Chapter 245: 245. Chapter 245: Selecting Crew Members

245. Chapter 245: Selecting Crew Members.

"Very good! Count you as one, stand behind me!" Long Xuan said.

"Yay!" Miao Peipei showed a cute smile and walked over happily, looking like she had no schemes. Appearance comes from the heart; looking at her appearance, she really didn't look like a treacherous and evil person.

Long Xuan looked at a hot-bodied beautiful Gu Master behind her and smiled: "What special skills do you have?"

Nie Qingcheng rolled her eyes at him and said: "I was once the captain of the Rose Ship and have been to sea more than ten times, but the Rose Ship has now sunk, and I have lost all my crew members."

"As a captain, I have rich long-distance sailing experience."

"I think I can be competent for your first mate position. Is this special skill enough?"

Long Xuan nodded. What he lacked was this kind of talent. A person who had been a captain becoming his first mate was simply perfect.

"Then have you ever done bad things?" Long Xuan looked at her and asked again.

This question was the most important. If a person had a crooked mind, then no matter how prominent her ability was, he wouldn't use her.

Nie Qingcheng hooked the corner of her mouth and said playfully: "Who in this world can say they have never done a single bad thing? Have you never done a bad thing yourself?"

Hearing this, Long Xuan immediately thought of a pile of bad things he had done, such as embezzling many things from the Long Clan, such as deceiving the senior sister's body, such as damaging the holy tree of the Long Clan—there were simply too many.

Thinking about it this way, he was really heinous, and he couldn't help but feel guilty.

Nie Qingcheng said again: "I have done many bad things, but I can guarantee that I will never harbor any malice toward my teammates. I think this is enough for you!"

She looked at that Honesty Gu. At this moment, this Honesty Gu had no reaction.

Long Xuan also looked at the Honesty Gu, nodded, and said: "You are right, count you as passing, stand behind me!"

He turned his head and looked at another beautiful Gu Master whose eyes carried a cunning look. Her eyes revealed a strange and eccentric meaning. This woman looked like someone who couldn't stay still.

Before he could speak, this woman took the lead and said: "My name is Ye Qingluan, eighteen this year! I have many special skills!"

"However, for those useful at sea, I am afraid it is that I have a dolphin pet. My Da Bu can pull the ship and increase the ship's speed."

"And Da Bu can also look for treasures on the seabed, can go ahead to scout for danger, and can scare away many sea spirit beasts. It has many functions!"

"And I only do bad things to bad people, and never do bad things to good people. Your ship is going to be filled with a pile of good people, so you can rest assured about me."

After the words fell, she looked confidently at the Honesty Gu on Long Xuan's shoulder. The eyes of the Honesty Gu really didn't shine, and she showed a smile.

Long Xuan nodded. This special skill was indeed not bad. If you could control a dolphin at sea, the effect was simply too many, which could avoid many dangers.

Using it to pull the ship was instead making a big fuss over a small matter, not to mention that he didn't lack that bit of power.

He also decided on this woman.

Long Xuan nodded and smiled: "Is the surname Ye? This surname is good. I like people surnamed Ye. Since you are surnamed Ye, then count you as one. Stand behind me!"

Next, Long Xuan interviewed several people one after another.

A scarred man named Qiu Tiandao became his fourth crew member. His special skill was being good at hunting sea beasts and having experience in hunting whales and sharks.

In order to be able to eat seafood at any time at sea, this person was recruited by Long Xuan without hesitation.

The fifth crew member was a handsome man named Shangguan Wuwo, who had good cooking skills and wanted to apply for the position of chef. Long Xuan was considered a foodie; otherwise, he wouldn't have valued Miao Peipei's ability so much, so this cook was also accepted by Long Xuan without hesitation.

The sixth crew member was a burly man named Xiong Dali. It was said that this person had been a cannon chief in the Xuanyue Empire and was extremely precise in firing cannons, claiming that he had never missed a shot in his life.

Seeing him bragging so loudly, Long Xuan recruited him.

The rest were all Gu Masters with combat power but no special skills. After being tested by the Honesty Gu that their character passed, Long Xuan arranged for them all to be sailors.

At this moment, he had recruited a total of nine crew members, which was really a bit small. After all, his boarding threshold was simply too high. Just one "never done bad things" was enough to filter out most Gu Masters in this world.

