For the next half a month, Feng Chou instructed his subordinates not to disturb him unless necessary. He continued to hide in the captain's cabin and meditate all day long.
On this day, someone suddenly knocked on the door of the captain's cabin. The knocking was very urgent.
Feng Chou, who was sitting cross-legged, jumped off his bed and quickly walked to the door to open it.
Outside the door was the terrified second officer, Colbert.
Feng Chou frowned and asked, "What's going on?"
Colbert said, "Captain, there's... there's pirates!"
Feng Chou was shocked when he heard this.
On the western coast, there weren't many pirates who dared to plunder a fleet of more than a hundred armed merchant ships and escorted by warships. However, those who dared to do so were extremely terrifying existences.
Feng Chou asked anxiously, "Which one is it?"
Colbert said, "It's the Brain Eaters!"
Feng Chou's face turned pale when he heard this. He pushed Colbert aside and rushed out of the captain's cabin. He rushed to the deck and leaned on the side of the ship to look around. When he found out the direction of the enemy and his position in the fleet, he couldn't help but curse.
The enemy appeared at the front left of the fleet. There were only a dozen ships, while his Patrick was at the rear right of the fleet.
According to the sailing experience Qiankun Pagoda had obtained from Locke, this was a very dangerous position when pirates attacked.
Evidently, his crew had let down their guard while he was in seclusion.
Feng Chou turned around and shouted to the second officer, Colbert, who had followed him to the deck, "Speed up, get to the inner part of the fleet!"
Colbert said in a panic, "I've already given the order..."
Feng Chou turned back to observe the sea. He found that all the ships were moving closer to the front of the fleet. Evidently, no one wanted to be on the periphery, and they didn't want to be left behind. Everyone's speed was about the same. The result of this was that other than the fleet moving closer and closer together, those on the periphery would still be left behind, and those at the back would still be left behind.
This also meant that Feng Chou's plan to drive his ship into the inner part of the fleet had failed.
This wasn't surprising. Everyone was an experienced veteran.
Feng Chou took out a telescope and looked at the enemy fleet in the distance.
His telescope looked no different from the ordinary telescopes of this era, but in fact, it was a high-precision 7x telescope made by Qiankun Pagoda. It was much clearer than ordinary telescopes, and he even used alchemy to attach the "Eagle Eye" spell to the telescope.
Through the binoculars, Feng Chou finally saw the pirate fleet more than ten kilometers away.
The pirate fleet only had a dozen ships, and compared to the warships of the escort fleet, the pirate warships were undoubtedly much smaller. They were only one-third the length of a medium-sized warship, and they looked somewhat old. There were not many cannons on the ships.
Facing such a simple-looking fleet, the escorting warships were on high alert.
There were a total of seven warships escorting the fleet, one large warship and six medium warships.
A large warship was a giant magic ship that was more than 200 meters long. It was a true magic ship that had a strong flying ability. It could open a small defensive lock that protected the entire ship and was equipped with a true magic cannon.
This was definitely a gigantic war machine that even dragons would have to stay away from.
The medium warship was 150 meters long. Apart from being smaller, having fewer cannons, not having any magic cannons and a weaker defensive lock, the medium warship's functions were not much different from the large warships.
It was said that the large flagship had a Legendary Wizard overseeing it, while the other medium-sized warships had Great Wizards overseeing it.
In fact, this kind of magic warship could be seen as a strange wizard tower. These warships were equipped with the four major elemental pools and positive and negative energy pools to provide energy for the warship. There was also a ship spirit that assisted in controlling and fighting.
The cost of such a warship was not much less than that of a wizard tower.
The seven escorting warships had already left the fleet and were in battle formation, closing in on the enemy warships.
The two fleets quickly approached each other. Suddenly, more than a dozen enemy ships left the water and rose into the sky.
Feng Chou put down the binoculars and couldn't help but sigh.
He wasn't surprised that the enemy warships rose into the sky because he had already known about this pirate fleet from Locke's memories.
The Brain Eater pirates were a pirate fleet that came from the underground world of the Dark World.
The Underdark World, especially the coastal areas, also had oceans. Some of the underground caverns below sea level were filled with seawater from the ocean. These caverns that were filled with seawater and connected to each other became the Underdark World's oceans.
No matter where it was, water transportation was always the most economical and practical way of transportation. In the Underdark World, the caverns filled with seawater became natural waterways for transportation.
Therefore, the Underdark World, especially the coastal areas, also had a rather developed transportation system.
In order to cope with the complex caverns, the Underdark World's warships were relatively small.
This was the reason why the Brain Eater Pirates' warships were not large.
However, sometimes, small size did not mean that the threat was small.
North of Maledice Island on the West Coast, as the land rose, there were many huge coastal caverns in the coastal areas that were connected to the Underdark World's oceans. The Underdark World's ships could go through these caverns and directly enter the surface ocean.
The Brain Eater Pirates were controlled by a group of Mind Flayers. This was where the nickname of the Brain Eater came from.
When Feng Chou first saw the Mind Flayers in the records of the Arcane Tower, it left a very deep impression on him.
He felt that this was a species that was definitely more terrifying and disgusting than the aliens he had seen in sci-fi movies in his previous life.
The Mind Flayers were divided into two stages: larvae and adults. The larvae were like strange tadpoles that were raised by the adult Mind Flayers in their brain pools that were filled with mucus. When they were about to reach adulthood, the adult Mind Flayers would fish them out of their brain pools and put them into the ears of the captured intelligent creatures.
The larvae of the Mind Flayers would burrow into the brains of the intelligent creatures through the ears and eat part of their brains. They would then use their own bodies to replace the brain that had been eaten.
From then on, the consciousness of the Mind Flayers would replace the consciousness of the intelligent creatures that had been eaten by them and control the body.
After the Mind Flayers took over the brain and consciousness of an intelligent creature, they would grow tentacles that looked like octopuses from the head of the intelligent creature. These tentacles had extremely strong spiritual perception and could help the Mind Flayers perceive the world better.
The Mind Flayers were a type of powerful spiritual creature.
According to the arcanists' research, spiritual energy should be a type of spiritual energy. However, it was of a higher level, more powerful, and more terrifying than spiritual energy.