Chapter 439: Siren's Thrust
As the whistle sounded, there was a brief panic in the restaurant. The passengers put down their knives and forks, looked around, their faces full of confusion.
It was normal that they didn't think of pirates at the first time. Unlike the pursuit of fast and cheap freight routes, passenger ships usually chose safe waters that had been cleared by the navy and the Storm Church. As long as they did not deviate from their course, they would rarely encounter pirates who were so blind as to rob them.
Unfortunately, this "city destroyer" seemed to have other purposes. With its sails spread out, it was sailing against the wind, with its sails sideways, and was crossing the direction of the Blue Mountain Rose at an extremely high speed. At the current speed, it would be able to block the passenger ship in half an hour at most.
In contrast, the Blue Mountain Rose was sailing completely against the wind. As a new steam ship, it could only reach less than three-quarters of its 16-knot speed. Turning would take it deep into an area with unknown sea conditions. It was now in a dilemma.
The "city breaker" chose to appear at this time, which must have been after the most detailed calculations and careful considerations.
——The above analysis comes from Ms. Elaine, who is proficient in sailing. Angel knows nothing about it.
As the whistle gradually died down, a burly man came to the restaurant with several armed sailors. He claimed to be the second mate of the ship and announced to everyone that pirates were attacking. He asked everyone to return to their cabins, lock the doors, and wait quietly.
He did not suggest that the armed passengers join the sailors in resistance, and no passenger took the initiative to do so. Ever since Nast, the King of the Five Seas, formulated the "Code of Industry", most pirates only robbed money and did not hurt people. Hiding in the cabin would only result in most of the valuables being stolen and they could keep their lives, while dying in resistance would be a waste of life.
Angel and Elaine followed the crowd back to the cabin without saying a word, came into the suite, and locked the door to the living room.
Looking out the porthole at the City Breaker, which was nearly twice as large as before, Angel glanced at Elaine, whose face was a little pale, and asked:
"Do you think they're just robbing a passing passenger ship, or are they specifically targeting you?"
"I don't know. In the past, I was caught before I could get very far."
The latter shook his head, his tone somewhat uncertain.
"Let's assume the worst-case scenario. What's the approximate range of their naval guns? Will they fire at the maximum range?"
Angel narrowed his eyes and stared at the City Breaker, and found that its side gun muzzles had all been opened, and cast iron cannons were pushed out one after another. There were 40 cannons on one side, worthy of being a warship under the command of the pirate general.
"Worst case scenario... wouldn't that mean they capture me? How could they possibly sink this ship?"
Elaine asked back, tongue-tied.
"The worst-case scenario, of course, is that your rival takes advantage of this 'failed robbery' to send you and the entire ship to the bottom of the ocean," Angel chuckled and teased, "Does Vice Admiral Disease have any suitors within her own ranks?"
"A love rival? The captain of the City Breaker is William the Lucky, and he's not popular with the captain... No, no, there's no love rival!"
After retorting subconsciously, Elaine finally reacted and her face flushed again.
"Humph, don't you know very well which captains Tracy has under her command? You didn't want to tell me before because you were afraid I might harm her?" Angel snorted coldly, looking Elaine up and down. "By the way, do you have the gift Tracy gave you? She could very well use it to track you down."
"I'm a 'Hunter', how could I not take anti-tracking measures? I left all my jewelry behind, and I also threw that red dress out of the cabin last night."
the red-haired lady retorted.
"But they still tracked you down... Maybe there were other methods, like divination. But it wasn't Tracy who came, maybe it was just a coincidence... What do you think? If I hang you out the porthole and let their lookout see you, will they be afraid to come closer?"
"They'll only be more excited to capture this ship. Tracy rewarded the captain who captured me last time with a full thousand pounds. William has Sequence 7, so he won't miss this opportunity."
Elaine also had a bitter face. She squeezed to the window and looked at the "city destroyer" who was getting closer and closer. After a moment, she gritted her teeth as if she had made up her mind.
"Go ask the captain for a small boat so I can stay here. Then you can leave quickly. If William catches me, he'll probably be busy reporting to Tracy and won't chase this ship anymore. Otherwise, when the Black Death and other ships surround us, even if you hand me over, the Blue Mountain Rose won't be spared."
This is a good idea... Just like using Vice Admiral Iceberg behind Flame Danitz to scare off the Red Skull Pirates, leaving Elaine where she is might stop the City Breaker. This is also a form of "avoiding war doll"... If it were me two weeks ago, I would probably have chosen this method, but now...
Angel chuckled and pushed open the porthole, letting the sea breeze, which was blowing quickly against the wind, flow into the living room, making Elaine's long skirt rustle.
"Heh, luckily I lent you my skirt. You can wear this set of clothes that's convenient for movement. Otherwise, I'd have to change clothes before the action." Angel pulled the rose necklace out of his shirt, causing the ruby to emit a faint blue light, transforming into the soul of the Wind-Blessed One. "Wait here. If I'm not back in half an hour, go find the captain and do as you said."
As she spoke, she activated her "Ocean Affinity" and beautiful phantom scales grew on the skin of her face, hands and feet. Fish gills also appeared on her cheeks, making her voice sound muffled.
"You...you're not planning to attack the City Breaker?"
