Night Sailing, abbreviated as ...... Night.

Night sailing, this is not a simple two words.

In today's medieval-like, extremely backward seafaring world, not to mention that there is no GPS positioning and radio communication on the modern earth, even a sextant to calculate latitude and longitude, and relatively accurate nautical charts do not exist.

You must know that in the history of the earth, navigation did not advance by leaps and bounds until the Age of Discovery after the Middle Ages. Tempted by the great wealth brought about by the great geographical discoveries, shipbuilding, astronomy, hydrology, navigation, and trade were able to make great progress.

In the current world, there are no great geographical discoveries, nature is nothing, and navigation is in an absolute dark age. Perhaps the wizard had some special means of navigation, such as using prophetic spells to detect the exact location of a location and direct the ship there. Ordinary merchant ships did not have such means, and most of them had to rely on experience and logbooks that they did not know where to get them.

Most logbooks don't tell the user when and where to sail, because the writer doesn't know what to do. The most common logbook is this: leaving the port of Sem and heading northeast, for about three days, you will encounter a white seabed.

After passing through this area, turning northwest and going straight for two days, you will encounter a reef area. Spend half a day rounding the reef and heading north, about four days downwind and five days upwind, and you can see the shadow of Dax Harbor.

If you don't find it, you may have missed it, so it is recommended to turn left and follow the land to look for it. If you still can't find it...... Well, I hope the gods will bless me, because I don't know where I've been.

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In such a backward situation, choosing to sail at night can indeed speed up the speed of sailing, but the consequences are often unacceptable, such as running aground, running aground, damaging the ship, and getting lost.

Imagine being on the boundless sea, suddenly unable to determine where you are, let alone which side of the continent you are. Food is getting scarcer, fresh water is slowly bottoming out, and an atmosphere of despair will grapple over everyone.

Therefore, the word night sailing represents absolute danger.

But for the current captain Morgan, there has been a ghost ship chasing him behind him, and he has to choose to use night sailing to try to get rid of the other party.

Because he has a hunch that once he is caught up by the ghost ship, there will be absolutely no good end. In addition, it is the confidence in his ability, and he believes that he will have full power at the helm and command, even if it is a night flight, there will not be too many problems.

And if the night voyage is really successful, not only is there a high probability that the ghost ship will be completely thrown off, but it will also be able to greatly speed up the voyage.

For this voyage, he had already heard a lot of bad news, all about the previous Black Sacred Mountain Kingdom and another country were at odds, and a war would break out at any time to blockade the sea area. Once this is the case, then his shipload of goods will have to be backlogged, and he will lose a lot, and he can't bear this to happen. So, if you can go a little faster, you can reduce the risk a little bit.

Making a decision in his heart, Captain Morgan quickly thought about how to deal with the many situations of the night voyage, while instructing the first mate Williams and the rest to prepare, while slowly waiting for the night to come.

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In the blink of an eye, it was dark.

Numerous torches were lit on the deck, and after a short break, Captain Morgan returned to the rudder's position, cheering up and steering the ship forward, while constantly sensing the direction of the wind and giving orders to adjust the sails.

"The port side is windy, and the strong wind deflects the mainsail eight notches to the right, the auxiliary sail to the right by ten notches, and the stern sail to the right by seven notches. ”

"Yes. The sailors responded and moved quickly.

After a lot of busyness, the sails were adjusted, and the sailors breathed a sigh of relief. A sailor was walking around the deck when he suddenly saw Richard standing in a corner of the deck, looking up at the back of the ship, not knowing what he was looking at.

"Huh?" the sailor approached curiously, glanced at Richard, and asked, "What are you looking at, sir?"

"Ghost ship. Richard replied.

"Ghost ship, can you see it?" the sailor didn't believe it, how could he see another ship on the sea far away in the dark night?

Richard could naturally see that, after all, his eyesight was far beyond ordinary people, but he didn't explain anything, stretched out his hand and pointed: "You look in that direction, look carefully, and you will find out." ”

"Really?" the sailor was suspicious, looked over, looked at it for a long time, and just when he was almost impatient, his eyes suddenly widened and he found something.

"That's ......" The sailor's face changed, and as soon as he turned around, he ran to Captain Morgan, and shouted, "Captain, Captain, look!"

"What?" Captain Morgan raised his eyebrows, listened to the sailor's words, turned his head, and narrowed his eyes.

I saw that in the sea area behind the "Naru Glorious Fisherman", in the darkness, a little blue light appeared. At first, it was the size of a bean, like a ghost fire in a cemetery that could be extinguished at any time. But after a while, the light became a little larger, indicating that it was closer to the "Naru Glory Fisherman".

"Captain, this is the ghost ship chasing us, how can it be faster than us? How is this possible! It is not as good as ours during the day, and at night, a demon helps it pull the ship?" asked the timid sailor, a little apprehensive.

Captain Morgan glared at the sailor fiercely, and kept his composure: "It's not a demon who pulls the boat for it, it's not that it's fast, it's that we're slow." Sailing at night, after all, has an impact, and it is impossible to change direction at will, and the speed cannot be compared to that of the day.

I didn't expect that the other party would be able to maintain the speed of the day...... Moreover, I didn't expect that the other party was so persistent - we fled at night, and they continued to chase after us at night. This is worse than the most greedy pirate!

"Captain, what are we going to do?"

"Hmm-" Captain Morgan pondered, and made a decision for a moment, "since he wants to chase, let him continue to chase, I don't believe that he can still defy the sky in this night, and since we can see the blue fire on his ship now, he must also see the torches on our ship." That...... Extinguish all the torches at the back of the ship, and the torches on both sides of the ship, leaving only the torches with the bow lighting.

In this way, with the cover of the sails, he will not see any light and will lose our goal. I'll make another detour to make sure he's chasing farther and farther. ”

"Yes. ”

The sailors quickly went to do it, and Captain Morgan began to turn to the left and gave orders.

"Three scales to the left of the mainsail, five scales to the left of the auxiliary sail, and eight scales to the left of the stern sail......"

"Understood!"

After a short while, the "Naru Glorious Fisherman" made a "squeak" sound almost in complete darkness, turned to the left, and continued on its way.

Richard watched Captain Morgan's operation on the deck, and couldn't help but think in his heart: According to normal logic, after Captain Morgan's efforts, he could indeed successfully get rid of the ghost ship, so he didn't have to worry about trouble finding it.

But......

Thinking of this, Richard stood on the deck in the dark, looked to the rear, looked at it for a moment, and frowned.

"Delusion?" Richard said, then shook his head, "It's not an illusion, the ghost ship is indeed closer. ”

Well, closer.

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