The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

At the same time, in the second-class passenger area of ​​the Star of Hope, the passengers here are fully armed and guarding various vital parts. They did not show too nervous expressions. Most of those people who walked through the lost city and came out alive have temporarily forgotten their fear and fear. In their eyes, the pirates are no different from those monsters who hide in the city and want to eat them at any time. Killing pirates is their only way out.

Although the people here are all surviving adventurers, their identities are the same in the eyes of others, but if you look carefully at the line of defense they have arranged according to their own ideas, it is not difficult to find that there are still high and low status among these adventurers. difference.

Among them, the scattered adventurers are arranged near the entrances of the second-class cabin, belonging to the first layer of defense. These adventurers are all holding weapons such as mechanical crossbows and swords.

The second line of defense is an adventure team in the form of more than a dozen squads. These people hold different weapons, and there are even some supernatural beings like shamans and wizards among them. They guard the entrance respectively according to their own habits. In several small cabins not far away, adventurers who are ready to take over the first line of defense.

The last layer of defense is a big adventure team composed of three or more people. They arrange the defense line completely according to their own ideas. Two of the adventure teams chose to deploy defenses outside the cabin, and even moved out various furniture in the cabin. From their arrangement, it is not difficult to see that there should be officers and the like who have been on the battlefield, because all the fortifications are very similar to military fortifications.

As for the last adventure team, when everyone was making various preparations to meet the pirates, they locked themselves in their cabin suite very abruptly, as if they didn't want to fight the pirates at all.

Although everyone present was extremely annoyed by the behavior of this adventure group, none of the adventurers dared to knock on the door to accuse them, including the even big adventure group, because the adventure team in the room was mixed with them. In the minds of the adventurers at the bottom, there is a completely different existence, and various rumors in the past remind them all the time that no one who deals with this adventure team will end well.

In fact, the adventurers outside the house don’t know that in the team of adventurers in the cabin, not everyone is convinced by their captain’s order to stay in the cabin. Among them, almost half of the semi-new people who have just joined are arguing with the captain Do your best, hoping to make the captain change his mind.

"If you want to participate in the battle, you can do it by yourself, and you don't need to obey my orders." Cantor Fermon, the founder and captain of the Fermont team, looked at the dozen or so men who tried to persuade him, and said indifferently: "However, if you remember that you disobeyed my order, you will automatically be expelled from the team, and you will no longer be members of the Fermont team." As he said, he directly removed a stack of Ladies of the Lake Church Bank from the backpack beside him. Put the cash check on the table, and said: "This is your reward for this adventure, and I can pay you in advance."

Seeing Cantor Fermont utter such decisive words, those who questioned Cantor Fermont were all stunned. They obviously didn't expect to just persuade their captain to participate in the defensive battle against the pirates, but instead retreated from the team. Everyone was silent for a while.

Although it is a good thing to be able to get the reward for this adventure in advance, if it is at the cost of leaving the Fermont team, anyone who is a little smarter will know how to choose, and some people will even be willing to return the reward In exchange for the qualification to stay in the team.

As the top adventure team in the Velen world, the Fermont team can exchange for the greatest benefits with the least casualties every time they enter those lost cities. It is even rumored that Cantor Fermont, the captain of the Fermont team, has mastered a method that can A way to safely avoid those monsters, or to make the monsters not detect the intruders.

Before joining the team, those newcomers to the Fermont team didn't really believe in such rumors, but after completing one or two adventure missions, they faintly felt that the rumors might be true, because during the entire adventure, Cantor Fei Meng seemed to have a divine revelation. He was able to know the appearance of monsters and their attack methods in advance, and made targeted arrangements. Except for a few idiots and unlucky ones, who failed to follow his arrangements and died in the In the hands of the monster, the others survived the entire adventure.

The harvest of an adventure with the Fermont team is ten times that of other adventure teams, and the dangers encountered are much smaller than other adventure teams. Anyone with a little brain knows how important it is to be a member of the Fermont team. Lucky thing.

The atmosphere in the room became dignified and embarrassing. The people who were speaking impassionedly to persuade Cantor Fermont just now fell silent, and looked at the old team members sitting in other places, as if they wanted to Several old team members pleaded for mercy, but no one touched the reward on the table, and didn't even look at it.

However, those veteran players were obviously going to live up to the expectations of the newcomers, and they had no intention of pleading for mercy, because they knew very well that the reason why Cantor Fermont made such a tough statement was to take this opportunity to educate these stills. For newcomers who haven't tasted the pain, let them know the importance of obeying orders, and by the way eliminate those who do not meet the basic requirements of the team.

Joining the Fermont team is not enough to have a strong enough combat power. In fact, personal combat power only accounts for a small part of the basic conditions for joining the team, because combat power can be cultivated in the later stage, and the most important condition for joining the team is The most important one is to follow orders.

The surviving old people are very aware of the importance of obeying orders, because they have personally experienced the fact that the entire Fermont team was almost killed because one person did not obey the order, so they are very supportive of Cantor Fermont’s decision .

However, the only woman among the old team members didn't know whether she couldn't bear to see the new team members continue to be in such an embarrassing situation, or she didn't like the solemn atmosphere in the room, so she deliberately changed the subject and pointed at Cantor Fermont The big box next to him said: "Those guys must be here for this thing. They want to regain the membership of the Lord of the Sky by taking back this fetish of the Church of the Lord of the Sky. It must be, shall we not prepare for it?"

Kantor Feimeng looked at the old team members and said calmly: "Don't worry, I've already prepared everything that needs to be prepared."

Hearing Cantor Fermon's words, not only the new team members were bewildered, but even the veteran players' faces were full of confusion.

