However, what made Charles feel very unaccomplished was that William did not show any embarrassment or other emotions because of his teasing, but looked at Charles with a smile and a look of gratitude.

Charles was speechless again, for the first time in his life he had seen such a man. But it is estimated that it is precisely because of him that he is liked by so many people.

Despite their best efforts to fight the bandits of the sea, the charr and their efforts were slowly declining.

Although the number of caravans is slightly larger than that of the pirates, the sailors' equipment is obviously inferior to that of the pirates, and many times the sailors on the merchant ship need five swords or more to kill a pirate, and the pirates basically only need two swords to kill the people on the merchant ship, and at most only four swords.

Charles anxiously looked at the battle situation in front of him, holding a blood-stained sword in his hand, he had just killed two more pirates who had attacked him, but this was a drop in the bucket for the whole situation.

William was no longer the calm and breezy appearance he had at the beginning, and his calm face seemed to be able to wring out water. He shouted loudly, commanding the remaining sailors to form a formation to resist the attack of the pirates, Charles couldn't help but be slightly surprised when he saw his command, this is a military formation in the army, a merchant has no reason to do this.

But there was no time to discuss this now, and there were only seventeen men left on the merchant ship, most of them wounded. And there are nineteen left on the side of the pirates. It is really ironic that more than 30 people beat more than 20 people and ended up in such a situation.

The sailors formed a phalanx, leaning together, as if this was the only way they could find some comfort, and as if only in this way they could accumulate some courage for the next battle.

The pirates also stopped their offensive at this time, and they also leaned closely together, confronting the sailors from afar.

Suddenly, a man dressed as a leader stepped out of the crowd behind him, and he watched as the sailors in the caravan spat out a series of strange-sounding words: "We don't want to kill, as long as you give us your ship, we will let you leave safely." ”

William squinted his eyes and said coldly, "Oh? Is it? How do you make us believe the words of a robber? We are businessmen, and we will not do things that see hope. “

The man raised his head, as if disdainful of William's remarks.

"If I wanted to kill you all, my sons would have rushed in. You've seen the battle just now, and they're going to kill you like sharks. So what else are you worried about? “

William looked at the man and said with a laugh: "I hope what you said is true, but you yourself understand that although we really can't beat you, you want to kill all of our own people." It's Roddock, not your Nord! What will happen to you if you don't get the reinforcement of the soldiers, I don't think I need to tell you clearly! “

The man's eyes narrowed at this time, and he couldn't see the emotion in his eyes at all. Charles could only feel his fury in his murderous words: "Listen, Merchant. I swear in the name of the Nord sages that neither I nor my children will do anything unfavorable while you are gone, and if we do so, we will not be able to enter Songard after death!" Are you satisfied? “

Charles suddenly wanted to laugh when he heard this, in fact, Charles didn't care about his oath at all, how could this kind of oath without any binding force be trusted by others?

But what Charles never expected was that William nodded solemnly at this time and said, "Okay! I believe you, Nord, I did lose this time, but you won't have such good luck next time I meet you. “

Charles looked at the merchant in front of him dumbfounded, and he felt that William was the number one idiot in the sky at this time. William ignored Charles' lunatic-like look, and simply directed his sailors towards the ship. The sailors obeyed his orders, and they jumped into the ship one by one, without even going to the cabin to pack their belongings.

William the merchant had given Charles the impression that he was an unprofitable and extremely greedy person for a while, but at this moment he did not hesitate to follow the back of the group, ready to jump into the opposite ship at any time. You know, there was a cargo worth nearly 15,000 dinars on board!

Charles hurriedly grabbed the "madman" in front of him and whispered, "You are crazy!" Can you believe such an insignificant oath? They are pirates, robbers and ship-butchers! You can believe them! “

He turned his head and glared at Charles, his eyes were extremely serious at the moment: "Songgard is the common faith of their Nords, just like our paradise, if a Nord swears that he cannot enter Songard, this is the highest level of oath, and we who beg for a living at sea do not believe it." “

He paused, and his tone softened a lot: "Actually, even if we don't believe it, what else can we do?" Are we really fighting with them? We are businessmen, and we will never do such a thing that harms others and ourselves. Although the cargo on the ship is valuable, can it be worth our lives? As long as we are alive, we can earn back no amount of dinars! “

Charles suddenly admired this guy a little, although he always looked like a poisonous tongue and a philistine sometimes, but he was absolutely unmatched in his decisions about right and wrong.

Just as they were all about to jump onto the pirate ship, the pirate leader suddenly opened his mouth and said, "Merchant, you are a respectable man. You respect our faith, pity your men, disdain money, you are a true warrior! ”

William turned back to the man and smiled: "It's all just to make a living, it's not easy for anyone, isn't it?" ”

The pirate nodded in agreement, and instructed the pirates under his command, "Move half of the cargo out of the cargo hold to this warrior, he deserves to be treated like this." ”

Without frowning, the pirates readily agreed, and quickly went to the cargo hold to move things.

Charles feels like he's running out of heads, what's going on? It's not that they're crazy, it's that they're crazy!

The corpses left behind by the two sides of the battle on the boat were still lying there, and there was blood flowing like a small river everywhere, but at this moment they were as close as old friends for many years, and even the war between nobles could not be so peaceful!

But Charles could not say anything, he could only watch what happened like a fool.

The pirates actually moved half of the goods out, no more, no less. Then the two sides held a sea burial for the victims, and finally waved goodbye reluctantly.

Until William's original merchant ship flew farther and farther away with the black flag and was no longer visible, Charles couldn't figure out what was going on.

He smiled wryly and thought: It seems that I am the real idiot.