Chapter 70: Devouring
The Jackdaw sailed out of the Black Mist Islands safely, but the ghost ship in front of it paused visibly for a moment.
Barbossa thought that the other party was going to do something, and he suddenly felt in his heart, and was about to give the order to prepare for war, but was stopped by Mu Yan.
"Take it easy, he was waiting to collect the body, but he didn't."
Blackbeard was slightly stunned, and looked back at his boss, but only saw a pure and harmless smile
Even so, he couldn't help but shudder.
"Did something happen?" He asked in a low voice.
"A little trouble, don't worry about it. Get back to your job. ”
Mu Yan patted him on the shoulder, turned around and went back to the cabin.
Sure enough, it was business as usual after that.
As the big ship gradually moved away from the Black Mist Islands, the sky returned to its former clarity, and the ghost ship was far ahead, no more than five nautical miles in between, and it took a telescope to see clearly.
But Barbossa couldn't put his mind at ease, especially after learning that the boss seemed to be secretly wiping their butts.
It didn't take long for a boat to suddenly appear on the sea level in front of the left.
On the white sails, there was a red and black insignia, and Barbossa stared at it carefully for a long time before he could tell that it was the boat of old Fisher, a wealthy man in Esola Bay, who ran the largest fish store in Hong Kong.
There is no doubt that it was a cargo ship, equal in weight and draft to the Hague-class ships. Coming in this direction, the cargo ship went in one explanation that it came from the northernmost ice field of Turing, which was the largest supplier of freshwater fish to Old Fisher. Then I went to the northernmost shoal of the Moby Dick Islands to touch the prize, that is, to try to hunt "mermaids", otherwise I would not deviate from the course and come to the vicinity of the Black Mist Strait.
From afar, Barbossa could smell the fishy smell of the Greenland freshwater fish on the boat. The elder Fisher had a special skill for preserving frozen fish, and it is said that the ice cubes he used were all frequented, and that the broth cooked on the boat did not need any seasoning, and that throwing in an ice brick would solve all the problems.
But just as Barbossa fell into memory, the ghost ship in the distance suddenly changed course! He turned his head and went into the sea!
And before that, it was directed at the ship!
Some sailors also saw this scene and looked at Barbossa.
"Captain, what should I do?"
Blackbeard frowned.
He knew what David was going to do, the ghost ship couldn't be seen by anyone outside of the Jackdaw, so he was going to kill it!
But he didn't know if he should go up and stop it.
In normal times, when a cargo ship is attacked by pirates, passing ships must go up to help rescue, which is a common rule among sailors since the Turing people began to rule this sea area, not to stand idly by and watch the victims, even if they are weak, they must wait until the battle is over to bring their bones back to land. It is for this reason that Turing's sailors were united, and there were few pirates in the coastal area.
But the current situation is really special
First of all, the two sides are in a cooperative relationship, and this sudden situation is not written into the regulations at all, and more importantly, although he is the captain, he does not have the final decision-making power
Barbossa subconsciously looked at the cabin, but at some point Mu Yan was already standing at the bow of the boat, right next to him.
"Boss, we"
"Look closely, it's too late."
Mu Yan said lightly, looking into the distance.
"How could it not come" Barbossa suddenly stopped, his eyes solemn.
Almost at the same time as Mu Yan's words fell, the ghost boat had already jumped out of the water, and the seabirds that dived into the water to catch fish broke the waves and rose in the wind.
With the forward momentum, it plunged headlong into the cargo ship, its sharp bow slamming into the belly of the cargo ship.
After a few seconds, the sound of the collision was faintly heard, like a wooden plank being broken, mixed with the sound of a cloth tearing.
As for the human voice, it was too weak to be heard, but just looking at the tragic situation of the cargo ship being broken by the waist can make up for how panicked the people on board must be.
But then came the most terrifying scene
The central part of the ghost ship was like a large piece of it had been dug out, and it originally looked like a terrible scar, but now it looked more like a big mouth growing around the waist!
When the two ships were almost crisscrossed and overlapped, the mouth slowly opened, and the jagged deck was like a terrifying fang!
In the blink of an eye, the cargo ship was rolled into two pieces, and the ghost ship was just opening its mouth wide and swallowing the first half of the ship little by little, and then the canine teeth closed and chewed vigorously
The disparity between the two was huge, with the Ghost Ship's slender, slender stature looking like a snake devouring half of a squirrel, and the latter had no power to fight back
One by one, the drowning people entered the sea, and they seemed to see the Jackdaw on this side and were struggling to climb it.
Barbossa clenched his fists, his knuckles white. The rest of the crew couldn't bear to watch this tragic scene.
