After Xue Yan listened to Qin Wen's words, he opened his mouth while flipping the grilled fish on the fire: "You don't often eat these umami in the sea, you have to add more flavors to find it delicious, like subordinates, basically you can eat with a little salt, and the taste is fresher." ”

Su Ruo slightly tried the oyster next to her without seasoning, and a fishy smell rushed to her nostrils, she couldn't help frowning slightly: "I think it's more delicious with seasoning, but if you eat it alone, it's really a little difficult to eat." ”

Xue Yan smiled and said: "This is a fishy smell, if you want to eat habits, you can taste this fish first, and slowly you will feel that the fishy smell is not too heavy, if you are used to eating, you will not eat it for a while, and I am a little panicked, I basically have a caravan to come to the country of Jiaguan, I will let them bring some seafood and the like." ”

"However, after a long time in the storage bag, although it will not rot and deteriorate, I think it is better to eat and cook it like this. As he spoke, Xue Yan put down his chopsticks after seeing that Qin Wen and the two had finished eating one, and he also understood that Qin Wen and the others were not very accustomed to this kind of seafood, so he put the grilled fish on the already empty shell, and then picked up another oyster and ate it between them.

The grilled fish is indeed as Xue Yan said, the fishy smell is not so strong, and after adding seasonings, the outside is charred and the inside is tender and unusually delicious, Su Ruo is also full of praise for this, the three of them have been eating this grilled fish, Qin Wen still said with some unfinished thoughts: "This way of eating is good, I have also been to the shore of the East China Sea, they are basically stewed soup and the like, although it is also very delicious, but it can be regarded as two flavors." ”

After eating, Qin Wen took out a tent from his storage bag, because there was only a breeze blowing on the beach that day. Qin Wen simply set up the tent directly on the beach, letting Su Ruo rest in the tent, while he and Xue Yan sat cross-legged on the beach and breathed.

The next morning, the east sun shone on Qin Wen's back, and he slowly opened his eyes and saw the golden ripples of the sea in front of him. The slightly damp aura made Qin Wen feel clear in his heart, watching the tide gradually surging onto the beach, Qin Wen got up and helped Su Ruo, who had just walked out of the tent, to pack up all his belongings.

As soon as Qin Wen put the tent into the storage bag, he heard Xue Yan say with some surprise: "Master Qin, there is a merchant ship, no, no, it is two merchant ships, why is the flag hanging behind it different?" It's a pirate, Master Qin, what should we do?"

Qin Wen looked into the distance, only to see a fast-driving ironclad merchant ship moving fast in front, and behind the merchant ship was followed by two somewhat dilapidated ships, although the ironclad merchant ship was relatively fast, but the two broken ships behind were not slow, Qin Wen obviously saw that they could encircle the ironclad merchant ship. But every time it was time to catch up, the ships behind would make a slight mistake. It didn't go head-to-head with the ironclad merchant ship, but followed it to the death.

Qin Wen asked Xue Yan with some confusion at this time: "Are the two merchant ships behind them pirates? Their ships are so broken, I think if the ironclad merchant ship turns around and rams with a ramming angle, it should be knocked away in a few clicks." ”

Xue Yan shook his head slightly and said, "Qin Ye doesn't know, although these pirate ships look tattered, they rely on the ships to eat on weekdays. The protection inside must be very good, the outside is just the appearance, if it really collides, it may not be who takes advantage. ”

Qin Wen groaned again at this time and said, "Then they chase on the sea like this, and they don't start." In case this ironclad merchant ship came to the port of a country, these pirates were not in vain. ”

Xue Yan saw that the pirate ship was just attached to the back of the merchant ship, so he took out a map from his storage bag, looked at it a little and explained: "These pirates are very familiar with the nearby terrain, they should not know what the realm of the monks in the merchant ship is, so if they want to use the safest way to prepare to force this merchant ship to stop, there is a shallow strait in front of it, and you must be very careful when passing through this strait." ”

"Even if there are no pirate ships behind, ordinary merchant ships can easily run aground here, not to mention that there are pirates chasing after them, if they collide on the sea, maybe three ships will be destroyed at the same time, and even if the pirates loot the caravan's belongings at that time, they will have to buy new ships, and in this vast sea, ordinary Xuanshi monks can still find a place to settle before their vitality is exhausted, then Xuanshi monks may not be. ”

Only then did Qin Wen understand that pirates were not blindly shouting and shouting to kill, their robberies also had to be carefully calculated, the number of merchant ships was too much, and such things as injuring one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred could not be done unless absolutely necessary, Su Ruo asked with some doubts: "Aren't these pirates similar to the mountain bandits we met?" Why don't they block the road and collect some tolls or something, then the risk will be reduced a lot." ”

