"We have to find a ship that can go to the Storm Sea, preferably the largest ship."
As soon as he left the previous shipyard, Wang Zhifan said to the Chen Ming brothers beside him.
"Indeed, it is said that larger ships are safer at sea."
Chen Can, who was wearing glasses, understood Wang Zhifan's considerations and immediately nodded in agreement.
"But those boats just now look pretty big, many times bigger than the fishing boats in my hometown."
The youngest Chen Ming then said with some confusion, in his opinion, the sailboat manufactured by the previous shipyard was already big enough to carry them out to sea.
"A Ming... It's too outrageous for you to compare sea ships with river ships. The wind and waves on the sea are not comparable to those of rivers. For the sake of safety, we must find a ship with the largest tonnage as possible, otherwise we will be doomed if something happens on the Storm Sea."
Chen Can glanced at his brother speechlessly.
After the three communicated, they returned to the dock and began to ask for more information from the shipowners who were soliciting passengers.
The pier was still quite lively at this time, with sailing ships coming and going without interruption, and the shouts of various shipowners could be heard constantly.
"Dragonhead Port! Dragonhead Port! Come here to Dragonhead Port! The ship is about to sail!"
"Queen's Port ships come here! Only our ship goes to Queen's Port every month! If you miss it, you have to wait another month!"
"Princess Port! Princess Port! You only have one chance a day! If you miss it, today is gone!"
Wang Zhifan The three of them walked through the noisy dock and approached a shipowner who had just finished his drink and was holding a water bag to drink water.
The shipowner's eyesight was quite good and he quickly noticed the three of them approaching and recognized them.
He put down the water bag he had just finished drinking, raised his hand and wiped the corners of his mouth with the cuffs of finer cotton clothes, and shouted to them quite loudly:
"Have you three found where that island is? Do you want me to send you a boat there?"
He said this with a joking tone, and it could be said that he treated the three of them as a joke.
"I found it. The island is in the Storm Sea. Why don't you send us a boat there?"
Wang Zhifan didn't pay attention to this man's ridicule and asked him smoothly.
"Storm Sea? I won't go to that kind of ghost place! Even though my ship is strong, it can't withstand the wind and waves of death!"
The man immediately shook his head and was not ready to continue talking nonsense with Wang Zhifan.
But Wang Zhifan was not going to let him go, and then asked him questions and put a silver coin in his hand.
"Do you know where there is a boat to the Storm Sea? We really need to go there."
Seeing the solemn expressions of Wang Zhifan, the shipowner, who was rubbing the silver coins that had just been stuffed into his hands with the fingers of his right hand, suddenly fell into thought. He frowned and touched his forehead with his left hand before answering:
"It's hard for you... Although I have been in the passenger ship business for ten years, I have never heard of any passenger ship running a dedicated line to the Storm Sea. Maybe the dark ships operated by pirates take this route... I suggest you go to a larger port and ask. There are some big shipping merchants there who will open a long voyage route once a year. Their ships should pass through the Storm Sea area..."
After hearing what the ship owner said, Wang Zhifan and others were not surprised. They had long expected that this port would not go to the Storm Sea, so Wang Zhifan then asked him to recommend several major ports.
"If you want to go to a big port, of course Queen's Port is the largest. Queen's Port is the largest seaport in the empire, but it takes a month to get there by sea from us. I recommend Princess Port as the largest seaport nearby. Princess Port is more than three times larger than ours, and it can be reached in three days..."
The shipowner recommended all the major ports that could be visited, so Wang Zhifan and the three of them quickly had an idea in mind, and turned around to start private discussions.
"Brother Fan, spending a month to go to another port is too long. In addition to finding a ship to the Storm Sea, and looking for Forbidden Fruit Island in the Storm Sea, it may take half a year. I suggest you go to Princess Port."
Chen Can quickly suggested to Wang Zhifan that as a first-time dungeon player, it was difficult for him to accept that it would take him a year and a half to play a copy.
