But it was neither Blackbeard nor Feng Bujue who broke the silence, but...
"Captain" At that time, a high, loud voice came from the observation deck at the top of the mast, "Maybe now is not the time, but I have to interrupt you."
"What's the matter?" Blackbeard's gaze still stayed on Feng Bujue, with no intention of moving away, but he still responded to the lookout with a shout.
"To the southeast, there is a ship coming towards us very quickly." From the lookout's tone when talking to Blackbeard, we can guess that he is by no means a casual person, "In my opinion... come on.
That’s not good.”
Hearing this, Blackbeard thought for two seconds. Then, he adjusted his tone and voice to the appropriate level, and said to Feng Bujue in front of him: "It seems... we have to talk later."
"It doesn't matter, you go and do your work first." Feng Bujue spread his hands and replied with a noncommittal expression.
"Heh..." Blackbeard smiled, "But I still have to confirm first..." He paused, "When I am 'busy', you shouldn't take the opportunity to do something that will make me become
Are you going to get something more busy?"
"No." Feng Bujue replied, "In fact, I'm going to help you..." He stretched out his hand and made a "please" gesture, "If possible, I hope you will treat me as a person."
Treat it as an ally or even a companion.”
"I see..." Blackbeard heard this and thought thoughtfully, "Is this your 'mission' this time?"
"It's one of them." Feng Bujue didn't show any surprise at Blackbeard's wording even though he heard the word "mission", "But specifically, I don't think I can explain it to you."
"It doesn't matter, it's enough to know this." Blackbeard said, immediately turned around and left.
His steps are firm, steady, fast and powerful...
In the blink of an eye, he had arrived at the helmsman's station located at the middle rear of the ship.
Blackbeard stood on a high place, beside the railing in front of the helmsman's platform, standing solemnly under the gaze of all the pirates.
After a while, he took a deep breath and shouted again: "Robbers! Scumbags! My little ****!" At this point, he showed a smile that can only be described as "ferocious",
"Haha... Obviously, there is a group of reckless guys coming towards us..."
Just when he started this "pre-war speech", the clipper ship from the southeast was approaching rapidly; even sailors with average eyesight could already vaguely see the ship's silhouette.
However, Blackbeard's attitude is still very calm...
His calm and unhurried state with a bit of eagerness to try stems from his confidence as a sea master and... a primitive desire for killing.
"I'm going to decorate my bookshelf with their captain's skull.
"I will use the skins of those crew members to sew war drums.
"I want to collect a hundred spines to make the side carvings of the Queen's Revenge.
"I will fill twelve barrels of human blood to serve as fuel for Greek fire (a liquid incendiary invented by the Byzantine Empire that can burn on water).
"I'm going to put their ship in a glass bottle and keep it as a permanent collection.
"I want to engrav fear deeply into the souls of each of them, and let my name be praised on the River Styx!"
Blackbeard's voice was like thunder, and every word of his words reached the ears of everyone on the ship; even below the deck, all the pirates in the cabin heard his declaration.
"Do you...understand?" Blackbeard asked after a few seconds.
"Ho! ho!" The pirates on the entire ship, no matter where they were, all yelled loudly and neatly.
"Very good." The corner of Blackbeard's mouth raised a smile again, indicating that he was very satisfied with this response; after a two-second pause, he spoke again, "Then..."
Just when he said these two words, he heard... a long "Yo" sound coming from the side; and then, there was another "Bang" sound.
It turned out...that a shell from an enemy ship landed on the sea just a few meters away from the Queen Anna's Revenge.
The power of the cannonball was very frightening, and the water splashed straight up, like an evil dragon emerging from the water, menacingly.
"Hmph..." Seeing this, Blackbeard just smiled coldly.
The next second, he suddenly pulled out the sword of Triton (the messenger of the sea in ancient Greek mythology, the son of Poseidon, the king of the sea, and Amphitrite, the queen of the sea) from his waist, raised it to the sky, and continued with the previous words
Before he finished speaking, he shouted loudly: "Pirates... raise the sails! Load the left helm!"
As soon as the captain's order came out, all the pirates on the ship started to move like arrows.
Despite the fact that these guys are usually lazy, irritable and unruly... at this moment, they will instantly become more efficient than any well-trained army.
In just a blink of an eye, the pirates around Feng Bujue and Snow... including Brother Suan Tou... had all disappeared without a trace.
Running, rolling, crawling, swinging...
The pirates were like a swarm of scattered bees or jumping monkeys, busy on the deck.
Under the command of a few "cadres", these dozens of people quickly raised the sail, set up the cannon, prepared ammunition, swords, guns, and ropes in an orderly rhythm...
In short, everyone is in a state of preparation for war.
And the incoming enemy... Although the identity of the enemy is still unknown, this kind of character who dares to take action against the Blackbeard Pirates is definitely not an easy man.
"The captain is the Brown Algae!" After a while, when the outline of the ship gradually became clear, the lookout shouted.
When Blackbeard heard the name, his expression remained unchanged and he just asked: "Whose flag is flying?"
"One-eyed skull flag!" the lookout shouted back. After a second's pause, he added, "It's 'Crazy Eyes'!"
When he said this name, most of the pirates on the deck were slightly startled.
Feng Bujue and Snow were both very good at observing words and emotions, and they immediately inferred something from the reaction of this group of pirates.
"Did you see it too?" Snow asked softly immediately.
"Ah..." Feng Bujue said, "Judging from the changes in the expressions of the people around me... that 'crazy eye' is not easy to deal with."
"Well..." Snow continued in a deep voice, "But no matter how difficult it is to deal with, it's not as strong as Blackbeard, right?"
"That's necessary." Feng Bujue responded, "But... it is this kind of enemy that is only slightly lower than Blackbeard that is more difficult to deal with; usually... the difference in strength between the two is not very big.
