Chapter 84: The Heart of Man (II)

Inside the ship of the Morgan Pirates. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The bilge of the ship is full of all kinds of debris, the smell of sake lees mixed with the smell of sea is permeated in this somewhat dim space, and there are constantly waves hitting outside the ship, making a muffled sound of "knock, knock", and being in this closed environment for a long time will cause greater mental pressure on people, especially in the case of captivity.

Selkirk and his men were trapped here, chained and roped, and the scarce food and poor condition made them look haggard.

Barbarossa must have held prisoners before, and he had transformed the bilges into rudimentary cells, which were tightly connected and separated by walls, and the people inside could only see through the iron fence doors.

William sat on a chair brought by his men, smoking slowly in front of the cell door, where several captives could see.

He crossed Erlang's legs, his eyes narrowed slightly, and looked through the smoke at the few captives behind the prison door, making it impossible to fathom his inner thoughts.

Two pirates came to the cell door and provided food and water to the captives, but in order to prevent them from regaining their strength, the amount of food and water was very small, only a small piece of bread and a small half bowl of water.

And because their bodies were trapped in iron chains and they couldn't use their hands, these prisoners could only lie on the ground when they ate and drank, not to mention the water or something, so that there was a foul smell near the cell.

A pirate captive of the Swordfish Pirates flipped over the plates and bowls containing food and water, rubbed them in front of the cell door, glared at William hatefully, and yelled at him: "If you want to kill us, do it as soon as possible, don't humiliate us here!"

Look at the way he struggled to squeeze his head into the crack in the fence, as if he wanted to get out of it and bite William.

William, however, was unmoved, as if he had not heard, and when the pirates had given the captives food and water, he smoked two more cigarettes before leaving the bilge, without saying a word to the captives from beginning to end.

When William reached the deck from the bilge, Chloe and Harden greeted him.

Chloe asked William, "Do you want to keep these people locked up like this? ”

William pointed to his temple with his cigarette in his hand, "They have come back from the Great Voyage, and they have crossed the windless belt, and what is in their minds is no less important than a Devil Fruit." ”

"They're just a bunch of deserters, I didn't expect you to be so important. Chloe pursed his lips, the value of the Devil Fruit does not need to be said, in his opinion, Selkirk and the others are just a group of routs, and they were tricked off the ship by their subordinates, and almost starved to death on a desert island, they are really stupid enough, and there is no comparison with the Devil Fruit at all.

William glanced at him and said lightly, "That's why I'm the captain, and you're just a quartermaster." ”

Chloe stopped speaking suddenly, and Harden on the side couldn't help but let out a hoarse laugh when he saw Chloe deflated, and he asked William, "Then what to do with these captives next?"

"Separate them all, keep them in solitary confinement, don't give them a chance to communicate with each other, I'm going to isolate them psychologically," William commanded as he walked towards the captain's room, "and then reduce the food supply, and continue to starve them for a few days, and now they still have the strength to scream, and it seems that they are not hungry enough." ”

William thought for a moment, and then ordered the captives who had just insulted him: "Tomorrow after they are fed, they will be separated, and the person I mentioned will not be given food, so that those who have food can see it." ”

From the information from the interrogation, it has been learned that Selkirk and the others were born in the North Sea and have been to the Great Voyage, which can be of great help to William to understand other seas, in addition, these people are not natives of the East China Sea, whether they are in this sea area or on this ship, they are not familiar with the place, and after the surrender, they will just change the personnel structure on the ship.

When they arrived at the captain's room, they found that the ship's helmsman, Diego, was waiting, looking around and looking around, quite sneaky.

William couldn't help but laugh when he saw this: "Why are you still so sneaky on our own ship?"

William's tone is quite affectionate, and the words are skillful, and the words "we" and "home" also seem to be close.

In fact, before William became the captain, the relationship between Diego and William was not particularly close, far less than the old man Hutcherson, who brought William, who was still a newcomer, to familiarize himself with the situation on the ship, and the second mate Harden and others who had the experience of fighting against Jepp together.

However, William's attitude made Diego quite useful, at least he was more kind than when he first tried to win over, and when he saw that he refused to give a conclusion, he turned his face and left, and Felton Qiang, who was stingy and took away the wine before leaving.

Diego was not as relaxed as William had shown, otherwise it would not have highlighted the seriousness of the situation and the credit for his informant, and he said with some seriousness: "Captain, Felton is a little restless. ”

"Oh, what's wrong with him?" said William, with a smile that had not changed his face as Tarzan collapsed as he did not change, "Let's go into the house and talk." ”

Diego followed William silently, he actually admired William's city in his heart, if he was in front of Barbarossa or Felton, he might have angrily questioned himself what Felton had done, and Diego even suspected that William would not show too much negative emotions even if he heard that the fleet was surrounded by the navy.

As an old pirate, of course, Diego will not simply believe that William is really as relaxed as he looks, but this kind of "calmness" is sometimes very important to the members of the ship, at least Diego feels that William, who has always been in his chest, is much stronger as a captain than a captain like Felton who has a small belly and is often carried away by anger.

After William took them into the captain's room, he was not in a hurry to ask, took four wine glasses, personally poured a glass of wine for Crowe, Harden, and Diego, and finally poured another glass for himself, before he sat down on the desk and asked casually, "What did this fool Felton do?"

Harden and Klowe, who were still a little nervous because of Diggo's words, also relaxed and looked at Diego as William's methodical behavior.

Diego spoke: "He has been entrapping some old pirates on the ship recently, trying to get people out of our pirate group, and he just contacted me. ”

"No brain," William said disdainfully after taking a sip of his wine, "and he doesn't clean up." ”

When William rebelled against Barbarossa, he did not show that he was blatantly engaging in tandem on the ship, and William was still the only navigator on the ship.

William was going to wait a while to deal with Felton and his gang, but he didn't expect that he himself seemed to be impatient to be disposed of by William, so he jumped out early.

William, a person who is good at digging people's corners and gathering power, will let others dig their own corners?

He shook his glass and smiled at Chloe and Harden, "It seems that in addition to recruiting those prisoners, we also need to clean up the unrest on the ship first, and then 'unite' our crew." ”

Chloe has almost been tied to William's interests, and Harden is about the same, he has been busy with William for the past few days, dealing with things on the ship, and the people of the Morgan Pirates basically treat him as William's cronies.

Both of them basically looked at William as the leader, and Harden asked without hesitation when he heard this: "How to do it?"

"What did I say on deck?" asked William rhetorically.