Codex Pirates

Chapter 78: Borrowing a Human Head (Part 1)

On the deck, members of the Redbeard Pirates, including Felton, Harden, Hutcherson, Nadal, and Wood, were all present. They were all baffled when they saw William holding a burning red knife.

Especially when William said a word, he instigated Crowe, who usually had a special status on the ship, which made them even more suspicious.

The deputy captain Felton stepped forward and frowned and asked, "What are you doing, Stolter?"

After he finished speaking, he turned to Crowe, who was busy launching the boat, and said, "Are you crazy? Stop it!"

Crowe ignored him at all, and William did the same. He scanned the crowd of pirates watching, and then selected a newcomer pirate, and told him: "I hid a barrel of wine at the bottom of the cabin, you go and give it to me." Bring it up."

The rookie pirate was stunned, hesitantly looked at Felton, who had an ugly face, and responded, dragging another fellow novice pirate to the hatch quickly, just like Crowe and William, It seems that the deputy captain, Felton, was not taken seriously at all.

The newcomers on board were all recruited after the attack on Kalmar City. They had never experienced the most vigorous period of captain "Redbeard". William, who is usually bold and generous, always attracting people's hearts, even has more prestige in their hearts than Barbarossa.

After all, William would not hang them for no reason, and then hang them on the bow as wind chimes.

Being ignored one after another, one of them was even a newcomer on the ship, Felton was furious and wanted to stop Crowe, but he was blocked by the second officer Harden just two steps away, and Harden still slapped him hard on his chest. Pushed a bit.

"Harden, you're crazy too, don't you dare to take the captain's order seriously?" Felton was livid, and his two cronies came behind him seeing this, staring at Harden with an uneasy expression.

It's just that other members of the ship, including the old pirate, didn't stand by Felton's side at this time, even though he carried Barbarossa out.

Barbarossa was able to unite the pirates on the ship because he was able to bring success and benefits to the crew in the past. He had the skills to collude with the shore and official forces to make the pirates live a stable and nourishing life. He had strength and could Defeat enemies and reduce crew casualties.

Successive victories have given him a very high prestige. Under such circumstances, the crew can naturally tolerate his greed, which takes a huge proportion of the spoils, and the injustice of covering up Hayreddin's oppression of the crew.

But when accidents happened one after another in Kalmar City, Hayreddin died, Reis was killed, Barbarossa found Zhepu himself, but suffered a loss and let them escape, and then the ship was attacked, the wealth was looted, a series of failures and A mistake in decision-making caused cracks in Barbarossa's golden body.

In this kind of adversity, the crew members may still have some loyalty to Barbarossa based on past experience, but it is a pity that Barbarossa was defeated by anger, or because he has been king and hegemony in the East China Sea for too long. Unable to bear the huge setback, in this situation, instead of trying to appease people, he became brutal and bloodthirsty, which exhausted the only bit of affection he had with the crew.

Up to now, because Frederick Barbarossa was wary of his crew, he even forbade them to join the enemy ship.

And because of his cruelty, Barbarossa's extraordinary strength has become a restless thing like a gunpowder keg. Pirates fear the strong because the strong can bring them success, victory and benefits by virtue of their strength. , but every time he kills his companions, no matter how powerful this kind of lunatic is, no one will be willing to do things for him.

To put it simply, the Redbeard Pirates, as well as the vast majority of pirates, will maintain a strong man who can bring them victory, and will not support a powerful lunatic.

Just like humans don't give their allegiance to beasts.

Therefore, most of the old pirates on board watched the two groups silently. They neither expressed their support for William clearly, nor did they follow Barbarossa's order to help Felton stop him.

They are timid and timid, they don't want to show up, and they are a little worried about the conflict between the two groups. They are gradually dissatisfied with Barbarossa, but they don't have the courage to confront their gradually brutal captain openly.

But a bold figure like Harden, who took the lead in every battle, directly stood up to express his dissatisfaction.

Harden had been dissatisfied with Felton for a long time. He looked down upon him as the vice-captain by currying favor with Barbarossa, and ran amok on the ship. He was not afraid of Zapp, who was as famous as Barbarossa, so how could he be afraid of him? Felton the sycophant?

On the contrary, William was generous and generous before the Kalmar City incident, and treated others like a spring breeze after that, and dared to conflict with Zhepu without falling behind. Whether it was dealing with people, courage and strength, he was more tempered with Harden.

As for the loyalty to Frederick Barbarossa, when anyone on the ship sees that his companion is hanged on the bow for inexplicable reasons, and the body is exposed to wind and sun all day long, that loyalty will not exist. up.

William patted Harden on the shoulder, and after Harden stepped aside, he walked up to Felton and his men, who were facing the enemy, turning a blind eye to their hands on the handle of the knife at their waists.

William was quite tall, while Felton was short. At this time, the two faced each other even more. William looked expressionlessly into Felton's eyes.

William didn't speak. Silence is sometimes a kind of strength, especially for people who are under the eyes of everyone. The suffocating silence will put a great pressure on people's psychology.

Naturally, Felton didn't dare to make a real move. Apart from William's strength, William was the only navigator on board. They were still near the windless zone, and no one could guarantee that they could return safely without the navigator.

A few seconds later, Felton was forced by William's aura, and turned his head to avoid his sight with some guilt. William rolled his eyes slightly, and then looked at Felton's two cronies. His light blue eyes were cold and cold. , as if with some kind of magical power, the two of them didn't dare to look at each other, and quickly turned their eyes away.

Relying on his status as a navigator, his experience of not losing ground in conflicts with Zepp, as well as his usual display of strength and skill, William has almost become the second person on board after the successive deaths of Reis and Hayreddin. Not as insignificant as it was when it first arrived.

Felton and the others, who were still looking aggressive at first, lost all arrogance before William had to speak. The other pirates who were watching looked at me and I looked at you, and they didn't dare to breathe out.