Chapter 6 The Last Wish of the Pirates

After I asked my question, the pirate captain over there laughed, but his laughter was very scary, because this guy started crying while laughing. Although I didn't know what his reaction was, I didn't interrupt him. I waited until he finished venting before he apologized to me and said, "We actually tried it a long time ago, but it didn't work!" He sighed: "We were very unwilling when we died. How much did everyone hope that this robbery could be successful? But we failed, and failed very unwillingly. In the end, we all sank to the bottom of the sea and slept forever. Because we were unwilling, So we can't rest in peace. Now if we want to rest in peace, we must fulfill our original regrets. Therefore, it is impossible for us to fulfill our last wish without taking all the treasures and leaving. We have tried to leave directly before, but the result was that it didn't work. Don’t commit suicide.”

"suicide?"

"Yes. We once tried to run away without robbing the ship, and we were indeed not caught up by the fleet. However, according to the route we followed during our lifetime, we could never see the land. It seems that there is only the sea in this world, and no matter how we sail, we will always be in the sea. , and in the end our food and fresh water were all exhausted, but we still would not die. The people on the boat had not eaten anything for several months, and everyone was like a skeleton wrapped in a layer of skin, but we still Some people even went crazy because of hunger and tore off their own skin. As a result..." The pirate captain suddenly paused and then continued: "In the end, everyone was stupid. The guy who tore off his own skin. We actually moved around the ship like a skeleton. Although all the internal organs and everything were gone, we were still alive. We could feel unbearable hunger and desperate thirst, but we couldn't eat or drink anything. The water, that way of living is more painful than death. Finally, after everyone’s discussion, we had to scuttle the Dreamer ourselves. By the way, Dreamer is the name of this ship. We scuttled the Dreamer after Then it sank to the bottom of the sea with it, so the moment the dreamer touched the bottom of the sea, reincarnation continued again. As long as we don't fulfill our wishes, this reincarnation will not end, so we have to grab, have to escape, Have to fight and have to die!"

"It sounds quite miserable. Well, considering that I can't get out myself if I don't help you, I decided to help you fulfill your wish."

"Hahaha, you are so realistic!" The pirate captain seemed to like what I said and laughed. Then he walked up to me, grabbed one of my hands, raised it, and shouted around: "Guys, we have a new crew, let's work harder and seize that ship so we can try another death march."

"Oh..." The captain responded with cheers. It was obvious that the captain's prestige was very high, and at least the crew members loved him quite a lot.

When the cheers gradually died down and the captain was about to put down my hand, I suddenly shouted to the people around me: "No, we don't want to try the death journey again. We are going to return with the treasure this time."

The surrounding pirates were stunned for a moment before suddenly reacting and cheering again, shouting "return with the treasure" together, and then began to work hard.

Since it had been occupied by the pirates here, the ship's roots there were pulled closer without any resistance, and then the pirates began to transport supplies. I came here intending to ask the Kirin Warriors to help, but seeing as the pirates were quite fast, nothing happened. To be honest, the robbery process was actually very smooth. The people on the opposite boat took the initiative to give up resistance after realizing that they could not escape, so there was no actual fighting during the robbery. In fact, this is also a strategy of the pirates, that is, the pirates will let go of the personnel on the ships that do not resist, leaving them with enough supplies to return home, but for the ships that resist, the pirates will not To kill prisoners, just drive them all into the sea, and then tow the entire opponent's ship away or sink it depending on the situation. Of course, if you do this, those who dare to go into the water will most likely be dead. Because of this differential treatment, many merchant ships will run away first after encountering pirates. If they can't run away, they will simply surrender. Resistance will result in death, but if they don't resist, they will survive.

