The freighter hadn't gone far before there was a terrible wave at the docks.

Ma Wei stood at the stern of the boat, looking at the dock that was still burning not far away, his face was extremely solemn.

He didn't know what was going on there, he didn't know who was fighting after he was gone, and even if he brought a telescope, he couldn't observe the details of the battle, as if...

That battle didn't take place in the space he was.

"Edward, do you know something?"

Recalling Edward's constant staring at the bottom of the river during the battle, Mavi asked, "Who is hiding at the bottom of the river?" ”

"I don't know." Edward leaned against the side of the ship and glanced at the dock, "I really don't know who they are, but the reason why I can sense their presence is because the lamprey reported to me. ”

The other party's aura was well hidden, and Ma Wei didn't notice the existence of the black shadow at all, but the three goddesses of fate found them, and a vicious fight broke out between the two sides...

Is it that the enemy doesn't know, but it's certainly not a friend, the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind, maybe the other party wants to be the yellow finch?

Regardless of the outcome of the battle, Mavi did not intend to return to the docks, and since he had set sail, he had to continue sailing to the Romanov kingdom as fast as possible.

"Father Mavi."

Katerina came over with a middle-aged man wearing a mink hat and introduced: "This is Yakov Petrovich, Lieutenant Commander of the Romanov Kingdom Navy, who once led the 9th Battlefleet in charge of the patrol escort mission in the Black Sea region, has rich experience, and is also the captain of this journey. Yaakov, this is Father Mavi Enders, and from today he is our ally. ”

Yakov Petrovich was a standard Eastern Slav, with deep gray eyes, curly brown hair, a short, stiff beard on the cheeks, about forty years of age, and a face with red marks from the wind and sun for many years. He stretched out his strong arm, shook it briefly with Mavi, and said with a smile in East Slavic: "I have heard of your deeds, Your Highness..."

In the middle of speaking, he suddenly paused, and turned to speak in a crappy and rough Windsor language, which was extremely non-standard: "Father Mavi, I know your... Name, if you want, we can fight. ”

"What?"

The communication next to him was slightly stunned, thinking that this is too polite, do you have to go head-to-head when you meet for the first time?

It is said that the Eastern Slavs like to be ruthless, drink three or five glasses of wine and dare to fight the brown bear, and now I see it...

Sure enough, it lives up to its name.

"I think he's talking about the opportunity to exchange ideas." Katerina explains: "Yakov doesn't speak Windsor very well, he only knows some simple everyday words. ”

"The Sword Comes"

Yakov smiled and nodded, though he didn't understand what Katerina meant. One of his crew members once told him that no matter what a foreigner says, all you have to do is smile and nod.

"No problem." In East Slavic language, Mavi said: "I would also like to see the strength of the navy of the Romanov Kingdom. ”

"Oh! You speak our language! ”

Captain Yakov was pleasantly surprised and said, "Great! I don't know how to communicate with you! ”

The source on the side was holding a translation dictionary that he had just bought yesterday, and he and the goddess Yunia were turning the pages together, quickly looking for the words used by Yakov, and translating them on the spot.

By the time they figured out what Yakov had said, Mavi had already been pulled into the cabin by the other party.

The cabin is very spacious, there are many rooms, it is well equipped, the accumulated dust is cleaned early, this is an icebreaker made of stainless steel, born for fishing, so hardness and space are essential.

Yakov first took Mavi to visit the ship's food storage, except for some wheat flour, which was necessary for daily life, most of the storage was canned iron, and there was a lot of meat and peas, but there was no fish.

Immediately afterwards, Yakov introduced Mavi to the ship's twin brothers, Sergei, two chubby fellows carved out of a mold, with two pinches of drooping mustaches on their lips, wearing chef's hats, and cooking a pot of brown viscous unknown suspicious liquid.

They said that the pot was a warm soup to ward off the cold, and a sip was as warm as swallowing a fireball, and Mavi was convinced when he saw them pour a whole bottle of high-altitude vodka into the pot and stir it.

In addition to them, there were 23 crew members, including Boris, who was in charge of the cabin cleaning, Nikita, who was in charge of filling the boiler room with coal, Maxim, and the sailor Lemontov.

"They are all elites in the kingdom's navy." Dino sighed: "When we returned to New Ross, we were still in a storm, and if it wasn't for them, the ship would have capsized. ”

"It's really all elites."

Mavi nodded, looked at the busy sailors in the cabin and said, "It's important that everyone knows what they have to do and is in order. ”

"There were no heavy weapons on board, such as artillery, only some rifles." "So we can't fight the Royal Navy, even if it's protected by extremely hard steel plates," Katerina said. ”

"Your Highness is right." Yakov agreed: "This is just a commercial icebreaker, there are a lot of spearfishing nets and so on, but it is not useful at all, and once it encounters an enemy ship, the consequences are unimaginable." ”

"You don't have to worry about that."

The voice behind him attracted everyone's attention, and they turned around, only to see Edward say disapprerovingly: "The lamprey will report the situation to me, and if there is a danger such as reefs, icebergs, and enemy ships around us, we can get the information as soon as possible." ”

Yakov looked at him blankly, and did not withdraw his gaze until Katerina nodded, pointed to the staircase leading to the second floor of the cabin, and said: "The crew's room is on the first floor, where I live with the sailors, and the captain's room on the second floor is left to you, where it is more comfortable to live in, there are wooden barrels in the room, which can be used for washing, do not worry about supplies, the food and drinks on the ship are enough to last for a year." ”

To Mavi's surprise, Katerina did not choose to live in the captain's quarters, but in the deepest room on the first floor, where the space was cramped, with only a table and a bed, it was definitely not the residence that a person of high status would choose.

Then Ma Wei lived in the captain's room with peace of mind.

If you don't live in it, I won't live it, won't the luxurious captain's room be wasted?

Waste is shameful.

As the night wore on, and after getting acquainted with the ship's environment, Mavi asked Lai and Yunia to read the dictionary and went to the deck alone.

The trees retreated from both sides of the river, and the icebreaker tore through the water and set off towards the mouth of the sea, and in the cold wind howling, Ma Wei held the side of the boat with one hand and the compass in the other, looking up at the starry sky overhead.

"Why, do you still need to survey the direction of a route?"

A crisp female voice interrupted Ma Wei's observation, he lowered his head, looked at the direction of the compass, and said without looking back: "Sea navigation is full of variables, and you can't be sloppy for a moment." ”

Katerina walked up to him and glanced at the utensils in his hand, "You can't trust Yakov them?" ”

"I trust my own judgment more."

"There's something I want to tell you."

Ma Wei turned his head sideways and frowned: "What's the matter?" ”

"We will definitely encounter danger on our return trip this time." Katerina said: "Because my brother will not let me go back to the Romanov kingdom, he must have prepared an ambush." ”

"Why did you come to the Kingdom of Windsor in person when you knew it was dangerous?"

"First, I want to meet the priests of the Church of Truth in person, and secondly..."

Katerina smiled slightly:

"How do I know who betrayed me without risking my life?"