Sail Shadows in the Sea of ​​Fog

Chapter 39 Mermaid Eggs

"Prepare for boarding!" Cheng Lang shouted orders while running back to the open deck.

Before he finished speaking, the vine goblins reacted very quickly and took out their scimitars and captured flintlock rifles and prepared themselves.

At the same time, Cheng Lang also moved the center of the ship to dissipate the summoned sea fog, while increasing the speed of the ship to increase distance.

But even so, less than 20 minutes later, a sirens with weapons had already climbed up the hull and onto the open deck!
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The vine goblins, who had been prepared for a long time, pulled the trigger one after another and sent the first sirens that climbed out back underwater with a volley of fire.

It was not only Tengxiao who was shooting. Yun Ji also joined the battle with two flintlock rifles she won from Cheng Lang. After the bullets from the two guns were fired, she replaced them with the black elf dagger that was supposed to be in Yafuso's hand.

At the same time, Cheng Lang had already run to the edge of the boat, swung the whip underwater and stirred it vigorously, while trying to release the poison in the whip.

For some unknown reason, the poison in the whip did not turn the sea water into poison like the last time when the ship's bladder was used. It only poisoned the mermaid that touched the whip.

This was undoubtedly a huge trouble, but fortunately, these sirens swam from underwater, so they were not equipped with flintlock rifles that could not be used when soaked in water, and the vine goblins on the ship were not inferior to the sirens in boarding battles.

"Dear Captain, a siren has pierced through the lower cabin!" The magic mirror reminded at this critical moment.

"Stop the damage!"

Cheng Lang shouted and then jumped directly into the sea.

By late at night, the only light underwater was the light coming through the leak in the lower cabin. It was also with the help of this light that he could see a large number of shadowy figures under the ship.

Similarly, those shadows also discovered Cheng Lang who had "fallen into the water".

At once, at least a quarter of the Sirens rushed over from all directions, brandishing scimitars or harpoons, while the rest climbed onto the deck of the Valkyrie with even greater effort.

"These shipworms!"

Cheng Lang cursed angrily and swung the whip vigorously to sweep away the surrounding sirens.

Perhaps because of the special origin of this whip, the toxin on it is deadly to these sirens, so often just a light sweep will cause the sirens to stiffen and become motionless.

Beneath the water, there was an almost one-sided massacre. Above the water, the Sirens who had climbed onto the Valkyrie also encountered unexpected resistance.

In addition to the vine goblins whose combat effectiveness was no less than theirs, and Yafusuo who was waving a six-barrel rapid-fire cannon to welcome them on the stern deck, Yun Ji and Shen Ba also became the main force in killing the enemy.

Compared to Yun Ji, who was armed with a dagger and a flintlock rifle and could kill with one strike, Shen Ba fought like a reckless street thug.

This big crybaby caught a sea monster at some point, and actually grabbed its legs, using his body as a weapon, swinging it down again and again to knock down the enemies that climbed up.

When the corpse in his hand was broken into pieces, he immediately replaced it with a new "weapon".

During the underwater and surface battles, the Valkyrie's pierced lower cabin was gradually sealed, and the number of sirens decreased.

But at the same time, Cheng Lang, who was soaking in the water to guard the bottom of the ship, gradually began to lose strength. Although he only needed to swing the whip, he could not withstand the excessive number of enemies around him.

At this moment, a figure fell into the water, and as he fell into the water, he cut the neck of a mermaid with the dagger in his hand.

It seems to be Yun Ji?
Immediately afterwards, one figure after another jumped down, this time they were vine goblins.

With the help of these people, the surrounding sirens gradually turned into corpses. Even the few that were about to run away were pulled back by Cheng Lang with a whip.

Those that were not pulled back were killed by Yafuso in the stern deck with a six-barrel rapid-fire scoop net and turned into bait for fishing.

Although this lovely girl is small in age and stature, she is also a dark elf and has excellent night vision.

As for cruelty
Sirens never treat humans as sirens, and humans never treat sirens as humans, even though some people like grass carp.

The battle was resolved almost entirely by hand-to-hand combat. Cheng Lang swung his whip to entangle the side of the boat and pulled Yun Ji back to the deck.

"Is anyone or any vine golem injured?" Cheng Lang asked as he put away the whip.

