Chapter 208
There are matches in this world, and there are also lighters, and if you have a match, it will be useless when you soak it in the water.
Lighters can be used, but where did these Navy soldiers get the strips of dry cloth to ignite the fire?
Well, if they actually dried their clothes and tore them off to use them as torches, that's fine, but look at what kind of sticks they use for torches? That's a gun!
Have you ever seen a man who fell into the water and still clung to the gun in his arms?
In a word, Ian found the Navy soldiers to look too suspicious.
Split said hesitantly, "We're not really going to be fooled, are we?" ”
The people of the Spade Pirates all looked at each other at this time, and then looked at their captain Ace, but Ace didn't seem to notice anything wrong, and wanted everyone to pull the ship over.
"Wait!" Ian said: "Don't be in a hurry to save it first, the location of those navies, but the reef group, if you are too anxious, it will be difficult to get out if you fall in!" ”
While speaking, Ian sighed secretly, Ace wanted to save people, which was a good thing, but he thought about it a little simply, and when he really arrived at the scene, Ian found that it didn't seem to be the situation he imagined.
Ace was a little puzzled by Ian's persuasion, he didn't understand why he had seen people, but he had to stop instead.
"There is no rush to save it!" Ian explained to him: "If the other party is really a victim, then our ship is here, and they can afford to wait a little longer, but if they are not the victims, seeing that we are not moving, they should take action." ”
The members of the Spade Pirates are now biased towards Ian's opinion, so they also persuade Ace one after another.
Ace was also easy to talk, grinned, and waited.
It was getting late, and there was no wind, and the naval soldiers on the opposite side could see Ace's ship parked not far away, but they couldn't see what the flag on the ship looked like, only that it was a black pirate flag.
In the binoculars, Ian could see the sailors looking at each other, but there was no frustration on their faces.
This made Ian feel that something was wrong, if it was really a shipwreck, then seeing a ship appear, but not leaning over, it was nothing more than two reactions, one was to shout at this side to attract attention, and the other was to be frustrated, after all, it was a pirate ship on their side, and it was generally impossible to save the navy, so they should understand this and show frustration.
However, the naval soldiers on these reefs did not show any of their emotions, except for waving the torches in their hands at the beginning, there were not many other movements.
Yi Anxin moved, and taught Splitley to whisper: "You turn the ship around and make it look like you want to leave!" ”
Splitley understood at once, nodded his head, turned the wheel, and let the others paddle at the same time, and with their efforts, the spades began to turn slowly.
Ian, on the other hand, kept holding a telescope and watched the movements of the Navy soldiers on the reef.
Making it look like he was leaving, Ian naturally planned to take a look, if these naval soldiers were really shipwrecked and saw the ship turn around, why should they be in a hurry, right?
However, in Ian's sight, these naval soldiers were in a hurry, but their reaction was different from what Ian expected.
Instead of jumping to their feet and shouting for the ship to turn back, Ian saw a naval soldier with a torch pull something out of his coat pocket and pull it out.
Sou!!
In the next second, a red flare flew straight into the sky!
Yi Anxin was shocked, it was really fake! These naval soldiers, it is absolutely impossible to be any of the victims!
"Get out of here now!" Split also saw it, and shouted at the top of his voice, "Hurry up and paddle!" ”
The Spades wasn't big, just a medium-sized boat, and at the bottom of the boat, four men were paddling desperately to get the boat out of the windless area.
"Could it be a pirate trap?" Ace stood beside Ian and asked, "Are they a navy in disguise?" ”
"Hard to say!" Ian shook his head and said, "Maybe it's real, and the navy is also possible!" ”
"If it's really the Navy, then why do they explain their identities in the distress call?" Ace was puzzled.
This question is not easy for Ian to answer, he raised his head and stared at the signal flare that slowly fell after flying into the sky, he knew that as soon as this signal flare was sent out, he would know later, whether it was a pirate or a navy!
When the Spade turned around and traveled some distance, Split suddenly shouted, "A large ship has been spotted ahead!" ”
Ian looked in the direction, only to see that in the faint night, a behemoth gradually appeared in front of him, and Split was right, it was the figure of a large ship.
"There is also a left side, and the right side also appears!" Split's voice was a little frightened, and he said, "We seem to be surrounded!" ”
"Ian, it's the Navy!" Ace said as he leaned on his cowboy hat.
