In the hot and humid tropical rain forest is the long Congo River. Inside the swaying light sailing boat is the dull lower deck. The pungent smell permeates the lower deck and extends all the way to the important storage cabin.
Two capable sailors held their daggers tightly and guarded the door. Their eyes were fixed on the narrow passage, but their ears could not help but perk up, listening to what was going on in the cabin.
The weak candlelight cast a dim shadow, illuminating the storage cabin of less than ten square meters with the shaking hull. The cabin was eerily quiet. Four strong men with weapons silently surrounded a man with a sling on his shoulder.
The newly minted nobles with short swords. All of them put their hands on their weapons and their eyes were alert, staring at other people's hands for a moment. The sound of running water came from the bottom of the boat, just like a prelude to an explosion.
Bruno held the dagger at his waist tightly, held his breath, and was always ready to shout. Sweat rolled down his forehead, wet the eyelashes on his eyes, and made the corners of his eyes hurt, but he did not dare at all.
Blink your eyes.
The tense confrontation passed for more than a dozen breaths, and it seemed like a century had passed. Boatswain Diego, with a fierce face, spoke first.
"Bruno, what did Diogo say when he called you over just now?"
Hearing Diego call the captain by his first name, Bruno's heart suddenly sank to the bottom of the Congo River.
Ships at sea are most hierarchical. The captain is the marshal who can decide life and death. The various pursers are officers who control certain aspects. The boatswain controls the group of sailors, the quartermaster controls a large number of weapons, and the chief cook controls the stored food.
The carpenter is the repairman, able to go anywhere in the ship unobtrusively. Now, these officers are gathered here, ignoring the captain's authority... What does this mean?
Thinking of this, Bunoru remained silent and just tightened his grip on the dagger.
"Foda-se! I asked you what Diogo said!"
Seeing that Bruno didn't answer, Boatswain Diego stepped forward angrily and tried to grab the other man's collar with his hands.
Brunolu gritted his teeth, pulled out his dagger with a "swish" sound, and held it in front of him. This sound seemed to be some kind of signal, and the four people present also pulled out their daggers and daggers with a "swish"! They aimed at Bru
Luo, on the other hand, also distanced himself from the others and guarded against each other.
"Foda-se! Damn it!"
Seeing that the melee was about to break out, Quartermaster Mattim finally stopped being silent. He growled and shouted.
"Stop it, stop it! The sailors on the ship were infected by the power of the devil. Almost half of them died. Among the officers, only a few of us survived! Are we going to have another fight here and a few more die?
?!"
Then, Quartermaster Martim turned his head again and shouted to Boatswain Diego.
"Diego, take two steps back and don't stick to Brulo!"
Boatswain Diego cursed a few words in dissatisfaction, but still took two steps back. The atmosphere in the cabin relaxed a little.
Then, Quartermaster Mattim looked at everyone, slowly lowered his weapon, and said in a deep voice.
"I called you here today. I have no other ideas. I just want to help everyone find a way to survive! I will count one, two, and three. Everyone put away their weapons first!"
"good!"
"That makes sense!"
"Listen to you!"
"Don't get hurt by mistake!"
Everyone looked at each other a few times and nodded in agreement. Quartermaster Mattim shouted in a low voice.
"one,"
"two,"
"three!"
After three blasts, the cabin became eerily quiet. Everyone was staring, but no one put away their weapons, including the quartermaster, Mattim, who was shouting. Everyone fell into silence again.
The carpenter Ivo was responsible for repairing the ship. He was an indispensable shipwright with the most transcendent status. He waited for a while, coughed twice, and asked first.
"Ahem, ahem, Mattim, you came to me and said you wanted to find a way for everyone to survive...what exactly are your plans? Let me tell you in advance, I still have an old and a young child in Lisbon. If you try to murder the captain, I will not
Participate... Of course, I won't remember it either."
