An hour later, the Spreading Wings, Rising Sun, and Victory Goddess Elis carried Nerval and the captured pirates to a small island about forty kilometers southeast of where the robbery took place last night.
This island named Thunder Island by Legesar is actually not that small. If you stand on the tall deck of the Wings and observe, you can't even see the boundary on the other side of the island.
The horizontal distance to the left and right, according to Neva's naked eye estimation, was at least more than five kilometers.
From a distance, I saw some women and children gathering on the beach. When I saw three huge magic ships approaching, the group of women and children started to stir up and made chirping sounds. Some of the children were jumping around and seemed to be very excited. excited.
"Are these relatives of your pirate group?" Nerval asked Legesar next to him.
"Yeah." Regsar nodded expressionlessly.
"How many people are there in total on the island now? I mean including these women and children." Nerval asked again.
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Legesar looked at Nerval with a strange look on his face, his heart moved, and a look of surprise flashed across his face.
These three ships are equipped with such powerful weapons that they are probably not ordinary merchants.
This guy is now concerned about the women and children on the island. Could it be that they...are they actually human traffickers? "Tell me how many people there are. If there are enough people, maybe I can think of a better way to cooperate."
Nerval was heard to say the word "cooperation" again. Legesar still felt a little incredible.
He couldn't figure it out anyway. What value do you have to cooperate with him
"Well... Including the brothers, there are just over five hundred people on the island." Regsar answered honestly.
"Five hundred... It's not quite enough, but it's okay." Nerval thought for a moment and gestured behind him.
The two sailors on the Wings behind him nodded and left. After a while, Regosaar heard several sounds of waves.
"Let's go to the island together."
Legsar followed Nerval in confusion and came to the side of the Spreading Wings ship, where he saw Nerval holding a rope. Just slipped down.
Regsar looked down and saw Nerval landing on a ship that was slightly larger than the wooden sailboat they usually used, but was also made of fine iron. At this point, Legesar didn't think too much, grabbed the rope, and slipped down easily.
After a while, several sailors also slipped down along the rope.
Then Legesar saw Nerval press a button on a very complicated-looking platform at the front of the ship. The ship shook slightly and then rushed forward.
In just a moment, the ship increased its speed to extremely high speed. It completely exceeded the speed of the fastest ship Legesar had ever seen in his life.
Legesar looked at the meter-high waves brought up by the sides of the ship on both sides, and his heart was full of surprise.
I was riding on that extremely huge steel monster called the magic ship just now. He felt that the speed was very fast, and now the boat was actually much faster.
It only took two minutes for the small boat to carry the group of people across the distance of more than a thousand meters between the Wings and the pirates.
Nerval and the sailors jumped out of the boat and escorted Regsaar to the island.
Behind them, several identical iron boats came over and stopped on the shore with waves.
In addition to dozens of sailors who jumped down from above holding strange crossbows, there were also several young men and women who were well-dressed, elegant, and whose skin was far less dark than the sailors.
"Captain Regsar, pick a few people who are familiar with the situation on the island and lead them around the island." Nerval said to Regsar with a smile.
Regsar finally couldn't help it anymore: "I said, what do you want to do? I am in your hands now, and I have nothing to say. But you won't kill me, and you won't let me go. What do you want?"
"I told you, I want to cooperate with you." Nerval smiled slightly, but Legesar wanted to punch this face.
"Cooperation is nothing! We are all pirates, how can we cooperate with you?"
"Don't look down on yourself too much." Nerval smiled and waved his hand. "Pirates are also very valuable, especially when you still have this nice island. Okay, do as I say, pick out a few people. Remember, don't play tricks, your more than a hundred brothers are still In my hand."
Regsar glared at Nerval, walked over to the surprised relatives of the pirate group, and explained.
After a while, five young women and two old men walked out of it.
Nerval took a look, asked the two old men to retreat, divided the other five young women into three groups, and the several young men and women with different temperaments who were also divided into three groups, and cooperated with the more than ten sailors who came off the ship, to Heading to the island.