The ship in front of them was a ship without resistance. The pirates locked all the people on the ship in a cabin and promised to let them out before they evacuated. Therefore, the pirates were able to quickly transport supplies with peace of mind. However, although the robbery went smoothly, the pirates were unlucky enough to encounter a huge fleet. The opponent happened to be downwind, so he was very fast. When the pirates discovered the fleet, the bow was pointing in the direction of the fleet, which was against the wind. According to the captain's introduction, a large part of the reason why they were surrounded was due to this direction issue. Because they are heading against the wind, if you want to escape, you must turn around first. After all, you cannot pass through the opponent's fleet. Only with the wind can you run faster. However, when the fleet arrived, the pirates were carrying treasures from the robbed ships. The two ships that were fixed together could not turn around. If the pirate ship turned around on its own, it would have to be separated from the merchant ship first. But if you do this , they would not have time to reattach themselves after completing the U-turn and continue to move supplies. Therefore, as long as they insist on moving all the supplies, they will inevitably be surrounded. If they don't want to be surrounded, the only way is to run forward and ignore the supplies.

I saw the incoming fleet when the pirates first started carrying supplies, but it was not seen by me, but by the birds. Now that I know an enemy is coming, I naturally want to send a scout out to explore the way out. The pirates knew the fleet was coming when they came, so they were not surprised when I told them. After the pirates had moved a third of the things on the ship, the fleet on the opposite side finally appeared. The pirates here in their sight.

Because I just heard the pirate captain tell me the reason for being surrounded before the fleet arrived, so I am not in a hurry now because I have already thought of a decisive solution during the previous period.

"captain."

"What's the matter?" The pirate captain has already introduced me to each other, and he can see that I am very powerful in combat, so he is quite polite to me. Of course, my attributes that affect the attitude of NPCs also play a big role. effect.

I pointed to the fleet over there, and then asked: "If we turn around, can they still catch up with us?"

The captain looked at the fleet over there, then pondered for a moment, but finally shook his head and said: "I don't know, but I've explained it to you before. Now it's too late to turn around and empty the ship. And it's fixed in this way. There’s no way to turn around when we’re together!”

"Just tell me if you can run away if you turn around now." I emphasized again.

The captain probably guessed that I might be able to make the ship turn around and still evacuate the house, so he seemed a little excited, but finally said: "I'm not sure. But I can be sure that if I complete the U-turn in advance and run away The chances will definitely be much greater.”

"That's good." After I finished speaking, I asked: "Is there a rope on the boat? I mean the kind of rope that is strong enough to drag the boat."

The pirate captain pointed to it with a funny face after hearing my words, and then asked me: "Do you think we will be short of rope?"

I looked at the sails above my head, and then I remembered that this was not a modern warship, but a three-masted sailing ship. The dozens of sails of various shapes above my head relied on countless spider-like ropes. Controlled. Moreover, just like modern ships will prepare some replacement parts for wearing parts, the ropes on sailboats are also wearing parts, so they usually have more spare parts to meet unexpected needs.

"Now that there is a rope, it's easy to handle. Please arrange for some people to help get some ropes up. First, twist a few ropes together to form a few thicker ropes, and then fix one end to the hull to bear the force. I'm going to have my men come and tug the boat."

"tug?"

"Oh, it's hard to explain now. You have to ask someone to prepare the rope first, and you will know later. Anyway, I won't harm you."

The captain thought for a while and this was the same reason, so he immediately ordered the staff to get busy.

For the crew on the sailboat, handling the rope is a basic skill, so it was completed quickly. According to the requirements, the rope was divided into several strands and fixed on the load-bearing parts of the ship. Finally, the rope ends were gathered at the bow of the ship and waited for me to find someone to drag it.

After everything was arranged, the captain ran to me and asked: "What now?"

I waved my hand and said, "Don't worry, let's turn the boat around first."

Upon hearing this, the captain immediately said: "Didn't I tell you? We can't turn around now. If we turn around, we won't be able to grab everything!"

"It doesn't matter. You continue to move yours and leave the U-turn to me. However, it may vibrate a bit when it first starts moving. Just ask everyone to pay attention."

Although he didn't know what was going on, the captain nodded and continued, so the pirate messenger went to notify other pirates. After waiting for a reply from the other side saying that all notifications had arrived, I nodded, walked to the edge of the ship, and waved forward. Several cracks immediately appeared in the void in front of me, and then I heard a dragon roar, and Lucky flew out of the cracks first. come out.