In the entire cabin, only Ivo, the carpenter, is qualified to say such a thing. In the unpredictable ocean voyage, the shipwright is the life support of the ship and the life support of the crew, and is even more important than guiding the direction of the voyage. Therefore,
No matter what happens on the ship, it usually does not affect the shipwright.
Hearing this, Bunoru breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the four people in the cabin had not really united yet.
"Well..."
Quartermaster Mattim was speechless for a moment. He looked at the boatswain, who was suppressing his anger, and then at the chef, who remained silent, and sighed helplessly.
"We didn't think about murdering the captain, we just wanted to return! This is the devil's land, the power of evil is everywhere, and will eventually infect us! How can mortals resist this evil? Even the captain has been cursed,
We can’t go out and walk. We have no way to deal with it and can only stay away as soon as possible!”
Hearing the response to the curse, Bruno pressed his left hand silently on his waist. There was a bottle of potion for Satan believers, which he obtained by threatening the priests in the village when he was massacring tribal villages. During the last exploration, he drank Satan
The apostle, that terrible old woman's potion, knew that this thing could temporarily resist the invasion of the devil. Of course, in order to prevent this depraved behavior from being discovered, the old village priest was immediately beheaded by him.
"Ivo, isn't one of your apprentices also cursed? Under the captain's order, Diego threw him into the river with his own hands, and then more than a dozen crocodiles pounced on him and tore him alive.
...Tsk, tsk, what a scene! Do you also want to be infected with the curse, have red rashes all over your body, be thrown into the sea wailing, eat into the belly of the fish, and then be pulled out with a splash?"
Listening to Mattim's description, everyone shuddered. Haroldo, the round-faced chef, nodded cringingly and spoke for the first time.
"Yes, if we do nothing and let the captain continue eastward, this will be our end!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Hearing this, the carpenter Ivo's expression changed for a long time, and finally he nodded silently.
Bruno lowered his eyes slightly. At this moment, everyone's position was clear. Quartermaster Martim, boatswain Diego, and chef Haroldo, the three of them had been linked together. The carpenter Ivo acquiesced to the actions of the three.
.Now, only...
The eyes of the four people looked at Brulo again.
"Second Officer Brulo, everyone regards you as one of their own and pulls you to do things together, but it's just because you married the sister of the former boatswain Paul!"
Boatswain Diego looked fierce and took a step forward again. He waved the scimitar in his hand, threatening the newly promoted nobles in front of him.
"If you don't understand, I will kill you right now and throw you into the river to feed the fish! When we get back to Lisbon, I will take care of Paul's beautiful sister, and I will make sure to make her happy every day!"
Hearing this, a cold light flashed in Bruno's eyes. He stared at Diego's neck with the same fierce eyes, and slowly raised the short knife.
"Bruno, everyone is gathered here just to survive. You also know that if you can't find any nonsense in John's country, the captain will definitely not return. And if we go further, there is only death waiting for us.
Ichi! Can the people of God stay in this devil’s land?”
Quartermaster Mattim also took a step forward. He had a sincere smile on his face, but he was holding a dagger in his hand.
"Don't you want to return to Lisbon safely to meet your beautiful wife? It has been more than a year since the voyage, and your child has been born long ago, and you don't know whether it is a boy or a girl? Ah, what a cute little angel that will be.
Yeah!...Do you want to die here and give your wife and children to some fat pig-like noble man?"
Having said this, Quartermaster Mattim paused. He looked at the struggling look on Bunoru's face and smiled confidently.
"Besides, noble knight Bruno, you are different from us. You have a good father, you have noble blood, and you can be regarded as a human being by noble gentlemen! You have a bright future, how can you die here? Why don't we come together?
Go ahead and leave a sampan for the captain to search for John. Then, everyone will elect you to be the captain and return to Lisbon!"
In a hellish tropical rain forest, giving a cursed captain a sampan? How is this different from directly murdering the captain?
