Mechanical Alchemist

"Look, Colonel Fred, there are two boats over there."

"It's really Captain Barrett! Great, they're still alive!"

"Hey, that ship seems to be a pirate ship? Why is the leader on someone else's ship?"

"That's the 'Dawn Brigade'! My God, it's really them!"

"The dawn group is...?"

"That's our friend of the Judgment Group, our savior!"

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Half a day later, Su Lun and the others found a boat of "Holy Judgment" drifting at sea.

As soon as the two groups of people converged, the Dawn Group immediately became lively.

This time, Barrett and the others ventured to the city-state of Moros to save people. They rescued more than 300 people from the slave merchants, plus the previous team members, a total of 500 to 600 people.

This is also the last bit of direct lineage of the ace legion "Holy Judgment Legion" of the Lu Ying Empire with outstanding military exploits for hundreds of years.

These are the real Luying royal elite knights with extraordinary combat power.

However, there is no Judgment Group now, only the "Dawn Pirates".

The current Dawn Regiment also instantly became a large group of nearly a thousand people.

The three warships are almost full of three squadrons.

The first team of the regiment leader Chijo, the second team of Dr. Banks, and now the third team of Barrett.

This combat power is also the top handful among all the pirate groups in Beihai.

It doesn't matter if they have just been rescued and have no equipment. There are a lot of equipment and supplies in the warehouse of the Dawn Regiment. Those were the spoils of war that had wiped out several squadrons of the Beihai Fleet in the past, and it was more than enough to equip these hundreds of people.

Su Lun and the crew held a grand welcome banquet for the newly joined partners, and they presented the best wine and meat with the most sincere enthusiasm.

This also moved the former royal knights of the adjudication group to tears.

They have lost their loved ones, they have lost their honor, they have lost everything.

Once the whole world abandoned them, now, the Dawn Mission gave them new hope.

Su Lun and the others wanted to catch up with the "Bald Eagle".

I got information before that the ship carried a national gift exchanged by the King of the North Sea for the Marfa Empire.

Now that we know that the "Alcatraz Treasure" incident is probably a conspiracy, the existence of that ship is even more special.

Dr. Banks accurately determined the location of the ship, and found that the ship did not go back towards the Marfa Empire, but actually went in the direction of Alcatraz.

This is obviously abnormal.

The three ships of the Dawn Regiment also pursued all the way, trying to intercept the opponent before approaching Alcatraz.

On the three battleships, everyone is preparing for battle.

Repair ships, maintain artillery, familiarize yourself with equipment, and run in new team members

Barrett is indeed a professional senior general, he has very rich experience in commanding large-scale wars and military training. He completed the reorganization of the personnel of the three warships in a short period of time. Everyone has determined a unified code language, command authority, emergency plan, and reward and punishment system.

Su Lun also thought it looked good.

The addition of professional soldiers like Barrett can be considered as a complement to a shortcoming of the Dawn Regiment.

Although it is not necessary to copy the Luying Royal Knights, it can save the trial and error detours of the future development of the Dawn Regiment.

But in a large team, scientific management will make the team more cohesive and have the combat effectiveness of a sharp knife.

Although the Dawn Group is a pirate group that advocates freedom, it will become bigger and bigger in the future, and these must be the way to go.

The three battleships braved the wind and waves on the sea at an extremely fast speed.

"Mr. Hunk, is there anything I can help you with?"

"Oh, no, Miss Kama, we giants will leave the strenuous work of pulling in the cables."

"Mr. Tam, can I do something? I can do a boat job"

"No, Miss Kama. Deck washing is a dirty job. Let us rough men do it."

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Karma's first day on board.

She felt as if she was stuck in the cabin on the first day, which was impolite.

On the deck, she recognized faces and helped everywhere, hoping to integrate and get familiar with the new team as soon as possible.

After getting along, she also found that everyone on the boat looked fierce, but they were actually easy to get along with.

Karma tried hard to get involved with some of the ship's work, but everyone seemed to have their own things to do, and she couldn't help with anything.

