Steel coins and dirt are two important materials that are the general equivalent of the Ring Base: steel coins can be used to craft weapons and tools, and dirt can be used to grow plants and provide the rafters with nutrients that are not found in their catch.

With Kos, a local resident, as his guide, Quest quickly found the Ring Base's merchant hall, where he had to procure supplies and temporarily join the base in order to disguise himself as a wandering captain.

"Zhanyuan," the young blue dragon gave a temporary name to the registration officer, and he continued: "My name is Quisi, and I want to apply to temporarily join the ring base and participate in the landing transaction in the near future. ”

The registrar took out a small wooden badge from his side, pulled the handle of an instrument beside him, and the grinding stone inside the instrument immediately turned rapidly, erasing the handwriting that had been engraved on the badge in three or two clicks.

After re-inscribed the message that Quis had said, he handed over the new badge. "Don't get into trouble by yourself when you live in the ring base, or you may be killed by the escort team. In addition, you need to pay 10 steel coins in advance, and after the transaction is completed, you will have to pay 10% of the transaction proceeds to the base. ”

Of course, there are no steel coins, but a Medigric copper Deben with the pattern erased can be replaced. After completing the formalities, Kos led him to a counter and led him to buy supplies.

The counter is not large, but there is a wide variety of goods on it, and there is no shortage of variety:

Sea salt, all kinds of pickled seafood, fresh water distilled, linen cables for boats, sails made of palm fiber, wood for repairing boats, and bulk fish gelatin that can be used by reheating......

Among them, the most expensive commodities are plants planted in wooden pots, some of which have already borne fruit. Judging from the shape of its branches and leaves, Quiss can tell that most of these potted plants should be lemons.

"These are the plants that Grandma Ursula has brought back," Kos enthusiastically introduced the young blue dragon, and persuaded him, "I still have a small pot of lemon trees at home, but the fruit does not grow as well as here." When you leave, I can give you a few branches and leaves, just planted on the boat, and the survival rate is not as high as the whole plant sold here. ”

The sound of the conch horn broke the silence of the morning, followed by the rhythmic sound of whaleskin drums and the cathle of footsteps marching in response to the sound of the drums.

"There's a fleet of ships coming towards the base of the ring," Kos pulled out the fishbone dagger that Quis had given him, and explained to the young blue dragon in a cannon-like voice, "The guards have already climbed the fence to keep watch, and if it's the walrus people with the black flag, they'll blow the conch again." ”

The "black flag" in the boy's words refers to the fallen walrus people who obey the orders of the benthic demon fish "Council of Lamps". Unlike their companions who live on Houjian Island and form a federation with the polar bears, these walrus people live in the sea all year round, making a name for themselves by raiding various ring bases or harassing the coastlines of the Empire and the Federation.

Before the nervous boy could finish speaking, the conch horn was sounded again by the sentry on the lookout. The beat of the whaleskin drum has also changed - three long and one short, two short and one long.

Hearing such a drumbeat, the salesperson who was still behind the counter and the registrar who had just checked in for Ques were not calm. After apologizing to the only remaining guest in the hall, Quest, and asking him to leave, they immediately locked the door of the hall, grabbed their weapons, and climbed the wall with the escort.

"It's trouble," Kos was a little nervous, and his otherwise fast speech became a little stumbling, "It's not just the Black Flag, it's the Broken Tooth - the vicious clan - they won't take bribes, send them, and don't take prisoners." Once the base is breached, it will ...... Initiate a massacre. The large warships in the base are still sailing for whaling, and they can't come back at all......"

According to the rules of the floating raft people, Quis, who has already gone through the procedures for temporarily joining this ring base, is also responsible for participating in the guard work when this situation is critical.

So Quith climbed the wall of the base under the leadership of Kos, and the captain of the base guard obviously knew Kos, and when he saw that he was young, he was assigned a good errand - let him climb the watchtower and cooperate with the sentries to relay the latest movements of the walrus fleet to the guards.

And the young blue dragon who turned into a human form, although his face looked young, he was wearing the skin armor of a shark lizard, and his body was also very tall compared to others. Coupled with his status as a traffic captain who had just temporarily joined the Ring Base, the captain of the guard gave him a shield covered in fish skin and a sharpened bamboo spear without thinking, and sent him to the edge of the fence to fend off the walrus warriors who might rush up.

Quest has no objection to this arrangement. In fact, he was even a little glad to have the opportunity to observe the war in the island world up close, as it would help him to gain a deeper understanding of the plane.

Unlike some of the raft guards around him who were terrified before the battle, Quest didn't cover his head with a leather shield, but stood on the fence with a grin, looking out over the Broken Fang Clan's walrus fleet heading towards the Ring Base.

As it watched, the walrus fleets quickly swept across the open sea, approaching. The ships were made of rough smelted dark metal and blackened wood, and the ships had masts that had no sails hoisting, but rows of oars sticking out of the sides of the two sides, rowing desperately to the louder and louder trumpets.

Thanks to the dragon's keen eyesight, Quest clearly saw what the so-called "Black Flag", or "Fallen Walrus", looked like:

They were generally fat and muscular, and their waists seemed to be only slightly smaller than their heights, and they resembled barrels of wine, and they were of a particularly large kind;

A small number of walrusmen, especially the most exaggerated ones that appear to belong to the elite class, wear a piece of armor in the shape of mussel shells strung with seaweed vines, while the rest are mostly naked, with only seaweed aprons for their private parts;

Almost all fallen walrus people have barnacles and corals in some way or another, and while they may seem somewhat terrifying to the Dense Phobia, these attachments should provide them with some protection in battle;

The attentive young blue dragon also found that the tusks growing from the upper jaws of the walrus people had been broken - which is why they were called "Broken Tooth Clan" - the long fangs were sharpened and tied to one end of the long wooden pole to make a double fork of the handle of the human hand.

"Trebuchet launch!" After estimating that the walrus fleet had entered the firing range, the captain of the guard immediately ordered several trebuchets on the city wall to start working, "Fire algae oil bombs, don't let the walrus people approach the wall!"

Driven by human power, the trebuchet's long arm began to rotate, and stones soaked in oil extracted from some kind of seaweed were first ignited and then fired by centrifugal force.

Most of the rocks fell into the waves of the open sea, but a few hit the ships of the Broken Fang Clan.

After being bombarded by such a stone cannon, even a walrus man who is "wide and fat" will have to shed a layer of skin if he does not die. The most terrifying thing is that the algal oil on the stones will also stick to the ship and burn - which is why walrus people usually lower their sails before attacking and drive them only by paddling.

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