After they left, Nerval led dozens of heavily armed sailors and Legsar behind him into the pirate group's settlement on the island.
Although this pirate Legesar has been in business for a long time, the Thunder Pirates are just a group of pirates after all, and their resources are not very abundant. Therefore, so far, there is not even a decent house on this island. The residents of the island They just live in a treehouse built haphazardly out of wood, without even the most basic shelter from wind and rain.
Nerval observed the condition of these houses and seemed more satisfied.
After a while, he pulled Legesar and sat down on a stone in front of a tree house.
"Hey, Captain Regasal, looking at the situation here, your Thunder Pirates don't seem to be doing very well."
Legesar snorted: "Nonsense! Who would become a pirate if they really had money?"
"Well, that makes sense." Nerval nodded, and the smile on his face became even brighter. "Then Commander Regosaar, do you want the people in the pirate group to live a better life?"
Regsar narrowed his eyes and looked at Nerval for a while.
"Are you joking?".
"No, I don't mean to be joking. Captain Regsar, in fact, I do intend to cooperate with you. You see, we actually came all the way from the Principality of Standing and are not familiar with the situation here. So the cooperation of someone who is familiar with the nearby waters is very much needed.”
Legesar glanced at the three giant steel ships parked outside the island and shook his head.
"Looking at you, you don't need our help at all. If you need to familiarize yourself with the surrounding situation, you can go to Nixi City to find help."
"To be honest, we are indeed going to Nixi City to do business this time. But... Captain Regesar, I believe you should be very clear that there are some things that are difficult to do through the authorities... "
Seeing the meaningful smile on Nerval's face, Legesar's heart moved, and his mind instantly became active.
From what this guy said, he seemed to need some other... help
Thinking of this, the expression on Legesar's face was no longer as cold as before. He paused and asked: "Then tell me, what benefits does cooperation with you bring to me and our pirate group?"
"The first choice is money." Nerval casually touched his arms and took out a handful of gold coins.
The sun was shining brightly at this time, and these gold coins reflected a brilliant golden light on Nerval's hand, which immediately caused Legesar and the island residents who were watching the situation from a distance to breathe quickly.
"Secondly... there are many benefits besides money, but I'm afraid you won't believe it if I tell you. So..." Nerval turned his head and glanced, waving to a sailor who was following behind. "Hayes, tell me."
The sailor came over, glanced at Legesar up and down, then looked at the surrounding island residents, and shook his head, his expression seemed to be very disdainful.
Legesar was furious at his gaze, and was about to glare back when his next words caught his attention.
"Hey, my name is Hayes. I come from an island called Karaska on the sea outside the Black Rice Wasteland. I used to be a pirate like you. The life on the island used to be slightly better than yours now. A little bit, it's also very difficult. But since our Kalaska Island was favored by the president, everyone's life has been completely different..."
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"Nerval, is it okay for you to do this?". In the distance, Nerval's deputy looked worriedly at Hayes and Regesar, who were talking, and asked Nerval. "The president has said that as long as we find out the route on this trip, we will have completed the mission. Aren't you afraid that the president will be angry if you make extraneous matters like this?"
"Do you think...if I don't have the president's permission, I dare to make my own decisions?" Nerval glanced briefly at the deputy.
The deputy was surprised: "So...this is what the president means?"
"It can't be said that it was exactly what the president meant." Nerval shook his head. "But before departure, the president told me privately that I should look for an opportunity to find a sea supply base similar to Karaskaya Island in the waters of the Kingdom of Luersun. I was still worried about what to do before. After completing this task, these pirates came to my door. "
The deputy suddenly realized: "I see. No wonder I have always said that with our reserves, we can speed up and definitely make it to Nixi City in time, but you have been taking your time and are always worrying about supplies."
Nerval chuckled: "This is my first time to complete a task alone. If I don't do it beautifully, how can I make the president look at me differently?"
The deputy nodded, pondered for a moment, and then asked, "What are you going to do?"
Nerval looked at Legesar, who was listening intently in the distance, and smiled: "It's very simple. The president said that any problem that can be solved with money is not a problem. But this group of pirates just lack money."