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Chương 34: Pirate Attack

The "Lucky Sailor" cargo ship sailed smoothly all the way north. Unconsciously, 16 days had passed.

They only made a brief supply stop at another commercial free port - Port Bardo during the journey, where they purchased some fresh water, fresh vegetables, fresh meat, and large barrels of rum.

For the rest of the time, they were traveling at top speed day and night.

Due to the fine weather along the way, with sunny and pleasant days every day, their voyage was very smooth, and thus they were getting closer and closer to the territory.

According to Bette's estimation, they should be able to reach the destination in another four to five days.

Of course, it wouldn't have been this fast originally. Because the maritime transportation in this world is not developed, ships, in order to avoid risks, all travel along the coastline in a winding manner. Not to mention the long distance of the journey, and they can't sail at night either.

But Bette invented a set of compass instruments and a method of stellar positioning himself.

As long as the weather is good, not only can they travel day and night, but they also don't need to follow the coastline and can sail in the deep sea. Such a direct sailing route greatly shortens the voyage.

Once a certain shipping route has been traveled once and recorded on the compass instrument, the operation becomes extremely simple.

As long as they keep in the direction indicated by the compass instrument, they can steadily reach the destination.

Therefore, the voyage that originally took about two months was forcibly compressed to about 20 days by Bette.

If the speed of the ship could be further increased, according to Bette, he could shorten the time to within 10 days.

Although the voyage time has been shortened a lot, and they don't need to continue to toss and turn on the sea, Ron is not happy.

These days, he has been thinking every day about how to solve the problems of housing and supplies in the territory.

And he asked the three wilderness experts who were going to the territory with him. Some of them said that they could build simple winter shelters, and some said that they could first look for natural shelters.

Although the methods were different, they all said that as long as the warmth preservation work was done well, they could survive the winter.

But when Ron asked them if the above methods could store winter supplies, they all shook their heads.

Those supplies could only be left in the wild, and at most, some waterproof work could be done.

However, Ron knew that there weren't enough waterproof materials brought on this ship.

In this way, it was unknown whether the supplies could be waterproof and whether they would be damaged by some large creatures.

These were actually okay. After all, in the dead of winter, even if they weren't waterproof and were damaged by other creatures, not much would be lost.

The most feared were those intelligent enemies.

Even if he repelled the enemy's attack, but as long as they secretly sent someone to set the supplies on fire, they would still be doomed.

It was said that the orcs would brave the severe cold and cross over Mount Gordo to raid every winter.

If they saw so many supplies left in the wild, wouldn't they call the entire orc tribe over?

Ron didn't want to cause trouble for himself. When he asked them again if there was a reliable way to protect the winter supplies, they all said it could only depend on providence.

Ron couldn't accept this statement. If it was really as they said, just build a simple shelter, do a good job of warmth preservation, leave the supplies in the wild, and then pray for God's blessing, Ron thought it would be certain death.

But for a moment, he couldn't think of a good way to build a warehouse that could store so many supplies?

Because of this matter, Ron couldn't sleep well every day. He thought so hard that his hair was falling out in handfuls, but still couldn't come up with a good solution.

"Why do you still have such a bitter expression?" Bette handed a steaming cup of coffee to Ron, who was sitting at the bow of the ship in a daze.

"Thank you!" Ron took the coffee and said with a wry smile, "I still can't think of a way to solve the problem of storing supplies! It's estimated to be a difficult winter."

"Let me give you a suggestion. How about that?" Bette said mysteriously.

"Oh? What good advice do you have?"

"Well, it can't be called a good advice." Bette waved his hand and said, "It's just a fallback option.

"Suppose, I mean suppose, your supplies are really damaged. You give up the territory and move along the only road. There is a border fortress 50 miles away, and you can save your lives there!"

"You just wait until the sea thaws in the spring of the next year, and we will send supplies again. Of course, you have to always be on the lookout for the people in the fortress. Some of them might try to get rid of you!"

"Thank you for your suggestion. I have considered this matter too!" Ron did think about this, but he felt it was even more dangerous there.

If he wasn't wrong, the people who raided the territory might have come from there.

Ron believed that there must be hostile forces hidden there, but he just didn't know the number.

Without supplies, perhaps they could still survive by relying on wilderness survival skills.

If they went there, it was very likely to be like sheep walking into a tiger's den. You simply wouldn't know who in there would attack you.

Although he himself did have the ability to avoid assassination, Christie and the others couldn't.

Ron couldn't accept this situation either.

Just when Ron was at a loss, he suddenly saw a medium-sized cargo ship coming head-on in front.

Looking at that direction, it seemed to be crashing right into the bow of the "Lucky Sailor". Ron was immediately startled.

"Bette, a ship is coming towards us!"

"Don't worry!" Bette said easily, "They will make way by themselves in a while! This is their old trick!"

