Learn one small skill every day

"Could this captain have chosen the one with the highest stats? That's ridiculously fast! Even with my 17 agility, I can't catch up!"

Some netizens exclaimed in surprise, "I thought my Agility of 17 was high enough, but now this captain looks much higher than me!"

The fishermen only saw a dark shadow rapidly approaching.

"boom!"

Bai Miao fired a shot at the chest of the man in front. Just as he was about to use the Mozambique shooting method to fire another shot at the head, he discovered that the man was already headless.

To be precise, the entire area from the chest upwards was wiped out by a single shot from Holheim.

The heads of three or four people behind them were also blown off.

Despite its immense power, Bai Miao didn't feel any recoil at all; the 20mm Holheim rifle felt just as easy to use as a pistol.

This shot silenced everyone else.

Everyone held up their weapons, trembling as they looked at Bai Miao.

"Go...go! Fight them to the death! We're all going to die anyway!"

A roar reignited the fishermen's fighting spirit, and they rushed towards Bai Miao, seemingly believing they could defeat him through numbers.

Bai Miao was impressed by the fishermen's courage, put away his gun, and took out his melee weapon.

In Bai Miao's eyes, these fishermen were incredibly slow. Even without their equipment, Bai Miao was confident he could annihilate them all with his own physical abilities.

"Since we're meeting for the first time and I don't know what to give as a gift, I'll just do something special for you all."

As he spoke, Bai Miao dodged the opponent's stab, threw the two daggers in his hand into the air, and then took out a third dagger from his leg and tossed it into the air to catch it.

Then, Bai Miao began performing acrobatics while dodging attacks from the crowd.

But this acrobatic skill was deadly; every time a dagger fell into Bai Miao's hands, he would swiftly thrust it out and take a life.

The fishermen's attention was quickly drawn to the dagger Bai Miao had thrown into the air. They couldn't help but think that as long as the glowing object didn't fall, no one would die.

The red blade was particularly eye-catching in the night, and the crew members in the distance wisely did not approach to disturb Bai Miao.

"This captain seems to be under a lot of pressure on the Endless Energy."

On the Knock on the Door network, a group of people were discussing it.

"I'm under a lot of pressure too. I also want to kill a few troublemakers to vent my anger, but unfortunately the captain is too enthusiastic about killing. If it were me, I would twist their limbs one by one and slowly kill them. I would never kill them with one blow."

Wang Xiang glanced at his security department colleague's statement and felt that in the current situation, killing the other side was fine, but torturing them was unacceptable.

However, Wang Xiang didn't say anything, focusing more on the captain, trying to find some clues.

For example, whether the other person is someone you know.

But he thought for a long time and couldn't find any memory of anyone who could do acrobatics.

Who can perform acrobatics and kill people quickly at the same time?

Soon, Bai Miao had killed nearly 20 people, leaving only Marcellus alive.

"Mr. Lu, you have made a wrong decision."

“Kill us if you want… We’re in this line of work, and we’re prepared to be killed. But if you kill us all, the fishermen won’t see their catch tomorrow, haha, and you won’t be able to communicate with the lord either.”

"You don't need to worry about that. It seems that what you said about being able to contact the lord through the fisherman tomorrow was not a lie."

"You won't see it. We fishermen are dead, and the lord has no one left to fish. You will surely be the target of his anger!"

Bai Miao struck down Marcellus with a single stroke, ending his life.

Bai Miao hadn't noticed during the battle, but now he realized that those killed by the melee weapons provided by the R&D department would be melted into puddles of liquid by the vibration of high-energy particles, while the life support device on his back would extend an extra tube to absorb the liquid.

This discovery sent a chill down Bai Miao's spine.

Is this treating people like food?

It's just like a spider hunting its prey, first turning it into liquid with digestive enzymes, and then sucking the juices into its stomach.

However, Bai Miao didn't get bogged down in the details. After all, this thing was produced by the R&D department, and he was still using it himself. It was best not to figure out how it worked too much.

"Captain, what's the next step?"

Seeing that the battle was over, Wang Xiang and the others came over and asked.

"The usual plan: wait for the fish collector tomorrow, then negotiate with him. Do you have any other ideas?"

“I think we can take advantage of the darkness to find the lord’s residence and threaten him directly to make him reveal everything he knows. According to the rules of medieval fiefdoms, there must be a lord above this lord, and finally the king. If we want to know information about that giant steam engine, the only options besides going directly to Cad City are to ask these nobles.”

Wang Xiang plans to take the initiative.

“The lord’s housing is certainly different from everyone else’s. We just need to find a house made of metal. It shouldn’t be too difficult to find one. This area is just a remote region.”

Bai Miao thought about it for a while and felt that it was feasible.

"Alright, let's take advantage of the darkness to move out."

Hopefully, the lord is a pacifist and won't be like the fishermen in his territory who try to rob outsiders whenever they see them.

