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The route from San Diego to Nassau is not a particularly busy one.
It can even be said that this is a black route. Because Nasao is the hometown of nearby pirates, this route is often used when they return to Nasao.
However, today, just near the route, a merchant ship with a broken main mast seemed to have to stop there, with ominous white smoke rising from it. It was as if in the process of saving the mast, a brazier was accidentally knocked over. Same……
"The brazier must be fastened, otherwise when you turn around - bang! It will be too late to think of anything at that time." The old pirate looked at the unlucky merchant ship and muttered to himself, and suddenly saw a silly young man next to him. People are listening, "Hey, that's not me I'm talking about!"
"Ha!" The young man made a strange voice out of boredom and turned his head.
"Asshole! Be smarter!" the old pirate shouted very dissatisfied! It's a pity that on this ship, he is just an old and disabled old guy. No one likes to listen to his nagging. Even the captain will not remember that he is the most senior person on this ship! Of course, this captain is also a young fool, he doesn't care about this!
The old pirate shook his head, feeling that the gap between his ideas and those of the young pirates was getting farther and farther. He always felt that pirates today seemed to be ten times braver than he was at that time. Of course, they were also ten times stupider! Especially those stupid young people who actually regard heroic death as their goal, thinking that people who live as long as him are either useless or cowards - are they just filled with shit?!
"You idiots should be smarter. This ship doesn't look comfortable at all. I always feel that something is wrong!" He babbled, staring at the ship with his cloudy eyes. .
Unfortunately, at this time, the captain is shouting and giving a speech to boost morale! I had no intention of asking him for his opinion.
"Is there any better luck than picking up an injured rabbit on the way home?!" His words received huge cheers! "What are you waiting for? Let's capture it! Pillage it! Tear it apart! Then we go back to dinner!"
"Oh!!!" The pirates banged their sword handles on the ship's planks and cheered loudly.
"Ships ahead, listen!" The captain climbed up the mast on the first floor along the rope ladder, stood majestically on the crossbar, simply holding the cable with one hand, and shouted loudly to the "injured little rabbit" in front of him. "Shout. He said the famous phrase he invented that our ship must shout before every robbery!
"surrender!"
"Surrender!" hundreds of pirates shouted together. The first mate shook the wheel and firmly leaned the ship against the side of the merchant ship.
"Or die!"
"Or die!" The pirates waved their machetes and threatened the little rabbit in all directions. "Hey!" The pirates approaching the merchant ship shouted, took down the hook bridge and hook lock, and threw it away with all their strength. past!
"we are--"
The pirates each pulled their necks and shouted with scarlet eyes, "The Gospel Pirates!"
"2b", the old pirate was in the corner, cursing in disgust... "Standing so high, you don't have to worry about falling?"
"What are you waiting for?!" The captain drew out the fore finger of his rapier. "I changed my mind! We don't want to surrender! We don't want to take prisoners! Let's start the carnival..." His words suddenly stopped, and he heard "Pa~~!" There was a crisp gunshot - their captain swayed on the mast, and then fell down as tragically as a fallen leaf in the wind... with a blood hole embedded in his forehead!
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With the sound of the gunshot, the curtains on the stage seemed to be lifted on the opposite side. The main mast stood there intact, but there was no sail hanging on it. There were several large fire pits in the center of the ship, with fresh fish on them. , emitting thick smoke that smells burnt...
"How did we... get it wrong?" The pirates were stunned by this sudden sight. Both the "broken mast" and the "burning deck" should be very conspicuous.
"It's a break..." the old pirate muttered from behind, "I mean it looks awkward, the cut surface is so neat, there isn't even a stubble."
At this time, the positions of the two ships were already parallel, and even the hook bridge had been thrown over, and the two ships were completely connected.
On the observation deck on the opposite ship, the sniper who had just shot the captain quietly disappeared. When he reappeared, he had a new musket and aimed downwards.
The pirates here hesitated, not knowing what to do.
At this time, the sailors on the deck of the opposite ship lifted up the canvas piled on the deck, revealing five cannons, pointing straight at the deck here.
Is it shotgun? The pirates are almost going crazy, this is a sinkhole! Five cannons can kill half the people here! Their mentality instantly changed from whether to resist to whether to surrender immediately! ?
"The Gospel Pirates?" A young man in black clothes came out, "Surrender or die, what are you waiting for?"
Two pirate ships that had just completed their hunting trip were heading towards Nasao.
But when they just arrived near Bailu Cape, they were attacked in annoyance - it seemed to be an explosive bomb that hit the sail of a ship in an arc from the cape! That happened to be where the pirates loaded their loot.[,! ] The big ship was caught off guard, and a large piece of its sail was burned off in the blink of an eye, and the ship's speed suddenly became slower than a turtle!
