"I don't care, this kid is my collection now!"
086, Task Force
"Let me ask you a question. I've only been away for a few days. How come my house has become like this?"
In the office, Belfa, who had just returned from reconnaissance, saw four new faces in the room as soon as she entered the room, and two of them were old acquaintances of hers. Dick, who was tightly entangled by the tentacle ship girl Golden Deer, gave Belfa an awkward but polite smile.
"Thank you for your hard work, Befa. How is it going?"
After taking the hot tea that Ding'an offered to him, Befa did not rush to ask about the situation of these new companions. He immediately started reporting his work and told Dick about his tracking and surveillance over the past few days.
Befa's tracking of Warren's speedboat went very smoothly at the beginning. Befa controlled the distance between the two sides very well. While ensuring that she could always visually observe the sails and masts of the target ship, she used the surging waves as a cover to prevent the enemy from seeing her.
Befa followed the pirate ship for a day and a night, and it sailed out of the fjord and into the open sea, and then disappeared strangely in a thick fog.
"Lost?"
"I'm sorry, I did lose the target. The fog was unusual. As soon as I entered, my radar and sonar failed, and my sense of direction became disordered, so I made my own judgment and stopped tracking the target."
"You did the right thing. It's right to be cautious."
Through Befa's description, Dick speculated that the Sea Tiger Gang should have magic props or more advanced artifacts that could create fog. It would be better if Befa could withdraw in time.
After talking about the reconnaissance, Befa asked about the new companions. She learned that Dick had tricked twenty high-level magic stones from Hamuradi. In order to find helpers for her, he chose the "Ship Girl" attribute for both summons, but his luck was not very good.
The combat effectiveness of the two transport ship girls is not very good, but Ding'an is smart, good at material allocation and has great business talent, so she was chosen by Ruby-eye, who wanted to pull her into the Chamber of Commerce to work. Kashino, on the other hand, is a bit naive and easily gets confused when doing things, and only her super strength is acceptable.
As for the other two tentacle ship girls that Befa did not know, one of them was called the Golden Deer and the other was called the Royal Fortune. They claimed to belong to the "Hurricane Camp" and were sailing warships that crisscrossed the oceans during the Age of Discovery.
It is worth mentioning that the two groups of four ship girls, Ding'an and Kashino, were summoned when they encountered Siren air raids while anchored in the port area, while Golden Deer and Royal Fortune encountered an unprecedented storm during their treasure hunting adventure and were swept into a huge whirlpool.
As for the fact that they took Dick hostage as soon as they arrived, it was purely a "professional habit".
After getting a general understanding of the abilities and levels of her new companions, Belfa felt that the five of them could form a "task force". This formation was indeed a little bit inferior to their original world of Azur Lane, but in this world, it would not be a big problem to deal with some sailing pirate ships or paddle steamers of the Imperial Navy.
Both Golden Deer and Royal Fortune are standard combat-type ship girls. Kashino's ship is also equipped with small-caliber naval guns and anti-aircraft machine guns. Ding'an is equipped with seaplanes. Although there are only three of them, they are enough as a means of aerial reconnaissance.
So Dick transferred all four ship girls to Belfa's command, and it would be best if they could carry out some running-in training.
Befa immediately said that there was no problem, then looked at Dick with a calm smile.
Seeing this, Dick immediately understood what he meant. He coughed lightly to signal the golden deer that was clinging to him to let go of her slippery tentacles. Then he asked everyone else in the room to leave first. He had something else to say and needed to talk to Befa alone.
When Golden Deer heard that Dick wanted to chase people away, he pouted and looked unhappy.
Among the four ship girls in the same issue, Jinlu can be said to be the one who spoke directly to Dick from the beginning, admitting that she just coveted Dick's body and wanted to turn him into her own "collection".
"Commander, I don't want to be separated from you!"
"Be good and obey."
After Dick's kind words of comfort, Jin Lu reluctantly left the office with the others, while Ding'an looked back and forth between Dick and Befa for a moment, revealing a thoughtful expression.
When Dick and Beffa were the only ones left in the room, Dick stood up from his desk and sat down on the sofa nearby. Beffa followed him over, lay down on his side and rested his head on Dick's thigh.
