Mystery: Mr. Witch and Miss Hunter

Chapter 331 Empty Ship
Is there a ship coming?What ship?

Adele was a little puzzled, took off the saber from the knife holder beside her, walked out of the room with the revolver in her hand, and came to the deck.

On the deck, the preparations for the banquet had been interrupted, and the sailors were busy running around.

The sailors loaded the bullets and went to make sure that the swords were not dull.Adele found it odd that she hadn't heard any shelling while the boarding hooks were out and the guns were manned.

She ran to the side of the deck and found that the "Yukikaze" was circling a carrack galleon, getting closer to the other party a little bit, but during this period, there was no movement on board, as if it was a empty ship.

When the Yukikaze turned an angle, Adele saw the name of the ship painted red on the side of the ship:
The Nebuchadnezzar!

Adele rubbed her eyes hard to make sure they were right.

How can this be?Adele was a little surprised. She glanced at the wall clock on the wall and found that she had only slept for two hours. With the slow and astonishing speed of the carrack galleon, it was impossible to sail eighty nautical miles in two hours. .

However, after Adele gave the order to drop anchor, it was obviously impossible for the "Yukikaze" to actively approach the ship that had been judged by the captain as a dangerous target.Whether Adele believed it or not, it had indeed come near the "Snow Wind", as if it was just walking in front of the house.

"Can you see what's going on on the opponent's deck?"

Adele walked quickly to a sailor holding a telescope, and before he could answer, she took the telescope from the opponent's hand, and looked at the uninvited guest in the distance.

The deck was empty, without a single sailor, just like Adele's divination; however, Adele saw empty wine barrels rolling back and forth, casually discarded sailor's knives, and even the The clothes of the sailors on the ship were hanging outside, as if the owner had just left.

If this is a trap to lure the boat, this trap is too rough.

Adele put down the binoculars, and was about to wave her hand to order her subordinates to shoot a volley first, but Tracy, who jumped out at no time, held her arm down.

"Is there a problem?"

Adele looked at Tracy puzzled.

"You want to sink that ship?" Tracy's expression was quite serious.

"This is the safest way." Adele nodded slightly.

"You know what kind of stuff we have under our hands?"

Tracy glanced around, and whispered to Adele, "Your influence is not deep enough, it is a serious matter to recklessly give up such a gain, and these desperadoes will not be grateful for your risk-averse actions Yours, they just know you're blocking their money."

There is also a reason why the Loen military accepted Tracy so quickly. Before that, the kingdom had the experience of absorbing some pirates with low rewards and minor crimes to join the navy, and in West Balam, there were such One of the pirate troops played a big role in the early landing operations, but was gradually idled as the battlefield advanced in the later stage.

When it was necessary to reorganize Adele's crew, out of the idea of ​​making the best use of everything, Emlyn transferred a large number of people from the pirate-born army into the fleet. Cooperating closely with Tracy, who is also a pirate, the third party can kill three birds with one stone.

However, Emlyn was happy to arrange it, and Adele had a lot of trouble for no reason.

Morale is too low. Even if Adele, Tracy, Natalie, and Constantine are four Sequence 6 or above, and the real mid-sequence powerhouses are in charge, large-scale attrition, return without success, and other morale-damaging incidents still persist. It would be a devastating blow to this makeshift fleet.

Just like now, if Adele directly ordered the sinking of the ship, it would be difficult to get positive feedback from the sailors.

These pirate-born sailors were already stubborn and greedy, and it was hard to approve them to return to their old professions. These sailors who had been idle since the landing operations at the beginning of the year were even more excited, and it was difficult to suppress them with words alone.

They can accept a fight with someone, measure the loss after a few rounds of confrontation and then retreat, and they can also tolerate losing a certain amount of manpower in the trial and then give up, but they just ignore the opponent and sink the opponent like this, this is this group of greedy for money absolutely unacceptable to sailors.

