The Steady Mage in the Pirate World

At the beginning, Kong Ming was worried about whether the Aegwynn's ship type would be acclimatized when it crossed the world, but whether it was Alita or Crowe, or even Man, the best boatman in the Kingdom of Scandinavia in the East China Sea, Nuer and Black Cat Crow's boatman Nuqianu both praised this type of ship and said that it was definitely a very good ship.

Kong Ming was relieved. After all, he was the professional in this aspect.

"Weigh anchor, half-raise the sail, turn the fore jib to left, and lower the mizzen jib." Arrita, the second-hand sailor, wearing a captain's hat and a monocular telescope in her hand, stood on the poop, looking heroic. "Now, port rudder five, hoist the mainsail and leave port at full speed."

Not to mention, based on Arrita's performance now, Kong Ming feels that she can definitely compete for the title of the most beautiful captain in the East China Sea.

"Boys," just when Kong Ming felt that Arrita, who was working hard, was still reliable, he saw Arrita standing on the poop step forward and pulled out a gun from behind with a swipe. He pointed a huge iron rod toward the sky, posing in a pose that he thought was extremely handsome, and said, "Say, our journey is"

"Sea of ​​Stars"

Alas, I am a beauty, how can I make a mistake?

Facts have proved that Arrita's sailing skills are quite good. Although Kong Ming doesn't know how to sail or sail a boat, he can evaluate weather conditions, seek good luck and avoid bad luck, calculate the direction of sea currents, and make a human calculator. He still had no problems with things like that, so the journey from Navia City to the Beast Island was very peaceful.

That's right, it was very peaceful and we only encountered three waves of pirates. Then there were two waves of pirates. Although their ships were within the range of the Aegwynn, they probably did not attack the merchant ships when they saw them. Then Kong Ming changed the pirate flag after thinking about it, so the third wave of pirates finally came to rob them. Kong Ming took matters into his own hands and launched an artillery attack, but the opponent picked up the white flag and made the second-rate Arrita, who was gearing up to lead people to engage in a boarding battle, unhappy for several hours.

As a humanoid calculator that can take into account the gunpowder filling amount, the friction between the shell and the barrel, the wind direction, the sunlight, and even the acceleration of gravity and the gravity of the moon when calculating ballistics, Kong Ming can say without humility that Come on, everyone in the East China Sea is full of rubbish. In terms of ballistic calculation, no pirate or navy can compare with Kong Ming. This is also the reason why Kong Ming brings ten portable magic artillery pieces with him when he goes out.

In short, in this absurd era of pirates, a merchant ship went to sea once and only encountered three waves of pirates, but managed to avoid two waves. The last wave could have been thrown away if Kong Ming had run faster.

Of course, if you really get rid of it, you will lose at least several million.

But this is not the key. The key is that we only ran into three waves of pirates along the way, and we didn't have to fight. This is definitely good luck and a safe journey. Otherwise, why do you think the Capital of Seven Waters needs to build a sea train?

In this age of great pirates, some things are completely different from the age of great navigation on earth, while some things are not much different. For example, pirates, whether they are today or those in the Age of Discovery on Earth, some of their practices are very similar.

For example, when some legitimate businessmen who do not want to be named go out to sea to do business and see a deserted pirate ship, they do not mind temporarily removing the flag of their own chamber of commerce and replacing it with a pirate flag to steal his mother's piece. ticket.

What, you said that our Azeroth Chamber of Commerce robbed your Emerald Chamber of Commerce's ship, are you kidding me, a good person from the East China Sea would do such a thing, and said, what evidence do you have.

Think about it, even a conscientious businessman who does not want to be named, who claims to be a good man in the East China Sea, can do this kind of thing. What do you think other profiteers will do at sea?

In this damn era, any ship that is not flying a navy flag is a potential pirate ship. Even if it is a ship that is flying a navy flag, there is no guarantee that it is not a pirate ship.

"Arrita, look at that pirate ship." Kong Ming stood on the bow of the ship, his eyes gazing, a blue light emitting slightly from his glasses.