"My thoughts are actually the same as yours. Spending a month just to find a boat is a bit too torture. Let's go to Princess Port first and then talk about it."
Wang Zhifan quickly confirmed this matter.
Then a few of them prepared to look for the passenger ship heading to Princess Port, but before they had taken a few steps, a group of people who looked familiar appeared.
The leader of this group was a red-skinned NPC with sly eyebrows and mouse eyes, who was the one who asked them for money some time ago. This wretched NPC was followed by a tall young man. The young man's clothes were very different from the residents of this world. There were several similar beings following him behind him. It was the group of players who impressed Wang Zhifan and others at the beginning of this dungeon.
"Brother Fan, that red-skinned guy has hooked up with them and seems to be taking them to the boat."
As soon as the sharp-eyed Chen Ming noticed these people coming to the dock, he determined the purpose of their actions.
"Maybe this guy actually has some information."
Chen Can also felt a little curious when he saw this.
However, before Wang Zhifan could comment on this scene, the group of people who were walking also spotted the three of them. The tall young man who led them locked eyes with Wang Zhifan, the leader of the three, and shouted to him from a distance:
"Dude! We found someone to take us to that island! Do you want to come with us?"
Wang Zhifan replied to him without much hesitation after hearing this, "No need! It will be more efficient if we divide our troops into two groups to search!"
After hearing what Wang Zhifan said, the tall young man thought for a moment and nodded to him, then waved his hand and continued to follow the red-skinned and wretched NPC in front of him.
Several of them boarded an ordinary sailboat parked in the port one after another, which made Wang Zhifan and others look a little suspicious.
"Brother Fan, I feel that the red-skinned man must have a ghost. I'm afraid he will take them to a place like a pirate's den..."
Chen Ming couldn't help but infer when he saw this. After all, the ship that the red-skinned NPC took those players on did not look like the type that could enter Storm Sea.
"Don't worry, a player who has reached level 20 cannot be a fool. That NPC's appearance alone makes people suspicious. How can they completely believe him? And those players can get money to feed that NPC so quickly, which shows that they are not just idle people. They may be waiting to go to the sea to have a big fight."
Wang Zhifan never underestimates other players. Even if they are far behind him in terms of strength, he still believes that they must have considered all aspects and cannot just casually step into such a simple trap.
"Brother Fan, how strong are the players at level 20? There are only five of them. If there are more enemies, they shouldn't be able to defeat them, right?"
Chen Can on the side listened to what Wang Zhifan said and couldn't help but ask, because he is still a newbie and has only read relevant text information on the forum, but he does not have a really clear understanding of the concept of player strength.
"Well... it still depends on the player's profession and equipment. For example, the gunner profession you work for can be said to be quite effective at level 20. As long as the gunner's equipment is not particularly poor, he can quickly deal with more than a dozen enemies. For example, by turning on skills such as Bullet Time and Bullet Ricochet to coordinate shooting, he can kill enemies who cannot defend themselves against bullet attacks in an instant..."
Wang Zhifan explained his understanding of the player's strength, so that Chen Can believed that his profession had a bright future.
As they chatted, they came to the pier near the ship owner who was specially carrying passengers to Princess Port, and then communicated with the other party to confirm the route. Soon after, Wang Zhifan bought tickets for all three of them, and paid extra for the so-called deluxe room, which included accommodation and food.
When they were led by the owner to climb up the ladder to the deck of the sailboat, then went down the deck and entered the cabin inside, and when they arrived at the so-called deluxe room, all three of them looked a bit bitter.
Because this deluxe room is so "luxurious". Not only is the space small, less than ten square meters, but it also has a faint unpleasant smell. Except for the floor covering that occupies most of the area, it looks quite neat. It is a rather rough residence. People can't help but wonder if this place was converted from a utility room.
"Everyone, please be patient. It's only three days and it's gone by in a flash."
Although Wang Zhifan also had strong objections to this kind of living environment, he knew that it was indeed difficult to find a better living environment on a passenger ship in this world, especially on an ordinary passenger ship like this. Living cabins like this that are separated from other passengers are enough to be called luxurious.
