Infinite Sun in the East China Sea

Chapter 99 Pirate Style
As soon as the horror movie started, Shoko closed her eyes and performed a mental scan.

After using mental scanning continuously for more than a hundred days in the world of "Mr. Zombie", her mental strength has also improved through that simple training method.

At present, her straight-line scanning distance has reached about 380 kilometers.

Furthermore, Shoko has developed some tricks for using mental scanning.

Theoretically, a surface can also be scanned using a linear scanning method. The mental controller only needs to control the linear mental power that obtains information to rotate in a circle.

But when searching for zombies in the world of "Mr. Vampire", Shoko discovered the problem in that "theoretical situation": "seeing" does not mean being able to remember.

An ordinary person can see a large area centered on himself by standing on a high place and turning around, but after closing his eyes, he may still remember some outlines of the scene he just saw, but most of the detailed information will be basically forgotten.

The techniques Shoko developed allowed her to process the scanned information more quickly.

For example, the terrain within a radius of 380 kilometers can be quickly mapped by using a linear scanning method.

While Xu Feng was imparting knowledge to the newcomers that sounded useful but was rarely used, Xiangzi had already completed the mental scan when no one was paying attention.

She took out a tablet from her backpack, opened the map, found the location of Central America, and sent the location of the reincarnations to Xu Feng.

Just as Xu Feng and Xiangzi expected.

They were on a ship at the time. After Shoko compared the terrain he scanned with the Earth's environment, he determined that they were in the Caribbean Sea near the country of Haiti in later generations.

About fifty kilometers northeast of the ship is where Captain Jack plans to recruit pirates: Tortuga Island.

The Lord God usually uses free translation when translating automatically, so the name given to this island by the characters in the outside story is Turtle Island in the ears of the reincarnation.

Now, the sailors outside are shouting messages to move towards Turtle Island.

In Shoko's precise scan, in addition to the reincarnations and the androids, there were thirty-six crew members on this merchant ship, thirty-five of whom were men and one was a woman.

Because of taboos, most ships of this era would not recruit female crew members, and the few ships with female crew members were also pirate ships; therefore, the identity of the female crew member disguised as a man on this merchant ship is obvious: the heroine of the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films: Elizabeth Swann.

If the plot had not changed, she would now be carrying the 'letter of marque' stolen from Beckett and preparing to go to Turtle Island to find Captain Jack and her fiancé Will Turner.

Shoko asked, "What should we do next?"

Xu Feng smiled and said, "Let's take this ship first. When dealing with the octopus monster, the more ships we have, the greater the advantage we have. Even if the monster is very strong, as long as the Lord of the Groove doesn't maliciously strengthen it, it can only attack one ship at a time."

"If we form a fleet, when the sea monster attacks one of the ships in the fleet, we can hide on the other ships and attack it."

He smiled and said, "This is where we have an advantage over people of this era. People of this era can only communicate by shouting, or at best, by using flag signals. In this situation, coordinating multiple warships requires a very high level of command. But we have electronic equipment that can communicate long-distance! When the number of fleets is limited, we can achieve perfect coordination."

"Information advantage?"

Xiangzi pondered, "If we really build a very powerful fleet, perhaps we can easily hunt down that octopus." Xu Feng said to the newcomers, "If the plan succeeds, you can also try to bombard the sea monster from ships other than the bait... If you can successfully kill the sea monster, you will get a supplementary C-rank side story. This difficulty is much easier than when I first got that C-rank side story."

"When are we going to buy this boat? Now or go to Turtle Island?" Shoko asked.

"Why buy it? Entering the world of Pirates of the Caribbean, why not try being a pirate? Let Alan be the main force this time. Alan, be gentle. These crew members are very important staff members. We will let them control the ship in the future."

Xu Feng looked at the newcomers and asked, "Does anyone want to experience combat?"

Suddenly, three newcomers were eager to try.

However, the newcomer Park Changhao who got the pistol frowned and seemed to disagree with Xu Feng's idea.

"Directly attack the merchant ship?" Xiangzi also felt that Xu Feng's idea was a bit too bad: "Don't you have a lot of gold in your space bag? Even if you buy this merchant ship directly, it won't take much gold, right?"

In her opinion, the Lord God should favor the team that acts more kindly.

"Really?" Xu Feng shook his head. "I've saved social data from different regions of each era on my tablet. You can try to look up the cost of sailboats from this era..."

Shoko hasn't checked yet.

Ando Keiichi, the veteran shipbuilder, spoke up. "I've read about sailing warships of this era. The cost of a medium- to large-sized warship was roughly 20 to 50 pounds per ton. The larger the warship, the more expensive it was per ton. This is a merchant ship with a displacement of approximately tons. Merchant ships have fewer guns than warships, so the cost is lower, but I estimate it's still between and pounds."

Xu Feng nodded. "I have half a ton of gold in my space bag. It sounds like a lot, but if converted into the currency of this world... it's probably equivalent to tens of thousands of gold coins or hundreds of thousands of pounds."

——It’s not that Xu Feng doesn’t want to bring more gold, but for reincarnationists, there are too many things more important than gold.

"Even if it's just for buying ships, that much gold can only buy a few dozen sailing ships like these, which have little combat power. If it's replaced with more expensive warships, the number will be even smaller... And this is just the cost of buying ships, not including the cost of hiring sailors. With this much gold alone, it's impossible to organize a decent fleet."

Xu Feng said coldly, "So... since you're destined to take the path of plunder, then change your mindset from the moment you enter this world."

The battle ended quickly.

The crew members on this sailboat are all ordinary people. They have been sailing on the sea for a long time and eating extremely nutritionally unbalanced food. Their physical fitness is not good, and the gap between them and monsters like Alan who have a strength of more than a ton is too huge.

Most of the people were knocked unconscious by Alan with a slap before they could react, and then thrown to the newcomers, who tied up the crew members with ropes.

The counterattacks from the few people hit Allen, but didn't even leave a mark.

Well, these few people refer to the heroine Elizabeth.

She is a woman but the most powerful character on this merchant ship.

(End of this chapter)