The silence didn't last long.
But it was neither Blackbeard nor Feng Bujue who broke the silence, but...
"Captain—" At that time, Dan heard a high-pitched, resonant voice from the lookout at the top of the mast, "Maybe it's not the time, but I have to interrupt you."
"What's the matter?" Blackbeard's gaze still stayed on Feng Bujue, and he didn't intend to move away at all, but he still responded to the watchman with a shout.
"To the southeast, there is a ship coming towards us quickly." From the tone of the watchman talking to Blackbeard, he can be guessed that he is by no means an idle person, "In my opinion... Not good."
Hearing the words, Blackbeard thought for two seconds, then adjusted his tone and voice to an appropriate level, and said to Feng Bujue in front of him: "It seems... we have to talk later."
"It's okay, you go and get busy first." Feng Bujue spread his hands and replied with a noncommittal expression.
"Oh..." Blackbeard smiled, "but I still have to make sure..." He paused, "When I'm 'busy', you shouldn't take the opportunity to do something that will make me busier come on?"
"No." Feng Bujue replied, "Actually, I'm going to help you..." He stretched out his hand and made a "please" gesture, "If possible, I hope you will treat me as a allies, and even partners."
"So that's how it is..." Hearing the words, Blackbeard read thoughtfully, "This is your 'task' this time, right?"
"It's one of them." Feng Bujue didn't show any surprise at Blackbeard's wording—even when he heard the word "task", "but specifically, I don't think I can explain it to you."
"It's okay, it's enough to know this." After Blackbeard said, he immediately turned around and left as he said.
His steps are firm, steady, quick, powerful...
In the blink of an eye, he had already reached the helm station at the middle and rear of the hull.
Blackbeard stood on a high place, beside the railing in front of the helm, standing solemnly under the watchful eyes of all the pirates.
After a while, he took a deep breath, and then shouted: "Bandits! Scum! My little bastards!" Speaking of this, he showed a smile that can only be described as "sinister", "Hehe... Obviously, a group of guys who don't know how to live or die are coming towards us..."
Just when he started this "pre-battle speech", the clipper ship in the southeast was approaching rapidly; even those sailors with relatively normal eyesight could already faintly see the shadow of the ship.
However, Blackbeard's attitude is still very calm...
His unhurried yet a little eager state stems from his self-confidence as a master of the sea, and... a primitive desire to kill.
"I'm going to decorate my bookshelves with the skulls of their captains.
"I will use the skins of those crew members to sew war drums.
"I'm going to collect a hundred spines to make the side carvings of the Queen's Revenge.
"I will fill twelve barrels full of human blood to fuel Greek Fire (a liquid incendiary invented by the Byzantine Empire to burn on water).
"I'm going to bottle their boats for a permanent collection.
"I want to engrave fear deeply in the souls of each of them, and let the name of our generation be sung on the river of Styx!"
Blackbeard's voice was like thunder, and every word and every sentence on the ship was heard by everyone on board; even the pirates below deck and in the cabin heard his declaration.
"You... do you understand?" Blackbeard asked after a few seconds.
"Ho! Ho!" The pirates on the entire ship, no matter where they were, all shouted these two sounds neatly and loudly.
"Very good." Blackbeard smiled again, expressing that he was very satisfied with this response; after a pause of two seconds, he spoke again, "Then..."
Just when he said these two words, he could only hear... a long cry of "Yo—" from the side; followed by another bang of "Boom".
It turned out... A shell from an enemy ship landed on the sea just a few meters away from Queen Anna's Revenge at this moment.
The power of the cannonball was terrifying, and the splashed water rushed straight up, like a dragon coming out of the water, coming menacingly.
"Hmph..." Seeing this, Blackbeard just smiled coldly.
In the next second, he suddenly pulled out the sword of Triton (the messenger of the sea in ancient Greek mythology, the son of Poseidon and the queen Amphitrite) from his waist, held it high to the sky, and continued Before finishing speaking, he shouted loudly: "Pirates... Raise the sails! Full left rudder!"
As soon as the captain's order came out, all the pirates on the ship moved like arrows from the bow.
Don't look at these guys who are usually lazy and irritable... At this moment, they will instantly become more efficient than any well-trained army.
In the blink of an eye, Feng Bujue and the pirates beside Snow...including Brother Suantou...all disappeared without a trace.
Running, rolling, crawling, swinging...
The pirates are like a swarm of flying bees and jumping monkeys, busy on the deck.
Under the command of the few "cadres", these dozens of people quickly raised the sails, set up the guns, prepared ammunition, knives, guns, and throwing ropes in a chaotic and orderly rhythm...
In short, everyone has entered a state of preparation.
And the enemy who attacked... Although the identity is still unclear, this kind of character who dares to attack the Blackbeard Pirates is definitely not a fuel-efficient lamp.
"Captain—it's the 'Brownweed'!" After a while, when the outline of the ship gradually became clear, the lookout shouted.
When Blackbeard heard the name, his expression remained unchanged, he just asked, "Whose flag is it flying?"
"One-Eyed Skull Flag!" The watchman shouted back, and after a second pause, he added, "It's 'Mad Eye'!"
When he said this name, most of the pirates on the deck were slightly taken aback.
Both Feng Bujue and Snow were very good at observing words and expressions, and they immediately deduced something from the reactions of the group of pirates.
"Did you see it too?" Snow immediately asked softly.
"Ah..." Feng Bujue said, "Judging from the changes in the expressions of those around... that 'crazy eye' is not easy to deal with."
"Well..." Snow continued in a deep voice, "But no matter how hard it is to deal with, it's not as strong as Blackbeard, right?"