Although these pirates have heard of the Dragon Clan, they have never seen a real dragon, especially at such a close distance. When Lucky's huge body flew out of the space crack, the huge body and the low-frequency wind pressure caused by the flapping of its wings made everyone feel almost breathless.

The islands here had not yet recovered from the huge visual impact caused by luck, and another giant dragon was seen flying out immediately over there. What came out this time was the plague, which was bigger than Lucky in terms of size. The result was that the pirates collectively gasped. However, before they could recover, three dragons ran out of the crack one after another. These three are of course Crystal, Mistress and Mira.

In fact, when these three came out, the pirates over there all turned into stone statues as if they had just stared passionately at Yeyue, and they didn't react at all except standing blankly.

The pirates were already frightened when five dragons came out, but who knew it wasn't over yet for me. After the fifth giant dragon appeared in the space crack, a bigger head suddenly appeared, and it was slightly different from the previous dragon head, but the body that came out immediately after it was slender like a snake's body, not like it at all. dragon. The sixth one who appeared was actually the Little Dragon Girl, and the pirates were all Europeans, so they didn't know the Eastern Dragon. Of course, this did not affect their guesses about Xiao Longnu's fighting ability, because Xiao Longnu defeated Lucky them nine times in terms of size. No matter how big the dragon is, it is still within the allowable range of earth creatures, but Shenlong is completely out of specification. Although the little dragon girl is not as perverted as his father, Qinglong and Golden Tianlong, who can grow hundreds of miles long and have a head as scary as a mountain, they are still much bigger than Lucky, especially now with our As the level goes up, this gap seems to be becoming more and more obvious.

Ignoring the pirates who were completely petrified, I stood directly on the bow of the ship and commanded Xiao Longnu and Lucky and the others: "Quick, quick, quick, help turn these two boats around first."

"Understood." After receiving my order, only Lucky and Plague landed in the sea, and the other dragons did not enter the water. After all, both of them are over 100 meters in length, and the pirate ship itself is not lucky enough to be tall. If a few dragons swarm up, it will be unable to move.

After launching into the water, one of Lucky and the Plague stopped at the stern of the pirate ship, and the other stopped at the bow of the merchant ship. Then the two of them worked together, and the two ships immediately started to move under their push. Because I didn't control the strength well, the hull shook violently when I first started pushing. Many people almost fell due to the shaking, but this shook everyone awake. The pirate captain reacted the fastest and was the first to jump up and shout: "What are you still doing? Work quickly? Maybe there is hope of success this time!"

The captain's words immediately aroused the enthusiasm of the pirates, and they all started shouting and rushing into the cabin to carry supplies at an alarming speed. However, even so, when they finished moving everything, the fastest battleship over there had already entered the launch process. However, compared with the previous situation, we now have an advantage, that is, the bow of the ship has been turned over and the sail has been raised. Not having to turn around within the enemy's artillery range not only means that a dangerous voyage is lost, but more importantly, a lot of time is saved.

"Quick, quick, quick, this time we are going to escape!" the captain roared excitedly and caught the last pirate who jumped over. Then the first mate on the ship immediately led the crew to move the springboard and cut off the connection between the two ships. of anchor rope. The Dreamer, which had already raised its sails, immediately separated from the merchant ship, and then began to accelerate forward. Behind them was an unimaginably huge fleet. At a glance, the number of ships must exceed a thousand. This number Even the modern warships of our guild would have a headache for a long time, let alone this kind of wooden-hulled sailing ship? But fortunately, we don't need to contend with them anymore, now we just need to run away.

"Quick, quick, raise the sails," the captain barked the order.

I grabbed the captain and said, "No, don't raise the sail."

The captain was obviously stunned for a moment. Normally, he would have struck someone with a knife, but because I summoned Lucky and they were too powerful before, so this time the captain hesitated for a second and asked: "What? No How can we outrun those warships with our sails raised?"

"No, raising the sail will only slow down our speed, but don't forget my men." I said and made a special gesture to the sky, and then Xiao Longnu and the others landed on the sea.

