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Looking up at the constant sky, the radiation clouds are still the same. Jela exhaled a smoke ring and complained: "It's so boring, why is it my turn to be on duty today."
"Don't complain, I'm not the same. What's more, Tiki, Madeira are the same, and you're not the only one on guard." Leaning against a tree, he wiped the card of an old double-barreled powder rifle under the tree. Lu said.
They were all apprentices on a certain pirate ship, and today was a big day for the pirates on the Sea House. After all, the Sea God Order doesn't come every year, and the pirates don't want to participate. But these rumored crew members were assigned other tasks. After all, they couldn't let everyone go to the Sea God Arena. Firstly, the seats in the auditorium were limited, and secondly, they needed someone to keep watch.
And newcomers like Gera and Karoo are even more unlucky. They are assigned to guard the outposts on both sides of the Whisperer Strait in shifts. As an important passage to Roaring Bay and Sea House, Sea House has always set up hidden sentry points on both sides of the Whisperer Strait to monitor the surrounding situation
The sentinel will be changed every once in a while to ensure that it will not be figured out by the people in the Pope's Hall.
The crew on duty is the pirates who stay on the sea home, but in special cases like today, the trainee crew are responsible.
"This arrangement is totally redundant." Gera scratched her hair and said, "The Pope's Hall is not an idiot. We hold the Sea God Order and they won't know about it. Knowing that our Sea House is full of captains now, it's more like Cinderella With a legendary captain like Man Shan, how could they not attack with eyes?"
"Ah, I really want to see Captain Cinderella's face, I really want to see Captain Hook's martial arts skills. I don't want to be on duty here." Rolling on the grass with their heads in their arms, the trainee crew was caught by a small Troubled.
Karoo sighed, really wanted to kick this annoying guy down the strait to feed the fish. But thinking about how boring it would be to have no one to accompany him on duty after kicking him down, he withdrew his thoughts.
"Hey, it's time to check the sea surface, don't lie on the ground and pretend to be dead." Kalu said, kicking his companion angrily.
Gera rubbed her ass and stood up, looked at the * in Karoo's hand and said: "One day I will take your damn * apart, and tell you to play with it like a woman all day long, and don't help me light the fire .”
Carew laughed: "What do you know, Gera. One day, I will be the captain with this gun."
"Just dream!" Gera picked up a telescope from the side, and looked towards the sea outside the strait as usual. One side said: "I really don't understand, what is there to see. Except for a few broken islands, there is not even a seagull... Eh..."
In the telescope, a dark spot appeared faintly on the horizon. And the black spot is not constant, but gradually expanding. Gera immediately adjusted the magnification of the telescope, and the picture immediately expanded. Suddenly, a pattern hit Gera's eyes.
It was a silver cross entangled at the bottom by golden roses, and a long sword inlaid with precious stones slanted out from the cross pattern. The pattern is gorgeous, but more importantly, it is the emblem of the Knights of the Seal!
Gera quickly adjusted the multiplier, and then he saw a two-masted medium-sized ship. And after the second-class warship of the Pope's Hall, more ships gradually appeared on the horizon. This turned out to be a fleet!
Karoo suddenly glanced at his companion strangely, Jella was trembling all over, as if seeing something terrible. Karu couldn't help asking: "Hey, what's wrong with you!"
The voice of the companion brought Jerah back to his senses, and the trainee crew pointed to the other side of the channel and stammered: "It appeared..."
"What happened?"
"Ship..." Jela shook her head suddenly, and shouted: "No, it's a warship. The warship phalanx of the Holy Seal Knights! Damn, a whole fleet is coming towards us!"
"What?" Karoo immediately snatched the binoculars from the trainee crew, and after looking at them for a while, he put down the binoculars and yelled at Gera, "Hurry up, send out the signal flare! It must be the red one with the highest standard of danger alarm! "
Gera nodded, quickly ran to a nearby hidden thatched hut, and then took out a flare gun. Covering his ears with one hand, he fired the gun into the sky with the other. Immediately, a red smoke dragged a little flash of light straight into the sky, leaving a deep red trace above the strait.
