I saw only pieces of debris in the sea, between the undulating waves.
Floating flags, broken sails, helpless barrels, broken ship wood pieces, masts, keels, and... there are also several floating human corpses...
Looking up, the sea is full of devastation.
The ship fragments covered a large area, and in Lorraine's sight, they were spread out on the sea until they could not be seen clearly.
Various broken fragments slowly rose and fell with the waves, bringing all this to Lorraine's eyes.
The battleship's hull knocked away the debris it hit, and the rising waves pushed them away.
Everyone looked at this miserable scene and couldn't help but fell silent.
The captain walked up to Lorraine, saluted and said, "Sir, the situation is not good. For safety reasons, please allow me to stop the ship for inspection."
Lorraine looked at the captain's respectful expression, frowned and said, "Are you the captain, or am I the captain? Why, you still can't decide on matters within your scope of responsibility?
The captain was stunned for a moment, stood up straight and respectfully, and said loudly: "I'm sorry, sir, I understand."
Lorraine said "hmm" and said: "The Victory is our greatest guarantee for traveling across the world. I heard that you are the best battleship captain, so I put it in your hands. Captain, I don't want me to choose
Wrong person."
The captain's dark face was slightly red, and he said seriously: "Please don't worry, sir."
Then the captain quickly turned around and shouted at the sailors at the top of his lungs: "Lower the sails, stop the ship, lower the boat, you, you, and you, go down and take a look, others are on duty, level 2 alert."
The bosuns followed the instructions loudly, and the sailors were busy running around the ship.
At this time, following the captain's order, most of the sails were lowered. The ship's speed suddenly dropped significantly.
The sailors jumped on the boat and rowed towards the wreckage, searching carefully to see if there were any survivors.
This is the rule on the sea.
As long as we encounter a ship in distress, everyone will always spare no effort to help as much as possible.
Captains sailing on the sea abide by the simplest natural rules. Only if you save others, others will save you, and all of this is perfect.
The rest of the people were also holding on to the railings, eyes wide open, carefully observing the situation on the water surface, and trying their best to help find possible survivors.
Lorraine looked at the water surface full of shipwrecks, and felt very strange: This is the center of the sea. The water level is extremely deep, there should be no reef rapids, and the weather conditions are also excellent these days. There are no storms, and this ship
How could something happen and it be so shattered and sunk?
The captain next to him saw his doubts and explained in a low voice: "Sir, it's pirates. These should be pirates."
Lorraine was immediately stunned and raised her head in astonishment.
He had received many reports of rampant pirate activities these days, but he did not pay too much attention to them.
On the one hand, he is the governor of Naian, and his jurisdiction is on land, and the eastern part of the empire has a naval fleet responsible for this defense area. On the other hand, because Lorraine does not have a strong naval force, he cannot control it even if he wants to.
Nai'an only has one inland river fleet and one offshore patrol fleet, which are not as powerful as the escort fleet of the Flying Eagle Group's security team. The escort fleet of the Flying Eagle Group cannot even meet its own escort mission, otherwise Lorraine wouldn't be able to
A lot of money was spent to build this battleship.
What's more important is that in the Mediterranean, there has never been a leader who can shock the world since ancient times, and there is a lack of effective repressive power.
The pirates are constantly fighting, and after one group is wiped out, another group of people will immediately drag a few broken ships, pick up two knives, and invest in this low-cost, high-risk, but high-yield business.
After all, this is a troubled time. A natural disaster or a man-made disaster will cause the people at the bottom to be displaced or have their families destroyed.
There is absolutely no fear of not being able to recruit people for all kinds of capitalless businesses. In order to survive, people who are cornered will do anything.
These are just civilian thieves. Their professional level is not high, their equipment is worse, and if they are unlucky, they will be chased away by armed merchant ships.
The most terrifying thing on the sea is official thieves.
There are constant disputes between countries.
For example, this prince kidnapped that king's wife, this queen stole that country's man, this grand duke stole that king's first love, or during the Maple Leaf Danlin exam, the kingdom did not let the emperor copy the answers, etc.