"What do you mean?" Ron didn't understand at all what Bette was saying: "What them? What old trick!"

"Oh!" Bette suddenly realized and explained, "I forgot that it's your first time on board and you don't know the situation."

"These are all pirates, specializing in raiding our cargo ships. Although they are called pirates, in fact, they all have official backgrounds. The purpose is to prevent us from conducting maritime transportation."

"See the skull flag on the other ship? Pirates with this flag indicate that they are supported by the Leake family. If it's a sword and knife flag, it means they are pirates supported by the The Edelung Family."

"These two families have suffered serious losses due to the development of maritime transportation. Their territories are located in the center of the empire, with convenient transportation and they are also the necessary routes to various important towns. Therefore, in the past, when it relied on land transportation, they could earn a lot just by collecting high transit taxes every year without doing anything.

"But because of their existence, many families in our Lane Town have suffered huge losses, especially our Moore family. I still clearly remember that once there was a food shortage at the border. After our family received the news, we organized a lot of manpower and material resources and voluntarily transported food to the border.

"Among them, all the manpower, material resources, and the emergency food sent to the border were all purchased by our family with our own funds. The empire didn't contribute a penny. We mobilized thousands of people, hundreds of knights, countless ox carts and horse-drawn carriages, traveling day and night, just to deliver the food to the front line earlier. But at such a critical moment, these two families not only didn't reduce the toll, but instead raised the price by a full thirty times. That time, for the sake of the soldiers at the front line being able to have food, we endured! We immediately paid in cash from the Imperial Capital Chamber of Commerce and continued on our way just to avoid losing the food."

"But since then, our family has been determined to develop the maritime transportation route. And the person who led all this, you also know! She was only seven years old at that time!"

"Feli?" Ron was greatly surprised and tentatively asked.

Bette nodded slightly, his eyes full of admiration: "So you have never thought about why among the entire Lane Town, and even the entire Gust Empire, only our Moore family can pioneer such a territory in the borderland?"

Ron was shocked again: "Are you saying that the territory was given by the Duke of the Northern Lion?" 


Chương 35: Get a Pirate Ship

When Bette saw that Ron had guessed the reason, he nodded proudly.

"That's right! In the northern territory, without the permission of the Duke of the Northern Lion, even His Majesty the Emperor wouldn't dare to issue an order for development there! Nor would any fool dare to pioneer that land."

After hearing this, Ron was a little confused: "Since the Duke of the Northern Lion has such influence, why was our territory still attacked?"

Bette smiled wryly: "Our territory was attacked by orcs and bandits. What do you expect the duke to say? That the orcs slipped in under his nose? Or that bandits were running rampant in his territory?"

"Actually, he has already helped us a lot. Every time a cargo ship arrives at the port, it's their army that comes to pick up the goods at the port. As long as we unload the goods, our job is done. Isn't it easy?"

"Even the road in the territory was built by them. The reason was to facilitate the purchase of supplies within the territory. Not only did they build the road for us, but they even fought for a road-building subsidy for us from the empire on the grounds of strategic routes. To be honest, he has really done his best. The rest is up to us."

"If we can't hold onto that territory by our own strength, in a certain sense, it means that we don't deserve to be allies of the Duke of the Northern Lion and don't deserve the benefits brought by that place."

After hearing all this, Ron's eyes instantly became strange.

"I understand! Thank you for telling me this! But, let's first think about how to deal with these pirates! Look, they are about to collide!"

"Relax!" Bette said easily: "They do this every time, thinking they can scare us. In fact, even they themselves know that their ships look big and sturdy, but in fact, they are all old models of ships that we retired and are not very crash-resistant."

"And our ship is not only larger in volume than theirs, but also heavier in tonnage, and has been reinforced around. If there is a real collision, no matter from which direction they hit, maybe we will have some damage, but it will definitely be them who go into the sea to feed the fish."

"The reason why they charge recklessly like this is just to force us to slow down and then approach to board the ship."

"As long as we ignore them and speed up, nothing will happen. Their ships can't even match the speed of our large cargo ships. In a short while, we can leave them far behind."

"So that's how it is!"

Just as Bette said, before the minimum distance of the impending collision, the pirate ship turned at an angle by itself to avoid the impact.

The two ships were only about ten meters apart and passed by quickly.

Ron narrowed his eyes and looked at the passing pirate ship, taking a close look.

It was about 45 meters in length and about 14 meters at the widest point. The style of the hull was very similar to the cargo ship he was on. The front of the hull was very pointed and the rear was wide. It was powered by the wind blowing the sails, along with a huge sterncastle.

After taking a close look like this, Ron was immediately overjoyed and shouted to Bette: "Bette, slow down and let them catch up."

Bette was greatly surprised: "What do you want to do?"

Ron smiled slightly: "Robbery!"

"Rob the pirates?"

...

Under Ron's encouragement, Bette finally lowered the sails and slowed down, and continued to move forward at a low speed.

