"Ha--" The dark clouds blocked the moonlight again. Mira took the opportunity to readjust her posture and stood up with difficulty, leaning on the nearby huge wooden winch. The fall just now made her legs and feet somewhat inflexible. Fortunately, the opponent did not seize the opportunity to knock her down, either because he was not nearby or because he was not skilled enough.
"Heh-" She breathed out. He pressed his body against the wooden base of the winch, and then groped underneath with his hands. He touched something cold and immediately realized that it was the small shield that had just fallen out of his hand.
Mira picked it up and then took a rough look at the surrounding environment.
Although it has been more than a month since I traveled on the ship, it was the first time I came to the outside of the deck at such a late night.
The change in visibility made the overall feeling different from the daytime experience. Coupled with the freezing temperature, the Luoan girl who was not wearing gloves felt that her hands began to become numb and dull after a while.
'Just solve it as soon as possible. ’ She thought, because she felt uncomfortable in all aspects and wanted to quickly solve the problem and return to the warm cabin, so she just determined the source of the light and continued to move forward.
The front deck of Oriental Moon is 16 meters long and more than 8 meters wide, almost 9 meters wide. Such an area can be seen from a high altitude during the day.
But in the dark night and with some debris placed on the deck, it is very difficult to find out where the other party is.
Most of the place is in darkness, and apart from the faint starlight, there are only two sources of light - the higher superstructure behind where the helmsman is, and the sides of the bow. The outline of the blackened anchor chain could be seen in the firelight, and it was obvious that the other party did not escape there. That is only possible in these areas near the mast.
The wind blew from the side and front, proving that the ship was sailing against the wind.
This is one of the magic weapons that allows the Oriental Moon and her sister ships and successors to dominate the ocean. The longitudinal sails developed and produced by the Southerners are more efficient in utilizing the changing sea winds on the ocean than the horizontal sails of traditional sailboats. It can continue sailing even in headwind conditions. It’s just that when driving against the wind, the side of the sail needs to face the wind direction to capture the wind, so you must make a zigzag Z-shape to your destination.
Still, she could outrun pirate ships that were theoretically lighter and faster with square sails.
——Then how did the other party get up? Could it be that such a short body was mixed with goods——goods! The Luoan girl immediately thought of the big box that contained clothes before. The box was more than 80 centimeters wide and 40 centimeters high. Small people could curl up in it. However, they were covered in thick clothes and were in a hurry to leave, so they did not check it carefully. .
Thinking that this man was not wearing shoes was probably for this reason - he was a pirate, and he also had a knife. Her eyes became sharp. After judging that the other party posed a threat, Mira thought that other people who were not good at fighting could not be involved. She turned back and looked at the door where the moonlight was still shining. Lisa, who was looking around, first made a silent "shh" gesture to indicate that she would not disturb too many people; then she patted her chest with a look of "leave it to me", which successfully made Lisa feel at ease. , nodded and closed the hatch and waited for her there.
The moonlight disappeared again, and the Luoan girl, whose eyes had to adapt to the darkness again, paused in place for a while. Different from the inside of the enclosed cabin, the sound of wind and waves on the exposed deck was much louder. She could not use the sound to identify the presence of her opponent, but fortunately the opponent should be the same.
She seemed to be playing a wooden game, groping forward piece by piece. The moonlight appears for different lengths of time, so she always stops to observe and confirm the surrounding environment when it appears, and after it dims again, she pauses to take a defensive posture and waits for her eyes to readjust to the darkness. Between light and darkness, Mira had explored a lot of areas, but she never saw the small pirate intruder.
The huge main mast casts a faint shadow under the faint starlight. Beyond the observation nets mounted on the observation decks on both sides is the deep black sea sparkling under the stars in the sky.
The waves were crashing, and a light frost that would melt during the day covered some areas prone to frost, making the deck increasingly slippery. The thick cold-proof boots wrapped in rex rabbit skin aggravated the feeling of sluggishness in the lower feet. Although it effectively prevented frostbite, the feeling of walking on thin ice made Mira frown - this was not the combat environment she liked, even in her hands. The sword he is currently holding is not the most used and familiar long sword.
She began to wonder if she had made the wrong decision.
There wasn't much debris on the deck, and there were only a few places to hide. But due to the problem of vision, she simply couldn't grasp a large area at a glance like she could during the day.
But the same must be true for the other party - she kept moving her wrists that were stiff due to the cold, and she wanted to fight quickly because of the various discomforts she felt.
"Crack, click -" the sound sounded in the dark place near the ship's side on the right front, and then at the same time, the bright moonlight also cast down.
The two of them squinted their eyes at the same time to adapt to the bright light, and Mira saw each other clearly for the first time - she was a girl with black hair and a pointed chin, with the same blue eyes as hers but with one eye. He seemed to be injured, so he had a blindfold on his eyes, a warm scarf tied on his head, a cotton jacket wrapped around his body, and his hands in his arms.
"Vinika Qiurosa, Pashi!" Some familiar words that she didn't understand came from the other party's mouth. Her expression was a little impatient and uneasy, especially when she saw the Luoan girl subconsciously put on her face. This is even more true after the fighting stance.
