Now, all the players are dead, leaving only those little boats with one or two sailors on board.
In legion battles, once the commander hero is killed first, the rest of the troops' morale plummets into negative numbers, but most will still fight to the death, a small portion will escape, and an even smaller portion will be captured. Those captured are usually the lowest-ranked soldiers.
With the heroes dead, these sailors, having no fight left in them, resolutely leap into the sea.
Da Fei panicked: "Surrender and spare your lives! F*ck, don't run away! Where do you think you guys can swim to?"
Catherine also shouted angrily: "Nobody moves! Those who stay will not be killed! Those who run will become shark food!" It seems this is some kind of pirate intimidation technique.
Finally, there are still 6 sailors who clutched their heads and stayed behind. As for the sailors who jumped into the sea, they all became food for the fish and disappeared at the horizon.
F*ck, they actually could run away? While pondering, a message came in.
——System Prompt: Congratulations! You have achieved the "Victory in the 2nd Campaign" and have been awarded +1140 experience and an additional +1 to your Command Power.
——System Prompt: Congratulations! You have won the battle, captured 6 Apprentice Sailors, and after cleaning the battlefield, discovered spoils of war including 200 units of fruit wine, 3 units of freshwater, and 2 units of dry bread.
——System Prompt: Fruit wine is considered a large commodity and must be transferred to your ship's hold before it can be taken away.
——Apprentice Sailor: Attack 0, Defense 0, Health 4, Damage 0-1, Attack Speed 8, Move Speed 10, Command Value 1, Special Skill: Sailing Skill, Swimming.
Fruit wine? Da Fei hurriedly checked the invoice in his hand and smiled calmly.
The purchase price for 1 unit of fruit wine is 50 Gold Coins, so 200 units would be 10,000 Gold Coins. Wouldn't the minimum fee for running this trip for them be at least 11,000 or 12,000? Now there's a destination for the money to wash my reputation, and also a bonus of 6 sailors for free, eh, thanks, ha.
Of course, it's not because I have a black heart... Okay, it is because I have a black heart. But if these merchants don't focus on trading and instead go around robbing players with red names and pirates, isn't that seeking death? If you don't seek death, you won't die, do you get it now? Wahahaha!
Catherine threw ropes and nets to the little boats and scolded the 6 sailors: "Haul all the cargo up here, and do it quickly. Whoever dares to slack off will be thrown to the sharks!"
The sailors hurriedly increased their pace in fear, binding and hoisting up the crates.
Da Fei laughed: "Let me help too!"
...
At this moment, the resurrected Skyshattering Cannon, infuriated and exasperated, was arguing with Blood Sea Wave: "Boss, I'll send you the video right now. You said it was just him alone. Look at this woman, what's this? A Vice Hero! And she's a pirate! She took all our invoices! If we had known he had a Vice Hero, we wouldn't have suffered such a big loss. Isn't this a mistake in the boss's intelligence? Now we've lost our goods and our ship. What do you say we do?"
Blood Sea Wave, staring at the video with the familiar corridors of the ship's cabin and the blurred figure of the female pirate slashing with her bloodstained dagger, was obviously shocked. He had no time to listen to the Skyshattering Cannon's nagging and said impatiently, "I've said it already, I'll compensate with a bounty!"
The Skyshattering Cannon insisted: "Boss, I know you have plenty of RMB, but right now it's Gold Coins that are the hard currency in the game. Gold Coins are what's really valuable. Now even the studios are barely starting up and they aren't selling Gold Coins, you know? We lost goods worth 10,000 Gold Coins, 10,000 Gold Coins! You can't even buy them with money now, that's the hard-earned cash dozens of our brothers have been toiling away for, day and night, for a week. This little bounty from you feels a bit of an injustice to us! Who will give a damn about your server-wide bounty in the future?"
Blood Sea Wave grew even more impatient: "10,000 per person!"
Skyshattering Cannon burst into laughter: "As expected of the big boss, so righteous. Our brothers haven't died in vain! If there's anything in the future, we're still mixing around in Elorin."
