Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Most Precious Bribe
"Captain, are you sure you're going to force me to do it, I'm here to talk to you about business!" Rogge asked calmly, glancing at the undead sailors around him, and lighting a cigar.
"Lao Tzu has nothing to talk about with you, if you want to talk about joining Lao Tzu's ghost fleet first, let Lao Tzu cut off your head with a knife!" Captain Jack waved the saber in his hand and shouted: "Give it to Lao Tzu!"
"Captain, those two girls were killed too?" asked one of the pirates next to him.
"Didn't you understand what Lao Tzu said? Lao Tzu let you kill, didn't let you play with girls, hurry up and give Lao Tzu, you slacker!" the captain glared at him viciously, and flew up and kicked him in the ass.
The pirate staggered forward, looked up and saw Catherine beside Rogge, and immediately raised his saber and pounced.
Rogge stood still, unhindered, only to hear a "bang" of gunshots, and a silver bullet pierced the pirate's head.
The silver marbles soaked in the Soul Eater Potion instantly sucked the soul qi from the pirates' bodies, flew into the pirate group and burst open, and the accumulated undead qi instantly turned the pirates on their backs.
"Good job," Rogge smiled at Catherine behind her, and the girl raised her face proudly, but heard Rogge continue, "Don't get me wrong, I mean, you're in a lot of trouble!"
Before the words fell, the annoyed and angry undead pirates had already swarmed in, and with a flick of the claw blade of Rog's left hand, five blades flew out in a fan-shape, embedded in the heads of the five undead pirates, and the five pirates turned into dust and mist in the screams.
Five blades that had absorbed the breath of the undead glowed with a dazzling silver light, and brilliant blades of light extended from both sides of the blade, doubling the length of the blades, and five whirling blades of light flew up and down the pirate horde, leaving a clearing like a lawnmower.
Rogge took advantage of the situation to turn around and face the pirates on the right, and the Soul Eater Silver Sword slashed at the undead pirates led by him, the pirates raised their harpoons to block it, and the undead energy accumulated in the silver sword came out, and the shock wave instantly turned the surrounding pirates into nothing.
"Ladies, give the captain a little color, or he won't talk to us properly!"
As Rogge spoke, his figure had rushed into the group of pirates like lightning, and the Silver Sword of Soul Eater rolled up a whirlwind of white blades around him, and the flying undead shockwave tore the pirates apart one after another, and the torn undead were absorbed by the Silver Sword of Soul Eater again, turning into a new shockwave and flying towards other pirates.
The silver bullets flew out of the chamber of the silver guns like a swarm of swarms that launched an attack, and the silver bullets after killing the undead were detonated one after another by the undead energy, and the walls of the cabin were blasted out of large and small holes by the energy waves of the explosion.
Behind Catherine, Tali wiped the magic lamp on her waist, and the lamp god rose from the magic lamp, and with a finger of Tali's staff, the lamp god raised his huge fists and rushed into the group of undead, beating the undead pirates into defeat.
"Hey, that's not fair!" Rogge turned and inserted the Soul Eater Silver Sword into the deck, and the undead energy in the sword body spread into a white energy ring, shaking the surrounding undead pirates away.
He looked back at Tali, who was standing there watching the battle, and exclaimed, "We are fighting hard, but you are looking for someone to fight on your behalf?"
"I'm sorry, at least not today," Tali shrugged at him and laughed, "There's no blood on the undead!"
"Your reason is so good!" Rog retreated back to Tali's side in a flash, patted her on the shoulder, and said, "But you still have to do something yourself, the undead on the right are yours, and I'll go play with the captain!"
Seeing Rogge pounce, the pirate captain raised the ghost fire gun and pulled the trigger, Rogge's footsteps were erratic, and he let three ghost fire bombs in succession, the silver sword absorbed the two ghost fire bombs, and the soul devouring silver sword swept across the waist, but the captain had already dissipated into the air.
Rog threw his sword into the air, waved his hand to retract the blade released by the claw blade, turned around and blocked in the air, the visible captain slashed at the claw blade, Rogge grabbed the blade of the undead saber, and the five blades shot at the captain in one volley.
The captain's figure dissipated instantly, and the five blades that flew into the air were nailed to the ground in unison, and Rogge recalled the blades and turned around and punched a pirate in the chest, and the undead energy burst from the claw blade knocked all the undead pirates to the ground.
He puffed out the smoke of a cigar and swept his vigilant gaze around him, when he suddenly saw the captain's figure appear beside Catherine, aiming his gun at Catherine's head.
The girl subconsciously turned around and aimed the silver gun at the captain, and Rogge released five blades at the same time to shoot at the captain, and the blades flashed with dazzling white light around the captain.
"If you want to kill Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will not die so easily, this girl is not bad, young and beautiful, Lao Tzu will pull her to cushion her back!" The captain gritted his teeth and looked back at Rogge, and said with an arrogant smile: "Hahahaha, come on, do it!
There was a sudden silence around them, the undead pirates stopped attacking, and Tali and the Lantern God looked back at the captain and Catherine, and the two pointed their handcuffs at each other's heads, the old ghost's face was fearless, and the girl's eyes were full of determination.
