Arcane Universe

After adjusting his duties, Feng Chou issued the first order to the two captains. He asked the two captains to cooperate with each other and divide the 1,200 crew members on the Warrior into two. Half, half remain on the Warrior, and half moved to the development of the Knight, replacing Feng Chou’s apprentice to drive the development of the Knight.

Feng Chou never intends to waste these highly innate talent apprentices on board. Their task now is to learn and tap their own powerful potential.

The two captains took their assistants, and it took more than a day to reasonably divide the one thousand and two hundred crew into two parts.

Next, Feng Chou asked to divide the five thousand civilians recruited on the Warrior into two halves, and move half of them to the development of the Knight, in order to reduce the space pressure on the Warrior.

During the move, Feng Chou concentrated all of the two thousand teenagers on the development Knight.

After this movement, the crowded Warrior suddenly loosened, and even vacated about 1/4 of the bottom cabin.

Feng Chou has placed one-tenth of the alchemical products produced this time, the top secret one, in the bottom warehouse of the Warrior.

After the completion of the move, both the Warrior and the Kayak Knight have about a quarter of their empty cargo warehouses, and they account for nearly 80% of the deadweight of the two ships.

As a merchant ship, Feng Chou, of course, has to fill up these vacancies as much as possible.

In the evening after everything was straightened out, Feng Chou, under the leadership of the old captain, visited the manager of Brown Pier.

Barra Buck Port is composed of more than 30 docks, which are distributed on both sides of the strait more than 10 kilometers long, forming more than 30 relatively independent dock towns. These docks The towns are basically independent of each other, and the so-called Bala Buck port government can only coordinate the piers and has no right to interfere in the internal affairs of the piers.

With such a loose structure, the chaos of this Barra Buck Port can be imagined.

According to the old captain, at least half of the more than 30 independent piers in the Barra Buck port secretly help the nearby pirates to sell the stolen goods.

Since it is stolen goods, it is naturally not too expensive.

Actually, according to the old captain, the same type of cargo in Barra Buck Port is one third to half cheaper than Taelon Port.

With the familiar old captain as the middleman, Feng Chou and the manager of Brown Wharf quickly finalized the deal.

It is a pity that Brown Wharf can only meet half of Feng Chou’s needs.

Fortunately, the old captain told Feng Chou that there is a chance to restock again in the future.

After Feng Chou paid the deposit, 2nd day, the dockers began to load the goods on the two ships.

Because there are few cargo warehouses on the ship and the remaining load capacity is large, Feng Chou excluded cloth, which is a product with a low local profit, for this purchase. He mainly chose to refine it with a gold alchemy furnace. Steel essence, secondary black steel, steel essence weapon armor, secondary black steel weapon armor, primary level alchemical products, etc.

Four cranes and hundreds of dock workers worked for three days before sending all the goods into the warehouses of the two ships.

These cargoes filled half of the remaining quarters of the two ships and 30% of the deadweight.

After clearing the balance, the two merchant ships slowly left the Brown Wharf. Under the guidance of the Brown Wharf navigator, they sailed out of the strait and headed towards the deep sea in the east.

After leaving Bara Buck Port, the two ships will be greeted by a vast sea of ​​14,000 kilometers, and there will be no supplies in between.

According to the information collected by Feng Chou, for the merchant ship, the voyage leaving the supply point is the most dangerous.

Because pirates always like to look for prey at the supply point, and follow after the selected prey leaves the port.

So, as soon as the two ships left Barra Buck Port, Feng Chou asked the two ships to start their steam engines and use hybrid power to accelerate their departure.

The old captain who was on the same boat as Feng Chou executed Feng Chou’s order without the slightest hesitation, but Feng Chou saw it in his eyes and disapproved.

Inquiring about the reason, the old captain told Feng Chou that pirates always bullied the soft and feared the hard. They would not choose to develop the Knight, a powerful and fast armed merchant ship as their target. The pirate’s favorite target is actually ordinary. The sail merchant ship is the best prey for its slow speed and weak firepower.

The old captain also told Feng Chou that in this generation of the southern island chain, not at all, the pirate group is too powerful to develop the speed and firepower of the Knight and Warrior. There is no need to fear and avoid them here. pirate.

Feng Chou agreed with the old captain’s view, but he did not change the order at all, after all, he sailed the ship carefully.

Facts have proved that the old captain is right. The two merchant ships of Feng Chou have been on a one-day voyage without encountering any other ships.

After more than a day’s voyage, it was basically out of the hunting range of the pirates on the southern island chain.

In order to avoid pirates, merchant ships will not take fixed routes after departing from Barra Buck Port. They will move away from the port on random routes. After all, merchant ships will depart from Barra Buck Port. Facing a 2,000-kilometer wide ocean current route, the merchant ship can choose any route on this 3,000-kilometer wide route.