Not long after, a stream of red smoke also shot out from the strait ahead, and then streaks of red smoke rose up the strait, even the same smoke rose from several isolated islands in the roaring bay. The alarm was sent back to Haijia, and when the sentry on duty at the dock saw it, he quickly rang the big warning bell at the dock, and the emergency bell echoed on the island.
In the Sea God Arena, the pirates rushed out one after another, each took their own means of transportation to the pier, and prepared for defense according to their captain's instructions. Some important people such as Zero and Cinderella came to the Neptune Bar. Outside the bar, X randomly picked a table. Pushing the above thing to the ground with one hand, he yelled at the waiter: "Bring me the nautical chart!"
The nautical chart was drawn by Mr. X himself, and it happened to come in handy now. Zero has temporarily gained the trust of the pirates, and the attacking Vatican warship just gave him the opportunity to establish his majesty. It's just a dull pain from the wound cut by Hook's guillotine, and the memory team has been given emergency treatment before. Normally speaking, it would recover in two or three hours.
But later, Zero used the power of the ninth level to overwhelm the two captains in one fell swoop, causing more injuries immediately. The wound that had healed was torn again, and the injury was deepened due to excessive force. According to zero estimates, now he needs twice as much time to heal.
Cinderella was next to him, and when she saw this, she asked concerned: "Are you okay?"
Zero smiled and patted her hand and said: "It's okay, let's see how to deal with the Pope's Hall is more important."
On the other side, the waiter has spread Mr. X's nautical chart on the table. The nautical chart clearly marked all the islands near the Roaring Gulf and even the Whisperer Strait, as well as the trend of the current. For Zero, this was an invaluable strategic map. Several important captains also gathered around, but Hook's face was a little sad after seeing Cinderella and Zero's intimate appearance just now. Man Shan next to him saw it in his eyes, and could only pat him on the shoulder to express his pity, but he was powerless to change anything.
"Who can tell me what's going on now?" Zero asked after looking at the nautical chart.
Including Cinderella, all the captains present set their sights on Mr. X. Mr. X is not only the owner of the Neptune Bar, but also the main person in charge of the defense work of the Sea House, so naturally he knows the situation best now. Moreover, after the signal gun was fired as a warning, a sentry sent specific information back to the island through Mr. X's blue-backed gull at the first time.
X did his part, clapped his hands on the Whisperer Strait and said: "According to what we know, the Pope Hall has sent a medium-sized fleet to approach the Whisperer Strait. Its purpose is self-evident, as Captain Zero said, Sauron Sure enough, he acted. And this time he invested his money, and the war is about to break out!"
"But it is impossible to defeat us with a medium-sized fleet alone. Doesn't Sauron know this?" asked a captain.
Mr. X's eyes turned cold, and he said, "That's why our sentries can't see the commander-class warships, they should attack from another place."
"The bay of the Whisperer Strait is impossible to walk through the building." Hook said softly.
Nodding his head, he asked again: "I heard that among the four major pirate groups, the Iron Scale is the largest. Then which channel does it usually take to reach the Sea House?"
Cinderella and the others were startled, and Mr. X nodded: "I also thought about this problem." His palm fell on another sea area, where there are few islands, but the signs of the current are extremely complicated: "The Iron Scale Usually, they will bypass the Whisperer Strait and take the devil's route. Since Deborah has been determined to be Sauron's running dog, then other commander-class ships can naturally come from here."
"Because there are many undercurrents in the devil's route, small and medium-sized ships cannot sail smoothly. Only large ships such as the Iron Scale or the Pope's Hall can pass safely like sea tanks. The fleet arrived two to three days late." Cinderella said: "It seems that the tonnage of the Iron Scale and the Knights' large-scale warships are almost the same. Sauron must have been looking for the large-scale warships through it. A route that can be passed safely, so that the most powerful force can be used against us when necessary!"