"Tsk——" The pirate girl took out the knife from her arms, and Mira, who immediately reacted to the threat, decided to strike preemptively.
"Ha——!" She stepped forward steadily and hit the opponent's arm with a small shield, intending to disarm her before she could use the dagger. She then grabbed the dagger with her other hand but did not make a killing move. It is struck with the end of the sword hilt.
The advantage of dual-wielding weapons from both sides caused the pirate girl, who had not even taken her hands out of her arms, to lose the opportunity and fall into a disadvantage. However, this was just Mira's wishful thinking, because the opponent squatted down at an alarming speed to take advantage of her small stature. The advantage was to avoid Mira's misaimed shield attack. Then he jumped up with his feet and directly hit the hilt of her sword with his turban-covered head, "Dang! - smack, smack, smack!"
The dagger held by Mira in her right hand flew out and was nailed to the thick wooden board under the mast. Because she was not wearing gloves and was made cold and stiff by the cold wind, her movements were not as flexible as she thought. . But what shocked the Luoan girl even more was the opponent's decisiveness - was this head made of iron and directly hit the hilt of the sword - she was still in this shock, and the pirate girl had already stretched out her warm cotton-padded jacket My hands were kept warm by body temperature, so they were not frozen.
"Bah!" She yelled in a childish voice and then slapped Mira's shield-holding left hand with the handle of the knife. However, the Luoan girl's advantage in strength and physique made this attack ineffective. Mira herself was aware of this, so she immediately stretched out her frozen right hand to grab the opponent's warm hand, and then planned to use grappling skills to twist the hand to seize the weapon, but this movement was also slow due to the freezing condition. Half a beat.
"Hey!" the pirate girl yelled again, then jumped up and grabbed Mira's hand to pull her down to the ground while she was standing on the slippery deck.
"Bang! Uh-huh -" The sound of falling on the deck was drowned out by the waves, and then she immediately felt that the other party was trying to remove the small shield from her hand. But Mira, who was physically stronger, quickly adjusted her position to break away from the other party's movements, and the pirate girl immediately moved away from her to avoid being caught by her.
"Ha-huh-huh-" Mira, who climbed up again, felt that she was exhausted just standing. On the contrary, the other party stood barefoot on the frosty deck and did not suffer from frostbite, not to mention this fight. I didn't even breathe hard when I came down.
——It won't be good for her if she goes on like this. Just as she was thinking this, she suddenly felt that the moonlight around her began to disappear again.
And just when she was about to quickly find a place to hide and stay safe while waiting for herself to adapt to the darkness again - she saw the other person stretching out his other hand and skillfully changing the blindfold covering his face to his other eye. The place.
In an instant, Mira understood.
Her eyes were not injured, and the reason for the eyepatch was due to the change in light and darkness - it takes at least a few minutes for human eyes to adapt from light to darkness, but if one eye is kept in the dark through the cover, it will take until When the environment becomes dark, just put on the eye mask and you can adapt to the darkness immediately.
Arrogant.
A fine line of cold sweat broke out on the Luoan girl's forehead - although the other person looked younger and smaller than her, he definitely had a lot of experience in all aspects.
The purpose of keeping your hands warm in your coat is to prevent them from being frozen and inflexible and unable to achieve the movements you want; the eye mask is to adapt to the bursts of moonlight; and walking barefoot on the deck is cold but avoids slipping. , and as long as you keep exercising, you won’t get frostbite easily.
It's over - she still can't see the environment clearly, but the other party has completed adapting to the darkness through the change of eye mask.
Mira held the small shield forward, constantly changing the direction of defense, and the cold sweat on her face became more and more.
The sound of wind and waves covered up the possible sounds of action from the other party.
She didn't know where the other party was. Her vision was gradually becoming clearer, but not fast enough - the other party knew where she was.
She started to panic.
Not paying enough attention to her surroundings - she recalled a previous criticism from her teacher.
Mira has always known that she has this problem, so she has always been very studious and works hard to learn all aspects of observation and thinking.
But what she didn't know was that the problem wasn't just about knowledge accumulation.
To be fair, the teaching methods of sages are excellent.
He never claims how good his swordsmanship is, even though it is true. But Henry knew better that for a swordsman, the most important thing is to think that his fighting skills are the best in the world. Stay calm and review the situation. Nothing is a one-size-fits-all approach. You must choose appropriate countermeasures to survive.
This is something he never tired of repeating to our Luoan girl, but it is just like countless other master-student relationships or family relationships.
Language does not occupy all components of teaching.
Children are like parrots who can only repeat monotonically, obeying the words and words of adults. More often, what they will do is.
- Imitate the behavior of adults.
Henry is strong.
In other words, it's too strong.
This allows him to perform feats that turn the tide like an adventure hero, and can defeat a team of opponents by himself. But because of this, he became a bad example.
No matter how many times he said it, when he could defeat the enemy with overwhelming power almost every time he encountered it, this figure would inevitably leave a mark on Mira's heart.
