The potion was still on CD, several ‘fish’ that escaped the net saw Lin Jie’s situation and rushed over with shouts, wishing to kill him. Unexpectedly, several dark shadows fell from the sky, and the shells bombarded the pirate ship, making it reel right and left.

Wu Dongdong even risked under the rain of cannonballs to pull the ship near, and yelled as he threw the rope over, “Come up!”

Lin Jie held on to the rope, jumped towards the ship, and landed heavily on the deck.

“Only a few pirates are left, the ones who don’t surrender, kill them all!” shouted Lin Jie. A dozen sailors grabbed weapons from the deck and rushed over upon receiving the order. With the power of the cannons, the few pirates threw their weapons and surrendered.

Lin Jie’s state had been restored, and Wu Dongdong had sent the crew to tow the pirate ship. Four captured pirates held their hands on their heads, like fish on the chopping board. From time to time, they uttered a cry of pain, believing that they had been ‘massaged’ a lot.

Victory!

Normally when two ships met, they would fight until one party’s ship was destroyed. However, in this battle, no heavy firearms had been used, and Lin Jie had killed the pirates’ captain all by himself. After losing their captain, the pirates had naturally lost the ability to resist.

“Call Pleater out and let him take care of this. I’ll go over first,” Lin Jie commanded and then ran to the pirate ship. The corpses of pirates had yet to be cleaned up!

Greed and ferocity had always been synonymous with piracy. Although they did not dare to steal looted properties under the power and influence of their leader, they could definitely steal and hide some small things like gold coins and silver coins. They had more or less saved some money; even the poorest had 1 silver coin. What a group of rich people! As for the Boss… After searching for a long time, Lin Jie found nothing but a Gold leather armor. That was bullsh*t!

“Hmph, don’t blame me then.” Holding his sword, Lin Jie cut all the Boss’ clothes.

Clang-

Several gold coins fell out! Lin Jie laughed as a captain, how could he not have any private savings? He was hiding deep it enough! However, as Broken Blade was too sharp, Lin Jie accidentally cut the Boss’ skin and flesh while cutting the clothes. As a result, fresh blood was streaming out.

A small cloth bag fell out as flesh and blood were flying in all directions.

Lin Jie frowned and opened it. “What is this? Hidden so deep!”

Ding~

—”You have received 20 gold coins.”

—-“You have received an additional item Simon’s Letter.”

Holding the letter in his hand, Lin Jie examined the bag carefully for a while and used Dwarvish Identify Skill. The attributes of the cloth bag were revealed.

Exquisite Space-Time Bag (Gold): Special item, can be placed in the bag to get an additional space of 1*1 yard.

Lin Jie was overjoyed. It was a Space-Time Bag! Unlike his ‘bag,’ which had a fixed number of slots, the Space-Time Bag could directly increase the space to put more fragmented materials.

However, this letter…

What was it that had to been hidden so secretly?

Opening the letter, the text appeared in the air to facilitate the players in reading.

“Human from the alternate realms, your slaves are too expensive, and the elves have poor control of water. Hence, I don’t need these sailors. But I can offer you a suitable price for those female elves. Five days later, bring 300 naked female elves to me at Crying Bay.” — Simon

“!!!!!”

Lin Jie was shocked. It was a letter from Simon to a human from the alternate realms, and it was for the slave trade. The recipient of this letter was obvious!

‘This good chap has even started a business with pirates, terrific!’

Lin Jie kept the letter and went back to the ship.

Pleater was slapping the pirates’ faces hysterically; one pirate’s face was already swollen, and he had almost lost all his teeth. It could be seen how much Pleater hated the pirates.

Lin Jie took the letter out and asked, “Who’s the recipient of this letter?”

Several pirates looked at one another, their eyes flashed with a trace of fear and trembled. None of them dared to speak.

Lin Jie revealed a serious expression. “To whom! Either talk or die!”

The pirates still kept silent. Lin Jie was angry, so he pulled out Broken Blade and cut open a pirate’s neck. The health points of a level 35 Elite were high, so even they were captured, and their Defense was cleared to 0, Lin Jie had to stab several times in order to kill him. This made his momentum dropped a lot.

Bang—

A pirate fell, and Lin Jie kicked him into the sea.

“It’s… It’s for a human from the alternate realms,” said a long-bearded pirate, trembling. “Don’t kill me, don’t kill me…”

Lin Jie threw the letter in front of the pirate and said, “You, go and deliver the letter. Wu Dongdong, give him a fast boat.”

The pirate’s eyes brightened. He kept the letter carefully and went to board the fast boat with gratefulness. As the other two pirates saw this, they felt anxious. “I know the name of this human, Lord, allow me to deliver the letter, too!”

Lin Jie sneered. “Too late! Come on, tie these two pirates to the bow. I heard that when Stray•Emilia is hungry, it will be very fierce and has high combat effectiveness. We have to weaken its strength first.”

