The house arrest for Lorraine has been going on for about half an hour.

In the cabin of the earlier questioning, he closed his eyes for the third time and re-examined the reasonableness of what he had said.

Time and Negotiation, Position and Negotiation, Motivation and Negotiation, Development and Negotiation......

And the second lieutenant Lopez played by Lorraine this time is not apocryphal, like Ruhr, he is a real person, and none of his identity information is fake.

The real Lopez is the fourth son of a down-and-out viscount in Andalusia, a native of Castile, the current champion of the sailing and cable major of the Barcelona Maritime School, with all talents and talents, but because of the lack of family background, he is still stuck in the rank of second lieutenant three years after graduation.

He has curly black hair that is very similar to Lorraine, though he is nowhere near as tall as Lorraine, and has blue eyes.

But this small difference is not a risk at all at the moment.

It is impossible for Marati to remember what a little ensign looks like, and if he did, a good ensign would not have been a second lieutenant for three whole years.

The real risk of this is whether there are any of the 19 classmates on board who Lopez and Lorraine have mentioned, and any of them can easily tell the difference between Lorraine and Lopez, and his disguise can be easily torn apart, such as house arrest, most likely due to the fact that he is being tried in absentia in a cabin not far away.

But the current situation is not quite the same.

The Prosperity had not been ignorant of him for thirty minutes, for a sergeant had arrived just ten minutes earlier to bring Lorraine hot water, broth, bread, and a small jug of rum, and by the way to relay to Lorraine the latest news on the deck.

The broadside of the Shengshi and the San Carlos was over, and the sailors of the ship poured onto the deck of the San Carlos in droves, gathering the sailors scattered on the deck like heroes, and distributing hot water, bread, and fragrant broth, as Lorraine did now.

This news seems to be enough to prove that Lorraine has survived the investigation of his identity safely. He may not be "house arrested" here, as he thinks, but "hanged" here.

But according to the story concocted by Lorraine, the current San Carlos should be struggling to support himself under the fornication of pirates and traitors, and the powerful firepower and the Prosperous Age, which carries honorable people, can easily reverse this crisis.

They shouldn't have time to rub around the lake.

What went wrong?

Lorraine frowned and pondered.

Dressed as Spanish sailors, Nelson and Spencer were men handpicked from the British landing force who were fluent in Spanish and had no obvious foreign accents.

Most of them were eager to take the task, and the seemingly scattered arrangement actually placed an officer in control of the situation in every four or five people, and it should not be easily revealed in any way.

The rudder injury was also real.

In order to fool the Shengshi and the nobles on board, Lorraine personally designed the rudder injury.

The location of the destruction is at the rudder rod connecting the handwheel to the rudder, sawing one half, and then using brute force to break the other half.

Such injuries are extremely obvious, but there is no clue from the surface of the ship, and the partition of the stern compartment must be opened to see the truth inside the hull.

No one can guard against such deliberate vandalism. The story of the San Carlos fleeing from port without knowing it, and having to fight the rudder broken in the middle of the voyage should make sense anyway.

And last night's battle......

Thinking of this, Lorraine finally caught the mistake.

If it was a trap, three large and medium-sized Slupp ships could hide one hundred and fifty or sixty pirates when fully loaded, and the San Carlos was only one hundred and twenty men at full duty, and with a commander like Marat, they would not be able to block such an attack!

I accidentally overestimated my strength......

Lorraine quickly put himself in the shoes of the Marati Governor, trying to analyze what kind of mood he would have when he heard such a report of war that was absolutely unreal.

One, Lopez is loyal, exaggerating his opponent to invite credit;

Second, Lopez is a disloyalist, the San Carlos has fallen, and those who remain on the ship, including Lopez, are assassins against the two nobles;

Third, Lopez is a strict neutral, and the battle is real, but it does not end with the victory of the San Carlos, but Lopez mutiny and surrenders Marat, which is in exchange for himself and the sailors on board......

"Painting snakes adds to the foot, and extraneous branches...... It seems that the time has come to start Plan B......"

……

After another hour or so, Lorraine was finally taken out of the cabin where she had been under house arrest for a long time, and across the planks of the ship, towards the San Carlos.

Lorraine saw the sailors in disguise.

As he imagined, the sailors did not show any horses, they were well taken care of.

But the men in charge of their care did not leave their weapons with them, and artificially separated them, from the San Carlos to the Shengshi, from the deck to the cabin, and did not give them the opportunity to gather at all.

This is already a very obvious guard......

Frustrated, Lorraine led the way to the stern of the San Carlos, where he finally met Governor Marathi and Governor Hawthorne for the second time in the captain's quarters.

Maratidu, with a face like iron, pointed to the stool in front of him, and said to Lorraine, "Second Lieutenant Lopez, sit." ”

"Yes, sir!" Lorraine still maintained the appearance of an iron-blooded soldier, with her legs straight, and sat down on her knees.

"Don't be nervous, second lieutenant, it's just that San Carlos is in danger, and we still have a few questions that we need to know from you......" Hawthorne, who was always smiling, played a round on the side, and his hand was rummaging through what seemed to be Major Marat's voyage diary, "You said you had a big battle last night?" ”

"Yes, we were overboarded by three Slop ships full of pirates during the night, and we fought all night."

"How many pirates are there?"

"I don't know." Lorraine replied crisply, "In the darkness of the night, we can't estimate the number of enemies very well, we just remember that they are endless. ”

"And how many people are on board the San Carlos, as the second officer, you always know, right?"

"There are 120 sailors, 14 non-commissioned officers of all ranks, 6 captains, and 1 captain, a total of 141 people."

Maratitu glared at Lorraine viciously: "141 people...... How many people are left on board now? Those who disappeared, where did they go? ”

Lorraine had been prepared for this, cleared his throat, and replied aloud: "Now there are 41 sailors on board, 3 non-commissioned officers, 1 lieutenant, 1 colonel, a total of 46 people, and the rest of the living or dead who were killed in battle, seriously wounded, and pirates retreated, have been pushed into the lake according to the captain's request." ”

"Really pushed into the lake?"

"The subordinate does not dare to deceive the chief!" Lorraine used her eyes to find Maratitu's eyes, there was indignation, sadness, and intense self-loathing, numbness, and indifference, "The rainy season is coming, the weather is hot on Lake Nicaragua, we have broken the rudder again, and we don't know when we will be able to get out of the island dilemma now." ”

"The captain feared that the seriously wounded and dead would spread the plague, so he asked us to clean the ship before it decomposed. The warriors hated such labor, and we murdered no less than ten people, each of whom was a partner with whom we fought last night! ”

Marati was completely intimidated by Lorraine, and just as he didn't know how to end the game, Hawthorne grabbed the match point again.

"It's weird, second lieutenant. You blame your own captain for all your despicability, but after all this time, we searched the whole ship, but we didn't see the captain himself at all. ”

He looked at Lorraine with a sneer: "I have always adhered to fairness and justice in the governance of Nicaragua, and I have treated the Spaniards and Miskito people who live together as much as possible. Under my authority, anyone can file accusations and defend their reputation. I only have one request, the accusation needs to be confronted in court, this is the basic of the basics, do you have it? ”

"You have to tell us if Major Marat is alive or dead now? Is it injured or intact? Where is he now, has he been coerced, has he been detained? ”

"To put it bluntly, while you were enjoying the wine and broth on the Prosperous, the Admiral and I had already taken control of all of your men. Please hand over Major Marat at once, and this may earn you the mercy of the jury......"