() "Your heartbeat is getting faster. M" A pleasant voice sounded from behind Tangke, like the wind blowing silver bells and the boat pushing the waves.

Tangke knew who was coming without looking back. On this silver boat, there was only one woman named Emily. Without looking back, he said, "I just got seasick, and it's inevitable that my heart rate will increase."

"You don't speak the truth, how can a pirate get seasick." Emily snorted, leaned forward, and stood side by side with Tangke on the bow. Her hair danced lightly with the sea breeze, strands and strands, very beautiful.

"That's not necessarily true. There are vegetarians among the meat sellers, and there are bald people among the hairdressers. Whoever stipulates that pirates cannot get seasick." Tangke joked.

"Even if there are seasick pirates, it's not you."

"Okay. It's true. My heart is beating for another reason."

"It's because you are close to the fountain of death that your heart beats faster."

"No, that's not the reason."

"What's that for?"

Tangke turned his head, looked down at Emily, who was a head shorter than himself, and said softly, "It's because you approached me that my heart beat faster."

"Hmph, this sentence is more unreliable than your seasickness. It's like this kind of lie to deceive a little girl. Don't tell me in the future. Otherwise, be careful that I go to your wife and complain." Emily rolled Tangke a glance. , put his eyes back on the ever-changing sea. The spectacle of the black vortex quickly magnified in her jewel-like eyes.

"Okay, if you and I can both come out of the fountain of death alive, I will never lie in front of you again in the future." Tangke smiled lightly. He said those unnutritious sweet words to Emily, not to hook up with Emily, but more just by nature. As long as he sees beautiful women, he can't help but become very frivolous.

"Well, I hope this trip goes well, and we can all return safely from the fountain of death." Emily's face suddenly became solemn. The pupils staring at the Fountain of Death shrank a little.

"Looking at your appearance, you should still be a little worried. In that case, why do you want to make a fat man with a swollen face and come to the muddy water." Tangke's smile faded and he asked casually.

"I'm not like you, my mouth is full of lies. What I said in the conference hall before is true. The reason why I joined this team is just to help the motherland win the fountain of death."

"Tsk tsk, this is really a great feeling."

"You're not a soldier. So you won't understand. You don't have this sense of mission in you."

"I really don't understand."

"Actually, you can think about it from another angle. If a hostile force is attacking your pirate group now, and you have found the same treasure that is expected to lead to victory, but obtaining this treasure is very risky. In your pirate group leader If you can't go to get this treasure, will the loyal subordinates around you take the risk for you to stand up for you?" Emily asked.

Tangke thought for a while, if it was in this situation, there would definitely be many people in the Evil Dragon Pirates scrambling to take risks. If you replace the Dragon Pirates with the Greenland Empire. It is also possible to understand the reason why Emily came forward. He nodded and said, "Okay. I probably understand what you mean by mission."

Emily fell into silence, staring at the sea for a long time, she counted the fleeting waves on the sea, and suddenly spoke again. He said with emotion: "Although I am a soldier, I actually hate war in my heart. I have many subordinates, and they died in the war, so that my subordinates are all unfamiliar faces. When sailing. I can see many families of soldiers who went to sea in the port. These people are waiting for the soldiers to return, but often only heavy bad news. "

"War is indeed a cruel thing. Some people lose, some gain, some laugh and some grieve. This is inevitable." Tangke admitted.

"Sometimes I naively think how great it would be if the five empires and other countries in the world that were at war could shake hands and sign a treaty that would never go to war, ending all wars in the world. Soldiers can no longer After a **** battle, you can go back to your hometown to reunite with your family, take off your blood-stained military uniform, and start working in a more secure and stable way. Wouldn’t it be good for everyone?”

"It's impossible."

"I know it's impossible, that's why I say it's just a naive idea."

"It is impossible for all countries to die with a single contract. If you want to end the war, you must make the war more tragic until all parties are defeated, and only one king is left to win. In a divided world, as long as there is a change in the In the current situation, war is destined to break out. Only when the whole world is unified and becomes a complete country will there be long-lasting peace. War may be a bad thing for the immediate period, but in the long run, war will The world has an irreplaceable positive meaning and is vigorously promoting the development of civilization. Just like slash-and-burn cultivation, many things can only be born in destruction. War brings destruction, but also brings new life." Tangke said eloquently road.

"Although your remarks sound high-sounding, you are actually covering up the ugly for the war." Emily gave Tangke another look. She always opposes Tangke's views, but she always talks to Tangke along the way, and she feels a little bit asking for trouble.

"The beauty and ugliness of the world do not lie in the things themselves, but in people's aesthetic vision. What is ugly in your eyes may be dazzlingly beautiful in my eyes." Tangke said with a smile.

