48 Hours a Day

“Is that why you had to recruit ten French-speaking people on the island before? ”

“Yes, we're leaving thirty people on deck, disguised as sailors on a merchant ship, um, try not to look so fierce, thin, and the rest in a secret compartment under the deck, oh yeah, and artillery, there's a little too much artillery on the boat, throw half of it away. ”

“Are you serious? Only a dozen artillery guns left to fight Britain's most powerful battleship in the Caribbean? ”

“Believe me, there is no difference between sixteen and thirty-two cannons in the face of the Scarborough.” Olf shrugged his shoulders and looked around, "is there a problem? ”

“Even if we do what you say, we are fortunate enough to trick the people on the Scarborough into believing that we are a French merchant ship that has succeeded in getting on board, we are still in an absolute disadvantage on our hands.” Zhang Heng, who had been silent before, also said.

“The good news is, we all know there are 700 people on the Scarborough, but this number is actually moisturizing, and Captain Elmer, from a noble family, has a very luxurious lifestyle of his own, which has not changed, even on the Scarborough, who has paid musicians, individual cooks, and waiters… cluttered up with a whole bunch of people who have no fighting power, plus the logistics of the ship, should really be able to fight only 600 people. ”

“To quote you before, I see no difference between 600 and 700 people?” Owen Dao.

“I am not finished, the tension on the Mabella side, the Navy recruited a group of experienced old sailors from the new continent at the beginning of this year, and now about two thirds of them are recruits on the Scarborough, mostly colonial fishermen and farmers, who have gone through only a brief month or two of training, and the level of combat is very average, as long as we can beat them in the first attack and then they are likely to collapse altogether, so our real enemy is just those 200 veterans, who are now real men on this boat, one-on-one, and I do not believe you will lose to anyone. ”

The last sentence of Olf succeeded in provoking the blood in the bones of many, but few responders remained.

The key is that the fame of the Scarborough, which has always been a nightmare for pirates around the Caribbean Sea, has fallen short of the morale inspired by the thought of challenging this enormous thing.

Olf clapped his hands, “Gentlemen, I know what you're worried about. I told you from the beginning, this is not an easy journey. The treasure will not come to us on its own. There is no doubt that we will experience grinding and challenges along the way, but as long as everyone works together...”

Irving couldn't help interrupting his remarks, “Challenging the Scarborough is not grinding. It's too dangerous. Even if nothing goes wrong in the middle, it's still unknown if we can take it down. You said the treasure map thing should be kept secret. We have been unconditionally under your command for so long, but I'm afraid not this time. If you want us to agree to this, at least tell us why. ”

Owen's words resonated with the pirates, and Orpheus nodded when he saw the big trend, "Well, anyway, we're close to the target, and I can almost tell you, I got the exact message that the fifth treasure map is in the hands of Count Belomont. ”

“Count Belomont? Count Belomont, the Governor of New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire? ”

At first, there were pirates who didn't know what the name meant. After hearing this, they couldn't help but take a breath of cool air. If you put a list on the list for the most powerful people in the new continent, Veromont must be one of the top few. A treasure map in the hands of such a big man is hardly likely to be taken back.

“Yes, he was also the one who put Kid on the gallows himself, and after Kid died, a large part of his relics were left in his hands, not only the fifth treasure map, but also the clues related to the sixth treasure map, in other words, we could almost find the treasure if we caught him.” Olf then threw another chip, "and his own value was no less than a treasure, and if we succeeded in capturing him, it would cost him an estimated £400,000 in ransom conservatively. ”

This number makes everyone's breathing unbearable and Kid's treasure is still a little far away, but the ransom is close.

And yet, the real decisive part is Olf's last sentence, “Belomont will leave his territory in a month and a half to go to Charleston for his little girl's wedding, which is our best chance to take the Scarborough and we can block Charleston's harbor and go ashore and arrest people. ”

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“I must have been crazy to vote in favour.” Marvin's hands are shaking with the potato knife, “we're dead, aren't we? The cannon on the Scarborough will tear us all to pieces, or the sailors will rush up and cut us straight. God, I should have listened to you vote no. ”

“If it doesn't work, even your vote is a long way from vetoing this operation.” Zhang Heng, carrying a soup spoon, remained calm. If he could decide where things were going, he certainly didn't want to go to this point. However, today the Sea Lion is in the hands of Orpheus, who himself is wary of him. Zhang Heng has been low profile on the boat for some time. Although he voted against it, he hasn't discouraged anyone except by saying a word to Marvin.

There is no point in complaining about it so far, and only a single crew member who takes down the Scarborough together will have a way to live.

Zhang Heng and Marvin were selected as a group of disguised merchant boat personnel for their less brutal looks and are now cooks on this "French merchant boat”.

Zhang Heng took off his black coat and temporarily placed it in the custody of the ambush in the compartment along with the weapon on his body. However, for the sake of safety, he retained a dagger to defend himself. The dagger was hidden under the potato skin at Marvin's feet.

After a while, footsteps came from outside the door, bookkeeper Griffin ran down the deck, "The Scarborough is hooked and is coming this way, Mr. Olf asked me to inform you to prepare yourselves and not to show your feet. ”

He had obviously not experienced anything like this before, seemed nervous, even his speech was a little stubborn, but given the role they were playing now, it was a normal reaction to encountering a British warship.