Any number of reasons can become a reason to start a war.
There is never a quiet day on the continent. There are always two or several countries in a state of war. For example, the Ruman Empire is always engaged in two wars at the same time.
Moreover, due to historical reasons and successive years of war, the division of everyone's spheres of influence was complicated. It had already broken their heads and turned their brains into dregs.
But greed is human nature and the driving force behind social development.
In order to compete for greater interests, everyone has added a lot of trouble to this mess.
According to the young father-in-law’s later evaluation: This situation is like secretly picking a few buckets of shit and placing them in the most densely populated area at a gathering of 100,000 people, and then throwing a few more buckets of shit into those buckets.
Large explosive crystal.
Then imagine the scene after the explosion, and you will know how chaotic this situation is.
With their explicit or covert support and connivance, pirate activities have always been extremely rampant.
Sometimes, in order to attack each other, or to make some extra money, we even ask the Navy's bastards to change flags and go to the sea twice to grab some things. Then they buy *** a villa, and my brother-in-law arranges it.
a job.
The navy or official thieves also have legitimate channels for selling stolen goods, which is a very quick way to make money.
The remaining scraps of money will be given to imperial officials as subsidies such as 'heatstroke prevention and cooling fees' to shut their mouths.
Even sometimes, officials from various countries sit together and discuss the increasingly rampant piracy problem. But everyone has a lot of subsidies, so of course they just turn a blind eye.
It's not them who the pirates robbed, so these bureaucrats don't take the piracy issue seriously.
And the navies of various countries also have the idea of raising thieves to respect themselves.
If all the pirates are wiped out, there will be no reason for anyone to ask for funds, equipment, money or things from the empire.
Without pirates, there is no appropriation.
If you have no money, how can you live on free wages, ***, and solve work problems for your brother-in-law?
How can we use the name of combating piracy to engage in smuggling at sea?
Therefore, the more we crack down on piracy, the more powerful it will become.
Even though the Flying Eagle Company is so powerful, when faced with such complicated situations in the Mediterranean, sometimes it is necessary to spend money to buy a way out and find safety.
Part of the reason why Lord Luo led the battleships to sail this time was to show off their military power and make a big fuss.
Let those pirate navy bastards know that Sir Alex is not only awesome on land, but also on the sea.
Let those bastards at sea be more honest and stop thinking about the fat pigs of Lord Zai~!
It's just that he originally thought that no matter how powerful and rampant the pirates were, there was a limit, but he didn't expect that it had reached such a level that even when he was driving a battleship, he could encounter a pirate robbery incident.
If calculated based on this probability, then the pirate activities are no longer rampant, but terrifying~!
At this time, the captain said: "Actually, there were not so many pirates on the sea."
Lorraine was stunned and said, "What does this mean?"
The captain bowed his head slightly and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me."
He paused for a moment, and then continued: "Originally, although maritime trade was developed, it was far from what it is now. There is really not much profit in this maritime business.
It's just a group of men who can't live anymore, holding knives and risking their lives, trying to find a way to survive.
Although they started to rob, but in order to avoid making a big deal and provoking the navy to come to clean it up, or to accumulate some bad virtue for themselves, they also exercised restraint as much as possible. They did not hurt others if they could.
But then..."
When he said this, he hesitated and looked at Lorraine.
Lorraine immediately became interested and said: "Go on."
"Yes, sir." The captain bowed his head respectfully, and then continued, "It was different later. Later, Naian Province's commerce developed, and sea trade became increasingly developed.
More and more people see the benefits in this, so more and more people join pirates.
Some of them cannot survive, but most of them see the benefits and want to make a lot of money from it.
They all have backers, even powerful backers.
Those bastards only care about money.
And with the support of the forces behind him, he acted without any scruples.
What they did was extremely cruel, even to the point of being heinous. They not only robbed, but also killed, raped, and set fire to ships. They did all kinds of bad things."
Lorraine didn't expect that he had a share in the reason for the rampant pirates. He couldn't help but be silent for a moment. But then he sneered and said: "A powerful backer? How powerful? Am I stronger than me?"
mlgbd~!
