Chapter 61: The City of Shipwrecks (Part II)
The Black Pearl slowly sailed through the gates.
If the shipwreck city in the distance is just a dilapidated island built by countless ships like building blocks, then when you look closer, you will realize that it is just an illusion.
The entire shipwreck city is divided into two parts: the inner and the outside. The outermost edge is a ring of large wooden ships and a reef wall, and the inner ring is the main body of the shipwreck city.
The main body of the entire shipwreck city is a water fortress with a radius of a kilometer, extending upwards in the shape of a pyramid, and the interior of each ship is connected to each other, like countless series of caves in a huge mountain.
The construction of the ship city is very in line with the principles of architecture, and it is unique and ingenious in terms of spatial layout, combination principle and construction method.
It consists of thirty-two giant dragon ships on a pedestal, with hundreds of iron anchors under the pedestal replacing the piles, and some broken wrecks filled with stones under the pedestal, allowing it to withstand any wind and waves.
About fifty medium-sized dhows form the first main part of the pedestal, each of which is equivalent to a small area, with rooms and decks as roads, and some thick masts as central columns, staggered with horizontal columns, as support points for the ship city, which look chaotic but in fact perfectly bind all the ships together.
Above the medium-sized island are about 20 small sailing boats. These small sailing ships form the superstructure of the ship city and hold up the three large luxury ships that are larger at the top. The sailing ship in the center of the top, similar in size to the Black Pearl, is painted in black oil paint, like a replica of another Black Pearl.
The Black Pearl docked at the dock mouth that stretched out of the ship city, where dozens of pirate ships were already docked. Dozens of skull flags fluttering on the mast waved in the wind, and pirates wearing leather suits and dancing swords abound on the ship, if ordinary people saw this scene, they would be really scared to death, but Shen Yi and the others just looked at each other and smiled.
With the docking of the Black Pearl, Jack Sparrow jumped onto the ship city and said to Shen Yi and them: "Elizabeth and I, Will go and see who is coming, you wait for me here, it's best not to run around, there are no good people here, be careful of causing trouble." ”
"You don't have to worry about our safety. Hong Lang said disdainfully.
"I wasn't worried about you!" replied Jack Sparrow, unhappily.
Several people burst out laughing.
Watching Jack and the others leave, Shen Yi thought for a while and said, "I'll go around the neighborhood, you guys are waiting for me here, Lyle, you come with me." ”
Airborne soldier Lyle is one of the few soldiers that Shen Yi still has with him.
"Yes sir. ”
Seeing Shen Yibu and Jack Sparrow leaving, Hong Lang looked at King Kong: "I said, how about we go shopping too?" After drifting on the sea for so long, it still feels comfortable to be down-to-earth. ”
"Okay. King Kong looked around: "It looks quite lively here." ”
The fat man worried: "The boss just said that he wouldn't let us walk around. ”
Hong Lang patted the fat man on the shoulder: "Don't worry, it's just playing, you have to understand one thing." Essentially, there are no bosses in the Bloody City...... Everyone is their own master. You can listen to the captain out of respect and trust, but you don't have to do everything. ”
"Very good disobedience logic. Gentle smile.
"You can choose not to. Hong Lang said immediately.
Gentle rolled her eyes: "Think beautifully, don't you know that shopping is a woman's greatest pleasure? Not to mention that this is still a shipwreck city." ”
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Within a few steps of going ashore, Shen Yi found that the shipwreck city was the biggest difference from ordinary cities.
Since the shipwreck city is a huge island of ships, and ships are the main body of the city, the city itself is a three-dimensional city. Coupled with the fact that there is no tight connection between boats, gangplanks, cables, sails, and masts are all part of the road, so it is not uncommon to see people swinging from one boat to another with a cable because that's the road!
The special construction foundation, complex road conditions, and full-dimensional urban architecture have turned the entire shipwreck city into a huge labyrinth, and people who are not familiar with the terrain will be dizzy even if they walk in it for a few minutes.
Walking in such a place is quite a test of people's IQ and patience, but it makes Shen Yi like it a lot. He didn't know if this was the result of the original pirate kings' intentional layout or the unintentional insertion of willows, but there was no doubt that this special structure itself had become a defensive component of the shipwreck city.
After walking through a few dead ends, Shen Yi simply took out his handheld computer and began to scan and record the terrain here, groping for the architectural pattern of this area as he walked, and after two hours, he roughly figured out this area.
Not far from the pier, there is a relatively flat and lively area, which is the business district of the shipwreck city.
A large number of cabins have been converted into shops, selling goods from all over the world.
If the port of Tutuja is a cargo distribution center for pirates in the Caribbean, then the shipwreck city is a cargo distribution center for pirates all over the world. There are dirty collectors from all over the world who specialize in buying all kinds of goods at low prices, or selling the weapons, ships, equipment, food, fresh water, etc., to the pirates.
From the precious luxury goods to the large transactions of daily necessities, there is everything here.
Occasionally, a businessman would come and place an "order" specifying that he wanted to get certain goods or a certain ship. At this time, the captain needs to come to negotiate business in person.
The Pirate Guild, formed by the union of the Nine Pirate Kings, is the supreme ruler of the Shipwreck City. Without the permission of the Pirate Guild, no one should want to do business here. The pirate guilds are not in harmony with each other, and the pirate kings do not like anyone, but because of the pirate code and the guild constitution, it is not suitable to act openly, but they never mind others taking action. That's why Jack Sparrow sat back and watched Captain Howling Wind be killed - don't worry that the South China Pirate King will never exist. If a pirate king dies, it is natural that someone new will take over his shift.
