It's night, the moon and stars are scarce, and everything is silent.

Lucy has all the good seaside towns.

In a daze on the balcony of the villa, you can smell the salty sea breeze, hear the noisy waves, and the night beasts and seabirds reflect each other in the distance, and there is no disturbing human voice, which can make people's spirits diverge unconsciously, forget everything, and focus on thinking.

Lorraine was thinking about Bale, and he was in a rare tangle with the old classmate who had been sent to the door.

"How should I place him......"

"Ship...... Captain ......" A timid cry rang out behind him.

"Noah...... Lorraine smiled wryly and turned around, helping Noah over from the balcony next door, "It's night, can't sleep?" ”

"Sister Henna asked me to come over." Noah gathered up her skirt, her voice was cowardly, and her little face was flushed.

"Henna? Where is she? ”

She was looking at Bell. Judea. ”

Lorraine suddenly realized: "Tell her not to go in the future." Even if Judea is really bored, it is impossible to be seen when she is alone. ”

His answer made Noah stunned for a long time: "Captain, you and Mr. Judea, you are very familiar?" ”

"Yu Gong." Lorraine nodded noncommittally, "He is my sea school contemporary, I am first, he is second." He outperformed me in the Ship Section, and I outperformed him in other subjects, and Sir Leighton had hoped that he would be my deputy, for Sir had feared that I would not be able to outperform Lieutenant Colonel Nelson in the speed of my promotion. ”

"Nelson? That navy's ......"

"It's a small world, isn't it? Horatio. Nelson is the best graduate of Plymouth Sea School over the years. It's a pity that he began to practice on the ship soon after entering the school, and all the subjects were completed on the battleship, so the better he was, the more he was regarded as a thorn in the side of the academy. It was a factional struggle within the Naval Academy, and my mentor had always wanted me to be a better officer than Nelson as a testament to the need for systematic teaching. ”

"The school thing...... I've never heard you say that before. ”

"Haven't I dropped out of school? This past doesn't prove anything, and I don't need this experience to flaunt anything. ”

Noah nodded seriously: "Captain, Bell. Is Judea a good helmsman? ”

"Not only is he excellent, he is the best." Lorraine crossed his fingers and sat down, "He's good at changing direction irregularly over short distances, he's good at using surges to achieve fine control of dips, and as a helmsman, he's flawless on both ends of the floor." He also had excellent sail handling skills and good command skills, which meant that he could coordinate all the work on the stern deck on his own, and once he entered the naval battle, the captain could concentrate all his energy on facing the enemy, a talent that most good helmsmen do not have. ”

"Top ...... Sailor? ”

In Noah's impression, Lorraine never seemed to have such a high opinion of someone's seafaring skills.

Even the ship's most professional Karen and Yacharin, Lorraine has a mixed assessment of them, acknowledging their top talents in one area and not avoiding their shortcomings in others.

In this case, Bell's talent is hard to find......

But Noya was even more puzzled: "Since Mr. Judea has a rare talent, what is the captain hesitating about?" ”

"Intent. I couldn't see the intentions of this old classmate. ”

"Intent?"

"In addition to academic competition, Judea is also my only friend at the school."

Lorraine whispered a reminder of the past.

"The Plymouth Naval Academy is a place where the elite gather, most of the cadets are from noble backgrounds, and a few civilians are older and thicker, and many of them have made meritorious contributions in naval battles."

"I'm the only illegitimate child there, the only heretic, but I'm still a scholar." He scoffed, "My classmates rightfully hate me, except for Judea."

"His grandfather was an important figure in the Whigs, but he was the most hardcore Jacobite in the Glorious Revolution. After losing the political struggle and going into exile in France, the old man chose to remain in England and pledge allegiance to Mary and William. Because of these actions, his grandfather was called the Whig Shame and was ostracized and oppressed by the entire aristocratic class. ”

"The Earl's Honour was ordered to stay at home, the clan's vassals refused to recognize the Lord, and even their own domains were eaten away by the merchants who owned the backstage. His grandfather died of depression, and at the funeral, the Whigs even tried to strip his family of their titles. ”

"As a result, this proposal was rejected by the two kings, and the Whigs had no choice but to implement the second option, declaring that the Lords would retain the title until a suitable heir was available in the family who was approved by the nobility."

