Chapter 377

September 1784, West Africa.

In the tavern in Dakar, the lost IDA of the Vikings is floating.

"There is a gap between the waves."

"The gap is the golden Gagnon, born at the beginning of time and flowing to the end of the world."

"Ice and fire wreak havoc on both sides of the golden cannon. At the southern end is the burning muspelheim. The giant of fire dominates the land, the great king and the Lord of rage."

"Sirte, the tyrant, is always dissatisfied and angry. His power is all over the earth. If he waves, there will be sky fire. Even the grassland will turn into a desert."

"He guarded the country with a sharp sword. The blade was condensed by the twilight, more dazzling than the sun and more dazzling than the aurora."

"He killed victory. In the evening, he stepped on the head of victory and threw the twilight high into the sky. The sky opened a gap equal to kinggannon, and endless lava flooded Asgard."

"The great Sirte is always strong and strong. He finally destroyed the world, left devastation and praised the legend exclusive to fire."

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After a ballad was sung, pierce cleared his throat and raised his glass to greet the dark young man opposite him.

"Hashim, take it easy. Bitter hatred may be the characteristic of this town, but it's certainly not what a drunkard should look like."

"Do you want to say that my appearance is too conspicuous?" the young black man named Hashim asked calmly in formal French. "Mr. versatile governor, is it my expression or skin color that stands out?"

"Skin color is never a problem." pierce opened his hand. "It may be a problem in other places, but this is Gore Island, West Africa with gold and flame. Open your eyes, there are enthusiastic aborigines everywhere on Sari beach, which will always remind us that black is the original color of this continent!"

"You are good at speaking... The original color..."

Pierce found himself playing off.

Hashim became silent again, and the two at the table looked at each other silently.

He had to sip the wine awkwardly and let the spicy liquor slip into his throat: "sorry, Hashim, you know, I didn't mean that..."

"It's not your fault, sir. The experience of the people makes me no longer peaceful. I think it's difficult for me to return kindness normally before I cut the enemy."

"So I'm here," Pierce said loudly. "I'm an invisible soul living in a magic lamp. Your wish will come true."

Exhilarating words.

Pierce has been good at expressing his feelings since childhood. Now when he grows up, his words have a more inflammatory charm.

He knew how to impress others. Even if he erected a high wall in his heart like Hashim, he could not resist the confidence from the depths of his soul and the incomparable sincerity accompanied by self-confidence.

For a moment, Hashim thought in a trance that he had met another passionate fighter, a family member who was very important to him.

Hashim's full name is Hashim in Leo dipura. Born in Cape Verde Islands, Hashim is the son of the chief of the indigenous Praia people on the island.

His tribe has multiplied on the islands from generation to generation, making a living by fishing and hunting. In his spare time, he will also play a guest role as a pirate and do some looting activities.

Twenty one years ago, Hashim was not born and his father was not a chief.

Before becoming a chief, his father was the leader of the younger generation of the clan, with wisdom, strength, men's support and women's love.

He had a hunting team composed of supporters. He often drove canoes to rob white merchant ships in the remote part of Cape Verde route, then tortured all valuable things, emptied them, killed and sank their bodies.

The opening of that day was not too bad.

He robbed a yaw merchant ship in the sea north of the islands as usual, but this time, the owner of the ship took the initiative to stand up before he was tortured.

The owner of the ship was a young white man with a gentle face. His hometown was in the distant Swiss Federation. He claimed to be the count of lowedens in Bern. Moreover, he is not a businessman at all. This time, he just plans to take his wife who is about to give birth to a precious friend.

The story seems to be over here. When a white aristocrat without money and power meets a murderous aborigine, the best end is to sink with the ship.

But Lord lowedens was just as good a speaker as Pierce. In a crisis environment, he reached an agreement with Hashim's father with his empty teeth.

The contents of the agreement include three parts: exchanging 1000 kilograms of flour for personal safety of themselves and the crew, 1000 liters of wine for necessities of life during imprisonment, and 3000 kilograms of bacon for everyone's freedom.