"Teachers are omnipotent." Just like a child looks forward to his parents, she will inevitably start to learn his every move.
As a woman, her physical strength is naturally weaker than that of a man. In addition, she is still very young and her body has not yet fully developed. Her ideal fighting method should be more flexible and changeable, using her abundant knowledge and solid foundation to deal with the enemy and seize the opponent's loopholes to counterattack.
Just like what the pirate girl faced at this moment did.
But that's not her.
The previous battle where the pirates boarded the ship was an example, and there were countless others before. When facing a battle, Mira will always subconsciously choose to confront the opponent head-on, trying to defeat the opponent with faster speed and stronger power through active attack.
Henry's unrivaled, overwhelming strength and technique became the direction she has been pursuing.
But blind progress sometimes brings bitter consequences to oneself.
This lesson was not taught to her by a sage.
"Tap tap tap -" 'In the back -! 'The voice rang out only after more than a minute of being plunged into darkness. She was not able to fully adapt to the darkness, but she still reacted decisively, changed the way she held the small shield in her hand, and then punched out .
"Wha--" But, it failed-
The sound of "tap tap tap" continued to sound, and it hit Mira's calf. With her eyes adapted to some darkness, she saw that it was clearly a lemon on the ship——
In other words, the other party deliberately dropped the elastic lemon on the deck to make a sound to make her mistake it for footsteps, so what followed was——
"Hey!" After attracting her to wave the shield in her hand forward, the small figure rushed over from the side and ran into Mira's arms, causing her whole body to hit the side of the ship. The small shield she was holding in her left hand immediately He flew out and landed in the sea with a "crash-", and the pirate girl then used extremely skillful movements to get her leg between Mira's feet and then pulled her other one. The hand knocked her whole body to the ground.
"Boom!" "Whoa--" The Luoan girl who had been thrown down was still waving her hands wildly in an attempt to fight back, but her hands were quickly grabbed by the opponent and twisted to the side to restrain her.
She lost her breath due to panic, and due to the fall, she was unable to exert her strength in time to resist, so she was awkwardly pressed on the deck by her opponent who was smaller and stronger than herself.
"Cough cough cough -" The Luoan girl with her face pressed against the deck quickly melted the frost due to her body temperature, and her white hair was wet and stuck to her forehead because of this.
The uncomfortable and awkward feeling is second, and more of a regret for my actions.
She had a chance to fight back just now. If she had another weapon at the moment she fell to the ground, she could use this to push the opponent back and buy herself time.
But she didn't even have a second weapon on her, and she didn't wear any armor. If she were wearing plate armor, she could be more bold and not have to worry about the knife in the opponent's hand. But she didn't do that. After waking up, she just wrapped herself up a little warmer and ran out with a small shield and dagger.
stupid.
Sillier than Galeva, the girl thought.
The moonlight cast down again, and the whip-clad face of the intruder girl, who was only about 1.4 meters tall, was clearly visible at close range. She calmly looked directly at the Luoan girl who was pressed beneath her with her emerald blue eyes, but just When she opened her mouth to say something to Mira, the whole ship suddenly moved——
"Da?" The pirate girl looked a little flustered, but Mira immediately realized that this was an opportunity - it was a turn! She remembered that because it was traveling against the wind, the Oriental Moon would turn every once in a while. She stood up and planned to fight back, but she ignored the thin frost on the ground that was melted by her own body temperature, causing her feet to slide towards the ground when she got up. He fell to the other side of the deck.
"Boom - bang!" This time Mira slipped several meters away and hit the barrel. The impact was greater than the previous times. On the contrary, the pirate girl who was panicked by the situation reacted in time to help her. He stayed on the side rail of the boat without losing his balance.
"Cough cough cough -" The dizzy Luoan girl couldn't get up again for a long time, but after a few minutes passed and she finally recovered some strength, under the bright moonlight, the pirate girl slowly walked up to her in front of.
"Huh -" the Luoan girl sighed resignedly, and then when she was thinking that even if she was killed by the opponent, she would desperately inform the others on the ship - she saw the petite girl wearing a coat with a rather ethnic pattern. , put the knife back, and then stretched out his hand towards her.
"Fampa Moqi?" The other party spoke again, and this time Mira finally understood what she said.
"...You mean, do you want to help (help Patmosi)?" Mira looked at the other party with a face full of puzzlement and confusion, and the moment she repeated this sentence, the pirate girl nodded sharply. He nodded and gleefully took off his blindfold.
"Moninekapane, hello!! (Can you understand, that's great)" she said loudly and then began to dance and explain something in a series of words, but her face was dull. Ra just froze in place.
She said it.
It's Luoan language.
Although the intonation and pronunciation are different, the words spoken by this girl who does not appear to be from Luoan are indeed Luoan.
"Da?" Mira tilted her head, and the crew members, who finally noticed the movement, popped up from the upper level holding lanterns in time.
"What's going on?" The confused sailor and the confused Luoan girl looked at each other. Only the pirate girl, whose face was red from the cold, showed a big smile and raised her hand.
"Hello!"