So when Judea was born, his family had become a down-and-out family with no earl title, but only a bread shop for a living. He was privately called Earl-Alternate by his classmates at the Naval Academy, and he was a more hated guy than me. ”

Lorraine scoffed: "Two hated fellows snuggle together to keep warm, I am a frequent customer of their bakery, and he is often invited by his mother to visit Tavistock during holidays. ”

"I know how paranoid he is about restoring the glory of his family, when he resold arms to me in Southampton...... I even think it was Shaq's instructions. ”

"Captain's brother...... Aren't you? ”

"Who knows? Maybe it's to grab me by the handle and kick me back into the mire one day? Lorraine shook his head, "The point is, at that time, I had to accept those guns, and compared to the decisive battle, a certain amount of hidden danger was a risk that I could bear." ”

"But Mr. Judea was tried by your brother, does this prove that it was his own will to sell us guns?"

"That's what I can't guess the most. According to what I know of Judea, he can't make himself a criminal for money, but now ...... Bell, the convict, rested in my room. ”

Noah suddenly panicked: "Captain, if he is really your brother's spy...... Our smuggling has been exposed? ”

"Smuggling hasn't started yet." Lorraine looked at the stars and said in a confused voice, "Edward. Kenway was just a newcomer, and it stands to reason that he was not good enough to attract the attention of Major General Drake. But if everything Judea said is true, what has happened in the past few years since joining the army? And what did he hide from me? ”

"Is the captain curious?"

"I'm not curious, but if I don't untie this knot, I don't dare to use him with confidence after all."

"Yes......"

Noah also fell silent, and the tangled people on the balcony changed from one to two, and they sat silently back to back, and sat for more than half an hour.

"Ship...... Captain. ”

After a long silence, Noah stood up with her head down, biting her lip and hugging Lorraine's head.

"Captain, when the Roma are wandering, they often encounter caravans that have been evicted." "You know, a lot of parts of Europe are hostile to us, especially the pagan Roma, and it's killing whole tribes," she said. Do you know how we solved this problem? ”

"How to fix it?"

"Go to the last town where he settled before he was expelled."

"Throwing yourself into the net?"

"It's like throwing yourself into a net. If he is expelled because of hereticism, once we enter the town, he will be captured by the Church, and we will try to be an accomplice of the Church and not be implicated in him. And if not, it was an ordinary journey, he just followed the new tribe to the old place and wandered, and he didn't need to fear anything. ”

"What do you mean...... We took Judea to Hamilton for excitement? ”

"It doesn't have to be this way!" Noah waved his hand again and again in a panic, "Because you said that Mr. Judea has a deep obsession with restoring the glory of the family, I want to ......"

"Think?"

Noah lifted her chin and bravely met Lorraine's eyes.

"I suppose that if he had been a spy sent by Mr. Drake, the absconding must have been fake. No matter how many details they prepared for this, they did not dare to issue an official wanted warrant. So you only have to go to Kingston to look up the wanted warrant to know the relationship between Mr. Judea and Mr. Drake. ”

"Wanted......"

Lorraine's eyes slowly lit up, and the more she thought about it, the more she thought it was a brilliant idea.

The most crucial point in this idea is to find the wanted warrant in Kingston.

Kingston was out of Shack's control, and once Bell's wanted warrant reached here, it meant that it would reach England and reach the House of Lords. Even if it is later revoked, the House of Lords will use this as an excuse to continue to disqualify Bell from inheriting the title of earl.

Spy Bell would never allow this to happen, and only the criminal Bell would be powerless to do anything about such an outcome.

"Noah, you've done a great job!" Lorraine was ecstatic, and couldn't help but pick up Noah and turn in a big circle.

Noah let Lorraine do the whole set of movements in a daze, until her feet hit the ground, and she still felt like the sky was spinning, and her eyes were full of stars.

Her face was red and dripping blood: "Captain......"

"You've done a great job! It's great to be able to talk to me tonight. ”

"Hmm...... Well? ”