At nightfall, Lance was still fighting in front of the menorah.

The candles provided on the ship were of poor quality, but barely functional, and Lance carried a quill in his hand, taking notes line by line in his white notebook.

Although he didn't need a textbook to learn the course "Abyssal Language", he only needed to open the information stored by the fox, but Lance still insisted on taking notes.

There is a difference between what the chip memorizes and what he remembers. And what you memorize orally is different from the knowledge of taking notes by hand.

Only by taking notes over and over again and understanding the essence of this part of knowledge can you truly grasp this knowledge.

Lance comes from the earth of the 22nd century, and knows the importance of the foundation, only when the foundation is solid, can climb to a higher peak in the future can be smooth, and he also knows that learning must rely on himself, and there is a famous saying on the earth in the 22nd century: "Biochips have changed the way of life and learning, but they cannot change the essence of life and learning." ”

Lance was convinced.

Chips are used to assist learning, and in the final analysis, no matter what you do, you have to rely on your own efforts.

The faint blue-black ink wrote down line after line of feelings in the notebook, the difficulty of the advanced tutorial of the abyssal language is much higher than that of the beginner, even with the help of the chip, he is confused and very difficult to learn.

That's the disadvantage of not having a teacher. If a teacher explains it to him and then learns to memorize, it will be much faster and easier.

Lance copied a paragraph, put down the quill, and yawned heavily. The Wizard of Amman's kind smile reappeared before his eyes, and just two days before he left, the funeral of the Wizard of Amman was held in a low-key manner, and the Viscount, who had been exterminating the fish-people off the coast, rushed back to attend.

Lance remembered very well that the teacher's corpse was so withered that it looked like a dried corpse that had been dried for thousands of years.

At that time, he was a little shocked by this horrific scene, and it was the first time he had experienced the horror of witchcraft.

However, it is important to know that both the Amman wizard himself and the blue-scaled prophet who died with him are only at the level of a second-level wizard. They are also only low-class characters in the vast and mysterious wizarding world.

As for a junior apprentice like Lance, he is just inconspicuous cannon fodder.

......

"I heard that those wizard organizations are far away in the deep mountains and rivers, and they are corners that ordinary humans can't reach. In the place where wizards haunt, there will also be many terrifying monsters and mysterious ruins, which is really desirable. ”

Lance tilted his head, thinking quietly. At this moment, he suddenly heard a strange sound:

"Knock knock!

It was as if something was touching the bottom plate of the ship.

Lance's face changed slightly: "Could it be a shark?"

The tonnage of a large ship full of cargo like the Queen Lisa is very heavy. Ordinary small fish hit the bottom plate and are easily swept away by the current, and they simply can't last that long.

However, he immediately dismissed this idea.

Most sharks are found in the deep sea, but the Queen Lisa has been sailing along the coastline to the north, and when the weather is good, you can even see the land on the side, so it can be said that it has been sailing inshore all the time.

It can't be a shark.

Lance held his breath and listened quietly, but the sound seemed to fade away.

"Is it my delusion?"

Lance didn't let his guard down, he quickly took out two quivers from the Arcane Ring and put them behind his back, and nested the shortbow and shortsword in his hands.

"Fox, do you sense any creature?" asked Lance in his mind.

"Nope. The fox replied.

Lance felt more and more that something was wrong, and he attached his ear to the wall of the ship, but this time, he heard a solid thump!

But unlike before, this time the thump came from the deck!

Lance's face changed dramatically, it wasn't the footsteps of the sailors.

"Fox, can I tell what it is, based on my hearing?" asked Lance.

"Acoustic analysis...... Sonic analysis complete. ”

"According to my database, there is a 91% probability that the person making this footstep sound is one of the blue-scaled fish-men, red-gills fish-men, or trioculars!"

Lance frowned, it was actually a fish man!

And judging from the footsteps, there are quite a few of these fishmen. What do these guys want to do?

"Is it a robbery?" a possibility came to Lance's mind.

It is very normal for various species of fish-people to appear near the waters of the hussar kingdom, and these creatures do not produce, but only rob. But what puzzled Lance was that, judging by the footsteps of these fishmen, they looked like a group of well-trained guys.

And the fish-people in Lance's impression are all as intelligent as the Frost Demons, and they don't know what discipline is.

"Unless ......"

Lance kept thinking in his mind, and at this moment, a terrible whistling suddenly came from the deck!

Immediately after this whistling, the sound of sailors was heard in the aisle. The sound of footsteps accompanied by the sound of speech made it impossible for Lance to tell what was going on.

He thought for a moment and put the weapon back for now. Anyway, if he wants to use it, he can take it out at any time.

Then he opened the hatch and found that all the sailors had rushed to the deck at Jason's orders.

Just then, the opposite hatch opened.

Vera poked her head out, rubbed her sleepy eyes and asked, "Mr. Lance, what's going on?"

Lance gestured to her in silence, then turned and walked out the door.

"Hide in the room and don't come out. Lance admonished her.

"Fuss......" Another door on the opposite side also opened, and the eldest cousin was wearing pajamas and couldn't help but taunt: "Do you know how many years the Queen Lisa has not had an accident?"

"By the way, what about Vera, Robert, and Matthews?" Madil suddenly remembered, and it seemed that their two guards hadn't seen it for a long time.

