48 Hours a Day

[Hunter's Blessings] Unlike [Lucky Rabbit's Feet], it works quite uniquely. Zhang Heng has not found a suitable place to use it before.

It wasn't until the fourth round of the game that he entered the pirate world that he took out this prop after he started his hunting trip with the Cold Crow.

This necklace is perfect for him right now. It improves his chances of encountering prey every time he goes out to sea. It should be able to overlap with the effect of [Lucky Rabbit's Feet]. However, items of this probabilistic nature typically take a while to show off and do not necessarily work instantly on their own.

In fact, in the last ten days, the Cold Raven has not encountered anything worthy of its prey, and the Spanish merchant ship that Billy calls perfume delivery has never appeared.

Morale on board has declined from the time of departure. Although sailors continue to complete their daily tasks on time, they are less aggressive than before and have begun to paddle a certain amount of water. Billy and others have seen it in their eyes, but as long as it is not too much and nothing is said, no better rudder or captain can keep the crew in a state of chicken blood forever, unless there is a stimulus from special events such as the Kid Treasure.

In addition, newly recruited cooks and carpenters seem to be a little unreliable. The dish style of the former cook is monotonous, causing dissatisfaction among the sailors, so that a batch of dried dishes and dried fruit pies prepared by Zhang Heng have been put to use before. The pirates know how rare these things are at sea, and the fact that lemonade can be consumed every day suppresses the complaining sound on the ship.

Beyond that, there was a lot going on at the carpenter's side, and there was a guy who had a very good resume and good theoretical knowledge, but when he got aboard, he couldn't even fix the simplest barrels, far from what he described himself when he applied.

Zhang Hengdu had some psychological preparation. The newly recruited personnel would definitely have a variety of problems. In fact, he had an old man on the original Sea Lion who was already much better off as a class attendant than his bare hands. Just two days ago, he and Billy had also dealt with a crew fight, because the old crew found it stopped early, and neither of the two involved used weapons, so there was no bad impact, and he was eventually only fined two weeks of deck cleaning.

The atmosphere on the boat was generally fine, but on the eleventh day Billy knocked on the captain's door.

“Looks like we're gonna have to change targets.” Apart from the helplessness of the helmsmen, as is not uncommon in the present situation, where information about merchant ships is mostly obtained from intelligence traffickers on the island, while the latter gather information mainly from ships docked in Nassau, which itself produces a certain time difference in the transmission process, temporary changes in routes or travel plans often occur, and obtaining information does not necessarily mean that hunting can be found, in fact it is only normal that it cannot be found.

There are no fuel-saving lights for businessmen or pirates who can mix in this area, and many captains will initiate backup plans as soon as they discover that their travel plans are leaking.

“I also have a clue about the Duffy, which is a tobacco boat, but tobacco is everywhere in the New World and definitely not as good as perfume in terms of price, but the good news is it's on this route too, so we don't need to reorient, just keep going.” Billyton, probably not wanting this captain Zhang Heng to feel too much pressure, said comforting, "We've only been out for ten days, and there's still time. This time we have enough food and water to sail for at least a month and a half, and we'll definitely be able to get home. ”

However, because the rudder had just set the flag, the Cold Raven still had little to gain in the following week. The Daffy didn't even see a shadow. However, two other merchant ships were finally encountered along the way, and there was basically no battle. As soon as the black flag was raised on the side of the Cold Raven, the other party surrendered.

However, the pirates were not happy for long. Both boats belonged to the type that had little oil and water. One boat was pulled with potatoes and the other with copper ore. The quantity was good, but they could not be sold at all in the colony. Once these things were loaded onto the boat, the speed of navigation would be greatly affected, and no other prey would be caught later.

After discussion, the people decided to give up the two shipments, but as a result, the sailors finally became restless, and Billy, the sailor's representative, felt the most clearly, and his heart was filled with self-reproach.

Both messages were bought by him by a familiar intelligence dealer. Now he also highly recommended this route to Zhang Heng, eventually creating the current situation. The Cold Raven had strong firepower but could never find a worthwhile target. Taking into account the amount of time it took to return home and leave them hunting time is really not much longer.

So on the nineteenth day, Billy had to find Zhang Heng again, “It was my mistake, we shouldn't have chosen this cold door route, you warned me of the risks, but I was overwhelmed by the perfume of the boat, and if we had chosen those popular routes, maybe we'd made a lot of money by now. ”

“Billy, it wasn't your fault that we talked about this together, and it was agreed to by all the crew, and it's not your responsibility now.” Zhang Hengdao, "anyone on the island who gets this information will want to try one. ”

“But this is our first voyage," the helmsman grinned, "we don't have much room to make mistakes right now. We thought there were two clues that were relatively safe, and there weren't many other pirate activities nearby, but I don't know why we haven't seen those two boats yet, so I propose to turn right away and take a chance on the popular route. The latest one from here is about five days away, and if we're lucky, we'll have about a week to hunt. ”

“But that's also where pirate hunters and the Navy go most often," Zhang Hengdao, “if you said you were going there when you first left port, I'm sure I had no problem, but with the morale of the ship now, what do you think our chances are? ”

Billy was silent, and he knew that Zhang Heng was telling the truth, and he sighed, "I knew we should have taken that ship's copper mine, so we could give you a little bit of money. ”

Zhang Heng shook his head, “That little thing doesn't make any sense. We are a warship ourselves. The space in the warehouse is small. To rob, we must rob something of value. Besides, this is our first voyage. Only a big victory can strike our name. ”

Billy has some difficulty understanding that the person most anxious these days should reasonably be Captain Zhang Heng, because if the first sailing fails to grab enough spoils of war, it often means that the captain is likely to be dismissed after returning to land, but the latter doesn't look too panicky right now.

Zhang Heng pointed to an island on the nautical chart, "At our course and speed, we should be here by tonight. ”