The conflict ended with the Hunter's sailors slipping away without losing a single copper peso.

In order to express his gratitude, Zhang Heng invited all the prostitutes in the courtyard who regretted that they could not earn the reward to have a free drink, which was unanimously praised.

And as soon as he had settled the matter, he was dragged to the arms dealer by the quartermaster who had heard the news, and the news of the 24-pound cannonball he had asked for had arrived, and Di Freina had come to discuss with him the quantity of the initial purchase, and by the way, the recruitment of new cooks.

It was busy until almost sunset, and Zhang Heng returned to his residence again.

He pushed the door open, but there was no sign of the red-haired girl in the room.

Zhang Heng came to the latter's bedroom and found that it was also empty.

After the bombardment of Charleston, the farmer's son disappeared with the Queen Anne's Revenge, and no one knows where they went, and now that Anne has moved away, he is the only one left in the house.

Zhang Heng suddenly felt that it was a little empty here, as if something was missing.

In the past, at this time, he would hear a red-haired girl downstairs shouting that she was starving to death, why she hadn't eaten yet, but now it would never sound again.

Zhang Heng found that he seemed to have unconsciously become accustomed to all this.

Accustomed to the big grinning guy by his side, accustomed to her coming home on time after a fight everywhere, accustomed to hearing her complain about how women are discriminated against on the island, all pirates are blind...... So he didn't really think about the fact that the other party would leave one day.

Until Anne began to look for a house according to the plan, step by step towards her dream, but at the same time she seemed to have lost the reason to live here again. In the morning, the two talked about the new house, and the red-haired girl excitedly said how to do whatever she wanted in it later, and Zhang Heng was also sincerely happy for her, but both of them intentionally or unintentionally avoided the topic of separation.

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At night, Zhang Heng finished dinner alone at the table, took out a travel book taken from the boat, flipped through it for a while and went to bed.

As a result, in the middle of the night, he was awakened by a sound of Suosuo, Zhang Heng opened his eyes vigilantly in the dark, and held the saber leaning against the window, and now he was the only one left in the whole house, so the sound outside also meant that there was an uninvited visitor.

Now he has begun to have some potential enemies on the island, especially considering the tension between the Jackdaw and the Black Merchant Alliance, but the two sides have not completely torn their faces, and now is the time when the storm is on the cusp, Malcolm is supposed not to use such low-level means, but Zhang Heng will not hope for the opponent's reason.

In order to avoid becoming the target of the musket, he did not light the oil lamp at the first time, but lay in front of the wooden door, listened to the footsteps and went upstairs, stopped in the corridor, and waited until the moment when the other party's spirit was the most relaxed, Zhang Heng's body also moved.

The door of the bedroom was suddenly pushed open, and Zhang Heng rushed out from behind, but the black shadow in the corridor reacted very quickly, feeling the oncoming knife not retreating but advancing, and raised his fist and smashed it towards Zhang Heng.

Zhang Heng didn't expect the other party to be so fierce, the uninvited guest obviously shot after him, but that fist was faster than his saber, and if it went on like this, the latter's fist would hit his chin first before he slashed the opponent, so Zhang Heng could only change his strategy and block the punch first.

Then the two launched a fierce hand-to-hand fight in the dark, but soon after the fight, Zhang Heng gave birth to a familiar feeling, he had practiced with the red-haired girl many times before, and he was very familiar with each other's moves, so Zhang Heng was sure that Annie had also recognized him, but the girl did not have any intention of stopping, but became more and more excited the more she fought.

Zhang Heng only hesitated a little and received two punches in his chest, and had to regain his strength, trying to cope with Annie's surging attack, until a quarter of an hour later, the red-haired girl rode on top of him and pressed him to the floor, and the battle finally came to an end.

What Zhang Heng didn't expect was that this battle actually raised his knife skills to lv2, and when he received the system prompt, his expression was a little speechless, while Anne on the other side was panting, and the flushing on her face had not faded.

"You've lost."

“…………”

"Why don't you speak?"

"Did you sneak back in the middle of the night just to fight me?"

"Of course not." Anne let go of Zhang Heng's arm, moved her buttocks, and got off the latter's body, "I'm coming back to tell you that I don't want the house before." ”

"Huh?" Zhang Heng was a little surprised when he heard this, "Is this good, isn't that what you've always dreamed of?" ”

"I thought it was my dream," Anne leaned against the wall on the side of the hallway, "When I was a child, my father provided the house and food in the family, and my mother always looked at his face to live, and I wanted to have my own place to live in the future, so that I could live freely, and this is also the goal I set for myself after I went to the island, and completing this goal means that I can live independently here." ”

"What you're doing is remarkable in this day and age." Zhang Heng said, at this time, even the status of native European women is very low, not to mention Nassau, where pirates gather, although he has his help in it, but it is a very powerful thing for Anne to gain a foothold in it no matter how you look at it.

"But I don't want to get out of here." The red-haired girl said, "I bought a house so that I could live a free life, but if I have a house, I can't choose the life I like, then it's not freedom at all, is it?" I mean, it's nice to have a house, it's nice to be able to keep my feet on the table and not have to finish the soup, but I don't want to be bound by that kind of thing, and true freedom has nothing to do with that, but the right to choose which life to live according to your heart's desire. ”

With that, Anne pushed someone to the ground again, took off her shirt, and rode on top of her.

"I like you, I don't care if you like me or someone else, I don't care when you leave, maybe this love will disappear one day, and then I will reserve the right to leave you."

The red-haired girl's voice fell, and something burned in her eyes in the darkness.

After hesitating for a moment, the palms of both hands finally climbed up to her body, gently caressing the large and small scars on her skin.

"Is it ugly?" Anne said hoarsely, a little nervous.

"No, they're beautiful." Zhang Heng paused, and wanted to say that he would not rush in front of him in the future, but thinking of Annie's character, it would be useless even if he said such a thing, and in the end it was just a way.

"I'm glad you stayed."