Walking through the business district, Shen Yi can feel the atmosphere here that is completely different from other places.
Unlike the lively and peaceful atmosphere on land, everyone here is vicious. Neither the buyer nor the seller is a good thing. The clerk in front of the shop was of course a man of five big and three rough, and most of the customers who came to sell or buy goods were also people who carried knives and guns.
Therefore, it is common to see both sides waving swords and bargaining, swearing and swearing, and even threatening their lives at every turn.
However, Shen Yi's attention was not on this aspect.
His gaze rested more on the spatial structure of the entire ship city, on the thick wooden stakes, chains, and the ships themselves that connected the ships.
When he walked under some support columns, Shen Yi either stopped to lean back and rest for a while, or chatted casually with Lyle, or bought something worthless in the shop.
After walking through almost all the ground floor areas, Shen Yi finally stopped.
"Do you see it all? Lyle. ”
"Yes, sir, the entire shipwreck city is held in place by three hundred and forty-two iron chains, and there are six hundred and eighty-four support columns, but there are only thirty-two main support columns, and the distribution positions have all been marked. As long as a third of the support pillars are blown off, half of the entire shipwreck city will collapse. If half of the main support pillars were blown away, the entire shipwreck city would collapse...... That's not even a hundred kilograms of explosives. ”
"It's easier to destroy than to build, isn't it. Shen Yi said lightly.
"Yes, sir, the problem is that I don't understand why we're doing this. Didn't you negotiate with Captain Jack? I'm sure he wouldn't like to see that. ”
"I don't need him to like it, as long as he can come in when I need it. ”
"You seem to mean something else?"
Shen Yi didn't answer, he just looked around the entire shipwreck city, and a longing light appeared in his eyes: "This will be a good battlefield, Lyle, although I hope I won't need it." ”
"It's a pity that reality always goes against ideals, sir. Good expectations are like the fragrant flowers of spring, which are always easy to wither......"
"I didn't expect you to be a poet. Shen Yi laughed.
"That used to be my dream, but it turned out that I became a soldier. I wanted to bring joy and thought to people, but the result was nothing but blood and killing. ”
"So reality is always crueler than dreams, and the worst thing is that you can't get rid of it. Shen Yi sighed.
"Then face it bravely, just as you did, and work hard to overcome all tribulations. Lyle replied.
Shen Yi laughed and patted Lyle on the shoulder: "You will become the most outstanding soldier." ”
"It is my greatest honor to be able to serve you. Lyle bowed to Shen Yi.
At this moment, there was a sudden noisy noise in the distance.
The fight is like a whirlpool, drawing the crowd past, and a loud roar can be faintly heard.
Shen Yi gave Lyle a look, and Lyle would leave.
Shen Yi himself walked towards the noisy place.
Crowding through the crowd, there were several pirates lying on the ground wailing loudly, two of them had their hands and feet broken, and one was covered with blood, and even his tongue was pulled out, and dozens of pirates were attacking around a few people, and it was the flood of them.
"Hell!" Shen Yi instinctively slapped his forehead.
No need to ask, these guys must be in trouble again.
At this moment, a large group of pirates were surrounding the flood waves, and they were attacking, and the four of them retreated to a corner, forming a defensive circle, the fat man held a heavy shield to block the front, like a blocking the attack of most people, and the other three took turns to fight, two fought, one rested, and easily blocked the pirates' attacks - look at the posture is clearly a team-to-team cooperation battle.
In this case, they still have the heart to practice the combat formation, which shows that Hong Lang at least has the ability to control the situation. So he didn't rush to make a move, but looked around and saw the parrot flying in the sky. So Shen Yi whistled, and when the parrot saw Shen Yi, it fluttered its wings and flew over, landed on his shoulder, and patted its chest with one wing and shouted: "Oh, I'm scared to death, these people are really vicious." ”
"Tell me what happened. ”
"It's nothing, it's just a minor misunderstanding......" Destiny Parrot said of what had happened after he was gone.
Things are actually very simple, Hong Lang and they just wanted to wander around the area at will and relax themselves, but they didn't expect them to ignore one thing - the existence of gentleness.
Pirates are a very special community, and life on the water is far more difficult than people think, and there are very few women on pirate ships. After a long life at sea, a large group of energetic men can't touch women, even old sows have to stuff mink Zen, let alone such a beautiful woman as gentle.
There are usually only two kinds of women who can live in the city of shipwrecks. One is a pirate, the other is a prostitute/woman.
When they were on the Black Pearl, there were many sailors who coveted gentleness, but they had seen the gentle means and knew that this thorny rose could not be touched. The pirates of the shipwreck city don't know, there are always people who come up to tease with more horse urine. They are used to piracy, and robbery is the right way, and there will be no restraint between their actions.
So just a short walk, and they got into trouble.
For adventurers, every goal in the quest world is like a lamb in the eyes of a hungry wolf, with the only difference being that some sheep are valuable and some are not.
When can a wolf endure the bullying of a lamb?
So the next development became logical.
Several pirates treat Gentle as a prostitute/woman, and want to bring this woman back to have a good time, but the result is that their hands and feet are directly broken, and one of them even has his tongue pulled. This behavior seriously angered a large number of pirates, and the conflict intensified in an instant, which soon became the current situation.
"So that's ......" Understanding the cause and effect of the matter, Shen Yi's brows furrowed deeply.