If it weren't for the fact that the cape was really empty, they might even suspect that a long-barreled cannon was installed on it!
The pirates cursed angrily. They were attacked less than a day away from home. What could be more unlucky than this? The large cargo ship behind had to stop for repairs.
The warship in front patrolled around, and after confirming that the area was safe, they rushed across the cape angrily, looking for the "culprit"... Pirates are not allowed to fight with each other in the vicinity of the Pirate Kingdom. This is written in Words from the Pirate Code! So he wants to find out who is not afraid of death who did it! Make up for the loss by the way.
Twenty minutes after the ship left, the "Siren", which used illusions and a large area of canvas to camouflage itself with the cliff, sailed out of the reef circle and directly hit the butt of the cargo ship behind! Start boarding the ship.
When the pirate ships in front came back, they faced a double attack from the cargo ship and the Kraken...
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For half a month, those saucy pirates felt like they were going crazy!
Ships kept failing to return on time, and pirates kept missing. Then their bodies and wanted notices were nailed to the docks of Port-au-Prince in rows!
After going through the pirates' internal information channels and digging in many aspects, they finally found some information.
News about a bounty hunter group called "Opera".
I don't know what went crazy with this group of people... Maybe someone robbed his boat. Maybe someone fucked his wife - in short, the man codenamed "Magician" started to go crazy, organized a boat by himself, and started Unlimited hunting of all kinds of pirates, euphemistically called "bounty hunter"!
A bounty hunter?
In fact, the reason why pirate bounties are pursued by so few people is simply used by pirates as capital to show off to each other. There are two main reasons. The first is that positioning is difficult. Pirates have no fixed residence and are very cunning. It's not easy to catch it accurately.
The second is that these bounties are low. The bounty is often just a measure of the pirate's own bounty, but who is a real big pirate who doesn't have a few ships, a group of sailors, and some power? For someone's To win a reward, but to defeat an entire force is simply thankless!
But the "Opera House" bounty hunter completely changed this view!
They have reached an agreement with Port-au-Prince that when they hunt pirates, they can confiscate the pirates' goods and ships! Just turn over 30% of the proceeds from the sale. When the "Opera" bounty hunting group organized three large-scale auctions of goods and ships in Port-au-Prince, everyone understood that this was the door. A business that can make a fortune!
More and more people are beginning to buy "retired warships", hire or simply partner with "retired soldiers", declare themselves to be "bounty hunters", and start to carry out just causes.
Lu Yuan knew that one day in the future, bounty hunters would also become a cancer - when they couldn't catch pirates, they would become pirates themselves. But at least today, the new bounty hunters who appeared have won a lot of applause. Sound. In this era when piracy is most rampant, merchants hope to find ways to make trade safer and are willing to spend money to provide rewards. The same is true for various countries. They hope to pull the navy out of the quagmire of combating piracy and do some serious work. Children, such as starting a war with a certain country's regular navy.
The biggest supporter of bounty hunters once again comes from LeBron, who advocates free trade. He even increased the price of all bounties in Spain to encourage more people to join!
Lu Yuan took a "check" from this era, looked at the sun, and then put it into a book.
A usury note of 40,000 pesos, the ransom money for McLaren and his officer corps. After McLaren collected the money, he deposited it in the loan shark merchant's store, and then handed the note to him. Final income from the Trinidad affair.
As an unspoken rule of the nobility, the two people had not completely ended their war relationship until this time. The most Lu Yuan can do in the future is to record in his diary that he defeated someone - if it is to be published, he needs to praise this person in all aspects. McLaren will not admit that it was once someone's prisoner and will be free to do anything.
Therefore, the news that Lu Yuan heard was that McLaren disappeared after the fall of Trinidad, and that Trinidad was betrayed to Morgan by his officers, and that guy is now working for the United Kingdom. Here is everything from beginning to end Wei, they have nothing to do with Lu Yuan, Portuguese Luis or Elizabeth or anything like that! So even though he plundered a big port and his reputation was already bad, he could still move around leisurely in Port-au-Prince.
Lu Yuan arbitrarily changed the "rob the ship" in the main god mission to "rob the pirate ship". Even so, his behavior will still be defined as a pirate in this era, but Lu Yuan doesn't care, he knows that he can Just pass this test on your own.
Even if there is the threat of being obliterated if the mission is not completed, Lu Yuan can be allowed to violate his own principles and go to the sea to rob randomly... Sorry, I can't do it! In order to find a suitable target for himself, Lu Yuan simply selected the top three most sinful people of this era.
Number one, the colonial armies of colonial countries. Relying on cannons and ships, they plundered and massacred indigenous peoples all over the world. It was absolutely sinful! However, Lu Yuan is not strong enough now. This is his enemy in the next stage.
