Chapter 165: The People of Queen’s Island

Chapter 161 – The People of Queen’s Island

The first batch of foot soldiers still survived around seventy people, Owen converted thirty of them into sword-fighting foot soldiers, and the rest into iron cannon foot soldiers, and then asked Watanabe to take these converted foot soldiers to board the ship and go out to sea.

Owen did not go along, but no matter Lao Rui or those pirates do not dare to have second thoughts.

Not to mention the dozens of hungry wolf-like foot soldiers on the ship, just the mark on their chests is a constant reminder of what they should do.

Betrayal is easy, but no one is willing to bear the consequences, unless a warrior walks in front to let them see what happens.

Old Rui knows these pirates’ thoughts all too well, but he didn’t just sit back and watch as he did before, but he always hammered those pirates, letting them know what they could and shouldn’t do, and what they shouldn’t do.

What drove Old Rui to do so was not any loyalty, but interest, because only by defecting to Owen, he, an old pirate, could give orders like a captain, and no one dared to oppose, which was enough.

After seven or eight days the schooner came back, but Old Rhee did not look well.

“Great captain sir, this time we managed to plunder a cargo ship and gained a rich harvest, but on the way back we encountered a siren, two stupid pirates were lured by the siren’s song and jumped into the sea, in addition we also saw the Queen’s Island’s pirate ship in the neighborhood, this place could possibly become the range of their prey.” Old Rui bent over with one hand on his chest, respectfully reporting to Owen.

Owen froze and pinched his brow before snapping out of his research.

There were quite a number of sirens and sea monsters living in the sea around Ball Island, it seems that it needs to be solved, otherwise these monsters can’t come ashore, but it’s not a solution to be like this all the time, in addition the Queen’s Island is also a trouble.

Humans are the outsiders of this world, a group of people suddenly came to an unfamiliar world, will certainly panic, and then in desperation to unleash the dark side of their hearts, imagine what women as the vulnerable group will face.

It’s a good thing that there are not no masters among the women, so they chose to break off after taking a group of women, and this is the predecessor of Queen’s Island.

In this case the establishment of the Queen’s Island, acting style can be imagined, proper matriarchal society, the living Amazon women warriors, men are daily necessities for them, but also the horse is shared, so the old Rui just saw the Queen’s Island pirate ship after the face changed, on his old arms and legs, if he fell into the other side’s hands, I’m afraid to live no more than three days.

“Don’t go out to sea recently, train those foot soldiers to adapt to sailing in the nearby sea, I will solve the rest of the problem.” Owen understood that the root of the matter was still not enough strength, so he said to Old Rui.

“Master captain, this time we have grabbed a lot of good things, and female slaves, do you want to go and take a look, my lord?” Old Rui first nodded and then said.

Of course Owen was interested, but not for the female slaves, but to see if there were any good things.

When Owen came to the beach again, there was already an additional humble pier here, along with a big-bellied cargo ship, compared to the pointed and narrow-bodied sailing ship on the side, at a glance, he knew that it couldn’t run fast, no wonder it was robbed.

The beach has piled up a lot of goods, the original merchant ships on the sailor is under the pirate’s scolding will be a steady stream of goods to move.

Owen briefly looked at it, most of it was the wine called Ocean Sweetheart.

This kind of wine was brewed from the juice of a plant similar to sugar cane, the degree was not too high, with a sweet flavor, it was the favorite of sailors at sea.

Because compared to fresh water that could easily spoil, Ocean Sweetheart had a longer shelf life and better taste, it could be said that as long as there was enough Ocean Sweetheart, there was no fear of the sailors’ morale being low, so it was no wonder that those pirates were all happy.

The rest is all food and clothing, there are also twenty barrels of gunpowder and lead bullets, all can be used.

That said, if the merchant ship people were a bit tougher and took out these twenty barrels of gunpowder as a threat, they wouldn’t be caught here.

Just Owen does not know is that the merchant marine people do, the problem is that Watanabe and foot soldiers simply do not care, a swarm of rush up, even cut with killing, froze the other side of the guts of the scare, which is even with the goods with the ship and captured. Then Owen saw those female slaves, most of them have the blood of the savages, general looks, the pirates looked at the drooling, he looked at the heart like water.

When the progress value accumulated almost, Owen exchanged a sail warship.

It was a three-masted sail battleship, slender in size, with forty guns, enough to accommodate three hundred personnel.

According to Old Rui, even in the several major island alliances, this was the main battleship.

However, the more masts the more complicated the operation, although Old Rui had experience in piloting, the sailors still had to be trained so that they could bring out their full performance.

It was good that there were merchant sailors on board, otherwise manpower alone would be a big problem.

As for those sailors are willing to be a pirate, huh, the nature of their work depends entirely on what ship to board, in the merchant ships they are innocent sailors, in the pirate ship they are cruel pirates, it is so simple.

In addition to sending Watanabe to learn this, Owen also let Matsushita train an elite musketeer, ready to take along to sea.

After a few days, when he was almost familiar with it, Owen asked Tanaka to stay behind and set out himself.

This time it was no longer a lone ship, but two.

The main ship was the three-masted battleship Blizzard, and the secondary ship was the two-masted clipper Flying Fish, the latter with Watanabe at the helm.

Since it was a new ship and there were quite a few novices, the ship wasn’t very fast, it was more of a break-in, but the best thing to do was to recruit a group of skilled sailors and gunners, so they prepared to head to Pirate Island.

Pirate island is not the only one, but a general term, any island that is willing to provide for the use of pirates can be called a pirate island, and the pirates who boarded the island must abide by a rule, not to plunder on the island, as for theft and murder, as long as they do not get caught, no one cares.

Of course, don’t expect the pirates to have much to abide by the rules, so Owen saw from afar two pirate ships are shelling the pier of the pirate island, and sunk and lit up the ships docked where.

“It’s the Bone Eater Sharks.” Holding up the high-precision monocular provided by Owen, Old Rui said with a grave face.

The Bone Eater Sharks were a notorious existence even amongst the pirate group, as they didn’t follow the rules at all and could be said to be profit-oriented, so it was no wonder that they dared to shell the pier of the Pirate Island and set fire to the pirate ships docked there.

“Lord Captain, is it still going to Pirate Island?” Lao Rui didn’t know why the Bone Eater Shark’s people would shell the Pirate Island Pier, but he knew that there would definitely be trouble inside, or big trouble.

This was something Owen could also think of, so he was a bit hesitant.

“Lord Captain, there are people at the pier who are putting up flags, it seems like they are from Queen’s Island.” Old Rui saw someone putting up the flag of Queen’s Island and flagging, thus he hurriedly said to Owen.

“See what they are saying.” Owen raised his head and said to Old Rui after thinking about it.

Old Rui held the monocular and concentrated on recognizing the other party’s semaphore while saying word by word.

“Captain-sama, the other party is a noble from the Queen’s Island, they want to hire us to rescue the hostages taken by the Bone Eater Sharks, the pay is very generous.” Old Rui licked his lips and said, after all, although the Queen’s Island acted overbearingly, it was famous for its generosity, and when they said it was a generous reward, they wouldn’t let you down.

(End of chapter)