Chapter 8: The Pirate's Counterattack Seeking Collection

  Two raging fireballs tore through the dark sky, piercing the black veil of the stormy wind and rain, with waves of flames rolling and burning fiercely. They came rushing like wild beasts, and just as they were about to collide with the ship's hull, the two fireballs suddenly changed direction. One crashed into the sea surface at the stern of their boat with a loud roar, sending up a massive column of water, while the other fireball swept over the mainmast and crashed heavily onto the bow of the ship, again sending up a towering column of water.

  A thunderous cheer suddenly burst out on the ship!

  Niya's eyes widened in unbelievable shock: "Didn't hit!"

  Tang Jie clenched his fists and said in a low voice: "No! They didn't miss, they deliberately avoided hitting!"

  Niya was startled and looked at him: "How did you know?"

  Barry patted her shoulder: "Kid, he's right! They did it on purpose! What just happened was to tell us that from the stern to the bow, all of these are their attack range! In other words, as long as we want to escape, we will be destroyed immediately!"

  Nina listened for only a moment, then immediately yelled loudly at the sailors on the deck who were celebrating their narrow escape: "Stop celebrating! Quickly bring up the big guns, sailors go into the hold, open the gun ports, and move out the powder, hopefully they are not too wet! Harrington, what are you doing? Hurry up and adjust the sights, check all the rigging!"

  Bar's face was stern, and he patted Niya on the shoulder: "No need to bother! On the high seas, a magician's attack range is twice as far as that of a cannon. Our cannons haven't even reached them yet, but their magicians have already sent me into the sea to feed the fish!"

  "As soon as we show any hostility, they'll blast us out of the sky!" Tung's gaze was fixed intently on the dark canvas ahead.

  Ba Er glanced at Tang Jie: "You're not only brave and decisive, but also very clever! However, as long as we don't run away, they won't be able to crush us!"

  "Why?" Tang Jie retorted.

  Ba Er smiled slightly but didn't speak, he turned around wanting to leave, yet was pulled back by Tang Jie.

  Tang Jie's gaze was fixed on Bal's eyes: "Captain Bal, may I ask, am I considered one of your people now?"

  "Of course, my child," said Barbossa with a laugh. "When you recklessly took down the mainsail, you became one of us!"

  Tang Jie's gaze was intense, making him appear somewhat intimidating: "Captain Barbal, is there something you haven't told me yet?"

  Ba Er smiled: "Oh? Such as what things?"

  Tang Jie said in a low voice: "Those guys who are chasing us, what kind of people are they? Why are they chasing us?"

  Ba Er smiled and asked slyly, "Kid, maybe I should ask you first, where did you come from? Why were you drifting in the sea?"

  Tang Jie felt a headache as soon as he heard the question, and he said seriously: "Captain Bar, I know what you're thinking about, and I also know what you're worried about. But I think it's not important where I come from! What's important is that we are now on the same boat, through thick and thin, aren't we?"

  Bar laughed and patted Tang Jie's shoulder with an iron hook: "Kid, all you need to know is that we are pirates, they are the coast guard who specialize in eradicating pirates, that's enough!" After finishing speaking, he smiled and walked away from him towards the helm on the deck.

  Tang Jie was stunned on the spot, what kind of ghost answer is this?

  Is saying it the same as not saying it?

  He was about to ask loudly, but suddenly heard Nia say in a low voice behind him: "The third sea defense squadron of the York Empire, Squadron Leader and Fleet Commander Jones, a second-level swordsman. If I didn't guess wrong just now, the ship behind us should be his flagship, a three-masted vulture-class warship, its windward speed and leeward speed are slightly weaker than ours. But this is the fastest ship of the third sea defense squadron of the York Empire, looking at our navigation speed, only it can follow us for so long and catch up in stormy weather!"

  Tang Jie said: "So it seems we only need to deal with one ship, and the situation doesn't seem too bad?"

  Nia looked at him as if he was a fool who knew nothing about sea battles and navigation, and continued: "Jones' flagship is called the Plunderer, and the three-masted Vulture-class warship, its hull length is twice that of our two-masted Flying Fish-class warship, width and height are one times ours, the number of large cannons it carries is also twice ours, and the number of sailors on board is three times ours..."

  Tang Jie knew that even if he didn't understand naval warfare, this was a battle between a physically weak young man and a robust strongman, and in terms of the warship's strength, they were not on the same level at all.

  Niya's mouthful of icy digits made Tang Jie involuntarily feel a chill in his heart. When he heard the last sailor number, he couldn't help but turn his head to glance at the pirates on the deck, roughly counting their numbers in his mind.

  After going through a shipwreck, with less than twenty people left, he smiled wryly and said with a hint of making the best out of a bad situation: "Luckily, they only have sixty or so. I can take care of ten at most, how about you?"