Second place, slave traders. These scumbags hold Bibles but engage in inhumane behavior. They can be killed even a hundred times! Lu Yuan does it every time.[,! ] would hang the body of the slave trader captain on the mast of his slave ship, and then sink it completely! As for slaves? There are many islands in the Caribbean, and the environment here is much better than in Africa...
The third place is the pirates. No matter what the banner of "freedom" or "equality" is, a robber is a robber! If plundering at will is freedom, then it is well deserved to be deprived of this freedom.
Young Jin sat under the rudder of the ship, looking boredly at the equally bored sailors on the deck.
Looking at it with envy.
This is the "Siren", the bounty hunter ship that rose like a comet and swept across Nannasao. In the past half month when the "Siren" was wreaking havoc, it almost made it look like hell. .Every time young Jin was busy in the tavern, he would hear some people wailing when they talked about her.
After several sieges against her, not only did she suffer heavy losses, but she was also escaped by the "Siren". Everyone said that the "Siren" was protected by Cory Busso, and only Pirate King Morgan could destroy the "Siren" ".
When he heard these things, young Jin was still standing in the tavern. But now, he is already on this ship - to put it simply, he was taken on the ship by a pirate as an assistant, and before he could Before he had time to start his own pirate career, the pirate ship was hunted by the "Siren".
According to "custom", the "Siren" will only kill a few people with blood on their hands, including the captain, according to the instructions of the "Magician". After taking away the goods, the remaining people will Direct release...if the ship is in poor condition, even the ship will be abandoned.
Young Jin was deliberately kept here simply because when Lu Yuan passed the Undead Box test, he found that there was no trace of resentment in this child, which meant that his hands were not dirty yet. So he was kept in the "Siren" On board the ship, Lu Yuan planned to let him become an apprentice with Helen first. The old guy could only cook for a few of their officers and would not care about cooking for ordinary sailors.
"Hello!" Jin heard a strange voice saying to him, but when Jin raised his head, no one saw him.
He looked around blankly, only to realize that for some time, no one was steering the wheel anymore. There was only a bird with bright feathers standing on the wheel, looking at him arrogantly.
"I must have heard wrong..." Jin Nana said to herself.
"I said, hello!" the beautiful bird shouted dissatisfiedly!
"Wow! Wow! Wow~!" Jin jumped up in fright and stammered, "Birds, birds can talk?!"
"What bird?! I'm a parrot!" The parrot proudly removed itself from the bird.
"Wow~! Are you the parrot?!" Since the name of the "Opera House" spread, the big shots in the bounty hunter group have also gained their own fame. Although the pirates kept cursing, a young man like Jin , simply worshiping them like legendary heroes.
"Magician", "Siren", "Noble Girl", "Watcher", "Heracles"... among them is the magical "Parrot", who is said to be a Zulu who can turn into a bird.
"No, you called me by the wrong name. Parrots are my species, just like you are a human and I am a parrot. My name is Doug!" the parrot explained seriously.
"But doesn't Doug mean dog?" Jin was very surprised, why a bird called a dog... Will Lu Yuan tell him about the grudges between himself and the name Doug?
"Dog? Hmm... the kind that barks?! Doesn't that sound good? Looks like I have a score to settle with some people!" Doug the Parrot made a note of it.
"Wow, you are so smart! I mean, you can speak human language, and it sounds just like talking to a human!" Jin admired, his eyes shining. "It's a pity that I don't have food here..." He touched himself Empty pockets, "What do you like to eat?"
"Thank you, nuts are fine. I'm talking English to you because you can't understand what I say in bird language... Hahaha!" After telling the joke, the parrot laughed and slapped the wheel with its wings.
When Jin saw its appearance, he laughed happily, and all his worries disappeared.
"Doug, I'm Jin, my name is. Can I call you Doug? Are you really not a bird turned into a human? Then what are you doing here?" He asked curiously.
"Slow down, slow down, kid. I like answering questions, I like chatting, let's take our time! I'm very happy to meet you. I finally have someone who likes to listen to me. You know, ever since Lu taught me After that, he started to dislike me! Every time he saw me, he would just say, 'Go away, little hen!', I said I was a parrot! Or, 'I wish I could turn back time so that I could not transform. That mouth of yours! 'Ah, look, the logic is confusing! The only thing worthy of language is thought! This is how humans... treat their pets..."
It looked sad for a second, and then showed it happily, "What am I doing here? I am honored to introduce to you, this parrot is the first mate of this ship! The first one under the captain! Just like As you can see," the parrot raised its paw on the steering wheel and showed it, "I'm sailing!"
"Look at me, full left rudder!" It flapped its wings and turned the rudder hard, which really made the ship turn more than half an arc... It would be perfect, if it wasn't facing to the right.