Chapter 87 Sea-Chase
“Quick, heat up the furnace, retreat, retreat! Shit! Hoist the skull flag, hoist the skull flag!”
Lin Qi held the huge machete Enzo passed over and stood at the prow of the ship while shouting loudly. From the depth of the ship could be heard the rumbling sound of the magic-powered furnace. Big Maritime Windmill started to pick up speed, cutting a huge arc on the surface of the sea, going directly southward.
Several sailors quickly moved a huge black flag to the side of the mast and efficiently hoisted the no less than three meters square flag to the top of the mast. Sea breeze blew, the blag flag opened up. On the black flag, the white skull and two bones intersected with each other like a cross were very eye-catching. Particularly, the dagger dripping with blood held on the mouth of the white skull made the skull looked incomparably sinister and eerie.
Long Cheng raised his brows in astonishment, “Lin Qi, I thought you guys are good and obedient fishermen!”
Lin Qi raised his brows and said without guilt, “Of course we are good and obedient fishermen! This flag is a protective talisman we bought with a high price! Generally speaking, at the North Sea, as long as we hang this flag, no pirate will plunder us!”
Long Cheng was speechless. He suddenly realized that Lin Qi’s skin was just as thick as his own, so he felt even more intimate with Lin Qi. He raised his head to look at the black pirate flag and softly murmured, “Good and obedient fishermen? Protective talisman? Was my head hit by a meteor when I was little?”
‘Ka-ching’ sound lingered in the air as the sailors of Big Maritime Windmill pulled out their gleaming swords one after another. Some also arranged a large number of arrows and power crossbows on the deck, even several small-sized ballistas was pulled out onto the deck from within the hold of the ship. Several stoves were turned on. Iron balls as big as a human head were thrown into the stoves to be burned red. These iron balls, when thrown by the catapults, would clearly have a very high destructive power.
“These things, no matter in which country in the world, are restricted goods right?” Long Cheng ‘curiously’ looked at Lin Qi.
Lin Qi looked at Long Cheng with incomparable solemnity and seriousness, “Sir Long Cheng, these are only scraps of the military goods. We bought them in reduced price, fixed them a little, then use them as protection. After all, although we don’t intend to rob others, we can’t let others rob us either!”
Long Cheng was speechless once again. He looked at those gleaming swords that were clearly new, then looked at those high-quality powerful crossbows and arrows. He forced himself to believe that they were indeed scraps of military goods. He rubbed his own chin and softly murmured, “Fine, I’ve done this kind of thing before. Scraps of military goods? Right, if not for the scraps of military goods, how can I climb the beds of those beauties?”
The black flag fluttered, yet nothing changed.
The several Odin Dragon Boat chasing them from behind were still producing muffled battle sound while several red war banners were slowly hoisted up the masts. Lin Qi angrily slashed his machete at the ship railing. He roared, “Shit, it’s Odin Holy Guards of Odin Temple, now is not the Land Island War time, how can they appear at sea? Shouldn’t they be at their temple protecting their god who had died for god knows how long?
Long Cheng faintly asked, “ Lin Qi, it seems your protective talisman is useless?”
Lin Qi gritted his teeth and said, “Of course, Odin Holy Guards of Odin Temple don’t care about us. Shit, if they are of the Great Viking Axe Gorge, after seeing this fl
ag, they absolutely won’t pursue anymore… eh?”
After mentioning ‘Odin Holy Guards’ and ‘Great Viking Axe Gorge’, Lin Qi suspiciously looked in Long Cheng’s direction. This place is the trading area of those men of the Great Viking Axe Gorge. Usually, as long as a ship hung the black skull flag, those men of alien tribes would just sail past with tacit understanding. Both parties could even exchange some local products of their respective race or certain information on cargo ships.
But today the men of Great Viking Axe Gorge disappeared without a trace while the patrol vessel of Odin Holy Guards appeared at this area of the sea!
Long Cheng innocently spread out his hands. He looked up to the sky, sighed deeply and said, “Lin Qi, do you think they come to look for me? How is it possible? Of course, I ransacked Great Viking Axe Gorge, also got rid of dozens of Odin Holy Guards, with that green-skinned big guy among them, but, that thing had passed for quite a few days, they can’t be looking for me right?”
Long Cheng started to laugh heartily, but it sounded a little fake. He drily said with a smile, “Look, such a boundless ocean, how can they find me so accurately? It’s impossible!”
‘Right, in such a boundless ocean, how can those Odin Holy Guard possibly just happen to find Long Cheng?’
Lin Qi walked around Long Cheng, carefully scrutinizing his body. Sunlight fell on Long Cheng’s body, making one dot of red light flashed suddenly. Lin Qi stretched out his hand and took out a long feather the color of blood from within Long Cheng’s Blue Fox skin cloak!
Throwing the long red feather at Long Cheng, Lin Qi gritted his teeth and said, “Damn it, it’s the bloody curse of the Temple Magician. Unless you’re 500 kilometers away from them, they will know your movements at any time. When was you cursed?”
Long Cheng looked blankly at Lin Qi. Only after a while did he said, “That thin old man I kicked into pieces, the one who wore a skull hat made of animal skin, he’s their Temple Magician? I really don’t know, all I know was he was quite ugly, and he also shouted something while gesticulating, so I just kicked him to death!”
‘Very good, very courageous!’ Lin Qi grudgingly looked at Long Cheng, then ordered for the magic-powered furnace to run at full power while fuming with rage. ‘You really have guts, a magician who had a high position within Odin Temple, you kicked him to death just because he was quite ugly, it will be strange if they’re not after your life.’
After grabbing the long feather and threw it into the sea, Lin Qi shouted to order the sailors to raise the sails to let the wind and the magic power of the magic-powered furnace to simultaneously propel Big Maritime Windmill. The huge ship suddenly rushed forward while its tail raised a wave one to two meters high. The speed of Big Maritime Windmill was increased by more than half.
However, a thin and incomparably ugly elderly suddenly stood on each of the four Odin Dragon Boat at the same time. They waved their bone staff at the prow of the ship while shouting and gesticulating. A gale suddenly blew from the north, blowing at the sails of the four long and narrow dragon boats.
The four Odin Dragon Boats raised their sails. The huge red sails were blown until they were bulging. The speed of the four dragon boats also increased by a lot.
Although Big Maritime Windmill was powered by magic, its build was thick and broad. Although it was very stably while sailing, its speed really couldn’t compare to those extremely long and narrow Odin Dragon Boat.
One second after another went by. After two hours, the biggest dragon boat already caught up to several hundred meters behind Big Maritime Windmill.
The several hundred people of alien tribes abroad the dragon boat stood up one after another. The weapons in their hands were gleaming eye-catchingly.