Rogge looked at them and was silent for a moment, then calmly said to the captain, "If you want to die now, you should probably listen to the opinion of the person behind you." ”
"Haha? Are you taking Lao Tzu for a fool? Lao Tzu is not a three-year-old child, you dare to play Lao Tzu, believe it or not, Lao Tzu will blow this girl's head right now?" exclaimed the captain as he put the ghost fire gun close to Catherine's head.
Rogge shrugged helplessly and said, "You won't do that!"
"Do you think Lao Tzu wouldn't dare?" Captain Jack glared, his fingers moved to the trigger, and suddenly heard a scream behind him: "Father!
The captain was taken aback, and suddenly turned around to see a girl in a white dress standing at the door of the cabin, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, put down the hand that raised the gun, turned around, and exclaimed, "Leah, why are you here?"
The puppet girl ran forward quickly and held the captain in her arms, Catherine on the side put down the silver gun in her hand when she saw this, and retreated to Rog's side with Tali, who recalled the lamp god, Tali turned around and asked Rogge, "Why is this girl here?"
"I knew she was coming, and her scent lingered behind us long before we entered the chef's kitchen. Rogge replied unsurprisingly.
"Is she here to help us?" asked Catherine, a little worried.
"She's here to help her father," Rogge said, staring at the father and daughter as they hugged and talked, "and she was worried that we would hurt her father, so she came with us." ”
As he spoke, the captain and his daughter turned around together, and the captain took his daughter's hand and said to Rogge, "Mr. Witcher, I have heard everything that happened to Leah, and I thank you for not hurting my daughter." ”
"The undead are not all evil, and I never kill innocents. Rogge said, putting away the Soul Eater Silver Sword.
"You said you wanted to talk to me about a business, maybe we can talk about it now. The captain also put away the ghostfire gun and saber, and waved his hand to disperse the surrounding undead pirates.
"That's exactly what I want to do. Rog also stepped forward and said to him, "Captain Jack, I heard that you are working for Thorin, the second son of the King of Titans, and Thorin has given you a lot of money to help him bombard Tyrell's stronghold, right?"
"Yes, but I've never seen any Titan Princes, and the one who talked to me about it was a black-robed man who didn't even show his face! I guess he must be uglier than my cook! But what does it matter, he just gave me more money anyway!"
"That's right," Rogge seemed pleased with the captain's answer, and nodded approvingly, "but if I bribe you with something more precious and make you turn against you?"
"What's more precious?" the captain asked, his eyes wide, "what is it?"
"Freedom!" Rogge said meaningfully.
"Self, freedom?" the captain repeated in surprise.
"That's right, true freedom," Rogge nodded meaningfully, "If you wish, I will help you eradicate the demon that binds your soul on the Nameless Island, just as I killed the first mate who betrayed you." ”
"No, that's impossible!" the captain shook his head with a pale face, and exclaimed, "You don't know what is sleeping there, no one knows, except for the dead......"
"I don't deal with the dead. Rogge stared at his face with resolute gaze and asked, "If I am willing to help you get out and break free from the shackles on you, are you willing to help me counterattack Thunder Castle?"
"Aren't you afraid of death?" the captain raised his head sharply and stared at Rogge like a gambler, but Rogge's eyes showed great calmness: "There is nothing to be afraid of death, what really brings fear is cowardice." ”
He walked up to the captain and asked in a solemn tone, "Do you want to break free from the shackles on your body?"
He set his eyes on the puppet girl behind the captain, and said emotionally, "And your daughter, don't you want to be by her side, so that she never has to worry about being enslaved by the devil?"
The captain's heart trembled, and he turned to look at his daughter, and Leah gently took his hand, and put her father's hand on her chest, looking at him expectantly.
"Maybe you're right," said the captain as he stared back into Rog's eyes, meaningfully, "It's a gamble, but sometimes not daring to gamble is a failure." ”
He invited Rogge and the others to the dining room in the upper cabin, and ordered his pirates to clean up a table, and the five of them sat down at the round table to listen to the captain talk about the situation on the island.
"We still don't know what they are, we just know that they make the whole island lifeless, and we call it the Isle of Death, because everything on it is in a state of death, even the land is charred. ”
The captain stroked the beard from his lips with his hand, glanced at the people at the table and said, "All I know is that there is a hole on that island, from which you can enter that terrible lair, but there are layers of enchantments outside the lair, and it is impossible to enter unless it is lifted from the inside. ”
"Maybe we can break through the barrier directly," Rog said as he tapped his finger on the table and exchanged glances with Tali, "We're well prepared for this." ”
"I advise you not to break through by force, it will not do you any good to wake it up early, it has enough power to swallow you all, like a tsunami!" said Captain Jack, shaking his head solemnly.
Rog leaned forward and looked at the captain and said, "I'd love to hear the captain's advice. ”
The captain stared into Rogge's eyes and said meaningfully, "Be a thief......"
(What kind of advice will the captain give? What kind of difficulties and dangers will Lao Luo encounter? Stay tuned, don't forget to vote for it!)