Because they didn't know what preparation Cantor Fermont was talking about. As far as they could remember, Cantor Fermont had been with them all the time after boarding the boat, and the only order he issued was for everyone to stay in the In the cabin, even if the captain of the Star of Hope came to persuade them to join the fight against the pirates, Kantor Fermont’s decision still did not change. No matter how you look at it, Cantor Fermont didn’t seem to be prepared for the pirates’ attack. look.

However, everyone present also knew that Cantor Femon was not a person who liked to talk nonsense. Since he said that he was prepared, he must be prepared, but the preparations in his mouth may be different from the preparations in everyone's minds. .

Or it was out of trust in Cantor Fermont, or maybe it was clear that it was impossible to get an answer from Cantor Fermont, so no one present asked what Cantor Fermont was preparing for.

A slightly younger veteran team member seemed to want to find a topic to pass the time, pointing to the big box and asked: "Don't you clean up the things in there? Although it has been dried a long time ago, there is not much smell, but just Take it to the auction house like this, I'm afraid..."

"That's good, I just want this effect, and I will also ask the auction house not to clean up the things on it when it is sold." Canto Fermont showed a smug smile on his face, reaching out and stroking the side said: "I can't wait to see what kind of hypocrisy those hypocrites from the Church of the Lord of the Sky see their fetish being eaten by monsters, and then turned into feces and pulled out, and put on the stage for auction. expression."

Seeing Cantor Femon like this, all the new and old team members present were a little speechless. They knew very well that their captain, who was very rational even in the face of death, would have no problem at all when it came to matters related to the Church of the Lord of the Sky. Reasonable.

At this time, a new team member sitting at the door suddenly changed his expression slightly, then stood up from his chair abruptly, took out his weapon skillfully, aimed at the door, and pointed to everyone, saying: "There is something wrong outside!"

Although they didn't know what was wrong with what their companion said, they all took out their weapons in unison, pointed at the two entrances of the cabin, and used their own methods to find and analyze what the companion said was wrong.

"It's too quiet." Someone soon revealed the answer.

Just as the person said, there were all kinds of bustling voices coming from outside the moment before, but at this moment the outside was as quiet as a wilderness in the dark night, and even the breathing of everyone in the room seemed to be surrounded by people. It looks so harsh when it is magnified more than ten times.

"Don't worry, just stay quiet." Compared to the vigilant team members around him, Cantor Fermon was obviously very relaxed. He seemed to know what was going on outside, and calmed down everyone with a very relaxed tone. emotions, and a smile full of meaning appeared on his face, feeling like a hunter who saw his prey hooked.

Compared to Cantor Fermont's relaxed and confident attitude, the captain of the Star of Hope at this moment seemed very desperate.

Before, although he didn't think that the defense he had set up could repel the fleet composed of three big pirates, he was very confident that he would be able to sustain the battle until the reinforcements arrived. As the horn sounded, the sea monsters in the nearby waters would definitely come Support, with the help of Kraken, let alone a dozen pirate ships, even if there are more than a dozen more, they will still be buried in the bottom of the sea.

However, what he never expected was that the enemy's attack was so unexpected, so powerful, and so effective. Before he understood what was going on, he saw his fully armed crew members fall asleep one by one , only a few crew members who are protected by extraordinary items, or who are extraordinary themselves can barely stay awake, but their bodies are as limp as him, and their hands are weak. In this state, they can't even hold weapons. Impossible, either hold on to the objects next to you, or you can only lie on the ground.

"Damn it, what's going on here?" The captain looked at the fallen crew members, then at the pirate ship gradually emerging from the thick fog, with a look of despair on his face, and muttered to himself: "It's over, We're all over!"

At this time, he thought of Leo Dodd, and thought that if Leo Dodd was really the person he knew, there might be hope, and he even looked forward to seeing Leo Dodd suddenly appear from the fog , and then destroy all the pirate ships on the sea to get the Star of Hope out of trouble.

However, the captain was disappointed, until the supernatural item on him lost its effect, and the whole person fell into a coma under the influence of inexplicable power, and the miracle he expected did not appear.

At the same time, those pirate ships approaching the Star of Hope had already thrown out their hook locks and grabbed the side of the ship, ready to jump onto the Star of Hope at any time, but the strange thing is that they did not continue to attack, but followed the Star of Hope Sailing forward, it felt more like protecting the ship.

However, this kind of entourage did not last long. After a striking brazier was lit on each of the three pirate flagships, the pirates who were already ready to move couldn't wait to jump to the Star of Hope, and then trained well. They found the unconscious crew members, skillfully took away the weapons in the hands of the crew members, and tied up the crew members.

As the leaders of the three pirate ships, Henry the Tooth, the Sea Witch Mortana, and the Old Sea Dog Jenningt didn't pay attention to the movement on the deck after boarding the ship. They seemed to understand the structure of the Star of Hope quickly. After finding the passage to the second-class cabin, his subordinates opened the way and walked towards the second-class cabin.

Although they were very confident in their potions and spells, they did not dare to be careless, and what happened afterwards also proved that their caution was very correct.

When they entered the main cabin of the second-class cabin, they encountered an attack. Several passengers with extraordinary strength did not completely lose consciousness. After seeing the pirates, they instinctively raised their mechanical crossbows to attack. The first few pirates were killed on the spot because they were too careless, and the passengers seemed to have exhausted their last strength and passed out.

Originally, these people were going to be dismembered on the spot by the angry pirates, but the sea witch stopped them and suggested that these people should be sold as slaves. The other two also agreed with the sea witch's decision.

Afterwards, they didn't stop much, and went straight to the suite of the Femont team.