Chapter 838 - 791: The Legendary Pirate King’s Fire-spitting Cannon
At 9:00 AM Beijing time, a new busy day began.
The Blood Sea Guild, Skyshattering Giant Cannon Guild, and the Royal First Fleet gathered in the video chat room to make the final preparations for the upcoming ambush operation.
After 3 hours of estimation and scheduling, Blood Sea Wave finally determined a calm water area outside the Blue Coral Islands as the ambush location.
There are three reasons for choosing this place: First, 80% of the ships of the three major naval guilds can just gather here within three hours, especially the Royal First Fleet’s 30 medium-sized armed merchant ships, which have just passed here after transporting goods from the Human Kingdom. So use them as the main force and converge on them.
Second, it is not far from the border line between the two countries. Such places either have heavy forces from both sides or are gray areas where neither side cares much. The situation in this sea area is the latter, meaning that the Elf Kingdom’s sea patrol fleet will not appear here frequently, making it easier to take action.
Third, this is a calm area near the islands where large warships will definitely slow down, but it is exactly the area where medium-sized warships can exert their maneuvering power.
Fourth, it is not too far from the ambush target, so when everyone is ready, the target will almost appear. There is no need to make everyone wait idly. It also showcases Blood Sea Wave’s precise calculation and foresight, helping to establish the prestige of China Region’s first God-level naval hero.
Currently, Da Fei is recognized as both the world’s first God-level sea battle hero and China’s first God-level sea battle hero, for reasons that need no explanation. This is unbearable for Blood Sea Wave in any case.
Now, the total of 60 ships from the Three Guilds have completed their formation, with ships connected by ropes to form several large nets with width and depth and no gaps. Once the prey is caught in the net, no matter whether it is a large warship or a giant warship, it has to stop. Meanwhile, new fleets are continuously reinforcing.
In short, a large warship forced to stop won’t be a match for dozens of medium-sized ships.
The large-scale mobilization of the Three Guilds will undoubtedly alarm some passing merchant players. For the bored merchant leisure players, watching from the sidelines is certainly not a big deal, so they also follow along to watch, and of course, they receive warnings from the Three Guilds’ loudspeakers, forcing them to watch with binoculars from the outskirts and wait. Of course, not all ordinary players are idle. Some good sensational videos can be posted on the forums for subscription fees, which is also a way to make money.
Now everything is ready, the only variable is the destination of Vice Hero Da Fei’s fleet. If Vice Hero Da Fei is not heading to Elorin, then the day and a half of game time and effort by these three guilds would be a significant economic loss.
Of course, another variable is if the other party does not follow the normal route. Players often disregard routes, sailing wherever the wind blows smoothly; this seemingly random behavior makes ambushing players a bit challenging. However, when NPCs act independently, they mostly follow fixed routes, and there are coast guard patrols on these fixed routes, ensuring safety.
Will Da Fei’s Vice Hero fall for it?
Everyone is excitedly speculating about this question. Especially Blood Sea Wave, if Blood Sea Wave can successfully establish prestige through this activity, then even if the opponent is the Royal Family, Blood Sea Wave can establish a leading position at sea. But if it fails, it would be too embarrassing. The anxiety of Blood Sea Wave is obvious.
At this moment, Royal Blade in the chat room laughed and sighed: "For this operation, my big brother neither opposes nor supports it. In short, he tacitly agreed. So, if we’re going to do it, let’s do it beautifully."
Skyshattering Giant Cannon immediately said: "Don’t worry, Blade. Although our guild only brought eight medium ships, we are willing to be the vanguard and charge first. It’s impossible for us not to crash into them."
Royal Blade shook his head with a laugh: "Actually, I don’t really care. The key is what to do when Da Fei comes back. Boss Tao, have you thought of a way to deal with Da Fei?"
Blood Sea Wave coldly smiled: "We’ll just stand in his way and let him kill us; you ask if he dares to go yellow name, dares to make a move?"
Skyshattering Giant Cannon coldly laughed: "Exactly, the more successful and busy Da Fei is, the less convenient it is for him to go yellow name. This time we’re going to make a huge scene, smack Da Fei, the world’s number one, right in front of all of China, no, in front of the whole world, and force him to go yellow name! If he doesn’t dare to retaliate, he’s a coward. If he retaliates and goes yellow name, he’s a fool. Anyway, we are all merchants who don’t care, we’ll play with him to the end!"
Royal Blade laughed heartily and clapped repeatedly: "As expected of Giant Cannon, quite annoying! I like it!"
Skyshattering Giant Cannon chuckled and said: "Thank you for the compliment, Blade!"
Blood Sea Wave faintly smiled: "Rest assured, it won’t be long before I’m up and running, and then it won’t be a problem to fight Da Fei hard at sea."
As he spoke, the guild’s lookout fishing boat in the distance immediately raised an alarm: "Brother Tao, Da Fei has appeared!"
As expected, he finally came! Blood Sea Wave’s excitement sent a shock through his whole body: "Report coordinates and speed!"
"Received!"
The target has appeared! The whole fleet started moving, making the final adjustments to the encirclement formation. Upon seeing the sudden large-scale movement of the Three Guilds’ fleet, ordinary players watching and fishing on the outskirts immediately became excited.
