Chapter 44

"Listen to the typical voice of the rose family." "All right, all right, you're right. We did get into a little bit of trouble Maybe you'd be interested in listening to a little story? "

"I'd love to."

"Have you ever heard of the ghost ship?" Asked the pirate captain.

"A little bit."

"Let's start our story from the ghost ship." The pirate captain took out a rose gold pocket watch and opened it with a bang. "Look at this. It was obtained from the ghost ship. Although people's rumors are always far away from the truth, one thing is right - walway owns more than one ghost ship."

The king took the watch.

In fact, it is an extremely complex folding astronomical instrument with fine scales, including compass, sundial, etc. it is extremely heavy with gold plated hands. On the front and back of the pocket watch, there are very complex characters, which do not belong to any language in circulation today. Those characters are slender and dense, like many snakes entangled together.

If you look closely, you will have the illusion that the snakes are twisting.

The legend of ghost ship is very popular.

People firmly believe that there are ships wandering on the sea from ancient times to the present. Those ships are ghosts full of hatred, and they are full of gold and jewelry. But anyone who dares to take away the jewelry on the ship will be cursed by the ancient times.

"Do you believe it? There is a kind of boat, it has life

Asked the pirate captain.

"You mean, walway has some living ships?" Asked the king.

"Yes."

Warwick pirates who roam the sea all the year round have different definitions of "ghost ship". They call a kind of strange ship "ghost ship" -- this kind of ship, it itself is alive! The ship has its own life and will. When you walk on the ship in the dead of night, you can hear the breathing of the ship.

When they see other ships at sea, sometimes they will avoid by themselves, sometimes they will provocatively pass by the merchant ships.

Therefore, there is a widespread "ghost ship" story.

Once the Warwick pirates get the news about the "ghost ship", they will immediately look for it. They have their own special way to sign contracts with these ships, so that the ghost ship can join the Warwick pirates and become one of them. Before that, walway pirates owned three ghost ships.

Because of the existence of these ghost ships, they became the most dangerous, weird and mysterious pirates.

"But in the battle of the five ports alliance, it seems that your ghost ship did not take part in the battle?" The King became interested in ghost ships. "Is it because they can't appear in front of people?"

"No The pirate captain's lips bent down, showing an expression of bitterness, "because they refuse us to board the ship now."

It started a month ago.

At that time, the Warwick pirates got the clue of a ghost ship and searched as usual. They found the ghost ship stranded on the beach of hanlair harbor on a stormy night.

Because ghost ships sometimes repel each other before they enter into contracts, they only drive ordinary ships when they search for new ships.

The boarding process was smooth and it didn't seem to exclude them.

The ship was full of pearls and gold, but when a sailor picked up a pearl at will, black flames rose and burned him to ashes. At first, people thought that this was because the bastard rashly offended the ghost ships before the contract was completed. Some ghost ships were very generous and willing to share their treasure with the pirates, but some were very stingy and not allowed to be touched.

However, soon, the pirates found that they were wrong -

this is not an ordinary ghost ship.

Their successful contract ceremony in the past not only failed, but also everyone had a black tattoo.

A trap.

The ghost ship berthed quietly so that they could get on a hunting trap. After the tattoo was added, they could vaguely feel that the ship was pulling something from themselves.

After a fierce battle, the pirate captain successfully led the people away from the ship, but when they returned to Warwick pirate base, they found a bad thing -

the ghost ships they owned refused to board.

Because of this, there was no ghost ship in this naval battle.

"We are cursed."

The pirate captain rolled up his sleeve and showed the king the black silk thread on his arm - the curse was spreading. Maybe when these black lines completely cover their whole body, their lives will be over.

Seeing the black line on the pirate captain's arm, the king bent his finger slightly.

He's seen these things.

When the devil signs a contract with him.

However, there is still a big difference between the two. The black line produced by the devil signing the contract constitutes an extremely complex pattern beyond human imagination, which only appears once. Compared with that, these are simple strokes on the pirate captain."Hunting ghost ships, driving ghost ships..." The king said quietly, "you are really brave."

