Chapter 362

The sound in the cabin was very strange. It was easy to fantasize about singing and whispering. I couldn't help wondering what Blackbeard did to Mara in it.

This is a profound philosophical problem.

In order not to disturb the elegance of both sides, Lorraine, who has the identity of meeting supervisor, consciously chose to avoid, giving human nature sufficient space for liberation.

He stood bored in the aisle, leaning against the guardrail and looking at the deck.

The late night battle ended. Fortunately, the losses of both sides in this war were not great.

As a defender, Drake killed three sailors and Nelson wasted four guards. Among the sailors, there are not long-term sailors who are regarded as the backbone of the chamber of Commerce. There are two non commissioned officers in the guards, of which the highest rank is staff sergeant Sikes, who has long been labeled "mediocre" by Lorraine.

The black beard of the attack is bigger in terms of loss.

Twelve pirates died successively, three of them died on the way to the side, one was beheaded by Lorraine on the bow deck, and the rest were told that they plunged into the crowd of Drake sailors in the battle between Lev and chamuyam.

They eventually became the nourishment of the affair.

Because Lorraine and Blackbeard know that if they want to win their opponents tonight, they must be prepared to bear a greater price. But here, on the Nicaraguan lake, which belongs to the Spanish, the tolerance of both sides to death and injury is very low. Only seeking friendship is the most rational way at present.

Moreover, this hypocritical and insecure friendship needs to continue until the end of the plot against the Grenada envoy. In order to make it look more sincere, both sides are doing their best to express goodwill.

On the dark deck, the pirates were cleaning the messy battlefield with the Derek sailors under the command of zainni; In the ship's medical room, chamoyam and LEV enjoyed the top medical treatment of the Royal alchemist.

Sad Mara is also part of goodwill. Lorraine accepted Nelson's suggestion and allowed black beard to meet his prisoners first. Although she gave up listening, Lorraine basically knew what topics would be discussed during the meeting.

"So after seeing Mara, he should quarrel to see torresias next..."

Three coincidentally, seven deliberately, when Nelson wandered around, Lorraine sent out this monologue.

His words really aroused Nelson's curiosity: "you gave up listening, but still know what they will talk about?"

"Obviously, I know." Lorraine smiled mysteriously. "More importantly, I don't regard these as secret. If Blackbeard could be sincere from the beginning, he could easily know everything by asking me."

Nelson's eyes glittered: "I smell the secret. Tell me, what do the Spanish know that makes the pirate king flock to?"

"A spring."

"Spring water?"

"Of course, the only spring that can have such magic is the fountain of youth that has been popular in the Caribbean Sea for centuries as predicted by Herodotus."

"Youth..." Nelson was stunned on the spot and digested it for a long time. "The great pirate king would believe this nonsense?"

"So you regard this spring as nonsense."

"Do you believe it?"

"It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not." Lorraine shook his head uninteresting. "It's just that there are legends about it everywhere in the world, and there are few explorers who die for it every year. Even in order to sacrifice those brave and greedy souls, I prefer to support its existence before someone proves that it doesn't exist."

"Do you want to find it?" Nelson asked after Lorraine's words.

Lorraine thought carefully for a moment: "probably not."

"Really don't want to?"

"I said I didn't regard it as a secret, which at least proves that my soul doesn't value the privilege of transcending life and death. But no matter what you think, I always feel that it is calling me. It hasn't been too far away from me since I came to the Caribbean."

"That's an illusion!"

In his impression, Nelson never seemed so serious. He kept shaking his head and persuading Lorraine.

"Drake, time is a treasure given to mankind by God. Life, age and death are the wealth of our survival in the world. I think every letter of the legend related to the spring reveals the smell of chaos and evil. It is the bad luck spread by pagans and demons, which will haunt everyone trying to find it."

"But am I not a pagan?"

"Don't make fun of me! You know I didn't mean that!"

Lorraine surrendered.

Every Puritan was born with a blind eye. His dead father was Shaq, and so was Nelson in front of him.

Lorraine raised his hands, smiling and sincere.

"Well, Colonel, you have crossed the line, but I still wish to assure you that whether the spring exists or not, I will not look for it for my greed. I hope you can calm down now, see the interests, and judge its value to the present and us rationally rather than sensibly."

Nelson frowned deeply. "Now? We? Value? Blackbeard?"

Lorraine smiled, nodded, cleared her throat and began to describe her scattered thoughts these days.

"I made a statement because I didn't expect such a situation in advance. On the premise of insufficient information, my following words will be mixed with a lot of brain compensation and speculation. This is the main reason why I didn't mention it to you in my letter a few days ago, but now we need to decide whether to accept them."

"Last October, San Carlos worked together to destroy a pirate king and his pirate fleet on the San Juan River. The news came from Mara's dictation and was confirmed by torresias. The pirate king was Thomas the fly, a faithful believer of the fountain of youth."

"I guess Thomas came for the torresias family's research data on the fountain of youth, because in addition, San Carlos has no value enough to be favored by pirates. Torresias's guess is similar to mine, but unfortunately, we don't have Thomas's own evidence."

"This is the first key today. The little San Carlos has gathered two enthusiasts of the fountain of youth. One is Baron torresias, who has been committed to this for generations, and the other is his highness Thomas, our pirate king."

"Then the second key."

"After Thomas died, or perhaps when he was alive, a secret news spread in the Caribbean Sea. The secret news claimed that he had mastered the location of the fountain of youth, at least the key information related to the location, which was recorded in his sailing diary."

"I haven't collected this secret from any channel. It may have been spread by another fountain of youth enthusiast, Thomas himself, or even torresias after getting Thomas's diary. The purpose is to attract more people who have explored the fountain of youth to fall into the net. It doesn't matter."

"The important thing is to combine Mara's dictation with Blackbeard's action. Blackbeard obviously came for Thomas's diary, and he knew nothing about torresias."

"It can be seen that now we have at least three chips enough to buy Blackbeard's life."

"The first is the opportunity for him to meet torresias. This chip can let us pay the least price, but we are not familiar with Blackbeard's inquiry style, and it is not clear whether torresias has said everything. Once the situation gets out of control, we are likely to lose a useful pawn and re establish a troublesome enemy for ourselves."

"The second is the copy of Thomas's diary, which is in torresias's hand and will soon fall into my hand. This chip is worthless and is the safest money to buy life. Of course, because there is only one copy, we can't expect Blackbeard to become a solid combat power."

"The third is the copy of torresias family research data. This is the derivative of the second chip. It is enough to make the copy valuable on the other side of the balance. Blackbeard will be crazy about it. We don't need to worry about whether he will work hard in the next action. The only problem is that after this war, if he doesn't die, wait until he digests these copies and master the original It will become his next target. "

"How to weigh it, Colonel? I'd like to hear your opinion."

At the end of the long narrative, Nelson blinked: "Drake, are you figuring out these days?"

"Most of them are delivered to the door. As I said, it's like the fountain of youth calling me all the time."

"I'm just curious why you insist on leaving the original. In fact, you know very well that it means great risk."

Nelson asked the point.

Lorraine was silent for a long time and reluctantly replied, "I'm a businessman, Mr. colonel. So I know that things can give full play to their value only when they have the same value to both sides. If we make a gesture to abandon them like shoes, even if Blackbeard is stupid, we shouldn't expect the final transaction price."