For pirates, the closer you are to Barra Buck Port, the easier it is to intercept and capture prey, and the farther and the greater the range, the harder it is to intercept.

Of course, it shouldn’t be too close. If it is too close, you will be hit by the fleet of Barra Buck Harbor.

After a voyage of more than one day, even if the information can be obtained in advance, it is difficult to intercept successfully, not to mention the cunning merchant ship will turn randomly after leaving the port.

After arriving at a safe distance, Feng Chou ordered the steam boiler to be stopped and the magic cruise was taken. At the same time, the alarm was lifted and the crew arranged for passengers to take turns on the deck to release the wind.

The voyage for the next ten days is lacklustre, except for a storm, nothing special.

The ocean of this World is bigger than Earth World, and the storm is naturally more terrifying, but for the 10,000-ton giant ship, the general ocean storm does not have much threat.

The huge waves caused by the storm surged onto the decks of two merchant ships, but the drainage system designed by Universe Pagoda was quite excellent. The seawater on the deck quickly flowed back to the sea along the drainage system, and the two merchant ships The sealing performance of the ship deck aroused the praise of the two captains tsk tsk. Although the water on the deck is cross-flowing, the cabin below the deck can be kept dry and no leakage occurs. This is for the shipbuilding technology of this era. I have to say it is a miracle of neither too big nor too small.

Of course, the trouble is not without it. The turbulence caused by the storm caused a large area of ​​seasickness among the passengers on the ship.

Fortunately, Feng Chou had foreseen this situation a long time ago. He prepared a large amount of seasickness medicine and quickly controlled the situation.

2nd day, the merchant ship stepped out of the storm zone, and there was another bright sun on the sea.

As the next supply point gets closer, Old Captain Drake’s face becomes more and more serious.

The old captain told Feng Chou, “If the southern island chain is still within the radiation range of the official forces on the northern continent, we are about to enter this area and we are completely a world of pirates.”

They are about to enter the next supply zone is a large archipelago, this archipelago is actually the end of the eastern archipelago of the North Continent.

After the eastern mountain range parted ways with the northern continent, a huge archipelago belt formed on the shore of the Eastern Sea. This archipelago belt inserted into the north equatorial ocean current to the south, and its front end crossed the equator and inserted into the southern equatorial ocean current. It did not gradually disappear until two or three thousand kilometers after crossing the southern equatorial current.

The eastern archipelago belt is the widest and densest when the eastern mountain range just separated from the northern continent, and the resulting islands are relatively large.

When this archipelago belt extends southward and reaches the equator, it gradually becomes sparse, and the large islands in the archipelago gradually become scarce.

On the one hand, because the islands are small and sparse, on the other hand, because the climate near the equator is hot and rainy, and the islands are densely covered with rainforests, which are not suitable for human survival, the pace of human development of the eastern archipelago stays in the north of the equator. , The equator and most of the islands south of the equator are desert islands.

The Ocean Church of the Northern Continent, the Fortune Church, the Tyronn Alchemy Club, the Eastern Sea Coast City and the Chamber of Commerce and other large maritime trade organizations have established several Supply fortress.

These fortresses are not only the lifeline to and from the merchant ship, but also the gates of hell that are difficult to break through.

Feng Chou had a black eye on how to get through this island called a pirate paradise, and he handed over the command to the old captain.

Under the command of the old captain, the two ships turned a bend at a one-day voyage from the archipelago and headed northeast.

The old captain told Feng Chou that he knew a safer route. On that route, there was no big island with fresh water nearby, and there were fewer pirates.

Under the leadership of the old captain, the pioneer Knight and the Warrior arrived safely at their destination, the Port of Tortuga.

The Port of Tortuga is not a supply port established by the Great Influence of the Northern Continent. On the contrary, it is actually a free port established by many pirate forces in the archipelago area.

The original intention of this port was to provide a place for pirates to sell stolen goods.

Feng Chou is actually more hesitant about whether to come to Tortuga Port to replenish goods. According to his idea, he would rather leave part of the warehouse empty than go to a pirate port to take risks. After all, his Thousands of people were still on board.

However, for the shipowners’ worries, Captain Drake and Captain Adok felt unnecessary. According to the two captains, the Port of Tortuga is a great influence on the northern continent to establish a fortress in Russia. A safer place.

In order to maintain this stolen port, the great pirates in the archipelago area strictly prohibit any pirates from looting or even making trouble in Tortuga Port. Violators will be chased to death by major pirates.

There are even such unwritten rules in the archipelago. Any ship that has purchased a large amount of cargo in Tortuga Port will leave a way out and will not take the initiative to rob. Of course, this Limited to a few large pirates.

Feng Chou finally agreed to their suggestion under the sure persuasion of the two captains and went to see the port of Tortuga.