As a master, Dick has the obligation to "replenish magic" for his servants, and intimate physical contact is helpful for energy absorption. Therefore, there is an unwritten rule within the team, that is, there will be "extra subsidies" after returning from field work. Dick will try his best to satisfy his girls, not only by replenishing magic power, but also by providing them with the emotional value they want.
The ways that girls choose to have intimate contact are also different.
There are the more quiet ones who like to use him as a pillow and are very satisfied just holding him in their arms. There are also the more wild and fierce ones who directly transform into Goddess Shiji, treat Dick as a cat, and hold him down to suck in a gust of wind.
In comparison, Befa is a more gentle type and is very fond of knee pillow and reverse knee pillow.
Looking at Belfa, who was resting her head on his thigh with a comfortable smile on her face, Dick gently stroked her beautiful silver hair. During the days when the enemy's single ship attacked, Dick seemed to be calm on the surface, but in fact he was always worried about Belfa's safety, fearing that something might happen to her.
"Thank you for your hard work, Befa."
As Dick spoke, he bent down and kissed Befa's forehead, and Befa immediately stood up and returned a long, wet, hot French kiss. This kiss seemed to have touched a switch in Befa, making the two of them uncontrollable.
"I think I should get a bed ready in my office."
“Isn’t the sofa nice?”
As Befa spoke, she had adjusted her posture to Dick's favorite position of sitting astride his waist. Due to his obvious disadvantages in height and body shape, Dick was almost completely covered by Befa's body. However, because Befa's body was soft and elastic, this feeling of oppression was not uncomfortable at all, but even very comfortable.
The two kissed passionately while undressing each other. The collar of Belfa's maid outfit was opened, and the two well-shaped peaches still stood upright under the support of the corset. At a time when the breast volume within the team is in "numerical expansion", although Belfa is no longer a first-tier level, the feel and taste of this pair of big babies can still make Dick enjoy playing with it.
As a reserved perfect maid, even if she is already in love, Belfa rarely sings like other girls during lovemaking. She will suppress her volume as much as possible, but never hides her seductiveness when she is frank with others, and her purple eyes are full of love and desire.
This kind of restrained coquettishness is exactly the most alluring sexiness of Befa, which makes Dick unable to stop!
From the way Befa asked for a kiss, it was not hard to tell that she must have had a hard time tracking the enemy at sea these days. Befa said before that she lost her way after entering the thick fog, so she must have been trapped in it for a while. The actual situation was definitely not as easy as she said to get out.
087. Dirty PY Deal
Facts have proved that when you have a clear advantage in a negotiation and want to maximize your benefits, procrastination is undoubtedly a good option.
The negotiations between the three parties lasted for more than ten days. The most uncomfortable person among them was undoubtedly Hamradi, who was pulled back and forth in the middle.
Hamuradi initially wanted Dick to give in, but Dick's retort left him speechless.
"Grandpa, why are you helping outsiders? Are those pirates elves? I want to gain more benefits, not just for myself! Grandpa, please be more careful!"
There was no other way, so Hamradi had to go to the Sea Tiger Gang to negotiate on his own, and let Yitzhak act as a salesman to explain to the pirates how considerable the profits of "flour" were.
Finally, after a series of bargaining, the three parties finally reached an agreement on the cooperation model and profit distribution plan. The first transaction agreed upon by the two parties was a barter of goods. Dick used 350 kilograms of goods to exchange for 700 strong slaves from the Sea Tiger Gang.
According to the regular market price of the Empire, a healthy male slave in his twenties or thirties would cost between one and two hundred gold coins. If he had a skill, the price could be doubled or tripled. But for the pirates of the Sea Tiger Gang, all slaves were only fifty gold coins.
The advantage is that it is cheap, but the disadvantage is that such "unlicensed slaves" are not officially recognized by the empire. Slave owners have to spend a lot of time and effort to train them after buying them, and they also have to guard against the slaves escaping.
To put it bluntly, it is an irregular purchasing channel and there is no "after-sales service".
Seven hundred slaves in exchange for three hundred and fifty kilograms of goods, which means that the pirates are willing to purchase goods from Dick at the price of one hundred gold coins per kilogram. The Sea Tiger Gang's ships are responsible for transportation, and the Dead Tree Gang's people are responsible for sales after landing.
After everything was settled, the three parties agreed to conduct the transaction on the first day of August at a beach on the south bank of the fjord. While Dick was busy fishing for pirates, a letter from the imperial capital was delivered to him.