Vera shook her head and said, "Aren't they supposed to be at the door of our room?

Madil's face changed suddenly.

Lance didn't talk to the cousins anymore and left on his own.

Instead of following the sailors to the foredeck, he went to the bottom cabin.

There, there is a passage to the aft deck.

......

Lance's steps were brisk, and in the darkness he walked faster and faster.

Because at this moment, there was already a loud shout of killing, roars, and some strange sounds of cooing from above his head.

"Damn, what a fishman!"

He sneaked up to the deck from behind, and in the moonlight he hid behind a few boxes of cargo, and saw clearly that it was a group of fishmen armed with steel forks who were fighting the sailors!

These fish-people have exceptionally long tentacles, light blue scales, protruding gills, and a very scarlet color.

"And he's the most powerful red-cheeked fishman. The fox added.

Lance nodded to himself, watching the sailors retreat under the siege of the fishmen, he hesitated slightly, and decided to hide first.

It's not that he's greedy for life and afraid of death, it's that Lance thinks it's definitely not that simple. Behind a group of well-trained fishmen, there is only one explanation other than the birth of a fish-man prophet from the other race: this is a race with fish-man warriors.

Considering the difficulty of the birth of the Fish-Man Prophet and the low pitiful probability, Lance felt that the latter possibility was more reliable.

Only if there is a Fish-Man Warrior, these Fishmen will obey his orders and carry out the sneak attack in an organized and disciplined manner.

"The ship is always moving forward, how can it be so easy for these fish-people to climb up?" Lance wondered.

However, at this time, he suddenly realized that at some point, the sail on the main mast had actually been lowered.

The ship did not move forward, but floated quietly on the surface of the sea, drifting with the current.

"I see...... I see!"

Lance took a deep breath and watched another wave of fishmen screaming as they climbed onto the deck from the sea, resisting the urge to strike and instead walking towards the side of the mainmast.

......

Half an hour later, the resistance of the human sailors became weaker and weaker. Most of them were defeated, tied up by the red-gills with sturdy algae, and knelt on the deck.

A red-cheeked fishman who was much taller than the average of his kind walked back and forth, and his mouth let out a series of scolding sounds.

Under his reprimand, the rest of the fishmen acted more quickly, and in a few moments, all of them were captured. Except for Reims.

The aristocratic brothers and sisters were no exception, and although they hid in the room, they were also caught by the rough fish-man soldiers and brought to the deck. Lance also noticed that their two hapless bodyguards, Robert and Matthews, appeared to have been drugged and in a coma, unaware of being tied up by the Fishmen.

"How so!"

"Didn't you say this is the safest ship?"

"What about your guards, what about your sailors, and let a bunch of fishmen defeat you?!"

The eldest cousin shouted hoarsely at the sailors, but the next second, he was stunned to find that two red-cheeked fishmen had come to the deck carrying the equally unconscious Captain Jason.

"You've done a good job. The tall Fish-Man Warrior said in a jerky lingua franca.

"What?" Before Madil could react, he was kicked in the head and fainted in misery.

A thin figure walked out, and he flattered himself to the leader of the fishmen, nodding his head incessantly. Under his command, Madil and Vera were re-tied behind the mainmast. The little girl bowed her head in fright and trembled.

"Terrell?"

"What's going on, Terrell, are you in the company of these ugly fishmen?"

"Damn it, you stopped the boat, and the night watchman Dink and Brewer were killed by these fishmen!"

The sailors who were kneeling on the ground burst into angry curses, but they were immediately beaten by the fishmen beside them and were speechless.

Lance, who was hiding in the shadows, narrowed his eyes, and it didn't surprise him that there was a mole on board.

However, this man is Terrell, the second mate of the Queen Lisa, which makes Lance a little strange, and it is said that Captain Jason treats his subordinates very well, especially the first officer, second officer, and navigator positions. It stands to reason that Terrell doesn't have much reason to help the fishmen.

"But if it's Terrell, then everything makes sense. As the second officer of the Queen Lisa, he has a lot of power in his hands. Lance thought: "Captain Jason and several crew members who are slightly better at martial arts are fascinated, and they are probably drugged." The guards of the noble brothers and sisters were not spared. Coupled with the fact that this guy cooperated with the fish-man to cooperate with the inside and outside, and lowered the sails, it is no wonder that these fish-men rushed up so easily. ”

As for Lance, it is estimated that in Terrell's eyes, they are basically useless noble children, which can be completely ignored.

But even if he wanted to drug Lance, it was basically impossible for Lance, who had the chip.

......

According to the fox's calculations, Lance knew that the red-gills were swimming in the ocean at only one-third to one-half of the speed of a boat, and that as long as they kept moving at a certain speed, the fishmen in the sea would not be able to keep up. Moreover, the deck of the ship was so far from the sea level that without people's help, the fish people could not get on the boat at all.

"Shut up!" Fish-Man Warrior roared in a jerky lingua franca as he turned to Terrell, "Are all the humans on the ship here?"

Terrell looked at it for a moment, and immediately shook his head and said, "There is also a noble prince brother who is not here." ”

"Get him out for me!" the fish-man warrior ordered, and suddenly several red-gilled fishmen began to search the ship in a menacing manner.

Lance's heart moved, and he immediately thought of a way to deal with it.