Chapter 119: Pirate Conference
Shipwreck Bay is a sacred place for pirates and a base camp for pirates.
It was here that Morgan convened the first Pirate Convention and was crowned the Pirate King. The Pirate Code has been kept here since it was established during the First Pirate Congress, and is kept by the Codex Custodian, Jack Sparrow's father, Teague Sparrow, who is also the guarantor of the Code's authority.
This bizarre harbor is made up of endless abandoned ships, easy to defend and very hidden. Of course, it's not hard to find, and as Barbossa said, the only way pirates can survive these days is to betray other pirates. Whether it's Elizabeth or William Turner, or Jack and Barbossa, Du Xu has the chips they have to succumb to, and the pirates' discipline has dropped so much in recent years, and there is no ambiguity in selling teammates, and the corpse is enough to spare three laps in the Caribbean.
In addition to Barbossa, who was resurrected by Du Xu, and Jack Sparrow, who turned to him for help, at least three of the nine Pirate Kings tried to contact him. If you exclude the Pirate King of the South China Sea, who has been succeeded by Elizabeth, and the French Captain Marcel Ulris, who was killed by Du Xu, the betrayers account for the majority of the remaining Pirate Kings, and only two Pirate Kings did not signal Du Xu.
Du Xu believes that this will definitely not be a matter of their nobler personality, most likely because they can't even find a way, and these scum who can't even sell their teammates can't do it.
Roughly calculated, seven of the nine pirate kings have already surrendered to him, of course, they may turn their faces at any time, for pirates, their loyalty is as fragile as a membrane! The only object of the pirate's loyalty is themselves, Du Xu saw six or seven drifting bottles of different shapes salvaged on the sea, and sighed secretly.
Along the way, all the pirates scrambled to sell the information of the pirate conference to Du Xu, even the only two "loyal" pirate kings were no exception, and they finally found a channel to sell their teammates, in this case, even if Du Xu didn't know the location of the shipwreck port, it must be very difficult. But to Du Xu's surprise, these pirate kings seemed to have made two preparations, and some ships that were obviously not pirates also hoisted the flag of pirates and gathered at the shipwreck port.
In the middle of January, Du Xu finally received the news of the opening of the pirate conference, and at this time he was not far from the shipwreck harbor, watching Elizabeth and William lead the fleet into the harbor.
Du Xu did not drive the boat in, but generously sat on the boat arranged for him by Barbossa, and rowed into the shipwreck harbor alone under the personal leadership of Barbossa. It turns out that no matter how strong a fortress is, when it encounters a group of defenders who are scrambling to betray and disagree, it will leak like a sieve.
Du Xu even unexpectedly saw the flagship of the East India Company, the Enterprise, of course, it can also be called the Endeavour, which was openly waving the skull flag, and its huge hull occupied four or five places. Du Xu raised his eyebrows, as if he had seen something interesting, and showed an inexplicable smile. In fact, this is by no means an exception, the berths of the wreck harbor are full of ships, some of which have only been painted with a thin layer of paint on the outside, and their original names have not been covered.
It was all the main battleships, and Du Xu could see at a glance that if the pirates had such strength, they would have run amok a long time ago, and they would have fallen to the point of crossing the street. At that time, it was supposed to be a merchant who disobeyed the pirates, not a hanged pirate.
"These are new guys!" Barbossa lied without blushing and heartbeat: "They have the strength and hard work, but in my opinion, it will take a long time for them to become familiar with this industry! ”
"What is the pirate spirit?" Du Xu asked him with a smile.
"If you don't have a spirit, you are the spirit of a pirate! Forgetting one's righteousness, being insatiable, bullying the weak and fearing the hard, talking is the same as farting, this is a pirate. Barbossa's voice was a little smug, he was the best at it, and to be honest, he was much more competent than Jack Sparrow. As a pirate, Barbossa is a charismatic leader who always brings tangible benefits to those under him, which is why he banishes Jack.
Barbossa is really a very capable person, Du Xu once again admits this, and the discipline of the pirate organization, which is rebellious and free by nature, is completely insulated from them. Such a group of chaotic pirates, Barbossa was able to organize them, which made Du Xu amazed, and finally everyone sat down at the big round table and officially started the fourth pirate conference.
