Chapter Seventy-Four: The Powder Keg

After Harden, two other Redbeard Pirates surrendered under death threats. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the other hand, Harden almost answered Creon's questions, which made the Viking Pirates feel a lot more at ease with him, although the weapon was still not returned to him, there were not so many people around him to watch him anymore.

Ragnar and the other members of the Viking Pirates, several pirates who defected to the enemy, had a lot of useful information out of their mouths.

Barbarossa, who had a bounty of only 19 million Bailey, would not have been taken seriously by Ragnar at all in normal times, especially after learning that he had recently killed an important subordinate.

But now that the Viking Pirates are at rock bottom, Ragnar must plan it well.

"It's better to lure them to the island to fight," Ragnar said after some contemplation, "and a naval battle is not good for us. ”

When several cadres of the Viking Pirates heard this, they all looked at the big ship of their group anchored not far from the island, and the tattered appearance really made the people who heard it sad and the people who saw it shed tears.

It was already a miracle that this mighty and majestic ship was almost ravaged into wreckage under the destruction of the great route and the windless zone, and it was already a miracle that the crew could be safely transported to the East China Sea, and Ragnar and the other cadres had no doubt that after a fierce naval battle, it was likely that the battleship would sink to the bottom of the sea.

It is conceivable that the result of the Viking Pirates rushing towards the Redbeard Pirates with such a broken ship is that they will be beaten into wooden scum by the other party when they are far away.

There are also trophies from the pirates on the ship, and if you sink to the bottom of the sea with the ship, you don't know how long it will be caught, especially the Devil Fruits, which are the size of fists and may disappear when they are rolled up by the sea. Although there is also the possibility that the opponent also wants to obtain the Devil Fruit, so it is possible to cast a rat trap, but Ragnar obviously did not hope for the opponent's stupid character, otherwise he would have died at sea.

"We're going to bring their main force to shore," Ragnar muttered, raising his voice to his subordinates, "bring all the things on board that are not related to naval warfare to the island, and bring over two barrels of gunpowder." ”

Creon looked a little puzzled by Ragnar's order: "Captain? ”

"With this ship, we won't be able to go far in the East China Sea, and we'll just grab the Redbeard Pirates' boat," Ragnar paused and pointed to the woods on the shore and said, "We'll make a trap with gunpowder there, and we'll trigger it when the main force arrives." ”

"Dieng!" Ragnar had an order to his own navigator, "Take a group of men, take our ship away, hide it first, then stay on board, and when you hear the sound of us lighting the powder keg, take them downwind and take the ship, you must be fast?" ”

The navigator named Dion nodded earnestly.

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Harden and the other two former Redbeard Pirates were ordered to separate by Ragnar, and at this time, Harden sat on the box, watching Ragnar's stern-looking opponent give orders in the distance, nervously moving his mind and thinking about how to deal with the crisis.

Although Harden was not tied up, his weapons were taken away, and there were several members of the Viking Pirates watching him, not to mention that he couldn't cope with several powerful cadres such as Ragnar, and there was no hope of escaping.

The only thing to be thankful for is that stuttering has become a good disguise for him, and the pirates of the Viking Pirates have seen his embarrassment, and they all think that he is a timid and afraid person, and when they learn from another old pirate captive of the Redbeard Pirates, that Harden used to be a relatively honest and even cowardly person on the ship, they are much less wary of him.

After a while, Harden saw the members of the Viking Pirates busy, driving small boats back and forth between the ship and the island, bringing two large wooden barrels, and several strong men carefully lifted them down from the small boats to prevent the barrels from touching the sea.

Harden's pupils shrank when he saw this, as a gunner, he guessed what it was at a glance, his mind was a mess, his hand subconsciously touched the lighter in his pocket, and the heavens and men fought for a moment in his heart, thinking of Margaret, thinking of Becker, thinking of the sympathetic big sister back then, thinking of all the old people on the boat who called him "stammer" with contempt, a man put his arm around his shoulder, smiled and said, "Harden, I have good news for you." ”

He finally made up his mind.

Harden looked around, and the pirates who were in charge of monitoring him didn't look very good, and sat on the wooden box not far from him to regain their strength.

After the two barrels were moved to the edge of the woods, a few sturdy pirates left to do other things, because they were surrounded by their own people, and the four captives were all very honest after surrendering, and more importantly, the lack of physical strength, coupled with the lack of food and other elements necessary to replenish the body, the Viking Pirates were not in a good mental state, and their vigilance was not high.

Harden looked at Ragnar, Creon, and a few of the other cadres he feared the most, and realized that they were far away from the powder keg.

Harden stood up, and when he saw the eyes of several pirates watching him, he pretended to be at a loss and said, "I, should I also help, help?" ”

Harden's slightly flattering words made the pirates laugh, thinking that he was just worried about the Viking Pirates unloading the mill and killing the donkeys, because he was uneasy and wanted to stammer with the other members of the pirates.

"You can sit honestly, no need." One of the pirates replied.

Harden rejected the other party's proposal, walked briskly to the edge of the forest, and stammered: "I see you, you are all tired, and you are just, you need help." ”

A few people wanted to get up to stop Harden, but they didn't expect Harden to go faster and faster, and he didn't even pull it, until then someone noticed that something was wrong, but he just thought Harden was going to run, so he shouted: "It's not good, stop him, he wants to escape!" ”

Hearing this, Harden strode straight away and ran towards the powder keg with all his might, only to find out that some pirates were targeting the powder keg.

Harden pounced on the powder keg at the speed of a 100-meter sprint, and one of the pirates hurriedly raised his pistol and aimed it at him, but was immediately pressed by his companion's hand and angrily scolded: "That's a powder keg, are you a fool?" ”

Harden didn't bother anymore, he threw a few punches at the edge of the tightly closed barrel lid, ignoring the pain, and then peeled off the loose lid to reveal the black gunpowder contained in the barrel.

Laugh at!

He was about to continue his move, but an axe slashed into his left rib.

Harden screamed, the remaining force of the axe drove his body to lose balance, fell to the ground, blood instantly wet his clothes, but he did not give up easily, gritted his teeth and groped out the lighter from his arms, opened the lid of the lighter, rubbed the grinding wheel with difficulty, a little spark appeared from the flint, and then easily ignited the cotton thread of the lighter.

Harden stared at the small flame, laughed miserably, then turned and threw the lighter into the open powder keg, then struggled to roll away from the powder keg, and then lay on the ground with his head in his hands.

Everyone in the room focused on the lighter, as if time slowed down in this small area.

The lighter spun in the air, and the windbreak wall of the lighter made the flames on the cotton thread sway, but still burning stubbornly, and then the burning lighter sank into the barrel.

Rumble!