How dare you rob me in front of me? Where does this put Sir Alex's face~!"
He turned around, slapped the railing, and cursed angrily: "Captain Kaput, what do you navy guys do for a living~!"
Don’t forget your responsibilities~!,
Sir, I spent so much money to build a battleship for you, not just to look good.
Don’t you know that as the Royal Navy of the Empire, we have the obligation to ensure the safety of every ship in the Mediterranean? If this happens again, believe it or not, Sir, I will remove you from your post and hand it over to the Imperial Supervision Department for strict punishment.
I'll deal with you son of a bitch harshly~!"
Sir Luo was out of breath and gasping for breath. Even so, he still kept yelling at Captain Kaput.
Captain Kaput was scolded so badly by Lord Luo that he was about to cry. He was so excited that he almost cried~!
mlgbd~!
What do these words of Sir Alex mean?
On the surface, it shows that he has made it clear that he supports everyone in eradicating pirates and restoring a peaceful and peaceful environment in the Mediterranean.
But this also shows that the old man is relying on his own battleships to go all out and be shameless and act like a hooligan.
Lord Lorraine has made it very clear that he must protect the safety of every ship in the sea. What does this mean about his identity? International police~!
Relying on this giant ship and cannon, he regarded the countries around the Mediterranean as nothing, and regarded the entire Mediterranean as his own backyard~!
This means that from now on, relying on this battleship and on this sea, we can act like a hooligan against anyone. If anyone refuses to accept it, we will label him a pirate and shoot first and then interrogate him.
If anyone can survive these hundred or ten cannons, he is definitely a pirate. Who dares to say that he is not?
At this moment, a trumpet sound was heard in the sea.
Obviously, the sailors did not find any survivors on the unfortunate ship and planned to return to the battleship.
But then, there was a loud and dissatisfied shout from the bow of the ship.
‘Ouch~ouch~~ooh~~~’
Everyone was stunned and turned around to see Xiaobai still tied with a rope, lying on the bow of the boat, with his long nose stretched straight, pointing to a certain place in the sea. While pointing, he kept shouting.
With.
Leo and Xiaobai had been together for a long time, so how could he not understand what he was thinking? He immediately put his hands in front of his mouth, holding them into a trumpet, and then shouted to the people in the sea: "Go there and see, what should be there?"
People, or things.”
The sailors on the boat were helpless, so they turned the boat's bow again and rowed in the direction pointed by Xiaobai.
As a highly intelligent creature, Xiaobai has always been known as the ‘king of beasts~!’ That means – a beast that is even more beastly than a beast~~!’.
It has always been sneaky, lazy, cheats at cards, and extremely obsessed with money. When it comes to gold coins, it is even harder to walk than Vera.
Moreover, it is extremely vindictive. It is never too late to take revenge even if others are a gentleman. Once it is bullied, it will take revenge from morning to night.
When the Holy See assassin assassinated Lorraine, it was because he overturned its plate. The little guy became furious and interfered with it, ruining the murder that shocked the world.
Moreover, after the incident, the assassin of the Holy See was not kicked hard by it with its thick eighty-something feet.
But even though it has so many shortcomings, everyone has great faith in this little gangster. Everyone on the boat watched eagerly.
There was silence on the boat.
After a while, a burst of warm cheers was heard from the boat.
Immediately afterwards, I saw the boat rowing back quickly.
When I saw the small boat coming to the side of the battleship, someone on the ship lowered the spreader and hoisted one of them up.
I saw the sailor holding a large blanket and walking over cautiously.
As the blanket was lifted, everyone looked intently.
Wrapped inside was a child two or three years older than Leo.
The man seemed to have passed out.
With long brown hair and long eyelashes, she was obviously a girl. She may have been in the sea for a long time, and her complexion was extremely pale.
The sailor holding her shook his head at the captain, indicating that there was nothing he could do.
Obachm recited a line from "The Temple" in a low voice, and said bitterly: "You are still a child, and you are really committing evil. If you give way, I will do it."