"Then tell me what this ugly thing in my eyes looks like in your eyes." Emily pointed to the front.

Tangke looked over with that jade-like finger, and found that Emily was pointing at the black vortex that was approaching in front of her. He shrugged and said, "In my eyes, this thing has a dangerous charm. It's not dazzlingly beautiful, but at least it's not ugly."

"Okay. It seems that there is another difference between the two of us." Emily also shrugged, then turned around and waved at Tangke, "Once the ship enters the black vortex, it will be drawn into it. What will happen then, no one can tell. Let's hurry up and get into the cabin."

Tangke nodded and took a last look at the black vortex. Then followed Emily into the gangway and into the cabin.

The bow of the Strong Shield had already entered the raging range of the black vortex, and it tilted slightly downward. The bottom of the ship was pulled by a rotating force, which involuntarily accelerated the speed.

…

In one of the largest back gardens of the Pirate Castle.

Deku, the city lord who controls the pirate city and a huge potential force, is feeding his small pet. His pet is very special, and the things he feeds are also very special.

His pet is a troll, a three-story humanoid monster with an extremely low IQ, not even as smart as cats and dogs. A full head only knows to eat, drink and sleep. The troll is infinitely powerful and ferocious, but it is not comparable to the intelligent race that has mastered various mysterious powers.

Under the slaughter of the major races over the years, the trolls are on the verge of extinction. There are absolutely no more than ten trolls in the world, and the rarity is probably similar to that of the dragons.

So, raising a troll is really a very majestic thing.

The food he feeds the trolls is the big living, the big living. He doesn't feed live people to small pets every day, which is a bit too perverted. Only when some people offend him. He would just catch that person and feed it to the trolls as punishment, as an example. whenever he does. There will be fewer people in the world who dare to make him angry.

When one day no one in the world dares to make him angry, he will probably be able to take care of his life in peace. He's old, really old, the last time in his life. I should have had a good time.

It's a pity that his identity is special. As the lord of the pirate city, it is destined to be impossible to live a comfortable life.

Those who offended the city lord were thrown before the trolls. Just looking at the troll, he was so frightened that he fell to the ground with weak legs, and even urinated his pants. In fact, it is not a shameful thing to be scared to pee your pants by a troll. In the past, almost all of those who received the same treatment as him did pee their pants.

This unfortunate begged with a crying voice, begging the city lord for a while, and begging the troll for a while, but got no response. Today he is dead unless a **** comes to rescue him.

The troll dragged the strong chain composed of several "mantras" on his body, cast a shadow that covered the sky and the sun, stretched out his huge palm, and grabbed the hapless man in the palm of his hand. Its fingers are almost as thick as the waist of the hapless, and it can crush the hapless with a single pinch, but it does not do this, because it will not be eaten. It brought the hapless man to his mouth, opened his insatiable mouth, and exhaled a stench that was ten times more stinky than a stinky ditch, causing the hapless man to faint. This may be a good thing for the hapless, at least to suffer a little less.

Deku absentmindedly watched the troll eat, not getting much pleasure out of it. There are not many things in the world that can bring pleasure to an old man.

When the troll was halfway through, a flashing figure fell behind Deku and knelt on one knee on the ground. He was wearing a neat and neat outfit, which was the uniform of the messengers in the city. He lowered his head and respectfully reported: "Sir City Lord, the Golden Beard Pirates sent an envoy who wants to see you."

Deku's heart moved when he heard the words, and aroused a little interest. Meeting the messenger of the Golden Beard Pirates was more interesting than watching trolls eat people. He turned his head and said, "Take him to the second parlor, I want to see him alone."

"Yes." The messenger came and went in a hurry, and as soon as the voice landed, the person flew away and disappeared.

Deku walked to the back door of the castle step by step with his hands behind his back, thinking to himself, "Golden Beard is the proudest person in the world, and he is so ambitious that he doesn't even care about me, the city lord. He won't find anything if he has nothing to do. Mine, once you find me, it must be an earth-shattering event."

There are many parlors in the pirate ship's main castle, which are classified according to the decoration, treatment and other conditions. The first parlor is the most advanced, the second parlor is screened, and so on. If Golden Beard himself was present, Deku would definitely choose to receive the reception in the No. 1 parlor, but it was only a mere messenger, so there was no need to make it so grand.

Even so, the No. 2 parlor is also magnificent enough to be comparable to the palace halls of the five great empires. Everything in this house is carefully selected, and a teacup can be sold for a lot of money.

In this medium-sized living room, there is a long table.

When Deku entered the room, the messenger sent by Golden Beard had already sat at one end of the long table.

