Our family is in decline

Although there was no stable formation, for the sake of operational safety, the large ships were separated by several hundred yards, while the small ships were scattered.

In this fleet, the most powerful one is not in the lead, but on the contrary, it is the last one.

The captain of this ship is Red Beard.

As the name suggests, a red-bearded person has a very conspicuous red beard on his face. It needs to be braided so as not to completely cover his mouth. On the contrary, his hair has almost fallen out in middle age and is only covered by a boat cap.

His face has hanging eyes and a broad nose, like a liger, making him look even more ferocious. His many years of traveling as a pirate have made him look a bit older, and his skin is also dark.

He is not tall, but he is very strong. This kind of figure is suitable for life at sea, because the space on the ship is very limited.

Some people say that he went to sea to become a pirate because he was discriminated against because of his barbarian ancestry. Red Beard did not admit or deny this statement.

No one on the sea cares about your bloodline. The only thing that is certain is that he was able to get to this level. He is definitely not a simple person.

And his appeal can be seen by looking at the fleet. You must know that except for the six battleships, the rest are the manpower he summoned during this period.

I just don’t know why, but the closer the fleet gets to Hamlet, the more uneasy Redbeard becomes.

Everyone knows that Hamlet was once prosperous, but why did he take no action and had to wait until today to reappear?

I don’t know if it reminds me of what happened back then? I still think of the ship that disappeared near Hamlet. There are so many weird things about Hamlet...

Looking at the chart on the table, he suddenly felt a little emotional, was he really old?

But at this moment, a crew member came up to report.

"Captain, we have sailed into a fog, and we have lost contact with other ships."

These words immediately made Redbeard's uneasiness even more intense, and he quickly went out to the deck outside.

The route and time were all calculated, and the night was chosen deliberately.

Because night is the only way to cover their whereabouts and reduce the time for those guys to react. If they launch an attack, they can seize the dock immediately and block their escape route.

If there are pirates who have experienced plundering ashore, many times when they rush in, they will see those people still sleeping in the bed. At this time, the risk is the lowest.

Just as planned, it can be seen that it has entered night and the sky and earth are pitch black.

But you must know that the message at sea mainly relies on semaphores, and the ones waved at night are replaced by torches, but the problem now is that they are isolated.

The suddenly thick fog completely blocked the line of sight. The light emitted by the torch could not even illuminate a complete person. Only a hazy circle of light could be seen within three yards, let alone hundreds of yards away.

Moreover, it was impossible to rely on the stars for positioning. When you looked up, you couldn't see anything, as if everything had been swallowed up and the entire ship was isolated from reality.

Compared with the intuitive feelings caused by storms, tsunamis, etc., dense fog is definitely the weirdest situation at sea.

There is a very classic story among pirates. A ship yawed in the thick fog. Three days later, the fog cleared and it was found only half a day's sail from the starting point.

When they found the voyage record, it was written that they sailed at full strength for three days, but could not see anything else and lost all reference systems. They felt abandoned by the world, as if they were sailing to hell.

Then everyone collapsed. There were fights on the ship, jumping into the sea, and suicide. No one survived.

However, according to the investigation of those people, they found that the ship had not passed through the fog for a while after leaving the port, so they planned to return.

It was this decision that caused them to lose their direction and keep spinning in the thick fog. They exploded without encountering any external attacks.

Therefore, those who make a living at sea will stay away from the fog and would rather take a detour.

There is even a saying among some old pirates.

It is better to rush into the storm than into the fog.

Because the storm still has a chance of escaping through manipulation, even if it dies, it will be a clear death.

But when you get into the fog, you'd better hope it clears quickly, or that you don't yaw.

It's a pity that sometimes they can't avoid it if they want to. The night gives them a black veil and also covers them with fog.

By the time they rushed in, they had lost their way.

"How could this happen? Who is on guard?"

"It wasn't us who went in, but this fog blew over, and it came so fast and it was at night. The sentry reacted like this."

"Damn it!"

Red Beard cursed a few times, but he was helpless and did not even dare to change the route easily, because according to the navigation, they should reach Hamlet soon.

everything will get better……

As for the other ships? They were all veterans, so there shouldn't be any problems, he could only think like this.

"The fog is good, then Hamlet will be even more unable to react. When the time comes, we will rush in and plunder fiercely. There are countless gold coins, fair and tender women, and..."

Confidence is sometimes more important than anything else. Seeing the pirates on the deck, Redbeard was about to fall into uneasiness, and immediately started shouting. That kind of pie-in-the-sky rhetoric is something every leader must learn.

The people on this ship are all elite pirates who have encountered a lot of messy things. They are certainly not weak if they can survive until now.

Although fog was a taboo, they quickly adjusted and showed strong desire.

The desire to kill, plunder, and rape is high!

Redbeard looked at everyone and nodded with satisfaction, but suddenly he seemed to hear something.

It was very faint and difficult to detect under the agitation of those people, but if you listen carefully, you can feel it coming from far to near.

Because the sound is getting clearer and clearer... it is ethereal and ethereal, like the vast calm ocean, which makes people relax unconsciously, floating like a jellyfish on the sea...

"Gah! Gah!"

Suddenly, several weird screams rang out, and the red-bearded man suddenly woke up. He subconsciously raised his hand and took out a fist-sized shrunken monkey head from his pocket.

Seeing that there was only one head left on that thing, it definitely couldn't be alive, but it had obvious traces of witchcraft. The only thing driving it was weird supernatural power.

This amulet is worth thousands of gold coins. It was made by an indigenous wizard on an overseas island. Redbeard also spent some money to get it.

But he couldn't care about it at this time, because Red Beard found that the people around him all seemed to be immersed in some kind of hallucination, and they were all drowsy and unconscious.

"Wake up!"

"What are you doing?"

