Before the smuggling gang could react, Su Lun sent Jike onto the merchant ship bound for Luying.
For his disciple, Su Lun felt that he had done everything he should do, and he had to walk the road ahead by himself.
Su Lun left the dock, changed her clothes, and mingled with the crowd again.
As for the smuggling gang's revenge, Su Lun didn't care too much.
Unless he said that he had been very careful, there was a high probability that the other party would not know of his existence.
What's more, even if someone else brings the problem, it's not a big deal.
I have inquired before, and the boss of this gang is only at the fourth level.
In Old Lingtown, gangsters are in order to survive. The harsh living environment also makes the three major gangs have many ruthless characters...
In the surface world, most gangsters are lazy and have few real skills. At least, this is true for gangs in small cities like Blizzard City.
Even if he couldn't beat him, he was still somewhat sure of protecting himself.
After not going out for a few days, Su Lun was not in a hurry to go back. Instead, he went to the market for a walk, intending to buy some alchemy materials.
The magic core in the North is high-quality and cheap. It is much richer than the pure dark energy element of cursed crystals, and can meet more alchemical needs. There are also some consumables for enchanted runes that need to be replenished.
Then I went to the black market and picked up some scattered nautical charts from several nautical shops, as well as adventure maps from the "Silent Forest".
That's right, it's the black market.
The fine nautical charts and maps of this world are all military contraband. Cartographer is also a very rare and noble profession, exclusive to the major nobles. Except for the official Lu Ying, anyone who dares to print it privately is a felony of "espionage". Therefore,
Most of the nautical charts in the world are hand-drawn versions by sailors and adventurers. They are not very accurate and have many deviations and errors. They are also very expensive.
But something is better than nothing. Su Lun feels that for people like him who may run away at any time, it is always good to prepare more maps.
After shopping around, Su Lun also found a lot of useful materials.
The fact that twenty or thirty people died in the Blacksmith Hotel was probably also known to the senior officials of the "Smuggling Gang". Various gangsters could be seen everywhere on the street looking for people.
Su Lun didn't look worried at all. He found a hotel and got a room.
Early next morning.
Su Lun arrived at the pier of Blizzard City early in the morning.
The slaves from the "Sun Slave Trading Company" will transport Lu Ying across the sea today.
Su Lun deliberately came a quarter of an hour early, wandered around the dock, and confirmed that the group of Daru people were on the slave ship.
Jutta, who was mixed in the crowd, also smelled the scent of the tribesmen.
The two pretended not to know each other and got on the boat one after another.
Su Lun also made a special observation and found that one of the three people he had been following followed Yuta to the dock.
But the guy didn't get on the boat.
Su Lun didn't think those people had given up tracking.
On the contrary, this is a very clever alternate tracking method to confuse the public.
Now, even Su Lun couldn't tell who was the stalker in the crowd.
However, he became more and more curious, what exactly were these people following Juta for?
Not long after, the fleet lifted anchor and set sail, and each three-masted sailboat left the harbor.
It was almost the same as when we came here, with a total of ten ships traveling together. However, large trading companies like the Sun Merchant Guild had their own escort teams and did not need accompanying adventurers. Suellen and Jutta mixed in with the merchant ships at the back.
The flight to Luying is not short, and there are many opportunities to get started.
Su Lun's original plan was to wait for a dark and windy night, or stormy weather, and use the cover of night and sea fog to cross over from the sea and directly hijack the ship containing the demihuman slaves.
He has [Steinitz's chessboard] and [Oz the Iceman's Shroud] in his hands, so it is difficult to be discovered. Even if the fourth-level escort leader is on the ship, he can escape without causing too much noise.
uniform.
The ideal situation is to hijack the slave ship and leave quietly without anyone noticing.
However, the only thing Su Lun thought was a variable was the person following Jutta.
Unable to figure out the other party's purpose, he becomes more cautious.
Su Lun's perception could not cover the following ships. He was not sure if there were masters beyond his ability, so he kept observing silently.
