Chapter 163: The Trial of Wisdom (There Will Be More Later)
Before entering the Hall of Trials, Lukka was not 100% sure that Gray's stolen exam questions and answers would make him stand out in the Trials of Wisdom. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Regardless of whether the answer is really or not, those questions are not difficult at all, and many pirate captains themselves must be able to answer all of them correctly. Moreover, the questions that Gray can steal so easily, others can easily get their hands on them.
But when he walked into the hall and looked around, Lukka had to admit that it was really useful to accept Gray's "investment". The pirate captains who came in with him, it seemed that there were not many of them with ink in their stomachs, and they all frowned and pondered after getting the question, and the rest of them basically looked like big bosses at first glance, and even three of them shouted when they entered the door: "Lao Tzu is illiterate!"
To Luca's surprise, the illiterate trio were not kicked out.
Standing at the front of the hall presiding over the trial was an old pirate, probably older than Taylor of the June Alliance, judging by his hair, with two horrific scars across his face, one of which visibly detonated his right eye.
The old pirate heard the cries of the men, and whispered a few words to the other deputies who were also in the same old state next to him, and the illiterate pirates were taken to several isolated private rooms next to them for one-on-one oral answers.
The test of wisdom does not exclude the illiterate, and only pirates can do such a thing!
An hour later, Lukka left the Hall of Trials with a smile on his face. If it weren't for the fact that there was no rule for early submission, he would have been able to come out in twenty minutes at most. Gray provided not a single word of the test questions, and Lukka had never passed the exam so easily before the crossing.
"How's it going?" asked Ollie as she walked out the door, the expression on her face even more nervous than Luca's.
"It has to be fine!" Lukka was confident.
After saying that, he looked left and right and asked, "What about that Gray?"
"I said I was looking for the inside information on the next two trials. Ollie replied.
"I was just about to ask him about the next trial!" Lukka hadn't been so active in the morning, and after verifying that what the other party had brought out was indeed valuable, he couldn't wait to know what was going on.
However, there were still three days before the next trial, and it was too late to ask again, so he didn't bother to look for it, but took everyone to a red meat feast - every day at sea, the seafood has long been tired of eating, and the stew full of oil looks extremely delicious.
Gray didn't return until the afternoon. Considering that it would take a lot of time to hear the news of the trial, Lukka did not wait for him, but returned to the trial hall at three o'clock in the afternoon, when the Senate was to announce the results of the morning trial.
Because this time only the results were announced, Ollie and the others were also allowed to enter together. Lukka was worried that he had brought too many people, but as soon as he entered the hall, he found that he had brought too few people. Some captains brought almost the entire ship. The hall was spacious enough to be so crowded that Lukka wanted to hang himself on the wall.
At the front of the hall, the old pirate with the scar on his face in the morning was in charge, and he took an envelope handed by his deputy and opened it with a hand like dead wood.
He glanced at the contents of the envelope with his left eye, then raised his head and glanced around the hall, and said slowly:
"In this trial, there was a perfect score, which has not been seen in 20 years. ”
There was a murmur in the hall, a little noisy, but it didn't sound like the pirates were surprised.
Lukka eavesdropped for a while—not at all, and was squeezed between two groups of pirates, and he couldn't pull his hand if he tried to plug his ears—and he figured out why everyone wasn't surprised.
The first four trials were all conducted with Edward Hugh already in power, and few pirates had the courage to challenge him, and those who had a little insight knew better that they were just foils, and they all deliberately lowered their scores, and of course no one would surpass Edward Hugh to get any perfect scores.
Of course, there were a few people who shouted "I must be the champion of the trial of wisdom", all of them either fell into the sea and drowned a few days before the trial, or were killed by their own pistols, and none of them could enter the trial hall smoothly anyway.
The old pirate with the scar on his face coughed twice and tried to continue talking, but the voice was soon drowned out in the increasingly noisy hall.
He frowned, pulled a pistol from his bosom, and slammed it into the ceiling.
The hall finally fell silent.
"This time, it's not just the captain who has a perfect score, but three perfect scores at once!"
As he spoke, he pulled out his second pistol and fiddled with it in his hand, suppressing the cacophony of whispers that were about to start again.
"First of all, Captain Carl Foster!"
Lukka was impressed by the large hooked nose of a pirate in his thirties, who had been sitting in front of him to his left in the morning.
"Number two, Captain Argus Haaken!"
A fatty pirate broke away from the crowd, his name causing another commotion that even the old pirate's flintlock pistol could suppress.
"He's a 'butcher'? he's illiterate!" said a pirate on the left to Luca's left ear, causing him to ring.
Another pirate on the right said into his right ear, "It's just that I don't see that he can do this!"
Caught in the middle, Lukka shook his head helplessly, the two of them completely ignored his presence, and probably because there was a person in the middle, who spoke louder than normal.
Lukka looked forward in the cracks, and sure enough, the "butcher" was one of the three dictators in the morning.
"Third, Captain Jack Sparrow!" the old pirate said his name again.
Lukka was finally able to shake off the two of them, and he squeezed out of the middle of the two who muttered, "Who is this? I haven't heard of it?" and stood at the front of the hall with a smile on his face.
"These three captains are the joint champions of this trial!" the old pirate proclaimed.
"Wait a minute, Captain Marlowe, I have an objection!" said Foster, the hook-nosed pirate, as he took a step forward and pointed at Luca, "This Captain Sparrow's results were obtained by cheating!"
There was a sudden silence in the hall, and everyone looked at Luca.
"What evidence do you have?" shouted Ollie from the back of the hall, and many pirates chimed in.
"Of course I have proof!" Hooknose waved at his men, and the sailors parted to the sides, revealing a man who had been surrounded by them all along, bound by ropes and gagged.
"This guy is the one who stole the test questions for Captain Sparrow!" said Hooknose as he pointed at Gray.