Chapter 8: Me and My Resentful Crew
There are three continents and five oceans in this world.
Among them, there are two continents in the Northern Hemisphere, namely the larger Phantom Continent and the slightly smaller Ending Continent.
There are Quartz Alliance, Garrell Alliance and some other small alliances on the Phantom Continent, among which the Quartz Alliance is currently the largest alliance in the world, and the territory is divided into two major regions: the Kanto region and the Chengdu region.
The sea in the south of the Fantasy Continent is known as the Vortex Sea, and it is said that in ancient times, the Vortex Sea was ruled by the king of the sea, Lokia, a majestic bird-shaped beast that has always inhabited a small island in the depths of the Vortex Sea, and is guarded by the three sacred birds.
The other continent in the Northern Hemisphere is the Termination.
Legend has it that this continent was created by the mythical beast Grunado, so the ancient people borrowed the characteristics of Grunador to "end the earth" to give the continent a name: the end of the continent.
There are two major alliances on the end continent, the Fangyuan Alliance and the Sinnoh Alliance, as well as a number of small and medium-sized alliances such as Alola.
The sea to the east of the end continent is called the Sea of Origin.
The Sea of Origin also has a legend, and according to legend, it is the territory of the mythical beast Gaioca, an ancient beast that has been sleeping in the deepest trenches of the Sea of Origin.
Legend has it that every time this deep-sea beast wakes up and opens its eyes, endless storms and waves will set off in the Sea of Origin.
There is only one larger continent in the Southern Hemisphere, and that is the New World: Partia, the birthplace of Taijing, where wealth and dreams converge!
However, the current continent of Parthia is being divided and occupied by major alliances, and there is no unified local alliance on it.
The Great Sea Route was a sea trade route that ran through the Sea of Origin, starting from the two continents of the Northern Hemisphere, crossing the equator, and heading south to Partia.
The midpoint of the Great Shipping Route is the Orange Islands, and from the Orange Islands to the east you can enter the Vortex Sea, where the two oceans are connected and are in many cases intimately connected.
Chen Mu and the others coincidentally chose to "commit the crime" in the waters near the Orange Islands, so they happily mentioned the joint wanted of the two sea areas.
In this wave, more than twenty alliances, large and small, issued bounties against them, including almost all the independent alliances on the Continent of Termination and the Continent of Illusions.
As a result, Chen Mu and Shimada Junichi, who were originally only wanted criminals in Fangyuan and Quartz respectively, became a vicious pirate gang with a joint bounty in the Pan-Northern Hemisphere.
This made Chen Mu feel extremely tired.
I thought that going to sea was to cut off the past and change my mind, but who would have thought that before the great voyage was halfway through, he would continue the frontier, and there was a super double!
Obviously, he really just wants to be a good person.
What's even more tiring is that his "crew" is still chattering because the bounty is too low.
"Tsk, really, why did you give us a bounty of 3,000 pounds from the head of the regiment? Is this the gold content of looking down on the only S-class wanted criminal in the mainland in the past 12 years? ”
Without looking back, Chen Mu could guess that this must be Junichi Shimada who was doing something funny again.
"Shut up, you!" Chen Mu turned his head angrily and glanced at him.
"Okay, Commander, you have the final say, Commander."
Junichi Shimada entered the role very quickly, this is simply a natural actor, and he has adapted to his new identity as a member of the Pirates so quickly.
It can be called an adaptive group member.
"Now that the bounty has been released, I'm afraid it's not safe to stay here, what are we going to do next? Do you guys have any ideas? ”
Chen Mu, the leader of the pirates who was driven to the shelves, could only helplessly ask his two members of the resentful group for a while.
Junichi Shimada habitually pushed down his glasses and said: "This is a little troublesome, people near the archipelago may not necessarily pay attention to the wanted warrants in the interior, but they will definitely care about the pirate bounties in the nearby seas, and it may not be easy for us to disguise ourselves and get on the merchant ship." ”
In the past, they still had the opportunity to mix with merchant ships despite being saddled with the highest wanted warrants on their respective continents, because in this era when the flow of information was not so developed, the inland and the ocean were often like two worlds separated from each other.
Merchants who run ships on the sea generally don't care much about the news far inland, and when they see it, they are at best a conversation after dinner, and they don't pay much attention to it.
But they'll be sure to keep an eye out for every bounty change in their area! Because it's all about their daily lives.
Of course, Chen Mu also knew about this kind of thing, so he sighed helplessly and said, "You analyzed it very well, thank you for highlighting our unfortunate situation again." ”
Meaning you're saying that's good, but don't say it next time.
Junichi Shimada didn't care, and bowed to Chen Mu very pompously, "This is my honor, my great leader." ”
Chen Mu couldn't help but want to hold his forehead for a while.
He admits that he has longed for the sea in the past, but it definitely does not include wandering the world with such a resentful crew!
After that, Qi Xuanyu was entangled for a while and then spoke: "I used to be a sea broker, and I still have a little connection in the Sea of Origin, although I am now wanted, and I can't do my old job before, but maybe I can find a way to get some help through my previous relationship." ”
The so-called sea brokers are simply middlemen, and they do a variety of jobs.
For example, selling information to pirates, buying and selling the gains of pirates' looting, redeeming bounties for adventurers with flawed identities, helping the guild contact trainers who are innocent at sea, and so on.
All-encompassing, do anything.
Such a profession values connections and relationships the most, and it is no wonder that Qi Xuanyu dared to pat her chest before and said that she knew all the well-known pirates in this sea.
It's just that now after learning the identities of Chen Mu and Junichi Shimada, she no longer dares to boast about Haikou and say that she is omnipotent, but only dares to carefully say that "I still have a little connection."
No way, she used to think that she was okay at sea, but these two guys in front of her were real monsters!
To be honest, she felt that the bounty of 3,000 pounds was very, very exaggerated, and the bounty of the most powerful pirate boss she had served in the past was only 2,800 pounds.
That's a sea pirate group with four ships and is known as the strongest echelon under the Four Emperors!
But just now, the companions around him were complaining that this figure was insulting the gold content of their own regiment leader.
can only say that she still doesn't know much about the circle of top wanted criminals in the mainland......
Hearing her words, Chen Mu was very surprised, and couldn't help but pat Qi Xuanyu's shoulder happily.
As a result, this simple little action almost scared the girl into a tremble.
"Very good, then it's up to you next, give priority to finding a way to take us to sea.
We can't stay on this island for long, it's too close to the 'place of incident', and we're sure to be searched by bounty hunters or major league informants soon after the bounty is released, so we'll have to find a way to get out of here. ”
Qi Xuanyu replied tremblingly: "Okay...... Good. ”
Seeing that she was still a little nervous, Chen Mu kindly encouraged: "Don't be nervous, you look much more reliable than that guy from Shimada now." ”
Qi Xuanyu could only show a smile that was more ugly than crying for a while.
She doesn't want to be compared to a Quartz League Class A wanted criminal from Team Rocket, hey!
And Junichi Shimada, who was innocently lying on the gun, could only show an embarrassed but polite smile on the side at this time.
There are three people in a regiment, and everyone feels like a big wronged seed at this moment......
In this way, a wonderful fate was coincidentally born in this weird atmosphere~