Chapter 10: The First Sight of the Skeleton
Although the battle lasted all night, the people returned to O'Hara overnight despite fatigue. According to the agreement, the scholar Wolf divided some of his men and sailed back the pirate ship with him.
This time there was a boat, looking out at the rising sun in the distance and the tree of omniscience gradually emerging, Will thought.
Kuro immediately investigated the configuration of the ship. Sure enough, as the intelligence said, it was a horned pirate ship that had just been launched not long ago, with a black body and a pure white sail, with two colors, frankly a bit swaggering at sea.
However, the good thing is that the hull is streamlined, and the materials are high-quality, and the keel is made of the top teak, which is already considered to be the best in the West Sea.
All in all, this is a high-quality pirate ship with a good appearance, fast speed, and sturdy materials, even when it comes to the great voyage, it will not be easily eliminated.
Will was pleased with the result.
When sailing at sea, a good ship is the bottom line. Get a raft and go to sea, he doesn't have such a big heart.
At this time, it was just dawn, Wolf commanded everyone to sail the ship into the harbor, and Will stopped Raphael, whose expression had returned to normal compared to the previous night, showing good mental quality.
"Yesterday's battle was not easy, let's go back and rest first. At noon, I called someone who still wanted to go to sea to meet me. You know where to find me. Will said.
Raphael nodded and led the group away. Compared with the twenty or so hot-blooded young people who came here, there are less than ten of them now, and the others will probably not come back.
"Will, you're back!" Robin rubbed his eyes and appeared at the docks.
Will rubbed the other man's head, "Didn't you sleep all night?" β
"I fell asleep at the dock in the middle of the night." Robin was a little embarrassed.
"Hurry up and go back and rest, don't you still have a doctoral exam today."
Seeing Robin running home, Will beckoned to Kurlo, "Let's go to the orphanage first and make do with it." β
Walking all the way to the orphanage, looking at Will's empty room, with only one bed and not even a table, the pampered Rina erupted: "What the hell is this place! Hongu doesn't sleep in such a humble place! β
Will looked at Rina who followed her silently all the way, the princess's illness or something is Rina's freedom, but he will not get used to each other because he is beautiful: "Do you have the money to live in a hotel?" β
ββ¦β¦ The main palace is reluctant to take a rest here. β
"Don't run around, I'll call you at noon."
Will quietly closed the door, and Craig, who had been holding back, finally couldn't help laughing, "Haha, it's so funny!" β
The remaining four big men found a shop to make do. During this time, Kuro wanted to propose to go to the hotel, but he held back after thinking about it.
In fact, Will is just used to it, after all, he has been living like this for two years. And as soon as you have money, you start to degenerate and corrupt? That's too urgent. Will always believed that power and money would come sooner or later, and even if he slept in a stinking bunk and wore clothes that hadn't been washed for days, he never wavered.
In the afternoon, except for Robin, who had not yet returned from taking the doctoral exam, Will and his party of five sat around the tavern in the village, ordering a table full of food. Accommodation is a good thing, but eating is related to the growth of strength, so Will will not be stingy.
"Raphael, Joel, Huck, Fabio, and Liggieβ" Will muttered.
"Yes, only these five people saw blood last night, and I observed it the way you said." Craig said. Although he didn't take over the fight last night, the task was actually not light. In addition to screening the members of the Hot Blood Youth League, Will also asked him to take a closer look at the reactions of several teenagers who had killed pirates after seeing blood.
"Raphael's obedience is relatively high, he will execute the request after receiving it, and he is also very capable, and he killed a total of two pirates last night."
"Joel and Fabio seem to be passive, and it was only after Raphael opened that the fight became active."
"Huck... It seems that he has the talent to become a pirate. After the first killing last night, I was even more excited, and I killed a total of five people last night, even compared with adults, it was the first echelon. β
"As for Liki... It seems that he just wants to complete the mission, and after killing a pirate, he stops. I feel like she just wants to get on your boat. Craig concluded.
Liji also came from an orphanage, and is a standard three-nil girl, only 13 years old this year. But unexpectedly admires Will very much, but due to his young age, and Will thinks that Liji has no talent, so he has been excluded from the small group.
"How did Riki kill the pirates?" Will was a little curious.
"Strangled with a thread, you see that she usually looks like she doesn't care about anything, and after killing someone, she still has that expression. It's a little scary, but it's a little scary, maybe it's very talented," Craig sighed.
"Then these are the members initially, but we may need some other members to sail the ship, which can be counted as the periphery."
After Will made a decision, he instructed Kuro to take Craig to find someone to buy goods, and by the way, to transform the ship, after all, the traces of the previous pirate ship were too heavy, and at present, he still tried to disguise himself as a merchant ship and act in a low-key manner.
When everything was settled, it was already evening. When I returned to the orphanage, I saw Robin sitting bored at the door, with a dozen teenagers standing behind him.
Will patted his head and forgot about them.
"Boss!"
Although he is young, the voice shouted by more than a dozen people at the same time is still quite imposing, I don't know if I have practiced it in private.
Will touched Robin's head as a gesture of comfort, and the latter pouted.
There are fifteen teenagers in total, more than expected, and it seems that the allure of the sea is still quite great.
"The results of the test are clear to you. The person who passed will be my official crew! As for the remaining ten..."
Hearing this, a sense of loss spreads among the ten people who lost the election.
"I'll still take you out to sea, but only as a peripheral member! In the future, it will be improved according to the performance! β
"Whew! Long live Big Brother! β
After years of waiting, I personally participated in the battle with the pirates, and the people who can still stand here are all men who yearn for the sea from the bottom of their hearts. I thought I had lost the opportunity, but the sudden reversal, the huge gap between the front and back, brought endless surprises! Several members threw their hats into the air and jumped to vent their emotions.
Joel and Huck and the others also smiled and were happy for their companions, and secretly cheered in their hearts that they must not disgrace Will after going to sea.
Adventure is to experience it with your brothers, and it is called life.
Just like Will, Zong Yan, and Craig, although no one said it, they will never leave each other and go alone!
Even Robin, who has always been indifferent in front of outsiders, was affected by the atmosphere and smiled.
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In the evening, several important members sat together, and Will secretly thought about the future of the team.
Although Will's ship is not large, with only 21 people at present, it has been clearly divided into four classes.
with Will as the captain; Zongyan, Craig, Robin, Kuro, and Rina are the backbones; Raphael, Joel, Huck, Fabio, and Liggie's five regular crew members; Plus 10 peripheral members.
This is all of Will's current subordinates, and a clear organizational structure is helpful for management, so that the upper cadres are useful, and the bottom crew also has hope, so that the ship can be cohesive and competitive, so Will is still relatively satisfied with the current system.
However, there is still a key navigator missing, which is a problem, and all of Will's children's army, except for the 20-year-old Kurlo, are between the ages of 13 and 16.
I really can't do it, so I can only go to the village to recruit one, Will thought to himself.