Treasure Hunters, Sail the Blue Sea

Chapter 256 Southern Cross Island

Ships in the port come and go.

In addition to the houses that can be seen in the distance, the entire port is full of various platform squares for piling up goods and warehouses for storing goods near the sea.

There are also tracks around which ships are towed into the shipyard for maintenance.

You can even see many boats parked on the shore.

Even if you look at the entire port from a distance, you can see people coming and going like ants.

The entire port is busy, and the noisy sounds seem to be heard here.

One after another, ships with light gray and khaki dots on the outside are patrolling around, seeming to be the security forces of Southern Cross Island.

Because they have a red cross on their sails, which is the mark of the Southern Cross Island.

They had seen it before in the book Balazs had given them.

Even at the port, on the top of the tall lighthouse built on the coast, there is a red cross star.

"This place is so big!" Jason didn't know how to describe it for a while, and suffered from being uneducated.

They docked the Voice of Dawn in the waters outside the port, waiting for ships from the local government to come and inspect it.

After a while, a gray boat of about 40 meters with a red cross came to the side of the boat.

This ship is obviously shorter than Arka's Voice of Dawn.

A soldier in a white and blue navy uniform with a red cross on his chest looked up at Alka and the others.

Next to him floated something like a notepad and a quill.

He opened his mouth and said, "New faces? What exactly do you guys do?"

The language of Homeland Sea.

Strange to say, why is the common language of this sea area the common language of Homeland Sea?

But he didn't think too much, and replied directly: "Our first time here is a treasure hunting group."

"Treasure hunting group?" He looked up at Alka and the others strangely.

"Okay, but remember that digging is not allowed on the island. All property on the island belongs to the royal family of Lafsas, and any random digging is an act of theft."

Obviously, this is not the first time he has dealt with a treasure hunting group, he said skillfully.

"Of course." Alka nodded.

As for whether to break the law or not, you have to look at the map before you can guarantee it.

Alka thought silently in her heart.

"Then it is necessary to register now, please answer carefully."

After speaking, the notepad next to him floated in front of him, picked up the quill floating on the notepad, and began to ask.

It seems that because Alka and the others are here for the first time, the process is slightly complicated.

"Do you have a group name?"

"The pupil of the compass."

"how many people?"

"Um……"

"Is this question difficult to answer?" The navy frowned and asked Alka warily.

"Okay, 9 people." He thought for a while, but still didn't count the puppet army.

"What ship? Is it a ghost ship or a spell ship?"

Hearing this question, Alka frowned slightly, which obviously touched a certain amount of privacy.

"You newcomers, let me explain to you." He seemed to be used to it, and then he started to explain directly.

"The standard of the port is different. For a ghost ship with intelligence, it must be placed in a specific port area. Of course, this will cost more."

"Ghost ship."

He nodded, even though he knew it was a ghost ship, it didn't surprise him much.

After recording, he tore off the entire paper, and the magic power poured into the paper, and then he threw it out.

The paper was folded into a cross star in the air, and then it was dyed red and pasted on the right side of the bow.

"This is a pass mark, well, you can go in now, remember to prepare money."

As he spoke, he waved his hand without waiting for Alka and the others to answer, and drove the boat towards the other boats behind.

Several people on the deck looked at each other.

"It looks pretty normal."

"Okay, Voice of Dawn, let's continue driving."

Afterwards, the ship started to move slowly, the sails were already fully retracted, and the ship was pushed by the spell on the bottom of the ship.

Moving forward slowly, they skipped a white mark on the sea.

The sound of soft music came over.

"You said the ship is out of control?" Hearing this, Alka frowned and looked towards the bottom of the ship.

At this time, I saw that the current was changing, and the waves of the current lifted the bottom of the whole ship slightly.

He controlled the boat to row diagonally, and swam towards a special area in the port ahead.

The cross star on the bow of the ship is flashing red light slightly.

"Is it some kind of spell structure? I have to say it's really advanced." Simon looked at the current at the bottom of the boat and said.

Not only their ships, but also the ships that entered the port with them.

Apparently a normal occurrence in this port.

This keeps the boats from being overcrowded, after all you can't always expect these guys to follow the rules and learn to be courteous.

It seems that because they are ghost ships, the area they are lifted to is obviously far away from those spell ships.

The various facilities over there also look more advanced, as they drive towards that area.

Everyone also saw other ships in that port area.

You can feel the surge of magical power starting to rippling just now.

It was a demon gathering area.

"It has been artificially transformed, and the concentration of magic power is higher than that of the surrounding area." Julia said feeling the difference in that area.

And the ships in that area are much more advanced than other spell ships.

Most of them are between 40 and 60 meters in size, and each ship has a full personality.

The colors are not only colorful, but also have various patterns on it, and the statues on the bow are also various.

Not without some flamboyance.

The most conspicuous one is a 60-meter-long, three-story artillery deck, which is about three or four meters taller than Alka's ships.

