Entomologist in Sichuan Tang Clan Chapter 253

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“Really! I made it difficult for Bin-ak to get to Seongju in Zhejiang Province, but I couldn’t even go to Bota-am a few times!”

The princess was grumbling in annoyance on the deck.

He said it with an expression that said, “I hope you sympathize with me, because I am a person who can understand each other.”

To be honest, I was a woman with a headache, but what can I do, we need help too?

I responded to her words appropriately.

“Why?”

“Due to the recent increase in the number of pirate attacks, the county magistrates of Zhejiang have been petitioning the court, and the emperor, after confirming the petitions, has been sending me secret messages.”

“Push?”

“The Emperor is worried, so he keeps sending secret messages asking if Bin-ak and I should go somewhere safer.

So what should we do? If we leave it like this, it will go somewhere else. We have to catch the pirates. Then the Emperor won’t say such things.”

It seemed like the emperor cherished the princess very much.

No matter how rampant the pirates are, there’s no way they’ll get into the castle.

“But the castle is safe, but the Emperor seems a bit worried?”

“Well, not now, but there was a time when pirates attacked the castle.”

‘There’s no way I could come in?’

I never expected pirates to come all the way into the castle.

Of course, if pirates stormed into the castle, the emperor, who cared terribly for the princess, would be worried.

But the princess was definitely annoyed.

I came to Zhejiang, where Botaam is, after going through a difficult marriage, but I’m about to be transferred to another place.

‘But did you go and catch it yourself?’

From what I heard from the princess, it seems like she went out to catch the pirates herself.

Now that I think about it, the princess’s skin looks a bit tanned.

When I first met her, her skin was really white like snow.

“So, are you going out and catching pirates yourself?”

“Yes. I’ve been trying to persuade Master to help the disciples of Botah Temple and the government troops. That’s why my skin has become rough due to the sea breeze these days.”

The princess frowned, touching her cheek.

I wondered why the princess was in Hangzhou instead of practicing her favorite martial arts at Botaam, and it turns out there was a reason for this.

But I asked back, wondering if it was really necessary for her to come forward.

“But Lord Seobinak is here… Why would the princess send the government troops herself? She could have just sent the government troops.”

There were also government officials, so I wondered if it was necessary for the princess to come out as well.

Then the princess answered my question with a frustrated expression.

“There’s a reason for that. Originally, it was a rainy and hot land where many ethnic minorities lived together.

However, a few years ago, the number of pirates who settled and operated in the area increased, and with the addition of martial artists who fled from the Central Plains, they have now become very powerful.

So, there is a limit to just the government officials, because there are also martial artists mixed in.

Even those who have mastered the inner strength row the boat so fast that they cannot keep up with it.”

“Have you ever thought about immigrating yourself?”

If you can’t catch them at sea, you can just attack their base directly.

The princess grumbled in response to my question.

“Why didn’t I try it? We joined forces with the Fujian Province to carry out a punitive operation, but when they were attacked, they hid in the mountainous regions to the east and dragged their ships out to sea, so we couldn’t catch them.”

“iced coffee···.”

If that’s the reason, it must have been difficult to catch.

I heard the princess’s words as her expression changed while she nodded.

“But didn’t Sohyeop’s letter just arrive? And then Sohyeop’s daughter flying around came to mind and I thought, this is it! Why does Sohyeop always appear whenever I’m having a hard time?”

“Oh, I see.”

The heat in the princess’s eyes.

As I answered awkwardly, I heard something absurd from the princess.

“The teacher said it was fate for us!”

“Me? With the princess?”

I rolled my eyes and looked to the side to see Hwa-eun’s eyes wide open.

It was an expression that would have made her grab the hair if she weren’t a princess.

But Hwa-eun’s expression returned to normal after hearing the princess’s words.

“Yes, Master, that’s what I said. I helped Sohyeop a lot in my past life, so Sohyeop is helping me?”

“Is this from a previous life?”