"oh oh"

"It looks like a pirate ship, but in fact it is a merchant ship of the Red Leaf Chamber of Commerce. Look at the merchant ship of the Emerald Chamber of Commerce."

"Oh oh oh"

Kong Ming pushed up his glasses, and a cold light shone, "It looks like a merchant ship, but in fact it is a pirate ship."

"How do you know, boss?" Arrita ate without raising her head.

Do I have to tell you about the eagle eye spell attached to my glasses?

"This is it." Arrita stood on the bow of the ship, holding a navigation chart in one hand and a telescope in the other, looking at the thick clouds in the distance that looked like black mountains, "Batar This is where they encountered the storm. In other words, the Precious Beast Island that you want to go to, boss, is under that rain cloud."

"No wonder this place is so hard to find." Kong Ming activated the eagle eye technique on his glasses again, "Yes, there is indeed a small island faintly in the middle of the storm. It seems that it is because of this rain cloud relationship, so even the ships that occasionally pass by here have all been detoured."

"So the next thing we have to do is rush into this storm and find the island, right?" Arrita rolled up the navigation chart in her hand and stuffed it into her chest, "Then I have to prepare now, We may have set our sails too high."

With that said, Arrita turned to the sailors gathered above the deck and issued an order, "What are you still doing? Didn't you see that we are about to rush into the storm? Hurry up, loosen the sail and put down the jib sail." I'll pull it off"

Following the words, the group of sailors below immediately dispersed and began to take action.

"No, there are still too many sails. Now let me lower the mainsail as well."

Just as the mainsail fell from the mast, the Aegwynn had already rushed into the middle of the storm.

"The weather in this world is really bad." Kong Ming adjusted his glasses with his hand, opened a mana shield, then looked up at the thick dark clouds that seemed to be about to fall down, as well as the flashing lightning in the clouds, and then looked back. Looking at the calm sea with bright sun shining a hundred meters away, "It's so unscientific, but it seems to be magical. This is a good sign."

"Boys, let me lower the top sail, and then adjust the tail sail thirty degrees." At this time, Arrita, who had already run back to the stern, had pulled out her big iron rod again and waved it in her hand. Everyone, tie yourself up in the boat, there’s going to be a big wave soon.”

Before Arrita could finish shouting, a large wave more than twenty meters high had already risen behind the Aegwynn, smashing down Kong Ming's ship.

"I'm sorry, everything on this ship is quite expensive." When he saw the big waves rising, Kong Ming had already calmly pressed his hand on a crystal ball under the bow of the ship, "Don't say it fell into the sea, it was you who gave it to me If I get some water in my box, my losses will be huge.”

Following Kong Ming's words, a blue light suddenly lit up in the middle of the Aegwynn. Then the light began to grow rapidly, and finally turned into a large bubble wrapping the entire hull.

Although this bubble looks trembling and seems to break at the touch of a touch, it is actually unusually tough. The seemingly massive wave of more than 20 meters high carries the threat of destroying everything. After the momentum came down, he couldn't even make some ripples out of these bubbles, so he just slid down the surroundings of the bubbles.

"Who is this boss?" I don't know when, the second-rate Arrita had already ran to Kong Ming's side, and poked the blue bubbles with a big iron rod, "It looks like Shampoo." That coating thing from the Islands looks a bit like it.”

On the vast sea, the strong wind gathers dark clouds, between the dark clouds and the sea

A ship wrapped in a big bubble is passing through the waves unscathed. Around the ship, flashes of lightning flash with claws. On this bubble ship, a bastard is happy. cried out in joy, "Let the storm come more violently."

"Are you a spy sent by the storm? Let's work together inside and outside to toss our magic shield." Kong Ming looked at this idle Alita with a black eye, poking the bubbles with an iron rod, going in and out. Like, "Shouldn't you go and sail the boat for me now?"

"Don't worry, boss, everything is under control." The second-rate Arrita not only did not stop poking and poking, but also started to intensify her efforts to hit the bubble with an iron rod to test its strength.

"Stop playing, put down the stick." A bolt of lightning flashed across, and a cold light flashed on the lens, "Hurry up and work for me."