"My son, you have been the governor of your fiefdom for almost a year. Is everything going well? Come home in the fall to visit your father, Rune Besda."
After receiving the letter, Dick thought about it. He had indeed taken office in Laguge at the end of September last year. In the blink of an eye, ten months had passed. According to normal rules, he should have returned to the imperial capital in person in the autumn of his first year in office to report to the Duke in person.
But to be honest, Dick didn't want to go back. He didn't miss the magnificent Duke's Palace in the imperial capital at all, and all his memories of it were bad.
Looking back on the dozen years in the imperial capital, Dick lived like an orphan living under the roof of others. Before he awakened his magical talent, everyone in the Duke's Mansion, not to mention his brothers and sisters, even some servants dared to give him a sarcastic look in front of the "Fifth Young Master".
During that time, Dick could only endure and play the role of a harmless little cutie who knew nothing, trying hard to live to adulthood and then find a way to escape from the Duke's Mansion which was full of dangers.
What about making a name for oneself? What about conquering the world? Those are things that only start to be considered after one has the ability. Before the age of twelve, Dick only thought about how to survive.
But even if he returned to the imperial capital, Dick was not worried that he would be dismissed.
The fief of Laguge has always been a useless thing to the Belt family.
The territory is indeed large, and although the climate is harsh, there are rare strategic materials such as cold iron, so you can't say that there is no money to be made here. However, the traditional sphere of influence of the Best family and the noble group behind them has always been in the warm and rich southern part of the empire, so Laguge, located on the northern border of the empire, has become an "enclave" that is too far away.
In fact, the Best family didn't want this land at all, and they were not interested in the cold iron. It was Hesse I who forced it on Duke Best in order to gradually break up the Best family and split this family, which had a lot of say in the noble group, into several families.
As it turned out, the old duke didn't buy it at all. He appointed governors to manage all non-core fiefdoms and never sent any direct descendants of the family there, thus maintaining the centralization and unity of the entire family.
So even though the brothers in the family are jealous of Dick for being able to become the governor of the fiefdom, if Dick really wants to give up his throne to make room for them, no one is willing to come.
Who would want to be a mere governor when they can compete to become a duke?
After calculating the time, Dick decided to wait until he saw the corn harvest in the fields before setting off back to the imperial capital. Before that, he still had to deal with the pirates and the Dead Tree Gang.
Soon, the day of the transaction arrived. Dick personally brought the black and white guns and fifty trusted soldiers to escort the agreed "goods" to the agreed transaction location.
When the group arrived at the beach, Hamradi also showed up with Yitzhak and several members of the Dead Tree Party.
Except for Yzak, all the other people in this group were pure-blooded elves, all wearing black magic robes with invisibility. Their faces under the hoods were extremely handsome, but when they looked at Dick, their eyes were full of undisguised contempt and disgust.
Most elves are "frank" and will not hide their contempt for you in their hearts.
People like Hamradi who have learned to be hypocritical are already part of the minority who know how to adapt.
Without paying attention to the looks of the elves, Dick took the initiative to step forward and greet his "good grandpa", and then flattered the other party for his handsome cloak, without hiding his intention of "wanting".
Upon seeing this, Han Muradi smiled reservedly and said that this was called the Moonlight Cloak, a magical equipment specially equipped for the Queen's Guards during the Elf Empire period, and it also symbolized supreme honor.
Hamuradi said this, meaning that Dick was not qualified yet, but his cheap grandson was really thick-skinned and pretended not to understand.
"That's awesome! Give me one too!"
"First, complete the transaction first."
As Hamuradi spoke, he pointed to the sea not far away. A thick white fog had spread outside the fjord at some point, and was moving towards the bay at a speed visible to the naked eye, soon covering where Dick and the others were.
At this moment, the sound of a bronze bell suddenly rang out in the fog, followed by the flickering green light of the book lamp like a ghost fire.
Seeing this, Dick thought that these pirates really had something good in their hands. When Befa was tracking the enemy before, he also suddenly lost his way after entering the fog. Now it was Dick's turn to be in it, and he could clearly feel a power that was more advanced than magic.
Dick had seen a similar power fluctuation once before, when his uncle Behemoth lent him the Wild Crown for temporary use. Therefore, there was no doubt that this was the aura emitted by the divine weapon.