Chapter 108 A Reasonable Lord

As Wang Xiang said, the lord's residence is quite easy to find.

After passing through the area of ​​houses made of mud and wood, you can see a tin-roofed mansion standing on a small hill in the distance.

The moonlight wasn't very good tonight, but sparse moonlight still shone on the surface of the stilt house, reflecting far away through the tin-roofed buildings.

However, even though it's called a mansion, it's really just a slightly larger two-story house.

This place is remote, and even the lord doesn't have much money to build a grand mansion.

"You take a few people and go through from the right, I'll take a few and go through from the left."

Bai Miao has already decided to appoint Peng Te as the vice-captain. There are likely to be several knockers in the team, who can communicate with each other unconditionally via the network. Bai Miao can use this feature to obtain information from both sides.

Wang Xiang immediately understood Bai Miao's meaning. He took one of the knockers with him and left, leaving the other two with Bai Miao.

"Captain, I am at your service."

After this team-up, Bai Miao had a pretty good idea of ​​who the remaining four knockers were.

As for whether Emma and her crew had any informants among the other non-knockers, Bai Miao believed that as long as the information related to the knockers was not explicitly mentioned, Emma would not react. Simply using the knocker next to him as a messenger was a good option.

Under the cover of night, the two groups surrounded the lord's house. Bai Miao first looked around to make sure there was no risk before walking to the door and knocking.

"Who is it? What do you want with me so late at night?"

Having learned the local language of Strom from Marcellus, the built-in language translator in the helmet started working smoothly, translating what the lord was saying.

"We are an adventure team from a faraway place, looking for stolen relics. We heard that you are the lord here and would like to have a chat with you."

A sound came from inside the house, and soon a tall, thin man opened the door.

He was wearing a metal jacket and a gear-shaped headdress, and he was looking at the people outside.

“No outsiders have come to Bantu County for a long time. How did you know this was my residence? Did the fishermen tell you?”

While the lord was sizing up Bai Miao and his companions, Bai Miao was also sizing up the lord.

Although the clothing was strange, it was likely a local custom, and Bai Miao didn't pay any attention to it.

Aside from that, the lord was very polite in his speech and had a very open attitude towards outsiders.

She dared to come and open the door all by herself, seemingly without any concern that there might be bad people outside.

"Regarding those fishermen, I think it's necessary to explain things to you clearly..."

Bai Miao got straight to the point, telling the lord how Marcellus had led the fishermen to try to rob him and how he had fought back.

Speaking frankly can also help in making the next decision.

"This...this is outrageous! No wonder no outsiders have visited Bantu County for so long...it turns out they've all been detained by those damned lowly people?!"

The lord looked very angry, scratched his chin, and looked at Bai Miao: "I'm sorry, guest, I lost my temper. These lowly people deserve to die. They may have made me miss out on advanced experiences from the outside world. You said you came from a very far place, so you should have stopped on other lands to resupply along the way. You should know that what our civilization, which is fixed in one place, wants most is to communicate with the outside world."

These guys only care about their own immediate gains; it's time to teach these fools a lesson.

Bai Miao was quite surprised by the other party's understanding.

Are the people of this Stranded really that well-mannered?

Even the fishermen speak several languages.

"By the way, you just said you came here to look for stolen relics. Could you be more specific about what they are?"

Bai Miao briefly introduced the three missing parts.

"You mean the captain knows? Fine, then we don't need to tell him."

The crew member from the R&D department was left with Bai Miao. He knew about the three missing parts, and after hearing Bai Miao recite the three parts without missing a single detail, he couldn't help but complain on the communication network.

"This captain seems to know everything. What use are we crew members anyway?"

“I have a guess. The captain shouldn’t have lived this long. Instead, he would have taken over from one of us ten knockers, with each person getting more information as we went along. But the captain we encountered seems to be very capable. I think he successfully guided the ship’s direction, which may have made it possible for us to find the missing parts.”

I still don't understand. The ship's course seemed to be set from day one. Determining the course was the captain's job. How could he so accurately determine the course and then be certain that there were missing parts?

Wang Xiang couldn't figure out how outrageous Bai Miao's pathfinding skills were, no matter how hard he tried.

However, Bai Miao also faced a multiple-choice question with five options, choosing three out of five.

After listening to Bai Miao's story, the lord hesitated for a moment and adjusted the gear-shaped headdress he was wearing.

The gear headdress wasn't even fixed; it started spinning as it was manipulated by fingers.

"Hmm... Kade City, the relics you're looking for are in Kade City. I can provide you with the necessary documents to enter the city, proving you are friendly outsiders. But..."

"but?"

"But you need to make a promise."

"What guarantee?"

"When you get the relics, you need to show them to me. I also want to see what you were willing to cross thousands of miles of ocean to find."

That's it?

It went way too smoothly...

Is it really just to take a look and satisfy curiosity?