“Yes!” The sailors rushed up. Since they had witnessed how Lin Jie had killed the pirates all by himself, they had been completely convinced of his ability. The two pirates’ hands were tied up behind their backs, which made them look like a flower decoration on the ship from far.

As for the letter, it must be delivered to Baili Xuanyuan. Five days later, at Crying Bay! Since he dared to trade slaves, he was bringing about his own destruction.

Lin Jie’s mouth curved up in a smile.

Pleater said seriously to Lin Jie, “Human from the alternate realms, I have to admit your courage and strength, but we have a serious problem now.”

He looked at the pirate ship and said, “This ship is a hot potato. If the Simon Pirates find out, I’m afraid that we’ll be wiped out completely.”

Lin Jie took a deep breath. Indeed, the scariest thing in a mountain were the tigers, and one would be afraid of the eagles when they were up in the sky. Similarly, the pirates were the most terrible thing that they could encounter in the sea. These pirates were everywhere, like parasites. If they found out that he was dragging a pirate ship along, the whole ship would be bombarded into pieces in a minute.

However, this was a pirate ship! A pirate ship was not worse than a Middle-Grade ship. Not only that, the pirate ship was equipped with cannons, which the players had to spend a lot of effort and money in order to get them. These were invaluable!

If the players captured pirate ships, they could hand them over to the Empire or the Holy Church. If they handed over to the former, they would be rewarded with a large number of rewards and a navigation permit and could either be exempted from transaction taxation in various kingdoms or exchange it for a fast boat. Although they could not transport the goods, they could at least be able to go out to the sea to improve their proficiency. They could then trade easily for business after training for a year or a half.

If they handed it over to the Holy Church, they would be given a ‘Holy Land Blessing’. When the player’s ship was destroyed in the sea, it would be revived without any loss incurred.

Hence, in a few years, all the maritime merchants would do their utmost to kill a ship of pirates and hand the ship over to the Holy Church to prepare for emergencies.

As for misappropriation… Strictly speaking, it was not a big deal for the players to take possession of a ship privately. However, the ship would then become unregistered. Not to mention that an unregistered ship must pay three times the cost at any port, it would face strict investigation and get captured unless the owner wandered in the sea all day long. Also, one would not get any compensation if one’s ship was robbed by the pirates, swallowed by monsters, or smashed by other players.

Lin Jie pondered over this for a long time.

What should he do? Go back and hand over the pirate ship? He was not a businessman. Hence, he could exchange for some reputation and experience points or even get a small piece of land. But he still felt that he would suffer a loss! How valuable was a ship? One could tell from those men who would rather spend their life savings to buy a ship and then wander on the sea for a lifetime.

“Wu Dongdong.” After careful considerations, Lin Jie spoke.

“What’s wrong?”

“Lead 30 people and board the pirate ship, find an island to hide.”

“Ah?” Wu Dongdong’s eyes widened in surprise. “You… you mean that you’re giving this pirate ship to me?”

Lin Jie nodded. “Yes, remember to hang the pirate flag up high. Also, go to the forum immediately to collect relevant information, you must learn the remote conversation or code words between the pirates in order to warn the other pirates from coming near your island. Don’t go to the Endless Sea because there are a lot of monsters. Just find an island nearby, and after you have settled down, drive the fast boat back to City of Light to smuggle goods across countries. Keep in mind that you must hide from the patrol of the military ships!”

“I… I…” Wu Dongdong was caught by surprise. He would not be surprised if Lin Jie sold the ship to the Guild of Light. After all, the credits, including the effort to seize the ship, were all his during this navigation.

But Lin Jie had chosen to give him the ship!

It was a ship! What did owning a ship mean? It meant that one had the foundation to start up a business! It was like a Beijing drifter was given a villa by a kind person for him to live in. Was it even possible? It was unimaginable! But now, this good deal was right in front of him.

“Don’t talk nonsense, do it now!” shouted Lin Jie shouted. “Those who are willing to follow Wu Dongdong, step out! Starting from today, this ship is yours!”

“Me!”

“Hahaha, my own ship? I’m in!”

“I don’t want to go. If I get caught, I’ll have to delete my account.”

“Chey, you must be more adventurous! Count me in!”

32 people stepped out, which was a little more than Lin Jie had imagined. He asked the group to board the ship with Wu Dongdong, and they left immediately.

If the player merchant’s transnational trade amount reached a certain value, or if one made great contributions by transporting scarce goods – such as transport food for countries in wars – he could register for a ship. Wu Dongdong should know to bribe the registrar if he was smart enough, and then this pirate ship could become legal.

But these were things for the future.

After sending them off, Lin Jie continued to sail in full sail, and it was smooth and calm throughout the journey.

Slowly, the ship sailed into a canyon. It was like a slot canyon, its appearance on the sea was abrupt, strange but breathtakingly beautiful.

And it even felt like they were entering a fairyland.

“Damn! It’s an illusion!” Pleater realized that suddenly and turned his head to look at Lin Jie. Surprisingly, he found that Lin Jie’s eyes had been covered with a layer of blood-red sheen as if he was mad.