Chapter 264 Exclusively Published on Jinjiang Literature City: Eliminating Pirates
On the sea, on a fishing boat.
Jin He, Wu Yue, Zhao Yong, and a few others casually leaned against the deck, chatting about the shipwreck while watching the images on the detector's frequency divider, and occasionally chatting about other things as well.
None of the three had any special abilities, and their physical strength was not as good as the others. When they were scavenging the underwater city, one of them got a leg cramp, while the others were so tired that they could only come up to rest and guard the ship.
Just as they were getting into the conversation, Jin He suddenly exclaimed "Huh?" and looked past the others towards the direction diagonally opposite, squinting his eyes as he said, "It seems like something is approaching us from over there."
The others turned around suspiciously. "What is that? A boat?"
Wu Yue subconsciously guessed, "Could it be a fishing boat that came out from the west to fish?"
When Jin He first saw it, he also thought of the disaster victims in the Western Continent, but... he took out his binoculars and took a look.
"No, it's not the fishing boats or passenger ships that Lu Xuan sold; it's large wooden boats."
The other two people also realized something was wrong after hearing this.
It's not that there aren't wooden boats on the western continent; there are, especially in Licheng, and some remnants of coastal towns.
However, wooden boats were traditionally used for sailing on lakes and were not suitable for venturing into the deep sea where large waves frequently occurred. More importantly, their sailing speed was far slower than even a small fishing boat, and their efficiency was also low.
Wu Yue then guessed, "Could it be other survivors from other disasters that we and other victims haven't discovered?"
Zhao Yong nodded: "That's possible. They might be finding it rare to run into a living person, so they want to come and ask for help or information."
Jin He put down his binoculars and quickly opened the communicator to contact the cruise ship and Lu Xuan.
Seeing this, Wu Yue sensed something was wrong and quickly asked, "What's wrong? Is something wrong with the people on the boat?"
Jin He frowned and said, "Those people were carrying weapons, and they were all young and strong."
Wu Yue and Zhao Yong exchanged a glance, their expressions changing slightly.
This doesn't seem like they've just come to exchange information; it looks more like... they've come with ill intentions.
The two men looked somewhat strange.
Since they dealt with those bastards in Yangshan, they haven't encountered anyone who wanted to cause them trouble for quite some time.
Regardless of whether the speculation was true or not, the three of them quickly retrieved alloy crossbows, tranquilizer guns, or energy guns from their spatial storage.
Wu Yue seemed to remember something and said, "Let's not let the village chief come over yet. There are many elderly, weak, women and children on the boat. It would be dangerous if they came over."
Zhao Yong nodded in agreement: "Lu Xuan and the others will probably be up soon."
Not only Lu Xuan, but as they were talking, the wooden boat in the distance also approached to a position where it could be seen without binoculars.
Although they hadn't awakened any special abilities, their vision had become much sharper than before, and they soon saw that there were indeed dozens of young men on the ship staring intently in their direction.
These people had shifty eyes and were not very tall. Their clothes were also quite different from what they used to wear, and their eyes were filled with undisguised malice and greed.
Okay, no need to guess anymore, they're here to cause trouble.
The eyes of Jin He and the other two became increasingly sharp.
What a joke! They're not afraid of even thousands of beasts, so why would they be afraid of these troublemakers?
As the two sides drew closer and closer, now only about a hundred meters apart, the three of them could already hear the noisy shouts from the people on the opposite boat.
Wu Yue looked bewildered. "What were those people saying in their gibberish? I couldn't understand a word they were saying."
Zhao Yong was also a little confused. "Could it be a local dialect from somewhere?"
Jin He: "No matter what they say, it's never anything nice." They're either cursing them or probably making threats in front of the station.
Jin He pointed his gun at the other side, considering whether to make the first move.
Although they were not afraid of the other side, there were only three of them, and they would be at a disadvantage in close combat.
Unless you use a dart/hypnotic bomb directly, it's a quick solution.
Jin He didn't hesitate for long, because before he could make up his mind, ripples suddenly appeared on the water, and these ripples gradually spread outwards from the wooden boat on the opposite side.
The unidentified individuals on the wooden boat, whose expressions grew increasingly fierce, rushed to the side of the boat with suspicion and continued to mutter something under their breath.
Immediately afterwards, both sides watched helplessly as the wooden boat continued to rise, eventually being pushed to the surface of the sea by the huge object that suddenly broke through the water.
Wu Yue looked at the people sitting inside the large machine and shouted, "It's Lu Xuan and the others coming up!"
The group that lifted the wooden boat out of the water was Lu Xuan and his party, who had once again deployed the submarine after receiving the news in order to surface as quickly as possible.
The people on the wooden boat didn't recognize them. They were just screaming in terror at the submarine monster they had never seen before. When they discovered that there were living people inside the monster, they were almost scared out of their wits. Some of them instinctively threw their machetes at Lu Xuan and the others, cursing loudly as they shouted until their voices were hoarse.
The viewers in the live stream were immediately struck by a group of seemingly unfriendly strangers, and their faces were filled with confusion.
Where did these people come from? They don't look like good people.
[What era are we living in? They're still using wooden boats? They don't seem like the disaster victims we've encountered in Yunlu Village before.]
Could they be... pirates?
Judging from the weapons they're carrying, it's highly likely.
