Azeroth Shadow Trail

Chapter 702 33. What is it? Dwarf pirates?

"Captain! Our flight team spotted a ship while training outside! It was circling around in the nearby waters... like a headless chicken."

Three days after the Black Dragon Legion crossed the Dark Portal, when Braike was studying evil magic in the Warlock Tower, and while he was doing a lot of homework that he deliberately ignored before, the evil-eyed warlock wearing an elf robe interrupted his "studying" .

But the evil eye's news was valuable enough to save him from the stinking pirate's wild wrath.

"Boat? What kind of ship?"

Bu Laike put down the magic pen in his hand, and looked at Xieyan with the eyeball on his shoulder. The orc stretched out his hand and made a gesture, with a strange expression on his face. He scratched his head and said:

"I don't know how to describe it, but it's different from all the ships we've encountered before, and different from the naval ships of Kul Tiras.

That ship is iron clad!

There is also a goat's head carved on the bow. "

"Huh? Ironclad ship?"

The pirate immediately raised his eyebrows.

Out of "professional sensitivity", he immediately walked out of the room of the warlock tower to the top of the tower, where a fixed crystal ball was placed beside the observation platform.

This was arranged by the elf mages of Narthalas Academy. It can be used to mobilize the monitoring magic around the island, so that Bo Laike can see the panoramic view of the entire Tol Barad Island.

He poured magic power into the crystal ball, and looked at the direction reported by the evil eye. Soon, a really strange ship fell into the eyes of the pirates.

It's not that big.

It was about the size of a third-class battleship, but its hull was covered with a bronze-colored iron shell. As Xieyan said, a ram's head bowed and charged was shaped on the prow.

This ship does not use a mast. There are two huge paddle wheels behind the hull to push forward, and an exquisitely designed tail rudder to control the direction. The most special thing is that there is a large chimney erected on the front deck of this ship.

As it advances, huge black smoke billows out from time to time.

"Steamboat!"

The pirate blinked and said:

"There is such a ship on the goblin side, but the style in front of me is more like the work of dwarves. The deck is full of dwarves? What a ghost!

Now even the dwarves are going to expand the sea? This sea is really lively!

Don't these ground mice hate water the most? "

Bu Laike complained like this, but he didn't show the astonishment on his face, but turned his head and said to Xieyan:

"Those fools couldn't find our island, and sent two carrier planes to guide them into the docks. The man who came was my friend, and he came to make weapons for me.

I'll meet my friend at the pier and take a look at the ironclad ship. "

"Yes, Captain!"

Xieyan took a few steps back, summoned a big mephit, turned on his own and flew to the newly built "airport" at the pier.

A few days ago, the goblins delivered the first batch of newly ordered carrier-based aircraft, and now the "Air Force Commander" Fuslag of the Immortal Fleet and the "Air Marshal" and Chief Quartermaster Lord Yudora are training new pilots in full swing. Woolen cloth.

This has caused buzzing aircraft to be everywhere on Tol Barad Island these days.

It's just annoying to death.

On the other side, in the waters outside Tol Barad Island, on the "Ironclad Ship".

Wearing a long hood, Muradin, the dwarf prince who wanted to wrap himself up, was holding a flagon. On the platform of the poop, he watched the three dwarf "pirates" arguing over the chart.

With a blank expression on his face, Muradin took a sip of wine and looked at the empty sea in front of him.

He murmured in a low voice:

"I knew it was a bad idea to let the dwarves go to sea. They can get lost in the sea from Palatine Bay to Tol Barad. Can you expect them to go to the high seas?

Dwarves and the sea, these are two completely incompatible words!

Hey, let me say, are the three of you really old sea dogs who have been fighting storms for decades, as you claim? I don't look like it! A fisherman in Southshore can find Tol Barad in a small boat, but you three old pirates can't? "

"Don't question our professionalism! Muradin!"

The inquiry from the dwarf prince completely blew up the three arguing dwarf pirates.