Obham recited the holy words in a low voice, and a restoration spell fell on the girl.
At this time, feeling that everyone was surrounding him, the child's eyelashes fluttered a few times, and then he woke up.
She looked at everyone in horror, screamed loudly and struggled constantly.
The old sailor hurriedly put his arms around her and comforted her softly, saying: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. We are the Nai'an Navy. We are the Navy. It's okay now. It's okay, kid..."
The voice was unusually gentle, like a father comforting his daughter who had a nightmare.
After a while, the girl's mood calmed down.
After she calmed down, she told the story intermittently under everyone's questioning.
The passengers of the dhow "Unicorn" were like other people who longed to own a piece of land and dreamed of making a fortune. After they borrowed money here and there, they planned to go to Nai'an and buy a piece of their own land.
own land.
But they didn't know that they were already being targeted by pirates before leaving the port.
Over the next two days, they encountered a small group of pirates.
Facing the gang of pirates who wanted to rob them of all their wealth and hopes, these farmers broke out in a bloody manner.
Relying on the strength of their numbers, they fought back the pirates and even captured one of them.
Originally, according to the rules of the sea, that guy was going to be hanged. However, he begged bitterly, knelt on the ground, kowtowed his head, and cried with tears.
Mrs. Wicker, the girl's mother, softened her heart and continued to plead for mercy.
Then everyone spared the pirate and put him on a small boat to let him escape.
But they didn't know that their sailing route had been known to the pirate.
On the afternoon of the third day, while everyone was sailing, another group of pirates who had been ambushing them rushed out from behind a small island, and the pirate was the first to rush in with a knife.
Immediately, the pirates rushed onto the ship, burned, killed, and looted the ship. Finally, they set a fire and burned the ship to pieces.
The little girl was cleverly hidden in a bucket at the back of the ship by Mrs. Wicker, and she survived by chance. And if the battleship hadn't passed by, and if Xiaobai hadn't had a sensitive nose, she wouldn't have survived for a few days.
After Lorraine finished listening, she immediately turned her eyes to the sailor next to her.
The sailor immediately understood and said in a low voice: "We didn't find any other people, we just found a few fragments of women's clothes near the barrel, fragments of clothes stained with blood..."
Lorraine glanced at him, saw the angry and sad expression on the sailor's face, and felt as uncomfortable as eating a fly.
Although the sailor didn't say it explicitly, his words already explained the kind-hearted lady's final fate.
At this time, another horn sound sounded on the sea.
This means that the group of sailors who went to search had already searched the wreckage again, but this time they still found nothing.
After these two laps, they returned to the ship exhausted. But none of them complained.
Because in this way, when they were drinking the hot soup prepared next to them and facing the pitiful eyes of the little girl, they could face it calmly and sincerely tell the poor girl: "I'm really sorry, but
We have tried our best.”
When the girl noticed that the battleship's sail was slowly rising, she suddenly realized something, and then she cried with a 'wow' sound.
Everyone around him was speechless for a moment.
At this time, the girl saw Obachm, who was wearing a white robe next to her. She cried and asked loudly: "Dear Bishop, why? Why are we being treated like this?"
Aren’t we working seriously according to the teachings of God the Father?
Aren’t we following God the Father’s teachings of mercy and mercy?
But why do we still suffer like this?
Why? Why does God the Father treat His most loyal believers like this?”
Obachm was also silent for a moment.
Lorraine saw that the girl was so powerful with her words, and was very impressed by her.
Melina, who was on the other side, clenched her fists and praised in a low voice, saying: "Well said~!"
Lorraine listened, and then looked at the stupid Leo next to him, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh: We are both human beings, but why are the differences between people so big?
He immediately took a step forward, looked at the girl who was crying but had a stubborn and angry face, and said coldly: "You deserve it~!"
The girl's eyes suddenly widened in surprise.
The people next to him were also in an uproar. Did this lord take the wrong medicine? He was so vicious to a little girl.
Hilmeria looked at it and shouted softly: "Lorraine..."
