"Use long-range magic! We must kill these two beasts! This is our last chance!"
The crew had basically lost their will to fight, so how could Meili not be afraid? Facing such a ferocious and powerful monster, once it got close, there was not much difference between a righteous mage and a mortal, and being torn into pieces would only take a moment.
But she still remained calm, raised her hands and shouted, and quickly condensed a huge ball of dark and lightless flame in front of her.
Within a hundred meters is exactly the most effective range of the magician's long-range attack!
As long as we can kill the two sirens before they hit the ship, the crisis can be completely resolved!
"Long-range attack..."
Qi Ji looked at the two terrifying monsters with a calm gaze. He glanced at Meili's actions out of the corner of his eye and suddenly smiled playfully.
Then, she reached both hands under her cloak and secretly opened the storage subspace...
"One Zero Five, what are you doing?! Quickly prepare your spells——Hey!?"
Seeing that there was no spiritual fluctuation coming from Qi Ji, Meili realized that she had not cast any spell, but she alone would not be able to kill the two sirens before the "Adventurer" was crushed.
Could it be that 1005 doesn't know how to use long-range attack spells? It seems so. According to the crew, she also used swordsmanship to kill the pirates before... Things are getting complicated...
Extreme anxiety suddenly rose in the female captain's heart. She hurriedly turned around and was about to urge this inexplicable guy, but suddenly froze.
She saw Yao Lingwu slowly pull out a...dark green tube-shaped object from under the cloak?
Chapter 430 Kill
The appearance of this thing made Meili feel extremely unfamiliar. It was a hollow cylindrical tube, painted in dark green and yellow, with some strangely shaped parts or protrusions installed on it.
There is a handle-like component at the bottom of one end, as well as a small component similar to a crossbow.
Objects never seen before.
Not only Meili, but everyone on the boat was shocked, because the tubular object that Qi Ji took out from under his cloak was so thick and long that it could reach her ribs when it was stuck on the ground, and its outer diameter was even thicker than her thigh.
Has she been hiding something like this in her cloak?! How could she fit it in?!
"Don't look at me, just do your own thing."
Qi Ji grabbed the handle with one hand and carried the thick dark green object on his shoulder. He said something to Meili who was stunned, then turned to the sailor behind him who was responsible for loading his magic cannon with shells and reminded him:
"Move aside, don't stand behind."
The sailor took a few steps to the side in a daze, without saying a word, his face full of confusion.
"oh oh!"
Meili came back to her senses and realized that this was a critical moment and it was not the time to be dazed. She immediately spread out her hands and aimed at one of the mermaids that was splashing in the water. The condensed black fireball shot out after a brief aiming.
"Whoosh-"
The black fireball was only slightly larger than a fist. In terms of proportion, it was insignificant in front of the four or five meter long Siren and did not look like it could cause any damage to it.
At the same time that Meili shot out the black fireball, Qi Ji also carried the thick and heavy dark green tube, squinted one eye, and made a gesture similar to aiming a crossbow.
Then, those slender fingers... pulled the trigger.
"boom!!!--"
A loud and dull roar like rolling thunder suddenly sounded, and a brilliant tongue of fire suddenly spurted out from the rear end of the thick and long tube, scaring the sailor who was loading the ammunition nearby and making him jump several meters away.
Everyone on the Challenger only felt a scorching heat coming towards them, followed by a silver afterimage with an orange-red flame, shooting out from the front end of the dark green tube.
At a speed that could not be seen by the naked eye, it rushed straight towards the other mermaid!
"Is this... a fireball? An explosive bomb? Or something else?"
Mary, who was closer, was frightened by the sudden fire and explosion. She stared with wide eyes at the silver shadow with a tail of flame that was like a cannonball fired from a gun and instantly hit the main part of the mermaid.
"boom!!!"
The next second, a blinding flash of fire flashed by, but unlike a fireball or magic cannon blast that expanded into an exaggeratedly bright flower of flame, it went out in an instant, leaving only a wisp of burnt black smoke, like a dud that could not be fired due to moisture.
At the same time, Mary's black fireball also hit the Siren's slippery and mutated body. At the moment the two came into contact, a flash of black light suddenly flashed by and then disappeared.
A large piece of flesh and blood disappeared from the part of the mermaid that was hit, just like ice cream scooped out by a spoon, and a spherical wound with a diameter of nearly one meter appeared. The flat cross-section revealed colorful organs and tissues, which was extremely horrifying.
The siren lost a huge amount of body tissue in an instant, and its limb movements immediately lost control. The flapping of its tentacles immediately became chaotic, and the amplitude became much smaller. Before long, it weakened into meaningless spasms and twitches.