The wind was calm and sunny during the day, and the fleet sailed smoothly.
Probably God was also helping them with their robbery plan. Not long after nightfall, heavy fog filled the sea.
The air suddenly became cold and humid, and Su Lunli, who was reading a book in the cabin, immediately realized something.
Looking out of the ventilation opening of his cabin, faint weapons gradually floated on the sea.
Su Lun felt the humidity in the air, and it seemed that the fog would become thicker.
This is a good sign.
Obviously, the navigator on the ship also discovered something unusual. At this time, the second officer on the ship also informed the adventurers in the cabin one by one: "We have entered the fog area, everyone, be careful of pirates!"
It is normal to encounter fog at sea. Both the sailors and the adventurers on the ship are calm. It is time to sleep and brag.
Su Lun estimated that the fog would last another hour or two, and would be thickest at midnight, so it was best to take action at that time.
He never thought that before he could take action until the fog thickened, someone would take action before him!
He was reading a book when suddenly he heard fierce fighting noises coming from the ships behind him.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
""
It was the sound of gunfire and swords touching each other.
Immediately, the entire fleet started to make a fuss.
"Be alert! Be alert!"
"Everyone, prepare to fight!"
""
The sound of hurried footsteps suddenly sounded on the deck, and the sound of loading ammunition was also heard from the artillery cabin.
Flares shot out in the sky.
Soon, everyone saw clearly what happened.
"Damn it, it's that guy Hozy! He's here to rob the slave ship again!"
"Oh~ I was shocked. I thought I met pirates. Hozy is not a pirate. They only rescue slaves and will not rob normal merchants. Don't worry too much."
"But we have signed a joint defense agreement. If we don't help and that guy takes away the slaves of the Sun Trading Company, we will also have to pay huge liquidated damages!"
""
Su Lun followed the crowd onto the deck. When he heard that the person who took action was "Fist of Justice" Hodge, his expression became even weirder.
He suddenly realized something, and the fragments of clues in his mind immediately connected together.
Too many coincidences come together, and some of them may be intentional.
"Isn't it possible that the person following Juta is Hozy's subordinate?"
The more Su Lun thought about it, the more likely it seemed.
There are many slaves going out to sea in Blizzard City every day. So many slave ships are not intercepted, but this one is intercepted?
Su Lun thought that the only difference between these slaves was that there was a Druid Yuta who had a high status among the Daru tribe!
But, what is the purpose of doing this?
To win the favor of the Daru people to achieve a certain purpose?
Su Lun thought about some information he had recently obtained. That Hozy was active on the front lines of the "Slave Liberation Movement" and had a good reputation among the foreign races, and he had also built up a powerful team.
"Tsk, that's interesting."
If he really came to liberate slaves, then Su Lun really admired this Hozy.
But now it seems that this guy's motives are not pure.
The person following Jutta is obviously a professional espionage officer, which is not something that can be cultivated by ordinary forces. From this point of view, Hozy is no longer a single-handed "hero of the slave liberation movement". There is probably another person behind him.
Huge forces are secretly supporting it.
Anyone who has the strength to play like this is either a top noble or the Luying royal family.
Su Lun frowned when he thought of this.
Don't think too much, the purpose of those people doing this is probably for the vast land like the northern ice field and the alien races on the ice field.
Before Su Lun could think about the reality, the fierce battle on the sea attracted his attention.
Su Lun's eyesight was much better than others, and he saw at a glance some people fighting on the ship with the "Northern Chamber of Commerce" flag in the fog.
They want to seize the ship.
There are still some people who resist again.
However, the battle was almost one-sided because the sturdy man wearing silver lion armor on the deck was none other than the fifth-level professional "Fist of Justice" Hodge.
The great bounty hunter who once killed pirates with a bounty of over 100 million!
With him present, the guards and adventurers from the small chamber of commerce had no room to resist.
