"Um, um..." The novelist took a deep breath, took out a heavy book from his side, and handed it to Richard: "I thought about it, I really can't stand other people's charity to me, but I also really need it. Your money. How about this: I will mortgage this book of mine to you and lend you a gold coin. If I don’t pay you back the gold coin before disembarking, this book that records all the novels I have written will be yours. Yes, the novel inside is also yours. And if I return the gold coins to you, you can return this book to me. How about it?"
"you sure?"
"Sure."
"Okay." Richard was not too verbose, handed the novelist the gold coin, and took the heavy books.
"Then it's settled." The novelist said seriously to Richard, looking at the gold coins in his hand, his eyes shining brightly. The next moment he turned around and ran quickly towards the restaurant below the deck, his desire for food evident all over his body.
Richard wanted to remind the other party that the restaurant was not open at this time, but when he saw the other party's back, he finally shook his head and said nothing.
I opened the heavy book in my hand and took a brief look at it. I found that it was indeed a collection of novels. Maybe it had been stored for too long. Every page was stained with oil and was hard.
After looking at it for a few times, Richard lost interest. Regardless of whether the other person's novel was exciting or not, he had many things to do and didn't have any extra time for this kind of entertainment.
Let’s talk about it later when we really have some free time.
Richard thought to himself, not thinking that it was really possible for the other party to redeem the book, so he threw it directly into the space iron ring and walked back to the cabin.
After returning to the cabin, it took more than an hour for him to finally adapt to the high-density free energy elements of the main continent, and he lay on the bed and began to truly rest.
A night of silence.
…
Richard didn't take what happened at night to heart. In the next few days, after completely adapting to the higher density of free energy elements on the main continent, he maintained his own rhythm, working and resting as usual.
Just like that, not long after, we reached the end of the voyage. News has spread that there are still five days to reach the end of the voyage.
Many people on the ship were a little excited after hearing the news. After all, staying on the ship for a long time will always get boring. No one likes to be trapped in a cabin for a lifetime, and the vast main continent is what people yearn for more. However, they had not been excited for a long time when bad news came.
The reason is unknown, but it is speculated that a sudden change in the direction of the strong sea wind caused the Queen Victoria's main mast to break inexplicably. As a result, the ship's speed was greatly reduced and repairs were required.
As a result, the voyage with only five days left was delayed by one day and turned into six days.
After finally repairing the mast, before they had time to celebrate, the Queen Victoria ran into another problem. This time it hit an unrecorded reef on the channel, causing damage to the hull.
The damage was not major, but considering safety, the Queen Victoria still stopped for repairs.
In this way, the voyage was delayed again by one day and became seven days.
It took a day for the Queen Victoria to repair the hull and set sail again. Everyone thought that the bad luck was over, but new troubles came to the door.
This trouble was discovered by Richard first.
…
Daytime.
The sun was high in the sky, and the Queen Victoria was heading northwest after repairing its hull.
On the deck, Richard came up after a busy day of work, ready to take a rest. After stretching and moving a joint, Richard relaxed his eyes and looked at the sea behind the ship. The next moment, he suddenly raised his eyebrows and saw two black spots suddenly appearing in his field of vision.
Um
This is
Richard frowned slightly, looked carefully for a while, and quickly determined the situation of the black spots. However, he did not make any announcement and waited for others to discover. He was very confident in the strength of the Queen Victoria, and felt that the Queen Victoria could completely cope with the two black spots chasing after it.
Not long after, the other passengers on the deck saw the two black spots chasing behind the boat, pointing and talking.
When the two black spots got closer, everyone saw clearly that they were two pirate ships.
Yes, a pirate ship!
Two skull and crossbones flags are being raised on the mast of the ship. This is a signal of robbery and a threat: threatening the Queen Victoria to stop the ship immediately and surrender obediently, otherwise it will suffer cruel revenge if it is overtaken.
The passengers were in an uproar. After all, most of them were relatively wealthy ordinary people. They were inevitably nervous when they saw pirates. At this time, a magic knight heard the noise and came over.
Walking to the stern of the ship, the knight in magic costume glanced at the pirate ship for a few times. He did not take it as a joke and ran towards the captain's cabin at the bow of the ship with a serious expression.
The captain's cabin is built slightly behind the bow, above the wheelhouse, on the second floor. It is the tallest building on the ship except for the mast and observation deck.
Richard looked over and saw the magic knight stepping on the steps, quickly walked to the cabin door, and knocked on the door.
"Bang bang bang!"
With a "squeak", the door opened, and a red-haired, medium-height woman came out. She was not pretty, but she had a very elegant temperament that made people not easy to mess with at first sight.
The woman who came out was obviously the captain of the ship - Victoria Elisa. She looked at the magic knight with a cold face and a bit of dissatisfaction.
The magic knight quickly reported the situation, and in order to increase his persuasiveness, he pointed towards the stern of the ship.
Victoria followed the direction pointed by the magic knight and saw the pirate ship. Because the pirate ship was small and fast, it was almost behind the Queen Victoria at this time.
After Victoria looked at it, she didn't care. She snorted coldly and said, "Are you a pirate? They are hanging the most common skull and crossbones flag. Other than that, they don't even have the logo of the wizard organization. They seem to be very ordinary pirates. In this case , don’t worry about them, let them chase slowly. "
"But Captain..." The magic knight hesitated, "Why don't we do nothing?"
"Wait until they catch up and deal with it together to save trouble." Victoria said.
"Yes." The magic knight responded, understanding, and turned his head to look at the two pirate ships as if looking at dead people.
At this time, the pirate ship had no idea what kind of terrifying existence they wanted to plunder, and it continued to accelerate. A faster pirate ship successfully caught up with the Queen Victoria. While trying to get close to the hull of the Queen Victoria, she could clearly see that the deck of the pirate ship was full of eager pirates with bloodthirsty eyes.
The pirate ship and the Queen Victoria are getting closer.
Fifty meters, thirty meters, ten meters, five meters!
"Ho ho ho!"
The pirates on the pirate ship collectively let out strange screams. The next moment, they suddenly raised their hooks and swung them hard towards the deck of the Queen Victoria. There was a "pop, pop, pop" sound, and the hook hit accurately.