Chapter 43: The Secret of Avalon
When Sickert took someone to check the crew, Cheng Hao was not idle, after handing over the Enigma in his hand to the curious Altmark, Cheng Hao smiled at the nervous Captain Jack on the side and said, "Since my crew did not find any munitions on the ship and this is not a disguised Q ship, then I declare in the name of Captain Bismarck that we will guarantee your life, since Barbossa has already sent a telegram for us, I guess we don't need to send it again, right?" ”
After hearing Cheng Hao's assurance, Old Jack replied to Cheng Hao excitedly, "Then thank you, Your Excellency, Captain, your quality full of chivalry is worth learning from everyone." ”
Will on the side. Turner looked at the captain whose attitude changed so quickly, and sighed, he understood that the reason why the old captain, who had always been unsmiling, lowered his attitude so low was to ensure the lives of his crew......
"It doesn't matter, even though we are soldiers, but even in war, we don't want war to involve civilians, and the countless laws of war stipulate this good foundation, and it's not a big deal, and I believe that even any German officer standing here today would make the same choice as me."
Cheng Hao's words made all the crew members of the Black Pearl present excited, even Will, who had always had a lot of complaints about Cheng Hao. Turner couldn't help but be in awe of Cheng Hao.
"Hmm, the light emitted by His Excellency the Captain is so dazzling......" Altmark on the side looked at Cheng Hao on the side suspiciously, muttering to himself, in the eyes of the cute supply ship Al-chan, Cheng Hao's body was simply glowing.
Looking at the muttering Altmark, Cheng Hao really couldn't hold back, and while rubbing the girl's hair again, he complained and said, "Stupid, how can anyone shine......"
Actually, Altmark is not mistaken, if Cheng Hao can really shine, then what flashes on Cheng Hao is the humanity that even a cruel war can't hide......
However, Altmark's hair is really comfortable to the touch, and the brown hair is constantly running through Cheng Hao's fingertips, and the smooth feeling is ......
It's really good, habitually playing with Al's hair, but it reminds Cheng Hao of his royal sister cat with the same hair color, "It's only been less than a day since I left, do you miss it a little......" Cheng Hao smiled bitterly.
"It seems that the relationship between His Excellency the Captain and Bismarck is really good" Jack on the side put down the burden on his back, and relaxed a lot for a while, as the captain of a cargo ship requisitioned by the government during the war, but was accidentally hijacked by an enemy warship, it was too much of a test of Jack's ability to bear.
What he is carrying is the fate of the entire cargo ship, and the hope that the entire crew of the ship will survive, Jack, who has been walking on thin ice and not daring to be careless at all, was naturally relieved when he heard the news, after all, as long as he lived, there was hope, as long as he lived......
This is not an old man's greed for life and fear of death, but he is responsible for the young men on the ship, who took them out one by one, and naturally brought them back one by one.
"But, Your Excellency, Barbossa's case...... Really can't ......."
Cheng Hao was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, and replied to Jack in a firm voice, "No, it is already my biggest concession to let you go, after my officers and soldiers have checked every sailor here, you can leave in a lifeboat, rest assured, I estimate that the British fleet should be able to find you soon." ”
Jack, the corners of his mouth moved slightly, smiled bitterly, and said to Cheng Hao, "I understand." ”
After figuring out what Barbossa wanted to hide, it was pointless to interrogate an unsuspecting old captain, no matter what kind of secrets Barbossa's body hid, for Cheng Hao, Enigma was the biggest treasure he found on the Black Pearl.
At this time, in the captain's room of the battleship George V, John Tovey, as the commander of the home fleet, was carefully looking at the huge nautical chart in front of him, it had been half a day since the Royal Fleet last found Bismarck's traces, and it was not easy to find Bismarck in the vast Atlantic, but the only thing that made John Tovey happy was that in the battle in the Danish Strait, Bismarck was also seriously injured, and the oil trail that spread out of sight was the best indication to find Bismarck, It's just that the price paid is too severe.
The sinking of either the battleship Prince of Wales or the battlecruiser Hood could not afford the current British Empire, which could no longer afford to build such a huge battleship in the face of the British Empire.
However, how could the Hood, which has a mature ship spirit, lose to a Bismarck who has just awakened the ship spirit, John Tovey, who has witnessed the battle between the ship spirits, still has a hard time accepting this fact, it is a terrifying existence that can manifest the ship's armor.
The battle between the battleships was not so much about two heavily armored knights fighting as two eggs with stones throwing at each other.
No matter how thick the armor used as a shield is, the spear will try to become sharper and penetrate this layer of armor, which is also the meaning of armor-piercing bullets, there is no unbreakable shield in this world, there are just spears that are not sharp enough.
As long as the price is sufficient, even the armor made of sub-soul steel will be broken by the power of the martial spirit itself. Tovey was worried about how Bismarck, as a young child, managed to penetrate the armor of Hood, who had been more than 20 years old...... "Did the Germans also get that power...... "Johann Brown." Tovey thought worriedly.
At this moment, a rush of footsteps broke the pensive John. Tovey, he frowned and looked back behind him, and only after seeing that it was his adjutant Arlin, John's frowning brows relaxed, because of his age, John Tovey hated being disturbed when he was thinking, and Arlin, as an adjutant, also knew this, so was there any important discovery?
John Tovey looked at Arlin curiously and asked, "Arlin, what's the matter?" "I hope it's good news, but there was a lot of bad news on this day.
Arrin carefully handed the telegram in his hand to John. Tovey, he didn't know how to report this bad news to John Tovey, Yarlin subconsciously wiped the beads of sweat that didn't exist on his forehead, and hesitated for a moment before facing John. Tovey explained, "Earlier, we received a distress signal from a ship from the Black Pearl, they claimed that they had been hijacked by the Bismarck, and because the telegram was broadcast in clear code, the intelligence services in the country also learned about it, and the director of the Sixth Intelligence Directorate, Stuart Menzies, personally sent a telegram asking about it, and he asked me to tell the commander that the ship was carrying the Enigma that we had obtained from the U-100 the other day, and that the ship's code name was Avalon......"
As an adjutant, Arrin didn't know what the mythical code name meant, but watching the wreck of a cargo ship make the MI6 director move, so it couldn't be as simple as an ordinary cargo ship, Yarlin guessed.
"Avalon...... "John. Tovey slumped on his stool......