"Let's take a look at the news in the bottle before making a decision!" Faced with the difference in ideas between the two companions, the middle-aged man with several scars on his face did not stand on either side, but took the initiative to pick up the bottle on the table, uncorked the bottle, took out the note inside, looked at it quickly, and then handed it to the two expressionlessly, and said, "See for yourself!"

The two of them took the note and looked at it in turn, the woman's face became a little gloomy, and the old man was a little more proud.

The middle-aged man put an end to this little dispute, and said: "Obviously, as far as the current situation is concerned, persuasion is no longer necessary, let's prepare for war!" Then he turned his head and asked, "There won't be anything wrong with your thing, right?" The ultimate success or failure of the matter depends on the effect of your thing. ”

The old man patted a leather bag hanging from his waist and said, "Don't worry, I will release all the power of this thing, anyway, I don't have to do it again after doing it this time, and there is no need to keep this thing anymore." Then he said to the woman: "I think you should be more worried about her than worrying about me, and don't be overflowing with compassion and do something that shouldn't be done, just like last time." ”

The woman did not refute the old man's questioning, but just glared at the old man fiercely.

And the middle-aged man also looked at his companion with a little suspicion, although he was not the party to the last incident mentioned by the old man, but he had also heard of the last time the woman's sympathy almost turned things that had been successful, and today's matter is related to the lifelong hope of the three of them, he doesn't want to make any mistakes because of any sympathy, so he needs the woman's personal guarantee.

The woman was silent for a moment, raised her hand and grabbed the Holy Emblem of the Church of the Lord of the Sky on her chest, and said calmly: "I promise you, I will never be soft. ”

Hearing the woman's promise, the two didn't say anything more, they knew very well that the woman was a very trustworthy person.

The middle-aged and elderly people got up and walked out of the conference room one after another, and came to the deck, where their pirates immediately gathered to inquire about the discussion.

"Let's get started!" the middle-aged and elderly people replied simply, towards their subordinates.

Hearing this response, all the pirates let out all kinds of strange screams, which were originally only on the deck of a ship, but soon spread like an infectious disease on other ships, and for a while, all kinds of strange screams came out one after another on the originally calm sea, and all kinds of sea creatures that were originally playing by the ship were also scared away.

Then, I saw more than a dozen small boats of different sizes being put into the water, each of which had three or five people on it, one of whom controlled the rudder, and the other four controlled the small steam engine on the dinghy.

A dozen small steam speedboats were fast, and it took almost an hour to catch up with the Hope Star, they were not commandos, all they had to do now was to harass the Hope Star to see if there was a chance to destroy the Hope Star's propellers and stop the Hope Star.

Therefore, after catching up with the Hope Star, they kept circling around the Hope Star, and made various noises with the guns in their hands, and even threw a few special explosives used in the cannon near the propeller to detonate them, causing panic.

"These damn bugs! I'm going to catch them and hang them. Hearing the report from his men, the boatswain who ran to the stern of the ship to check on the propeller was slightly relieved when he found that the propeller was not damaged, but he couldn't help but curse.

"Don't pay too much attention to them, they just want to make us mess up," the captain came with him to check on the situation, calmed the angry boatswain, then looked at the pirates on the sea who were harassing him, and directly removed the boatswain's special steam firearm, and then removed a special bullet from his pocket, stuffed it into the chamber, and quickly aimed and fired.

After a small gunshot, a small steam engine that harassed the ship immediately burst open, and the force of the explosion not only tore the dinghy, but also pierced the pirates on the dinghy, basically at the same time as they fell into the sea, they were also dead.

Seeing what happened to their companions, the harassing ships immediately avoided the Star of Hope in horror, and did not dare to approach the harassment as unscrupulously as before.

The sailors who saw this scene looked at their captain with great admiration, although they had all heard about the captain's deeds from the old people on the ship, but they had not seen the captain's ability with their own eyes, and now they finally saw the captain's combat ability, and it was as powerful as the legend, and the mood that had just become fluctuating due to pirate harassment also returned to normal, and they also subconsciously thought that these pirates were not difficult to deal with.

The captain of the Star of Hope returned the gun to the boatswain and told him to continue arranging the defensive line, and then turned to the cabin to assign tasks to the adventurer passengers in the cabin.

Unlike his own sailors, the captain had no confidence in the next battle, he didn't think that he could despise the three pirates by simply destroying a harassing boat, and the various information collected by the Kraken Shipping every year showed how difficult and dangerous the three pirates were to deal with and how dangerous they were, and he didn't want to be one of those unlucky people who would become a victim of the trio's reputation by despising them.

Now, what is causing the captain a headache is the internal problem, because not long ago, his subordinates found out a pirate insider hiding in the sailors, and by questioning, he also learned that there is not only one pirate insider, but also among the crew, and even among the passengers.

Because the news has not yet spread, the morale of the crew and passengers on the ship has not been affected, but once the battle starts, those inner lines suddenly move, then it will not only have a great impact on morale, but even affect the final battle situation.

"My lord, this is the guest of Room 7 that I asked me to hand over to you. As soon as the captain entered the cabin, a chief attendant in charge of the upper class area hurriedly chased after him, panting and handing the letter in his hand to the captain.

"Room Seven?" the captain was stunned, and soon remembered that the room had been arranged to house the shipwrecked man named Leo Dodd, and also thought of the possible identity of the man, which made him immediately attach importance to the letter.

