I looked at the sea and meditated quietly for a while.
After Roja came to his senses, he turned around and said to the colonel: "Now that everything has been dealt with, let's return."
"yes."
The colonel nodded respectfully.
The warship began to return, but Roja was still standing on the deck, leaning on the railing and blowing the sea breeze, with no intention of going back to the room.
No one dared to come and disturb Roja. The colonels now felt pressure from their hearts when facing Roja, and they did not dare to come over and chat with Roja at will.
They all know that a being like Roja, who is so young, cannot be restrained by a branch base in the West Sea. Sooner or later, he will be transferred to the Grand Line and become a lieutenant general, and may even become a general in the future!
Thinking about it this way, the huge gap made them all feel more restrained.
Half a day passed.
Roja, who had been leaning on the railing, was about to return to his cabin, but suddenly he seemed to be aware of it and looked in a direction in the distance.
In that direction, a dark figure vaguely appeared.
soon.
Other navies on the warship also discovered the black shadow. This black shadow was not an island, but a ship, a ship that happened to be heading towards the warship.
Although it was still far away, it could be vaguely recognized that it seemed to be a merchant ship.
The merchant ship obviously also discovered the warship. If it continued like this, the two ships would probably collide, so the merchant ship actively chose to deviate from the course and avoid the warship.
But just this active avoidance caused Roja, who was about to return to the cabin, to show a strange expression.
because.
This avoidance range is a little big!
If you want to avoid a head-on collision, you only need to move slightly sideways. However, this merchant ship has obviously deviated from a large arc. It seems that it is not just to avoid collision, but not to get close to the warship. Contact, just want to stay away from it.
"interesting."
Roja touched his chin, showing a hint of amusement, and said: "Change the course, target, that merchant ship."
"yes!"
Not only Roja felt there was something wrong, but several other colonels didn't care at first, but soon they also felt that there was something wrong. The merchant ship was hiding a bit too much.
Although this may also be a mistake made by the other party's helmsman, since they are the navy and encounter something problematic, they are naturally qualified to go over and check it out.
The warship changed its course and headed towards the merchant ship.
The merchant ship discovered that the warship had also changed its course, and seemed to be trying to catch up. It actually increased its speed a little, deviated from its course by a larger margin, and continued to avoid the warship.
This makes it look even more problematic.
"Are you trying to escape?!"
"It seems there is indeed something wrong."
The three colonels looked at this scene and their eyes suddenly flickered.
Roja, who was no longer ready to go back to the cabin, heard the voices of the three colonels and said with a smile: "Maybe he deliberately avoided them because he was afraid of us exploiting and extorting them."
Although most of the pirates on this sea are burning, killing and looting, there is a small part of the navy who are also treacherous and will exploit and extort passing merchant ships, which is a cancer in the navy.
"Mr. Roya was joking..."
The three colonels couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed when they heard Roja's words. They were all colonel-level officers and had heard about this kind of thing.
Roja glanced at the three of them casually, then turned back to look at the merchant ship.
Although the speed of the merchant ship was not slow, it could not be compared with the warship. It was soon overtaken by the warship and intercepted.
"The ship ahead has stopped and we have to inspect it."
A colonel stood in front of the warship deck and shouted to the merchant ship in a serious tone.
A man who looked like a businessman came over from the merchant ship. He looked at the officers on the warship with an apologetic smile and said, "Sir, we are just an ordinary cargo ship, so there is no need to inspect it."
"Cut the nonsense."
The more this happened, the more problematic it became. The colonel was not polite and led a group of soldiers armed with weapons to board the other party's merchant ship.
One of the other two colonels also followed, while the other stayed on the warship and stood beside Roja.
"Mr. Roya, do you think this ship is..."
"has a problem."
Roja stood there and answered calmly before the colonel finished speaking.
After hearing that Roja said there was a problem, and his tone was so calm, and he was obviously determined, the colonel suddenly focused his eyes, and looked at the merchant ship more solemnly.
The other two colonels had already led a large group of sailors onto the deck of the merchant ship.
At this moment, the man who looked like a businessman came up to us with an apologetic smile and said, "Thank you for your hard work, sirs."
As he spoke, the man quietly took out a stack of money and put it into the pockets of the two colonels without leaving a trace. Only the two colonels at the front could see this action.
See this.
The expressions of the two colonels suddenly changed and they looked at each other. One of them hesitated, but one of them did not hesitate. He pulled out his sword directly, pointed it at the businessman, and said sternly: "Don't move, just wait." Check! What’s on the boat?”
Seeing this scene, the 'businessman's expression suddenly turned cold.
"Sirs, do you have to investigate?!"
"Do you want to resist?"
The colonel who drew his sword said sternly.
"No… "
The 'businessman' lowered his head slightly, a fierce light suddenly appeared in his eyes. With a flick of his wrist, he suddenly pulled out a sword from his clothes and swung it fiercely.
The colonel's expression changed, and he swung his sword to meet him. When the two swords collided, a huge force came. The 'businessman' actually knocked the colonel back several steps with one strike of his sword!
"So strong!"
The colonel was suddenly shocked, and the other colonel on the side was also shocked at the same time. He immediately stepped forward to support him, but even with the combined strength of the two of them, they were suppressed by this humble businessman.
At the same time, the cabin on the merchant ship also opened with a bang, and a large group of people armed with guns and swords rushed out fiercely.
What kind of merchant ship is this? It's completely a pirate ship!
The 'businessman''s attack was extremely swift and violent, and he knocked back the colonel with one strike of his sword. His strength was not his strongest point, but his strongest point was his speed!
Ding! Ding! !
After three or five sword blows, before those armed with guns and swords could rush forward, he knocked the sword out of a colonel's hand and flew it out. He was about to kill the colonel directly with the next sword, and another The colonel was also knocked back by it, and it was obviously too late to rescue him.
But in the next moment.
What made the 'businessman's pupils shrink suddenly was that a figure suddenly appeared in the field at this moment, like a flicker of light.
What shocked him even more was that this figure actually used two fingers to clamp his sword in mid-air. His sword could no longer be moved between the two fingers, which were glowing with jet black oil. Move even a tiny bit! [This site’s mobile app reader is now online! The reader supports free online reading and offline reading at the same time. It is a must-have reading tool for novel reading lovers. To read novels for free, please follow the WeChat public account zuopingshuji (press and hold for three seconds to copy) to download the mobile client!