Chapter 2: The Vault

Aramis originally opened a tavern in his family, but after he went bankrupt, his parents were forced to die by debt collectors before he became a pirate, so he knew more about taverns, and he could find most of the secret wine cellars, and he also knew how to read and count, which was also a talent in the absence of universal education.

In contrast, the other small gang members around William, Ah Jin was originally a fisherman, he was blackmailed by a gang like a fishing tyrant, and after a conflict, he accidentally killed someone, and simply joined the pirates, because the commercial mobility of the dock area is high, and Ah Jin has not received a proper education, but he still knows some words, and is considered semi-literate.

The last seventeen-year-old boy named Walloon was a farmer and simply illiterate.

Therefore, there is a bad side to everything, and there is also a good side, if people only focus on the latter, it is easy to be overly optimistic, but if they only focus on the former, they are easy to be depressed and lose confidence.

In the first days, William learned from Robinson, who had drifted to a desert island, and made a list for himself in his heart, listing both good and bad sides, intending to encourage himself, help him be positive, and regain the confidence to survive.

At the very least, this body is young and healthy, unlike his body that was poisoned by tobacco and alcohol for many years in his previous life, and from the memory, he is well-educated, and even has received a certain degree of swordsmanship practice, although the original owner of this body looks like a bit of a waste wood, and he didn't do much hard work at the beginning, but even so, this foundation also makes William stand out on the pirate ship with his skills, which is also an important reason why he can become the leader of a small gang.

Starting from scratch, he also worked hard from scratch in his previous life, although it is a little more difficult now, there is more room for improvement in the future.

Aramis only observed the room for a moment, then stopped looking closely, and led William down the house to a courtyard behind the tavern.

He bent down to observe the traces of the soil for a while, and soon clapped his hands, and after attracting the attention of William, who was looking at the courtyard, he said with some smugness: "Found it." ”

Aramis came to the bottom of a vine trellis in the courtyard, and with two strokes, lifted a small plank covered with weeds, the door of the cellar was camouflaged, and the position was in the shadow under the trellis, and it was easy to ignore it if you didn't look at it.

The planks were lifted to reveal the narrow aisle behind them, and it was pitch black inside, and William did not rush in, but put up the pergola with one hand and squinted inside.

William waited like this for a few minutes, and only after Aramis was a little impatient did he throw a pillow he had been holding down the aisle into the dark cellar.

As William expected, an unidentified object that suddenly broke into the cellar caused a commotion.

"Bang!" A gunshot rang out from the cellar, and Aramis was startled, and then saw William beckoning at him, and then rushed into the cellar first.

William's previous actions were just worried that there were people hidden in the cellar, the aisles of the cellar were narrow enough to allow only one person to pass through, there was no room to dodge, if there were people hidden inside, only a gun was needed, and the people who entered the cellar could be used as live targets, and he deliberately waited for a few minutes, just to make the people who might be hiding in the cellar suspicious, and kept tensing his nerves, and couldn't help but shoot after the pillow was thrown in.

William's current East China Sea uses old-fashioned flintlock pistols, and it takes a lot of effort to load a bullet, and when he hears the gunshot, he doesn't give the other party time to reload, and goes straight into the dark cellar.

At the entrance of the cellar was a narrow staircase, William rushed over in the blink of an eye, fell to the flat ground, and a figure suddenly turned out from behind the wooden beam next to the staircase, wanting to sneak attack while he was not on a firm foothold, but William had already prepared, although the cellar was pitch black and not as bright as the ground, but William had prepared his eyes to adapt to this environment before.

William dodged his attacker's weapon with a slight side, then reached out with his left hand in a flash of lightning, grabbed his opponent's wrist and pulled him forward, leaving himself out of the narrow staircase of the cellar.

The light from the cellar door fell into the face of the attacker, and William took the opportunity to see the other man's face clearly, a boy of only fourteen or fifteen years old, because he was struggling to break free from William's left hand, which grabbed his wrist like an iron hoop, and looked hideous.

William did not hesitate, and directly smashed the knife on the young man's temple, and the other party threw himself on the ground and passed out with a "poof".

It all happened between the lightning and flint, and at this time Aramis also rushed in, he followed the space left by William, rushed directly to the cellar, and when he looked up, he saw a middle-aged woman holding a pistol, and pointed at the staircase of the cellar in a daze.

The middle-aged woman seemed to be frightened stupidly, and kept holding the posture of raising the gun, and there were still a few traces of gunsmoke from the muzzle of the pistol, and Aramis knew that it was the gun that had just fired, so he let out a low cry, and rushed forward in three or two steps, slapped away the woman's pistol with one hand, and grabbed the other party's neck with the other, and with one force, the woman was unceremoniously used to the ground.

Ignoring the woman who had been thrown by him, Aramis turned his head to look around, wanting to see if there were any enemies, but when he looked at the corner on the right where the barrel was placed, he suddenly called out with a complicated expression: "William!"

William hurriedly walked over, followed Alamis's gaze, and found that there was a little girl hiding in that corner.

The little girl looked to be about ten years old, with a braided oil, and only a thin dress in the somewhat cold cellar, and she squatted on the ground, tears spilling out like a thread, but she tried to bite her right hand curled up into a fist without making a sound.

She also saw William and Aramis, so she cried even harder, and her body kept shaking, but she still didn't make a sound, but shrank her body, and the figure squatting on the ground became smaller, as if hoping that in this way, Aramis and William would not see her.

William and Aramis looked at each other, and then Aramis asked in a low voice, "What should I do?"

“…… Tie them all up first. William said in a deep voice.

Aramis answered, and then quickly pulled a rope from his bosom and tied the struggling woman to the wooden beams of the cellar.

The woman was slender and charming, and the young Aramis secretly took advantage of it when she was tied up, and William didn't pay attention, he looked at the door of the cellar, and a series of footsteps came, and as the light dimmed, Ah Jin, who looked vigilant, had already bent down and walked in.