Starting from the Mediterranean Sea, Wang Hao has been sailing on the sea for a week.
In the offshore area, there are not many active attacking monsters around, and the chance of encountering severe weather such as storms is much smaller. As long as you have certain common sense, it is not a big problem to make money by running a business. The only difference is that you can make more or less.
However, interstate ocean trade is two different concepts. From the moment the two ships enter the Atlantic Ocean, they will encounter a group of pirates with ferocious faces roaring towards them every few dozen minutes on average.
With the strength of the "Golden Meili", even if these pirates were one level higher than Wang Hao, it would not be difficult for Wang Hao to deal with them.
For this trip to the Caribbean, he had prepared hundreds of primary rescue devices, and also spent a high price to obtain five life-saving intermediate rescue devices. It should be easy to cope with this sea journey.
The only troublesome thing is the safety during the offline period. The game company has considered this when designing. After all, players cannot stay in the game for a long time, especially when conducting ocean trade, which often lasts for ten days or half a game.
Damn it, if the ship is destroyed when the player is not online, then the previous efforts will be in vain, which is unfair to the player.
Therefore, the game company has specially launched a consumable prop for this purpose - Neptune's Guardian. Turn on Neptune's Guardian before going offline. Then players do not have to worry about being attacked by wild monsters, players, or storms while offline.
If it sinks, of course it cannot be used during combat.
This prop is the product of a system update a few days ago when a player named Abia accidentally discovered the entrance to the Suez Canal while crossing the Red Sea.
The construction of the Suez Canal has also officially begun, and the official has prepared a countdown to clearly inform the players that the construction of the canal will be completed in sixty days.
Those who are familiar with world history should know the impact of this canal on trade between the East and the West.
The same is true in the game. This canal allows north-south two-way water transportation between Europe and Asia without having to go around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa, which greatly saves sailing distance.
Wang Hao felt something was wrong after receiving a prompt from the system that day. The canal seemed to be opened half a year earlier than in the previous life. The advantage is that trade between the east and west will inevitably start earlier, which will be detrimental to the prosperity of both sides.
There are benefits to the economy.
The disadvantage is that as the distance factor is weakened, the conflicts between the two sides will be exposed in advance, and no one can tell when the first conflict will occur.
Many people, including Wang Hao, are supportive of this. After all, the original intention of this game is to transfer real-life conflicts into the game. Without war, I believe many people would feel that life would be too boring.
Stimulated by this incident, players from both the east and west have stepped up their exploration of the unknown seas and moved forward bit by bit. It is said that players from Europe and Asia have successfully joined forces at the Cape of Good Hope.
When this piece of news spreads back to their respective countries, it will inevitably set off a wave of outward exploration, attracting more and more people to join.
If this trend continues, players from Europe and Asia will be able to set foot on each other's territory without waiting for the completion of the Suez Canal.
Objectively speaking, Europeans do have many innate advantages in this regard, and they are more likely to be the first to set foot in Asia.
The above does not have much to do with Wang Hao for the time being. He only needs to rush back to Europe before the Suez Canal is completed.
We are very close to the American continent, and the seagulls flying overhead from time to time are the best proof.
Wang Hao took out the navigation diary given by Baron Abraham. He has been studying the contents of this diary these days. He can see that the person who left this diary is not a careful person. The information recorded in it is very messy.
And vague, basically I write whatever comes to my mind, and sometimes I don’t leave any written records for many days in a row.
Unfortunately, there are no more reminders in the task record.
It's not that there is no way. Wang Hao noticed that this diary mentioned a place called Devil's Island many times. Perhaps the answers to all the puzzles can be found there.
Before that, he first had to find a local player and ask where this Devil's Island was.
Although it has entered the waters of America, it is still an endless sea and there are no traces of player activities.
This may be related to the pride in the bones of Americans. In the eyes of these people, the United States is the most powerful, richest, most civilized, and freest country, whether in reality or in games, and is the worthy center of the world.
Even players from continental Europe feel a bit like poor relatives in their eyes. This kind of pride has long been integrated into their bones and blood.
Because of this, their desire for external expansion and exploration is not very strong, and they have a strong sense of isolationism.
This is also the reason why in the last historical battle in Europe, only a small number of Americans participated, and most of them stayed outside to watch the excitement.
Many people even shouted the slogan "They fight their money, we transfer our money" and increased investment in workshops and plantations. This seemed a bit stupid in the early days and was criticized by many foreign experts.
It is believed that this development method has fallen behind the times.
Time is the best proof.
While other countries are watching and staged various eye-catching and exciting battles, the United States is immersed in development; while other countries are competing for regional hegemony, the United States is still focused on farming. As the hegemon of several continents in the world, it prepares for a war with its elite
When it's higher.
The peerless commander, the elite fleet tempered by hundreds of battles, and the arrogant top masters were all defeated in front of the tide of American ships.
While the average shipyard in other countries is only level 3, the average in the United States is level 5. While other countries are still celebrating that the number of domestic shipyards has exceeded 1,000, the United States is already troubled by having nearly 10,000 shipyards. When other countries
While people in this country are still worrying about raw materials, Americans who own a large number of workshops and plantations are considering whether to destroy some excess materials.
Americans say: Strategy is not as good as others. I have ships, but no one has more ships. I have a massive dock, and I can drag you to death. I am not as elite as others, and my massive fleet is enough to make up for any gap.
In the last life, it was precisely with this set of extremely shameless tactics that the Americans once again became the sole overlord in the game.
Now that Wang Hao is here, will he be able to bring about any changes?
