For the first time, Captain Sina felt that the number of passengers on his ship, the Smile, was... just too many!
There was no place for him to stand on the deck. The cargo hold and passenger cabin were all filled with people. Even the deck was full of refugees from the Far South Empire.
The White Salt Chamber of Commerce founded by Captain Xina is the only chamber of commerce that survived the siege by the major chambers of commerce in the Far South Empire. In fact, it must rely on the major chambers of commerce to survive.
His main business was to import high-quality sea salt from the Kingdom of Xiuenzhe and then sell it in the Far South Empire.
The people of Xiuenzhelai Kingdom are hostile to the Far South Empire, so when large chambers of commerce come to purchase these sea salts, they will basically be rejected by the merchants of Xiuenzhelai Kingdom on the basis of the king's order.
Captain Sina relied on his own little tricks and connections in the Kingdom of Xiu Enzhe to get a sea salt transportation route.
As a person from the far south, he made a fortune from this. To say he made a fortune was actually just to make a little money. He left the common people class and joined the rich class, and he was still doing okay among the rich class.
But Captain Xinna felt that his chance to make a fortune again had come! It was that small lighter that gave Captain Xinna the hope of punching the Sword Flag Chamber of Commerce and kicking the Dragon Scale Chamber of Commerce, the two largest commercial alchemy guilds in the Far South Empire.
The box of lighters that Lu Cheng gave him received unexpectedly good response among the aristocratic circle that Captain Sina had made friends with.
Compared with fire lizards and scorching stones, the biggest advantage of lighters is that they are convenient and easy to use. Not only can they be used to light the fire in the boiler, but they can also be used to light tobacco.
A whole box of more than 300 lighters was not enough for Captain Sina to sell, so he had to go and purchase more, and the place of purchase was none other than Skarre, the neighboring country of the Xiu Enzhelai Kingdom.
"Captain, I still don't understand why you took so many slaves and refugees to Skarre instead of gold."
Captain Sina's accountant came out of the cabin. He was obviously fed up with the stench in the cabin caused by the overcrowded cabin.
"I don't understand either! The young businessman from Scarre said he only accepts people and not money." Captain Sina is now unsure whether Lu Cheng's words are true.
His two merchant ships, the Laughter and the Goddess, were loaded with a total of 3,000 refugees. This was not a small number, considering that the ship was originally designed to carry a maximum of 300 people.
Now Captain Sina is taking the risk of overloading and carrying so many people just to go to Skarre to exchange for a batch of good goods from Lucheng.
But what Captain Sina is most worried about now is...how to find Lucheng after he goes to Skarre, and will Lucheng really keep his promise after he finds him
This shadow lingered in Captain Sina's heart, but his worries did not last long before a bigger problem was presented to him.
"Sea...pirates! Captain! A pirate ship appeared in the direction where the moon is setting!" A sailor standing on the lookout shouted loudly to the people below!
At this moment, Captain Sina felt even shakier.
Pirates! Pirates again! He has been sailing a few times in the past few months, and he has been chased by pirates almost every time!
Captain Xina thought that there must be a chamber of commerce in the Far South Empire that wanted to... destroy his industry, so they hired pirates to specifically target him and rob him.
"Full sail!" Captain Sina shouted loudly to the sailors, but the refugees on the deck were in complete chaos when they heard the appearance of pirates.
The chaotic situation caused the sailors to have difficulty working properly. They couldn't even get close to the ropes to pull up the sails in the chaotic crowd.
At this moment, Captain Sina also saw a pirate ship appearing in the distance. These pirates did not raise the flag, but just from the dirtiness and bloodstains on the ship, Captain Sina could tell that the guys on the ship were not good people!
When the pirates got close to the Laughing Smile, they stopped disguising themselves, hoisted the sails, displayed the pirate flag, and charged towards the Laughing Smile at full speed.
What should I do
Captain Sina was anxious...the escort sailors he hired were of no use in such a crowded place.
However, the next second when the pirates on the pirate ship in the distance excitedly attacked the Laughter full of lambs, their ship suddenly... exploded.
This was an explosion that came without any warning. While Captain Sina was anxiously directing his guards to come up for assistance, the pirate ship in the distance disintegrated in a deafening explosion.
At this moment, everyone on the Laughter fell into silence. Captain Sina stared blankly at the fire burning on the pirate ship. He always felt as if he had seen this scene somewhere before.
Lu Cheng! That's right... When he wanted to buy new products from Lu Cheng so much, he forgot that Lu Cheng was a fierce warrior before he was a businessman!
His appearance easily killed more than a dozen pirates and turned two pirate ships into pieces that disappeared on the sea level!
Captain Xinna still hasn’t figured out how Lucheng eliminated the pirates, but that’s not important… What’s important is that those damn pirates were blown to death by the fire of heaven’s punishment!
"It's God!" Captain Sina shouted loudly to calm the emotions of the refugees on the deck, "It's God who protects us, everyone! As long as we stay on this route, we have God's protection, and the pirates can't hurt us! They will bear the wrath of God!"
Captain Sina's words had a great effect. The refugees, who were originally in a state of panic, knelt on the deck and prayed in strange postures towards the burning pirate ship on the sea in the distance.
"Captain...Captain, is he really a God? This is the second time." The accountant said in disbelief.
"I don't know either, but anyone who can easily turn a pirate ship into charcoal, whether it's a human or a sea monster, is a god to us."
Captain Sina said with some guilt, after all, he didn't want to be reduced to ashes in the flames like those pirates.
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"Are there so many pirates in this sea?"
Lu Cheng was watching the feedback from the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft in the bridge of the Shangcheng ship. The Shangcheng ship carried thirteen unmanned reconnaissance aircraft and could be seen as an "aircraft carrier" dedicated to unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.
These reconnaissance planes patrol the Crystal Sea on a daily basis. In addition to the purpose of exploration and investigation, their purpose is also to protect the safety of immigrant ships.
"It has been quite frequent in recent days. It is not difficult to identify the pirates in this world. Their sailors are dressed completely differently from ordinary people." Captain Zhao said.
This old captain is a professional at dealing with pirate problems. Even in a different world, he can still kill every pirate ship he ships.
"If the fighting continues like this, the pirates in this sea area should consider re-employment, right?" Lu Cheng looked through the feedback from the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft. The pirates who survived on the pirate ship hugged the deck floating on the sea, their faces full of questions like "Who am I?", "Where am I?", and "Why am I in the water?"