Chapter 81: The New Captain (I)

When William drove the small boat back to the vicinity of the Redbeard Pirates' big ship, there were already many people gathered on the side of the ship, and they had already noticed the fire on the Swordfish Pirates' ship, and some of them had seen a sudden cloud on the bow of the ship.

They didn't know what was going on, and when they saw someone coming back, they wanted to find out.

William landed on the deck of the pirate ship with a slight tap of his feet on the boat, and although he looked bloodied and embarrassed, there were still two extremely clever pirates who stepped forward and tried to hold him up.

It's just that when the two of them touched William's body, they quickly retracted their hands like an electric shock, and then puffed out their mouths and kept blowing cold air on them.

William frowned, he had just gained the Devil Fruit ability, and it was obvious that he didn't control it well enough.

The surrounding pirates didn't pay attention to the anomalies of the two doglegs, and their attention was all on the head of a person that William raised from the back of his waist, and some of them had sharp eyes or smart guesses, these people had different expressions, but most of them were frightened and uneasy.

William ignored it, his eyes swept away, and when he saw Harden standing in the crowd, he asked directly, "Did anything happen on the ship after I left?"

William asks about the movements of Vice Captain Felton, who is the only one on the Redbeard Pirates ship who has the most motives and the ability to cause trouble.

It's just that Felton is more patient than William imagined, or rather timid, and has never moved much except for two cruel words at the beginning.

"The captives, just now, the hair that was wrapped around them suddenly fell out," Harden shrugged and said something else, "Fortunately they still have chains wrapped around them, and I asked someone to wrap them a few more times and reinforce them." ”

William was a little scared when he heard this, he didn't know the relevant information about the Devil Fruit Ability, he didn't know that his Fruit Ability would be invalid after Barbarossa's death, although Serkirk and the others were hungry and thirsty and wounded, but they suddenly got out of trouble, and they were also prone to make trouble on the ship, after killing Redbeard, William had already regarded the entire pirate group as his own bag, and any loss was not what he wanted to see.

After learning about the situation on the ship, William got to the point: "You go and call all the people on board to the bow deck, I have something to say." ”

Harden glanced at Barbarossa's head, responded with a complicated expression, and then pushed away the crowd and ran to inform the other pirates.

When William saw him leaving, he turned to the frightened and confused people around him and shouted, "Come with me, everyone!"

With so many big things happening in just one day, the hearts of all the members of the Redbeard Pirates are not very stable, like William, who has always been able to show a strong purpose and planning, simply put, it is rare to see a person with a bottom in his heart on the ship, coupled with his previous prestige, the crowd involuntarily followed him to the bow deck.

When William reached the bow of the ship, he found a rag, sat on the guard next to the ramming horn, and carefully wiped the blood on Barbarossa's skull, and he did not speak, just waited for the rest of the crew to gather.

During this time, Chloe handed him a brand new knife.

When the old man on the ship, Hutcherson, arrived at the bow of the ship, he saw William as if he was playing with a head, and a large group of pirates around him watched a strange scene, he quickly took out the flask and took a sip of wine to suppress the shock, and then turned his head to look around, and found that in addition to the few people who were watching the captives, almost all the pirates on the ship had come to the bow of the ship.

It was only then that William, who had already wiped the blood clean, got up and pulled up the long hair on his skull, revealing Barbarossa's distorted face.

He pointed Barbarossa's head in front of a group of pirates, and then methodically grabbed the long hair of the head and tied it to a cable, a process he did not move quickly to make sure that the crew could see who the head belonged to.

When Hutcherson saw the face of the head, his hand trembled, and the flask, which he regarded as a treasure, fell to the ground, despite the fact that he had already prepared for some preparation.

The surrounding crowd also seemed to be a little commotional, some people exclaimed, and a few sounds of cold air were heard.

Hutcherson didn't bother to pick up the flask, he kept wiping his eyes, for fear that he was mistaken, until he confirmed it again and again, and then smiled bitterly and muttered to himself:

"Looks like there's a new captain on board. ”

"Redbeard" Barbarossa has been crisscrossing the East China Sea for nearly ten years, and many young people in the East China Sea have basically grown up listening to his horror stories, he himself is a Devil Fruit ability, and he also colludes with the ministers of the kingdom and senior naval officials, which can be called fearless, and the pirates on the ship can be said to have lived in his shadow in the past.

And now, his head had been taken down by a young man, and although many of the people on the ship had already turned away from him, and the wise man knew that it was likely to be such a scene from William's disobedience to the order and put the boat down without permission, but when he actually saw it with his own eyes, he was still shocked and incredulous.

William hung Barbarossa's head unhurriedly, and then watched the crowd without saying a word, until the somewhat commotion of the crowd gradually quieted down.

The pirates looked at William, this man was the only navigator on the ship, he was excellent in swordsmanship, he dared to clash with the famous "Redfoot" Zhepu in the East China Sea and win, and now he killed the "Redbeard" Barbarossa who made all the crew fearful, if in the past this man was able to convince these pirates more because of the bravery that the pirates valued, and then the sophistication of dealing with people, then now, this man's gaze has an unprecedented intimidating power at this moment.

"Barbarossa was killed by me. William's calm voice recounted a fact that shocked everyone.

"No matter how high-sounding it is, freedom, adventure, pursuit, dream...... In the eyes of the vast majority of the world, we are just a group of thieves waiting to be caught," William said this, his calm voice was filled with a hint of waves, and he raised his tone, "We do not tolerate the world, everything must be fought for by ourselves with sweat and blood, we either actively or passively abandon a stable life, give up everything, just to use knives and guns and even life to earn a wealth of our own on the sea." ”

"But what have we gained in all this time?" William pointed to Barbarossa's head, "failure is not terrible, a manly man will not complain, nor will he admit defeat, even if he loses, as long as we have an ambition that is ready to make a comeback, then sooner or later we will get up again from where we fell!

"Instead of uniting with us, he became hysterical and brutal, and we were forced to do slave-like labor with the barren spoils of war, and even then we were worried about the enemy's swords and guns, and for his unwarranted anger!"