Hozy jumped on the deck and shouted, his voice like a bell: "I am Hozy Soriano, we are here to liberate the slaves and spare the lives of innocent people! But if you dare to stop us, you will be treated as a dirty slave."
Shang’s lackeys, shoot without mercy!”
As soon as these words came out, they exerted pressure on everyone.
On several other ships other than Sun Trading Company, the sound of supporting gunfire was immediately extinguished.
If nothing else, this guy's reputation is not bad. Although slave traders hate him, in the eyes of ordinary traders, there is no bad impression. As he said, he is here to rescue slaves. For protection
It is obviously unwise for a wealthy man from a large commercial bank to go against such a great master.
A fifth-level professional suddenly appeared in the fleet, and Su Lun frowned when he saw it.
However, there is no sense of crisis.
After all, it wasn't for him.
What's more, no matter what Hozy's motives were, those people's purpose of saving the slaves was the same as Suellen's.
Having such a fifth-level master take action also saved him some effort.
Su Lun didn't intend to show off his face at this juncture.
He was on the deck, watching the show with the others with great interest.
At this time, Yuta, who was mixed in the crowd, also called through the communicator, "Mr. Su Lun, I want to go see my tribe first!"
Su Lun thought about it,
Huo Qi wanted to save people and gain favor, so he would definitely not harm those mainland masters.
There is no danger if Yuta goes.
He responded: "Well! Pay more attention, that person may be the one who sent people to follow you recently."
Yuta's response came from the communicator: "Okay!"
As he spoke, a figure jumped into the sea
The battle did not last long, and the people led by Hozy quickly quelled the resistance.
Not long after, Su Lun looked at the three slave ships and the slaves were also released.
At this moment, several boat silhouettes slowly appeared in the fog not far away, and they seemed to be people coming to pick up Hozy.
Su Lun thought it would be good to end like this.
Anyway, they were rescued, which saved me a lot of effort.
However, at this moment, something unexpected happened.
Su Lun's ears moved slightly, and he heard the sound of "quacking" birds coming from the sky.
In the night, those dark birds were inconspicuous. Even with his eyesight, he could only see some black shadows flying from a distance.
"crow?"
Su Lun looked up and frowned.
When he was in Old Lington, he personally killed a guy who kept crows, and he knew some of the habits of this ominous bird.
Crows cannot fly long distances.
Now that crows appear on the sea, it means that someone on the nearby ship is taming them!
Moreover, the sound of flapping wings is getting denser and denser, and it is obvious that there are quite a few of them.
Su Lun had a bad feeling in his heart.
At this moment, more than ten red-eyed crows had landed on the mast of the deck of the ship where he was staying.
Seeing this red-eyed crow, Su Lun immediately thought of the man he saw in the pirate tavern three days ago, "The Godfather of Crows" Gwembo Mari!
"not good!"
As soon as he realized something, his pupils shrank suddenly. Before he could say anything, the crows flashed red in their eyes and suddenly flew down, flapping around to attack the people on the deck.
When they encountered an attack, the adventurers on the deck were not slow to respond. They were shouting and firing random shots.
Crackling, the sound went out in an instant.
It was just a few crows killed, and no one cared about it at all.
"Unlucky! Why did I encounter crows on the sea?"
"Haha, my marksmanship is pretty good, this stupid bird can shoot two with one shot!"
""
What they didn't see was that the crow was hit by a bullet and sputtered into a ball of blood mist in the air.
"It's really that magic technique."
Su Lun squinted at the clouds of blood mist, and was already sure of the crow's origin.
He has been hit by this trick before, and he is very familiar with it. This is the curse [Plague Crow's Septic Blood Curse]!
He didn't know what the principle of this technique was before, but now his perception is clear. At the moment when the crow exploded into blood mist, tiny soul particles like a sandstorm appeared in his eyes. In an extreme time,
It permeated the entire sea surface.
This blood is the agent of the parasitic curse!
"Now the fleet is in big trouble."
Upon seeing this, Su Lun immediately performed a magic trick and put on a crow's mouth gas mask as if he had changed his face.