The prisoners were brought back to the tribe for the first time and were personally controlled by Hashim's father in the form of "friends".

This move has become a turning point in the fate of both sides.

Perhaps because she was frightened during the robbery, on the third day of her capture, the pregnant Countess of lowedens gave birth prematurely. What's more ridiculous is that because of her influence, Hashim's mother also began to give birth on the same day, and it was dystocia.

Two men who had no intersection thought that the way of father began the first intersection in their life. On that stormy night, they showed amazing human brilliance.

Hashim and his mother were first sentenced to death by the witch doctor of the clan. With the medical means in the tribe, the abnormal fetal position like Hashim could not be rescued at all, and there was no option to protect the big and the small.

After learning about the situation, his father made a strange decision, suppressed his sadness and gave the luxury delivery team prepared for his child to his white "friends".

And the count was not by his wife's side.

He heard about the experience of Hashim's father and had a fierce quarrel with the witch doctor with the determination to die. In the end, he took the heavy responsibility of delivering Hashim and magically guided the fetal position, so that Hashim was born into the world smoothly.

The same baby's cry resounded through the small tribe one after another. The panic of that night ended in a perfect comedy. The two children were born smoothly, and the two mothers did not fall ill. More importantly, the two fathers forged a deep friendship with each other for a lifetime.

The count of lowedens was released, and the ships, goods and tribes were spared nothing. He revisited his hometown six months later and brought back all the promised things for Hashim's father by three times the standard, which won the favor of the whole tribe.

Since then, the count has become a regular guest of the tribe. He seems to regard it as a place for God's redemption. He visited it many times in the following years and established schools, hospitals, churches and farms, bringing the most valuable "truly equal civilization" to the praya people in this era.

The younger generation headed by Hashim's father is his biggest responder. They abandoned the primitive and barbaric tribal tradition, regarded speaking and writing French as glory, and even abandoned totem belief and took the initiative to embrace God.

Fifteen years ago, that is, the sixth year when Hashim's father met count lowedens, Hashim's father launched a coup, shouted the slogan of "for children", expelled the conservative and stereotyped original leaders of the clan, sent a group of old and young people, including chiefs, elders, witch doctors and shamans, to the desert island, and became a new chief among the people.

He invited count lowedens to attend his coronation ceremony, and on the first day of taking office, begged the count to baptize Hashim and be Hashim's godfather. He also asked the count to take Hashim to Europe so that his children could personally contact the real civilization like all Europeans.

The count of lowedens gladly accepted the heavy responsibility. He took Hashim to the holy water pool, wet the child's hair with a wooden ladle, and aroused the Christian name in his ear for the first time.

[unelueur d'Espoir], a beam of light called hope. The two men place their purest expectations in this Christian name, hoping that Hashim can become the light of civilization that enlightens the whole Praia nation when they grow up.

Thus, Hashim began a difficult and hard journey to study.

His natural dark skin discriminated against him everywhere, and even the count could do nothing about it. In the dead of night, he could only face Africa and tell his grievances to the two people who accompanied him.

But the sense of mission is supporting him!

With the influence and intelligent talent of the count, he successfully completed all his studies. At the age of 20, he obtained the master's degree in astronomy from the University of Bern. With his own efforts and enviable culture and cultivation, he was recognized by the upper class in Europe.

He finally had the confidence to lead the tribe.

However, God did not favor him because of his faith. When he returned to his hometown with knowledge, all waiting for him were abandoned villages and weedy farmland.

The tribe is gone

Hashim rushed back to Switzerland like crazy. After several inquiries, he learned all the details from the count.

Seven years ago, a storm blew a Portuguese slave ship to the island where the Praia lived. The leading villain was Antil laguain.

Hashim's father helped them, but they polluted the water by taking advantage of the Praia's proximity to the white people, and wiped out the whole tribe with a few bottles of cheap ecstasy.

Half a year after the count learned the news, he tried to trace it, and spent a lot of time and energy in exchange for a few words. He could not find Antil laguain or the whereabouts of the missing people.

