The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

"Let's take a look at the news in the bottle before making a decision!" Facing the disagreement between the two companions, the middle-aged man with several scars on his face did not stand on either side, but took the initiative to pick up the bottle on the table. He uncorked the bottle, took out the note inside, looked at it quickly, then handed it to the two with a blank expression, and said, "Look for yourselves!"

The two took the notes one by one and looked at them. The woman's face became a little gloomy, while the old man's expression became a little more smug.

The middle-aged man put an end to this small dispute, saying: "Obviously, in terms of the current situation, persuasion is no longer necessary, let's prepare for the battle!" Then he turned to the old man and asked: "You Nothing will go wrong, right? The ultimate success or failure of things depends on the effect of your thing."

The old man patted a skin bag hanging on his waist and said: "Don't worry about this, I will release all the power of this thing, anyway, after finishing this time, there is no need to do it again, and there is no need to keep this thing anymore " Then he turned to the woman and said, "Compared to worrying about me, I think you should worry about her more, so that you don't feel overwhelmed with sympathy and do something you shouldn't do, just like last time Like that."

The woman did not refute the old man's question, but just gave the old man a hard look.

The middle-aged man also looked at his companion suspiciously. Although he was not the person involved in the previous incident mentioned by the old man, he had also heard that the woman's temporary sympathy last time almost reversed the successful incident. And today's matter is related to the lifelong hope of the three of them. He doesn't want any mistakes to happen because of sympathy, so he needs the woman's guarantee.

The woman was silent for a while, raised her hand to grab the holy emblem of the Church of the Lord of the Sky on her chest, and said calmly: "I promise you, I will never be soft."

Hearing the woman's promise, the two didn't say anything more, they knew very well that the woman was a person who kept her promise.

The middle-aged and elderly people got up one after another and walked out of the meeting room, and came to the deck. The pirates under them immediately gathered over to inquire about the situation of the discussion.

"Let's get started!" The middle-aged man and the old man simply responded to their subordinates at the same time.

Hearing this response, all the pirates made all kinds of strange noises. These strange noises were originally only on the deck of one ship, but soon spread to other ships like an infectious disease. , All kinds of strange noises came out one after another on the originally calm sea for a while, and all kinds of marine creatures that were playing around the boat were also scared away.

After that, I saw more than a dozen small boats of different sizes being put into the water. There were three or five people on each small boat. The steam engine rushed out following the dozen or so small boats, circled the large fleet of three pirates under the control of the driver, and then moved in the direction of the Star of Hope.

A dozen small steam speedboats were very fast, and it took almost an hour to catch up with the Star of Hope. They are not commandos. What they have to do now is to harass the Star of Hope to see if there is a chance to destroy it. Propeller of Star of Hope, stop Star of Hope from sailing.

Therefore, after catching up with the Star of Hope, they circled around the Star of Hope continuously, and made various noises with the guns in their hands, and even threw a few special explosives for cannons near the propeller to detonate , creating panic.

"These damned bugs! I must catch them and hang them." Hearing the report from his subordinates, the boatswain who ran to the stern to check the propeller was slightly relieved when he found that the propeller was not damaged. Can't help cursing.

"Don't pay too much attention to them, they just want to make us mess up," the captain also came over to check the situation, calmed the furious bosun, then looked at the pirates on the sea who were harassing, and directly took down the sailors. The special steam gun on Chang's body, and then removed a special bullet from his pocket, stuffed it into the gun chamber, and quickly aimed and fired.

After a small gunshot, a small steam engine that harassed the ship exploded immediately. The force of the explosion not only tore apart the small boat, but the fragments also pierced into the pirates on the small boat. At the same time as the sea, they were already dead.

Seeing what happened to their companions, those harassing ships immediately avoided the Star of Hope in horror, not daring to approach the harasser as unscrupulously as before.

The sailors who saw this scene looked at their captain with great admiration. Although they had heard about the captain's deeds from the old people on board, they had never seen the captain's ability with their own eyes, and now they finally saw the captain. When it came to the captain's fighting ability, it was indeed as powerful as in the legend, and the state of mind that had been fluctuating because of the pirate harassment just now returned to normal, and they also subconsciously believed that these pirates were not difficult to deal with.

The captain of the Star of Hope returned the gun in his hand to the boatswain and asked him to continue to deploy the line of defense, then turned around and went to the cabin to assign tasks to the adventurer passengers in the cabin.

Unlike the sailors under his command, the captain had no confidence in the upcoming battle. He didn't think that he could despise the three big pirates just by destroying one harassment boat. The intelligence showed how difficult and dangerous these three pirates who had been entrenched on the routes of the two continents all year round were.

Now, the captain is troubled by internal problems, because not long ago, his men uncovered a pirate insider hidden in the sailors, and through questioning, he also learned that there is not only one pirate insider, except for the crew. Yes, even in the passengers.

Because the news has not spread, the morale of the crew and passengers on the ship has not been affected yet, but once the insiders suddenly attack when the battle starts, it will not only have a great impact on morale, but will even affect the final battle situation He had to find out as many of these insiders as possible before the battle started.

"My lord, the guest in Room No. 7 asked me to give it to you." Just as the captain entered the cabin, a head waiter in charge of the upper-class cabin hurried up from behind, panting. , while handing the letterhead in his hand to the captain, said.