On the other hand, people are familiar with each other, such as the domineering sister Senjo, the mysterious Miss Pandora, the almost invisible Dr. Banks, the three Hunk brothers of the giant clan, Captain Haguro, and Captain Somesaki.

After saying hello, she found that everyone on board was very warm and kind to her, and their attitude was as gentle as a family member.

Karma naturally knew that it was because he was a disciple of Su Lun.

She also cherishes this kindness.

Turning around, Kama saw Lolota practicing sword at the bow.

She remembered that this was Sister Qiantiao's direct disciple.

Probably because of the similar age, Karma felt that she seemed to get along better.

They are all orphans, they used to be little nobles, and they have many empathetic experiences.

The two chatted for a few words, and soon became acquainted.

They were sitting on the side of the boat, shaking their legs, with the typical bright smiles of young girls on their faces.

We chatted and chatted, and we talked about Su Lun.

Karma felt that meeting Su Lun was the luckiest thing in her life.

But since last night, her shock has not stopped. In today's battle, she also saw how terrifying her teacher's strength is.

This is the puppeteer in her mind.

But after boarding the boat, Su Lun couldn't see anyone, which made Kama feel a little uncomfortable.

She asked Lolotta, "Miss Lolotta, is the teacher usually like this?"

Lolotta smiled and said: "Yes. Mr. Su Lun worked very hard. As long as he is on the boat, he will hardly see anyone. But if you go to the laboratory to find him, you will definitely see him researching those weird things , machinery, puppets, and biological technology.”

Speaking of this, she pouted and said: "Mr. Su Lun is the kind of person who is already super powerful and works hard. He is a role model for everyone in our Dawn regiment. I always get knocked on the head by the teacher, saying that I Stupid, not working hard”

Hearing this, Kama couldn't hold back a chuckle, and suddenly thought of something, and asked again: "Are Teacher and Miss Qianjo lovers?"

Lolotta rolled her eyes, "Well, it's hard to say."

Karma was surprised: "It's hard to say?"

Lolotta didn't know how to explain it either, and a weird smile appeared on his face: "The relationship between the teacher and Mr. Su Lun is quite special, and I can't explain it in a few words. Uh, you will know later."

Karma: "Oh"

At this time, Tani suddenly slid down from the cable on the mast watchtower, "Hey, Miss Kama, my name is Tani, nice to meet you!"

Karma was taken aback, "Ah, my name is Karma. The teacher introduced you just now, I remember your name."

Lolota was obviously familiar with him, rolled his eyes, and said with a smile: "This is Mr. Navigator, who loves to cry from our Dawn regiment!"

Hearing this, a look of shame appeared on Tani's face, "Lolota, can you stop talking about the past?"

Lolotta covered her mouth and chuckled, "No."

Kama also smiled without saying a word.

Three teenagers of similar age laughed and exchanged on the deck.

The crew looked at them with kind smiles on their faces.

The "Dawn" of their dawn regiment will grow up quickly and shine brightly.

After the welcome banquet, Su Lun stayed in the laboratory transformed from the captain's cabin.

The previous interception of the seventh team stripped the soul of Vasily Thirmido, the "thousand machine puppet", and gained a lot of puppet knowledge.

Although this guy is vicious and vicious, he murdered his master. But I have to say that his talent in puppetry is really not bad.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have secretly learned the Boyle family's secret art inheritance as a named disciple. Later, he also developed many of his own puppet stunts and became a "puppet master".

Su Lun also had to admit that harvesting this wave of experience saved decades of hard work in honing skills.

It also made up for his many deficiencies in puppet making, manipulation, and surgery.

It even opened up some new ideas.

Although the puppet technique lineage also comes from the puppet master lineage, its research on puppet precision and functionality is obviously more in-depth, and there are many amazing achievements.

For example, the stripped [Profound Truth Thousand Hands] skill, this technique allows people to manipulate puppets to a "delicate" level, more refined and precise!

Su Lun directly stripped Vasily of decades of proficiency skills, and directly let his puppet control go up a big step.

