Chapter 89

Chapter 1021

Annan followed Isaac's gaze and looked back.

——It was a group of men dressed as thugs.

They were wearing jackets with many zippers, and they were carrying a leather weapon that reminded Annan of a leather beater, and they walked over aggressively from a distance.

And what they were chasing in front of them was a middle-aged man who seemed to be well-dressed, but panicked for some reason, and staggered forward to escape.

"The name of that weapon is [Whale Baleen]."

Isaac explained to Annan: "Because this thing was originally made of baleen plates from baleen whales.

"Do you know baleen plates? Baleen whales don't have teeth, and baleen is their filter-feeding teeth. It has a considerable degree of toughness and is a very good material. Since the age of elves, old sailors have used baleen to make Special self-defense weapons.

"It is only necessary to tie an iron block to a section of the baleen, and then wrap it with a cable to form a very easy-to-use hammer. Because the baleen in the middle is quite flexible, it is convenient to exert force and at the same time, It is not easy to get rid of. Compared with the hammer, it is easy to carry...Of course, the biggest advantage is that it is cheap."

"There are a lot fewer whales now."

Annan turned his face slightly, and said in a low voice, "The Noahs seem to be the only ones who are still hunting whaling."

"This is actually because of the gray fog. In the past, the name of this place was not 'Black Sail Town', but 'Red Sail Town'. But these years, there are fewer and fewer whales, and the whaling team with red sails is also There are fewer, but more pirates with black sails..."

Isaac chuckled: "Of course, the gray fog will not sink below the surface of the sea, but will float in the air... This prevents the fish from being corrupted by the curse, so fishermen can still fish.

"These fishermen are ordinary people, so the curse cannot corrupt their souls. For them, the biggest disadvantage of the gray fog is probably that 'the food will spoil very quickly at sea'. But as long as you come back quickly enough, don't go to the far sea, In fact, there is no difference from before.

"However, Your Majesty, you may not know that a whale is actually not a fish - it cannot breathe in the water, but needs to return to the sea surface to take a breath. During this process, the whale will inhale a large amount of gray mist.

"Although the gray fog will not erode the whales, the food in the whale's belly will be more likely to be eroded by the gray fog and rot. In the end, it will suffer from gastroenteritis or stomach cancer, which makes the number of whales drop sharply to less than the elf period one-twentieth of.

"Another reason is also because of the invention of green fire—the existence of green fire, which replaced whale oil. However, because the number of whales suddenly dropped sharply, the number of fish began to increase instead, so coastal cities did not lose too much food.

"Whales are quite rare these days. Existing whales,

There is now a new ability - they can judge the concentration of curses nearby before resurfacing. If the concentration is not too high, they will only float up... and because they breathe the gray mist for a long time, they themselves are gradually alienated and have special abilities.

"First of all, the size of the whales began to increase abnormally. It is almost three to four times that of the second era... and they will also acquire some special abilities. Since the whales are already magic creatures, the materials on their bodies— —For example, 'whale', naturally became an expensive spell material.

"Then the sailors, and the port thugs...they couldn't make weapons out of baleen anymore. So they reworked it. Instead of using baleen as padding, they used tanned baleen on the outside. leather, one end stuffed with a solid mass of lead, and the inside stuffed with cotton..."

While Isaac was talking to Annan, the group of thugs finally caught up with the middle-aged man who seemed to be very negligent in exercising.

But the surrounding crowd did not respond to this.

They were not panicked or frightened. Just stand still and watch the excitement.

It's not that no one is afraid at all, but those people look like outsiders, or in other words, they are outsiders who came to Denisaua for the first time.

"That is how the matter?"

Annan tilted his head slightly, and asked Isaac: "This seems to be very common...even people are not afraid of them."

As a local—even though he was a local more than a hundred years ago, he must know Denisawya better than Annan.

And Isaac did not disappoint Annan.

He nodded and explained: "Those people run gambling stalls."

"Gambling?"

"It's a pawn shop with gambling, or you can also understand it as a casino with the function of a pawn shop."

Isaac narrowed his eyes and looked at the group of people.

The group of thugs from the gambling stall quickly surrounded the middle-aged man.

They took out the "baleen" and patted the middle-aged man's forearm, calf, lower back and groin.

Soon the middle-aged man let out howls like killing a pig one after another-his arm turned blue and purple at a speed visible to the naked eye. There also appeared to be broken bones.

And Isaac looked at him very coldly.

He calmly introduced: "Don't look at the lightness of the whalebone... But just one proper hammer blow can crack the skull; if it hits the chin, it can make people faint immediately. Use it to break The limbs are also much easier than hitting with a stick. The most important thing is - it hurts very much."

"So, what are these people here for?"

Annan pointed at the group of strong and aggressive thugs with his chin: "Is it to arrest the gambling debt evader?"

"Yes and no."

Isaac replied: "The so-called gambling stalls must exist in places where pirates are prosperous... because the 'pawned things' in the gambling stalls are not just treasures and the like."

"what is that?"

"—of course people."

A lean, dark-skinned old man stood behind them and took the conversation.

He was wearing a short shirt, and the traces of the sea breeze could be seen on his face. On the feet are open-toed bamboo shoes similar to sandals.

The old man also looked at that person indifferently, with undisguised schadenfreude on his face: "Even if it's the top card boy, it won't be okay to enter the gambling stall...unless you have a grudge against someone..."

"Have a grudge?"

"It's an arm, it's a head."

The old man sneered: "It's a small fight. It's those pirates who really come to gamble.

"The captives who were captured, the traitors who were dealt with, the women and children of the enemy's family. There are also those merchants who borrowed loans like pirates and couldn't repay them, so they could only sell their children.

"Money... it's here with us, it's like sea water. The sea water ebbs and flows, and money also ebbs and flows. If the old ones don't go, the new ones won't come..."

The old man said strangely, and walked away with his hands behind his back.

Annan looked thoughtfully at the middle-aged man dressed as a businessman with a big belly.

So to say……

"Probably because the goods were robbed by thieves... You are an idiot who wants to use his wife and children as gambling capital to turn the tables, but bet his own life on it."

Isaac's green pupils were quiet and deep: "There are many such idiots in the United Kingdom."

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Mr. Quan Qin lived on again...

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