The Beloved, like most private fishing boats in Santa Pelia Port, is a converted warship decommissioned by a certain country.

With the improvement and popularization of steam engine technology, coastal countries have to replace their own navies with equipment. Because if you don't replace them with better steam ships, and other countries do, you will have to be passively beaten, and even the navy will be beaten.

The power will also be completely snatched away by other countries.

So when the first ship equipped with a steam engine appeared on the sea, all countries invariably replaced the equipment of their navies, and the improvement of steam ships was also very fast, and there was an earth-shaking change in almost a few years.

This forced those maritime countries to follow suit and change their ships. From the beginning, they only pretended to be a steam engine roller on the sailing ship, then they invented propellers, then made steel hulls, and now they have completely given up sails.

All in all, in just fifty years, there have been five iterations of maritime ships.

The technical iterations of some ships can be modified on existing ships, but more ship iterations can only retire the previous ships and build new ones, resulting in a large number of retired ships.

Appear.

At the beginning, the navies of various countries were worried that if they sold their ships, their weapons secrets would be leaked, so they were willing to let those decommissioned ships rot in the shipyard, or even completely dismantle them and sell them as scrap, rather than sell any of them as a whole.

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But later, because the ship iteration speed was too fast, various countries had funding problems, which forced various maritime countries to change their previous decisions and began to sell entire decommissioned ships to private chambers of commerce or fleets. Later, they did not even

Official credit and identity checks are required. As long as enough money can be paid, any type of decommissioned ship can be sold to private individuals. It was through this method that the Beloved fell into the hands of Halesa and became his car.

The Beloved is a steam-sailed dual-power battleship. The sails are the most popular long horn sails at that time. This kind of sail and the long shuttle-shaped hull of the Beloved make the Beloved have more maneuverability than ordinary ships even in headwind conditions.

sailing speed.

In addition, the Behemoth is also equipped with two Behemoth steam engines. These two Behemoth steam engines are connected to four conical propellers, which can prevent the Beloved from slowing down when there is no wind.

In terms of speed alone, the Beloved is definitely the fastest among the steam-sail dual-power battleships, but this is its only advantage. Apart from that, this ship has only shortcomings.

For example, it uses a half-wooden, half-metal hull. Although this enhances the toughness of the hull, it is also due to the unreasonable connection between the wood and metal parts. After encountering disaster weather such as a big storm, it will

It is often necessary to reinforce the hull, otherwise it may fall apart.

In addition, in order to make the ship as fast as possible, various weapons and equipment were reduced on the ship, making it even inferior to the oldest sailing battleships in terms of offense.

As a warship, the Beloved was completely unqualified. However, this extremely fast ship fell into the hands of Haresa, a fisherman, pirate and smuggler. However, the new owner was extremely satisfied. Although the Beloved was

Shortcomings still exist, but its speed is enough to make up for all the shortcomings.

In addition, Hailesa also made great modifications to the ship after buying it. First, it strengthened the hull, and then removed all weapons, because with the attack power of this ship, it would not be able to use anything like a crossbow or artillery.

I am afraid that even an ordinary caravan escort ship cannot be defeated by such long-range weapons, so I simply don’t need them all, add some fishing equipment, and modify a few fish cabins to disguise myself as a harmless fishing boat.

When they are engaged in piracy, they use the disguise of a fishing boat to get close to the target, and then jump to the target ship to join the opponent. Therefore, each sailor on the Beloved has a good personal combat power.

In addition, he also renovated the upper cabins, opened up several upper cabins, built several luxury cabins, and also transformed several special mezzanines and secret rooms inside the cabins.

After that, he asked the Beloved to receive passengers like an ocean liner, and most of the passengers he chose were people with special status, or were rich and powerful, because only such people could make the anti-smuggling navy, which specializes in smuggling, dare not

Conduct random searches so that the smuggled goods stored in the mezzanines and secret rooms of the guest cabins can safely pass various inspections.

With this method, countless contrabands, valuables and even some special people and objects were smuggled out of his hands. He has become a well-known smuggler in the black markets of the New and Old Worlds.

This time, Halesa also accepted a smuggling business, and the other party just asked him to deliver a metal password box, which seemed very simple.

But the experienced Hayesa knew very well that the simpler the goods transported, the greater the unknown and huge dangers. What's more, this box only looks simple on the surface. In fact, the value of the box itself can be equal to that of a dozen Beloved ships.

The value is comparable.

When he was a pirate on other ships when he was young, he had seen a similar box, and that box had only one purpose, which was to contain the relics of gods. Now that he saw this box again, he almost didn't need to put it away.

When you open it, you will know that the things inside the box are most likely relics of the gods.

He was initially prepared to refuse the commission, but the price offered by the other party was so high that if he gave up, he would regret this decision for the rest of his life.

But after he accepted this mission, he also felt regretful because he felt that this mission was too dangerous and he might be involved in it.

However, he can't give up, let alone hide with the things, because the client's strength is not something he can resist. He may be able to escape the client's pursuit for a period of time, but it will be a matter of time before he is caught.

It would be difficult for him to die at that time, and what awaited him was more likely to be worse than death, and this torture would last for a long time, because he had seen how those people tortured betrayers, and he didn't want to be the target of those people's torture.

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Therefore, he could only find a way to safely send the things to the other side of the ocean and to the entrusted party. For this reason, he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to find out that the top leaders of the major churches in St. Paulia Port would soon go to the Old Continent to participate in the event.

For the Holy Sacrifice Ceremony in the main church of each church, he specially sailed to St. Pelia Port to wait. Later, through various connections, he allowed a senior cleric from the Spring Water Temple to ride on his ship.

With this senior cleric from the Spring Water Temple as a cover, he believed that this commission would be completed smoothly without any major problems.