At 9:20, under continuous reports from the lookout boat, the target finally appeared in everyone’s sight!
At this moment, the ordinary players in the entire regional channel were in uproar: "Wow, it’s Vice Hero Da Fei!"
"Holy crap! This is going to be interesting now!"
At this moment, the joint command channel of the Three Guilds had already begun action!
"First interception team, prepare to position!"
"Second interception team, prepare to position!"
"Skyshattering Suicide Squad is standing by!"
"Third team, encirclement initiated!"
...
Closer! Getting closer and closer, the slender and graceful tall silver form of the Golden Spearfish was sailing swiftly towards them, causing the whole crowd of regular players to erupt in excitement! Players from the Three Guilds even held their breath with tension!
On the command channel’s live video, a few sailors stood on the bow of the large ship, wearing white sailor uniforms with machetes at their waists, their faces full of scars and fierce expressions.
Royal Blade couldn’t help but be startled: "Hey, hey, no matter how you look at it, they don’t seem like good people? They must be experts, right?"
Skyshattering Cannon shouted: "Everyone relax, as long as we ram and sink them, even the greatest experts have to feed the fish!"
Blood Sea Wave said in a deep voice: "Don’t lose focus! We have more people and more ships!"
At that moment, the scarred sailor on the bow raised a horn and began to shout: "Listen up, ships ahead, you are illegally blocking the channel, leave immediately, or you will be committing malicious obstruction!"
Then, a yellow light flashed on the video:
——System Prompt: Warning! Your ship is illegally blocking and must leave immediately! You have received a yellow name warning and turned yellow named! If you do not leave in time, you will become maliciously red named!
Who cares about red names, let alone yellow ones! Confronted with prey already in the encirclement, the Three Guilds were unmoved by the warning and continued with their encirclement plan.
"The target is starting to slow down!"
"Third echelon completed encirclement!"
"Fourth echelon completed encirclement!"
"Skyshattering Suicide Squad, collision in 30 seconds!"
Blood Sea Wave waved his hand with excitement: "All troops, board the ships!"
At this moment, all the blocking and ramming ships were unanimously judged by the system to be red named. At this moment, players across the regional channel were excitedly screaming: "It’s on!!!"
"Brothers, prepare for battle!!!" a bold yet melodious female voice resounded from the Golden Spearfish.
It hit! The Golden Spearfish plunged into the intercepting net of the first echelon’s mooring lines, and the speed of the large ship suddenly plummeted!
The joint command channel erupted in shouts: "It’s stopping, it can’t escape now!"
Skyshattering Cannon was even more excited, yelling wildly: "10 second collision countdown—9—8—"
At that moment, all the gun ports on both sides of the Golden Spearfish opened, and out of them protruded large barrels spewing thick black smoke, then a flash of fire—boom boom boom boom!!!! More than thirty fiery columns of oil erupted from the sides of the ship!
In that instant, the thirty-some medium ships approaching from both sides of the Golden Spearfish were engulfed in a sea of fire and oil smoke, with their sails instantly burnt to ashes!
At this moment, the regional channel went wild: "Fire-spitting Cannon!!! The legendary Pirate King’s divine artifact, the Fire-spitting Cannon!!!"
At this moment, the command channel was stunned! Blood Sea Wave couldn’t believe his eyes: How could Vice Hero Da Fei have the legendary Fire-spitting Cannon?
The Fire-spitting Cannon is a special war machine in the game, and according to the game’s public information, only the Pirate King in the New World’s new Caribbean has it. The cannon has a very short range and insufficient ammunition, posing no threat in standard naval artillery battles. However, in this close-quarters boarding battle, it is a lethal weapon, the divine artifact used by the Pirate King to impose his will, since pirates typically fight by boarding.
Now, with this single shot, half the ships in this operation were instantly out of commission! Of course, the oil fire’s power isn’t enough to instantly destroy a ship; crucially, it’s burning sailors and sails! Without sailors to extinguish the fire, one can only watch helplessly as the ship is doomed!
But it wasn’t over yet! A few sailors with fierce faces jumped down from the large ship, laughing grimly, "Finally, we can have a good kill!"
Seeing the agile movements of these NPC sailors, Blood Sea Wave’s eyes constricted in shock—pirates!
Now that the situation had evolved to this point, even a fool would know what to do! With utter anguish, Blood Sea Wave announced on the command channel: "Retreat! Everyone, retreat!"
Royal Blade sighed deeply: "Nothing more to say, retreat as much as you can."
Skyshattering Cannon immediately said: "Everyone retreat quickly, I’ll hold them off as long as I can!"
Royal Blade shook his head: "You really can only hold them off."
No suspense, only excitement! The sea surface was ablaze with firelight, and the regional channel was filled with laughter: "So many ships couldn’t even beat one of Da Fei’s Vice Heroes..."
"And they call themselves the Royal First Fleet, the guild of China’s first God-level naval hero, what a joke..."
"Wait till Da Fei returns home, it’ll be even more fun then!"
At this moment, Blood Sea Wave’s heart was bleeding!
(Tomorrow, I’m going to the hospital for a liver function blood test, tomorrow’s update might be very late. By the way, asking for monthly votes~~~~~recommendation votes~~) (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to vote for recommendation votes and monthly votes on Qidian.com, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)