Yes, it is indeed a navy ship, although the sky is dark, but there is still a little light, Ian has seen the seagull patterns painted on the sails of those large ships, naturally there is no doubt about the navy.
"This is really a trap for the navy!" Ian sighed, but he couldn't figure it out more and more, since it was a trap set by the navy, why did the navy soldiers who were "killed" say bluntly that they were navy in the distress call?
Ordinary pirates, there is no need to save the navy, right? Such a method can also attract pirates?
Well, it's wrong, it's really attracted, it attracted Ace
"Find a way to get out!" After seeing that he had been out of the windless environment and could reopen his sails, Ian could only say this to Ace.
However, what everyone on the Spade Pirates ship didn't know at this time was that on the warship that appeared directly in front of them, there were also people holding binoculars looking at the pirate flag on their mast.
"Strange!" The person holding the binoculars was a person in a navy coat, and a woman, she had pink hair, a cigarette in the corner of her mouth, and under the wide coat, there was a mature and nn figure, she looked at it and said suspiciously: "Why is it not the banner of the Iron Bone Pirates?" Is this group of pirates new? Why is it not impressive at all!? Tina is so confused! ”
"Colonel Tina, what now?" A Navy soldier saluted him.
This woman is Colonel Tina who is worshiped as the goddess of the Navy Headquarters, she put down the binoculars in her hand, revealing a very beautiful face, as well as the sunglasses on her forehead, and the faint green smoke emitted by the cigarette in the corner of her mouth, which set off her royal sister's temperament, she pulled the gloves on her hands, and said: "Since the Iron Bone Pirates were not introduced, this operation can be regarded as a failure, but the pirates who came stupidly can't let go!" It's our duty to fight the pirates, and since we've encountered them, let's sink their ships and capture them! ”
"Yes! Colonel Tina! The navy on board stood up and shouted, and then quickly moved into action.
Tina was originally a colonel at the Navy Headquarters, but why did she appear here?
This thing has to start with the Iron Bone Pirates, this Iron Bone Pirates is a newly rising pirate group on the great voyage in recent times, and it is nothing wrong with the rise of a pirate group originally, this kind of thing is not unusual, but what annoys the Navy Headquarters is that the fame of this Iron Bone Pirates is actually because they attacked naval ships!
The captain of the Iron Bone Pirates, nicknamed "Iron Bone Ewing"! This person seems to have an extreme hatred for the navy, and some time ago his pirates attacked a naval patrol ship on the Great Voyage, and killed more than a hundred naval soldiers on the patrol ship, and then fled.
This kind of thing must have made the Navy Headquarters extremely angry, only pirates have always been afraid of the Navy and avoided, but it is rare to hear of pirates who dare to attack the Navy with the audacity to attack the Navy.
According to the information obtained, after the Iron Bone Pirates attacked the naval patrol ship, they used the permanent pointer to flow to the route of the 3 branches, that is, the route that Ian and Ace sailed.
The 3rd branch is responsible for the security of the sea surface of the entire route, and the manpower is not too sufficient, so the Navy Headquarters simply sent Colonel Tina of the headquarters to hunt down Iron Bone Ewing, and at the same time, it also gave Iron Bone Ewing a high bounty of up to 75 million Bailey.
However, Iron Bone Ewing is very cunning, it seems that after attacking a naval patrol ship, it turned into a dormant state, and in the information she obtained, she only knew that Iron Bone Ewing is currently operating in the area of Labyrinth Island, and the water conditions here are complicated, and Tina is also very difficult to pursue, so she has no choice but to use this emergency phone fishing method.
According to the information she obtained, Iron Bone Ewing hated the Navy very much, and the more than 100 Navy soldiers were tortured and killed by him at the beginning, so the bait sent by Tina this time reported to his home in the distress call and said that he was a Navy soldier of the 3rd Branch, hoping to attract Ewing to take the bait.
The method may be a little stupid, but it is also a helpless move, there are no spy satellites in this world, and the navy can only hunt down pirates by looking for traces.
What Tina originally thought was that if the person who asked for help reported that his home was a navy, ordinary pirates would not take the initiative to come, and only the person who hated the navy might come to see it, and with his temperament, he might kill the shipwrecked naval soldiers.
