Chapter 39: The Captain
I can only hear that there are a lot of idioms and phrases in his words, but although I have stored a rough idea of what the specific meaning is in the soul sea, but with such a fast speed of speech, I can only adjust it later to understand it in detail, and now I just need to know that he is here to apologize
"This is a list of apology gifts, and I would like to ask Secretary-General Latham to look at it. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info" Fat Antri Potter respectfully presented a piece of red paper folded in half to Latham with both hands.
Latham took it and opened it, looked at it, and looked up, "This gift is too valuable, the captain will definitely blame me for accepting it." Latham said with a smile on his face.
"This is just a small gesture on behalf of our Antree family, and it is also our early celebration of the Shadow Tooth Island army's anti-piracy operation, you have paid so much for the tranquility of this sea, and you deserve it." Potter's smile was on his face.
Is this a compliment to the human world?
"It's disgusting, goosebumps are coming out when I listen to it," An Ling said at this time.
It seems that there is nothing for us to do except take us to meet this Potter fat man. We stood here quietly, listening to Latham and Potter boast to each other, such as the Antree family's significant contribution to the development of Tuke Island and the Shadowfang route, such as how Shadowfang Island was strong and how it resisted the evil forces, and I felt like I wanted to sleep.
In the end, it was finally said that the two sides reached a silent agreement on the grounds that this was a confidential operation. Such a large formation of the Antree family is enough to explain a lot of things, things that I can recognize, these two people are still turning a blind eye with a serious face, human beings, you have won again.
The Potter family came with great fanfare, and then left with a sigh of relief, and the long echelon of carriages went farther and farther, and Latham asked the people around him to arrange for the two huge boxes left by the Antree family to be carried onto the ship.
He himself beckoned me and the summoner to come with him to the ship.
"Where are we going?" I asked him, because he took us on a path that I had rarely walked before.
"Captain's room, well, this time I made a small fortune, and it should be no problem to let the captain give you a promotion, maybe I will give you some rewards." Latham seemed to be so happy listening to the sound that I didn't even need to feel it with my soul.
"What you said before was so false," I said.
At this time, I pulled up a part of their conversation and understood it, and found that none of what they said was true, and they were all talking nonsense.
"Uh," Latham paused after hearing what I said, then looked back at me, "Haven't you been hanging out on the streets since you were a child?" I don't like this either, but I can't help it, people don't live in this world, they can't live how they want," he said.
It looks like he's saying something profound.
"You can live as much as you want, as long as you are strong enough." I said, that's what I think.
"After being strong, there will be more powerful, and after getting it, there will be more wanted, human desires are always endless, forget it, let's not talk about this sad question, we are almost there" He stopped the topic.
The so-called almost arrived, that is, we walked forward two more steps and then came to a door, which was really fast enough, and the door said: "Captain Barcroft", it is really above board and not afraid of assassination.
Latham directly pushed the door in, "Captain Buck, come on, come on, take a look, make a small fortune, this time it's not too much of a loss to go to sea" Latham directly changed the face of a human miser, as if he hadn't seen a treasure for many years.
"Where, where, hurry up and bring it to Captain Ben to take a look, hahaha, it's really a deal." After reading this, the captain lay down in a wide chair and laughed, his face exactly like that of Latham.
"Be calm, be calm, and outsiders, pay attention to your image." At this time, Latham suddenly changed back to his previous appearance, and said to Captain Barcroft with a serious face, Captain Barcroft only noticed the existence of me and An Ling at this time, and immediately changed his face.
Did I hallucinate just now?
I retrieved the scene stored in the sea of souls and watched it again, and I was sure that I was not hallucinating, human beings, you really have to make me admire.
"Who are these two? This one looks familiar," Barcroft asked, looking at us with a serious look on his face.
"This is what I told you before, I am basically the best fighter in this operation, An Shuming, next to him is An Shuguang."
"Oh, come to think of it, this is the one that made you absorb without success, these two names sound really weird, wait, good name, good name." Captain Baktrov laughed again.
"Pay attention to the image, pay attention to the image," Secretary Latham whispered next to him, tugging at Captain Barcroft's clothes.
"It's okay, these two can be regarded as their own people." Captain Bucktrov waved his hand, they didn't seem to know that An Ling and I came from the lich Legstone, otherwise there shouldn't be such a thing as an audit expedition, after all, Strongstone is an elder of the Elders of the Shadowfang Autonomous Society.
