Chapter 185 Hunting Sea Dragons

Timon is an ordinary fisherman in Tor City. Of course, he says he is ordinary, but for most people in Tor City, Timon is definitely the largest seafood merchant in Tor City, because no ordinary fisherman of fishermen can own fourteen flat-bottomed fishing boats.

In fact, a year ago, he was still an ordinary fishmonger in the dock area of ​​Thor City, but he was a little more discerning than others and seized the great opportunity of Miracle Port.

When the people of Thor City were hostile to Miracle Port because of the conflicts on the Dorne Sea, he quietly transported a large amount of various marine goods produced on the southern coastline of Dorne Sea to Miracle Port for sale. He accumulated a lot of wealth.

After that, he used the accumulated wealth to buy new fishing boats and formed a fleet, specializing in maritime trade. And because of the relationships he established with the people in Miracle Port over the past year, he became Thor Guests of the city's dignitaries.

However, the rumors of sea dragons appearing in the sea of ​​Dorne have been a bit loud recently. Even the fortress warships in Miracle Port have had accidents. This has made the fishermen on the southern coastline afraid to go fishing anymore, and the same is true for Timon's people. .

Without fish, there is no income. Timon also has a large number of people who help him control the fish market in Thor City. If there is no income for a long time, the funds he has accumulated may not be able to sustain it for long.

Therefore, he had to take the risk of taking a group of poor fishermen who were not afraid of death to his fishing ground near Shen'en Cape to catch seafood.

Shen'en Cape is located to the east of Thor City. It is a protruding promontory. It is part of the Shen'en Mountains, so there are no beaches on the coastline here. They are all high cliffs, extending to the vicinity of Soul Hill. coastline.

When Mongolia went fishing a year ago, he accidentally discovered that there were more and bigger fish and shrimps in this area than in other places, so this was his secret fishing ground for a long time.

He later learned a method of catching crabs in a trap from the people of the Summer Islands in Miracle Port, so he specially caught crabs in this area for the enjoyment of the people in Miracle Port. It is said that Lord Linde, the Chosen One, He likes eating crabs very much, and he even invented a set of tableware specially used for eating crabs. This also makes people in Shengxia Hall and its surrounding areas flock to sea crabs that they rarely eat in the past. The price is also high, making it the most popular crab. One of the most valuable seafood.

"Boss, this sea area seems to be the sea area where sea dragons are found." After finding the first crab pot beacon, Timon ordered to start fishing for the cage. At this time, one of his men came over and reminded him in a low voice.

When Timon heard this, he couldn't help but shudder. He looked at the surrounding sea. Because it was early in the morning, there was still heavy sea fog on the sea, and he couldn't see the surrounding situation clearly.

"Shut up, work honestly, finish fishing the crab pots as soon as possible, and leave as soon as possible." Timon gave his men a fierce look and ordered.

Under Timon's supervision, the first crab pot from the bottom of the water was quickly fished out.

The crab pots are woven from a special kind of oil vine in the Shen'en Mountains. This kind of oil vine is very waterproof, extremely tough and not easy to rot. It was used to weave fishing nets in the past.

However, no matter how waterproof the oil vine is and how resistant it is to rot, it is still a terrestrial plant. If it is soaked in sea water for more than ten days, no matter how strong the oil vine is, it will completely rot.

Just as Timon feared, the first crab pot had fallen apart due to rot.

Timon didn't say anything more, but ordered his men and other fishing boats to continue salvaging crab pots. Fortunately, he had good luck. After damaging some crab pots one after another, intact crab pots were gradually salvaged. There are also huge sea crabs in the crab pot.

The sea crabs in this area are much larger than the sea crabs in other places, and they have one more pair of crab legs than the sea crabs in other places. The meat is also more delicious. The purchase price at Miracle Port is the same as other sea crabs. There are three times more types of sea crabs, which is also one of Timon’s most important sources of income.

As more than a dozen crab pots filled with sea crabs were pulled up from each ship, the decks were already piled with sea crabs. A smile appeared on Timon's always tense face. He made a rough calculation. He has already made a lot of money in one trip.

I don't know whether it was because of his relaxed mood or the effect of his men's words just now. Standing on the deck, Timon suddenly felt that something seemed to be looking at him in the thick fog on the sea.

However, this feeling soon disappeared, but his tension did not relax.

