"Let's better look at the news in the bottle first before making a decision!" Faced with the differences in concepts between the two companions, the middle-aged man with several scars on his face did not stand on either side, but took the initiative to pick up the bottle on the table, unplugged the cork, took out the note inside, looked at it quickly, and then handed it to the two of them expressionlessly, saying, "You can see it yourself!"

The two of them took the notes one by one and looked at it. The woman's face became a little gloomy, while the old man looked a little more proud.

The middle-aged man put an end to this small dispute and said, "Obviously, as far as the current situation is concerned, there is no need to persuade him, so let's prepare for the war!" Then he turned his head and asked, "Your thing will not go wrong, right? The final success or failure of a thing depends on the effect of your thing."

The old man patted a skin hanging around his waist and said, "Don't worry, I will release all the power of this thing. Anyway, after doing it this time, I don't have to do it anymore, and there is no need to keep this thing anymore." Then he said to the woman in a confrontation: "In contrast to worrying about me, I think you should be more worried about her. Don't be overwhelmed with sympathy and do anything you shouldn't do, just like last time."

The woman did not refute the old man's doubts, but just glared at him fiercely.

The middle-aged man also looked at his companion with a little doubt. Although he was not the person involved in the last incident mentioned by the old man, he also heard that the last time a woman's sympathy almost made a successful thing turn over. Today, this incident is related to the lifelong hopes of the three. He does not want any mistakes to happen because of sympathy, so he needs the woman to personally guarantee it.

The woman was silent for a moment, raised her hand and grabbed the holy emblem of the Sky Lord Church that was grabbing her chest, and said calmly: "I promise you that I will never be ruthless."

When the two of them heard the woman's promise, they didn't say anything more. They knew very well that women were people who kept their promises.

The middle-aged and the elderly stood up one after another and walked out of the conference room and arrived on the deck. The pirates under their command immediately gathered over to inquire about the discussion.

"Let's start!" The middle-aged and the elderly responded briefly to their subordinates.

Hearing this response, all the pirates made various strange screams. These strange screams were originally just on the deck of a ship, but soon they were like an infectious disease spreading on other ships at a glance. For a moment, various strange screams came from the originally calm sea, and the various marine creatures that were originally playing by the ship were also scared away.

Then, we saw more than a dozen small boats of different sizes being put into the water. Each small boat had three or five people. One of them controlled the rudder, and the other four controlled the small steam engines on the hull. They rushed out quickly with the dozen small boats. Under the control of the driver, they circled around the large fleet of these three pirates, and then moved towards the direction of the Star of Hope.

More than a dozen small steam speedboats were very fast and took almost an hour to catch up with the Star of Hope. They were not commandos. All they had to do now was harass the Star of Hope to see if there was a chance to destroy the Star of Hope and let the Star of Hope stop sailing.

Therefore, after catching up with the Star of Hope, they kept circling around the Star of Hope, and made various sounds with the guns in their hands, and even threw several special explosives for cannons near the propeller to detonate, creating panic.

"These damn bed bugs! I must catch them and hang them." After hearing the notification from his subordinates, the sailor who ran to the stern to check the propeller's condition was slightly relieved after finding that the propeller was not damaged, but couldn't help but curse.

"Don't care too much about them, they just want to make us mess up," the captain also came over to check the situation, comforted the angry sailor, then looked at the pirates on the sea who were conducting harassment operations, took off the special steam guns on the sailor, and then removed a special bullet from his pocket, stuffed it into the barrel, and quickly aimed and fired.

After a small gunshot, a small steam engine that was ramming the boat immediately exploded. The explosion force not only tore open the boat, but also pierced the pirates on the boat. Basically, they were dead while falling into the sea.

Seeing the experience of his companions, the harassing ships immediately avoided the Star of Hope in horror, and did not dare to get close to harassment as unscrupulously as before.

The sailors who saw this scene looked at their captain with great admiration. Although they had heard about the captain's deeds from the old people on the ship, they had not seen the captain's ability with their own eyes. Now they finally saw the captain's combat ability. As expected, as powerful as the legendary ones, the mood that had just become floating due to pirate harassment has returned to normal, and they subconsciously believed that these pirates were not difficult to deal with.

The captain of the Star of Hope returned the gun in his hand to the sailor captain, asking him to continue to set up defense lines, and then turned to the cabin to assign tasks to the adventurers and passengers in the cabin.

Unlike his sailors, the captain had no confidence in the subsequent battle. He did not think that he could underestimate the three pirates by destroying a harassing boat. The various intelligence collected by Siren Shipping every year showed how difficult and dangerous these three pirates who had been entrenched on two continental routes for many years were. He did not want to be the unlucky guys who became the reputation sacrifices of three people because of despising them.

Now, what makes the captain feel a headache is the internal problem, because not long ago, his subordinates found a pirate insider hidden in the sailors, and through the urging, he also knew that there was not only one pirate insider, except for the crew, but also among the passengers.

Because the news has not spread yet, the morale of the crew and passengers on the ship has not been affected. However, once the insiders suddenly take action when the battle begins, it will not only have a huge impact on morale, but will even affect the final battle situation. For reasons, he must pull out these insiders as much as possible before the battle begins.

"Sir, this is what I asked me to give to you by the guest of Room 7." When the captain just entered the cabin, a waiter in charge of the upper cabin area hurriedly chased from behind. While gasping, he handed the letter sign in his hand to the captain and said.