Rorschach looked into the distance, then at Mu Yan, and lowered his head.
He may have remembered the plantation, or perhaps he remembered the past.
"If you can accept the consequences."
Mu Yan said suddenly, at first he only looked at Barbossa, and then asked everyone.
"If you can accept the consequences of this, I'm not saying David, I'm there, I'll fix it."
"And what are the consequences?" Some sailors couldn't help but ask.
"Many, many, many consequences." Mu Yan replied.
"I understand, boss." Barbossa gritted his teeth, "But the sailor can't die without help, and no one knows if the next person struggling in the sea will be himself"
"Okay."
Mu Yan nodded and whistled.
A large snow-white bird suddenly flew over everyone's heads, and it turned out that Hedwig was already standing at the top of the mast at some point.
This was the first time the silly bird had ever made an appearance since it had evolved, and it seemed to have made great strides in its intelligence, and it had learned to show off, spreading its feathers in the air and skimming straight down across the sea, making a beautiful arc, while the wind made a splash.
In the blink of an eye, it flew to the front, and with one take-off and landing, there was one more person on its paws.
There were not many people on the cargo ship, half of them died in the process of rolling over the two ships, and some of them died in the process of devouring the ships, plus those who were stoned to death by the debris and stunned in the process of escaping, and those who died from the sailors of the ghost ship, and there were less than four people floating on the sea in the end.
Soon, all four of them were caught in the claws of Hedwig, during which the sailors of the ghost ship also shot arrows, but they were all blown back by the cyclone on the stupid bird. By the time it returned, the silly bird had grown to the size of the patriarch, and its sturdy and powerful wings were more than four meters wide when it spread out, and when it returned to the ship, it set off a hurricane that blew the crew on their backs.
But as soon as he turned around, it turned back into an ordinary night owl and stopped firmly on Mu Yan's shoulder, covered in snow-white, without a little variegation up and down, like a fluffy snowball.
Many of the sailors were stunned, and Barbossa coughed vigorously before they realized that it was time to treat the wounded.
There is a guy among the four who is obviously dressed very richly, but it is a pity that no matter how good the material is, it looks very embarrassing to wear on the soup chicken, not to mention that he is now depressed.
He was also the first to react from the panic.
"My Boat, My Boat"
Staggering to the side of the ship, looking in disbelief into the distance, the ghost ship is slowly but magically "eating".
After a few minutes, the sea was clean and tidy, with no trace of the ship's presence, only a little green light in the distance.
"My ship, my ship, what a monster that is! What a monster that! ”
The soup chicken slammed into anger, then looked at the others and shouted hysterically, "Why didn't it attack you?" Why! Why? ”
Barbossa couldn't help but look at Mu Yan, who smiled noncommittally, mouth-shaped and commanded, "It's your turn", and then touched Hedwig's feathers and turned to leave.
"Give him a sip of wine to drink and boil some hot water for him." Barbossa commanded.
"No, no, I'm going to save my ship! You're conniving at that monster! You guys, why don't you stop it! ”
"Shut up, idiot!" Blackbeard finally couldn't help it, picked up the collar of the soup chicken, and splashed spit on the other party's face.
"I saved you, from now on, keep your mouth shut for me! Otherwise, go back from where you came from! Do you understand?! ”
Coldly letting go, he also turned away.
Barbossa began to regret it.
At night, the places on the ship that should have been planted with torches are inlaid with flints, and the whole ship is illuminated.
Barbossa stood at the bow of the ship, staring carefully at the ghost ship that swayed like a ghostly fire in front of her, her eyes deep.
"Is that your companion?"
The speaker deliberately bites the accent, and the irony is self-evident.
It was the soup chicken who spoke, and after cleaning it up, it was also a good skin, in his early twenties, with two mustaches, and he looked much more mature than Mu Yan.
But in fact, Barbossa shook his head disdainfully.
He was the youngest son of the elder Fisher, Fisher Jr.
"Mr. Fisher, I just saved you by the unspoken rules of the Turing sailor, and don't think I'm a bad person." A wicked smile tugged at the captain's wrinkled face, "I'm not a pirate, and I'm not in the habit of letting captives go off deck, but I'm also a normal person with a bad temper. If you are unfortunate enough to be killed, old Fisher will be very sad. ”
Little Fisher only glanced at him, and he felt as if he was being targeted by a shark, and the cold air rushed to his back, and he couldn't help but shiver.
But he still pretended to be calm and sneered, and then turned to leave.
Seeing him walk away, Blackbeard sighed inwardly.
It's getting more and more troublesome.