The author says:
Author's words: I have been coughing for almost two days. My lungs hurt and my brain feels like it's shaking. I am in no condition to type. I went for an IV drip this afternoon and the symptoms are barely under control.
I feel like my immunity has disappeared since the Year of the Sheep. Whenever the climate changes drastically, I get sick.
088. Brother, this tastes wrong!
In the fog, the shadow of a ship gradually emerged. A small boat carrying seven people docked at the dark brown rocky beach. Several non-mainstream people who were obviously not good people just by looking at their appearance jumped ashore and surrounded the burliest man as they walked towards Dick.
Dick guessed that this man should be Tiger, the leader of the Sea Tiger Gang, the self-proclaimed "King of the North Sea".
Judging from his appearance alone, Tiger is a very tall and strong man, over two meters tall, with broad shoulders, a broad body, thick limbs, and extremely thick body hair.
This was the first time in Dick's life that he had seen a man with a beard and chest hair.
With his slanted eyes and wide mouth, at first glance he looks like a beast walking upright.
Dick deduced that Tiger should be of Orc descent and a mixed-race.
In the Hessian Empire, people of mixed races are mostly not welcomed. Often times, people can roughly infer your origins just by looking at the type of mixed race you are.
Most of the elf half-bloods like Dick are the illegitimate children of the powerful, because elf slaves are high-end goods that are not affordable for ordinary people. Even if they are sent to brothels, they are high-end brothels that can only be patronized by gentlemen.
The situation of orc-halfs is even more miserable, as it is almost equivalent to the "slave label".
You must know that whether it is the current Hessen Empire or the Holy Kingdom of the Elves in the past, they do not recognize the Orcs as a highly intelligent race, but only regard them as talking beasts.
Because the level of civilization of the orcs is indeed very low, and they are brutal and violent by nature. The most important thing is that the orcs are cannibals. Both humans and elves are on the orcs' menu.
The hybridity between humans and orcs is said to be largely due to the bad taste of earthlings.
After seeing the orcs, some Earth Fury fans had a sudden idea that they could artificially breed cute girls with animal ears. They then instigated their slave owners to "preach" to them, and actually made some Hessian nobles develop a sexual interest in the animal ears.
Anyway, in the eyes of these noble lords, slaves and orcs are all animals, no different from a donkey paired with a horse.
Thus, the orcs were born in this absurd way.
However, up to now, that kind of cute beastgirl has not appeared, because the genes of orcs are stronger than imagined. Half-orcs with half orc blood are no different from orcs in appearance, and one-quarter orcs are just slightly smaller in size, becoming small-sized orcs.
However, human genes did play some role after all. These mixed-race orcs were smarter than purebred orcs, and would be more obedient if they were trained from a young age.
These half-orcs are as strong as orcs, and are smart and obedient, so they are very popular with slave owners. In addition, orcs reach sexual maturity at the age of twelve and have a short reproduction cycle, so this immoral mixed-blood breeding continues to this day.
The Tiger in front of him was obviously a half-orc. He probably didn't have much orc blood, but the physical features left on him were still obvious.
Dick didn't have much information about this guy. He only knew that he was the son of the old captain of the Sea Tiger. After inheriting his father's business as a pirate, he used his skills and brains to expand the family business from an old sailing ship of his grandfather's generation into an entire pirate fleet. In the end, he integrated the pirates of the Northern Fjords into an alliance and became the boss of the largest smuggling group in the northern waters of the empire.
With this experience and this background, he is definitely the hero of a gangster novel!
Dick is currently unable to confirm whether there is a bigger financial backer hidden behind Tiger, but as long as this guy and his pirate group are still entrenched in the northern fjord, the development of Lagug will be restricted, so the entire pirate group must be wiped out!
So Dick used his body as bait and demanded that the three leaders meet at the first transaction, and he actually succeeded in luring out Tiger from the Sea Tiger Gang.
At this point, Dick's plan has been half successful!
It can be seen that Tiger has a very arrogant personality. Even when he met Hamradi, he just waved his hand indifferently. And when he saw Dick, who was barely one-third of his height and had a pair of abdominal muscles and was as thin as a bean sprout (compared to Tiger), his eyes revealed undisguised ridicule and contempt.
"Are you the current governor of Laguge?"
"It's down."
