Navigator: I have a double six-story house

The moment the light spot stopped, a line of text appeared on the system panel.

[Destroy Reward: Melee Training Room (Building Entity)]

[Effect: Melee training in the training room grants the "Melee Mastery" passive skill and accelerates the growth of melee skill proficiency.]

[Note: This building is a physical structure and can be placed directly into an empty space inside the ship's cabin.]

Su Qing looked at the information on the panel, her brows twitching slightly.

It's not a blueprint, it's a finished product.

What does this mean?

This means that the item was originally installed on the Bone Eater.

After sinking an enemy ship, the system extracts the structures on the enemy ship as loot.

No wonder that ship was filled with melee fighters.

With this training room, the crew's close combat skills will be continuously enhanced, and over time, the entire ship will naturally develop in a close combat direction.

Su Qing turned off the panel and turned to look at the two people who had come closer.

"What reward?" Wang Yao's eyes lit up like a child opening a package.

"A close-combat training room," Su Qing said succinctly. "A building that can be placed directly in the ship's cabin for practicing close combat."

Wang Yao's expression visibly crumbled.

"this one?"

He scratched the back of his head, looking disgusted.

"I thought I might get a divine weapon or some kind of overpowered skill book."

"A training room...that's too ordinary, isn't it?"

After wiping the knife, Selena put the serrated blade back into her pink handbag.

What exactly was inside that bag remains a mystery to this day.

She walked over and tilted her head to look at Wang Yao.

"Senior Wang Yao, training facilities are actually quite valuable."

"Um?"

"This kind of thing provides long-term benefits."

Selena held up one finger, her tone serious.

"It won't be apparent in the short term, but over time, the overall combat capability of the ship will be significantly enhanced."

"In our Windrise Merchant Guild, the market price of a training facility is more than three times that of weapons."

Wang Yao opened his mouth, then closed it again, his face slightly flushed.

Then he looked at Su Qing, who nodded, indicating that Selena was right.

Wang Yao felt a little embarrassed, so he snorted and crossed his arms.

"Why does the newbie keep contradicting me lately? It's a bit disrespectful to my seniors."

Selena blinked and smiled sweetly.

"No, no, I have great respect for my seniors."

"Senior is the most important combat force in our team. If it weren't for Senior blocking the bow just now, the captain and I wouldn't have been able to deal with that bald guy in peace."

Wang Yao's expression instantly relaxed, and he nodded in satisfaction.

"That's more like it."

"Remember, on this ship, Su is the boss, and I'm number two."

"Yes, yes, I'll remember that. Senior is the second oldest."

Selena smiled sweetly and nodded in agreement.

Su Qing watched this scene, her lips twitched, but she remained silent.

He turned and walked toward the cabin.

"Come down with me."

The three men went up the gangway into the cabin.

Su Qing opened the system panel, selected the melee training room, and placed it in the empty space next to the shooting range.

A flash of white light appeared, and a room and a wooden door suddenly appeared in the previously empty cabin.

The door opened, revealing a much larger space inside than it appeared from the outside.

The ground was paved with rough stone slabs, the surrounding walls had exposed rock textures, and several oil lamps hung from the ceiling, casting a dim yellow light.

Five scarecrows stood in the very center.

Each scarecrow has a long sword stuck at its feet; the sword is plain and has no decorative patterns.

The familiar taste, the familiar recipe.

Su Qing walked up to the nearest scarecrow, bent down, and drew his longsword.

He tossed the sword in his hand; it felt solid and had a moderate weight, making it a standard training sword.

Having gained experience using the shooting range, he did not hesitate and swung his sword at the scarecrow.

The sword blade sliced ​​into the scarecrow's waist, sending hay fragments flying. The scarecrow was broken in two, with the upper half crashing to the ground.

[Ding! Passive skill acquired: Melee Mastery Lv.0 (1/200)]

[Skill Effect: Increases attack accuracy, attack speed, and critical hit rate. Each time a scarecrow is defeated, +1 proficiency is gained; level up at 200 proficiency.]

Su Qing glanced at the progress bar on the panel.

Cut down 200, level up.

Just like the logic of the shooting range, it's simple and brutal.

He looked down at the scarecrow that had been cut in two.

Within seconds of his gaze, the scattered hay automatically gathered together, reformed into a human shape, and stood perfectly intact in its original place.

A target that can respawn indefinitely.

Moreover, five scarecrows mean that five people can train at the same time.

Su Qing planted the longsword back into the ground and turned to face Wang Yao and Selena.

"The next steps."

His tone shifted from casual to commanding.

"Selena, go to the deck and keep watch, monitoring the surrounding waters."

"Wang Yao, you stay here to train. Melee Mastery will be the skill that will improve you the most, so prioritize leveling it up."

"I'm going to the shooting range."

He paused, then added.

"Aside from eating and sleeping, the three of us take turns training, with each person ensuring at least four hours of training time every day."

Wang Yao had already drawn a training sword, weighed it in his hand, and grinned.

"This is great! Let's see if it can offset the negative effects on my career."

Selena nodded, turned and walked out to the deck to keep watch.

After Selena left, Wang Yao had already unleashed his first sword strike at the scarecrow.

Su Qing didn't linger. She walked out of the close combat training room and pushed open the door to the shooting range next door.

He picked up the training longbow from the shelf, drew an arrow, and nocked the arrow.

For the rest of the time, only two sounds alternated in the cabin.

On one side, there was the muffled sound of sharp blades cutting through the wind and dry grass shredding.

On one side, there was the thud of arrows hitting the target.

The Sunny sailed smoothly in the night, and the three men took turns training like wound-up machines.

After Su Qing finished a round of shooting practice at the shooting range, she came out to let Selena go in, and then went to the close combat training room to chop down a scarecrow. After that, Wang Yao came out to rest.

Repeatedly.

It's tedious, but effective.

This sea area won't give them much time to breathe.

The fact that the Wild Wave Merchant Guild sent a level nine captain to kill him shows that they consider him a thorn in their side that must be removed.

Wu Ming is dead, but the Mad Wave Merchant Guild will not give up.

The next group that comes might be even stronger.

Su Qing must, before that happens, bring herself and her crew to a level where they can cope with the situation.

He came out of the close combat training room and glanced at the system panel.

Melee Mastery Lv.0 (42/200)

[Shooting Mastery Lv.1 (89/400)]

not enough.

Far from enough.

……

at the same time.

A port hundreds of nautical miles away from the Sunny.

On the stone path by the dock, a tall, thin figure was lying on the ground.

He was soaking wet, as if he had just been pulled from the sea, with seawater dripping from the hem of his clothes and pooling on the stone slab.

The tall, thin man slowly propped himself up, his limbs still trembling.

He stared blankly at the unfamiliar port streets around him, and it took him several seconds to realize that he was still alive.

He looked down at his hands.

"Boss... a teleportation talisman?"