Even the crew members he recruited at this moment had basically done a few bad things, but they were all within his acceptable range.

So Long Xuan sent clones to act separately, even running to various places in Xinghai City to recruit crew members everywhere, wasting a day before barely recruiting one hundred crew members whose character passed.

However, there were only two people with special abilities. One was an old ship doctor named Shi Jiefu.

This person's medical skills were extremely superb, and in front of the Honesty Gu, he was the only good person who had never done a single bad thing. Long Xuan was extremely satisfied with this person.

The other was a peerless beauty named Leng Yan. She claimed to be the number one beauty in Xinghai City and came from the Leng Clan, one of the five major clans in Xinghai City.

She was a scholar who understood a lot of knowledge about the sea, including meteorology, so she applied for his navigator position.

Except for her, the rest of the people recruited were almost all male Gu Masters.

Although many positions were still vacant, such as shipwright, helmsman...

But Long Xuan didn't intend to wait any longer. It didn't matter if these positions were not needed. He could be fully competent himself.

Recruiting these people was about enough. The cabins for living on the Divine Dragon Ship were almost full. After all, the ship he built was not a super-large model.

Long Xuan waved his hand at this moment and shouted: "Let's go!"

Everyone behind him was excited and hurriedly followed. For the matter of going to sea, everyone couldn't wait.

A group of people walked to the seaside with smiles. Long Xuan quickly placed the huge Divine Dragon Ship on the sea under the eyes of everyone.

The ship bottom hit the sea heavily, splashing a wave.

Obviously, everyone didn't expect that he actually had a huge storage space that could hold a large ship. Such a large ship was not something that any storage equipment could easily hold.

It could be said that large ships couldn't be carried with them at all. There were very few storage spirit tools of that size in the Gu World.

At this moment, Nie Qingcheng, the first mate, looked at the ship a few times and couldn't help but frown. Although this ship was large, compared to other ships nearby, it could only be considered a medium model.

A ship of this volume wanting to sail in the distant sea was really a bit reluctant.

"Is this your ship? Do you know that the waves in some sea areas are several feet high, or even more than ten feet, which can easily overturn your small ship? I'm afraid your ship doesn't have the ability to enter the distant sea." Nie Qingcheng said with some disappointment.

Hearing this, Long Xuan was shocked in his heart. Waves as high as several feet—are you sure that's a wave, not a tsunami?

Is there really a sea area in this world where the waves are comparable to a tsunami? This is a bit scary. Thinking about that scene, he felt terrified. It seems that the sea in this world is much more terrifying than he imagined.

"No matter. My ship has the function of a submarine. When encountering a tsunami, just sink to the bottom of the water. No matter how big the waves are, they can't help us."

"Uh! The submarine function is the function that the ship can swim under the water like a fish. This is the second form of the Divine Dragon Ship. However, many power systems cannot be used in this form, which will lead to much slower speed and is extremely energy-consuming!" Long Xuan explained patiently.

This was the function he researched by referring to the submarines of the previous life. Using the gravity array to press the ship into the bottom of the water, then using the propeller as power, and then using the barrier to isolate the seawater, an otherworldly submarine was formed. It didn't seem too difficult.

However, it was not too difficult for him, but in this world, such a conception was simply whimsical and could shock everyone.

At this moment, all the crew members were shocked. The ship could actually swim under the water like a fish. This kind of technology was the first time they had heard of it. Does such technology really exist in this world? Why had they never heard of it?

Everyone showed curiosity, as if they had opened the door to a new world, couldn't wait to run in to feel it, and see what the world deep in the seabed was like.

"A ship that can travel under the water? Simply unheard of. Since ancient times, this kind of ship has never appeared. You..."

Nie Qingcheng was about to say questioning words, but seeing the Honesty Gu on his shoulder had no reaction, she decisively closed her mouth.

She had stormy waves in her heart. Such an unbelievable technology was actually true. When did this advanced technology appear, and why did she never know?

"Do you know how terrifying the water pressure in the sea is? Many wooden materials used on your ship are not the strongest, and many gaps cannot prevent the infiltration of seawater."

"If I'm not mistaken, you are planning to use the barrier of the array to block the seawater, right?"

"However, I can clearly tell you that the water pressure in the sea is much more terrifying than you imagine, not to mention that there are many collisions of spirit fish and sea beasts in the water."

