On the eighth day of departure from Hong Kong, there were still two hours before nightfall.
"Pirates! Pirates! Pirates appear on the port side at 36 degrees!" The lookout's loud voice echoed through the Kunya. Quines, who was studying the newly acquired mysterious knowledge in the cabin, learned the news through Breeze Scout.
Soon, there was a knock on the door of the cabin. Quins stood up and walked out of the door. In the meantime, Eugene and Daisy also walked out of the cabin.
Andrea: "The captain asked the three of you to come to the deck immediately."
Eugene asked in a deep voice: "What happened?" There were only two hours before nightfall, but asking them to go to the deck was obviously not a trivial matter.
Andrea hurriedly replied: "There are pirates."
The three of them looked at each other and stepped towards the deck in unison.
Arriving on the deck, the sailors were already waiting seriously. The captain stood at the front on the port side, with the ship's doctor Caroline standing behind him. The first mate was not here, but at the helm.
The captain put down the monocular telescope in his hand and handed it to the ship's doctor, Caroline: "Here we come, prepare yourself first and be equipped for battle at any time."
"Sir Captain, what kind of pirate is that?" Eugene asked.
As soon as the three of them got on the deck, they saw five nautical miles away, a three-masted sailing ship similar to the Kunya was moored there. The bright skulls and bloody crossed scimitars on the sails already indicated their identities.
"The Bloody Scimitar Pirates are a small pirate group with two pirate ships. The strange thing is that we only see one now." Caroline explained at the side.
Daisy said with some worry: "But it will be night soon. If there is a naval battle, there will inevitably be casualties. It is really hard to say whether we can survive the night."
In fact, this is a problem that all ships sailing in Wangyue Neihu have to face. If they fight, can they survive the night? If they don’t fight, there will be a time bomb next to them. Who knows whether the other party will directly attack them after nightfall.
If you bump the ship over and divert the trouble eastwards, things will get serious.
Therefore, when sailing in the inner lake, both parties will tacitly choose to wait and see, and then slowly withdraw from the sight of both parties. But this is not absolute, especially for pirates who blatantly fly the pirate flag.
It is not impossible to come to a pick-up station after nightfall against aberrations. At this time, it depends on the distribution of strength between the two sides. Because the pirates are the active side, they can tilt the distribution of strength in the early and middle stages. At this time, they will be attacked.
Fang felt uncomfortable. Whether the strength was evenly distributed or skewed, he was focusing on one thing at the expense of the other. He was completely passive, and the chance of being captured skyrocketed.
After the three of them understood this relationship from the ship's doctor, Caroline, they all knew why the captain was inclined to fight at sea. If they don't fight now, there will be more variables after nightfall. Everyone present is extraordinary, and no one wants to risk their own lives.
The destiny is in the hands of others. Moreover, the Qunnia has an advantage, they have three more transcendents. If Adela does not take advantage of this, he will not have to be the captain.
After the two sides were in a stalemate for ten minutes, the Bloody Scimitar Pirates began to slowly retreat.
Captain Adela crossed her arms and gave the order: "Catch him, don't let him escape."
At this time, Quins was touching his chin with both hands, thoughtfully. After discovering the Blood Pirates, he sent the Breeze Scouts there, and the information the Breeze Scouts detected made his heart drop in half.
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There were only more than twenty people on that ship, two extraordinary beings, and everyone was injured. The previous stalemate was obviously a bluff, and then the slow retreat seemed like a semi-compromise signal. We are well versed in the survival of Wangyue Lake.
Dao. But no matter how good their calculations are, they can't do anything when they meet a shrewd hunter. No matter how much they do, they can't stop Adela's plan to nip the threat in the bud.
Seeing that the Kunya was advancing instead of retreating, the Bloody Scimitar Pirates did not pretend to retreat slowly, but instead filled up their sails and fled towards the distance.
This time, Adela and others no longer hesitated, and the pirates had almost exposed their bottom.
For a time, the two ships were chasing each other on the sea.
If we were to rank the most popular extraordinary talents on ships sailing at sea, doctors would definitely be ranked first, and among the next three rankings, extraordinary people who mastered long-range attacks, water elements, and wind elements would be the most popular.
Equally divided.
Needless to say, there is no need to talk about the elements of Feng Shui, but if there are extraordinary people who can master long-range attacks, they will be very advantageous in naval battles. They can often take the lead or destroy the power source of enemy ships.
The two sides chased for half an hour, and the distance was only slightly closed.
"If we continue like this, we will definitely not be able to catch up before nightfall," Eugene said proactively, "Let me try."
Adela nodded and said, "Leave it to you."
After eight days of getting along, Adela learned from Pepys the basic abilities of Eugene. As a wild hunter, archery ability was a particularly important part of their combat strength.
He took out a small recurve bow that was only half the size of a normal bow from his back, and then pulled out a light red arrow that was only about the length of a palm from the side of his thigh.
Quins narrowed his eyes slightly and instantly determined that the bow and sword in Eugene's hand were rare items. Otherwise, such a short bow and arrow would not be enough to span a distance of five nautical miles. Of course, even a normal recurve bow would
There is no one with a range of five nautical miles.
Eugene put on the arrow and slowly pulled out the bowstring. Wisps of invisible elemental power flowed from the snake-shaped finger on his hand into the brown bowstring. Endless energy was stored in the bowstring.
Slowly, the overflowing elemental power spread from the bowstring to the arrow, and an invisible flame slowly burned on the pale red arrow.
Finally, Eugene's energy seemed to have reached a critical point and collapsed!
The invisible bowstring echoed on the Qunnia. In Quines' eyes, the powerful arrow turned into a faint red line and headed straight to the blood-drip pirate ship in the distance. Then, there was a bang that broke the sound barrier.
The sound reached his ears belatedly.
Quins cast his gaze into the distance, and through the surveillance of Breeze Scout, just when Eugene began to accumulate strength, the captain of the bloody Scimitar pirate ship, whose chest was tightly bandaged and still leaking blood, frowned.
His eyes were fixed on the direction of the Kuniya.
Afterwards, seeing the light red arrow shot by Eugene, the captain of the Bloody Scimitar almost jumped up. Eugene's arrow was not heading towards someone on the ship, but its flight path had a small
The small upward arc is directed towards the mast and sail.
Once shot, all that awaits the Bloody Scimitar Pirates is death.
"Tennyson, protect the sail." Captain Bloody flexibly rushed to the central mast. The scimitar he always held in his hand slashed through the air three times, blocking the most likely trajectory of the arrow.
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At the same time, a tower-like giant stepped behind the Bloody Captain in a few steps, roared loudly, and a faint khaki light film spread out from the man's body, covering most of the sail in the center.
Bang!
The expected collision did not happen. Instead, when the pale red arrows flew over the pirate ship, they exploded and countless small rockets fell towards the pirate ship below like a meteor shower.
The Bloody Captain cursed loudly, and the scimitar in his hand almost turned into an afterimage and slashed towards the meteor shower above. The injured pirates below were already in chaos, and the already low morale reached a new low.
Duh duh duh!
Ding ding ding ding!
The defense composed of the khaki light film and the bleeding captain withstood most of the meteor shower, but the meteor shower covered too much area, saving the sail in the center, but the two masts on both sides had already ignited sparks of fire.
"It's over." Captain Bloody looked at the missing sailor below, and sat down slumped, everything was irreversible.