"Ugh... Brother Fan, let me go to the deck to get some fresh air."
Chen Ming As a rich second generation, although he is not a very squeamish type, it was really difficult for him to adapt to living in a place like this, who was used to flying on private jets, and he quickly fled to the ventilated deck.
The older Chen Can was more tolerant. He tried hard to adapt to the smell of this small cabin, and soon put forward some personal thoughts:
"Brother Fan, I heard that people who don't often ride ships will get seasick. The feeling is said to be very uncomfortable. We need to make some preparations for this situation, such as finding some special medicines."
Wang Zhifan was convinced of his prediction and replied after thinking for a moment:
"I don't have this kind of special medicine on me. Why don't you go ask the NPC and see if you can buy something to prepare while the ship is still some time away from leaving port."
He was not actually worried that he would get seasick. After all, his physical fitness was considered inhuman, and his ability to self-adjust in the unstable rocking of the ship was far beyond ordinary people. But Chen Ming and Chen Can were different. It was foreseeable that they would be vomiting in the next three days. Seasickness was almost unavoidable for people who did not live at sea all year round.
So, after that, Chen Can and Chen Ming worked hard for a while, asking shipowners and other port people for information about seasickness. In the end, they really got a lot of advice, such as enduring it and getting over it, just spitting it out, and even asking them to Prepare smelly socks to fight poison with poison. Of course, the Chen Ming brothers couldn't take such outrageous suggestions. Finally, they bought a yellow-skinned fruit similar to oranges at the suggestion of the old man at the pier. He said that eating this very sour fruit would make him feel better when he was seasick.
In this way, time flew by, and at noon on the first day of this dungeon, the passenger sailing ship they were traveling on finally set sail. About an hour after setting off, Chen Ming and Chen Can began to feel the extreme torture of seasickness.
"Uh... it feels so uncomfortable..."
"No... I'm going to vomit again..."
At this moment, Chen Ming and Chen Can, whose faces turned Pallor, were both standing on the deck of the sailboat. They were lying on the edge of the ship, spitting acid water toward the sea, because the contents of their stomachs had been vomited out, leaving only body fluids to drain out.
"Eat more of this fruit. It's a bit sour but not unpalatable."
Wang Zhifan was also on the deck at this time. He was standing not far from the two of them, holding in his hand the yellow-skinned fruit they had bought to deal with seasickness and tasting it. He felt that the fruit tasted pretty good.
"I've eaten it... uh... it's no use..."
Chen Can answered him immediately, but before he finished speaking, he started vomiting into the sea outside the ship's side.
"Eat as much as you want... vomit as much as you want... uh... I was deceived..."
Chen Ming had a similar response. He even thought that the people who sold their fruit before were deceiving them.
"Just hold on, just bear it for a few days. We'll still be looking for that island later."
Seeing that the special effects fruit didn't work, Wang Zhifan had no other solution. He could only give them verbal encouragement from the sidelines. Anyway, he didn't feel seasick at all. He felt like he was at home on this rickety ship.
At the same time, the deck sailors working around them also came to the Chen Ming brothers from time to time and gave them verbal "warmth", because it was rare for people to get seasick in this kind of harbor area.
"Hahaha! These two people are so old that they can still get seasick! It really made me laugh!"
"Outlander! You are being punished by Sea God! Hurry up and pray to the great Sea God!"
"You two are so dizzy, why isn't your companion dizzy? It's really strange!"
When the deck was filled with the happy atmosphere of schadenfreude, Wang Zhifan was not idle. In addition to paying attention to the situation of Chen Ming and Chen Can, he also noticed that the deck of this passenger sailboat was equipped with four large cannons, which made him realize that the route they were currently on might not be peaceful.
And his premonition soon came true. When the time came to the evening of that day, when Chen Ming and Chen Can, who had vomited almost the entire day, had just returned to the cabin to rest, they suddenly heard fierce gunfire coming from outside, and at the same time, the urgent horn sounds of the sailors sounded on the deck.