Chapter 26: Freedom

What it means to be a pirate is freedom.

But being free enough also means being untethered.

And once human nature is not restrained, it will naturally give birth to countless pirates who can only burn and loot.

Jaya's knowledge of pirates comes mostly from pirates who only want to raid the island of Mengmeng.

Because of this, it is impossible for her to comprehend that freedom is the most precious thing a pirate has.

As long as they are free, pirates can do evil as well as good.

Therefore, no one can dictate what pirates can and cannot do.

As a veteran pirate who has been retired for a long time, Jabba has an extremely deep understanding of these issues.

Even so, he never instilled these things in Jaya.

In his opinion, if there is no suitable opportunity, Jaya will protect those ancient ruins that have been precipitated by time on Mengmeng Island all her life.

Since he has a relatively stable future, Jabba naturally won't be like Saul, who thinks about bragging about his past glory years with his juniors.

The content of the newspaper had some impact on Jaya's cognition, and she inadvertently pinched the newspaper into large wrinkles.

"Sister Ya, the newspaper ......"

Sunny whispered a few times, bringing Jaya back to her senses.

"Ah, I'm sorry."

Jaya narrowed her eyes and returned the newspaper to Sunny who had almost broken her face, and smiled apologetically.

"There is no need to apologize for such a trivial matter."

Sunny took the newspaper and looked at Jaya suspiciously.

She felt that Jaya was a little weird.

Jaya smiled and was silent.

Sunny didn't think much of it, smoothed out the newspaper, and glanced at Maude's picture a few more times.

At this glance, a smile appeared on the little face again.

Kerr stretched out his hand around Sunny Ny's shoulder and teased, "I've counted it for you, and you've seen it nine times just one photo." ”

Sunny didn't care about Kerra's teasing.

It has always been her habit to flip through a newspaper and read it several times.

Seeing that Sunny didn't react, Kella lost her mind to ridicule and turned to business.

"Sanny, have you decided?"

"Well, you can go at any time."

Sunny nodded slowly, folding the newspaper properly.

Let Saul retire on Monmont Island, and with Jabba by her side, she will have no worries.

Now, Maude has been at sea for a while, so she has to join the revolutionary army as soon as possible.

Only then will she and Maud be able to establish a "cooperative" relationship as soon as possible.

Kerra laughed, "That's great, just come with us......"

Halfway through the conversation, Kerra glanced at Jaya out of the corner of her eye, and stopped talking just in time.

Sunny didn't know the content of the second half of Kerra's sentence, but she could guess that it was related to the mission.

Sabo watched quietly from the sidelines, and suddenly realized that he couldn't help but look in one direction.

On the hillside at the end of the view, the figures of Thor and Jabba are revealed.

The arrival of Sabo and Kerra did not hide from the eyes of the two old men.

"It's the Revolutionary Army."

Jabba took a puff on his cigarette and turned his head to look at Thor.

As soon as the revolutionary army arrived, it meant that it was time for Sunny to leave.

Thor didn't react at all when he heard this.

On his old face, there was no hint of reluctance.

Jabba pursed his lips, thinking to himself that the old man just likes to pretend.

The two old men walked side by side.

"Give me the newspaper."

Saul saw the folded newspaper in Sonny's hand at a glance.

Sunny handed the newspaper over.

Thor took the newspaper and spread it out to read it.

"Oh?"

After seeing Maude's photos and reports, Saul smiled.

Jabba squeezed over, reading the newspaper with Saul.

In a relatively backward place like Monmont Island, the only way to know about the outside world is through newspapers.

Seeing that Maude had made so many troubles in less than a month, Jabba sighed, "This kid has enough trouble, but ...... I like it. ”

Hearing this, Jaya glanced at Jabba without a trace.

Jabba didn't notice Jaya's small movements, and his attention was still on the newspaper content.

"If you dare to attack the royal family of the member country, you will inevitably be settled by the queen of autumn."

"So what? Just run fast enough. ”

Thor closed the newspaper and smiled dismissively.

Jabba was silent, and he couldn't refute Thor about this.

God knows how Thor's little short legs turned into scuds in the back.

Thor returned the newspaper to Sunny, his head full of reports about Maude.

"I used to think that a person's life just needs to be exciting enough, but now, I just want to live a little longer."

"Idiot, who wouldn't want to live a little longer?"

Jabba is very faceless to dismantle the stage.

Thor lifted his cane and walked over.

Seeing that the two old men started to fight again, Sunny and Jaya were quite helpless.

"Thor, I'll follow Kerra and them later."

Sunny put the newspaper in her pocket and mentioned that she had officially joined the revolutionary army.

Thor stopped swinging his cane, turned his back to Sunny and said lightly, "Oh, go ahead." ”

"Hmm."

Sunny nodded slowly.

Half an hour later.

The ships of the revolutionary army slowly moved away from Monmeng Island.

On the beach, Thor, Jaba, and Jaya watched the boat go.

It wasn't until the ship turned into a small black dot on the distant horizon that Thor let out a low sigh, his old face full of reluctance.

Jabba glanced at Thor's expression at the moment and couldn't help but shake his head.

Jaya looked up at the sky and said softly, "It's time to go back." ”

"Oh, what's good for the night?"

Thor switched his mood for a second, looking at Jaya expectantly.

“……”

Jabba and Jaya were speechless.

On the way back to the valley dwelling.

Jabba suddenly said, "Xiaoya, the outside world is very exciting. ”

The headless sentence made Jia Ya stunned.

"Speaking of exciting, I have to mention my memoirs, Xiaoya, when you have dinner later, I will talk as much as you want to hear."

Thor leaned over, his eyebrows fluttering, and he didn't have the slightest sadness to say goodbye to Sunny.

Jabba looked at Thor, who didn't look serious.

He knew that Thor was just keeping his emotions to himself.

"Huh."

Jaya smiled slightly, and then disappeared.

Facing the orange-red twilight as the sun sets, a group of three people walked towards the valley residence.

...........

Tokai, a tavern in a small town.

Business in the tavern is not bad, with an attendance rate of almost 90 percent.

A rectangular wooden board was nailed to one of the walls inside the bar, on which were more than a dozen pirate bounty orders.

Among these bounties, the lowest is only 3 million, and the highest is only 17 million.

At that moment, a bearded man walked into the tavern through the back door and handed a brand new bounty order to the bartender at the bar.

"Stick it up."

The man, the tavernkeeper, motioned for the bartender to post the recently updated bounty order to the board.

The bartender did as he was told, and did not look at the reward order, but posted it very skillfully.

After the posting, the bartender had the heart to look at the bounty.

"10.2 million, that's pretty high."

As he spoke, the bartender felt that something was wrong, he was still quite sensitive to numbers, so he counted them carefully.

At this time, the men sitting around the bar also noticed the newly posted bounty order.

"Someone is messing around again."

A man sighed, first looked at the handsome young man on the reward order a few times, and then looked at the reward amount.

Then, he was stupid.

A few seconds later, a few men next to him followed in the footsteps, also stupid.

"One, 100 million ???"

The bartender's eyes almost popped out, and he shouted out the amount on the bounty order.

In front of this plank, he had handled countless bounty orders in the East China Sea, but it was the first time he had seen such a high bounty.

"Bacardi. Hammond...... Where did this big guy come from? ”

The men looked at the bounty order with a bounty of up to 100 million on the wooden board in a daze, and then compared it with the bounty orders between 3 million and 17 million around them.

It's like......

A dad with a group of sons.