"Room No. 7?" The captain was stunned for a moment, and soon remembered that the room was arranged to accommodate the shipwreck named Leo Dodd, and also thought of the possible identity of that person, which made him immediately Pay attention to this letterhead.

Afterwards, he took the letter, opened it and looked at it, and found that the contents on the letter were all names, some were cabin numbers followed by a name, and some were crew positions followed by a name. More than twenty people.

At first, seeing the content above, the captain didn't understand what the other party meant, but he quickly thought of what he was about to do now, his face changed slightly, and he soon realized the name of the person on it They should all be pirates.

In addition to being surprised, he couldn't help wondering why the shipwrecked person knew that these people were insiders?

Although the captain still had some doubts about the origin of this list, he did not ignore the list. With the idea that he would rather believe it than believe it, the captain immediately contacted the armed personnel on board, quickly And effectively arrested the people on the list one by one.

When the crew was arrested, the situation went smoothly. On the contrary, when the passengers on the list were arrested, there was quite a commotion. Annoyed by the actions of arresting passengers, they took up weapons one after another, confronted the crew, and demanded an explanation from the captain.

However, the turmoil subsided quickly, because right in front of the leaders elected by the passengers, the captain showed the evidence that these people were the insiders of the pirates, and everyone's anger subsided, at least on the surface. subsided.

Afterwards, a simple maritime court was set up on the ship, and all the pirates were quickly sentenced to death, and then they were hanged on the side of the ship one by one, and their bodies were hung on the sides of the ship, showing it to those responsible Harassing pirates look.

After seeing the hanged man, the pirates didn't see clearly because they were a little far away, until someone ventured closer and recognized that the hanged man had an internal response arranged by them. He drove the small boat and headed towards the pirate fleet, as if he wanted to report the news to the above.

Seeing the harassing pirate ship evacuate, all the people on board cheered, as if they regarded this as a sequential victory.

However, the captain didn't take it seriously, his face was still solemn, although the internal response on the ship was cleared, this was only the beginning of the battle.

He wondered if he should go to see that Leo Dodd, maybe he could get more help from him, but he quickly dismissed the idea.

In his opinion, getting the list information of the pirate's internal response is already a great help, and it is a bit too much to ask for it, and he feels that if the battle is really bad, the other party should not stand by.

Afterwards, he began to redeploy the defense missions on the ship. Because of the internal response of the pirates on board, the previous defense layout plan may be passed on to the pirates by the internal response. rearrange.

After the captain rearranged the defensive task, there was a sudden exclamation on the deck, and everyone's attention was also attracted, and they looked in the direction of the observer on the watchtower, and soon saw More than a dozen steam-sail dual-powered boats on the sea in the distance are breathing out puffs of thick smoke, and they are quickly approaching this side.

Although these pirate ships cannot compare with the Star of Hope in terms of size, the armed forces on each ship are not much worse than the Star of Hope. Even if the distance is so far, people with better eyesight can Can clearly see the muzzles on the hull.

Since the formula of the special bullet was made public more than ten years ago, this kind of cannon made of special gunpowder has become the main weapon of wars, and almost everyone knows how powerful this weapon is. With the intervention of power, these weapons are the kings of the battlefield. Now more than a dozen ships full of the kings of the battlefield are slowly approaching. The morale that was boosted by clearing the internal response and scaring away the harassing fleet has dropped rapidly.

The captain also knew what he had to say in this situation, otherwise their morale would be even lower when it came to the official battle, which would affect their combat effectiveness.

So, the captain stood on a high place and didn't say any nonsense about glory. He just explained in a very simple and clear way what would happen to the people on board when the pirates won the victory. The excellent pre-war mobilization effect is surprisingly good. Everyone knows that it is useless to think too much, and the only right thing to do is to survive.

At this moment, there was a piercing chirping sound on the sea surface, and then a large amount of fog was seen rising from the sea surface, quickly covering the entire sea area.

The people on the Star of Hope knew very well that the fog was definitely not a good thing, so under the captain's clear instructions, they each went to their assigned defensive positions.

At the same time, on the pirate's side, the old man blew hard on a strange bone in his hand, and with the number of times he blew, the cracks on the bone became more and more, and the fog on the sea became thicker and thicker. Just because of a large number of cracks and fragments.

The old man looked at the shattered bones in his hands, with a little regret on his face, then turned his head to look at the two companions behind him, and said, "It's your turn, don't let my treasure go to waste."

The middle-aged man didn't say anything, took off the medicine box at his waist, and quickly and carefully mixed several bottles of medicine together according to the proportion, and then stirred quickly until the color of the medicine turned off-white before stopping the stirring .

After handing the medicine in his hand to the woman, the middle-aged man reminded: "Be careful, the medicine is very powerful, you must control it well, and don't blow it to your own side, otherwise you can only wait for the medicine to disappear naturally. I don't have any in my hand." Antidote."

The woman didn't say anything. After taking the potion, she held it in her hand, then walked to the side of the boat, held it up high, and chanted some kind of prayer in her mouth.

As her voice turned into a vibration with a strange frequency, a force emanated from her body and poured it into the potion bottle. The potion in the bottle quickly faded, and soon completely emptied. A sea breeze appeared out of thin air, blowing a cloud of gray-white mist that looked a little uncoordinated towards the Star of Hope.