Chapter 278: Setting Sail

Baishayu has special landforms. The east, west, and south sides are sunny, with fine white beaches stretching like silver satin, and glass vacation palaces of nobles and rich people standing among coconut groves and blue waves.

Only the north side is completely different—craggy rock walls are cut by dense forests and gullies, tides tear the main island into interlocking subsidiary islands, and in the waterways like spider webs among the dark mangrove forests, the masts of smuggling ships appear and disappear in the mist.

In such waterways like spider webs, as long as you lower your pirate flag and hide your identity, you can stay here at will.

When 'Skinny' brought Nie Yingying and the three to this place surrounded by 'Night Skeleton' pirates, they saw a medium-sized three-masted sailing ship with a dark color quietly docked in a large bay.

The sailing ship looked slightly dilapidated from a distance, and deep and gloomy up close, giving people an inexplicable sense of weirdness, especially Duanmu Xing, whose small mouth was already slightly pouted to show her dislike for this ship.

And Nie Yingying nodded with satisfaction. Her excavation of the 【Blood Clan】 bloodline had made good progress recently. While adding several blood-line and dark-line cantrips, she had a sense of intimacy with props that clearly radiated dark aura like ghost ships.

The most critical thing was that she could vaguely sense that the speed of this pirate ship shouldn't be too slow, which made her particularly satisfied.

【Ghost Ship】! Green prop! If you don't have a ghost ship on the sea, then you can only sit at the children's table!

"Big Sister, this is our ship! It's called 'Night Skeleton', and it can safely send us to any sea area on the Storm Sea!"

'Skinny' was clearly very satisfied with this large prop, and his words carried a certain sense of pride.

But Captain Hendrik was very dissatisfied with his sense of ownership. If it weren't for his usual character, he would have long ago had someone hang the crew member who challenged his authority at the stern of the ship to wash in the seawater for a day to show punishment.

"Ah! Captain, you are all back! Are we about to set off?"

At this time, a tall and short, a fat and thin figure appeared on the deck of 'Night Skeleton'. After seeing this group of people, they immediately greeted them happily, feeling happy about setting sail soon—although Baishayu was good, it was not good to be ordered to stay and watch the ship.

"Wow! Captain, you actually brought us two such high-quality 'gold coin clips', you are truly generous!" The thin and tall one looked at Nie Yingying and Duanmu Xing in the crowd with excitement. "But they can't get on the ship..."

Before the thin and tall one finished speaking, he was stomped on the foot by the short and fat one beside him. The sudden attack made him cry out in pain, and he could only hold his foot and spin in place.

After teaching his companion a lesson, the fat one looked at Captain Hendrik fawningly.

"Shut up, you seaweed brain! Such high-quality 'port roses' are naturally your private collection, Captain..."

Like his companion, the fat one's words were not finished before he was taught a lesson. However, compared to his companion who was holding his foot and spinning, the short and fat one suddenly found that the so-called 'port roses' he spoke of just smiled at him, and he couldn't speak. He reached out to touch, but was terrified to find that his mouth had disappeared.

At the same time, the thin one who was still holding his foot and spinning suddenly screamed in terror. He found that the foot he was holding had suddenly turned into an octopus tentacle.

"Witch!!!"

A nightmare-like word broke into his mind, and the short and fat one's small eyes immediately shed tears, and a pleading expression appeared on his fat face.

And the thin one who fell beside him was only screaming in terror, his hands constantly supporting the deck, moving his butt backward, trying to stay away from his constantly twisting tentacle foot.

Although Nie Yingying didn't know what the 'gold coin clip' in the thin one's mouth was, the 'port rose' in the fat one's mouth was the nickname for those streetwalkers in the taverns of Golden Port.

After simply teaching the two stupid pirates a lesson, Nie Yingying stepped onto the deck leading to the ghost ship 'Night Skeleton' without caring.

And the 'Night Skeleton' pirates all looked at the short and fat pirate who was suddenly covering his mouth and crying in terror, and the thin and tall pirate who was afraid of his legs with lingering fear, and followed the pirate ship silently.

Only 'Skinny' fell behind with a smile, and kicked the fat and thin duo once each.

"Haha, 'Rusty Nail', 'Iron Bucket', you two idiots! Haha, now you know how powerful it is, letting you talk nonsense every time!"

"Sorry! Sorry! I was wrong! I was wrong! Spare me!"

After being kicked by 'Skinny' Mei Pengcheng, the short and fat 'Iron Bucket' blurted out an apology and plea for mercy before realizing that his mouth had returned, and the thin and tall 'Rusty Nail', who had already retreated several meters, was still staring at his restored legs in a daze.

"Skinny, just now... that... we..."

Mei Pengcheng had no time to pay attention to these two clowns on the ship, turned and walked toward the captain's cabin. He had just seen Hendrik take Nie Yingying and the three in.

"Now I am the captain... vice-captain. From now on, talk less and do more. If you talk nonsense again, you won't be let off so easily. You two go and prepare, we are going to set sail!"

Staring blankly at 'Skinny' rushing to the captain's cabin, 'Rusty Nail' and 'Iron Bucket' looked at each other and returned to their respective posts with lingering fear.

Dim light shone in from outside the wooden window. The oak tabletop was cracked with sulfur burn marks, three daggers were nailed to the corner of the nautical chart, and blood and wine stains congealed into brown islands at the intersection of the routes.

An empty rum bottle lay beside the brass sextant, with half a wanted poster stuffed in the bottle mouth. The storage compartments embedded in the wall were piled with moldy tobacco cans, and flintlock pistol parts and whalebone toothpicks were placed on the can lids.

The scene in the captain's cabin matched Nie Yingying's imagination of a pirate ship's captain's cabin. Duanmu Xing frowned and covered her small nose, pouting her small mouth unhappily. Only Xie Yaoyao foolishly held the little red umbrella and looked around.

"Clean this room before dark. If there is still a trace of stench, I will taste whether pirate blood is as dirty and fishy as the legend says."

Saying this, Nie Yingying revealed a pair of white teeth, which made Pirate Captain Hendrik's scalp numb, and he nodded repeatedly, guaranteeing that he could organize the captain's cabin to be spotless.

Soon, the gloomy 'Night Skeleton' pirate ship slowly left the large bay of the waterway. The oars extending from both sides of the ship's bottom rowed mechanically and uniformly, slowly sailing the three-masted sailing ship toward the mouth of the sea.

Nie Yingying, Duanmu Xing, and Xie Yaoyao stood on the second deck, looking at the busy sailors and the gradually widening sea, only then did they have a sense of stepping into history and stepping into legend.

"Hehe, at night, our 'Night Skeleton' will have a huge increase in sailing speed! Big Sister, we won't rob along the way, the target is only 'Black Lake Island', and we only need to resupply once at Pales Port on Pales Island in the middle!" ===== CHAPTER 279 =====