"Your ship is simply too small. Even if the hull is covered with array formations for reinforcement barriers, it is impossible to block that astonishing water pressure, let alone resist the collision of sea beasts."

The person speaking was Leng Yan. She was holding a thick book, her eyes full of wisdom, and her whole body was full of intellectual beauty.

Long Xuan nodded. The navigator he chose was indeed knowledgeable enough to know that the water pressure in the sea was very high.

It should be known that the Gu Masters in this world only knew how to cultivate or fight. How would they understand these studies?

"Don't worry about this. Don't look at my ship being small, but its defense and speed are enough to rival the largest ships in this world."

"Let alone my ship only diving into shallow water areas, even if it dives into the deep sea, my Five Elements Barrier is enough to withstand the water pressure."

Long Xuan said very confidently.

The barrier on his ship was not simple. It used the Five Elements Reversal Great Formation.

The barrier raised by the Five Elements Reversal Great Formation was a barrier of five elements energy. The five elements spiritual power circulated endlessly, producing a barrier that was extremely difficult to break, which could far exert an effect of five ones adding up to greater than five.

Not to mention that he used the Heavenly Mechanism Eye to engrave over a hundred times the array patterns. How could its barrier be easily crushed by a mere water pressure?

Leng Yan opened her mouth and was about to say something else. Seeing the Honesty Gu on Long Xuan's shoulder had no reaction, she also decisively closed her mouth.

Her calm face rarely showed shock, and stormy waves rose in her heart.

How could this be? What's going on with that little ship? Why is it so weird? This doesn't conform to common sense!

This captain just said that the defense of this little ship could exaggeratedly rival the largest ship in this world. This kind of outrageous lie actually had no reaction from this Honesty Gu. She was really shocked.

Is this Honesty Gu abnormal, or is this ship abnormal!

Leng Yan was dumbfounded and couldn't help but run toward the ship quickly, intending to study carefully what was going on.

However, she ran onto the ship and used all methods but couldn't see a single array pattern. She couldn't help but show disappointment, sighing that the ship's encryption means were powerful.

In order to prevent crew members from seeing the array patterns and thus finding the ship's weaknesses, any ship had encryption means, which could hide the array patterns, and crew members couldn't see them with the naked eye.

So she subconsciously thought that this ship used high-level encryption means, causing her to be unable to see the array patterns clearly.

Long Xuan showed a proud smile at this moment. Unless she also had eyes that could magnify objects, otherwise, even if she was tired to death, don't even think about studying the secrets of this ship.

At this moment, the rest of the crew members were originally skeptical about whether this ship could support the sailing of the distant sea and were considering whether to board this pirate ship.

However, seeing the captain say that the defense of this ship could rival the largest ship, but the Honesty Gu had no reaction, they also finally put away their anxiety and walked toward the ship together.

They would rather believe that there was a ship in this world that violated common sense than believe that there would be an Honesty Gu that was ineffective against lies.

Just when Long Xuan was also preparing to walk toward the ship, he suddenly saw a figure also walking toward the ship, and he couldn't help but be stunned!

"Eh? What's going on with you?"

"Stop right there!"

Long Xuan hurriedly stopped the burly man who was infected with the Spirit-Sealing Gu. He didn't expect this person to still be following him.

"I also want to board the ship. Otherwise, you will take the ship and leave, never to return. The world is so big, where can I find you?" Yang Zhan looked into his eyes and said.

Long Xuan was helpless and could only take out the Honesty Gu from the insect-raising bag again and ask him: "Have you ever done bad things in your life?"

Long Xuan looked at him seriously. This person had a sky-high evil spirit on him. Apparently, he had killed many people. The people who died in his hands were afraid that they had already piled up into a mountain.

And he also had a ferocious scar on his face. He didn't look like a good person.

Yang Zhan hooked the corner of his mouth, looked at Long Xuan and smiled: "What is good, what is evil? Can your Honesty Gu really distinguish it accurately?"

"Just like the batch of people you just recruited, they said they had never done bad things. Have they really never done bad things?"

"In order to refine Gu, they let a group of spirit insects kill each other. The number of creatures that died in their hands is countless. In the eyes of spirit insects, they are bad people."

"When they eat chicken, duck, fish, and meat, in their view, it is a matter of course, but in the eyes of chicken, duck, and fish, they are all bad people."