Hearing the door opening, the messenger immediately stood up and greeted Deku respectfully. He was an elegant man with glasses, and he looked kind. It's really hard to link him to the Goldenbeard Pirates. He didn't even wear anything related to the Golden Beard Pirates, so he couldn't tell he was a member of the Goldenbeard Pirates.

Deku nodded casually, counted as a response, and let the messenger sit back to his original position, while he himself sat on the other side. The long table was very long, completely separating the two of them. Deku likes this sense of distance very much. As the city owner, he has a huge distance from most people in the world.

"What purpose did Goldenbeard send you for?" he asked straight to the point.

"The supreme city lord, in my humble and dusty status, I am not worthy to answer your question. In my opinion. Let Lord Goldenbeard speak to you. I am here today, just to be responsible for the two of you. It's just matchmaking. I don't take care of the rest, and I don't take care of it." The messenger said respectfully, and took out a rectangular mirror from his body. The mirror surface was smooth and shiny, and the back was wrapped with a silver frame. Embellished with minimalist textured relief. He tapped a few times on the mirror surface rhythmically, and ripples swayed in the originally empty mirror surface. It's like a lake where a stone has been thrown.

Deku recognized what this mirror was at a glance. This mirror was not an ordinary mirror. It was an extremely rare treasure named "Shadow Mirror".

This treasure mirror is usually made of two as a pair. The sights and sounds reflected in one of the mirrors can be transmitted to the other mirror. Nutmeg can only transmit sound, and this treasure mirror can transmit both sound and image. Therefore, it is a grade higher than that of the mother-of-pearl. Even the treasure houses of those great empires may not contain such rare treasures.

The teleportation mirror in the messenger's hand underwent various changes, and ripples appeared first. Then various light spots appeared, and finally a light to dark image emerged. In the mirror, the tall and mighty image of Golden Beard is reflected. He is still the same as before, with the same style as before. He has a bright golden beard and bright golden hair. He looks like a golden male. lion.

The image of Golden Beard appeared in this mirror, and there must be an image of Deku in the mirror in front of Golden Beard.

"Damn old man, it's great that you're not dead yet." Golden Beard said in a stern voice. His voice came out through the telephoto mirror, causing the living room to tremble, and the tea on the table overflowed.

"Before you say others are old, you should measure how old you are." Deku snorted.

"Indeed, like you, I'm also a bad old man who can't get older, but this world is in the hands of us old men."

"What you control is not the world, but a pirate group."

"I don't want to master the whole world, I just want to master the sea of ​​this world."

"You can't control the sea. The sea doesn't belong to anyone. It was the same in the past, and it will be the same in the future. Those who delusionally master the sea will eventually be buried by the sea."

"It's true that I haven't mastered the sea yet, but it's not impossible. Someone in this world has mastered the sea, you know that."

"You mean Roger, the first-generation pirate king?"

"Yes, it's Roger. When his power was at its peak, his pirate group could run amok on the sea, and no one was his opponent. At that time, the sea belonged to him."

"I know you've always wanted to be the second Roger, but..." Deku smiled wryly and shook his head, "Time has changed, the world has changed completely, and this period is completely different from the period when Roger was active. The pirates have withered a lot, and the major forces are evenly matched and contain each other. In my opinion, no one has been able to regain the throne of the pirate king. "

"I'm really far from this goal, let alone defeating the pirate governors of other major seas, even the Golden Beard Pirates can hardly dominate the sea of ​​​​the Dream Sea. But there is always a solution, and this solution is now. It's in front of me, waiting for me to realize it." Golden Beard's eyes opened slightly, bursting out with excitement.

"What do you mean?" Deku asked curiously.

"Let's be honest with you. I want to revive Roger and bring him, the strongest pirate in history, back to the world from hell, so that he can regain the glory of the past. After he is resurrected, whether it is He helps me or I help him, I can accept it. I can't tolerate anyone above my head, but he is an exception." Golden Beard finally revealed the purpose of finding Deku today.

Once the word resurrection is mentioned, it will naturally remind people of the hot spring of death recently, Deku suddenly said: "You want to **** the spring of death?"

"Yes, I want to **** the fountain of death."

"Since you want to grab it, go grab it, why are you looking for me?"

"I want to ask you for help, let you help me, and help me deal with the people from the two imperial alliances. With my own strength, I am alone, and there is no surety."

"I'm afraid I'm going to give you a disappointing answer. I never leave the pirate city, you know that. And I feel that I don't have such a good friendship with you, so I really have no reason to work for you." Deku snorted coldly.

"No, you didn't work for me, but for all the pirates at sea!" Golden Beard said loudly. (To be continued..)