Although this attack did not kill it on the spot, it succeeded in causing serious damage sufficient to be fatal, and it no longer had any combat capability.
"One Zero Five, your power is not enough..."
After shooting the black fireball, Meili's attention has been on Qi Ji's movements. She saw that the thing that was a combination of a fireball and a magic cannon blaster hit the bull's eye, but did not leave any obvious injuries on the mermaid's body.
She immediately realized that this thing was just a lot of noise but little action, and it couldn't cause much damage to a monster the size of the Siren!
Her heart was in her throat. She immediately turned around and aimed her hands at the mermaid. Just as she was about to condense the black fireball again, a feeling of extreme emptiness suddenly emerged from the depths of her spirituality, making her feel dazed.
Seeing her unsteady steps, Qi Ji knew that it was a bit difficult for her to cast the "Black Fireball" spell that could directly annihilate a huge amount of matter. Now her spirit had fallen into a state of exhaustion and weakness.
If she forced herself to overdraw, it might cause irreversible damage to her spirituality, so Qi Ji raised his hand to stop her action:
"No need, it's over."
Meili was startled, and looked towards the sea half in confusion and half in suspicion. When she saw clearly the mermaid that was hit by the "strange explosive bomb", her pupils suddenly contracted.
The siren that had been frantic and aggressive just seconds ago was now... completely motionless.
At first glance, there were no obvious wounds on its surface. There was only an inconspicuous small round hole at the place where it was directly hit, and there were traces of burning and charring on the edges. It did not look like a serious injury.
Such a small hole, even if it passes through its body, will not have much impact on its mobility.
——Siren is different from mammals. It does not have a "brain" that acts as the overall commander. If you want to completely eliminate its threat, you can only make it lose as much blood as possible, or lose a sufficient amount of biological tissue. It is difficult to work by just "making holes".
However, this four or five meter long ferocious beast is now floating motionless on the sea, slowly moving towards the Challenger under the action of inertia.
It's already dead.
"This……"
Meili's mind froze for several seconds. She simply couldn't understand how this was done!
When the strange "shell" was fired and exploded, she did not sense any spiritual fluctuations, which means that this thing was not a spell or spiritual equipment, but a pure mechanical structure and gunpowder product.
This means that this "shell" can only cause pure penetrating damage... and how can pure penetrating damage instantly kill the Siren?
This is unreasonable!
On the other side, the siren, whose wounds were much more serious and a large piece of its body had been dug out, was still twitching and struggling. A large amount of colorful body fluids and biological tissue fragments sprayed out from the broken surface, dyeing the surrounding sea water a circle of dirty and chaotic colors.
The stench that made people's eyes go dark swept in with the sea breeze, making everyone on the deck feel extremely nauseous.
But in terms of "efficiency", Qiji is indeed more "excellent".
"Boom!"
Qi Ji threw the weapon on his shoulder onto the deck, clapped his hands casually, put his hands on his waist, and said with a relaxed smile:
"Done. These monster corpses should still be useful, right? Take out the spiritual tissue or something. Let's deal with them together before it gets dark."
As she spoke, she wrinkled her delicate little nose and frowned slightly:
"It just stinks...Will this stuff kill people if left on the boat?"
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Chapter 431 Metal Jet
After completely annihilating the attacking group of Sirens, the "Challenger" raised one-third of its sails and sailed at a slow speed to the Sirens that were killed by Qi Ji's "green metal tube".
In fact, the object closest to the Challenger was the Siren, a large part of whose body was annihilated by Mary's black fireball, but it is still twitching and struggling from time to time.
In order to prevent the sailors who were handling the corpse from being knocked over by the tentacles that suddenly jumped up, the crew unanimously decided to start the dissection from the other end of the siren, which was completely motionless and lying on the water like a rag.
"Why did he die all of a sudden? How did he do that?"
The sailor who used a rope ladder to descend to the body of the siren walked curiously to the small hole, wanting to see what magical power the strange "cannonball" had that could kill the siren in seconds with such a small wound.
Could it be poison? No, there is no poison that can kill instantly? Especially when the target is a monster of the size of a siren.
The anatomist skillfully cut open the small hole with a steel knife, and the scene that came into his eyes made him gasp:
"I've never seen such a wound before..."
Under the hole, which was only as thick as a fist, was a mess of charred and rotten sores. Everywhere within sight was broken, ulcerated and burnt, and there was hardly a single piece of good meat to be seen.
It turned out that this calm little hole on the surface of the corpse was just the tip of the iceberg of the damage caused by the silver "cannonball".