But what I never expected was that after everything was ready and about to set off, a series of tragedies occurred on the ships docked at the pier, and the ships where the tragedies occurred were all ships that clergy from various churches had booked to board.

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Although there were only a few ships where tragedies occurred, accounting for only a small part of the scheduled ships, and there was no clear indication that these tragedies were directed at the church, the church did not hide its past and temporarily changed the itineraries of all traveling clergy.

The cabins reserved in advance were also withdrawn, and the entire ship was completely chartered. The crew members were also replaced by people from their own church to avoid any possible dangers.

In this way, all the plans Halesa had made before were ruined. The only way to remedy the situation was to find a cover that could help him block the anti-smuggling dogs. Soon he found a man from the old continent who brought his whole family to the new continent.

Noble, but this noble status is not enough to completely protect him from the inspection of the anti-smuggling ship. He also needs to find another passenger who can complement his noble status.

At this time, he saw a suitable candidate, a Knight of the Church of the False Heart who was looking for an ocean liner at the dock.

Just like the vast majority of people in this world, Halesa would never have anything to do with anyone from the Church of False Heart if possible, because people from the Church of False Heart, whether they are church knights or senior clergy,

Even ordinary believers, no matter how normal they look on the surface, are still a madman inside, a madman who can explode at any time and do all kinds of incredible things.

He once saw a senior cleric from the Church of False Heart. One moment he was joking with others, and the next moment he suddenly killed the people around him who were joking with him, and the reason was that he heard

Someone told him in his ear that he should kill the man, otherwise the man would kill more people.

If ordinary people say or do this, they will definitely not escape the death penalty. But the problem is that the Church of False Heart is different. They call this a revelation, and this kind of revelation is recognized by most of the true God churches and countries.

In the end, the clergyman who killed someone for no apparent reason will be acquitted.

It is precisely because the people in the Church of False Heart are murderers who can break out at any time, and they are murderers who will not be held accountable. Therefore, people from all over the world will actively avoid people from the Church of False Heart and will not interact with them.

Even some church clergy will avoid having too much contact with the Church of False Heart.

If it were in the past, Halesa would also avoid people from the Church of False Heart, but the situation is different now. He now needs a shelter that can protect him from wind and rain, and everyone hates and fears False Heart.

The clergy of the Church of Heart naturally became the best choice.

Moreover, through the conversation, Halesa also discovered that this church knight was actually ordered to buy a boat ticket, and the person who could order the knight of the Church of the False Heart, even if he was not a senior cleric of the Church of the False Heart, was definitely his identity.

He is an unusual church figure, and this is more in line with his requirements.

"Have all the guests been arranged?" Because it was the Church of False Heart, the cautious Halesa did not go to greet them in person, but left everything to the first officer.

"Everything has been arranged. The rooms of the two groups of guests have been arranged separately, and they should go through different corridors. There should be no contact." The first mate reported the situation, and then added: "But the Knights of the Church of False Heart

It seems that these people are not members of the Church of False Heart, judging from their temperament, they should be that of two great nobles."

"A great noble?" Halesa was stunned and asked, "How big is it?"

The first mate recalled it carefully and said: "At least the Duke-level lady, especially the noble lady, gave me the feeling that I was meeting the queen. Just one look made me dare not raise my head to take another look."

When Halesa heard the first mate's words, he couldn't help but fell into deep thought. He did not question his first mate's words because he knew very well that his first mate had a much higher vision of people than he did, judging from his clothing and temperament.

A person's identity is his specialty. He has basically never failed in the past many years. Therefore, he said that among the guests he welcomed, there were two people whose identities were comparable to the Duke and the Queen. Then the identity of the other party must be the Duke and the Queen, or their status.

Other identities corresponding to it.

Although a guest with a higher identity can indeed prevent some troubles more effectively, this same identity that exceeds expectations may also cause some unnecessary troubles.

The two mysterious passengers, who may be top dignitaries, can command the knights of the Church of False Heart at will. Hailesa has never encountered this kind of thing in the past, and has never even heard of it. You must know that False Heart

The clergy and knights of the church are known for being uncontrollable. Unless they are the gods they believe in, even the king will never be able to command them arbitrarily.

Obviously this common sense that has been circulating for many years has now been broken, and for Halesa, he does not want this kind of breaking of common sense to happen around him, especially when he takes on such a difficult commission.

"Should we let them..." As a partner for many years, the first mate could easily see through Halesa's thoughts, and then asked tentatively.

Before the first mate could finish speaking, Halesa shook his head and said: "No, since they have come up, they are our passengers. Just ask the people below to treat them as normal, and try to have as little contact with them as possible. I feel

They are also in big trouble, and if they come into contact too much, they might get us into trouble."

After saying that, he asked the first mate to check the overall condition of the ship and supplies, then walked to the copper pipe next to the steering wheel, removed the plug, and shouted a few words inside, while the steam engine room at the other end of the pipe received the

command, start ignition and combustion, and slowly start the steam engine.

With the sound of the whistle, the steam-sailed dual-power ship started slowly under the control of the captain's skilled driving skills, avoiding the large and small ships docked in the sheltered bay of the pier, and sailed into the sea, heading in the direction of the old continent.

Drive away.

Just as the ship left the Old World, a black shadow emerged from the Daru Temple on the cliff, fell into the sea, and disappeared.

At the same time, a ray of light invisible to ordinary people shot out from the top of a non-existent nine-story building in the center of Baicheng District and penetrated into the sky. Although this ray of light was invisible to ordinary people, some extraordinary people could see it clearly.

They were curious and surprised about where the light appeared, and when they were about to check it out, the idea of ​​checking it suddenly disappeared inexplicably, and they continued what they were doing before as if they had forgotten about it.
Chapter completed!