Adele hesitated for a moment, and saw the eager eyes of the group of sailors not far away looking at her. It was a kind of morbid fanaticism. As she resumed her old job, this fanaticism appeared in the eyes of the sailors again. inside.

Adele sighed helplessly, waved to the sailors and ordered:

"Aim at the sides of the ship for a suppressive shot, then move closer to the other side and release the boat to meet the side."

Although the other party seemed to be an empty ship, Adele still kept enough caution.

Under her command, the sailors first launched a round of shelling from the side secondary battery, blowing up the hull of the "Nebchadnezzar" near their side, and almost [-]% of the artillery lost fire. Ability.

Afterwards, the impatient sailors put down the small boat with boarding hooks, and hurriedly rowed the boat towards the carrack galleon that had already caught fire in many places.

They temporarily carried out Adele's order, but seeing the flames rising from the other ship, many sailors still scratched their heads in frustration.

After all, the ironclad ship is a new gadget that appeared not long ago, and the emotional bonus in the hearts of pirates is not too high; and the carrack galleon has been sailing across the sea for hundreds of years, leaving a deep imprint on the hearts of countless pirates.

In other words, there are not many pirates who imagine that they will own an ironclad ship in the future, but there are many pirates who imagine that they will be the captain of a carrack galleon in the future.

This group of sailors already regarded the ship as their own property. If possible, they would even apply to Adele to capture the ship and serve on it.

Against this background, no matter how Adele restricts her, this group of ex-pirates who love ships like their lives will not listen.

In the future, the matter of strengthening the control over these pirates must be put on the agenda...

Seeing that several fast-moving pirates had climbed onto the side of the "Nebchadnezzar", Adele secretly made up her mind.

The few brave pirates boarded the ship, searched roughly, and immediately separated one of them, holding a small flag that they brought with them, and issued a semaphore to the "Xuefeng" that "everything is normal, you can board the ship" , while the rest of the people dropped their weapons directly, picked up a few empty barrels, and joined the ranks of fighting the fire.

Now even Adele had no reason to delay. The Yukikaze approached the Nebuchadnezzar, and the pirates brought out a large number of boarding cannons that could fire steel forks with ropes attached to their back ends. Several of them fired at the same time. Nailed into the hull of the other party, a cableway was quickly built between the two ships.

The ship's side of the "Snow Wind" was much higher than that of the Karak galleon, forming a natural downhill slope.

The sailors took off their three-cornered hats one after another, untied the linen turbans soaked in tung oil on their heads, tied the strong turbans into slipknots, held them in their hands, and fixed them on the steel cables.

Then, clutching their turbans in one hand and shiny steel knives in the other, some hiding their burning seals in their braided beards, they slid down the wire like a troop of excited monkeys. opposite ship.

They have revolvers or rare flintlock guns in their waists, and some of them have been blessed by magic.

When I am alone, I definitely don't want to be entangled with these guys - this is the conclusion that Adele came to after observing.

Tracy was very calm. After Adele ordered Wendy and the four witches in the bar to stay behind, she held out her hand to Adele with a little restraint:
"Shall we go and have a look?"

Although she still has a good understanding of her male identity, she is unwilling to touch the body of other men or witches who are originally male, but Adele is an exception. After all, this is still her brother...sister?Tracy couldn't tell either.

Adele smiled, and instead of holding Tracy's hand, she stretched her hand forward. Countless thin white threads quickly intertwined in the air, twisted into several strands, and quickly woven a thread between the cableways. Here comes the rope ladder.

"Let's go."

Adele made a "please" gesture, and walked up the rope ladder with Tracy. Although the hull was shaking, the two still maintained their balance on the rope ladder that swayed like a trampoline from time to time by virtue of the witch's strong balance ability. Money went to the boat.

Followed by Constantine Eggers, as a "Necromancer", he asked himself that his balance ability was not as good as the cat-like two, so he simply summoned flying necromancers to lift him up. But the frost on the opponent's claws left white and green icicles on his shoulders, and now he is cleaning it up, a little embarrassed.