Coupled with [Puppet Theater], the two esoteric spells complement each other, and the combat power of the puppet army will skyrocket.

It's not just these harvests.

In the storage ring of Suren Vasily, I found a large number of inheritance classics of the "mechanism puppeteer lineage", such as mechanism science, puppet science, and secret arts.

In addition to the classics, there are also some treasures inherited from the Boyle family, and even two precious [surrogate dolls].

It would probably take many years for Su Lun to digest those classics by himself.

But Vasily had been studying these classics before, and his memory was very rich in knowledge, which was also convenient for Su Lun. [Reaper] The talent is directly stripped, and the knowledge is directly digested in the mind.

This also directly made the progress of another matter greatly ahead of schedule.

That is to repair [The Heart of the Puppet of the Mechanism].

Originally, Su Lun didn't know much about mechanisms, so he wasn't sure if he wanted to restore that top-level alchemy item.

Now it seems very likely.

Su Lun has learned too much, and he needs a lot of time to digest and integrate the new knowledge into his "knowledge tree".

So I stayed in the cabin all the time and didn't go out.

The speed of the "Pulsatilla" was a bit bizarre. The three ships of the Dawn Regiment used the alchemy array to sail at full speed, and this barely narrowed the distance to dozens of nautical miles.

However, that was two days later.

Su Lun was studying his puppet in the captain's room, when suddenly an observer's warning came from the deck: "Attention everyone, there is a suspicious ship ahead!"

As soon as these words came out, the command of the commander on duty also came from the communicator: "Everyone, prepare for battle!"

Su Lun glanced at the thick fog outside the window, and instead of staying in the cabin, he quickly came to the deck.

At this moment, the deck is full of people.

Su Lun walked to the bow and asked Qiantiao: "What's the situation?"

Qianjo pointed to the front and said, "At eleven o'clock, there is a floating ship. We have flagged it, but they didn't respond. It seems to be a ghost ship with no living people."

"Ghost ship?"

When Su Lun heard this, he also had a look of doubt on his face.

He took out the binoculars and looked in that direction.

At this moment, there is a thick fog floating on the sea.

His eyesight was better than others, so he could clearly see where the opposite ship was floating like a ghost.

The pirate flag was hung on the mast of the ship, which was a pattern of silver muskets and skulls. Su Lun immediately reflected the relevant information in his mind.

This seems to be a large pirate group called "Silver Gun Pirates", which is not weak.

The head of the group is a fifth-level professional, with a reward of 110 million "Shark Sniper" Friedrich, and there are hundreds of people under his command.

Su Lun seemed to have noticed something, and jumped onto the mast. When he looked again, he immediately saw that there was no one on the plywood of the ship. But if you look closely, you can find a little blood and some bits of biological limbs on the side of the ship.

But the strange thing is that apart from the traces that seemed to be dragging the corpses, there were no traces of fighting on the ship.

Su Lun's pupils shrank slightly, and immediately said: "Tani, pay attention to the movement in the sea!"

"Yes, Mr. Sullen!"

Tali didn't dare to be careless, and listened to the movement in the sea.

"Mr. Su Lun, what should we do now?"

"The 'Steam Ship' and the 'Judgement Ship' stay where they are, let's move over!"

"good!"

Now that I have encountered it, it is obviously inevitable to avoid it.

Su Lun and the others approached cautiously.

With Tani's ability and the mechanical octopus swimming quickly at the bottom of the boat, even if any sea monster approaches, they will be able to spot it immediately.

Su Lun and his ship approached the ghost ship.

After more than ten meters, the stormtroopers jumped over first.

"Captain, no living people were found! There are no monsters either."

"There are no signs of battle in the cabin."

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The perception department professionals quickly confirmed that there were no signs of life on the ship. Just like what they had seen before, it was an empty ship.

Su Lun and Qianjo also jumped over.

They observed on the deck and walked into the cabin again.

The supplies and equipment in the cabin are still there, and the guns are not filled with ammunition.

By all indications, there was no fighting here.