"Grandpa Gerta is injured"

Yafuso, who was still standing next to the six-barrel rapid-fire net, said, "He was knocked down by the corpse of a siren, and his nose is still bleeding."

"So this is the most seriously injured person tonight?" Cheng Lang asked with a slight relief.

"I'm afraid so"

Gerta came over with a gloomy look on his face. "And it was that bastard Shenba who threw the body on me. This is my new clothes."

"hey-hey"

Shenba scratched the back of his head and said with a silly smile, "Grandpa Gerta, I will help you wash your clothes."

"You should help me steer the boat."

As Gerta spoke, he picked out a fish scale that belonged to some unlucky mermaid from his messy hair and threw it aside.

"Since everyone except Gerta is fine, we should go to that boat and take a look." Cheng Lang gave the order after all the vine goblins were on board.

"I'll take the helm!"

Shenba, covered in fish blood, ran towards the open-air bridge at the stern of the ship.

"Your skills are beyond my expectations," Cheng Lang said to Yun Ji, who had just been pulled up. "Also, thanks to you for helping me."

“I fell into the sea accidentally.”

Yun Ji twisted her soaked hair and said perfunctorily, "Besides, the black elf dagger you gave to Yafuso needs to drink blood frequently, otherwise the undead inside will starve to death. You can't expect Yafuso to fight the sea monster with the dagger, right?"

"Her? Siren excitement dagger fuck?"

Cheng Lang dismissed the strange thoughts in his mind and asked curiously, "Do the undead still need to drink blood?"

“Normally not necessary”

Yun Ji let her wet black hair loose and explained, "But the undead that was made into the Dark Elf's dagger will have to be used. Captain, how about letting me use this dagger? I mean before I get off the ship."

"As long as Yafuso has no objection," Cheng Lang replied indifferently.

"Thank you"

Yun Ji thanked him and said as she walked towards the stern deck, "I'm going to change my clothes."

"Do you have any suggestions for these siren corpses?" Cheng Lang asked proactively. He wanted to see what suggestions the black elf could give.

“I don’t have any suggestions”

Yunji replied, "But maybe Grandpa Gerta can compost it if he wants."

"If the captain doesn't mind the lower cabin being full of fishy smell, we can try it, but it's too much." Gerta said worriedly.

At this time, not to mention the surrounding sea, even on the open deck of the Valkyrie there were twenty or thirty corpses of various lengths.

"Forget about composting, pick up all the corpses around and send them to the cargo hold." Cheng Lang ordered.

"Do you have any good solution?" Yun Ji, who was about to enter the stern deck, asked curiously.

"If the weather is good tomorrow, we can dry the fish and send it to Pirate City. Maybe we can sell it for a good price." Cheng Lang answered seriously.

Yun Ji naturally didn't believe it, but she wasn't curious either. She quickly walked back to her room on the side of the captain's office.

Now, the rooms on both sides of the office on this floor belong to her and Yafuso respectively, while the rooms on both sides of the conference room upstairs are given to Gerta and Shenba who need to take turns at the helm.

While she was busy taking a shower and changing clothes, the vine goblins took advantage of the ship's turn and picked up all the sea monster corpses floating around and sent them into the cargo hold.

Although Cheng Lang did not explain it in detail, the gorillas were extremely tacit in sending all the corpses into the false heart chamber at the bow of the cargo hold, and then threw the corpses one by one into the false heart pool where the huge heart was floating.

The vine goblins were definitely quite nimble, but when the corpses were thrown into the pool, they disappeared without a trace without even a splash.

As for the effect of throwing it in.
In fact, it doesn't have much effect. It just makes the heart look more like a real ship heart, and it can also clean up the battlefield.

Almost at the same time as the last Siren corpse was thrown into the pool of blood, the Valkyrie slowly approached the sailboat that was hung with ship lights.

This ship is slightly larger than the Valkyrie. It is completely white and has a double-deck gun deck.

In addition, there is the coat of arms of the Principality of Murphyta on the top of the mast of this ship - with golden shells as the background, a human hand and a webbed hand clasped together. This coat of arms inevitably reminds Cheng Lang of a certain durable communication tool.

"I recognize this ship," Shenba said loudly while cooperating with the Vine Goblins to stop the Valkyrie.

"you know?"

Cheng Lang looked at Shenba and asked, "Tell me about its origins."