[No way, who gave them the courage? Although Yunlu Village's numbers can't compare to the Huo family's regular army, with the streamer involved, their overall strength is definitely the strongest in the entire plane. Robbing them? Are they out of their minds?]
Zhang Chengming and the other young men who had just surfaced hadn't figured out what was going on, but when they saw the flying swords, they knew these people were up to no good, and their expressions turned fierce.
As soon as Lu Xuan opened the submarine, the superhumans launched an attack without saying a word.
Dozens of fireballs, wind blades, earth spikes, and vines were hurled at the people on the ship, making the already frightened pirates even more terrified.
Many people fell down screaming after being hit, and the wooden boat was ignited and split open in the blink of an eye. Finally, it was shattered into pieces by Lu Xuan's attack aimed at the keel, and the people on the boat fell into the sea like dumplings.
Those who were still alive were so terrified that they couldn't muster the courage to attack. They turned to run away, but where could they run in the vast ocean?
Moreover, Lu Xuan could tell at a glance that these people were all desperate criminals with many lives on their hands. Letting them leave alive would be tantamount to releasing tigers back into the mountains.
These 'tigers' may pose no threat to Yunlu Village, but if other disaster victims were to encounter them, casualties would be inevitable.
Lu Xuan made a gesture to the others, and they continued their attack without hesitation, killing most of them except for the one who was clearly the leader.
Why was one person left alive?
[Don't you understand? Of course, it's to force them to reveal their hideout. If these people are pirates, they must have a base; they can't just wander the world without ever landing to resupply.]
[That's right, maybe these people are just scouts; there are many more in the main base.]
Is the streamer going to wipe out the pirates' hideout next?
After confirming that there were no other survivors, Lu Xuan threw the surviving pirate captain onto the fishing boat and then took the submarine.
When the pirate captain saw the submarine suddenly disappear, he screamed in fright again, but Chen Rong, annoyed by the noise, grabbed a rag and stuffed it into his mouth.
At the same time, the cruise ship, which had already received the news, gradually approached from a distance.
The underwater city is quite large, and the hunting team members are constantly changing positions. The cruise ship is too big and gets in the way, so it was deliberately parked a little further away beforehand.
This also explains why the previous pirate ships did not discover the cruise ship.
Only at this moment did the pirate captain, now a lone commander, realize with shock that the enormous iron ship was actually there. And when he saw the people on the fishing boat greeting the people on the cruise ship, clearly indicating that they were all in cahoots, a look of deep regret appeared on his unassuming face.
If they had known these people had such big ships, they would never have come close!
"Are you alright? Are you hurt?"
As soon as Lu Xuan and the others returned to the cruise ship, the people who stayed behind quickly surrounded them, especially the women who each found their husbands/sons and kept checking them with their eyes to see if there were any obvious injuries.
"Don't worry, we're fine."
"Exactly! They were just a bunch of rabble, how could they possibly hurt us? We've already taken care of them."
After Li Tie discovered the pirate leader they had brought, he asked Lu Xuan, "What are you planning to do with this person?"
Lu Xuan said, "Interrogate them to find out where they gather, and eliminate them completely."
Li Tie knew the principle that "if you don't cut the weeds at the root, they will grow back in the spring breeze," so he didn't say much.
However, he clearly misunderstood Lu Xuan's thoughts.
He thought Lu Xuan meant that they would find out the answer and then resolve it themselves.
In reality, after Lu Xuan used his hypnotic ability to force the pirates to reveal their hideout, he casually sent the number of people and coordinates to the new emperor and Huo Tiankuo.
Suppressing bandits is a matter for the government to handle; why should ordinary people like them compete with them for that job?
According to the pirate leader's confession, these people came from an island nation that was not large and had a population of only a few tens of thousands.
Among these people, the elderly, women, and children made a living by fishing, while the young and strong went out to sea to rob merchant ships from the Central Plains.
They stole all the money, killed all the men, and took the women back to bear their children. If a ship was sturdier than theirs, they kept it for themselves, then disguised it as a merchant ship to approach other ships and continue robbing them, repeating this process over and over.
The pirates' original range of activity did not include the open sea. It was only a few days ago that they were unlucky enough to get lost in a sea storm and unknowingly ended up here and encountered them.
These people robbed many merchant ships, so they certainly had some good stuff, but ordinary pirates also had to pay tribute to the upper echelons of that small island nation, so they didn't have much left.
To deal with the pirates, one would have to confront the entire island nation, which is incredibly troublesome just to think about.
Instead of wasting time fighting and killing with a bunch of people, it would be better to properly take stock of the shipwreck loot that has already been acquired.
Sure enough, when Lu Xuan and the others retrieved the dozens of wooden crates they found on the sunken ship, the villagers who had been discussing the pirates immediately forgot about them and gathered around with bright eyes.
"Quickly open the box and see what good stuff is inside!"
"Weren't there a lot of gold coins scattered on the ship? Maybe these boxes are full of gold coins."
"Haha, then we're really going to make a fortune!"
When faced with the treasure of the sunken ship, the question of pirates is utterly irrelevant.
Even the pirate captain, after being given the information they needed, was casually slit at the throat by Lu Xuan and thrown into the sea to join his companions.
Lu Xuan, Zhang Chengming, Li Jing, and the others each walked to a wooden box and opened all the boxes at the same time.
People around craned their necks to look, and many couldn't help but scream when they saw what was inside.
"Wow--!"
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