this little tilt turned into a rather huge shaking when it reached the top of the mast. She couldn't keep her balance and leaned over, but luckily she had a safety rope around her waist so she didn't fall off the top of the mast.

Anne's face turned red, knowing that she still had no experience of life at sea after all.

"Let's go down......"

Unbeknownst to her, as soon as she had the idea of going down, the boat shook violently.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom!"

A loud noise echoed all around, and three or four columns of water were instantly stirred up on the surface of the sea near the hull of the ship—the spray caused by some solid discharging liquid. Anne was thrown off the mast by the shaking centrifugal force, and she clung to the life-saving rope and looked out to the sea below and near with trepidation.

Not far away in the ocean, three ships were stayed. All three ships were sailboats, forming a very strange situation: one was parked, the other two were half-sailed, and the sails of both ships were painted black. The one parked was a relatively large three-masted flat-bottomed galleon, topped with an elven blue and green flag, and the other two were medium-sized galleons with two masts, and of a similar style, with only a dozen guns.

"—it's shelling!"

There can only be such an answer. Anne tried to look at the ship opposite—all she could make out was that the shell was fired from the ship that was closest to them, that is, from the ship closest to them. The sailboats were topped with a striking white cross flag on a green background, and there seemed to be a row of small signal flags hanging below the flag, but the girl didn't quite understand what it meant.

But she knew one thing: it was never a friendly sign.

You have to find a way to go down, but it's too dangerous to take the soft ladder right now...... She glanced at the cable beside her, which was connected from the central mast.

A happy smile appeared on Anne's face: this action seems to be very handsome.

"Deterred fire!

"Urgent, stop the ship, otherwise, there will be an attack!"

Hearing the report of the other party's flag from the Lookout through the microphone, Baron Ferron Letonsti did not show a look of surprise on his face.

Is it just a pure coincidence? or ......

Countless possibilities swirled in his mind. First of all, you must determine the identity of the coming ship.

"Has our camouflage been spotted?

"The green background is the Interre, the land of the two islands. Crosssail brigs, two 'Brig'. The first mate picked up the binoculars and looked into the distance through the porthole. "I seem to have an impression of that flag. Ah, come to think of it, it's a big pirate in the open sea...... Stichus fleet!"

"What Stichhaus fleet...... He was used to being domineering in the South China Sea, thinking that with two small ships of that level would be able to challenge the Shengsen Navy, there were still a few in the open sea......" Ferron pursed his lips disdainfully, and glanced at the half-elves standing beside him, "It's a pity, this kind of enemy, I'm afraid I won't have a chance to let your elite subordinates put on a show." ”

"If that's the best—but if the Marines are to be used, we won't let your Excellency down. Leonard politely replied with a soft nail.

"That's probably not going to happen. The captain waved his hand and gave the order loudly. "The flag is replied as it is! The whole cannon door is open! Full sails, full rudder left rudder!"

"Reply as is...... What do you want, Your Excellency?" asked the first mate.

"Urgently, stop the ship, otherwise, there will be an attack. Hang these four flags. Also, it's time to raise our own flag. ”

"Flag-raising, glorious Cross Trident!"

The maiden battle of the anti-privateer Emperor Cleon of the St. Sen's Far Sea Fleet began.

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