"What a treacherous man!" Man Shan clapped his hands and said, "Now the situation is obvious, let us deal with the medium-sized fleet coming from the Whisperer Strait first. As long as we destroy the large ships before they arrive, we will It's time to face the opponent's commander-level and knights of the round table!"
After he finished speaking, the other captains followed suit. Only Cinderella and Hook bowed their heads and said nothing, and shook their heads immediately: "No, to put it bluntly. With the help of everyone on the island, they can only fight with the opponent's ships with all their strength. The key now is that we don't know yet. Several legion commanders have come. So if you rush to defend the Whisperer Strait, as long as the opponent comes to board two buildings, I think you will have no extra strength to fight, right?"
Man Shan spread his hands and said: "Then what should we do, we can't ignore the medium-sized fleet?"
"Of course not. I just want to say that in the Whisperer Strait..." Zero said lightly, "Let my people be responsible. Everyone on the island and I should do a good job of fighting against the head of the Pope's Hall and their army." Buildings and ships are fine."
Hearing what Zero said, even X felt that he was exaggerating. Unless zero people have a regiment organization, how can they fight a medium-sized fleet? Sensing everyone's gaze, Cinderella replied for him: "I've been on his boat, don't worry. There are at least two ninth ranks on it, eight fourth ranks, and some sixth and seventh ranks, plus about 50 It is enough to intercept the fleet of the Pope's Hall in the restricted terrain of the Whisperer Strait."
"Two ninth rank..."
"Fourth of the eighth rank and some of the sixth and seventh ranks..."
Hearing this news, whether it was Man Shan or the other captains, even X felt surprised. They never thought that the captain of Zero actually hides a group of capable people, and there are so many high-level people! Hearing this news, X was surprised for a while, and a smile gradually formed on the corner of his mouth: "If there are so many high-level people, we can win! We will not lose to the Pope's Hall in this war!"
Infected by Mr. X, the other captains also laughed, and then they discussed how to make the warships killed by the Pope Hall look good. On the other side, Cinderella whispered: "When will you arrange these, and why I don't know."
"Before the Nixie came to pick us up, at that time, you were busy contacting your crew."
"So that's what I said... Wait, didn't you know that the Pope's Hall would call at that time?"
Zero lowered his head and said in a low voice: "Think about it. If you were Sauron and you were worrying about not having a chance to catch all the pirates, what would you think if you suddenly heard that they were holding a Sea God Order?"
Cinderella suddenly realized, pinched the back of Zero's hand bitterly and said, "So you issued the Sea God's Order, and there is such a plan in it!"
"That's why I said that Sauron is trying to change the power structure of the Western Continent. This is the tide of the times, and this is a trend. And I use his tide to lead to another direction I want. It is also a trend. Seek momentum. Just watch, I will gradually lead the situation to our side. Before long, Sauron will find that although Istar and the pirates are gone, the situation in the Western Continent will still not be in his favor! "Zero confidence.
Meanwhile, the middle of Whisperer Strait. Feng jumped onto a big rock on the shore and shouted: "Boys, work hard for me! Those stupid pirates have already discovered that the warships from the Pope's Hall are coming. Since the boss ordered us to meet them here, then we must do it!" It's beautiful. Let these guys from the Western Continent see what it means to be professional!"
"Yes, Master Feng!"
The soldiers on both sides of the bank shouted.
Just a few days ago, when Zero landed on the home of Shanghai, the Destiny also docked on an isolated island outside the Whisperer Strait. Ye Liu and ten soldiers were left to guard the ship, and non-combat personnel like Dr. Billy and Dr. Ji Ya also stayed outside the captain. The rest, such as Franklin, Feng, Su, and a large number of capable users, as well as the rest of the soldiers, all came out in full force.