The reason why we didn't come up together to help turn around before was because there wasn't that much space around the ship, but if we just pull the rope, we don't have to crowd together. The pirates who put on their clothes at my request threw the anchor directly, and then the little dragon girl got directly through the bottom of the ship, and then caught the two anchors one by one with her two front paws, and then began to swing her body violently toward The front started to swim.

The crew members who put on the clothes watched helplessly as the iron cable connected to the anchor was pulled into the water with a splash, and then the chains wrapped around the bow became less and less. Then, there was a sudden bang and the whole ship suddenly became straight. Jumping forward, many people on the boat were shaken down, but most of them grabbed hold of things in time.

After a sudden acceleration, the speed of the hull gradually stabilized, but Lucky and Plague fell one after another. Then they each took a rope from the boat and held it in their hands and swam forward. Suddenly the speed of the hull surged again. But it's not over yet. Mira, Xiaosan, and Jingshuang fell into the water one after another. Mira and Jingshu each pulled a rope, while Xiaosan simply climbed up from the stern of the boat and pushed forward with his head against the stern of the boat.

We haven't calculated how powerful the six dragons are. Anyway, today's pirate ships are almost turning into airships. Under the tug of the six dragons, the entire boat almost left the water. It felt like a water ski being dragged by a motorboat. It would suddenly fly up as soon as a wave hit, then crash down to the water and continue to fly wildly. The sea breeze blowing on the deck of the ship forced the crew to squint their eyes. They clearly remembered that their direction should be downwind, but the air they felt was coming from the front. What does this mean? This shows that the ship has exceeded the speed of the wind.

Generally speaking, a sailboat that relies on wind power cannot go faster than the wind. Even if it is tailwind, the boat speed must be lower than the wind speed, because once you are equal to the wind speed, the wind is prohibited for you, and when there is no wind, the boat speed must be lower than the wind speed. How did the sailboat move under such circumstances? As for being faster than the wind, this is a complete dream for a sailboat, because if you are faster than the wind, then the tailwind will turn into a headwind. At this time, the sail will not only produce no power, but will produce resistance. This is why I The reason why the captain is not allowed to hoist the sail.

The people chasing us are all sailboats, which means that they cannot outrun the wind speed, and we are now exceeding the wind speed, which means that we are definitely much faster than them. In fact, this is exactly the case. Pulled by six dragons, it would be strange if this ship couldn't outrun those shabby sailboats.

"Wow, hahaha, brother Ziri, you are so amazing! It seems that we can rest in peace! Hahahaha, the stupid Imperial fleet, just follow us and eat your shit." Looking at the rapidly shrinking fleet in the field of vision , the pirate captain was already a little carried away.

In fact, not only the pirate captain, but also the little pirates are equally excited. Everyone makes a living at sea. Who has seen this kind of speed before? How can you run at such a speed? If the warship can achieve this one-third speed, it's time to open the champagne to celebrate.

The entire pirate ship was in such joy that it completely eclipsed the fleet behind it. I later sent a flying bird to investigate, but the result was that the fleet was not seen at all, indicating that it was indeed very far away. However, the strange thing is that we are still on the ship. Normally, after the wish is fulfilled, the captain and others should rest in eternal rest. I should also return to the wreckage on the seabed, right? But why are we still here?

"That...captain?"

"What's going on, President Ziri?" The captain who was getting rid of those fleets immediately turned around when he heard my voice. Now the pirates on the ship almost regard me as a god. After all, running out in such a barbaric way was something they had never dared to think of before!

Seeing the captain's attention shift, I asked: "Shouldn't we have fulfilled our wish now? Why are we still here?"

It was as if the speaker that was broadcasting was suddenly unplugged, and the entire ship fell into deathly silence for an instant, leaving only the sound of the high-speed hull hitting the waves outside.

After being in a daze for a long time, the pirates on the ship suddenly resumed their quarrel, but they no longer cheered, but gathered together to discuss the reasons why they did not leave. After discussing for a while, a pirate suddenly came up with an answer that might be the problem.