But the cabin where the crew rested was in a mess, with quilts thrown all over the place, and personal belongings scattered around. It seemed that the sleeping crew members were dragged out of the bed by something, very peacefully, without any resistance.

Looking at the scene in front of them, everyone felt chills down their spines, as if they were being secretly watched by some devil.

No one spoke in the cabin, and there was a strange atmosphere in the air.

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted at the bottom of the cabin: "Boss, a corpse was found in the bottom cabin!"

Su Lun and Qianjo looked at each other, and immediately walked down.

The bottom warehouse is a storage room, where a lot of tobacco, bacon and smoked fish are stored, and the air is mixed with a strong strange smell.

Probably because of these strong smells, the monster ignored the corpse.

Su Lun glanced at the pirate who was "sleeping" in the pile of cargo. It was obviously a sentinel.

The deceased was about twenty years old, dressed as a pirate, and had no physical injuries

Su Lun looked at it, and stretched out his hand to press on the abdomen of the corpse. There was no obvious damage to the internal organs.

He himself is proficient in forensic anatomy, but this strange way of death made him frown and puzzled.

Seeing this, Qianjo put one hand on the hilt of his sword and asked, "What do you think?"

Su Lun thought for a while, and said: "The deceased did not have any external injuries. He should have been directly killed by means similar to a mental attack, and then the body was transported away. Obviously, it was not a human being who did it, but a monster. They only The corpse was interested, and no money or materials were touched. This is the 'Muske Pirates', and their strength is not weak. They can kill them quietly, and the strength of the monsters may be very strong."

As he spoke, he added another sentence: "Tell everyone to be careful."

"Um."

Chijo nodded as well, which was similar to her guess.

The captains behind also passed on the order, and everyone found other clues in the cabin.

At this moment, there was another sound of footsteps on the cabin.

"I heard a body was found?"

Turning around, it was Dr. Banks walking over.

Su Lun said: "The doctor came just in time, can you see the specific cause of this person's death?"

Professional things should be left to professional people.

Dr. Banks nodded and said nothing.

He went straight to the corpse, observed it first, and then put his hand on the corpse.

At this moment, everyone watched as if his black arm melted, turning into streams of asphalt-like liquid, which penetrated the corpse's mouth and nose.

Although Su Lun knew that Dr. Banks' methods were a bit special, he didn't feel his eyelids twitch when he saw this.

However, this effect was excellent. Dr. Banks felt it for a while, as if he had discovered something, and said: "The time of death was seventeen hours ago, probably late last night. The internal organs and organs of the corpse There were ruptures in the blood vessels and especially damage to the tissue in the brain. That was the cause of his death."

Hearing this, Su Lun was surprised and said, "Didn't he die from a mental attack?"

"no."

Dr. Banks said in a very positive tone: "It is definitely not an ordinary physical attack that can cause such a large-scale visceral resonance damage through the body. There is a high probability that it is sound waves of certain special frequencies."

Hearing this, Su Lun immediately understood, "You mean, the murderer is the 'Siren Siren'?!"

This is a sea monster that usually only appears in legends, and very few people have seen it.

Because everything I saw was dead.

Legend has it that it is a sea monster with a human face and a bird body. It has a singing voice like heaven, likes to eat people, and usually appears at night.

The "Song of the Siren" that people say by word of mouth usually refers to this.

Human beings will die in that beautiful singing.

In fact, the legend is very magical, but the ancient alchemists have deciphered the principle.

In essence, that kind of singing is actually a kind of "infrasonic wave" that humans cannot hear.

This infrasonic wave has extremely strong penetrating power, not only can penetrate the atmosphere, sea water, soil, but also penetrate obstacles.

Wooden ships, even steel ships, are completely unable to block the propagation of sound waves. It is not easy to attenuate, it is not easy to be absorbed by water and air, and it can spread far and far.

Because infrasound waves of certain frequencies are close to or even the same as the vibration frequency of human organs, they tend to resonate with the human brain and organs. In mild cases, they are frightened, mad and restless; in severe cases, blood vessels rupture and die on the spot.