In fact, after penetrating into the body of the mermaid, it also erupted with some kind of violent, hot, and brutal terrible power, rampaging recklessly in that tough and deformed body, crushing and carbonizing large chunks of body tissue.
Don’t be fooled by the small hole on the surface of this mermaid. In fact, its inside was almost hollowed out and blasted apart in an instant, like a dead tree eaten away by disease and insects.
Such serious injuries caused immeasurable harm to it, no wonder it lost its ability to move on the spot.
In the strange atmosphere of silence, the two ships slowly docked one by one beside the corpses of mermaids floating on the sea under the communication of flags.
Several sailors, with their mouths and noses covered with wet cloths soaked in spices, descended from the deck using ladders and ropes, and landed on the broken body that was like a reef, and began to cut and dissect it with great effort using the machetes in their hands.
There were twelve sirens in total, scattered in a roughly straight line over a sea area several kilometers long. With only two ships, it was really hard to take care of them all.
In addition, the mermaid's body fluids and tissues are already smelly, and the attacks from magic cannon blasting bombs, annihilation spells and other attacks have created huge open wounds. It is not an exaggeration to say that the smell can make people faint.
The sailors in charge of handling the corpses would basically feel dizzy and have difficulty breathing every four or five minutes because of the horrible stench, so they had to be replaced by a group of people from time to time to let them take turns to rest.
This further slowed down the progress of the work, and it would definitely be completely dark by the time all twelve bodies were dealt with.
"It's amazing that these guys are so happy to keep such a stinky thing on the boat."
Qi Ji huddled at the edge of the deck with a painful expression, muttering softly. He looked at the sailors who were taking turns to come up, covering their noses with sachets and taking deep breaths cautiously. He felt that the smell of this mermaid was simply a biological weapon.
"The spiritual organization of the twelve sea monsters is difficult to collect all of them at once, not to mention a small merchant ship like us, even some large fleets would find it difficult to collect them all at once."
Meili, who was standing next to her, also covered her mouth and nose with a sachet, frowned and explained in a low voice:
"Your cannons are so accurate, every shot hits the target. If you were not on board, and other extraordinary people were using that magic cannon... at least the Challenger would not have survived.
"It's a miracle that we survived."
Sirens are insane killing monsters. Not to mention merchant ships, all creatures in the ocean have an instinctive fear of them that is engraved in their genes.
Anyone who smells a trace of it will flee thousands of miles away, trying to avoid it.
Under normal circumstances, twelve sirens are enough to pose a threat to an armed fleet consisting of three large three-masted sailing ships. It is almost impossible to wipe out such an enemy with just two magic cannons.
Seeing that the crew members were still enthusiastically taking over the dissection even though they were about to pass out from the stench, Qi Ji couldn't help but turn his head and ask curiously:
"Are the spiritual tissues of these monsters valuable?"
Meili shook her head slightly. She felt dizzy and her face was distorted because of the stench. It was hard to tell what her expression was.
"It's not a question of whether it's valuable or not. Most of the time, this stuff is out of stock and hard to get on the market."
“Demand is small, supply is even smaller?”
"Almost. Usually, some pharmacists need this stuff to make special potions. Others don't need it... But as you know, pharmacists are very wealthy. They often spend a lot of money to buy the ingredients."
Qi Ji nodded in understanding. Simply put, this thing is difficult to sell because few people buy it, but once you find a seller, you will become rich.
She turned her head and looked at the deck. They had won two "victories" in just three days at sea, and both were very profitable. In three days, the assets of the Challenger had more than doubled.
Such an exciting and thrilling experience made the sailors very excited. Even though the air was shrouded in an extreme stench, they were all talking loudly and excitedly, wishing they could teleport to their destination immediately and brag about the voyage to strangers in the tavern on the shore.
No wonder, any single event that happened during these three days is enough to be a lifelong topic of conversation for an ordinary seaman.
Noticing Qi Ji's gaze, they immediately stopped chatting with their companions and greeted her enthusiastically:
"Master 105, thank you so much!"
"Hahahaha, it's rich! It's rich! Lord 105, you are the biggest contributor!"
"Yes, yes, yes. After we dock, we will ask the captain to pay you, and then we can go out for a drink together. I know a pub in the Steel City. It's awesome..."
"Oh, by the way, Lord 105, do you want to join us? Or become the long-term escort of the Challenger? We will make a fortune with this order. Captain, you can definitely afford to hire her, right?"
"..."
They were all chattering, but all revealed the same emotion: gratitude and respect for Qi Ji.
It seems that these simple-minded but strong-limbed crew members also understood who contributed the most to the two "great victories" and did not get carried away by the victory and lose their minds.
Seeing them so happy, Qi Ji felt quite comfortable.