“Yes, past life.”

“That’s strange. There was no one like that in my past life…”

“yes?”

“Oh, no.”

‘Is Botaamju a fake?’

I thought that the martial arts skills of the Botaamju were high, but his Taoist powers were probably just a rip-off.

The voice of the Taoist priest is heard from the boat.

“Little Dragon! There’s smoke rising over there. It looks like there’s a fire!”

We were moving along the coastline, looking for pirates, and as the Taoist priest said, we looked far out towards the coast and saw smoke rising from a small village.

“What the heck!”

After being wrapped in a blanket and ascending to the sky, he raised his eyes and looked at the smoking village.

Then I saw men dragging people onto the boat.

He had thrown off his top and was left with a tanned, copper-colored skin.

I saw a man with a knife threatening people.

Most of the village was already on fire.

“Princess! It looks like a pirate!”

“also!”

The princess, who was falling down from the cliff, took out a trumpet from her bosom and blew it.

-Booooow.

As soon as the princess’s horn sounded, the four warships following us from behind responded with drum sounds.

-Ding dong dong!

As our ship began to glide forward a little faster, a commotion began to break out in the direction of the village harbor.

The pirates who were trying to drag people away were throwing people out and boarding the ship.

And then two small boats leave the harbor.

The two ships, with their masts folded, began to row and move quickly.

It was a completely different speed from our ships or warships.

“Our ship doesn’t have oars, but that ship has oars like the Japanese ship, so we can’t keep up with it. Furthermore, our ship is a flat-bottomed ship, while that ship seems to be a sunken ship.”

A flat-bottomed ship is a ship with a flat bottom, while a sunken ship is a ship with a sharp bottom that allows it to sail quickly.

It was a boat with a sharp bottom that made it easier to glide.

But I no longer had to worry about sinking or flat ground.

What on earth is the reason for that?

I asked the priest in my heart.

‘Hey, Dad? Why don’t you put your father down and dig a hole in the bottom of one of those boats that are running away?’

‘Tsurut! “How big?”

‘Is there enough room for our grass?’

‘Tsurut! “Okay! I’ll follow you and dig a hole!”

The raft that quickly lowered me onto the boat jumped into the sea.

And then, with its antennae raised like a periscope, it began to move across the sea like a shark.

‘Fire a torpedo!’

The fate of one ship was now sealed, and instructions were given as to what to do with the other remaining ship.

“Hey, Yeondoo!”

-Char!

“Do you see that boat over there?”

-Char!

“Just fly over and crash into the deck!”

“Shaaaaah!”

If there’s one thing that’s changed since Yeondoo became an adult again, it’s his speed.

In the past, it felt like it was floating and moving slowly, but thanks to the power of the Golden Crown King, Cheongyu, it has become considerably faster.

If before it felt like I was floating in the sky, now it was so fast that I felt like I was really flying.

At my request, the green dot that had flown into the sky began to shoot towards the ship in the distance.

***

“Damn it, you abandoned all the women for fear of delaying the boat!”

Jin-gyu, the leader of the Heuksuchae clan, shouted annoyedly from the boat.

They came to rescue new women instead of the women who had killed themselves or gone mad, and to plunder food and goods, but they left all the women they captured today on land.

It was a pity that there were two women among them who were half and half.

Because those kinds of women are hard to come by.

“I couldn’t help it because I already had a lot of luggage.”

As the subordinate had said, the ship was already loaded with plundered food and goods, so it was impossible to load people onto it if they wanted to escape from the government troops’ ship.

So, as soon as they heard the sound of the government troops’ drums, they had no choice but to hurriedly throw the women out and get on the boat.

“Chief, didn’t you have enough fun earlier? Hehe.”

“You punk! You only eat one meal a day? Damn it. Those government troops have been quiet lately, so why are you showing up again?”

Jin-gyu shouted, feeling regretful at his subordinate’s words.

