Chapter 8 The Boat

The Denton Pirates' ships were impetuous, with water and food rationed due to lack of supplies, and ironically, the people sailing on this vast ocean felt as if they were in the middle of the desert, with chapped lips and haggard faces. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, perhaps because of this, in today's volatile environment, a bunch of bad-tempered pirates do not have the strength to quarrel and fight, and the mere maneuvering of heavy sails and cables every day has exhausted their little energy.

William's gang was no exception.

Replenishment is a big problem for the whole ship, which is why he didn't choose to leave directly.

The small boat can't sail far, and it can't bring much supplies by itself, not to mention that in order not to alarm the other pirates, William and the others can bring even fewer supplies, if they don't have a clear destination, they know where to dock and resupply, and drive a small boat that lacks supplies into the vast sea, purely joking with their own lives.

Logbooks and other things that record valuable information such as shipping routes and island locations are usually in the hands of the captain or other person in an important position.

Since the last encounter with the navy, William had noticed that Captain Dan would patrol the boat from time to time, and William, who guessed his intentions, knew that he wanted to ensure the safety of this only way of retreat, but he didn't expect him to be so calm that he didn't move for almost two weeks.

It wasn't until that night, when he was keeping a secret vigil with Wallon, that William, who was keeping watch on the boat, noticed the figure he had been looking forward to—three tall men taking advantage of the darkness to lightly put things on it.

Because of the exertion, William's reaction was a little slow, and it took two seconds before he came back to his senses, and quickly pushed the somewhat dazed Wallon to wake him up Akin and Alamis.

When Wallon hurriedly left, William coughed softly and walked out of the shadows.

In the silence of the night, a sudden cough came into the ears of the three busy figures, like a spell, and they all froze before turning to look at William.

After seeing clearly that it was William who made the sound, one of them couldn't help but shout angrily: "It's you again!"

William squinted, it was too dark just now, and the other party was facing away from him, so he didn't look carefully, and then he realized that this person turned out to be an acquaintance, the second mate Bamond, who had just clashed with him not long ago.

In addition to Denton and Barmond, the other person turned out to be Gore, the navigator on the ship.

Barmond hated William twice for ruining his good deeds, and when he saw William, his hand immediately fell on the handle of the knife, but Denton was pressed on the shoulder.

Denton looked at William, who was still fearless in the face of the three people on his face, knowing that the other party understood the purpose of himself and the others, and also understood that he and the others did not dare to make a big move, once they alarmed the other pirates sleeping on the ship, the three of them would not be able to leave.

"William, what are you doing here," Denton asked in a deep voice as he pressed Bamond's shoulders firmly, "isn't it your vigil today?"

"I found out that the captain has not arranged for a vigil on the ship for the past few days, for fear that you have too many things to worry about, and you will forget, and if you are worried that something will happen on the ship at night, you will come to the vigil on your own initiative," William chuckled, "It seems that you did not forget, but on purpose." ”

The situation is actually obvious, except for the tenacious Bamund, Denton and Gore, two smart people, have already figured it out in a short period of time, William must have guessed their intentions, so he has been staying here.

Therefore, when the navigator Gore heard this, he sneered with a little cheeky smile: "I really didn't see that you are such a knowledgeable person before. ”

"Captain, are you leaving?" William, who had been delaying for a while, ignored the other party's sarcasm, and after faintly hearing a soft footstep coming, the smile on his lips expanded, and he said to Denton, "How about taking us with you?"

At the same time, Wallon's shiny bald head popped out from behind the aisle, and Ah Jin and Aramis, who were not very neatly dressed but clutched their weapons, followed closely behind, and the three of them stood behind William, and the four young pirates faintly confronted the three old fritters of Denton.

As a pirate captain, Denton looks no different from his peers who have worked all year round, his face is weathered, his chin and cheeks are blue because of the perennial shaving, and his gray hair sways from side to side along the sea breeze, just looking at this, he is more like an ordinary fisherman, the only difference is that his right eye socket is a cold and unpopular fake eyeball.

But at this moment, when Denton's only movable eye was staring at William, his gaze was so cold that one was almost confused as to which eye was real and which was false.

The air was suddenly quiet, and Denton seemed to be thinking about William's "proposal"—rather a threat.

Just when William felt that Denton might decide to make a move, he raised his guard, and Denton finally responded, "Okay, I'll take you with me." ”

"Captain!?" Barmond questioned, dissatisfied.

"I've got the final say!" Denton glared at Bamund before lowering his voice, almost squeezing out a sentence from between his teeth to make sure only his two companions could hear, "Go ashore and do it again!"

At the same time, William also lowered his voice and whispered to Akin, Aramis and Wallon: "When you hear my signal, do it." ”

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The small wooden boats originally owned by the pirate ship were destroyed in the previous naval battle with the navy, and only two were left intact, and Denton's original plan was to take one of his own three, and then scuttle the other one, cutting off the idea that the other pirates on the ship had to do the same, forcing them to help their own group to attract the attention of the navy.

Now he had no choice but to abandon this idea, and took two small wooden boats with William, with him and Barmond, William, and Akin, and the navigators Gore, Aramis, and Wallon leading the way.

After a few people got on the boat, they rowed quickly, and gradually distanced themselves from the big boat, William looked around the small wooden boat, and found that Denton and the others did not have much supplies with them beforehand, so he asked, "Is there enough food and water, captain?"

Denton seemed to be amused by William's behavior of pretending to call him captain at this time, and grinned: "There are not many supplies on the ship, and I can't bear to take too many things away, so that the people who stay on the ship have no way to live, and the desert island we are going to will take less than two days at most, and this time at sea should be enough, but after going to the island, I can't be sure." ”

Ah Jin scoffed at Denton's coy demeanor and snorted disdainfully.

Denton's one-eyed eyes rolled slightly, looked at Ah Jin, and said with a playful expression: "What? Young man, you can't accept the reality, I remember that you were originally also a fisherman? Then you must know the feeling that you can't make up for the hard work of fishing all day long, but you find that the fishing net is broken, right? You must know that the strength honed by fishing all day long is useless in the face of tax officials and fishing tyrants except for making it easier for you to commit crimes, right? Do you think that all pirates go to sea for the empty phrase of One Piece? Who knows if he went crazy before he died!"

"We are spurned pirates, chased by the navy and fighting with our peers, and the navy says we are rats and wild dogs, surviving in the cracks," Denton spat at the surface of the sea and continued. These damn seagulls are right, anyway, I became pirates to survive, and I'm going to tell you, after so many years of surviving like me in the almost suffocating crevices, you will know that people are more terrible than rats and wild dogs, and that they can do anything to survive, and that I have left them with enough supplies, which is merciful enough. ”