Blood Sea Wave chuckled: "I feel you guys still died a bit unjustly, I'd like to ask you for a small favor."
Skyshattering Cannon was dumbfounded: "Our ship is gone though..."
Blood Sea Wave sneered: "I think he's not notorious enough, I want to push him to the brink of infamy, so I'm asking you to spread the word in town for me, double the bounty for anyone who died as compensation for their loss of goods. In any case, that trash lost reputation again, so let's just make him lose more, ensure he can't rely on any port, and best make him take a long-term trip abroad!"
Skyshattering Cannon laughed heartily: "No problem, easy peasy!" 'Going abroad', of course, refers to where those players, whose notoriety reached the skies, get exiled by the system.
Blood Sea Wave took a deep breath. After the initial shock, Blood Sea Wave started to become numb. Having his Divine-level Hero's reward snatched by that trash, no matter how he develops, it's nothing surprising anymore. The key thing is, the video suggests a signal; he hired a Pirate Hero, and a covetable Female Hero at that. What does this suggest? It insinuates he made landfall, and moreover, on the pirates' own turf.
Judging from the video where everyone was killed and the prompt for the loss of their cargo list appeared, the Pirate profession is indeed adept at plundering! Blood Sea Wave's heart fluttered—how could the strenuous efforts of running a merchant business compare to the effortless gains of being a Pirate and simply plundering? Didn't he plan to rob NPC trade fleets as a Pirate when he was on that deserted island to begin with?
From the fact that Da Fei still hasn't changed his class, the prerequisite to peacefully engage with Pirates must be not having changed class. And just as it happens, the studio has been overloaded with various tasks these past two days, without any time for leveling up and changing class, so he should meet the conditions to encounter Pirates.
Decision made, become a Pirate! Knight Priests are too conservative, not suitable for naval battles at all, only Pirates are worthy of my Divine-level special skills!
Blood Sea Wave immediately shared his idea with Brother Tian, Shaodong, Little Ma, and a few other brothers. Everyone burst out laughing: "We've all changed classes already, and now you're saying this?"
Blood Sea Wave smiled: "Brothers, you all stick to the straight path. Once I become a Pirate and plunder goods, I'll let you all sell them off."
Shaodong was astonished: "But aren't we running a studio now? If we become Pirates and tarnish our reputation, that wouldn't be good, would it?"
Brother Tian chuckled: "No worries, reputation is crap. Some people timidly live as good people all their lives but become reviled for one bad deed; their lifetime good reputation destroyed in one go. Some live luxuriously as high-handed bad guys their entire lives, but a single act of repentance earns them the name of a prodigal son returning to the light. Tell me, do you guys want to be good or bad guys first?"
Everyone burst into laughter: "Isn't that obvious? Of course, live the high life and intimidate others first, then be the good person later. By that time, won't others be grateful and come groveling?"
Blood Sea Wave roared with laughter: "Brother Tian is right. We must unscrupulously improve ourselves, even if we're cursed domestically, it doesn't matter. Later when we're strong, we'll go to the National War Zone and fight against foreigners, beat the Koreans and dwarfs, and we'll become national heroes. Who would dare to peep then?"
Everyone laughed: "Right! Atao, sail out without worries, we've got your back on land!"
...
At this moment, Da Fei was sweating profusely as he moved cargo on the ship when Catherine suddenly sounded the alarm: "Captain, another small boat is approaching us!"
What? A single boat? Da Fei immediately took out his telescope and indeed saw a small boat with white sails cutting through the waves.
Damn! Are you kidding me, a single small boat dares to rob me? The previous twenty were all laid flat by me, your Chamber of Commerce channel must be blowing up by now, and yet you dare to come alone? Could it be a peerless expert, as powerful as a thousand men seizing a city?
Da Fei's heart tightened, and he looked again more carefully—the player's name is "One Sword Westward"! Damn, what a lofty name! Seems like a pro!