Bunoru's expression changed, and his heart surged and swirled like a whirlpool. He hesitated for a long time, until all his thoughts were swallowed up by the whirlpool. In the end, only his pregnant wife and the Virgin-like smile on his wife's face were left in his mind.
Bunoru lowered his eyes and lowered the weapon in his hand. The devil's power had invaded his heart along with the potion he drank.
"Mattim, I can participate in your plan. However, I have a request."
Mattim raised his eyebrows and smiled brightly.
"Bunulu, don't worry, after expelling the captain, you will be our captain!"
"No!"
The noble knight Bunoru firmly refused.
"The respected captain is kind to me, and he is an elder in my clan! We can unite and force the captain to return, but we must not harm his life!"
"Yes! This is the most suitable!"
The carpenter Ivo nodded in agreement. Captain Diogo Kang was a royal knight pardoned by the king himself! With so many people on board, if they really murdered him and leaked the news, his family in Lisbon would be completely ruined.
"I think Bunoru and Ivo are right! As long as we return home without killing the captain, that would be the best!"
Chef Haroldo also expressed his position.
With a score of three to two, everyone decided to force the captain to return, but to save his life. Mattim looked at these timid guys and felt a little angry.
What kind of person is the captain? He is a leader like a lion! Even if he is cursed, he is still a weak old lion. A group of jackals are plotting to kill the lion, and they still want to hold back. They are simply seeking death!... However, as long as everyone is persuaded,
Take action, when the time comes...
Quartermaster Mattim thought about it for a moment and smiled. He nodded in agreement. Then, he patted Boatswain Diego on the shoulder. The other party cursed for a while and reluctantly agreed.
The quartermaster, boatswain, chief cook, carpenter, and second mate. The five powerful people on the ship finally reached a consensus to "persuade" the captain to return.
Then, Mattim took the lead in sheathing the dagger. He prayed in a low voice.
"Praise the Holy Mother! Bless us to return to our hometown!"
"May Our Lady protect us!"
Everyone praised at the same time and put away their weapons. The atmosphere in the cabin really relaxed, and soon, whispers could be heard in the cabin.
"Brullo, how is the captain's health?"
"Mattim, the respected captain is blessed by the Virgin, and his curse is not serious. Every time I see him, his expression is very calm. He thinks quickly and speaks clearly, and there is no sign of being troubled by the curse."
When they heard that everything was normal with the captain, everyone was a little afraid, and the determination they had just made seemed to be wavering.
"Impossible! I have been with the captain for more than ten years, and I know him best."
Quartermaster Mattim took a deep look at Bunoru, sneered and shook his head.
"He is just holding on with amazing willpower! With the captain's personality, if he could stand up, he would never sit in the captain's cabin! How many times he went to sea, he always stood on the bow of the ship, and he stood there for a whole day
.If he can move, how can I... In short, the former captain was a lion, and the current captain is just a sick cat!"
Bruno was silent for a while and did not speak. He knew that the captain must be very ill, and the smell of blood could not be concealed from others. After a while, Bruno asked.
"Diego, how many people do you have now?"
Boatswain Diego snorted, glanced at Brulo, and then raised his head and said.
"I, Martim, and Haroldo, together, have more than twenty skilled sailors, equipped with scimitars, short swords, and five matchlock guns! If we add you and Yi
Wo’s manpower must be over thirty!”
This chapter is not over, please click the next page to continue reading! Bruno was thoughtful and silent. The crew of the flagship will be replenished from other ships, and it will be kept at about fifty people. Diego has the largest number of deck sailors, usually the one on the side.
The main force of the battle. The quartermaster needs to guard the weapons and also has some elite sailors. The Kingdom soldiers on the ship have all stayed at Fort Elmina... In this way, most of the combat force on the ship has been prepared.
Preparation for rebellion.
"Hey! Dear Captain, it's because of your insistence on heading east that everyone betrayed you..."
Thinking of this, Bruno took a long breath and asked again.
"Captain Reynaldo also has several people under his command. If we persuade the captain... have you tested him?"