  Nia didn't respond to his words, but instead gazed at him with an icy stare: "Listen, this isn't a child's game of house or a simple numbers game! The full crew number for a brig sloop like the Flying Fish is sixty-seven men. When I said triple that, I meant the full crew number. We've already suffered heavy casualties in the pursuit, while the Plunderer has emerged unscathed! There are at least two hundred well-equipped warriors on their ship!"

  Two hundred minus twenty!!

  Tang Jie took a cold breath and his heart skipped a beat!

  Niya slowly drew out the sword from her waist, wiping the icy blade with her fingers. She didn't even look at Tang Jie and said, "Your skills are not bad, but I can be sure that you've never killed anyone! So, I'll give you a piece of advice..."

  She gazed intently into Tang Jie's eyes, speaking with utmost seriousness: "I didn't mean to look down on you. Your skills and bravery are worthy of my respect. However, I suggest you hide in the cabin until the battle is over. If we win, once we reach the next port, we'll let you go free. If they win, just say you're a merchant who was kidnapped by us. Did you understand?"

  Although he knew Nia was doing it for his own good, Tang Jie felt extremely displeased in his heart. He let out a cold laugh: "Your meaning is, to have me hide aside and watch the excitement?"

  He clenched his fists and let out a loud cracking sound: "How can I be left out of this kind of thing!"

  Nina didn't refute him, but instead looked at him deeply and said lightly: "Follow closely behind me later, I'll protect you!"

  Tang Jie sneered with a sharp tongue: "In the end, don't become someone I have to protect, Miss Nia!"

  Niya had already turned around, but when she heard Tang Jie's words, she suddenly turned her head back, her voice as cold and sharp as the long sword in her hand: "A sharp tongue can't kill people, Mr. Tang! You'll know soon what a real fight is like! The storm just now was just a warm-up before the battle!"

  Tang Jie looked at Nia, this blonde-haired and blue-eyed woman seemed to have changed into a different person suddenly. Her behavior in the room and just now on the deck were completely different, as if only when she encountered real combat would she become serious, and only then would she exert her full strength.

  This tall and slender woman, her whole body radiating an intense murderous aura, made Tang Jie feel as if needles were pricking his skin, and he couldn't help but change color in fright!

  Tang Jie's fighting experience is absolutely no less than Niya's, but as Niya said, those fights were all under various rule restrictions or just street brawls, where did he truly fight for his life?

  Martial arts and mortal combat are two completely different concepts.

  The former is like an Olympic shooting champion, while the latter is like a sniper in the army who has killed countless people.

  Both are godly marksmen, but if put into actual combat, it would be two drastically different outcomes.

  Tang Jie looked at Nia's back, which was overflowing with murderous aura, and couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

  "Comrades!" Captain Bar stepped onto the helm platform and let out a loud shout, drawing everyone's attention.

  At this time, the storm on the sea weakened, and the waves were no longer as turbulent as before. The torrential rain in the sky was also gradually decreasing, with only the rolling thunder at the edge of the sky coming one after another, like a low-pitched drumbeat on the eve of an impending battle, pounding against everyone's heart, heavy and oppressive, a force accumulating, ready to erupt at any moment.

  Bai looked at the sailors on the deck, his usual companions who had been with him day and night, but now there were less than twenty people left. He felt a deep sorrow in his heart, but as the captain, he couldn't show even a hint of it on his face.

  He smiled wryly and said in a slow, low tone: "Some people think we're soft persimmons that can be pinched and eaten at will! So they've been chasing us for sixty-seven days, right behind our backsides. Take a look around you, how many familiar faces are missing? And all this is just because they imposed an unjustified crime on us!"

  "They said we got the treasure map of Pirate King Atos, and they said if we don't hand over the treasure map, they'll wipe us out!" Bar's mouth corner was filled with a thick cold smile "Comrades, tell me, should we hand over the pirate map to them?"

  Fierce pirates held up their axes, curved knives and long swords, loudly roaring: "No way, no way! We'd rather die than give in!"

  "Right, even if we die, we won't give it!!" Barha burst out laughing "Even if you kill us, we still won't hand over the treasure map! Because, we don't have Pirate King Atos' treasure map at all!!"

  "These blood-sucking, deceitful officials, they're used to exploiting poor people every day, framing whoever they want, bullying whoever they please! Finally, they've come after us! The treasure map of Pirate King? Ha! If we had that thing, why would we still be playing hide-and-seek with them on the ocean? Why don't we just take out Pirate King Atos' treasure and live a life of luxury? What are we doing here, suffering in the rain and wind? Why not go and indulge in pleasure with beautiful women?"