Looking at the changes in Angel, how could Elaine not understand what was going to happen next?
"This isn't really an attack, it's just... a withdrawal. By the way, how much is the bounty on that lucky William?"
Taking off the Madness Ring, revealing the face of "Angelica" worth 6,000 pounds, Angel asked in a calm tone, as if asking what to eat for dinner tonight.
"He boasted about having £2,800, but I haven't seen a wanted poster..."
Elaine answered subconsciously, and then watched Angel, who was beautiful and charming, a bit like the legendary siren, disappear without a trace.
A moment later, a "splash" sound was heard from the sea below the porthole.
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After jumping into the sea, Angel used his "Ocean Affinity" to quickly grasp the direction, and used his hands and feet to swim towards the location of the "City Breaker".
This was her second time navigating the seas in her phantom-scaled "Siren" form. The previous time had been near the White Onyx in Bansy Harbor. Having exhausted her physical and spiritual strength, she hadn't been able to test this ability for long. Now, with renewed energy, she cut through the water like an arrow, surging forward. The icy currents seemed to be blocked by an invisible force, allowing her to move forward almost without resistance. Her speed far surpassed that of the ship, reaching over three times that of the Blue Mountain Rose at full speed.
In terms of speed, it was about 50 knots, which was like flying underwater... Angel looked at the deep seabed below, feeling the cold water passing by him. The Blue Mountain Rose behind him was rapidly moving away, and the bottom of the pitch-black City Breaker in front of him was getting bigger and bigger.
In less than five minutes, Angel swam to the vicinity of the pirate ship. To avoid being discovered by the pirates on the deck, she continued to swim deeper, then circled under the ship and sailed in the same direction as the City Breaker. She gradually returned to the surface of the water, took advantage of the upward speed to jump up, stuck to the side of the ship, and inserted the dagger transformed from the knight's bracelet tightly into the wooden bulkhead, fixing herself on it.
From the deck above, the pirates' noisy conversations and increasingly loud shouts could be heard as the target approached. It seemed that no one noticed that there was an invader on the ship.
Angel looked around, found the nearest porthole, climbed over deftly with his dagger, reached out to open the window, and crawled in.
Behind the window was a small room with six hammocks hanging in a haphazard manner. Wooden barrels and boxes were scattered on the ground as tables and chairs, and a few short candles had long been extinguished.
"No one... everyone should be on deck, ready for boarding."
She thought about it, removed the phantom scales on her body, restored her human appearance, gently pushed open the door, and looked towards the corridor outside.
There was no one here either.
Even if most people were on deck, a fully staffed ship should have plenty of reserves... unless they had set sail in such a hurry that they didn't even have enough sailors. This was quite possible. Perhaps Vice Admiral Disease had learned of Elaine's whereabouts through some channel and notified the nearest ship to intercept her, hence the apparent haste.
After Angel pushed open the doors of several rooms and found that no one was there, he simply used his "disease" ability to quickly spread the invisible germs to all the cabins and the deck above.
"It's just a pirate ship, so there's no need to worry about harming innocent people..."
She held the "Good Luck" revolver in one hand and kept the other hand free, ready to summon the Knight Bracelet at any time, and slowly walked towards the stairs leading up.
Going up layer by layer until the layer below the deck had transparent sides and was filled with cast iron cannons, Angel saw the pirates on the ship.
Some of them were lying in the aisle, some were holding shells, kneeling on the ground and gasping for breath, and some were lying at the muzzle with their heads facing outwards, trying to breathe some fresh air.
But without exception, these pirates were already seriously ill, their limbs were weak, their eyes were staring blankly, and they were about to fall into a coma.
This was because Angel controlled the intensity of the "disease". Otherwise, in the two minutes when she walked up from below, the ordinary pirates in the cabin who were not extraordinary people would have already died of the plague by cardiac arrest, just like... those poor people in the smog.
Looking at those pairs of eyes staring at him, revealing panic, fear or hatred, Angel felt a complex emotion in his heart.
This was the first time she used "disease" to kill enemies on a large scale. This somewhat miserable scene made her feel uncomfortable. She couldn't imagine what kind of mentality "Lady Despair" Panatia had to unleash a large-scale poison fog that could kill more than 100,000 people without any scruples.
However, this method is indeed very helpful for role playing. I can already feel the potion in my body being digested quickly... She pursed her lips, threw away this terrible idea, stepped on the wooden stairs, pushed open the partition, and came to the deck.
Because of the baffle, the "disease" below did not reach the deck immediately. The pirates who were shouting and crowding on one side of the ship, looking at the Blue Mountain Rose not far away, only had a stuffy nose and fever. They did not realize at the first time that they were infected with the disease and were about to collapse.
Only "Lucky William", the captain of the City Breaker, who was standing on the bridge and looking at the target through a monocular, turned his head as if he had some realization, and his somewhat cloudy eyes met Angel's gaze.
The next second, his expression changed drastically. He threw away the telescope and yelled:
"Invasion!"
The sharp shouts dispelled the somewhat joyous atmosphere on the deck. Dozens of pirates first looked at their captain, and then followed his gaze to Angel. Looking at the beautiful woman who suddenly appeared on the deck, they were stunned for a moment.
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