Edward Hugh looked at the letter, which had been crumpled by the parrot's claws, and took a few breaths before reaching out to open the cover. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The content of it is written in no format, neither the title of "Your Excellency so-and-so" that is often found in ordinary letters, nor is it signed, but just a few lines casually written. Edward Hugh frowned, he was a pirate, but he was not an uneducated rough man.

The person who wrote the letter in this way was either a quasi-illiterate person who could not read much, or he deliberately used this method to humiliate and provoke the recipient.

After reading the contents of the letter, Edward Hugh was fully convinced that the other party was deliberately trying to provoke him:

Hey, I've been disliking each other for a long time, so let's take a break!

In a month, two hundred nautical miles east of here, I will wait for you. If you dare to come, fire five cannons from the flagship, and if you don't, disband your pirate regiment before it is too late, lest I waste too much time to dismantle the ships one by one.

By the way, wash your neck before you come!

At the back of the letter is a skull and a staff intersecting.

It turned out to be a letter about war!

The one-eyed Mason leaned over from the side, caught a glimpse of the contents of the letter, and asked hesitantly, "Chief, what are we going to do?"

"What else can I do? Roll over to the second deck and let them fire five shots!" Edward Hugh kicked Mason hard, "Hmph! Think you can scare me by playing tricks like this?"

The pirate leader was certainly not a reckless idiot, and he knew that the Silent Reaper was far more powerful than he had previously anticipated, but he was capable of more than that.

Edward Hugh shook his head, shaking out the last vestiges of disdain and disdain for Lukka from his mind, and he knew he had to take the fight seriously.

If you do that, within a few days, probably half of your huge pirate group will defect to the other side.

He called the first mate and ordered: "Send the Coyote to warehouse No. 3, take out all those things, and find more ships to transport them to Tata Island." Have all the detachments assemble and seal off the location mentioned in the letter. Send someone to deliver a message to Hale in the Storm Temple, and I'll see what I said I had in three days!"

The first mate took the order, and just turned around, Edward Hugh added: "By the way, throw that one-eyed back to his ship, it's an eyesore here all day......"

His words were swallowed up by the loud sound of artillery, and five salvos resounded through the sky, and more than a dozen nautical miles away, they could be heard clearly on the Peregrine Falcon anchored near Gravel Island.

"Yo, they're really fighting!" Ollie's face was not a little nervous, but full of excitement.

"Of course, if he shrinks, he won't be a pirate leader. Luca said confidently.

"What if he eats the letter and doesn't show it to the others?" asked Nora, curious.

"If you want to make an open appointment, can he dodge? This time he escaped, next time we publicize it through Sunset Express all over the sea, how can he hide?" Lukka said, spinning the steering wheel half a circle.

Ollie lowered half of the sail, and the Peregrine spun silently ninety degrees, then changed to a full sail and headed straight southeast.

A few hours later, Crete put away his sextant and pocket watch, and said with certainty, "This is it." ”

This was the agreed meeting point with Daniel, and Lukka had originally disputed such a location, the endless deep sea, without even a marker. But both Daniel and Crete confidently said that as long as there is latitude and longitude, they will never make a mistake. Luca was ashamed of the measurement skills of these two people, and agreed to such a direction.

An inconspicuous wooden pole first appeared not far away, and at first Lukka thought it was a floating log, but he didn't understand why it was floating in the water. He soon discovered that his blood-red skull flag was hanging from the wooden pole.

Then, the Silent Reaper suddenly sped up its ascent, the tip of the mast towering into the sky almost in a matter of seconds, and the five decks rose to the surface one after another.

The appearance of the Silent Death has always been very imposing, especially against the backdrop of the embarrassment of the ships next to it.

Usually, most of the foil is one or several miserable black sail pirate ships, but this time, there is only the Peregrine Falcon next to it.

In fact, Daniel really didn't mean to, when the Silent Death was underwater, every cabin was filled with seawater, and it would rise so quickly that the seawater would naturally pour out of the portholes of each deck.

The Peregrine Falcon's location was less than two meters next to the side of the Silent Death.

So, as each deck surfaced, Lukka and the others took a sea bath from head to toe, but fortunately the weather was still warm and they didn't catch a cold. After five baths, even the Peregrine Falcon's captain's cabin was flooded with seawater and turned into an aquarium.

Ten minutes later, though, when a drenched Lukka boarded the Silent Death, he found that the previous showers were nothing compared to the blows he had received at the moment.

The month before, Lukka had just reaped the lucrative harvest of his pirate career, and the spoils of several ships had been neatly stacked in the bilge of the Silent Reaper: dyes of all colors, pepper, sugar, tobacco......

In general, they are all valuable and not too heavy goods, and they all have one common feature: fear of water.

After opening the tenth crate, Lukka gave up. There's no need to look at them all, all the hard work of the previous month has been wasted - literally.

Without saying a word, he walked back to the captain's quarters, and sat motionless in his watery chair.

"Is the captain alright?" Nora, rubbing her fingers uneasily.

Ollie held out her hand and shook it in front of his eyes a few times.

Crete made up the knife step by step: "Actually, it's not much, at most it's just a hundred thousand silver coins." ”

"I'll make him pay!" Lukka said suddenly, standing up from his chair and gritting his teeth.

Daniel, who had just walked in the door, was startled by this sound, and immediately said loudly: "I didn't get wet on purpose!"

"What? I didn't mean you!" Lukka waved at him, "I mean Edward Hugh, that big bastard!

As he spoke, he opened the chart and circled it with a pen at the agreed decisive battle location: "Let's go, let's go there in advance and arrange it!"

"Calm down, Captain," Crete held him down, "we must return to port now." ”

"Why? I can't sell the goods anymore!" Ollie was puzzled.

"Because, our food and fresh water are now salty. Crete sighed.