"Splash the wine on the deck and burn the ship!"

Everyone, whether pirates or sailors, was stunned for a moment.

The pirates who thought they were the survivors of the catastrophe had no time to fade from their faces before their joy was replaced by utter fear.

And in the understanding of the sailors, although not long ago they killed many pirates with artillery, it was a battle, and the burning of ships was a massacre!

"My God!"

"Please don't kill us!"

The pirates' mocking faces turned pleading in seconds, and they knelt down en masse.

The "captain" sailors couldn't bear it and swallowed their saliva.

Zheng Fei stood up, unprecedentedly cold-blooded, and said, "My order will not be repeated a second time, if you still want to follow me, do it immediately!"

In desperation, the sailors had to bring two barrels of wine, spill them on the deck amid the pirates' pleas for mercy, and then hang their heads and follow Zheng Fei back to the New World.

The sails of the New World were raised again, and after the hull of the ship separated from the pirate ship, Zheng Fei closed his eyes and threw the torch in his hand.

A red fall symbolizing death, the flames ignited in an instant, enveloping the entire ship in a matter of seconds, the wails of the pirates were drowned in the flames, and the sailors stared at the fire with vacant eyes, the blood-red of the heart, echoing the sunset on the horizon.

In this way, facing the dim sunset, on the calm sea level, the New World gradually drifted away.

Since then, the sailors have never spoken and have become wooden, except for Santiago occasionally looking for a few words to talk to.

Zheng Fei knew what they were thinking.

There were two chairs and a table on the deck, and Zheng Fei and Santiago sat drinking there, and the afterglow fell on their faces, making them look weathered.

Vivien, dressed in a floral dress, stood aside to pour wine for them, and from time to time she crouched on Zheng Fei's back to help him rub his shoulders, trying to win favor and take Anna's place.

"Strong man, do you have anything to say?" Zheng Fei stared at the clouds in the sky and said in a deep voice.

"I didn't. ”

"Are you feeling sorry for those pirates?"

"Who knows~" Santiago shrugged, he really didn't know what mood he was in now, although it was not the first time he had killed someone as an officer, but there was still a hurdle in his heart.

Zheng Fei drank the remaining half glass of wine, stood up and looked at the lost sailors, frowned and slowly exhaled, and called, "Guys, come here!"

The sailors were much slower to react and came wiltingly.

After everyone stood in front of him, Zheng Fei coughed a few times and asked, "Do you think I'm cruel?"

People don't speak, acquiesce.

Zheng Fei understood, and then said: "Then have you heard of Napoleon the Great?"

Hearing this name, everyone shook their heads blankly.

Zheng Fei raised his eyebrows and thought about it, as if there was no Napoleon in this era.

"Well, then Julius Caesar!"

Caesar was the founder of the Roman Empire, a dictatorship in Italy equivalent to that of Qin Shi Huang of China.

"Why can Caesar be emperor? Because he is ruthless enough to dare to clear an obstacle!" Zheng Fei paused, looked at the sailors' still dull gaze, and continued, "Those pirates are our obstacles. ”

"But they have given up their resistance and are no longer a threat to us," someone finally responded.

Zheng Fei nodded, pondered for a moment, and then squeezed out a smile and said, "Do you have brothers? ”

Their answer was, yes.

"Then you must understand the feelings between brothers, and now I want to tell you a story. Zheng Fei shifted his gaze to the sunset and told it with memories.

"A few years ago, when I was first mate, my best friend was the ship's head chef, and his tomahawk steak was so delicious that the whole ship loved it, so we all called him Mr. Steak. ”

"He saved my life, otherwise I would have been thrown into the sea to feed the fish. ”

The sailors, attracted by his look, pricked up their ears to listen.

"I remember it was a stormy night when we sailed across the Atlantic, from Bordeaux to Rio de Janeiro, and at one o'clock in the morning we were confronted by pirates, who were well equipped to take advantage of the cover of night and quickly take possession of our ship. ”

Speaking of this, Zheng Fei's eyes flashed with grief and clenched his fists.

"They brought together all the staff and passengers on board and negotiated with the government as hostages. ”

"Every ten minutes they killed someone, and one by one they were taken away, and finally, it was me. When they were about to drag me away, the chef friend suddenly stopped me and asked to take my place, and the pirate agreed. ”

"The last thing he said to me was: 'You have a family, and I don't. That's right, I have family, and that's why I'm afraid of dying. ”

"I watched him fall in front of me, the bullet right in the middle of the eyebrow, and he was smiling, and the smile was forever fixed in that moment. ”

Anger rose from Zheng Fei's eyes, he gritted his teeth in anger, looked at the sailors who could listen attentively, and said, "The pirate killed my best friend, and I was so selfish that I let him die for me, which makes me feel guilty to this day. ”

"You know, pirates are inhuman, they are a bunch of beasts! if you don't kill them, they will kill more innocent people!" After saying that, Zheng Fei could no longer suppress the anger in his heart, let out a muffled roar, and slammed his fist into the guardrail, startling away a few seagulls that landed on it.

The "captain" sailors tried to comfort him, but they didn't know where to start.

"Do you still sympathize with those pirates?"

Seeing the sailors shaking their heads, Zheng Fei took a deep breath of relief, rubbed his fist with faint pain, and said: "I burned them not only because of these, but more importantly, they are Sir Henry's people, a huge pirate gang, if they are allowed to go back alive to report, I'm afraid we won't even be able to get out of the Strait of Gibraltar and die in the Mediterranean!"

At this time, the sailors were like newly trained recruits, listening to the commander's teachings and nodding in a daze.

"Do you understand?!" Zheng Fei roared, glaring.

"Understood!"

"Then get out into the sea and swim! Everyone!

Watching the sailors run away in a daze, Zheng Fei sighed, adjusted his mood, hugged Anna who came over, and gradually, the corners of his mouth regained a smile.

Using overload training to divert their attention so that they don't have the energy to think hard is a trick learned from the special forces, and overload therapy can effectively alleviate their grief.

Sometimes, proper brainwashing isn't a bad thing.

Exhausted by the toss, the sailors returned to their cabins and fell asleep, leaving no one in the mood to sit in Vivien's or Lilith's room.

The first night spent at sea was calm.