"That's necessary." Feng Bujue replied, "but... it is this kind of 'enemy who is only a level lower than Blackbeard' that is more difficult to deal with; generally speaking... two seas whose strengths are not very different The thieves face each other, no matter who wins in the end, it will be a 'miserable' game." Speaking of this, Brother Jue's eyes moved slightly, and the topic changed, "Besides... I am very concerned..."
"What do you care about?" Snow quickly noticed that Feng Bujue's eyes were moving downwards, as if he was "peering through" the things below the deck.
"The cannonball that fell into the sea just now..." Juege muttered, "It's a bit unusual..."
"Oh?" Snow was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and then he thought for a while, and continued, "Well... After you say that... It's really strange. When the shell hit just now, the other party's ship left We're still very far away; assuming that's the range of their shelling, why bother approaching? Even if they had a reason to approach, why didn't they shoot again as they approached?"
The conclusion he can draw from his self-questioning reasoning is exactly what Jue Ge said just now - that shell is "special", or even "unique".
But its specific function, even Feng Bujue, is still unknown.
"Sail! Go at full speed!" Just as the two players were talking, Blackbeard's voice resounded throughout the ship.
At this moment, the Queen Anna's Revenge has turned to the state facing the bow of the Brown Algae under the previous adjustment of "raise the sails and turn the rudder to the left"; that is to say, Blackbeard's order this time is basically equivalent to letting the crew Drive the boat head-on towards the enemy ship.
"Captain." At this time, on the helm, a black man who had been standing silently beside Blackbeard spoke with a serious face, and said to Blackbeard, "The other party is now with a favorable wind, and... has reached that level. speed, if we collide head-on with them like this... "
"Erdini." Blackbeard called him, interrupting him.
"What's your order? Captain." Erdini immediately responded respectfully.
"You don't need to participate in this battle." Blackbeard continued, "You now... go to the sea first."
Erdini didn't show any dissatisfaction or doubts about the order that sounded like a suicide order, he just asked calmly: "What do you want me to do in the sea?"
"There is something wrong with the shell that fell just now." Blackbeard also replied very calmly, "You go and check... If everything is normal, you can come back to support."
"Yes, Captain." Erdini received the order, and without saying a word, he turned around and ran towards the side with his long legs.
When he reached the edge of the deck, he jumped into the turbid and dark water outside the ship.
...
Meanwhile, board the Brown Algae.
"Captain! The other party turned the bow of the ship and came towards us!" Their lookouts were also shouting to the captain.
"Nonsense, it's so close, I can see it myself." At the bow of the ship, a man in a dark blue captain's suit with a swollen face and a black eye patch on his left eye immediately responded to his words in a grumpy tone. crew.
This man is crazy-eyed...
The name "Crazy Eye" was obviously his nickname after he became a pirate. As for his real name...he himself has forgotten.
Although Crazy Eye wears a blindfold on his left eye all year round, in fact, he is not blind in that eye.
Seeing this, many people must have been wondering... Does he have Sharingan? Is the blindfold a spiritual power control device
Well... the answer will be revealed in the next chapter.
Let's move on to the story...
After Crazy Eye yelled at his watchman, he took two steps sideways and walked in front of another person.
Then, his majestic captain actually changed into an almost flattering tone, and said: "Uh... Master, look... what should we do next?"
The man called "Master" by Crazy Eyes was wrapped in an earth-colored Western-style monk's robe, and his face was completely covered in shadow; I can't see whether he is a man or a woman, old or young, human or ghost...
"You don't need me to teach you, do you?" The master's voice doesn't sound special, it's a very ordinary male voice, a man in his twenties to forties may have such a voice, "How to fight a naval battle, you Clearer than me."
"Then... I'll just play it by ear?" Crazy Eyes tentatively replied.
Just when the "Master" was about to answer this sentence, suddenly, he who was hiding in the monk's robe... noticed something strange, and said in his heart, "That's... Feng Bujue?"
I don't know what method he used, but when there was still a certain distance between the two boats, he noticed that Brother Jue was on Blackbeard's boat.
"Not only that... 'those two guys' are also there." The master said in his heart, "No... I can't contact them under this situation, I have to leave before they find me."
He made the decision to run away almost instantly, and said calmly: "Crazy Eye, I'm going to get some things from the cabin, here... you have full control over it."
Putting this sentence aside, he wanted to turn around and leave.
"Eh? This..." Seeing this, Crazy Eye hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Master, the fight is about to start, what are you..."
"Huh?" The master didn't intend to explain anything to Mad Eye at all, he just spit out a syllable in an unhappy tone.
Just this move made Mad Eye take a step back in fright.
"Hold... sorry, I was talking too much, Master, please..." Crazy Eye hurriedly lowered his head, and took a few steps back, "Here... I will take care of it."
The master didn't say anything to him, and left silently.
It wasn't until his figure entered the cabin below the deck and escaped the sight of Mad Eyes that the latter heaved a sigh of relief.
"Cut... this bastard, I don't know what the hell he's doing." Even if the other party had already walked away, Crazy Eye didn't dare to say this out loud, just muttered in a low voice.
It's not hard to see from Crazy Eye's reaction... He never thought that the "Master" would run away.
In Crazy Eye's cognition, the strength of this "master" just now is far higher than that of Blackbeard, which is also his greatest confidence and reliance in this "attack".
Crazy Eyes firmly believes that he, who was originally only "slightly worse" than Blackbeard, as long as he has the help of this existence stronger than Blackbeard, he can properly take the title of One Piece King... oh no... the title of Pirate King .
It's a pity... people are not as good as heaven.
Crazy Eye would never have imagined that just a minute ago, he had become a victim of a "changing situation". (.)