Codex Pirates

Chapter 17 News

In the year 1507 of the Haiyuan calendar, a world-shocking event happened in the holy land of Mariejoa. A murloc named Fisher Tiger broke into the residence of the world's noble "Tianlongren" and released thousands of people imprisoned there. slaves of different races to help them regain their freedom, the world government quickly characterized the incident, calling it the "Marie Joya Attack", and wanted the murloc Fisher Tiger with a high bounty.

Various newspapers publicized it vigorously, and various news and progress of the incident occupied the covers of many newspapers for as long as a month. Even the East China Sea, which is separated by a windless belt, is no exception. In fact, they don't care about the safety of the Tianlong people, and they may even hope that the Tianlong people will be attacked more seriously. They just follow the nature of the news media, move after hearing the wind, and chase all hot news.

In Donghai, Yixin Dojo in Frostmoon Village, William, Aramis, Ajin, Valon and Edmund are sitting around behind a rockery in the courtyard of the dojo, reading a newspaper, and they naturally understand this important event .

As for why he reads newspapers here, the reason is also very simple. As a "leader", William himself not only puts more burdens on himself, but also learns sailing skills while practicing swords. Are Akira's men comfortable?

So he assigned Aramis the task of teaching the semi-literate Ah Jin and the illiterate Walloon how to read and count. Understand the external information, and check their learning progress on the one hand.

As for Edmund, he came here purely by himself. The four-person gang led by William is definitely an outlier among his peers in the dojo. People are very naive, and when they look at other peers, they have a sense of superiority. On the one hand, a few young people aged 17 or 18 are buying houses and buying new knives. However, their independence is obvious, which makes people who are younger than them in the dojo, or those who are close to them, quite envious. In daily training, the four of them have to work harder than other people in the dojo, and usually, Aramis, Ajin, and Valon are always surrounded by William like stars, and when William tells him to do something, they seem very strange. There is obedience and discipline.

To put it simply, I saw the same characteristics as the "adults" in my impression in four sixteen or seventeen-year-old peers-mature, purposeful, financially based, and organized.

All these make the four of them very different among the students in the dojo, and for people of this age, maverick is an existence worthy of emulation and envy. They don't understand the deep meaning of the series of actions of the four of William, limited by their experience. The superficial label of "cool" can only be attached to William and his gang.

Of course, the "aura" limited to four people-in fact, William was afraid of Koshiro, and he didn't want to accept "little brothers" in the dojo to attract the attention of the other party, so many dojo disciples' behaviors of wanting to integrate into the small gang had no results, and finally chose to give up. .

Only Edmond, as the so-called "Son of Pirates", feels good about himself as a "cool kid". For many years, it is because he has been surrounded by a group of conservative scumbags that he has such a lofty ambition. And the target, but became the laughing stock of the dojo. When he got more in touch with William and his group over time, he suddenly felt that he had found an organization, licked his face, and stalked him. In addition, he was responsible for helping William and his group earlier. The advantage of people learning swords is to join a group of people, and they always hang out with each other on weekdays.

Human beings live in groups and are always inevitably influenced by other people's judgments, either actively or passively used as a reference for their own choices. Aramis, Arkin, and Wallon almost obeyed William, and William learned to The self-discipline shown by Jian Shi, which is far from his peers, and his maturity and meticulousness in dealing with people, almost naturally made Edmond himself put himself in the same position as A Jin and others.

If William looks to be in his thirties now, or if Ajin, Aramis and Wallon are not the original team, then Edmond obviously cannot make such a choice so quickly.

"One, two, three..., eight, nine! Nine digits," Wallon pointed his fingers at the contents of the newspaper, calculating with difficulty, "This is, this is a bounty of more than 200 million!"

He pondered for a while, as if he wanted to express his emotions, but unfortunately his mouth was too stupid, so he only uttered one sentence: "A lot of money!"

Edmond snatched the newspaper, almost sticking the tip of his nose to it, scanning the line of bounties back and forth, half envious and half jealous, and said: "It's not too much, and it's moist, if it didn't hit Tianlong It is impossible to give so many bounties for people's residences."

Aramis squinted at Edmund for a moment and then retracted his gaze. After getting along for more than half a year, he had already understood the character and habits of the other party. He knew that this person's brain circuit was different from that of ordinary people. The accumulation of pirate bounties was in Edmond's eyes What it represents is not the more severe pursuit of the navy, but the shining halo that can brighten the eyes of the blind.

After all, he is a weirdo who calls himself a pirate every time he meets him. It can only be said that he is lucky that he has not been mistaken for a real pirate by the navy and imprisoned in prison after living for so long.

"So many rewards are offered just for impacting the residence of the Tianlongren?" Ajin asked.

"You stormed a farmer's chicken coop, made chickens fly like cats and dogs, let go of all the poultry raised in the other's chicken coop, and the other party will also hold you accountable." William said meaningfully, "not to mention the Tianlong people. If you are a big guy, let go of their 'poultry', do you think they will make you lose a little money like a farmer in the country?"

"Poultry?" Edmond glanced at the newspaper again, and said somewhat unacceptably, "This is a human, thousands of them!"

"Thousands of slaves," William corrected. "In the eyes of Tianlong people, they are similar to 'poultry', maybe not as good as poultry in the eyes of farmers, because farmers still need poultry to feed their livelihoods, and Tianlong people... , keeping it just for fun."

The four young people found it difficult to accept for a while, and of course they would not think of asking William why he knew these things so well.

William took the newspaper from Edmond, smacked his lips looking at the photo of the holy place on fire on the cover, a trace of schadenfreude faintly floated in his heart, this did not come from the memory of "Sun Bo", but from the original memory of the master.

If he hadn't escaped successfully in advance, then Morgan William should be one of the thousands of freed slaves now, provided that he wasn't beaten to death by the original "master" St. Toldos.

It's a pity that there is no if in reality, and someone else died now, William sneered.

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