Codex Pirates

Chapter 255 There will be no second time

East China Sea, Windmill Village.

Two steamships emitting black smoke cut through the heavy rain and docked steadily at the pier of Windmill Village. The violent waves and hurricanes seemed to be tamed by them, and they seemed to have no effect on them.

The people on the pier looked at these two steel monsters who were not afraid of the rainstorm. The shape of this ship was completely beyond their understanding. There was no sail or even a mast on it. Chimney with black smoke.

After the gangway was lowered, Edmund led a group of people in white coats to rush down. Edmund asked the village chief, Up Slap, who came to greet him, where Harden was now. After finding a local villager as a guide, he left in a hurry with medical staff.

Although William, who came down later, was also worried about Harden's safety, he still expressed his gratitude to the village chief Upp Slap and the villagers, and arranged for Dampier to stay and exchange bonuses with a group of villagers and the next berth. Things, I also chased after Edmund and others in the direction they left.

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When Harden was in a daze, he felt someone pulling the parachute bag in his hand. He opened his eyes suddenly. The blood loss and concussion made him a little unclear. After trying to identify for a while, he finally saw the person in front of him clearly.

"William?" Harden asked in an almost imperceptible voice.

"It's me, Harden," William said softly, "They said that you have been refusing to let go of the umbrella bag, and you must hand it over to me. Now that I am here, you can let go, so that the doctor can treat you."

Hearing this, Harden finally let go of a string in his heart, let go of his hand, and completely fell asleep.

William had many questions and questions he wanted to ask Harden, but he knew what was most important now, so he pulled Edmond and others who were also full of questions out of the ward, and handed over the place to the doctor.

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"Severe blood loss, fractures, internal bleeding, concussion..." Wood, who had served as a ship's doctor in the Pirates, looked at the diagnosis report in his hand and whispered to William, "It's a miracle that he's alive."

Through the small window on the door, William looked at Harden lying on the hospital bed, tied up like a mummy, and exhaled.

"How did the injury happen?" William asked.

Wood knew what William really wanted to ask, and after turning over a page of the report, he replied: "He has artificial scars on his body, and..."

"And what?" William frowned.

"And there are signs of torture on his body." After Wood finished speaking, he closed his mouth.

William is a very deep-rooted person, and he seldom shows his emotions, but he is often in contact with him, and he is a relatively smart old team member, and he still knows some of his habits.

After William heard his words, his eyelids drooped slightly, and his mouth was pursed. Wood understood that William was actually very angry now.

But even though he was angry, William was still very methodical when he ordered people to do things.

William told Edmund: "Go and get rid of that 'King of the Sea'. It bit my people and has been a disaster in this village for many years. I don't want to hear about its activity."

Edmund agreed, and then left. He also heard from the people in the village about the occurrence of the King of the Sea when he rescued Harden. Hairtail.

William told Dampier again: "Go and drive all the steamboats back, don't let them stay in this village for too long and leak too much information."

Although it is impossible to hide the new steamships for a lifetime, and William is not prepared to keep them hidden for too long, William still does not intend to expose them to the world prematurely. Both the sound wave transmitter and the sound wave launcher are manufactured in Kalmar City and Hongye Village Shipyard, two of William's starting places and base camps.

William hopes that the new steam engine will have a chance to play an unexpected role before it is officially unveiled in front of the world and is noticed by the world.

If it wasn't for the heavy rain and he was worried about Harden's safety, William would not take the new steamboat when he came to Windmill Village this time for the sake of speed.

That night, Harden woke up from a coma, and someone immediately reported the situation to William.

With hurried footsteps in the corridor, William entered the ward with a serious face, glanced at the people in the ward, and then ordered: "Except for Wood, everyone else should go out."

The disappearance of the new steamship that Harden was riding on was unclear, and William didn’t know the real situation. There could be anything behind it. William’s first reaction was to block the news, so as not to spread bad news and cause panic.

Wood was kept because Harden's physical condition required a doctor to accompany him.

After everyone else left, Harden said weakly: "The golden lion, it is the golden lion Shiji, William, he attacked us."

William, who was moving a chair to Harden's bed, paused, then returned to normal and sat down, while Wood's expression changed drastically.

Under William's gesture, Harden told what happened during this period from beginning to end, including how they were captured by the Golden Lion Shiji, and how they faced the proud and arrogant Golden Lion Shiji at the banquet. The conflict occurred, and some students and crew were killed, and Harden himself was imprisoned.

When Harden said this, his breathing became a little short, and William quickly grabbed his hand.

"I betrayed Barbarossa back then because he was a bastard who didn't care about the future and life of the ship's crew," Harden stared at William with red eyes, "but I'm not a man who betrays the Lord and seeks glory. , I will not do such a thing again.”

"I know," William said gently, patted the back of Harden's hand with the other hand, and repeated, "I know."

Harden also talked about how he escaped from the Golden Lion Shiji. It turned out that Crowe and Crick acted together in the play. He kept providing information in front of him, acting like an ambitious villain in order to become the new overlord of the East China Sea with the support of the golden lion Shiji, so as to sell the owner for glory.

It's a pity that Crick's intelligence is far less important than Crowe, who once served as the head of the National Security Agency.

After arriving in the East China Sea, Crick, who seemed impatient, chose to attack Crowe, and revealed Harden's identity to the Golden Lion Shiji, which was not as important as Crowe said, forcing Crowe to prove his innocence , shot and killed Harden, and then Crick triumphantly threw Harden's body into the forest to feed the beasts, as if to cut off any luck for Crowe.

"It was Life Return that helped me hide from other people's attention," Harden coughed and said weakly, "Crow warned me once when he did it, and Crick later told me the plan and the location where he hid the parachute , I escaped those beasts, and just parachuted directly."

Although Harden's life return has not been trained to the point where he can manipulate hair, it is enough to suppress life characteristics for a while.

"Inside the umbrella bag, there is a secret letter written by Crowe. He said it was written in code, and only the senior officials of the Security Bureau know how to translate it," Harden said.