Then, he took the letter, opened it and looked at it, and found that the contents on the letter were all some names, some of them were the cabin number followed by the name of a person, and some of the crew positions were followed by the name of a person, and there were more than 20 people after the count.

At first, seeing the content on this, the captain still didn't understand what the other party meant, but he quickly thought of what he was about to do now, his face changed slightly, and he quickly realized that the names of the people on it should all be pirate Neiying.

In his astonishment, he couldn't help but wonder why the shipwrecked man knew that these people were guilty.

Although the captain still had some doubts about the origin of this list, he did not ignore this list, and with the idea that he would rather believe it than not believe it, the captain immediately contacted the armed personnel on the ship, and quickly and effectively arrested the people on the list one by one.

When the crew was arrested, the situation was still going well, but when the passengers on the list were arrested, it caused a lot of commotion, and the passengers, who were already very nervous because of the appearance of the pirates, were even more annoyed by the actions of the armed men on the ship to capture the passengers, and took up arms one after another, confronted the crew, and demanded an explanation from the captain.

However, the commotion soon subsided, for the captain showed evidence that these were pirates, and everyone's anger was calmed, at least on the surface, in front of the leaders elected by the passengers.

After that, a simple sea court was set up on the ship, and all the pirates were quickly sentenced to death, and then they were hanged on the side of the ship, and their bodies were hung on the sides of the ship, showing the surrounding pirates who were responsible for harassing them.

After seeing the hanged man, the pirates did not see clearly because of the distance, until someone ventured close and recognized that one of the hanged people was the one they had arranged, and they were all shocked, and then stopped the harassment, and drove their boats towards the pirate fleet, as if to report the news to the above.

Seeing the departure of the pirate ship in charge of harassment, all the people on board let out a cheer, as if this was a victory in turn.

However, the captain did not take this seriously, his face was still solemn, although he cleared the ship's internal response, but this was only the beginning of the battle.

He wondered if he should go and see that Leo Dodd, maybe he could get more help from him, but he quickly dismissed the idea.

In his opinion, it was already a great help to be able to get the list of pirates, but it was a bit too much to ask for more, and he felt that if the battle really came to a bad time, the other party should not stand idly by.

After that, he began to redeploy the ship's defense tasks, because there were pirate internal responses on the ship, and the previous defense layout plan may be passed on to the pirates, so that during the battle, the pirates may be defeated one by one according to the arrangement, so they need to be rearranged.

When the captain rearranged the defense task, there was a sudden exclamation on the deck, and everyone's attention was also attracted to it, and they looked in the direction of the observer's finger on the watchtower, and soon saw more than a dozen steam-sailed dual-powered ships on the sea in the distance spitting out puffs of smoke and quickly leaning towards this side.

Although these pirate ships could not compare to the steel giant ship of the Star of Hope in terms of size, the armament on each ship was not much worse than that of the Star of Hope, and even from such a distance, anyone with better eyesight could clearly see the muzzles on the hull.

Since the recipe for the special bullet was made public more than ten years ago, this cannon made of special gunpowder has become the main weapon of large and small wars, almost everyone knows very well how powerful this weapon is, without the intervention of extraordinary power, these weapons are the kings of the battlefield, and now more than a dozen ships full of the king of the battlefield are slowly approaching, and the morale that has been raised before because of the removal of internal responses and scaring away the harassing fleet has fallen rapidly.

The captain also knew that something had to be said in this situation, otherwise when it came time for the official battle, their morale would probably be even lower, which would affect their combat effectiveness.

So, the captain stood on a high place, and didn't say anything nonsense like glory, but simply and clearly explained what kind of results would happen to the people on board when the pirates won the victory, and the pre-war mobilization effect was surprisingly good, everyone knew that it was useless to think too much, and only to live was the right thing.

At this moment, a shrill chirp was suddenly heard on the surface of the sea, and then a large amount of fog was seen rising from the surface of the sea, and soon covered the entire sea area.

The people on the Star of Hope knew very well that the fog was definitely not a good thing, so under the captain's clear instructions, they each went to their own defensive positions.

At the same time, on the pirate's side, the old man blew a strange bone in his hand, and as he blew it more and more, the cracks on the bone increased, and the fog on the surface of the sea became thicker and thicker, and soon the bone shattered because of the large number of cracks.

The old man looked at the broken bones in his hand, his face showed a little regret, then he turned to look at the two companions behind him, and said, "It's your turn, don't let my treasure go to waste." ”

The middle-aged man didn't say anything, took off the medicine box from his waist, and quickly and carefully mixed several of the bottles together in proportion, and then stirred quickly until the color of the medicine turned grayish-white.

After handing the potion to the woman, the middle-aged man reminded: "Be careful, the effect of the medicine is very strong, you must control it well, don't blow it to your own side, otherwise you can only wait for the effect of the medicine to disappear naturally, I don't have an antidote in my hand." ”

The woman said nothing, took the potion, held it in her hand, and then walked to the side of the ship, held it high, and recited some kind of prayer in her mouth.

As her voice turned into a vibration with a strange frequency, a force emanated from her body and injected into the potion bottle, which quickly faded and soon emptied completely, and then a sea breeze appeared out of thin air, blowing a gray mist in the mist that looked a little incongruous towards the Star of Hope.