"Oh, Reynaldo is the son of a nobleman, so why would he hang out with us!"
Quartermaster Mattim smiled and shook his head, his face full of confidence.
"But he had complained before and was dissatisfied with the captain's tyranny. He was afraid of the devil's land and wanted to return a long time ago. In fact, Harold tested the crew when distributing food. The captain was the only one on the whole ship.
A man wants to continue sailing eastward!"
"Foda-se! I've long been dissatisfied with this guy Renaldo!"
Boatswain Diego cursed with a fierce look in his eyes.
"Because I am the son of a nobleman and have some navigation skills, I don't take my brothers seriously! Foda-se! If he dares to jump out to stop me, I will cut off his head and put it on the mast for navigation!"
"
Bruno frowned when he heard Diego's harsh words. This guy could indeed do it and had done such a thing, but he just used the head of an indigenous chief. In this cruel era, as a boatswain on a ship, he could only
Only with enough ferocity can he intimidate sailor scum from all over the world.
"The navigator can guide the route. As long as he knows what's going on, the guys won't do anything to him."
Mattim smiled and changed the subject. He looked closely at Bruno.
"Everyone's thoughts on this ship are very clear. The only thing I'm worried about is the two ships at the back. Bunoru, you have been responsible for contacting the other two ships. How are their conditions?"
Bruno pondered for a while and shook his head.
"The situation of those two ships is not much better than ours. The sailors on the ship continue to die of illness, and their morale is very low. Now there are only more than seventy people left in total. The two noble captains, Perro Anais, and Pero
Luo da Costa is not good at appeasing people, and he also has some complaints."
"Okay! Okay! If this is the case, our only obstacle will be a few guards around the captain!"
Hearing this, Mattim's eyes lit up.
"The devil's power is invading day and night. We can't wait any longer and must take action as soon as possible!"
At this time, the carpenter Ivo remembered something and asked cautiously.
"There is also a distinguished aristocratic scholar on the ship who comes from the Brat Palace. I heard that his family is very prominent and he is very valued by the king. We want to 'persuad' the captain, but we can't hide it from him! If he tells the king
What..."
"Foda-se! He's just a young man from a noble family, with thin skin and tender flesh, and he was wrapped up so tightly on the boat. Haha! I haven't done anything to the noble young man yet. Let the brothers feel good first, and then throw them into the river.
Just feed the crocodiles!”
There was an evil light in Diego's eyes, which made Buonolu feel a little disgusted. Regular ocean-going ships would not carry women, and scumbag sailors have always been indifferent to men and women, so certain things were more prevalent.
"Ah! How can this be done? You can't kill, you can't kill. If you kill, you will be in big trouble!"
The carpenter Ivo waved his hands vigorously and looked anxious. He was young and old in Lisbon, but he was not a bachelor like these sailors.
"If I don't kill him, but just shut him up, I have an idea."
Everyone heard the news, but it was Haroldo, the head chef who rarely spoke. Haroldo's eyes flashed, and a strange smile appeared on his fat face.
"any solution?"
"Such a young aristocratic young master has never seen big winds and waves. Just get a handle and hold it in your hand."
"Haha! He has a strong background, what leverage can he use to blackmail him!"
"It's true that ordinary methods don't work, but...what about worshiping the devil?"
There was a sudden silence in the cabin. Bruno's eyes widened, staring at the always shrinking chef, as if he saw his round face clearly for the first time. Quartermaster Mattim raised his eyebrows, looked at the chef up and down, and whispered
pray.
"May Our Lady forgive us!... Haroldo, tell me in detail..."
The sailboat kept moving forward, looking for the distant holy light; the water rushed backward and sank into the deep river bottom. The dim candlelight swayed back and forth, sometimes bright and sometimes dark. It shone on the faces of the five people who were plotting,
Also fell into the hearts of everyone, under the protection of the Virgin Mary, in the land of the devil.
This chapter has been completed!