Chapter 180 Where are the pirates?

It was a very strange feeling. People stopped talking and just looked up at the sea urchin monster.

It is two stories high, much taller than the Banshee, and the hideous spikes on its body make everyone who approaches it feel terrified.

No one would think of it as something that humans can handle. These monsters should be dealt with by the banshees, and mortals are just their foils, like the silent audience in a theater.

As a result, such a monster was actually killed by a group of mortal creations like them?

An inexplicable feeling surged in people's chests, surprise, fear, pride, and everything else, all mixed together and impossible to tell apart.

In the end, people dispersed. After knowing that they could make a bomb and kill the sea urchin, people's mentality seemed to change.

The tall Banshee statue didn't seem so far away anymore. Before, it seemed like a myth, a story, something outside of life, but now it felt a lot more familiar.

The banshees are also using explosives produced by mortals. These explosives are like a bridge that allows people to truly realize that the banshees are real and that they can help.

Some people noticed that there was a sentence "Invent the fish-herding spell" on the base of the statue. After asking Miss Zoe, they got a shocking answer.

It turns out that Nini has been using the fish herding spell to provide food for Castel.

Castres is an island with abundant forest and fishery resources. People don't often go hungry, but there are times when they do go hungry, such as when there are typhoons, and everyone has no choice but to endure the hardship.

In addition, most of the people here migrated from the mainland. As refugees, they have experienced many difficult times.

Therefore, people actually cherish food very much.

But when they learned that a large part of the food on the island came from Nini's fish-herding magic, people's eyes changed when they looked at the sculpture.

The islanders of Castel, who hasn't eaten the delicious and cheap fried fish? Today they learned that these fried fish were actually the result of Nini's improved magic.

Zoe was somewhat surprised to find that people were becoming more and more respectful of Nini's statue, and some even secretly prayed to her, hoping for good weather and good harvests.

When she reported this to Hughes, she found that her lord was not that surprised.

"You knew about this a long time ago?"

"I guessed it." Hughes held a scroll of pictures in his left hand and occasionally sketched with a pen in his right hand. "Eating is the most basic desire. She makes people full and deserves praise. This is one of the reasons why I chose her to erect the statue."

Zoe opened her mouth but said nothing. She didn't think the fish-herding spell was that important. There was no fundamental change in using spells to catch fish. Monica's improvement of the machine soul had a more far-reaching impact no matter how you looked at it.

But she has been in contact with people at the bottom of society more frequently recently, and she has learned one thing: don't judge the sufferings you have not experienced.

Suffering is something that cannot be imagined. She has never been hungry, so naturally she does not understand this kind of worship.

Zoe silently took note of this incident and decided to go to the bottom floor to see it with her own eyes in the future.

Shortly after Zoe left, Alexei came to Hughes' study.

Seeing his solemn expression, Xius couldn't help but frowned: "Still no news?"

"Yes, we have lost contact with both groups, and no other ships are passing by our area."

Hughes put the drawing in his hand aside, tapped the table slowly, and fell into deep thought.

The two groups of people Alexei mentioned were the ones he sent to find the pirates.

Gem Bay suddenly lost contact with them for unknown reasons, and Zeus was actually quite shocked. Before Jeremiah came to stay permanently, Castel and Gem Bay had established a long-term relationship, and the nitroglycerin in his hand was also urgently needed by the other party, so there was no reason to just abandon it.

Although Jeremiah himself left on his ship, he left behind many people, such as his first mate, who stayed in Castel. The next group of pirates who came to deliver the goods had not arrived yet, so Hughes asked the first mate to take some people and sail to Gem Bay to ask.

Although they were only driving a small fishing boat, Gem Bay was not far away. It was only a few days' sailing, so they should not be unable to contact each other.

But things are so strange. The first mate and his men never returned. Hughes had no choice but to send several other sailors to check again, but there has been no news until now.

"Did something go wrong at sea? Like a storm?"

"The weather has been very sunny these days, and now is the calmest time in the Storm Ocean. I haven't heard of any storms." Alexei shook his head.

This is strange. Were they attacked by sea urchins? But aren't those things in the deep sea? Both sea urchins and pollution snakes are moving slowly on the seabed. The sea surface and the seabed are far apart. Theoretically, they will not be alarmed. The banshees that Zeus sent out to patrol before also proved this statement.

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If it were in the past, Zeus could have sent the Banshees to search along the route, but now the expansion of the underwater monsters is accelerating, and this action is a bit too risky.

"Speaking of which, there's something strange about the pirates. We provided them with such important resources, but they still only sent Jeremiah to contact us. I didn't think there was a problem at the time, but when I think about it carefully, this is not right."

Alexei also nodded silently. The ability to manufacture nitroglycerin was unique to Castel. If he were the pirate king, even if he did not station troops in Castel, he would definitely send more people to keep a close eye on this precious source of goods.

Hughes had prepared a lot of plans, but none of them were used in the end.

"Something big must have happened in Gem Bay, leaving the pirates completely unable to deal with us. They even detained two groups of our personnel to prevent the secret from being leaked."

Xius said slowly, this was the most likely reason, but how could someone threaten the pirates in the Storm Ocean?

Although the Pirate Court has shown signs of decline, its overall strength is still there. The Black Sail Fleet that crisscrosses the Storm Ocean is famous. What can threaten them? Xius suddenly thought of the underground pollution snakes. Their source seems to be in the south.

To the south of Castel, besides the Eye of the Storm, there is the Pirate King's Court. Could it be that those pollution snakes and sea urchins quietly dealt with the pirates! ? How is this possible? There is not only one fleet in the Gem Bay. Although it is the pirates' lair, the permanent population there is nearly 100,000, which is completely not on the same level as Castel.

Even if the pirates can't beat the sea urchins, can they still run away? They don't have as few ships as Castel.

Just disappeared quietly like that?

(End of this chapter)