Just like the dead body in front of him.

The most troublesome thing is that this kind of infrasound waves cannot be heard by the auditory system of ordinary humans!

Dr. Banks nodded: "Well. It's probably that kind of siren."

Su Lun's expression was still dignified, but he was relieved.

At least if the cause of death is found out, it will be much easier.

Ordinary humans cannot hear this secondary sound wave, so they are killed silently.

But some people with awakened auditory talent can hear it.

It just so happened that there was someone who had awakened the [D-032-Hearing Enhancement] talent on board.

Moreover, even if the awakened person's ability is not developed enough to hear the singing of some high-level sea monsters, animals can still hear it!

Tani can communicate with animals in the sea, and common whales and jellyfish can hear various infrasound waves.

In other words, the "Siren Kraken" is not a big threat to the dawn group!

Since there was no threat, an idea popped up in Su Lun's mind: puppet material!

No matter how clever the puppets are, the artificial ones are far less perfect than the natural ones.

Although the "Siren Siren" has a terrifying singing voice, its actual combat power is very weak.

This [Singing Voice of the Siren Siren] is one of the most ideal materials for making [Howling Puppet] recorded in the classics of the puppeteer lineage!

Dr. Banks analyzed the cause of death of the corpse, and the "ghost ship" suddenly changed from a terrorist incident to a normal siren attack.

Everyone in the dawn group breathed a sigh of relief.

Everyone is ready to beware of Kraken attacks.

[Hearing Enhancement] Ability users are always on alert, and Tani also concentrates on listening to the sounds in the sea.

Just in case, all sentry posts were replaced with double sentry posts, one with ears sealed with red wax, and one standing guard normally.

This is the only way to stop the "Song of the Siren" from being heard in the legend.

Su Lun returned to their own boat with a pensive look on his face.

Qianjo looked at his expression and asked, "What's the matter, is there any problem?"

Su Lun pondered for a moment, and said that he hadn't fully figured it out, and said: "We are following the 'Bald Eagle'. But in fact, this is not the closest route to 'Alcatraz Island'. So Here comes the question, why did the 'Silver Grabbing Pirates' die here?"

Chijo doesn't like to use his brain to speculate, but his intuition is very keen. Upon hearing this, she immediately noticed something, and said, "You mean to say that this 'Silver Spear Squad' is also targeting the 'Bald Eagle'?"

"Well. That's the problem."

Su Lun nodded.

His information came from Van Gogh, and it is very likely that he got it from the Lu Ying royal family, or the spy personnel of a certain powerful force.

Those who are well-informed probably know that there is a treasure on the "Bald Eagle" that Oleg gave back to the Marfa Empire.

There must be a group of people who will come to pay attention to this batch of goods.

He expressed his doubts: "If our guess is correct, the 'Silver Gun Group' really came for the Mafa shipment, then why did they meet and die while the 'Bald Eagle' continued to sail?" ?”

Qiantiao also thought about it along the way, and said: "If it is not a coincidence, then the people of Mafa may have mastered a method to avoid the sea monster, or prevent the sea monster from attacking them? Or even. Controlling the Sea-Monster?"

The people of the Marfa Empire are not fools.

It is impossible not to consider the link of information leakage.

Moreover, their intelligence system is not weaker than that of the Lu Ying Empire, and there are spies interspersed with each other.

Besides, this is the territory of the King of the North Sea.

Su Lun's eyes gradually deepened, and all the logic had been roughly connected together in his mind.

He murmured: "Now that I think about it, it's possible that those guys deliberately spread the news, and then used the sea monsters in this sea area to wipe out all the hostile forces."

After saying this, Qiantiao also wanted to understand, and said with emotion: "Tsk tsk. What a trick."

At this time, Su Lun said again: "But it's not all bad news for us."

Qianjo looked over, showing doubts, "Oh?"

Su Lun stared at the sea in the distance, and said meaningfully: "After all, you have to use real bait for fishing."

After a pause, his pupils narrowed slightly: "There must be a treasure on the 'Pulsatilla'!"