This can be said to be a trap set specifically for the iron-bone Ewing, and the success rate is still there, but Tina didn't expect that she didn't attract Ewing, but she attracted the Ace Spade Pirates to the three warships she carried, which were far away in the three directions of the bait site, and under the cover of scattered islands and reefs and night, until they saw the signal flares sent out, they surrounded them together at the same time, the navy's warships are large, the sails are naturally larger, and the speed is very fast, and the pirate ships that are hooked can be surrounded in time.
It's just that maybe even Tina herself didn't expect that there would be pirates willing to save the navy
Instead of attracting Iron Bone Ewing, it attracted an unknown pirate group, and Tina held the binoculars and looked at the Asna Pirate Flag for a long time, without searching for which pirate flag it was in her mind.
That's true, Ace has just gone to sea now, and he hasn't been rewarded yet, where is there any fame at all?
The most important thing is that she couldn't contact the naval soldiers who acted as the bait at that time, and the name of the Spade ship on Ace's newspaper, the naval soldiers who acted as the bait didn't know if it was the smoke deliberately released by the Iron Bone Pirates, so they still asked Ace for help.
The final result of this misunderstanding is the way it is now, and the Spade Pirates have plunged headlong into the trap of the navy.
Chef Jimmy was already so regretful that he began to scold, and Ian couldn't help but shake his head, he didn't want to believe that this was a trap of the navy, but now that the facts are in front of him, this makes Ian suddenly have a feeling that the trust between people has gone, what kind of emergency distress signal is not only broken by the pirates, but now it is also broken by the navy.
If this continues, the so-called distress signals are completely untrustworthy, and in the end, it is the real victims who are still the victims.
"Are you satisfied?" Ian gave Ace a blank look and said, "This is my own insistence on saving people!" ”
However, Ace laughed and said, "Isn't this very good, it means that no one is really killed!" ”
Ian was speechless for a while, only thinking that it was not unreasonable for Ace and Luffy to be two brothers, their personalities were really somewhat similar, probably caused by living together for a long time.
Then again, why don't you have the same personality as Zoro? I've been living with Zoro for a long time
Thinking in a mess, Ian watched as the Spades, under Splitley's command, wanted to break out of the naval encirclement.
However, the so-called encirclement also depends on the situation, if Ian and they really ran over to save those naval soldiers at that time, they may have been trapped in the maze of currents at this time, under the siege of many reefs, and three warships will be outflanked behind, then there is really nowhere to run, unless they can find the right route to the maze island through those maze currents.
And now, if the three warships want to form an encirclement, the loopholes are still quite big, Ian and their ships have not fallen into the labyrinth current, and the ships are relatively large compared to the warships, and the chances of escaping are still quite large.
Of course, Ian doesn't want to be caught by the navy, although his identity is a pirate hunter, but on Ace's pirate ship, he has no words, and he will also be treated as a pirate.
Under the control of everyone, the Spade drilled towards the gap between the two warships, wanting to take advantage of the small and flexible characteristics of the ship to break out of the encirclement of the warships.
However, at this time, Tina on the warship, after seeing Ian's intentions, showed a charming smile with a cigarette in her mouth.
The sailors on the ship, when they saw Tina smiling, suddenly had dizzy expressions.
"Javelin cannon ready!" Tina shouted.
The soldiers on the warship responded excitedly, and immediately stuffed thick steel javelins into the chambers of the cannons, and stuffed them with primers!
This was a common attack method used by Tina's direct troops, and their cannons were rarely used in their cannons, but instead used javelins, the tail of which could easily pierce through the hull of a pirate ship after being fired from the cannon.
It's a bit like Pixar's porcupine fruit stinging needles, but it's much stronger than Pixar's, because these javelins are real steel!
And this time, not only did Tina use the javelin, but her navy soldiers also tied ropes to the tail of the javelin.
When Ian and Ace took the Spade and tried to slip past the side of the warship, they didn't know that danger was quietly targeting them.
This is mainly because Ian doesn't know who the commander of these warships is, and if he knew that this is the elite unit of the Navy Headquarters commanded by Tina, he may have warned everyone a long time ago.
O Kuro-chana! This is a well-known figure in the Navy Headquarters!
It is precisely because he doesn't know this, although Ian has been paying attention to the movement of the cannons on the warship, but he is not too worried, he thinks that if the cannonballs fly, he and Ace can resist it, the spades have been in a state of motion, and the target of the cannonballs will not be too high. 11