However, the artillery ports of the artillery deck are all closed, and there are spell locks on them.

It's not just them, when Alka and the others drove in, the cannon's mouth was also sealed with a spell.

Seeing the situation, Simon nodded.

"No wonder they dared to let our ships with rock-shaking cannons dock in blatantly."

As the ship slowly approached the shore, with the sound of the chain, the anchor sank to the bottom of the sea.

When Alka and the others got off the boat.

A naval officer came up with two soldiers.

"Hello, we are the Navy of Southern Cross Island. We need to charge 1 Golden Sail for the docking of ships."

1 golden sail?

What is the difference between this and robbery?
But Alka didn't say much, and silently took out a golden sail.

Obviously, the government of this place is well aware that the people who own the ghost ship don't care about this little money at all.

And this demon gathering area, as well as the supporting facilities beside it, are indeed very good in appearance.

But definitely not worth the price.

Newcomer, just look around.

Seeing that Alka and the others were so forthright, the captain of the navy was also a little surprised.

He was sure he had not seen the ship, nor the group.

It's really strange that there is no procrastination and trouble.

But it also made their attitude significantly better.

After accepting the golden sail, a trace of magic power surged out of his hand and shot towards the cross star on the side of Voice of Dawn's bow.

The cross star lighted up slightly.

"The validity period is one week. If you need to dock after one week, please continue to pay the fee. If you need to dock for a long time, and any maintenance work on the ship, please go to the Star Shipyard over there for consultation."

As he spoke, he pointed to a small house not far away. There were many people outside the small house.

"Then I wish you a pleasant journey here." As he spoke, he bent slightly and led the two sailors, and left straight away.

"What are we going to do now? What are we going to do?"

Jason turned his head and asked.

It has been a long time since I have been in contact with the civilized world, and I am still a little confused for a while.

"I just came here, so you can do whatever you want, you can move freely on the island, and we will gather on the boat at night."

Alka calculated the current time and said.

There are only a dozen hours in the daytime now, and there must be more than 6 hours before the night, which is enough for them to have a certain understanding of the island.

This is the first place they stopped in the boundless sea. The big island with a city is already full of curiosity and desire to explore.

Hearing this, everyone nodded.

After chatting for a while, they left together.

As for the ships.

Naturally, there is a puppet army guarding it, and this is a port of power after all, so no one will be so arrogant.

Several girls walked towards the port town together.

"Do you want to go together?" Jason turned his head and asked.

Alka thought for a while, then waved his hand, he was going to act alone for a while.

Jason didn't force himself to go with Simon and the others, and also walked towards the town.

Alka stood still and looked around.

I have to say that this place is very spectacular. The ships are lined up neatly. The huge hull and the tall mast are like a dense forest.

The hanging tower made of wood and some metals kept turning around to pick up some goods made of wooden boxes.

In addition to humans, there are many subspecies and races of different skin colors among the laborers carrying goods in the square.

Alka even saw broken islanders with gray skin, and there were not a few murlocs of various kinds.

After all, the murloc is taller and stronger.

After a random look, most of the racial differences are mainly reflected in some small changes in skin color and limbs.

For example, the gap between Broken Islanders and normal humans.

With a flip of the palm, a business card appeared between the fingers.

It says the Golden Trout Chamber of Commerce in Balazs.

28 Mast Street.

Putting the card away, Alka started walking towards the town.

"Give it up, let it go."

"I need 10 porters, and I will work until tomorrow daytime, 10 copper swallows, more work, more pay."

"Be careful and lower your head, the goods are coming."

"The Red Blade commando recruits sailors, with a high salary of 50 copper swallows a day and night, and two silver snakes are given to settle down when they board the ship."

All kinds of noisy voices came from all directions.

However, most of them are recruited by various people or forces.

What labor sailors, even Arka heard combatants.

The recruitment price of sailors ranges from 10 copper swallows to 50 copper swallows a day and night, so it is indeed considered a high salary.

As for why the gap is so big, just look at the recruitment point that costs 50 copper swallows.

Basically no one cares.

It seems that the degree of danger is not a little bit, and it is notoriously dangerous.

In particular, this group also pays for the settlement, which is about the same as the money for life.

The faction that recruits combatants pays a high salary, which is equivalent to a monthly salary ranging from a dozen silver sails to a golden sail.

If there is a war, the spoils have to be shared.

Like pirates.

Alka turned his head to look at the ghost ships passing side by side.

It is conservatively estimated that there are at least 20 treasure masters on this island.

It's outrageous.

This is only calculated according to the number of ships, and it will definitely be much less.

Because there will definitely be a ship, and more than one treasure master.

Such as Alka and the others.

A ship has several people who control the treasure.

Is this the boundless sea?

Alka doesn't know the overall status of this landmark island in the entire boundless sea, but according to some descriptions in "Land of Chasing Dreams".

It can be known from the infrastructure of this island port. Although it looks good, it must not be ranked.