“Row quickly! There’s a rumor that these days even martial artists are being carried on boats.”

“Understood, Chief!”

And I remembered the old days.

“Hey, I need that evil woman back then···.”

Jin-gyu, the leader of the Black Sea pirates who base their activities in Iju, is originally from the Central Plains.

He was also someone who had quite a reputation among the black martial artists.

But a beautiful woman I met on the street a few years ago.

Unable to control his lust, he subdued the servants around him and raped a woman, who just so happened to be a member of the Shandong musician family.

“Shandong Akga will not leave you alone!”

“Shandong Akga!?”

When he heard the sound of blood being released and was about to leave, Jin-gyu killed everyone present and silenced them.

But in the end, he had no choice but to flee the Central Plains.

This was because the warriors of Akga, who had confirmed the traces of martial arts left on the body, joined forces with other Baekdo men to search for Jin Gyu throughout the Central Plains.

For that reason, he had no choice but to migrate, and here he became the leader of pirates.

“But today, they are chasing you for a long time?”

While Jin-gyu was thinking about the inside of the evil woman, the best woman he ever had, he heard his subordinate shouting from the side.

Let’s look into the distance. Just as my subordinate said, the warship was still chasing Jin-gyu’s ship.

“It’s strange that you would give up so soon?”

Normally I would have given up right away, but this was strange.

Because they knew that no matter how hard they chased them, they would never catch up, so when the soldiers drove away the boats, they would first go check on the looted villages.

When I raised my eyes to check, I saw that one of the five ships was heading towards the land where the village was, and the rest of the ships were following Jin-gyu’s ship.

“What a waste of time. Even if the wind were at our side, it wouldn’t be able to chase us.”

That was when.

“Whaaah!”

“Chief! Chief!”

Screams began to be heard from the other boat following along.

“Wh, what’s going on!?”

I ran to the side and stuck to the side of the boat, looking towards where the sound was coming from. Suddenly, I saw another boat tilting.

From the holds of the departing ship, men were crawling out like madmen, shouting.

“Hey, save me!”

“Water is coming into the boat!”

“What!? Did you pack too much?”

The story goes that water is entering the ship for some reason.

Jin-gyu shouted at his subordinates.

“Turn the boat around! Even if you have to throw away some of the cargo, we will rescue the children!”

“Yes, sir!”

You can get the luggage at any time, but the subordinates who have learned martial arts are rare.

They were untrustworthy guys who had flowed in from all over the Central Plains, but there was nothing we could do because without them we wouldn’t be able to do piracy.

The power of a pirate group is measured by the number of martial artists within the group.

Even though it was a bit risky, if he lost half of his men, Jin-gyu’s Heuksuchae would be at the bottom of the immigration.

The government forces’ ships were not approaching very quickly, perhaps because the wind was not very good, so they were able to rescue their men.

It was the moment when Jin-gyu’s ship turned its bow.

“I, I, I, I, I, I!”

Suddenly the guy next to me started stuttering.

What a fuss in this urgent situation.

When I turned my head in annoyance, my subordinate was pointing to the sky.

As I followed the guy’s fingertips, I saw something flying in the sky.

“Huh!?”

Jin-gyu also swallowed the wind as he followed his subordinate who was stuttering.

That’s understandable, because there was a huge snake flying in the sky.

“Hey, what is that!?”

But Jin-gyu’s surprise soon calmed down.

Because the snake that was flying right above the boat rose into the sky.

“Are you a passing spirit?”

However, the snake that had risen into the sky took on the appearance of jumping out of the sky as if it was jumping into water, and immediately began to get close to Jin-gyu’s boat.

“Joe, be careful!”

The moment Jin-gyu shouted and grabbed the side of the boat, it was clear that they were aiming for the boat.

-bang!

A snake shot down from the sky at high speed and went straight through the center of the ship’s deck, snapping the keel in half.

As the player and the stern met in the air, the black water pirates, including Jin-gyu, were thrown in all directions.