The Great Age of Voyage of the Elves

Chapter 230 Returning to Hong Kong
"Are you going back?"

After being reminded by the first officer, Mu realized that it had been a year since he came out without knowing it.

When he went to sea, he had made an agreement with the fourth prince, and he would go back every year in the early stage to receive funding and report on his work at the same time.

After all, they are robbing according to the order, and there must be something in return.

"Okay, then go back."

The replenishment of personnel has been almost done by this time, and the number of crew members on the Black Pearl has now exceeded 300 unprecedentedly, and they are almost approaching the upper limit of the ship's load.

At this point, it doesn't make much sense for them to continue to stay in the New World, and it's good to go back.

By the way, they also piled up a lot of special products from the New World that they couldn't get rid of after the robbery.

These special products are shipped back to the Old Continent, and the price is guaranteed to be ten times higher. It is not a loss to go this way.

So after bringing the last batch of followers on board, the Black Pearl replenished with a large wave of vegetables and food, and officially started the ocean voyage back to the Old Continent.

Although in this era, the route from the old continent to the west coast of the new continent is relatively mature, it still takes more than a month or nearly two months to travel.

It is inevitable to be bored on ocean voyages. After spending the initial curiosity about the sea, the lively and active Nian Meilong is now trapped on the deck, almost depressed every day.

In order to appease Nian Meilong and find something for her to do, and at the same time to improve the new system of the fleet, Mu exchanged the "weather balloon" training plan, and planned to start teaching Nian Meilong and gradually popularize this new skill.

"Come on, close your eyes and focus on perceiving the meteorological elements around you, but open your hands and express the elements you feel."

Mu taught Nian Meilong step by step. The next moment, Nian Meilong raised his hand, and hailstones fell from his palm...

Indeed, hail is also a part of meteorology. In a snowstorm, the attack method of the "weather ball" will indeed turn into hail.

However, at this moment Mu raised his head and looked at the scorching hot sun above his head, feeling that his common sense had been insulted...

The next moment, Nian Meilong decisively slapped the hail in her hand on her head, and the effect of dispelling the heat was outstanding, which made her groan in comfort.

There is no doubt that she didn't summon the hailstone by sensing the surrounding elements at all, but that she was simply getting hot, so she condensed a handful of ice elements to cool down.

"Train me seriously, hey!" Mu Ren knocked on her forehead unbearably.

However, Nian Meilong just stuck out his tongue mischievously, not afraid at all.

"Hey~"

"..."

At that moment, Mu felt helpless.

It is sometimes an annoyance to tame an elf that is too vigorous.

Fortunately, there is a saying that goes well: Leisure is always the best driving force.

Although Nian Meilong often fishes, fishes on the deck, and even goes into the sea to fish, but the voyage lasts more than a month, even fishing is sometimes tiring.

There is too much time and nothing to do, but Nian Meilong is still restless, so he can only return to training obediently in the end.

In addition, she is talented and intelligent after all, and her understanding is not bad. Cooperating with the systematic and targeted training plan, when two-thirds of the voyage passed, Nian Meilong finally mastered the new skill "weather ball".

After learning it, this trick really lived up to Mu's expectations!
The power of this skill is closely related to the surrounding weather changes.

When the weather is calm, a "weather balloon" may not be as effective as a water gun.

However, when encountering that kind of extremely severe rainstorm at sea occasionally, this trick is spit out, and the power of one shot is comparable to a large-yield depth charge!

And the most commendable thing is that whether it is a small water gun or a depth charge, the skill consumption of this trick is always the same.

Its power increase comes from absorbing the power of elements in the surrounding environment, and it will not cause an additional burden on the released elves.

In other words, even in the midst of a storm, Nian Meilong can still launch "weather balloons" easily at a considerable speed!
So far, the reinforcement of the system has been successfully completed, and an astonishingly powerful rainfort has already taken shape at this time.

With such a happy mood, the Black Pearl gradually sailed to the offshore of the Old Continent.

It happened to be the contact time again during the calculation period. Before returning to York Harbor where the Black Pearl departed, Mu Xian entrusted Kuailong to go out for a trip to contact Rachel, their enemy eyeliner after a long absence.

Because she hadn't contacted for a long time after she went near the New World, Rachel was a little caught off guard by Kuailong's sudden visit, so she only gave some routine information, and didn't prepare naval intelligence that deserved special attention.

But even these routine news are still very important to the Black Pearl who has been drifting on the west coast of the New World for several months, and many of them were unknown to them before.

Just like-

"A new air route is going to open?!"

Faced with this important news, Mu was quite shocked for a while.

That is to say, he was trapped by the times and the speed of information dissemination was limited. Otherwise, he was sure that this would definitely be a big news that would shock the whole world in a short time!
The negotiations between the Three Great Kingdoms and the Aloha Empire on the east coast of the New World have lasted for more than a year, and there has finally been a breakthrough recently.

All the news is confirmed: the new shipping route from the old continent to the east coast of the new continent will soon be restricted, allowing private merchant ships to set foot in.

At that moment, Mu couldn't help feeling a wonderful sense of participation that he had caught up with a major historical event.

The first time he got the news, he was extremely convinced——

"The pattern at sea is about to change."

……

Five days later, the Black Pearl quietly approached York Harbor where they started.

After repeated correspondence with the flying elves, they met with the fourth prince's cronies at a remote civilian pier in York Harbor that evening.

In order to avoid the facts of the population, their contacts will not be made public, and naturally it is impossible to contact them at large docks or military ports.

The pier arranged by the fourth prince's party was completely controlled by them. When the Black Pearl entered the port, there was not even a single other ship in the entire pier.

After docking, they first completed the handover according to the content that had been negotiated in the previous contact.

For example, unload the special products of the New World on the Black Pearl and hand them over to the chamber of commerce under the name of the fourth prince to tow away;
Removal of various materials that have been requested in the previous contact;

Arrange for those soldiers who were the first to have the Cleveland to come over and have helped Mu fight for nearly a year to go ashore and go home.

Although Mu was also very reluctant to let these powerful fighters leave, he had already agreed to send them home after all. These people were originally in the navy and had families and houses. It was impossible to lock them on the ship forever as pirates.

While these handovers were going on in an orderly manner, the cronies sent by the fourth prince to be in charge of this docking came to Mu and said, "The situation has changed now, and your next voyage may need to be changed accordingly."

He was already ready to explain, but he didn't expect Mu to pick up immediately: "You mean the opening of the new air route? I know, I have been thinking about going to that air route recently."

Hearing Mu's words, the confidant was a little taken aback.

"You already know?"

At that moment, he couldn't help being a little surprised at the intelligence gathering capabilities of the Black Pearl at sea.

You must know that this matter is currently being circulated within the three kingdoms. Not many people in the navy know about it, and none of the chambers of commerce at sea has received definite news.

Mu and the others actually knew about it in advance?
How did they do it?
(End of this chapter)