The shortest and thinnest of the three with horned helmets of various styles, the pirate with the lush red beard exclaimed:

"The three of us are good men on the sea! We are the first group of brave dwarves to go to sea! We have swam the frozen sea, fought pirates in the South China Sea, and explored the kingdom of elves in the sea of ​​mist of mystery.

There is no ocean in this world that we cannot go to

look!

The three of us still carry a bounty from the Admiralty of Kul Tiras! "

The short, but nimble, skinny dwarf took out a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket with a swish, and dangled it in front of Muradin's eyes.

On the paper were written the names of the three pirates in the human language, "Swift" Eric, "Bulky" Ballogo, and "Strong" Olaf, and also drew their abstract portraits, with the cover of the Kul Tiras Admiralty Chapter "Proof".

On this bounty, the "official nickname" of the three dwarf pirates is "Troublesome Trio", and at the top is the bounty amount of the three dwarves.

A huge inscription of 30,000 gold coins proves that these three dwarf pirates are by no means worthless people.

First of all, being able to be on the reward list of the Ministry of the Navy shows that they have indeed done a "career" at sea.

Secondly, the amount is also quite shocking.

When the Black Spirit pirates robbed the warship of Kul Tiras, they were offered a reward of five thousand gold coins, while the rewards offered by the pirate captains in Tol Dagor's black prison were only forty to fifty thousand.

Not that the Admiralty was stingy.

Mainly because the Kul Tirans rarely offer bounties.

For the Admiralty, as long as a few ships are sent casually, most of the pirates can be killed. Even without the need for the Ministry of the Navy, the general large chamber of commerce escort fleet will occasionally earn "extra money".

Moreover, offering too many rewards will cause unnecessary "trouble".

Being able to be targeted by the Kul Tiras Admiralty shows that this group of pirates is indeed powerful, making the Kurdish fleet helpless. This is equivalent to "advertising" for free for the pirates.

Therefore, in the endless sea, at least on the South China Sea side, which pirate carries a reward from the Ministry of the Navy on his back is the most "golden" "official certification".

A pirate with a reward of more than 5,000 gold coins can rely on this "golden signboard" to easily pull up a small team in the South China Sea.

Uh, one more thing, after the Battle of Gilneas, the rewards for the captains of the Undead Pirate Fleet have been posted by the Admiralty, ranging from 5,000 to 10,000.

And as the leader of the undead pirates, the bounty of the master assassin Bu Laike Shaw who defeated the official Gilneas fleet reached a shocking 100,000 gold coins!

According to gossip, this outrageous bounty amount was personally set by Admiral Dai Lin, who watched the Baladin naval battle.

The admiral also spread the word that whoever captures Bu Laike Shaw alive and escorts him to Boralus Harbor will be awarded a lordship in Kul Tiras.

And no matter who it is, as long as they can bring the stinky pirates to the country of Ku, all the bad things they did in the sea before will be wiped out.

As soon as the news came out, the entire South China Sea was boiling.

According to the news from Booty Bay, several famous pirate hunters and even pirate captains have set off from the South China Sea to the eastern continent.

Line up!

What is a noodle?

Isn't this what Bo Laike has always wanted?

It can only be said that the old man did save face.

But offering rewards at sea is only popular at sea, and not many people know about it on the mainland. Especially for the dwarves who lived inland and never yearned for the sea, that piece of paper was worthless.

"Yes, yes, of course you can brag like that. Anyway, you can count the dwarves floating on the sea with two hands, and no one can refute you."

Muradin rolled his eyes, took another sip of wine, wiped the wine stains on his beard drunkenly, spread his hands, and said:

"Let's speak with facts, even I, a land warrior, know that the large island of Tol Barad is the best navigation reference on the sea.

But we have been out to sea for three days!

Where is that island?

I didn't see anything except the endless sea water that made me want to vomit!

You have the sailing charts we bought from Kul Tiras with a lot of money in your hands, and you drove according to the charts. There have been no storms on the sea recently, but you still managed to get us lost.

Such a big island, can it fly to the sky out of thin air? "

This sharp rhetorical question caused the three dwarves and pirates of different heights to look at each other in dismay.

That's right.