Overnight, Hashim's faith collapsed.

The black astronomer, who was highly praised in European academic circles, died and was replaced by a cruel pirate who hated the Portuguese.

Hashim built a pirate regiment named "Lapua revenge army" with 1000 golden roads sponsored by the count, and used his knowledge as a sword to guide the pirates to hide in the labyrinth of prosperous waterways in Cape Verde.

He turned into a ghost.

For four months, he attacked every ship flying the Portuguese flag, killed every crew serving Portugal, took nourishment from a large number of slave ships, and constantly expanded the fleet and recruited crew.

Lapua's Revenge army grew rapidly and soon upgraded to a freak monster with more than 2000 people and 16 ships, but no one knew how to fire.

Hashim led them to defeat the encirclement and suppression of the French Navy twice in a row, and then met Pierce, as well as the general assembly special service fleet tailored by Lorraine for Pierce for three years

A tragic defeat without suspense

Hashim looked into Pierce's eyes. "Mr. tidak, I don't understand."

"Don't understand? Don't understand what?"

"I don't understand your attitude," Hashim replied bluntly, "I admit that Drake chamber of commerce is the most powerful fleet I have ever encountered, even stronger than the French navy in Dakar. My subordinates and I can hardly cause you any loss. But after all, it is an undisputed hostile act. You sympathize with me and don't blame me. It's already an incomprehensible tolerance. Why take the initiative to help me take revenge?"

"It's the reason to help you..."

Pierce felt his chin and thought for a while.

"I got the independent command of the fleet when I was 15 years old. I was 16 years old this year. Africa was the first pioneering trip for me and my team to sail independently, and you and the Lapua revenge army were the first maritime force to dare to attack my fleet after leaving the protection of my brothers."

"You know what? At the moment of being attacked, I and those same fledgling guys did not shout, but cheered. It was also at that moment that I decided to give you a chance to fully introduce myself anyway."

In total disregard of Hashim's embarrassed and stunned face, pierce laughed proudly for three times.

"Then there's nothing to say. Yu Gong, my brother told me that the slave trade is a cancer on the back of the God of Commerce. I won't deliberately target them, but I won't claim any damned justice for them. Yu private, I like your behavior, clear-cut gratitude and resentment, and revenge if there is hatred. The third point is your fame."

"I've heard of you. When you were resting in Azores, the Portuguese called you the ghost Lapua. The French fleet in Dakar organized two encirclement and suppression for you. I knew you were in Cape Verde, but I couldn't find you."

"Are those special marks on your chart stars?"

"The star map positioning method is a very advanced positioning technique. It is delicate and accurate. It can help sailors haunt and shuttle freely in a complex hydrological environment. My brother taught me the trick, but ten fingers are long and short. I probably lack this talent and can't remember those complex and changeable star tracks anyway."

Speaking of this, pierce pressed the table with a bang, his whole body suddenly leaned forward, and his face almost rushed across the table.

"Join my boat! Your skills will be very useful, and you never show up in front of people. There is no personal wanted information about you in the Portuguese colony!"

Hashim averted his eyes with a guilty heart: "Mr. governor, I only have revenge in my heart..."

"Well, where's your enemy?" pierce chased Hashim's eyes, killing his heart word by word, "you could be bound in an nuts shell and county fakingo finitespace."

French into English, just a sentence and then cut back to French.

"You can continue to deceive yourself here and continue to find your life and death enemies of Portugal in the French colonies. But in doing so, can your vanished tribe really get comfort from blind atrocities?"

"It's time to get out of the peach pit! Hashim, give up the pirate work you're not good at and come to my ship to be your best navigator and astronomer."

"Join my team, your revenge will become mine, Drake's revenge, and my brother's revenge! My brother Lorraine is a real boundless king, and no one can escape his sanctions. Even if Heaven goes to earth, we will find out Antille laguain, and let him live in the most cruel way to see the style of hell!"

"Want to realize your dream? Pilot Hashim in Leo dipura, Drake chamber of Commerce welcomes you."