"The approximate origin of these things is that the second son of a big family called Antri here, who intended to tease An Xuanguang last night, but was trampled to the ground by An Shuming, and then took the housekeeper and some family-raised thugs to take revenge, and the military uniforms they wore were recognized, so I took this opportunity to apologize today, so many gifts are probably also to take this opportunity to contact the high-level of Shadow Tooth Island and expand the network of their own family." Latham finally got down to business.
"In this way, it doesn't hurt to get in touch, when you go back, investigate this Antree family, if there is no problem, don't mind developing the lower line, in the past two years, the power of the Holy See of Light, except for the pirates, has quickly infiltrated these supply islands, if these islands are controlled by them, it is almost no different from the Shadow Fang Passage being controlled."
Barcroft, who spoke at this time, was like Barcroft who gave a speech at the previous summary conference, and when he spoke at this time, a momentum of thousands of troops under control spontaneously emerged.
"For the time being, it can be regarded as a meritorious service for the two of you, in order to maintain their combat effectiveness, the old guys on Shadow Tooth Island have stopped supplying us since we went to sea, and let us rob the pirates ourselves, really, after so many years, our army is like a starving ghost who has not eaten enough every time he goes to sea. This can also make us rich for a while, haha, tomorrow we will taunt that vain old devil of Makaroft. Barcroft began to talk to himself as he spoke.
"Reward!" Latham pronounced syllables through his nose, which I barely recognized.
"Oh, oh, I almost forgot, you two will be promoted to sergeant for the time being, and you can count as people in our own army. Also, listen to Latham say you're a warrior? When he asked the last sentence, I suddenly smelled a dangerous aura from his body, and I didn't even notice it at all, it was the breath of vindictiveness.
By the time I reacted, my body had already taken a defensive posture, and the long knife in my trouser leg was easily pulled out and held in my hand, and the momentum around me suddenly stagnated.
"You hid such a long knife in your trouser leg?" Is it a very important question that a warrior like Barcroft would care about this question? More important than the battle itself?
"Isn't this long knife a flame, uh, I remember it fell into the hands of Elder Martyrstone, are you the two people that Elder Martyrstone said arranged?" Bucktrov actually knew the long black knife in my hand, it turned out to be called the Stygian.
"If you're saying Elder Strongstone is a lich, that's us," I said.
"Well, since you have the Stygian Flame, then I won't give you any reward, isn't the Stygian Flame a pair, why did you take a handful out." The captain asked me.
"The other one I accidentally ruined," I said.
"How is it possible, although the Stygian Flame is not an artifact holy weapon, it is also a first-class enchanted weapon, with your strength, there should be no possibility that you will be able to destroy it." Captain Buck was surprised to hear me.
"Serendipity" I have no way of explaining.
"Also, there's nothing that can't happen with Elder Froststone by his side." He quickly relieved himself that the Lich was a good shield.
"But didn't I hear that you are two magicians? How did you become a warrior and a magician again? Captain Buck asked me again. I blessed the long knife with a fire magic, and it dawned on him when he looked at it, "It turned out to be the magic of this special application mode," he said.
Later, during the exchange, we learned that An Ling and I should have been assigned to the central command fleet, which was to ensure our safety and give an explanation to the old lich, but due to the conflict between us and the two veterans at that time, we were not directly transferred by the secretary general of the central command ship, but participated in the distribution of grassroots soldiers, so we were assigned to this ship.
Captain Bucktrov was very satisfied with this, and I was also very satisfied.
If, as he said, we were transferred to a central command ship that could not take part in the battle, then I might as well stay in the Lich's castle. For An Ling, it is also very good to see the real battle, at least last night I gave two people to open their stomachs An Ling did not vomit again, of course, this may also be my wishful thinking, the summoner may be very disgusted with this kind of battle. Not all humans are as belligerent as an undead skeleton like me, although something may have gone wrong with my belligerence.
After that, Captain Bucktrov took out a magic wand from his vault, which is said to be the proud work of Catherine's Workshop, called Catherine Black Moon, what Catherine's Workshop is I don't know, but I can make a staff like a crescent moon from this whole, and feel the heavy dark magic element, which shows that this staff can well amplify the dark magic power of the releaser, a very powerful weapon, for magicians.
It's not as useful to me as a kitchen knife.
We took our leave, but the captain did not politely invite us to breakfast as the book says, and it was estimated that An Ling was already very hungry.
We returned to the deck the same way, and by this time there were only two huge chests left on the shore.
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