As the commissioner of the church to monitor Tracy, he had to keep up with Tracy when she boarded the ship to prevent the other party or other crew members from hiding the belongings on the ship or doing other things.

However, Tracy, who thought she had seen the internal struggle of the Witch Sect, valued the death-free gold medal of the Kingdom's military, and would not do irrational things, so Constantine's job as a supervisor was quite leisurely. Being with Wendy, the sunny personality unique to people from the Southern Continent and Wendy, a purebred engineering student who doesn't know how to understand each other, complement each other perfectly, so that today is the first time he has fulfilled his duties.

Tracy glanced at Constantine who was following behind her. Without saying anything, she directly used her frost ability to let the dark blue ice spread from her feet to the center of the flame, helping the sailors put out the fire.

Adele did the same, while Constantine was vigilant around, but until the flames were completely extinguished, nothing unusual was found.

There was still no crew member on the "Nebuchadnezzar", as if they had never existed.

However, the boiling hot water in the kitchen, the fresh stew spilled everywhere in the restaurant due to the bumps during the bombardment, and the half-drunk beer with bubbles left all indicate that the disappearance of this group of people was not long ago. before things.

The traces of their lives left by them are fully exposed to everyone on board, silently telling these uninvited guests that they once existed in a certain way.

All this made Adele feel extremely uneasy, but she didn't know where the uneasiness came from.

"Tracy and I went to the bottom deck to inspect the cargo with the sailors. By the way, we will keep an eye on these guys to prevent them from hiding. You should go to the captain's cabin first."

Constantine caught a glimpse of Adele's serious expression, and knew that she was thinking about something, so he immediately said empathetically.

Adele nodded slightly, and the three of them split up.

Adele came to the captain's room led by a sailor in a linen shirt.

In the captain's cabin there was a huge dining table set to one side of the room.There is also the quartermaster's workbench, which holds his nautical implements, maps, and charts.

A few sharpened pencils and a magnifying glass lay on the table, and the occupant of the room appeared to be working on some academic matter before disappearing.

Judging from the holy emblem of the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom that can be seen everywhere in the room, this ship is indeed a ship from Intis and Lunburg.

There is a portrait hanging on the wall facing the gate. The person in the portrait is wearing gorgeous costumes with golden tassels, red and blue background colors, a tower-shaped golden crown on his head, and a short-handled scepter pinned to his waist. something, but Adele thinks it might also be a dagger.

His appearance and facial features are relatively soft, which is quite different from the people in the North and South Continents.

The text notes below indicate that the person on the portrait is the source of the ship's name. It seems to be an ancient emperor with first-class martial arts and martial arts. However, Adele, who has extensive knowledge of the history of occultism, I have no impression of this name.

The country of Lemburg does not have a long history. How can a ship be named after such an ancient figure?
Cursing secretly in her heart, Adele temporarily looked away from the portrait and looked at the other's desk.

Among the scattered stationery, there is an ordinary-looking sailing diary.

There seems to be a layer of black wax on the paper, which makes the diary much more waterproof. However, it is impossible to write on it with an ordinary pen. It seems that the wax on the top needs to be scraped off with a knife to expose the diary. Handwriting composed of red background.

"The people of the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom always like to make these inventions..."

Adele picked up the diary casually and flipped through it casually, then her expression gradually froze.

"On January 1, what the Pope said is true. There is really something behind that fog. It must be the kingdom of God he said!"

"O merciful God, may your wisdom guide me."

"On January 1th, we finally passed through the fog. The power of wisdom is indeed infinite. Praise knowledge, praise wisdom!"

"On January 1th, we are getting closer to His kingdom of God. I can feel that the pilgrimage is coming to an end!"

From then on, there were dozens of consecutive blank pages, until the last page, where the bloody handwriting appeared again:

"On January 1, we will become stars."

(End of this chapter)