Even so, there are so many treasure masters docking on Landmark Island.

It can almost be said to be a full walk.

Alka thought he had already left the square at the pier and entered the interior of the town.

You can see many small town residents here.

Except for the salty sea breeze in the air, the surrounding area is fairly clean.

It wasn't as filthy as Alka thought it would be in the Middle Ages.

And the street under his feet is unusually spacious, at least two large carriages can pass through.

And there are actually something similar to street lights on both sides, but I don't know what kind of lighting it is.

There are not wooden houses on both sides.

Most of them are brick houses between 3 and 6 floors, with some wooden houses dotted around.

However, most of the walls of the houses are gray and brown paint.

Some workers can also be seen touching up the paint.

The salty sea breeze by the sea has eroded the surface of these houses quite a lot.

There is a tavern just across the road.

The sign of the tavern is a huge sea fish in a harpoon, with a wine glass next to it.

Fisherman's Bar.

However, it seemed that there were not many people in the bar, and Arka had no intention of going in.

He wants to find the Chamber of Commerce in Balazs first.

Look at the street signs.

White Sail Street, it seems, is not Mast Street.

There are many shops at the intersection, but most of them are shops related to ships.

A variety of ship related accessories are sold.

There wasn't even a place to eat, except the tavern.

Alka continued to walk inside.

Finally, at a crossroads, I saw the sign of Mast Street.

Immediately walk up the street of Mast Street.

Entering this street is obviously different, and the concentration of magic power has slightly increased.

It's not that there is anything peculiar here, but that many items here have magic power.

There are many such items, and the surrounding magic power will naturally be slightly increased.

Alka looked at the shops on both sides.

You can see a few restaurants that look good, and then you can see shops selling spell materials and various weapons.

From the door, you can see the magical luster on some weapons.

There are many people wearing various clothes are shopping.

Most of these people are in groups.

There is obviously a focus on selling items related to touchers or combatants.

The 28th...the 28th, there it is.

Seeing the house number 28, Alka looked down.

However, it didn't seem to be the same as what he thought.

The goods in this store have been taken down, and it seems that it has not been long since they were taken down.

At this time, the door of the store was open, and some workers were packing up the things inside, and it looked empty.

A man stood there commanding, looking slightly tired and vicissitudes from his back.

Looking at the back, it should be Balazs.

Arka walked over and patted him on the shoulder.

Balazs turned his head.

When he saw that it was Alka, his slightly tired face lifted his spirits a little and showed a smile.

"Alka? Long time no see."

As he spoke, he opened his hands and hugged Alka briefly.

After all, Alka and the others stayed on the Broken Isle for a long time, and met Balazs several times.

It can already be regarded as a relatively close friend.

"My friend, I was wondering if you would come here. Congratulations."

"Thank you, but are you...have you encountered any difficulties?"

Alka looked at the shop that seemed to be moving, and asked.

And looking at Balazs' face, he knew that his current state didn't seem to be good.

Obviously not like moving to a better place.

Hearing this, Balazs felt a little helpless, waved his hands and sighed, "Don't mention this, business competition is always cruel, isn't it?"

Hearing this, I looked at the shop and it was gone.

Alka couldn't help asking: "You don't plan to do this job, do you?"

The appearance of going bankrupt is worrying.

"No, of course not."

Balazs shook his head: "It's just a small setback. The shop is lost, but my ship is not lost. Some of my crew members are still willing to believe in me. It only takes some time, and I can go back to the past."

Hearing this, Alka nodded, it was obviously much better than he thought.

He has also learned about the status of the Chamber of Commerce in Balazs.

They mainly relied on the 70-meter-long boat at that time to carry out their activities. As long as that boat is still there, this can only be regarded as a slight setback.

"And this time, I also cleared out the disloyal people in the team. It can't be regarded as fruitless." Baraz said, as if comforting himself.

Although Alka didn't understand the whole story, he still nodded.

"In this case, how about going for a drink? It just so happens that I have just arrived on this island."

Hearing this, Balazs obviously became interested.

"No problem, wait for me for a while."

As he spoke, he said something to the people who were carrying it inside.

He came out and said, "Let's go."

Take Alka to the tavern in a small alley not far from Mast Street.

Looking at the tavern in this alley, if you are not familiar with it, you will definitely miss it.

"The Old Alley Bar, my favorite. Don't worry, although it's in this bird hole, it's really a good place." Balazs winked at Alka as he spoke.

"Trust me, this pub is important and safe."

Hearing this, Alka refreshed slightly.

Apparently, the place seemed to be some kind of special local spot.

Go up the stairs.

Open the iron door and go through a spiral staircase to the second floor of the house.

This bar is actually built on the 2nd floor of the house, not the 1st floor or the basement or something.

It's really special.

You can feel the difference as soon as you walk in.

It's not dark here, but the surrounding windows illuminate the place brightly.

And it's not noisy.

It was in line with Alka's wishes.

(End of this chapter)