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There is a truth that almost everyone of every race in the world understands.

Ratmen know, humans know, vampires know, and of course the elves know better.

But generally speaking, everyone would use the words of Aurora businessman Qiqiang Gao to sum it up perfectly.

"The bigger the fish, the bigger the waves."

Doing business at sea is much more dangerous than doing business on land.

The land is lined with mountains, city walls, patrolled roads, and shaded by forests.

Various natural and cultural environments can protect the caravan from being discovered by bandits, so that it can reach its destination safely.

There is no obstruction on the sea surface, and pirates can still discover them even from a very long distance.

At the same time, it is also very convenient on land.

Mountains never change their location, and rivers almost always flow in the same riverbed.

Large towns will not be relocated and roads will even be paved with stone.

Just follow the roads or mountains and water sources and you will never get lost.

But it is not like this on the sea. There is no reference point on the sea. After all, every drop of sea water is no different from other drops of sea water.

The only things that can serve as navigation beacons are the stars in the sky.

Every night, the female rat man would use her homemade instruments to observe the stars and directions, and report everything to Windlow.

Although Windlow no longer had the responsibility of driving a carriage, he still had no free time.

You need to face a wide map at the table and keep a compass at hand.

Combined with the information obtained from the female ratman, the ship's position on the sea was constantly corrected, as well as how to provide power after determination.

"According to my observations, today, today the wind will pick up from the southeast, and we'll be blown away, to the west, to the west, yes, yes."

This is indeed very bad news. There is endless ocean to the west and only land to the east.

But in such a caravan, except for Mousse who has excellent fighting ability, the others are basically weak and have no way to operate the sails.

"Hey."

Windlow sighed and could only completely erase the route he had just marked. The subsequent route would be very different from this one.

Due to the influence of the southeast wind, the position of the Ratman steam engine needs to be adjusted so that it sprays toward the southwest.

With the jet power and the southeast wind, the ship will draw a very beautiful arc on the sea, and then drift to Bilbao Port.

"Female Rat Man, calculate the arc. I'll go check if the cargo is tied securely."

Stretching slowly, Windlow walked onto the deck for the first time, feeling the salty and humid sea breeze blowing towards him.

It feels like the southeast wind is getting stronger.

On the mast, Leslie was sitting on the highest observation deck. She was so bored.

The wood elf likes the forest, not the endless ocean. After only a week at sea, the wood elf began to feel bored.

But at this moment, she actually sat up, an expression of fear and horror on her face, and then rang the bell that served as an alarm.

He stretched out his right hand and pointed a direction to Windlo, due east, in the direction of Estalia. Three pirate ships were attacking this side at the fastest speed.

The female ratman also ran out at this time. Thanks to the ratman's talent, she could always hear all the alarms and respond the fastest.

"It's over, it's over, it's over. They are faster than us. According to calculations, it will only take 7 hours for them to completely catch up with us!"

The female rat man's calculation was correct.

The speed of a pirate ship is indeed much faster than that of a merchant ship, not to mention a merchant ship fully loaded with cargo.

However, Windlow had thought of a solution to this problem before setting out to sea.

After all, he had been confined in Tyrell for such a long time, and he knew a lot of information about pirates.

These pirates exist along almost the entire coast of the Southern Kingdom, and they constantly plunder offshore ships along the coastline.

Of course, it is very easy to get rid of them.

"Moose! Fold up the canvas! Ratwoman! Adjust the steam engine to spray eastward! Take us to the deep sea area! Izeshi! Overload the magic! Leslie! Hold on tight!"

All you have to do is lower the sails and you won't be disturbed by the sea breeze, plus it's powered by a steam engine.

This merchant ship will definitely dive into the deep sea like a sharp arrow.

In order to plunder merchant ships, pirates usually travel light and without any additional supplies.

As long as they reach the deep sea area, they will not continue to chase.

All Windlow needs to do is go to the deep sea area, hide for a night, and then drift slowly, and the pirates will naturally disperse.

Just as he said, the pirates discovered that the merchant ship had lowered its sails and was sailing rapidly towards the deep sea.

Their ships also sped up, hoping to complete the boarding and looting before reaching the deep sea area.

After a full five hours of pursuit, unfortunately, traditional sailor rowing was no match for the power provided by the rat-man steam engine.

Seeing that they could not catch up, the pirate ship stopped providing power, let the ship rotate, and prepared to return home.

"Ha, the pirates have retreated, but we'd better not sleep tonight to avoid being attacked by them at night. Leslie can rest now and work overtime tonight."

Windlow had planned everything, but he had not anticipated that the pirates might be cornered.

The three pirate ships did not circle back home, but instead all turned their sides towards the location of the Windlow merchant ship.

More than thirty carronades were slowly pushed out. The pirates, who had run for so long but got nothing, naturally couldn't get angry.

After more than thirty shells were fired, the pirates gave up the pursuit and returned home.

"Ha, pointless act of venting!"

Windlow looked at the helpless and furious pirate and naturally felt relieved.

Now the distance between the two sides has reached 2000 meters.

The maximum range of the carronade is only 450 meters. Once the distance exceeds this, the probability of hitting the target is very small.

The probability is like placing a ceramic bowl twenty meters away, and then throwing thirty stones accurately into the ceramic bowl.

Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that the other party is very lucky.

Windlow had already considered this, even if the other side was really blessed by the gods, even if his merchant ship was really hit by a cannon.

It doesn't matter at all, the boat was already in great shape when it was purchased.

There are ten watertight compartments in total. If it is penetrated by a shell, the draft will only drop by one tenth, and there is no need to abandon the cargo.

I don't know if it was because of the oath he swore before, saying that if he closed the city to make dirty money, he would be killed without a burial place, or because there was a graduate of Nuln Gunnery Academy among the pirates on the opposite side.

A cannonball was fired accurately at Windlow's merchant ship.

It is difficult for a cannon of this caliber to cause serious damage to a ship, but who would have thought that this thing would hit the overloaded steam engine with one shot, causing the magical energy in it to be instantly unbalanced.

Then the entire steam engine lost control and exploded into pieces with a bang, completely tearing the hull apart.

"Moose! The boat is sinking!"

"You jump! I'll jump!"