  With a wave of his arm, the mad look appeared. "These bastards who only know how to talk are now bullying us again, we've been pushed by them to have no way out, buddies, what do you think we should do?"

  "Kill them!!"

  "I'm going all out with them!!"

  "Let them taste our strength!!"

  The pirates roared wildly, and the resentment that had been compressed by more than 60 days of continuous escape was ignited by Bal and released!

  The entire ship became deadly in the blink of an eye!

  "Bar's iron hook prosthetic slammed onto the railing with a loud clang, 'What are we waiting for? Comrades, raise our flag, set half sail, lean in, and engage in close combat!!'"

  "Kill!!!"

  The pirates let out a deafening roar, their voices like beasts as they bellowed with rage. Their cries echoed far and wide across the waves, reverberating in the dark, low-hanging black sky like the charge of a band of crazed warriors!

  Tang Jie stood on the deck, staring blankly at the pirates whose facial hair seemed to exude a frenzied killing aura, unable to utter a single word.

  "Twenty people fighting two hundred people..." Tang Jie muttered to himself "This is crazy!"

  Nina heard his words and turned back, saying lightly: "My father once told me that a pirate who is not crazy is not a good pirate!"

  Tang Jie looked at her calm and composed expression, he knew that this woman must have grown up in such battles, the suffocating atmosphere of the great war before them was just a leisurely stroll for her.

  "Raise our flag!!" Bar yelled, and a black flag with a blood-red skull fluttered high on the mainmast!

  Even in the dark sky, Tang Jie could still see it fluttering proudly and unrestrainedly, with a fierce crimson color, like a cluster of bright red flames from the depths of hell!

  Bar stood at the bow of the ship, drew his own sword and pointed forward, shouting loudly: "With our swords, tell them who is the most inviolable person in the Atak Sea!"

  "We!"

  "With our blades, tell them who are the bravest pirates in the Atak Sea!"

  "We!!"

  "With our blood, tell them who is the king of the Atak Sea!"

  "We!!!"

  The pirates' fighting spirit had been stirred up by Ball to a boiling point, and now even if Ball told them to jump into the turbulent sea and swim to the enemy's warship to fight, they would jump down without hesitation!

  Bar's big beard bristled like steel wires, the flag on the ship's mast fluttered in the wind and rain, he shouted loudly: "Hell's number, advance!!"

  "Kill!"

  The pirates let out a loud shout in unison!

  Even Niya let out a sharp, shrill cry, this stunningly beautiful woman with golden hair and emerald eyes, she was like a bloodthirsty female beast at this moment, exuding an aura of murder!

  Tang Jie found himself among these pirates, feeling as if he had fallen into a bloody hell, where even the air he breathed was filled with the smell of blood and gunpowder.

  His muscles twitched slightly, his breathing gradually quickened, the thick killing intent around him made it hard for him to breathe, the blood in his body accelerated its flow bit by bit, slowly boiling...

  Under the helm of Bar, Tong Jie stared with his eyes wide open and gradually saw a sea ship with a golden flame flag fluttering in front of them.

  The pirates on the Hell's number saw this ship, and instead of becoming more agitated, they became quiet one by one, no longer shouting. They gripped their weapons tightly, staring intently at the approaching Plunderer's number, their eyes dark and filled with a crazy will to fight.

  The entire boat was eerily quiet, with only the howling wind and rain under the dark sky, and everyone's heavy breathing.

  A clear image of a three-masted warship loaded with soldiers was reflected in Tang Jie's dark pupils, growing larger and larger. A shouting soldier on the Plunderer waved his arms wildly at them, yelling for them to stop their ship.

  However, the figure of this shouting soldier in Tang Jie's pupils grew larger and larger, and even his terrified expression was clearly visible to Tang Jie.

  Suddenly, Tang Jie's whole body shook, and the ship beneath his feet transmitted a violent shockwave, followed by a loud rumbling sound. A flash of lightning illuminated the sky and the sea in an instant, making them seem transparent. Time seemed to have stopped for a brief moment. Raindrops were suspended in mid-air, and every pirate's face was lit up with a metallic sheen, revealing a hard, unyielding quality!

  Slowly, a drop of water dripped onto the icy blade, making it even colder, and emitted a crisp sound.

  Ding!

  Like a sudden trumpet blast on the calm sandy field, the pirates on the Hell's Horn let out a unified shout. Each of them grasped their grappling hooks and wielded their weapons in hand, charging forward like knights on the sandy field, swooping past with a flash of lightning and an aura of rainbow!

  A heart-wrenching and lung-splitting roar echoed in Tang Jie's ears.

  "Kill!!!"

  His fists clenched unconsciously, his fingernails deeply embedded in his flesh!

  The battle... has begun...

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