"Oh oh oh, I got it, kids, cheer up, adjust the tail sail another ten degrees, target the small island in front of you, move forward."

After the field test of this storm, Kong Ming found that he had enlarged the grounded ion shield in engineering, and then used the increased energy supply to form a marine ion shield that was very good. At least it performed well in the middle of a storm. , although it was raining heavily outside, there was no wind in the ion shield, and the crew even had time to gather around the side of the ship and watch the scenery.

Yes, there are no disadvantages except that it is a bit too energy-intensive.

Ok, if this thing is modified again, it can be considered as another flagship product of the Azeroth Chamber of Commerce.

That's right, Kong Ming's Azeroth Chamber of Commerce mainly deals in some pretty good special products made by Kong Ming through alchemy and engineering. For example, the Chamber of Commerce focuses on special medicines to prevent and treat scurvy. After all, in this world dominated by navigation, what really troubles these pirates is not the navy, but scurvy.

Of course, scurvy is not as scary in this world as it was in the Age of Discovery on Earth, because this world has actually long discovered that scurvy is caused by a lack of nutrients in vegetables and fruits. This is why Nami specially transplanted an orange tree after boarding Luffy's ship.

But most pirates are actually illiterate. They are neither likely to have complete nutritional supplies like the navy, nor are they lucky enough to have people like Nami and Sanji who understand the causes of scurvy and can also adopt relevant methods. Talents who can carry out prevention and treatment with corresponding means. They don't even have navigators, and they don't have any ambitions to find the Pirate King's secret treasure. They may make a living by robbing merchant ships and coastal villages in the waters they are familiar with.

However, this kind of people also have very low risk resistance. A sudden storm may cause them to lose their way, and then wander at sea for several months, unable to find any land except desert islands, and finally die from scurvy. It broke out and died in large numbers.

Therefore, the special medicines or vitamin tablets made by Kong Ming still sell well.

But when it comes to the biggest buyer of Kong Ming’s vitamin tablets, you won’t believe it. It’s actually a country that doesn’t even go overseas.

Yes, this country is the bridge kingdom on the East China Sea, Techila Wolf.

Because everyone living on the bridge is constantly repairing the bridge every day. It has been repaired for seven hundred years, but visual inspection shows that the progress of all repairs will take at least another ten or seven hundred years. There is no land and crops in this country, and all food has to be It is shipped from other places, so the citizens of this country, especially those working at the bottom, are seriously lacking in vitamins, and scurvy is prevalent among these people from time to time.

The cost of delivering fresh vegetables and fruits to these people is too high, so once Kong Ming's vitamin tablets came out, they immediately aroused the love of the suppliers in the East China Sea who deliver supplies to this country.

Originally, we had to think of ways to deliver green vegetables and fruits to these guys, but now we don’t have to at all. We just need to give these untouchables a special medicine every now and then to supplement their calcium.

To be honest, this matter was something Kong Ming didn't expect at all. But this is somewhat of a good thing. After all, after taking Kong Ming's special medicine, Techila Wolfe has almost never had scurvy again.

After the ship approached the rare beast island, Kong Ming was already sure that the storm around the rare beast island must not have been caused by nature. It was probably the great kingdom that did genetic experiments on the rare beast island in order to avoid the undesirable people waiting to come. This disrupted their research and deliberately modified the surrounding weather.

Otherwise, Kong Ming really has no way to explain why the rain stopped when his ship sailed to Zhenshou Island in the middle of the storm. In other words, this storm is not going anywhere, it just stays in the sea area around Zhenshou Island, and the wind cannot blow it away. Moreover, the wind and sunshine on the island are beautiful and not affected at all.

If this kind of thing is not man-made, then it can only be said that God in the One Piece world is really too busy.

But it's hard to say. Kong Ming remembers that such a leisurely and painful climate is not very rare in the pirate world.

"The boat stops here, yes, right here."

After circling around the Beast Island, Arrita found a fjord that was sheltered from the wind, and the water was deep enough, making it a natural port. What's even more coincidental is that next to this port, there is a stone slope leading all the way to the depths of the woods on Zhenshou Island. It looks like a specially built road.

This is simply a hammer