This time, the Nine Pirate Kings changed many new faces, it seems that several pirate kings have changed overnight, and Howling Wind still died at the hands of the East India Company, to Du Xu's surprise, his token did not fall into the hands of Elizabeth, but was held by Beckett, and he participated in the pirate conference instead of him. The Mediterranean pirate king Marcel, who died at the hands of Du Xu, was handed over to Elizabeth by Barbossa, and the Adriatic pirate king Vilaneua of Spain had an arrogant aristocratic deputy, and the Hindu priest Sri Sambuhaji also had an additional corrupt assistant next to him.
According to the procedure, the pirate kings showed the token to the organizer of the meeting, and Barbossa stuffed the pile of rags to Du Xu in a blink of an eye, and then stood up and took the lead in speaking, distracting everyone's attention, "Everyone, we are facing a major crisis, which is why we have gathered. The Lord of Ghosts and his men have turned the sea into a moat for half a year, and for half a year, your Excellencies, there has not been a single merchant ship on the sea for us to plunder, but on the contrary, our conservative wealth has been constantly deprived!"
"The time has come for life and death! Excellencies, we have almost no place on the sea! What is before us, survival or destruction, compromise or struggle?"
Barbossa's words caused a fierce reaction from the pirates present, the two sides with opposing opinions cursed each other, and even began to fight, and the sharp voice of Mrs. Qing pierced the sky: "I suggest we hide here, Shipwreck Bay is so hidden, there are plenty of supplies, we can hide here until the end of the matter!"
Jack ruthlessly shattered her illusions, pointed out the hall and sneered, "You can go outside and see, those fleets that surround us, I dare say we have been here for less than a week!"
The Atlantic Pirate King Jokad angrily hammered the table and said, "Who betrayed us, who is a traitor?"
Even though he smashed the table, everyone still looked as usual, and everyone stared silently at a small area in front of them, as if they didn't hear his roar! But the calm did not last for a moment, and immediately Ademont sneered: "I don't know who secretly lit the fireworks at night, but I can see that the people of Yokade are next to the fireworks, lest the ships outside not be able to see them!"
Yokad sneered, "What about the dear Mr. Ademan, I have picked up at least five of your bottles on the way, and I can tell the Islamic style of the bottles without using my eyes, and you Sir Sumbagi, and the same is true of the Indian barrels you left behind!"
Like the first domino that fell, several people exposed each other, and almost everyone was involved, everyone was almost the same, no one was clean, more or less connected with Du Xu, and the host of the meeting, Barbossa, was simply his person. In the end, everyone looked at each other, and someone cursed angrily: "Despicable villain, you betrayed us first, and you betrayed us all!"
The scolded person immediately ridiculed each other: "If I hadn't started earlier, wouldn't you have been preempted by you, and you still have the face to say that I am not among the betrayers?
In the chaos, I don't know who took the lead, and soon the pirates were in a mess, and their mouths were constantly stirring up each other's ugly things and treacherous precedents. Looking at the pirates in a mess, Elizabeth sighed, "This is crazy, are we going to rely on this group of people to fight him?"
William and Sparrow said in unison, "This is politics, and besides, can't we still surrender?" William emphasized: "For the sake of our father, Elizabeth, we just need to complete the deal with him!
In the face of this chaos, Barbossa had to shout: "Silence, gentlemen, everyone present is innocent, and traitors cannot be among us." In the face of an enemy who can destroy us, we from the Seven Seas must unite together, put aside past grievances and prejudices, and fight together!" He said so righteous and awe-inspiring that even Du Xu, who was standing next to him, almost believed it, and if he didn't consider Barbossa's affiliation with him, the credibility of this statement might be a little higher.
Now, at least Jack, who has seen Barbossa by Du Xu's side, will not believe it at all, but others don't know the relationship between Barbossa and Du Xu, and Jack doesn't plan to say it. In this way, everyone calmed down at least temporarily, and saw Barbossa make a sly suggestion: "According to the pirate code, at this time we should elect the pirate emperor, and he will lead us to negotiate or fight!"
"Who cares about the damn Codex? We're pirates, uninhibited pirates! Fuck the Codex!"
"The Codex is supreme!" the majestic voice and the loud gunfire rang out at the same time, and the guy who was still there just now was making a big fuss, and he fell down, and a tall figure walked out slowly but firmly from behind, a man who looked very much like Jack, he glanced around, and asked, "Does anyone have any opinions?"
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