They can boast about their glorious deeds of "crossing the sea" in the past, or they can use naval rewards to prove their "professionalism".

But the problem was, after the three-day voyage from Palatine Bay to Tol Barad, they really couldn't find the damned island.

Even if the nautical charts were turned to pieces, they should have reached the vicinity of Tol Barad Island after repeated confirmation of the course more than 20 times and without tidal disturbance.

But where's the damn island?

The three dwarf pirates wearing horned helmets looked at each other, and finally looked at the sea in front of them.

The blue waves flow, the sun shines, the sea and the sky are vast, a peaceful beauty.

Where the hell is that damned island!

The "Troublesome Trio" is a little irritable. If they can't be found anymore, their golden signs that are sought after and loved by dwarf children will be completely smashed here.

This is an offshore voyage that landlubbers can complete!

"It's not their fault, Muradin."

After the "friendly exchange" between the prince and the pirates came to an end, a dwarf explorer with a monocle grabbed a complicated instrument and whispered behind Muradin:

"I have repeatedly measured the latitude and longitude, and the three pirates did bring us near that island. It is supposed to be here, and their course is correct."

"I know."

A gleam of amusement flashed in the drunken Muradin's eyes.

He hiccupped, looked at the irritable trio of dwarves and pirates, and whispered:

"It's really not their problem, but I'm just annoyed by these three guys. I paid a lot of money to hire them to go to Zandalar to get my brother back, and even lent them the ironclad ship we just finished testing.

As a result, they pushed back and forth, and cunningly tried to raise the price. Hmph, do you really think I don't understand anything? This is to teach them a lesson and let them see their own strength clearly. "

"buzzing"

As soon as Muradin finished speaking, there was the sound of a noisy rotorcraft sounding from high above.

Muradin and the three dwarf pirates on the poop looked up at the same time, and saw two rotorcraft piloted by vixen wearing flying hats and goggles, spinning and flying over their ship.

These lunatic pirates still have large aerial bombs with painted skulls hanging under their planes!

This seems to be warning the following ships:

be honest!

You have entered the territorial sea of ​​undead pirates, if you dare to provoke casually, you bastards will be blown to the sky!

In the seat behind the second gyroplane, a vulpera pilot was holding two flags and waved them rhythmically in the air towards the ship below.

Muradin couldn't understand this.

But the three pirates who have been floating in the sea all year round can see clearly.

"They're semaphore, saying let's follow them and disarm, and they'll guide us into the wharves on Tol Barad."

The thin dwarf sat on the shoulders of his big belly and strong dwarf companion, saw the semaphore clearly through the binoculars, and turned back to Muradin and said:

"You are the highest officer of this ship, what do you say?"

"Oh, I mean, we don't have to pay attention to them at all."

Muradin snorted, waved his hand, and said:

"Drive our ironclad ship, rush into their docks, and kill all the undead pirates with cannons!"

"You're crazy!"

Eric, the skinny dwarf of the troublesome trio, screamed:

"You crazy Bronzebeard, these undead pirates just crippled the Gilneas fleet, and we've only got one small ship, and our guns can't even pierce their decks!

You have to seek death yourself. "

"Ha, you also know that you can't beat it? Then why do you ask me what to do?"

Muradin rolled his eyes, drank his wine, and said:

"Do whatever you want.

Seal the muzzle and hang the cannon coat, so that the pirates under your command are more honest. I am barely friends with the owner of that island, and he invited me this time.

He won't do anything to me.

But if you provoke others, I guess the hanging masts are all light.

In addition, now that I have reached this point, I will not hide it anymore. This time, I invite you three to pick up my worrying brother on Zandalar Island. I just don’t want everyone to know about it. .

It doesn't mean that Ironforge has to ask you to do this job.

I just don't want to get too involved with undead pirates, but that doesn't mean I can't ask for their help.

But if you three little pirates don’t know each other yet, and you still want to ask for a lot of money, I will invite my legendary friend of the big pirate, the “double-faced man” Bu Laike, to talk to you about the rules of the sea. "

(end of this chapter)