Others on the boat did not react and had already inhaled some blood mist.
The next moment, a strange picture appeared!
Some people on the deck suddenly felt that there was a foreign object blocking their throats and stretched out their fingers to pull it out.
With this click, living crows came out of the mouth!
More and more people, as if they were possessed, staged the strange scene of picking at crows. More and more crows were spit out, and in an instant it was overwhelming.
Su Lun looked at him solemnly.
This spell was much more powerful than what he had encountered before. He looked at the crows in the sky and muttered in his heart: "The curse spell released by the fourth-level professional is indeed much more powerful than the second-level one."
"Oh, damn, what the hell is this!"
"It's a curse! Be careful, don't touch those crows!"
"It's a parasitic curse, it won't be fatal for the time being. But if the curse is not lifted, we will be sucked to death sooner or later!"
"Damn it, the 'Elementary Curse Potion' is useless! If anyone has an advanced one, sell me one!"
"Everyone, be careful, it may be a pirate attack! I have heard of this method. Recently, a new pirate appeared on the sea, nicknamed "Crow""
""
Everyone was blinded by this curse.
Have absolutely no idea what happened.
There were wailing sounds everywhere on the deck and in the cabin.
Su Lun was also puzzled. Then Hozy would just save people, so why did he come here again?
Could it be that Hozy is from the King of the North Sea?
But obviously, it's not.
Looking from a distance, the "Fist of Justice" Hodge was also staring at the ships in the fog with a solemn expression.
It seemed that he didn't know either.
Su Lun followed the guy's gaze and saw the shadows of several large ships in the night fog. As he got closer, he saw clearly that the flags on the mast were actually mace skulls.
flag!
That is the fleet of the King of the North Sea!
really,
The one who controls the crows is Gwen Bu!
Su Lun immediately guessed something, and as soon as he turned his eyes, he figured it out in an instant: "Hoqi is being targeted by the King of the North Sea?"
He realized that tonight seemed to be a "serial game".
Hozy came to rescue the slaves, but the North Sea King's people had already been watching him.
Hozy's action of rescuing the slaves made his reputation among the foreign tribes in the North grow bigger and bigger, and the trend is getting worse. This behavior is indeed a big threat to the prestige of the King of the North Sea.
Su Lun felt that if it were him, he probably wouldn't let him continue to make trouble like this.
He glanced at Jutta. The curse seemed to have no effect on her as a druid. She was releasing a spell to dispel the cursed blood mist on the slave ship where the demihumans were held.
Seeing this, Su Lun was not in a hurry to make any move, and quietly watched the changes in the situation.
Not long after, the crew on the mast also saw the pirate flag and shouted: "Pirates are attacking!"
This sound immediately caused the fleet to explode.
"Damn, how come there are pirates?!"
"No, it's the North Sea Fleet."
""
The merchant ship captains immediately ordered: "Quickly, turn the rudder and return! Notify other merchant ships to form arrays and prepare artillery to sink those damn pirates!"
Normally, cargo ships cannot outrun pirate ships.
Especially for ships returning from the Northland, the ship is loaded with too much cargo, has a deep draft, and the speed will be very slow.
In order to rob, pirate ships pursue portability.
Therefore, there is a high probability that you will not be able to escape by running. The only way to fight to the death may be to delay reinforcements.
The businessmen can leave Hozy alone because they know that Hozy is not a pirate and has a bottom line as a human being.
But if you really encounter pirates, you have to fight to the death!
When caught by pirates, except for a few valuable ones, they will be kept in exchange for ransom. For others, even if they can survive, especially the female family members, life would be worse than death!
The artillery fire suddenly rang out, and for a while, there was a loud roar
Hozy obviously also understood that those people were coming for him.
He knew that if he stayed on the slave ship, these foreign slaves would be affected, and all the slave work he had done before would be in vain.
Thinking about it, he jumped off the slave ship and jumped onto the merchant ship he had robbed before.