When a pirate group faces each other, no matter who wins in the end, it will be a 'miserable victory'." At this point, Brother Jue's eyes moved slightly and the topic changed, "Besides... I care about it very much..."
"What do you care about?" Snow soon discovered that Feng Bujue's gaze was moving downwards, as if he was "seeing through" the things below the deck.
"The cannonball that fell into the sea just now..." Brother Jue muttered, "it's a bit unusual..."
"Oh?" When Snow heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then he connected his thoughts and continued, "Well... after you said it... it is indeed very strange. When the shell was fired just now, the opponent's
The ship is still very far away from us; assuming that's the range of their artillery fire, why continue to approach? Even if they have a reason to approach, why not fire again as they approach?"
The conclusion he could draw from his self-questioning reasoning was that the cannonball was "special" or even "unique" as meant by Brother Jue's words just now.
But its specific function, even Feng Bujue, still doesn't know yet.
"Sail! Go at full speed!" Just as the two players were talking to each other, Blackbeard's voice echoed throughout the ship again.
At this moment, the Queen Anna's Revenge had already turned to a state facing the captain of the Brown Algae under the previous adjustment of "raising sails and full rudder"; in other words, Blackbeard's order this time was basically equivalent to asking the crew to
Drive the boat towards the enemy ship head-on.
"Captain." At this time, a black man who had been standing silently beside Blackbeard on the helm spoke with a serious look on his face and said to Blackbeard, "The other party is now downwind, and... has reached
At that speed, if we collided with them head-on like this..."
"Erdini." Blackbeard interrupted him and called him.
"What are your orders? Captain." Erdini immediately responded respectfully.
"You don't need to participate in this battle." Blackbeard continued, "Now... go to the sea for a walk."
Erdini showed no dissatisfaction or doubt about what sounded like a suicide directive. He just asked calmly: "What do you want me to do in the sea?"
"There is something wrong with the shell that fell just now." Blackbeard replied very calmly, "Go check it out... If everything is normal, you can come back for support."
"Yes, Captain." Erdini received the order and without saying a word, he turned around, spread his long legs and ran towards the side.
When he reached the edge of the deck, he jumped into the turbid and dark water outside the ship.
…………
At the same time, the Brown Algae boarded.
"Captain! The other party turned the ship's bow and came towards us!" Their lookouts were also shouting to the captain.
"Nonsense, it's all so close. I can see it myself." On the bow of the ship, a man wearing a dark blue captain's uniform with a sinewy face and a black eyepatch on his left eye immediately responded to his words in a irritable tone.
crew members.
This man is crazy-eyed...
The name "Crazy Eyes" is obviously his nickname after he became a pirate. As for his real name... he himself has forgotten it.
Although Crazy Eyes wears an eyepatch on his left eye all year round, in fact, he is not blind in that eye.
Seeing this, many people must have been wondering...does he have a Sharingan? Is the eyepatch a spiritual power control device?
Well...the answer will be revealed in the next chapter.
Let's continue the story...
After Crazy Eyes yelled at his lookout hand, he took two steps and walked to the other person.
Then, this dignified captain actually changed into an almost flattering tone and said: "Uh... Master, you think... what should we do next?"
The man whom Crazy Eyes calls "Master" is all wrapped up in an earth-colored Western-style monk's robe, and his face is completely shrouded in shadow; in this state, even if you stand in front of him, you can't see anything.
I can't see whether he is male or female, old or young, human or ghost...
"You don't need me to teach you, right?" The master's voice didn't sound anything special. It was a very ordinary male voice. Men between the ages of twenty and forty might have such a voice. "How do you fight a naval battle?
Knows better than me."
"Then... I'll just act according to the situation?" Crazy Eyes tentatively replied.
Just when the "Master" was about to answer this sentence, suddenly, hidden in the monk's robe, he... discovered something strange, and he immediately thought in his mind, "Is that... Feng Bujue?"
I don’t know what method he used, but when the two ships were still a certain distance away, he noticed that Brother Jue was on Blackbeard’s ship.
"Not only that...'those two guys' are also there." The master said in his heart, "No...I can't contact them under such circumstances. I have to leave before they find me."
He made the decision to run away almost instantly, and said calmly: "Crazy Eyes, I'm going to get something from the cabin. Here... you have full discretion."
After saying this, he wanted to turn around and leave.
"Eh? This..." Seeing this, Crazy Eyes quickly stepped forward and asked, "Master, it looks like a fight is about to begin. What are you..."
"Huh?" The master had no intention of explaining anything to Crazy Eyes. He just spat out a syllable in an unhappy tone.
Just this move scared Crazy Eyes so much that he took a step back.
"Hug... I'm sorry, I'm too talkative. Master, please..." Crazy Eyes hurriedly lowered his head and took a few steps back, "Here... I will take care of it."
The master said nothing more to him and left silently.
It wasn't until his figure entered the cabin below the deck and escaped Crazy Eyes' sight that the latter let out a sigh of relief.
"Tch...this bastard, I don't know what he's up to." Even though the other party was already far away, Crazy Eyes didn't dare to say this out loud and just muttered in a low voice.
It’s easy to see from Crazy Eyes’ reaction...he never thought that the “master” would escape from the battlefield.
In Crazy Eyes' perception, the "master" just now is far more powerful than Blackbeard, which is also his greatest confidence and reliance for this "offensive".
Crazy Eyes firmly believes that he is only "a little worse" than Blackbeard. As long as he has the help of this being who is stronger than Blackbeard, he can definitely give the title of Pirate King...oh no...the Pirate King.
Take it away.
It's a pity... Man's calculation is not as good as God's calculation.
Crazy Eyes would never have thought that just a minute ago, he had become a victim of a "change". (To be continued.)