"Among the walway brothers," replied the pirate captain, "God fearing and fearless."

"God fearing and fearless It's a wonderful sentence. "

The king commented.

To compare the fearless with God is not a word of awe, but a word of contempt for the gods - the fearless are equal to the gods.

It's arrogant blasphemy.

The pirate captain winked at the king happily: "you are so interesting If you're in Warwick, you must be the most charming pirate. "

"It's just that I'm a little confused." The king thought, "why do you choose to ask me for help? Maybe normal people will choose the monks of the holy see when they encounter curses?"

"Let those in robes put their hands on our heads and say, God forgive you, and then pour the holy water on our heads? God, that's stupid. " The pirate captain made an intolerable expression, and then saw that the king was still looking at himself.

"All right. Because of the witch. "

He compromised.

The membership of the Warwick pirates is complex, almost everyone has any identity. They took in a witch who was almost burned to death by the holy see a few years ago. The witch is proficient in ancient divination and cipher text interpretation, it is she found a way to crack.

It requires a very complicated ceremony. The most important part of the ceremony is "forgiveness from the king of that realm."

"It's a puzzle."

The pirate captain looked at the king secretly.

"She thinks you are the king of the argot."

The pirate captain regretfully failed to get any useful information from the king's face. He asked "what steps are needed for the so-called amnesty".

"Do you want me to grant you a pardon?"

Asked the king, half jokingly.

"This..." "The pirate captain spread out his hand helplessly," she didn't say. Maybe? But since you have agreed, I will ask her carefully. "

The king was noncommittal.

"You won't tell the Duke about it, will you?"

What does the pirate captain think of? Ask.

"It depends on your performance."

The king smiles gently.

The king knows the whole thing now.

Warwick pirates unfortunately involved in the ancient curse, they need the help of the king, just met the king needs the help of pirates, but with Buckingham Duke's temper, if you know that they dare to let the king participate in this dangerous curse event, you will definitely pull out the sword. So the pirate captain agreed to the appointment of the Navy General and helped the Royal Fleet defeat the five port alliance.

The pirate captain thought that the king would never accept a Naval General like him.

But rumors do harm!

"Mr. general." The king bit the word "general" very hard. "Since you have skillfully used the inflexible characteristics of the five Port Alliance ships in kosiya port, I believe you must have a way to improve it?"

"Since you really don't mind the attack Well, I will

Captain Hawkins answered with a shrug.

The king gave a satisfied smile.

It was just satisfactory for both sides. Captain Hawkins was anxious to contact the Witch of Warwick, so he said goodbye to the king. He hums a messy tune and adapts the lyrics of the sea: "the wise captain Hawkins is a noble Sir from today on Oh, oh

The king didn't mind his wild behavior.

"That's right."

The captain of the pirate danced two steps forward, then turned around and looked at the king.

"A little request."

"Tell me about it."

"Can you satisfy my foolish chief mate's little wish to enter St. Louis cathedral?"

The king was slightly surprised: "of course, but Are pirates religious? "

"Oh, your majesty, please don't confuse us with those rotten monks. God doesn't protect pirates on the sea." The pirate captain replied, "well It's a personal matter. Your father William once owed Charles a little promise, so he planned to see him

The king remembered that William III was buried in St. Louis' Cathedral.

He opened the drawer and was about to sign the Grant: "how much does he owe Mr. Charles?"

"You are mistaken."

The pirate captain turned and pressed down on the black cap.

"He once boasted that he wanted Charles to have a look at the most beautiful snow mountain in Legrand, but now it looks like it's a cow's skin blown by that bastard."

When the pirate captain stepped out of the door, he heard the king's voice behind him:

"please tell Mr. Charles that the sleeping place of St. Louis is always open for him."The pirate captain let out a light whistle that he heard.

"It's like that."

He talked to himself before he left the palace.

The king sat in the study where he was alone.

Calculate the time, the black death is coming, and he promised captain Hawkins

It's time to summon the devil.