"Get up quickly!"

Redbeard kept trying to wake up those people, but unfortunately there was no response whether he yelled or punched or kicked them.

But the sound became stronger and stronger, and soon the monkey head in Redbeard's hand was making a strange scream like an alarm clock, but the next second the thing failed and broke apart.

Redbeard no longer cared about this, because he saw what appeared in the mist.

An old-looking and dilapidated ship with countless traces of barnacles attached to it, as if it were a sunken ship that had just been lifted from the bottom of the sea.

But that's not what Red Beard is concerned about, because he knows this ship, he is still a member of it!

The Miles of Light, the car of the pirate king Black Jack, a terrifying extraordinary battleship, why does it appear here!

"No...impossible...how could this happen..."

Redbeard stood there blankly, and the useless monkey head immediately fell to the ground and shattered, revealing that it was full of black things.

"You're the only one whose fucking name is Redbeard?"

At this time, a slightly impatient voice sounded, but it was a pity that no one could answer him.

Lance's figure appeared on the bow of the Matte, and he jumped directly to the deck. As for the pirates, he didn't even bother to take a look. Aren't the elite stinky fish and shrimps just stinky fish and rotten shrimps?

On the contrary, this red beard is not bad, and he can actually carry it until now. He has to be targeted specifically to suppress his consciousness.

Yes, it was obvious that this thick fog was initiated by Lance with the help of the Lightless, swallowing up the fleet under the cover of night.

There are more than twenty boats. The big boats can hold forty or fifty people, and the small boats can hold a dozen or so people. It is good to put them together and add up to four to five hundred people.

This is already a very powerful level for pirates, who can plunder ordinary towns at will.

It's just that here in Lance, their role is to feed the Matte. After swallowing it all the way, the cracks in the front half of the hull have healed a lot.

Lance felt that it was too little at this time. If it were a fleet of a thousand people, it would probably be able to repair the Matte.

We can also harvest a batch of warships and supplies, which Hamlet urgently needs. Otherwise, there are only two training ships, which would make people laugh.

Not to mention that the sanatorium can also replenish a wave of materials, and there is nothing more suitable than the evil-doing pirates.

Ordinary people need to review the evidence repeatedly to confirm the crime, but these guys' hands are definitely stained with the blood of the victims. To say they are full of crimes is an understatement.

Lance briefly interrogated him, and in that soul-piercing voice, the pirate revealed his secret without hesitation.

It's just that pirates just rob, spend all their money, and then continue to rob and wait to die in battle. They have no habit of keeping money at all, and naturally they don't have any valuable secrets.

Pick and choose to keep those who are valuable, such as those cadres, as well as those who are healthy and those who are sick.

Yes, at the beginning of medical research, every patient has research value.

As for the rest…

The iron chain stretched out and dragged it into the cabin like a candied haws on a string.

Thank nature for its gifts.

The fate of the pirates is either to become part of the Lightless or go to a sanatorium. Compared to simply killing them, it is a mercy. Lance has always been so kind.

"Why do you appear here..."

Lance set his sights on the red beard, the most valuable target, believing that he could provide some interesting answers.

And as Redbeard tells himself, the reason for his appearance here is also revealed.

Before hearing the news about Hamlet, he once sent someone to investigate why the money from the casino was not handed over. Unfortunately, he ran into Lance and was immediately finished. He also donated a boat to Hamlet.

If you want to know the configuration of the ship, it should be walking sideways here, but from Red Beard's point of view, it fell into a small town.

It was this inexplicable loss that directly put Red Beard on guard. Later, the exaggerated rumors about Hamlet in the Shipwreck Bay strengthened this feeling.

Something's wrong...

Red Beard is very familiar with this sea area. In his impression, Hamlet is a rundown town. How could it be like the rumors?

You can say that he is an old turtle, but you have to say that there is something special about this kind of old fried dough stick surviving until now.

But unfortunately, in the face of increasingly exaggerated rumors and more revealed information, he couldn't help but stick his head out.

No pirate can resist the temptation brought by gold coins, and Redbeard is the same, but he is cautious and does not take action directly, but is always preparing.

In fact, if someone really studies it, they will find that something is wrong, that is why those scattered pirates go directly to the bay instead of here in the city.

It was because the charts scattered around the Shipwreck Bay were all made by Redbeard. He had been to Hamlet when he was still very young. Following Black Jack, he learned that there was a small pier in the bay that could bypass the mess and enter the ruins directly.

According to his idea, he only needs to drive the scattered pirates to explore the road. Even if he catches something good and then eats it, plunder among pirates is also very common.

But it was obvious that all those pirates fed the deep divers and transformed a lot of them, so that there were enough fish mouths to attack Hamlet.

The guys he used as pathfinding pawns disappeared into the sea, which also made Red Beard understand that this road was unworkable.

At this time, as time progressed, the truly powerful pirates from other routes also turned their attention here, which made him even more stressed.

After losing one ship, there were only six large ships left, and those pirate kings often had dozens or even hundreds of ships. Although there must be some moisture in this, including small and medium-sized ships, it was not something he could fight against.

Why was he so eager to take action? This is because in addition to external pressure, there is also internal pressure.

Everyone follows you red beard to eat meat, but now you don’t dare to move, what’s the matter with watching others eat meat?

It is not unusual for pirates to cut off their captains and replace them with new ones, or to split up directly.

Not to mention that the newly recruited people are even more unstable, and it is difficult for him to support these guys.

What he really wants is to use them as cannon fodder. The cannon fodder must be washed away through a war, and then his real talents can be absorbed into the team to make up for the loss of a main ship.

In fact, those people also know it, because this is the cruel survival law of pirates. These guys are not afraid of death, or they think that they are the ones who survive.

And at this time, some people who dared not reveal their identity contacted him...