"Do we need to bring the treasure back to Treasure Island for it to count?"

"It's very possible." This idea was immediately supported by most people as soon as it was proposed, so our route began to change, and now the task became to find the treasure island. But...a few hours later, we finally discovered one thing helplessly, that is, the Treasure Island was missing.

The pirates have navigation equipment and can roughly locate the sea, so they can find the treasure island. However, what we actually saw when we reached that area was a vast ocean. As the pirate captain said before, they have never found land here, it has always been the sea. This location should be the location of Treasure Island, but now it has become the sea. The only explanation is that there is no land in this world.

To put it bluntly, this world is the result of the pirates' dying obsessions. There seems to be nothing related to land in their obsessions, so there is no land at all in this world, and of course there are no islands.

"Since there is no Treasure Island, wouldn't we never be able to complete the robbery?" asked a pirate.

Treasure Island is where pirates store the looted treasures. The last step of a complete robbery is to hide the remaining treasures here after allocating them. To me, though, this is a world of quests, and quests can't be unsolvable. Then, there must be some reason why the treasure island is unnecessary, because if it is really needed to complete the task, then this task will become an unsolvable task, because there is no treasure island in this task world at all.

I changed my meaning into words that the NPCs could understand and said it to them again, and those guys immediately fell into chaos. The pirate captain asked in disbelief: "You mean, the treasures we robbed won't actually let us rest in peace, right?"

I thought for a while and said: "I'm not sure, but judging from the current situation, it's very likely. First of all, this cycle cannot be unsolvable, so since Treasure Island does not exist, it must be an unnecessary link. And if this link is not needed, then your robbery should be considered completed. But the current situation shows that we have obviously not fulfilled your last wish, which means that the successful robbery of the treasure may not be your last wish."

"Then what is our last wish?" A pirate asked stupidly.

"It seems like you should know better than me about this kind of problem, right?"

"But if it was clear, we wouldn't have worked so hard for the wrong goal before?" Another pirate said.

After hearing what the pirate said, I also realized that it is possible that after death, these guys have very vague memories of the period before their death, or that they have completely disappeared, so they themselves don’t even know what they were thinking about at that time. . As for the successful robbery that they had sworn before as their last wish, I think that is more like an answer deduced from experience.

The pirate captain thought for a long time and finally said to me: "President Ziri, I think it's better for you to give me some advice? I can see that you are a very powerful person. There have been so many intruders before. No one can help us escape safely, and you got us out so easily, so you must be very powerful. Can you help us think about it? You must have a way. "

"I have to find a way even if I don't have any other choice! I can't get out without helping you solve the problem!" It was a simple task, but I didn't expect that such a problem would arise, which makes me start to worry now. If you are really trapped, you will be out of luck. Not to mention the shame, wasting a wish fruit is not a small loss!

Hearing what I said, the pirate captain and pirates over there looked at me expectantly, and I could only helplessly start to analyze.

"In that case, let's analyze it. What have you seen in this world so far?"

A group of pirates began to talk nonsense:

"The sea."

"Treasure."

"Merchant ship."

"fleet."

"And ourselves."

"Any more?" I asked.

The pirates looked at me and I looked at you, and finally shook their heads together.

Their reaction was to say there was nothing else, so I started thinking and analyzing. "The content of the mission must be something that exists in the world, which means that your last wish must be related to these previous things. The sea is the background, and I think your last wish should have nothing to do with it. The treasure is the goal you thought of before. And the only idea that can match the treasure is to possess it. This was also what you thought before, but now it seems that it is obviously not the case."

"What else could it be?" asked the pirate captain.

I frowned and said: "The merchant ship has no resistance, and your impression of it is very weak, so the last wish should not have anything to do with it. Then the only thing left is the fleet. After the robbery was completed, you were sunk by the fleet, which means you got it. The resentment that the duck died before it even got into the mouth should be very strong. If it is deduced like this..." I suddenly increased my volume and exclaimed: "Is your last wish to sink all that fleet? Bar?"