When the pirate ship saw that the cargo ship lowered the sails, it's not easy for this kind of ship to speed up again once the sails are lowered. So they quickly turned around and accelerated to catch up.

It took more than half an hour to finally catch up with the cargo ship. The two ships were about 5 meters apart and moved forward side by side.

Nearly a hundred pirates on the deck held various weapons. Before boarding the ship, they started shouting crazily, and then they all took out the grappling hooks and threw them onto the cargo ship.

Once hooked, they quickly fixed them and were ready to climb up.

But before they could come up, a black shadow jumped and landed on their ship from the sky.

When the pirates saw that someone actually jumped onto the ship to die voluntarily, they all laughed and raised their blades, shouting and hacking at Ron.

Ron deliberately waited for them to fix the grappling hooks before jumping over, for fear that if he killed everyone later, he wouldn't be able to control this ship.

As soon as he got onto the opponent's deck, Ron didn't say a word and kept activating [Acceleration Fund], cooling the [bet] skill, and crazily reaping lives.

He was originally worried that there might be strong people on the ship and it might not be so easy to fight. But what he didn't expect was that among the nearly a hundred pirates here, they were all ordinary people and not a single capable one.

Every time he drew his sword, he cut the opponent, along with their weapons, in half.

So that after cutting down dozens of people, all the pirates were scared out of their wits. Some people even jumped into the sea directly.

Ron was also scared. These people were all Skill Points! How could he let them jump into the sea?

So he slowed down the pace and couldn't push them too hard.

Fortunately, this was after all a moving ship. Falling into the sea was almost a death sentence, just a later death. So most of the pirates still hid in the cabin.

Ron walked to the side of the ship, looked at the four or five people who jumped into the sea, and felt his heart bleeding.

Looking up to the sky and sighing: "My Skill Points!"

But they all jumped into the sea. What could he do?

He couldn't jump down to chase after these few people!

Really helpless, Ron could only endure the heartache, slowly walked into the cabin, looking for the remaining dozens of people, and was determined that not one could be missing!

In order to prevent them from running around, after entering, he deliberately locked the cabin door and started a game of cat and mouse.

In this dim cabin, although the vision was not good, Ron could sense the hiding position of each person without using his eyes!

"Little cuties, have you hidden well? I'm coming!"

Ron dragged his sword on the floor, and from time to time hit various obstacles, making a "clang clang clang" sound.

"Clang clang clang!"

"Little cutie, so you are here."

With a smile on his face, Ron, while smiling, thrust his sword into a pile of debris.

"Puchi!" That was the sound of a metal sword piercing into the flesh. Immediately, a scream rang out, and then blood gushed out from inside.

Ron smiled and pulled out the long sword, continued to gently tap the floor with the sword, and slowly moved forward to look for the prey.

"Clang clang clang!"

"Oh! Little cutie, your little feet are showing from behind the door!"

"Puchi!"

"Clang clang clang!"

"Little cutie, you are too careless. Look, your clothes are showing."

"Puchi!"

"Clang clang clang!"

"Little cutie, how long haven't you taken a bath? Through such a thick blanket, I can still smell the stench on you."

"Puchi!"

"Clang clang clang!"

"Little cutie..."

...

The devilish rhythm kept ringing. Under Ron's endless torture, the last dozen or so people actually surrendered voluntarily.

Ron agreed without thinking and brought them to the deck, and then executed them one by one.

Because he was afraid that they would jump into the sea and escape, causing irreparable losses.

So before the execution, Ron first cut off all their legs, and then activated the [bet] skill and executed them slowly.

So that the entire deck was full of broken limbs, blood and brain matter flowing everywhere, and pieces of flesh and intestines sliding around, like a scene from hell.

Of course, others all surrendered and Ron agreed, but still executed them. It wasn't that Ron didn't keep his word. Because Ron never intended to let them go from the beginning to the end.

The reason for the execution on the deck was just that Ron thought that if they died in the cabin, not only would he have to ask someone to help move the bodies out, but also deal with the blood stains, which would be very troublesome!

He was also planning to bring this ship to the territory.

When the time comes, drag the ship ashore, so the problem of housing will be solved, and the problem of storing supplies will also be solved. Perfect!

After finishing everything, Ron shouted to Bette to ask him to send someone down to help.

When Bette's guardian knight Ricks, drunk, jumped onto the pirate ship, he found that Ron was throwing the bodies into the sea.

"Uh! You've solved everything. Why did you call me down?"

Ron was also confused, so he looked up and shouted to Bette: "I asked you to send some people down to help clean up the bodies. Why did you send a drunkard down?"

"And send a few more people down to fix this ship. I'm going to drag it to the territory!"

Everyone from "Lucky Sailor" stood by the ship's railing, looking at everything, their eyes full of awe and speechless, including Lir.

Today, they felt that they had really opened their eyes! 


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