"This is the armed passenger ship White Conch"

Shenba explained, "It's a very fast smuggling ship that smuggles wine and also takes sailors to the Pirate City. However, it is said that those who are willing to take this ship are sailors who have gotten into trouble and are seeking refuge in the Pirate City." "Is this the route to Murphy Tower?" Cheng Lang asked.

"I don't know, I've never been to Murphy Tower." Shenba replied.

He looked down at the "mirror watch" on his wrist, and the magic mirror shook its pale green fingers and gave an answer.

“Be prepared for battle”

As Cheng Lang spoke, he had already swung the whip to wrap around the cable of the opposite sail and swung over with increasing skill.

"Let me go with you!"

As Shenba spoke, he took a running start and jumped over from the second-floor open deck with a dull "bang".

"This idiot!"

Yun Ji, who had just changed her clothes and was a step late in walking out of the stern deck, shook her head helplessly, grabbed a vine and quickly swung over.

"Why are you all here?" Cheng Lang asked with a helpless smile.

"I'll help you!" Shenba patted his chest and said righteously.

"I'll look after him to prevent him from causing us any trouble," Yun Ji pointed at her brother helplessly.

"Okay, do me a favor."

As Cheng Lang spoke, he took out the cup of Poseidon's blood for lip smearing from his pocket and handed it to the other party, "Apply it on the lips of the corpse."

“You really don’t waste anything.”

Yun Ji muttered something secretly, and signaled her brother Shenba to take the blood of Poseidon and help smear the lips of the human corpses on the ship. She picked up a rapier and vigilantly checked whether there were any living people hidden in the pile of corpses. By the way, she threw the valuables found on the corpses into an oak barrel.

With the help of this brother and sister, the human corpses on the open deck were happily placed in the Loyalty Tombstone after paying funeral expenses of varying amounts. The corpses of the sirens were also searched and their previous items were taken away and thrown aside to be dealt with by the vine goblins.

It took the three of them less than half an hour to clear the open deck before they entered the stern of the ship.

There were far fewer corpses here, but they were still there, including some women and children.

Although most of their clothes had been torn and there were even signs of bites on their bodies, some details still showed that they were wealthy people.

The best proof of this is the oak barrels in the captain's room that are filled with money bags and various jewelry.

"Being a pirate is really profitable," Shenba couldn't help muttering, and then her sister stood on tiptoe and hit her on the back of the head.

With so many unexpected gains, Cheng Lang had to stop and ask Teng Xiao to help carry the oak barrels filled with treasures back in a hanging basket.

After a short rest, the three continued to collect bodies in the stern deck, and focused on searching the captain's room.

"It's Poseidon's blood! And there are three cups of it."

Shenba said in surprise, and then without thinking, he threw the three cups of Poseidon's blood he found into the oak barrel.

“And there’s so much luggage.”

Yun Ji wiped the sweat from her forehead and reminded that there were many separate cabins in the stern tower, and each cabin contained suitcases that had been turned over or not, and there might be gains in them as well.

"If we rely on ourselves, we'll probably have to work until dawn."

Cheng Lang said as he walked to the window, opened it and waved towards the Valkyrie opposite. Immediately, team leader Wukong and his men rushed over.

"We need all the property, goods, and bodies," Cheng Lang ordered. "Move back everything that can be moved, but leave the artillery behind."

"Oh!"

Wukong responded simply, and went into the cabin with the other Vine Goblins, each holding an oil lamp.

Cheng Lang ignored the brother and sister and walked into the double-decker gun deck alone with great interest.

The firepower of this ship is quite sufficient. The lower gun deck is equipped with large-caliber 20-coin guns, and the upper deck is equipped with conventional caliber 15-coin guns. There is even a six-barreled rapid-fire gun inlaid with armor plates at the bow.

Unfortunately, this kind of firepower might be good in a battle between ships, but it is not enough to deal with a siren that sneaks up from underwater to launch a sneak attack.

Especially when he was collecting the bodies, he smelled a strong smell of alcohol from almost every mouth.

Now that Captain Cheng's vision has been raised, he naturally looks down on the cannons on this ship. They are not even as attractive as the liquors that fill the lower cabin.

"Captain, what are we to do with the liquor on this ship?"

Gerta came over and asked, "A large amount of space in our ship's lower deck is used to grow vegetables, and there are also a lot of previously purchased supplies in the cargo hold. I guess it can't hold so much liquor."

