Chapter 76 Bad Luck
On the Red Beard Pirates' boat and in the kitchen, William was sitting on the table, chatting with the new crew member Nadal who was working here. Before leaving, he took away a few fresh vegetable leaves that were quite precious to the long-distance ships.
Nadal just took a look and continued to work on the work at hand without caring.
Now Captain Barbarossa is becoming more and more cruel, while Deputy Captain Felton is a bastard who can set up a plan with his companions to harm newcomers' property. Second Deputy Harden is impulsive and reckless.
Only William, who often takes care of the newcomers, has the highest prestige among the newcomers on the ship. Moreover, William helped him advance his debt that night. Nadal was very grateful to William, so he naturally would not care about these trivial matters.
William found a remote corner with no one on the boat, and then took out a small box from his arms, and opened it and exposed the phone bug Watson that he had been carrying with him. This little creature had been staying in the closed space for too long, and because William could not reveal it in front of others, he could not feed it on time. Now it seems a little depressed and very unenergetic.
William was really worried that the only contact tool would get sick or even die. He took out the vegetable leaves he had just brought from the kitchen and fed them to the telephone bug Watson. He watched it swallow voraciously, but he fell into deep thought.
If Colonel Roy wants to punish Barbarossa's head, he must characterize the Tchila Wolf attack and confirm the charge of Barbarossa's mastermind. This cannot be concealed from Ajin, who has gradually become the confidant of the Rat, and Roy himself did not want to hide it from others.
Therefore, during the fixed contacts every once in a while, Ajin had already told William the message over the phone.
For William, everything is now available. He can get rid of Barbarossa at any time, and then Clo makes a bridge, takes Barbarossa's head to set up a line with Arcadio, Roy and others to become a new maritime alliance.
After all, compared to finding a group of new partners, the Red Beard Pirates is more familiar to Roy and Arcadio, and it is not easy to find a group of pirates at sea with the same level of strength as the Red Beard Pirates.
And getting rid of Barbarossa can also prove William's personal strength to Roy and Arcadio, which is one of the bargaining chips to cooperate with them.
If William felt it was difficult to deal with Barbarossa before the attack on Kalmar City, when Barbarossa exposed his ability weakness at the feet of Zhep's demon wind, William already had a solution.
Barbarossa's devil fruit ability can change the hardness and quality of his own hair, making it as hard as steel. It is really difficult for William to hurt him before he mastered the "iron-cutting" realm in swordsmanship.
However, after discovering the scald on Barbarossa's chest, William conducted an experiment. He put the hair that Barbarossa secretly collected in previous battles into the fire and roasted it. He found that the hair that was as hard as iron in the past would be curled up like ordinary hair when it was burned by the flames.
So now William has always carried two pots of liquor and lighter that burned when it came to fire, just to deal with Barbarossa's ability.
He has not yet taken action against Barbarossa. A large part of the reason is that he wants to perform again, so that the crew can become more disinterested, so that he can immediately gain the support of the crew after he killed Barbarossa.
Barbarossa's head, the pirates that were substantially controlled, and Clo's matchmaking, the last meeting with Arcadio, William had the greatest confidence to replace Barbarossa and become the new ally of Arcadio and Roy.
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The broken ships of the Swordfish Pirates slowly leaned onto the shore of a small island, and the pirates on the boat cheered and excited.
Crossing the windless belt is also an extraordinary achievement for many pirates on the great route.
However, the cheers did not last long. Their first problem now was to find supplies and take a good rest. The most important thing was to find freshwater resources.
Therefore, after docking, Crusoe, the deputy captain and navigator, discussed with Captain Selkirk, and sent several teams to this strange island to find out if there was any tamsui.
Captain Selkirk agreed without thinking too much, leaving only a confidant on the boat, and led his men away. Before leaving, he did not notice Crusoe's reciprocity and several good cadres.
When Selkirk was about to approach the center of the island, a subordinate who was closer to him came to him in panic. When the group rushed to the coast, they happened to see the broken warship of the Swordfish Pirates sailing away.
Selkirk was furious, and ran two steps quickly, jumped into the sea with a thud, swam desperately towards the ship. Unfortunately, although the ship was a little damaged, it was still not easy for humans to catch up with when walking by the wind. Moreover, Selkirk spent too much physical energy in the windless belt. After swimming for a while, he still couldn't close the distance with the ship, but gradually widened.
In the end, he could only watch Crusoe and his group of people leaving on his ship. He could almost think of the smug expressions of Crusoee on the ship.
Selkirk guessed it. Crusoe in the cabin was indeed very proud. An old pirate who had just killed Selkirk's confidant, shook the blood stained on the scimitar in his hand and came to Crusoe excitedly: "Deputy... Captain, how many Baileys do you think this devil fruit can be sold in the East China Sea?"
Cruso gently stroked the solid iron box containing the devil fruit. The box was specially made by Selkirk. It was very strong. Without a key, it was indeed difficult to open. But it was not difficult for Cruso to find a locksmith who could unlock the locks. It was nothing more than a time. They needed to find the village and town first. There was Selkirk's checks and balances before, but now Selkirk, who has always had differences with him, was thrown off the boat. He had time to arrange it slowly.
"Double it is easy. After all, this is the weakest sea area. A capable person, even if he is not very capable, is enough to stand out at sea." Crusoe said absent-mindedly.
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Two days later, Selkirk and several of his confidants were already full of despair. Not only were they abandoned by their companions, but to make matters worse, they were unable to find fresh water resources to drink on this small island!
If no miracle happened, they would have to wait to die.
Selkirk was not without self-deprecation. He did not die in the great route known as the "pirate cemetery", but was about to die of thirst in the East China Sea, which is known as the weakest sea.
Selkirk stared blankly at the sea level. A three-masted sailboat suddenly broke into his sight. He rubbed his eyes hard, suspected that it was his own hallucination, but several subordinates around him had already discovered the sailboat at this time. The originally dull expression regained his spirit, and he shouted on the shore in hopes of attracting the other party's attention.
Selkirk had never had any worries, but in comparison, he felt that there was something even more miserable than dying on a deserted island that was hungry and thirsty?
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A few hours later, Selkirk, who was hungry and thirsty and covered in wounds, was lying miserably on the deck of the pirate ship, and knew he was wrong.
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Chapter completed!