Chapter Twenty-Four: The Moon is Dark and the Wind is High
After Jia Yi finished arranging, he returned to the ship, and now, it should be foolproof.
Since the accident that happened to the lord worshipping the demon in the town of Pluto, Kaichi has become a lot more cautious, and even a little too cautious and sensitive.
It's also because of his lack of strength, although the mage is powerful, but the reality is not an online game, there will be no things that don't break the defense, Jia Yi himself is practicing Tai Chi, and it's not a golden bell jar, if there is no defense, even a child can stab him, stab accurately, and it is not difficult to stab him directly.
In the evening, Jia Yi didn't even cook dinner, and went back to the cabin after eating a little of the dishes made by the ship's cook. Kaichi sat cross-legged and began to close his eyes and recuperate.
The night soon arrived unconsciously, and the wind blew through the branches at night, and the clouds were quite thick, covering the moon pass, although it could not be said that the five fingers could not be seen, but there was basically no visibility. Jia Yi didn't come out in the cabin, otherwise he would definitely say that the moon was dark and the wind was high and the night was murderous.
One of the crew members standing at the ship's sentry post shrank his neck, folded his hands, added a stick of wood to the brazier, and leaned against the wall to block the wind. Because there had never been an accident here, the crew was a little slack and did not pay attention at all.
Under the cover of night, a warship came out in the distance, with three small boats, and sailed along the current towards Jiayi's ship, only the faint sound of the current hitting the side of the ship.
However, the crew who were guarding did not see it, but Jiayi's magic was not an ornament, and before the ship reached the place where Jiayi put down the guard plank, Jiayi received the news. Jia Yi immediately got up and ran quickly to the captain's room.
"Captain, captain. Kaichi shouted quietly.
"What's wrong?" the captain was still quite alert, and immediately woke up when he heard Kaichi's voice, and ran over to open the door.
"My vigilance circle has been triggered, and someone has come in the dark. ”
The captain's drowsiness disappeared in an instant: "Then hurry up and wake up the crew, let's go separately." ”
After that, it was time to rush out of the cabin to ring the alarm.
"Wait. Kaichi stopped the captain, "Let's take a look at the vigilance, don't make too much noise, wait until the other party approaches, and catch them off guard." ”
"Good!" the captain heard that this was a good approach, and the morale of the two warring sides was a very important factor. Originally, the other party thought that he would be caught off guard by his own side, but the reality was that he was caught off guard, and this increase and decrease was fatal to the morale of the other party.
Jia Yi said: "I will go to the deck to alert the sentry, you go and wake up the crew to start preparing, and when I give the signal, they will rush out together and kill them by surprise." ”
With that, Kaichi went to the top floor above the deck.
Standing guard on the top deck was a big man with a beard, and Kaichi didn't know his name yet. When the sentry heard the footsteps, he hurriedly stood up and looked at the entrance, and when he saw that it was Jiayi, he asked curiously, "It's Young Master Jiayi, is there anything wrong with you coming over?"
Jia Yi said: "Someone has touched him while it is dark, don't make a noise, I have already informed the captain, and when the other party is close, we will hit him by surprise." ”
When the sentry crew heard this, they immediately looked into the distance, there was no moonlight today, and the visibility was very low, he looked around for a long time, but he still didn't find it, and was about to say if Jia Yi was joking. Suddenly, he saw the silhouette of a ship appear in the distance, like a ghost, suddenly appearing in his field of vision.
He was taken aback, and subconsciously wanted to ring the alarm bell.
Jia Yi hurriedly grabbed his hand and said, "Don't ring the bell, I've already informed the captain, they will come out immediately, don't alarm each other." ”
Kaichi released a low-light vision, a long-range vision technique, and instantly saw the incoming ship clearly. At the beginning is a fast boat, which is much smaller than Jiayi's current ship, and there are three small boats around him, which are full of people, as far as Jiayi can see, there are already 6 or 70 people, which is a lot more than Jiayi's side.
At this time, the captain had already brought people out, and everyone had weapons in their hands, and the captain came to Jiayi's side and asked, "How is it?
"There are quite a few people, there is a clipper, three small boats, it looks like there are nearly a hundred people, are we all together?"
The captain frowned, feeling a little bad: "So many people? I brought some people out first, and the rest of the people are calling, and they will be all together soon." But there are only more than 30 of us in total, and the other party is more than 3 times as many people as us, can we do it?"
The 100-person thief group is already a big force, and the captain can't understand why the other party would target his merchant ship, so many people, it doesn't look like it's wandering over.
"When you're ready, talk to me, let's strike first, I'll use magic to greet them first and kill their morale. ”
After Jia Yi finished speaking, he took out the incendiary bomb he had prepared in the city, which was just prepared for fun at the time, but he didn't expect it to really come in handy. Jia Yi felt that the other party should be coming for him, and if it was for the cargo on the ship, the captain could not be alert at all.
Although there are more people on the other side, Jia Yi is not too worried, because Jia Yi did not feel that the other party has spell fluctuations, which means that the other party should not have a mage, which is like having a cannon but the other party does not, flying a kite also kills the other party.
After preparing the incendiary bombs, Kaichi said, "Captain, immediately wait for me to start the anchor and keep a distance from the other party's ship." ”
Soon, the opponent's ship has approached less than 40 meters, and it is about to take overboard, because of the lack of long-range weapons, the water war in this era is still dominated by broadside battles, at this time, the crew hiding in the corner has been able to see the specific appearance of the opponent's attacking ship, and the people on the opposing ship are also looking at the silhouette.
The leader of the attacking bandits was a thirty-four-five-year-old warrior named Rodney, who was originally a knightly squire of the Order and had undergone strict knightly training, only to offend the noble knights and be expelled from the Order. He worked as an adventurer and a mercenary, but he didn't have a good life, and then he met the noble knight, and there was a conflict, and after he killed the noble knight, he died in the world, and finally came to the red mud stall, fell into the grass, and pulled up a team.
He was able to kill that noble knight, of course, because the other party was more watery, but also showed that his own strength was not bad, after falling into the grass, he did not put down the knight training, and now, it is said that he already has knight-level strength, at least, there is more than one knight who died in his hands. He was the most powerful of the group.
This group of thieves is actually not a group, it is a combination of several small bandit groups, some people paid a lot of money, specifically to deal with Jiayi, the leader Rodney is only the nominal leader, these bandits only seem to be combined, in fact, they are not completely integrated, the original several bandit groups have not let go of the dominance of the team they lead.
Nominally taking over Rodney's leadership is also because his bandit group is the strongest, the clipper is his, and this fighter has the highest personal force. Bandits are not the same as nobles, and personal force is sometimes the best deterrent, while nobles sometimes have other factors, and leaders do not need strong personal force.
If this vote is successful, and taste the sweetness, this water bandit group will really be retained and become a new large-scale water bandit group, at least in terms of numbers, it has surpassed the ordinary team begging for a living here.