"I'll take care of this matter."

As Cheng Lang spoke, he sent the last corpse into the tombstone, then turned and walked into the Valkyrie's lower cabin. He came alone to the boiler room where the vine goblins were guarding day and night, and took the large ship bottle from the boiler.

Then, he took out the second boat bottle he had seized from his pocket and poured all the fresh water inside into the boat bottle that the Valkyrie already had. In the end, only the strange-looking boat was left.

After putting the large ship bottle back into the boiler, Cheng Lang returned to the armed passenger ship White Conch, and walked into the crowded lower cabin under the guidance of the vine goblins holding the ship's lights.

The lower cabin was almost entirely filled with standard-sized wooden barrels, and according to the documents found by the goblins, apart from coal, gunpowder and fish oil, the rest was almost entirely liquor brewed by Murphyta.

He signaled the vine goblins to open a barrel of liquor. Cheng Lang leaned in to smell it, then took out a boat bottle, tied a rope to the bottle mouth, grabbed the rope end and threw the boat bottle in.

In just one or two breaths, only the bottom of the liquor was left in the barrel.

Seeing this, he immediately ordered the goblins to open more liquor and pour it into the oak barrel, while he turned and walked to the forecastle, picking and choosing among the food stored in the ship, looking for the fruits and vegetables that interested him.

Just when he found a big, round, dark green watermelon and cut it open with great joy, only to discover that the flesh inside was white and full of seeds and not very sweet at all, he heard the "ooooh" sounds of the gorillas in the lower cabin.

"Paji"

Cheng Lang threw away the broken watermelon in his hand and ran back to the lower cabin. Then he saw the vine goblins surrounding an oak barrel. When they saw him coming, they immediately danced and pointed inside with their long arms.

Pushing aside the vine goblins, he walked to the side of the wooden barrel. There was no fruit wine inside, but instead...
Is this fish roe? Fish eggs? Fish balls? Fish fetus? What do you call this special code?
For a moment, Cheng Lang had no idea whether his judgment was correct, but the barrel was indeed filled with fish eggs that almost filled the barrel.

If you move the oil lamp closer, you can see something like a small baby inside the translucent fish eggs, but... its eyes are really too big, so big that it's a little scary.

He looked at the label on the oak barrel, which read "Fish Oil." After a moment's hesitation, he gestured for Wukong to find another barrel of fish oil and open it. Sure enough, there was also a translucent fish egg inside.

"Magic mirror, do you recognize these fish eggs?" Cheng Lang asked the "mirror watch" on his wrist.

Soon, a pale green hand appeared in the mirror, making an OK sign. The magic mirror learned this gesture from Cheng Lang.

"Leave the barrels alone and continue filling the wine."

With that, Cheng Lang turned and left the lower cabin, whipped his way back to the Valkyrie, and then went into the captain's office.

"Dear Captain, this is Murphy Tower's bastard smuggling grass carp." The magic mirror began to explain with discrimination as Cheng Lang closed the door.

"Smuggling." Cheng Lang asked in surprise, "Using those."

Mermaid eggs

The magic mirror explained, "This is a very old business. Most of the women you saw at the auction at Pier 12 in the Vermilion Bird Islands, worth 500 gold coins, were smuggled around the world this way."

"So, there's a special breeding farm?"

Cheng Lang asked, carefully considering his words. The only suitable word he could find seemed to be breeding farm.

"Murphy Tower boasts the largest number of erotic businesses in the entire Star Sea. In Murphy Tower, as long as a man has money, he can discuss the miracles of life with a variety of beautiful sirens, one after another, every day."

"so."

"So these are just byproducts of the love business."

The magic mirror explained calmly, "They will either be sold to men looking for novelties and become canaries in a cage, or they will become excellent and cheap sailors.

Like the ones you saw in the cabin, they were probably all males, destined to be sailors."

"No one cares?" Cheng Lang asked with a frown.

"These grass carp hybrids are just like mules. They're infertile and don't live very long." The Magic Mirror's tone was filled with indifference. "So no one cares at all."

“So these mermaid eggs”

“At least they can fetch a good price.”

The magic mirror still spoke in that nonchalant tone, "Respected Captain, we can at least take them to the Pirate City, so that they at least have a chance to survive."

　Now on the shelves!!!!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)