They arrived at the Whisperer Strait after crossing a small section of calm sea on rubber charms, and then they marched secretly into the middle of the strait. After a few days, they have already set up interception fortifications here, just waiting for the fleet of the Pope's Hall to ram itself into the muzzle.
Hearing Feng gesticulating, Haiwei made a grimace beside her and said, "When the head left, she made it very clear, let us listen to the deputy captain instead of you."
"What does a girl with no breasts and no butt know? This is called cheering up, you know?" Feng sneered.
Hai Wei suddenly said angrily: "Who has no breasts or butt!"
Feng's eyes flicked back and forth on her body, and said, "Is there any? Why didn't I see it?"
Haiwei wanted to tear the hateful man in front of her into pieces: "That's because he hasn't developed well yet!"
"Then come talk to me when you're ready."
Seeing the two confronting each other, Su who was sitting next to him shook his head and sighed, "Two childish guys."
She concentrated on cleaning her epee when she suddenly felt the ground shake slightly.
A circle of ripples first appeared on the surface of the water glass next to it, and then ripples continued until the water splashed out of the glass. People nearby also felt the vibration, which came from behind them. Everyone stopped what they were doing, only to feel the astonishing pressure coming from the bend of the strait. Then, a figure as high as a hill turned in from the bend, and on top of this figure was really lifting a boulder like a hill.
Franklin bit his cigar, muscles all over his body bulging. The surface of the body exuded an astonishing temperature, and even streams of scorching smoke rose from it. The giant's head was thrown forward, and his neck and thick back were pressed against a large stone. The surface of the stone was irregular, and it seemed that he had dug it out abruptly. Franklin stuck his hands into the stone, and was walking over with a huge boulder weighing more than ten tons.
He walked along the shore, and every time he landed, he would leave a deep footprint on the shore. When he came nearby, he yelled, "Get out of the way!"
So the people working on both sides quickly stepped aside, Franklin snorted and threw the stone over. With a howling wind, the stone landed obliquely in the middle of the river like a meteorite. Although the channel of the strait has not been completely blocked, it seems that there is no way for ships to pass through it.
Feng giggled, and said to Franklin, "Well done, big man!"
Franklin grinned and said, "I can't wait to get my hands dirty."
Judging from the speed of the Pope's fleet, they will be able to enter the Whisperer Strait tomorrow morning, and everyone on the Destiny is also stepping up their preparations. When the gongs and drums were beating to surprise the Pope's Hall, four large ships slowly sailed into the area known as the Devil's Channel in the northern waters of the Whisperer Strait.
The reason why it is called the Devil's Channel is because there are very few islands, so it lacks natural windbreaks. The wind is howling for many years, and it is difficult for ordinary sailboats to sail through. In addition, the seabed environment here is very complicated, resulting in many and complicated undercurrents in the sea. There are more than a dozen small vortexes in the sea alone, and it is simply not possible for small-tonnage ships to travel.
Only large ships like the Iron Scale or the head of the Pope's Hall, which use hybrid power and can be called sea tanks, can overcome the threat of strong winds and turbulent currents and survive.
Now, at the entrance of the Devil's Channel, four large ships have just entered. Among them, the Iron Scale is at the front, and three warships are behind it. Judging from the flags on the warships, these three warships are the cars of the three heads of the 3rd, 7th and 8th regiments.
At this moment, on the deck of the ship where the commander of the third regiment was standing, a tall and thin figure walked to the bow. He was about forty years old, but his hair was already gray. Only the beard around the chin is black. Wearing a silver-white silk lining, covered with black combat soft armor, a scarlet cloak hangs down to his feet, flying in the wind.
The leader of the third regiment of the Holy Seal, the gun god Carlomon frowned and looked at the Iron Scale in front of him, and sighed in a low voice: "The majestic knights are going to be reduced to cooperate with pirates. Has the principle of the Pope's hall become useless? ?”