At this time, the girl stopped crying, opened her eyes wide, looked at Lorraine angrily, and said: "You look like a big shot at first sight. We country people are ignorant, but you have to tell us why we deserve to be punished."
'ah?
Could it be that your navy is the same as those pirates? Then I have really boarded a pirate ship. I'd better jump off and die cleanly~!"
The old sailor next to him shouted hurriedly: "You are not allowed to talk to adults like this."
He hurriedly turned around again, smiled at Lorraine, and said: "Sir, please try your best and don't worry about it like a child..."
As he spoke, he quietly moved his body over, trying to block the child behind him.
Lorraine looked at the little girl and immediately praised: It is rare to see such a sharp-tongued person.
But at the same time, I also despise him very much. I don’t even know the Lord. No matter how sharp-tongued I am, I am still an ignorant little girl from the countryside~!
He moved his fingers to signal the old sailor to hide aside, then stared into the girl's eyes that were about to burst out of fire and said, "By the way, I don't know your name yet?"
The girl gritted her teeth and looked at Lorraine, and then said one word at a time: "Christina, my name is Christina."
Lorraine smiled, and then said: "God the Father taught you to be upright, hard-working, compassionate, and merciful. This is true. But he did not teach you to 'condon-tolerate-evil-evil'~!"
The girl's eyes immediately flashed with a dazzling light. She screamed: "You...what did you say~!"
Lorraine continued: "Compassion and compassion are for the weak, not for the bad people.
You can't tell the difference between good and bad, who's to blame?
Of course you blame yourselves~!
When that pirate fell into your hands, you didn't give him a fair trial, or hand him over to the navy, or hand him over to a judge. Instead, you treated him like a bad guy and let him go privately.
You caught a wolf, but when you saw the wolf crying, you acted like a good person and let it go. But when you turn around and the wolf comes to eat you, do you blame God the Father?
Where does this leave God the Father to reason?
For the sake of your cheap kindness and 'condoning evil', you let that vicious pirate go. As a result, he attracted other pirates.
Now tell me, if you don’t deserve it, what is that?”
He looked at the girl's eyes that were about to spit out fire, paused, and then changed his words: "Uh, no. It should be said that your kindness is not cheap. Because it is based on your relatives and friends, using your own
This was earned at the cost of life."
The girl's eyes turned blue with anger, she clenched her fists tightly and gritted her teeth.
She wanted to pounce on him, bite off the nose of the person opposite, and then trample him into a ball of meat with her feet. But she also understood that what Lorraine said was reasonable. All of this could only be blamed on her own stupidity.
Got it~!
There is nothing wrong with being kind, but indulging in evil is not only wrong and stupid. It is also a crime. A crime against all those who are harmed by the evil that you unleash.
She was so angry that she looked at the wreckage that was gradually going away. She suddenly yelled and then punched the deck hard. Her white and tender hands hit the thick wooden board and made a "thud" sound.
There was a loud noise and blood immediately oozed from the fist.
She gritted her teeth and straightened her thin chest in the strong sea breeze. She held back her tears and said loudly: "This matter is indeed their fault. I will never do this.
Wrong~! If any pirates fall into my hands in the future, I will definitely hang them all~!"
Lorraine smiled and said: "Really? We are going to destroy the pirates next.
When the time comes, don't be like your stupid family members who softened your heart and let them go when you saw the pitiful appearance of those pirates."
The girl was stunned and said: "Really? Which group of pirates are you going to destroy?"
Lorraine looked up at the sky and said calmly: "All pirates."
As his words fell, the battleship immediately fell silent, followed by cheers.
These crew members have already suffered a lot from pirates.
But they knew that since the Lord said this, they must plow the courtyard to sweep the holes and level all the pirate holes.
Following the order, the sails were raised and the battleship's speed increased sharply.
Its tall bow crushed the waves and stirred up countless flying mist sprays, swooping forward like a giant shark and beast.
This journey will surely leave behind a mountain of corpses, a sea of blood, and flames reaching into the sky.