Chapter 264: New Ship |
"Since you're all Du Yu's old friends, you're my brothers too. Everyone, please take a seat. This is genuine dinosaur meat, hunted in the desert some time ago. It took quite an effort. Du Yu, please help me properly entertain these friends." Qin Ziwen said with a smile.
Du Yu understood his master's intention and led the three men to the front hall.
Qin Ziwen and his younger brother continued working in the kitchen.
When he brought the steaming hot dinosaur meat to the front hall, Du Yu and the three men had already become fast friends.
"I never imagined Brother Du would have such an opportunity. That there is such a miraculous place in this world." Yan Da sighed with emotion, and when he looked at Qin Ziwen again, his eyes held a bit more awe.
They were all men of the rivers and lakes, speaking the language of the martial world, doing the deeds of the martial world.
When encountering someone with real skill, it was only natural to test and verify it firsthand.
Just now, in the unarmed combat, the three of them took turns fighting, yet Du Yu defeated them all with just one hand.
The three fell silent for a moment, their hearts shaken.
And according to him, his master's abilities were even greater than his own... It was simply unimaginable.
Eating the meat, perhaps because he had seen the dinosaur head, Yan Da felt the aroma was particularly strong and the taste unique.
The three were feasting heartily when Yan San put down the bone in his hand, his words full of admiration for Du Yu. "Brother Du's skills have our respect. Our three brothers' meager abilities lie entirely in our fists and feet, except when we're in the water. To defeat the three of us working together with bare hands... I'm afraid even that Lü Taibao, who is known as 'Fists Shaking Both Sides of the Yellow River,' might not be able to match that."
Du Yu gave a slight smile. "Actually, when I first arrived here, my skills were not much different from you three brothers. It's all thanks to my master's nurturing that I am what I am today."
Hearing these words, the expressions of the three Yan brothers changed.
Yan San's face showed yearning. Yan Wu lowered his head in contemplation, stealing a glance at the eldest brother.
Yan Da seemed thoughtful, his gaze sweeping over his two brothers before finally settling on Qin Ziwen.
"Boss Qin," he clasped his fists in salute. "We three brothers were originally fishermen by the river, making a living from the water since childhood, honing some underwater skills. Later, we paid respects to a teacher who had left the monastic life and learned a little of the basics of martial arts. That's how we earned the nickname 'Three Ghosts of the Yan Family' in the martial world. Our old father and mother passed away a few years ago.
The court is corrupt. We no longer wish to serve as lackeys for those damned officials. Today, hearing what Brother Du said about that world, it feels like a fire has ignited in our hearts. If Boss doesn't find us too crude, we will follow your orders, through water and fire!"
Qin Ziwen was overjoyed. He slapped the table and said to his brother, "Xiao Wu, go bring a jar of huangjiu wine. Today, we drink with these brothers until we're drunk or until we go home!"
After three rounds of drinks, Qin Ziwen extended a recruitment invitation to the three men.
The three agreed one after another.
This time, Qin Ziwen tried not to assign the three to the Tavern, but directly to a Residence.
He tried it, and it actually worked.
So the three men's "positions" were arranged in the newly constructed Level 2 Residence.
Afterwards, Qin Ziwen, Du Yu, and Qin Ziwu worked together to carry the drunken and unconscious three men to the Residence.
He then found Jia Liangcai, gave him some instructions, and finalized the arrangements for these three men.
Coming out of the Residence, Qin Ziwen asked Du Yu about the three men's martial arts skills.
Du Yu thought for a moment and gave a "passable" evaluation.
"That'll do." Qin Ziwen was still satisfied. To be rated as "passable" by Du Yu was quite good.
Most importantly, hearing that these three claimed to be skilled in underwater techniques, once they woke up, he would need to properly verify it.
It wasn't until evening that the three men woke up.
After waking, Yan Da rubbed his temples, thought for a long time, recalled the conversation before getting drunk, and examined his surroundings.
Coming out of the room, someone had been waiting outside for a long time.
"Young heroes, you're awake." Liu San said with a smile.
Yan Da clasped his fists. "Elder, may I ask where Boss Qin is?"
"I wouldn't know that. Master Jia should know." Liu San shook his head. Even if he knew the master's whereabouts, he couldn't just say it casually.
Yan Da said, "It's fine. We'll just wait here for the boss to come."
Yan San looked around, very curious about the novel environment, especially the several huge buildings in the distance that looked extraordinary.
Not long after, Qin Ziwen, having received the news, hurried over. "Hahaha, you woke up at just the right time. Brothers, come with me."
Qin Ziwen led the three men to the Ghost Shipyard.
The Ghost Ship had just finished construction. On its original foundation, the surface was now plated with a layer of Ghost Gold ship membrane, covering the connecting areas that looked like scars.
Qin Ziwen now only had one last node slot available. The other two nodes, one was on cooldown, and the other was located dozens of meters deep in the sea.
Directly pushing the Ghost Ship into the sea dozens of meters deep didn't seem appropriate to him. Although this ship had already shown some strange characteristics, it still had some distance from the legendary, bizarrely supernatural ghost ships.
Directly pushing it into the deep sea might cause it to sink a second time.
Sending it out through the Home's main gate wouldn't work either. The ship was too big, the gate too small; it couldn't get out.
Currently, the most suitable method was the node.
But if it was fixed on the sea surface, using the last node, then he would temporarily have no spare nodes available for placement.
After much thought, Qin Ziwen still decided to use it. After all, a ship is built to be sent out.
Otherwise, expending so much effort to build a large ship, only to keep it hidden at home, not daring to take it out, that would be a complete waste.
However, the location for this last sea surface node needed to be carefully selected.
And, it would be best to pick a good opportunity.
Qin Ziwen thought of the Mosasaur.
If it appeared again, perhaps he could deploy the node directly on the sea surface near it, catching it completely off guard.
And behind him.
The three Yan brothers, who had followed him, were struck with awe upon seeing this Ghost Ship.
"Big brother, perhaps only the emperor's dragon boat is this big."
Yan Da sighed. "Usually, those canal boats and merchant ships are mostly only six or seven zhang long. This giant ship is probably over fifteen zhang."
"Wait, big brother, look, the ropes on the mast... they seem to be moving." Yan Wu suddenly raised his hand, pointing at the ship.
"What's strange about ropes moving? A deckhand pulling in a rope and you're so surprised..." Yan San was just about to mock his younger brother when his pupils suddenly constricted, and he swallowed his next words.
Because he saw that the ropes on the ship were moving on their own, with no one controlling them!
"This ship is strange."
"It's our newly acknowledged boss who is extraordinary." Yan Da noticed that Qin Ziwen completely ignored the ship's movements, indicating he already knew about these anomalies on the ship.
"Look at that sail. It looks light and flimsy, like smoke. Who knows how this ship was built." Yan Wu shook his head. But then he thought, since Boss Qin called them here, perhaps in the future, they would be stationed on this ship?