" Room 7?" The captain was stunned, and soon remembered that the room was arranged to accommodate the shipwreck named Leo Dodd, and also thought of the possible identity of the man, which made him immediately pay attention to the letter sign.

Then, he took the letter sign, opened it and looked at it, and found that the contents on the letter sign were all about people's names, some were followed by a person's name after the cabin number, and some were followed by a person's name after the crew position. After counting it down, there were more than twenty people.

At first, when he saw the content on it, the captain was still unsure of what the other party meant, but he soon remembered what he was about to do now, his face changed slightly, and he soon realized that the names of the people on it should be all pirates.

In addition to being surprised, he couldn't help but wonder why the shipwreck knew that these people were insiders?

Although the captain still had some doubts about the origin of this list, he did not ignore the list. With the idea of ​​believing in it rather than not, the captain immediately contacted the armed personnel on the ship and quickly and effectively arrested the people on the list one by one.

When capturing the crew, the situation was still very smooth. On the contrary, when capturing the passengers on the list, it caused quite a stir. The passengers, who were originally very nervous because of the appearance of pirates, were even more angry because of the actions of the armed personnel on the ship to capture the passengers. They picked up weapons, confronted the crew, and asked the captain to explain.

However, the commotion quickly subsided, because in front of the leader elected by the passengers, the captain showed evidence that these people were pirates, and everyone's anger calmed down, at least on the surface.

Afterwards, a simple maritime court was formed on the ship, and all the pirates were sentenced to death quickly. Then they were hung one by one on the side of the ship. Their bodies were also hung on both sides of the hull, showing them to the pirates responsible for harassment around them.

After seeing the hanged person, the pirates did not see clearly because the distance was far away. Until someone took a risk to approach and recognized the hanged person as the insurgents they arranged, they were all shocked. Then they stopped the harassment and drove towards the pirate fleet in small boats, as if they wanted to report the news to them.

Seeing the pirate ship responsible for harassment evacuated, everyone on the ship cheered, as if they regarded this as victory in turn.

However, the captain did not take this seriously. His face was still solemn. Although the insider on the ship was cleared, this was just the beginning of the battle.

He thought he should have met Leo Dodd, perhaps getting more help from the other party, but soon he gave up the idea.

In his opinion, it was already very helpful to get the list of pirates. It would be a bit too much to ask for it. Moreover, he felt that if the battle was really bad, the other party should not stand idly by.

Afterwards, he began to redeploy the defense mission on the ship. Because there were pirates on the ship, the previous defense arrangement plan might be passed to the pirates by the pirates. In that case, the pirates could defeat one by one according to the arrangement during battle, so they needed to be re-arranged.

When the captain re-arranged the defense mission, a sudden scream of exclamation came from the deck, and everyone's attention was also attracted. They looked along the direction of the observer's finger on the watchtower. Soon they saw more than a dozen steam sail twin-powered ships on the sea in the distance spitting thick smoke and quickly leaning towards this side.

Although these pirate ships are not comparable to the giant steel ship of Hope, the Arc de Hope, the armed forces on each ship are no less than the Arc de Hope. Even if the distance is so far, people with slightly better eyesight can clearly see the muzzles on the hull.

Since the formulation of special bullets was made more than ten years ago, this cannon made of special gunpowder has become the main weapon of wars of all sizes and big and small. Almost everyone knows how powerful this weapon is. Without the intervention of extraordinary power, these weapons are the kings of the battlefield. Now more than a dozen ships full of battlefield kings are slowly approaching. The morale that has been raised by clearing the internal response and frightening away the harassment fleet has fallen rapidly.

The captain also knew what he had to say in this situation, otherwise when the formal battle was reached, their morale would probably be even lower, which would affect their combat effectiveness.

So the captain stood at a high place and did not say anything nonsense like glory. He just explained in a very simple and clear manner what the people on the ship would have when the pirates won. This not very good pre-war mobilization effect was surprisingly good. Everyone knew that thinking too much was useless, and only living was the right thing to do.

At this moment, a harsh squeal suddenly came from the sea, and then a large amount of fog rose from the sea, quickly covering the entire sea area.

The people on the Star of Hope knew very well that these mists were definitely not a good thing, so they went to the defensive position they were arranged under the captain's clear instructions.

At the same time, on the side of the pirate, the old man blew a strange bone in his hand hard, and as he blew the times, there were more and more cracks on the bones, and the fog on the sea surface became thicker and thicker. Soon the bones broke out due to a large number of cracks.

The old man looked at the broken bones in his hand, with a little regret on his face, then turned to look at the two companions behind him, and said, "It's your turn, don't let my baby waste it."

The middle-aged man said nothing, took off the medicine box around his waist, and then quickly and carefully mixed several bottles of medicine together in proportion, and then stirred quickly until the color of the medicine turned off white before stopping stirring.

After handing the medicine in his hand to the woman, the middle-aged man reminded: "Be careful, the medicine has a strong effect. You must control it well. Don't blow it to your own people, otherwise you can only wait until the medicine effect disappears naturally. I don't have the antidote in my hand."

The woman didn't say anything. After taking the medicine, she held it in her hand, then walked to the side of the boat, raised it high, and recited some kind of prayer.
Chapter completed!