"So good and evil depend entirely on how individuals define them. They can avoid the investigation of the Honesty Gu just because they think they are good people. Since they didn't lie, the Honesty Gu naturally won't shine."

"Don't look at the fact that the people who died in my hands have piled up into a mountain, but I think I am a good person. I have never done any bad things!"

Yang Zhan looked at the Honesty Gu. The Honesty Gu really didn't shine after hearing his words. He hooked the corner of his mouth, bypassed Long Xuan, and walked onto the ship.

Long Xuan was stunned. The Honesty Gu really didn't shine. This big killing star who had killed countless people was actually a good person. This was simply outrageous.

Outrageous mother opened the door for outrageous, outrageous to the house!

Does good or bad depend entirely on how individuals define it? This sentence is quite incisive and very philosophical.

Long Xuan thought deeply. He suddenly thought of a question often asked in the previous life, that was whether there were more good people or bad people in this world.

His subconscious answer was half and half, but if eating chicken, duck, fish, and meat also counts as doing bad things, then there are no good people in this world at all!

Long Xuan shook his head and finally walked toward the ship.

At this moment, a group of crew members were excited, walking around on the ship, running into various cabins, and appreciating this strange and weird ship.

This ship used many modern designs from the previous life, and many things on the ship were out of place with this world.

For example, modern toilets, water heaters, shower heads for bathing... were all things they had never seen before.

All kinds of fresh things on the ship were enough to arouse the interest of all crew members, and everyone looked left and right like curious babies.

Especially Leng Yan, the scholar who was very interested in knowledge, had the strongest interest in this strange ship and studied every cabin.

The ship was docked on the shore for about ten minutes. After all the crew members were familiar with the basic operation of the ship, with the order of Long Xuan, the captain, the sails of the ship were slowly raised under the control of a group of sailors, and finally set sail.

Long Xuan stood at the special seat at the bow of the ship, with his hands behind his back, looking into the distance, letting the sea breeze mess up his hair.

This was his first time going to sea. He was full of expectations for the life at sea next, hoping that the strange journey next wouldn't let him down...

Just when he was full of longing for the life at sea next, the sky suddenly darkened, and a messy vibration sound appeared in his ears.

He frowned and immediately looked back. The scene that appeared in front of him made his heart vibrate.

At this moment, a huge seven-story treasure ship was actually sailing toward this side from behind at an extremely fast speed.

This giant ship was simply too huge, actually having seven stories, far exceeding the five-story treasure ship, the largest in the Xinghai City port.

Compared with this giant ship, the Divine Dragon Ship was simply like an ant and an elephant. The highest place of the Divine Dragon Ship actually couldn't reach the deck of this ship at all.

The giant ship slowly sailed past the Divine Dragon Ship, and the Divine Dragon Ship swayed straight under the interference of the giant waves.

At this moment, the railing in front of the deck of this giant ship was full of Gu Masters, densely packed. Roughly estimated, the number of Gu Masters on it was at least ten thousand. However, looking at the clothes, it seemed that they were not from the same force, nor from the same region.

What are these people on the ship going to do? Why are they in the same direction as him? Could it be that this is also a ship heading to the Sky Island?

Long Xuan's scalp went numb? He suddenly felt, is it a bit too few for him to bring these one hundred people?

These one hundred people are not enough for a fraction of others. Wouldn't others drown his group of people with one mouthful of spit?

Encountering such a terrifying competitor just after setting out, how many such giant ships will he encounter when he reaches the Sky Island? Long Xuan was no longer calm.

At this moment, everyone on the Divine Dragon Ship looked up blankly at this giant ship, their eyes full of shock. Even if they lived by the sea, it was their first time seeing a giant ship of such a degree, so large that everyone was shocked.

And the people behind the railing on the giant ship also looked down at the Divine Dragon Ship below, pointing at it, the crowd was full of laughter, and people kept whistling at the bottom.

"Hahaha... such a small ship, and still dare to go to the Sky Island with such a small ship. Isn't this going to die?"

"Haha... where did this little thing come from? Don't rush to die while being so small."

"Little beauty on the ship, this ship is not safe, it's easy to capsize. Do you want to board this ship of brother's? Brother will love you!"

"Hahaha..."

There was another burst of laughter on the giant ship... (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 246 =====