Xue Yan saw that the merchant ships and pirates had gradually drifted apart, and knew that in order to avoid risks, Qin Wen should be ready to wait for the next merchant ship, so he explained: "Generally, pirates with a fixed location will also charge a certain port crossing fee at the beginning, but these Western countries are very strict in their crackdown on pirates, and they often send warships to attack these fixed pirates, so gradually the situation of pirates occupying the fixed strait gradually disappeared. ”

"Their stronghold is very secretive, ordinary merchant ships will not pass there, so they began to chase and rob these merchant ships on this sea, because each encounter with merchant ships is different, so it doesn't matter if you hand over some spiritual objects to pass the customs, in order to rob the ships, most of the pirates will kill the high-level monks above, but some low-level monks in this vast sea, even if they leave their lives, basically they can't get to the shore alive, so generally speaking, merchant ships and pirates are a life-and-death fight. ”

Speaking of this, Xue Yan thought for a while and said: "Unless there are particularly high-level monks on this merchant ship, the pirates will immediately evacuate when they encounter such a warning when approaching the merchant ship, but there should be no monks on the merchant ship like the one just now who can deter the pirates, so they will be forced to this side by the pirates." ”

Su Ruo thought for a moment and asked, "Then the merchant ships were so close to the coast just now, why didn't they escape from here, but instead sailed according to the route tracked by the pirates?"

Xue Yan hesitated for a moment and said: "Maybe this merchant ship didn't come to our side, and they probably have the strength to fight with pirates, if there is no deep-water port, it is difficult for merchant ships to dock here, and if there are low-level monks or children on it, even if they escape with them, the pirates should not let them go." ”

"After all, most of their valuables are carried in their own space rings, and fighting in such a wide area is not safe to navigate in the sea, if they are lucky enough to meet a warship of a certain country here, then the pirates will flee immediately, and they will be rescued. ”

Su Ruo's curiosity became heavier and heavier, so he opened his mouth and asked Qin Wen, "It turns out that there are so many rules for pirate robbery, why don't we take a look?"

Qin Wen saw that Su Ruo had been aroused by his curiosity, thinking that he had a spirit boat anyway, and he was not afraid of those pirates, so he nodded slightly and said: "Okay, anyway, the merchant ship just now hasn't gone too far, let's go now and we should be able to keep up soon, look at the battle between pirates and merchant ships, and we will also know about the monks of Western countries in the future." ”

As he spoke, Qin Wen took out the spirit boat from his storage bag and let Su Ruo and Xue Yan board the spirit boat, and then Qin Wen drove the spirit boat to fly in the direction where the merchant ship left, and after less than half a pillar of incense, Qin Wen and they had already come to the top of the merchant ship and the pirate ship.

Since he didn't know much about the attack methods of the monks in Western countries, for the sake of safety, Qin Wen did not put the spirit boat too low, but suspended it high in the air, and the pirates and merchant monks had no concept of magic weapons flying in mid-air, so no one noticed that something like a white bird high above would be in it.

Qin Wen and Su Ruo used their divine sense to probe the situation on the merchant ship and the pirate ship, and under the influence of their divine sense, Qin Wen clearly saw that there were more than 200 people on the merchant ship, most of them were monks in the Xuanshi realm, only a dozen Xuanshi monks, and in addition to thirty or fifty ordinary women and young children.

The Xuanshi monks were all concentrated in the control room now, all gathered around a middle-aged man with blond hair and blue eyes, talking loudly about something, although Qin Wen had talked to Xue Yan in the languages of these countries during this time, but like this normal and fast speaking speed, he basically couldn't hear what it meant, so he turned around and asked Xue Yan, who was also investigating, "Do you know what they are talking about?"

Xue Yan nodded and said: "I can hear it clearly, the monks of these caravans speak the language of the Xili Republic, I have lived there for a while, the golden-haired middle-aged monk sitting in the middle is the captain of this ship, and the rest are the first mate of his ship, and a few monks from the Xuanshi realm are passengers on this ship, and they are now discussing the route of the voyage and how to avoid these pirates behind." ”

Xue Yan seemed to hear something again, and couldn't help but shake his head slightly, Qin Wen asked with some curiosity, "What's the matter?" Did they discuss the result?"

Xue Yan nodded and said: "It's not a result, it's just that the first mate said that he would turn the bow of the ship and fight hard with the pirates, maybe the pirates would throw a trap, afraid that the three ships would die together and retreat, but the other first mate denied his opinion." (To be continued......)