"Why don't you stop now and go back? You've already made a lot of money anyway." Timon couldn't help but start to hesitate in his mind, but when he heard other boats cheering for pulling up another crab pot full of crabs, the hesitation in his heart immediately Defeated by money.

After a while, as the thick fog on the sea began to gradually fade, each ship pulled up three or four more crab pots. The decks of the ships were already filled with crabs, and the sailors could no longer stay.

"Blow the horn and call it a day!" A satisfied Timon immediately ordered his men.

Timon's men immediately picked up the horns on their waists and blew hard.

When everyone heard the sound of the horn, they all put down their fishing work. Some people went to raise the sail, and some people went to lift the anchor.

As the anchor and sail of the last ship were pulled up, the fleet began to sail back towards the city of Thor.

"Head, something seems wrong!" Timon's men suddenly came over and whispered.

"What's wrong?" Timon asked.

"I just counted, we are missing one ship." The man said.

"One ship missing?" Timon was stunned, and quickly stood on the height of the ship's deck, looked around, and quickly counted the number of ships. Soon his face became extremely gloomy, and he said: " Damn it, not one ship is missing, but two! We are missing two ships!"

"Two ships?" The men were stunned. They did not doubt Timon's number, but thought that they might have counted it wrong just now.

"Who are the captains of those two ships?" Timon immediately asked his men.

"It's not clear yet. We need to gather people to find out." The man shook his head and said, "You suspect that they stole the ship."

"Stop the ship immediately and ask all the ships to come over." Timon ordered with a gloomy look.

As a series of horns sounded, all the fishing boats on the sea gathered towards Timon's boat, and they soon gathered together.

At this time, Timon discovered something was wrong again, because he had just counted the fishing boats around him again, and found that this time there were two fewer boats than when he counted them just now. He only had ten boats left.

"Damn it! Seven Gods! Something happened!" No matter how slow he was, Timon knew that something was wrong. He no longer investigated the reason for the disappearance of his ship, nor did he intend to lecture his men. He immediately turned towards the helm. Hands, full of panic shouted: "The sail is overgrown, run away!"

Almost as soon as Timon finished speaking, a huge stream of water surged out from under the boat, causing the entire boat to sway. Then a huge mouth emerged from the water and swallowed the entire fishing boat in one bite. , when his mouth was closed, Timon on the fishing boat could only hear the screams of the sailors around him, and then he fell completely into darkness.

It was noon, and the thick fog on the sea had completely dissipated. The calmness of the sea was once again broken with the arrival of more than a dozen warships.

After three days of sailing, the fleet led by Linde arrived at the waters near Cape Shenen. This sea area is also the place where sea dragons appear most frequently in records.

"Sir, we have arrived at the Cape of Divine Grace." Halls came to the bow of the ship and asked Lind, "Do you want to drop the bait now?"

"Wait a minute." Linde looked at the sea below and shook his head. Then he heard the noisy voices behind him. He looked back at the chamber of commerce directors and their guards who were invited aboard, and said, "Let those The idiots who were still wearing armor took off their armor. If the sea dragon appeared and sank the ship, they would sink to the bottom of the sea like stones and never get up."

"Yes, sir." Halls also turned to look at the ten idiots wearing metal armor in the crowd, rolled his eyes, and responded.

After Halls left, Lind carefully looked at the situation on the sea surface. He soon discovered an abnormality. Then the helmsman signaled and moved towards the abnormality found.

Soon the boat reached the sea. Linde walked to the side of the boat and looked towards the sea. Others also came over and looked at the sea curiously.

I saw only some rotten wooden boards floating on the sea, and it didn't look like anything worth paying attention to.

"Salvage those wooden boards." Linde ordered with a serious expression.

Upon hearing the order, the sailor immediately found a fishing net, then lowered the boat and fished out all the planks that could be seen on the sea.

Linde spread out all the planks on the deck and carefully inspected the fractures of the planks.

"This should be a fishing boat from Dorne. The fishing boats here like to use this kind of white mountain wood as a boat. This kind of wood is very light and has high buoyancy. It is the most suitable material for making flat-bottomed boats locally." said the general manager of the Chamber of Commerce. One of them, who was familiar with wood and its uses, quickly gave his analysis.

Linde nodded in agreement after hearing this.

Someone said disapprovingly: "This is just a fishing boat that had an accident. A little storm is enough to tear this kind of fishing boat into pieces."

"Storm? Are you a fool? Did you see a storm on the sea today?" Someone else said in a quarrel, and it seemed that there was some conflict between the two.

Before the previous man could speak, another middle-aged man who started out as a sailor and became the director of the Chamber of Commerce also spoke: "It is indeed not caused by the storm. The wounds on these wooden boards are all crushing and impact injuries. This is different from Hull tearing from storms is something completely different. I've seen similar planking damage on ships the Ironborn have rammed with their horned longships."

As he said that, he looked at Lind. You must know that the largest Ironborn pirate group in the inner and outer waters of the Dorne Sea is the Three Sea Monsters Alliance secretly controlled by Lind.

"It was not caused by the ironmen ramming the horned longship." Halls immediately took over and said: "First of all, there are absolutely no Ironborn pirates in the Dorne Sea. Secondly, the ramming of the horned longship is aimed at medium-sized ships. This kind of flat-bottomed fishing captain ship The collision angle is completely useless and cannot be hit."

"You don't need to guess. This was done by Sea Dragon, and there was more than one ship." Lind interrupted everyone's analysis and discussion and said to Halls: "Start spreading the bait according to the plan."

"Yes, sir." Halls responded quickly, and then began to give orders to the trumpeter.

As a series of horn sounds with command meanings spread on the sea, all the ships began to spread out at a fixed distance from each other, with the flagship Arrow as the center, occupying the entire sea surface.

After the anchors were fixed in position, the captains of each ship began to pour the bait stored in the wooden barrels on the ship into the sea.

These baits were all dead fish soaked in cow's blood. When they were dumped into the sea, the cow's blood soon spread in all directions along with the water waves, occupying the entire sea area with a pungent smell. began to spread across the sea.

This smell is indeed very pungent to humans, but to those predators in the water, it is extremely sweet.

Soon some carnivorous sharks and other fish began to swim back and forth in the sea, devouring the dead fish that were still fresh.

Everyone leaned nervously against the side of the ship, stretched their heads outside, and looked at the movements on the sea seriously, as if their eyes could see through the thick layer of blood under the hull and clearly see the movements in the deep sea.

Linde, on the other hand, acted leisurely and relaxed. He sat cross-legged on the deck, leaning his back against the bottom of the sail mast, closing his eyes to relax, and did not make any movements for a long time. It almost made people think that Linde had fallen asleep.

Time passed little by little, and as the sky grew dark, oil lamps were lit on each ship. The bloody smell and fishy smell on the sea gradually weakened because a large number of dead fish were swallowed by carnivorous aquatic creatures, and the bait was I ate them all, but the bait I wanted still didn’t show up.

Not only did everyone on the boat think that the bait might have failed this time, but even Linde also felt that the sea dragon might not appear, so he stood up from the ground and prepared to instruct Halls to move the boat to other sea areas and continue to bait.

However, the sudden shaking of the ship under his feet caught Lind's attention. Others just thought it was the shaking caused by the waves, but Linde very keenly felt that the frequency of this shaking was very different from the frequency of the shaking caused by the waves just a moment ago. The big difference was more like the sudden shaking of the ship caused by a strong current.

Sensing the abnormality, Lind immediately rushed to the bow of the ship, stood on the arrowhead statue, and looked at the dark sea below. At the same time, he also stimulated the power of the dragon rune, forming circles of ripple power similar to sonar. Covered the entire sea area.

This method of using the power of dragon runes was a method he mastered after completing the second dragon feast ceremony. It is also a special method used by the homeless knight to find the enemy.

It is said that the extremely powerful Homeless Knight can spread dragon rune ripples to a radius of ten kilometers. Within this range, any enemy attacking the Homeless Knight can be sensed by him and determine their location. Coupled with the storm, With the ultimate movement blessing of the Dragon Rune, the Homeless Knight can appear at the attacker's side and fight back at the moment of being attacked.

At this moment, although Linde cannot achieve a sensing range as wide as that of the Homeless Knight, he can still cover the sea surface where his ship is located and the seabed below.

And as soon as his dragon rune ripples were emitted, feedback was given immediately.

"Hai Long! Everyone is on alert!" Linde reminded loudly the moment he received the sensor feedback.

Following Linde's reminder, the sea dragon swimming in the deep sea quickly rose up and rushed towards the first target it picked.