48 Hours a Day

Belomont didn't expect to meet an acquaintance in the carriage, and Lord Elmer, the captain of the Scarborough, was sitting next to him, but the two met with the latter in a slightly awkward face, opening their mouths and saying nothing.

Beyond that, they were sitting opposite a man in a naval uniform.

The carriage flew down the street, and Belomont calmed down, “Who are you and why are you kidnapping me? ”

“I'm Edward Titch, and I'm sure you're familiar with that name.” Men bluntly say that Belomont's news has changed from time to time, and of course the people of the new continent have heard of Captain Blackbeard's notoriety, especially those like Belomont who have always been committed to fighting piracy, and naturally the most prestigious pirate leader in the Caribbean Sea. In fact, Belomont has planned several round-ups against Captain Blackbeard, but has failed to succeed in making the latter more famous.

Belomont dreamed of catching each other, but when Edward Titch really showed up in front of him, he was not happy at all, but Belomont was a man who had seen the big scene, and his surprise was that he only stayed on his face for less than two seconds and regained his previous temper, looking at Elmer on the side of the scene in disgrace.

“It turns out it was Mr. Titch, famous for a long time, and this time he finally met the real person. ”

“Unfortunately, this is not the first time we've met. ”

Belomont wondered, “Have we met before, when? ”

“First time? I was supposed to be in naval school at the time, and I remember that day when you walked in with him. ”

“He?”

“Looks like you're a very forgetful man, Count, so let me give you one more hint, 1695, did you think of anything? ”

Veromont's divine colour changed dramatically, never before, and his eyes filled with suspicion, "Who are you? ”

“He was a Navy hero, the most prestigious adventurer in England at the time, and was personally honored by the Queen, and you had just taken over the post of colonial governor, and you were still worried about how to wipe out pirates and resume maritime trade, and to deal with Henry Avery and Thomas Tu, the two most powerful pirates in the new continent at the time, you found him and begged him to go out to sea to hunt pirates for you.

“He did not agree at first, because he was tired of war, but you did not give up and you have been trying to persuade him to fight for the prosperity of the new continent. Eventually he was moved by your sincerity and friendship and decided to accept the mission, which was when I boarded his ship and became his munitions officer. ”

“It was my happiest day to be able to sail with the idols I've always had, and to work towards a beautiful new continent, it's hard to find a more heartbreaking future than this.” It was something to be happy about, but Titch's tone was chilling.

“From the outset, however, this operation did not go well. We were stopped by naval personnel before we left the port, saying that the fighting on the Spanish side was tense and that almost all the sailors on board our ships had been pulled out. There was nothing we could do but recruit another group of people in the shortest possible time, fell down and crashed out of the port, drifted at sea for six months without finding the whereabouts of Henry Avery and Thomas Tu. ”

“The atmosphere on the boat began to get tense, and many of the sailors we had rushed to recruit, who were already local villains and gangsters, went out searching for wealth, and now that they can't get a reward, they don't mind making up for it with something else. ”

Tidgeton said, "There were only three people on the boat who had been in the naval school at the time, except him, only my first mate and I, and yet the three of us had no control over the situation on the boat. I was tied up when I appealed to the crew, beaten up and thrown into the sheep's circle on the boat, and the sailors threatened to kill me three days later, and in order to save my life, he eventually had to respond to the sailors' demands. ”

“We chose a French merchant ship to target, but we didn't expect it to belong to the East Indian company, flying the rice flag across the street from the battle, and we convinced the sailors to opt out, but someone on that ship recognized him, and since then there have been rumours everywhere in the New World that we have become pirates. ”

“It was the darkest part of my life, and I didn't know what I had done wrong, and God would let that happen to us, and he comforted me at that time, gave me confidence, convinced me that as long as we returned to civilization, we could get away with it and tell the world the truth. ”

“That was the only thing that kept me alive at the time, but I didn't expect it to be that long until four years later, when we met another group of pirates, the crew decided to join them before finally letting us go, and eventually only 13 people, including me, were willing to follow him back to the colony. ”

“We decided to go ashore in New York, to contact the Navy, to make public what had happened over the years, when you had become the best governor of the colony by cleaning up the pirates, and you were worried that your political career would be affected by your association with us, so you sent someone to find us and tell him that you understood and sympathized with everything that had happened to us and that you were willing to help us get rid of our crimes. ”

“I warned him, but he believed in you so much that he did not hesitate to return the proceeds of our pillage over the years and the letters between you before you left the port. He believed that you and your allies in the Whitehall could return us a innocent man. You always knew what he was like, didn't you? He always had some expectation of the civilized world and was willing to believe in its goodwill. ”

Belomont also became anxious to breathe here, and he tidied his tie, but the cold voice in his ear did not disappear.

“But then you betrayed him, deceived him into Boston, arrested him as soon as he first stepped onto the land, burned the letters that could be used as evidence, swallowed the stolen goods he handed over to you, and brought him back to London for trial, and to make sure he couldn't say anything to your detriment, you also implied Elmer to take good care of him along the way.

“I heard he was insane before he returned to England, where those people hanged him by the Thames River and left his body hanging for two years, calling him the most horrible pirate in the New World, and caught you again with a Whitehall award. ”

Mr. Lord next door said that he was left with a cold sweat. He didn't realize that this was even about him. His voice was crying, stuttering, “I... I really don't know about you. I was just a man running errands at the time, and I couldn't refuse Mr. Count...”

Unfortunately, his words stopped only halfway through, and Elmer didn't realize at the last minute before his death that the man across the street was so simple that he didn't even have a chance to argue, pulling out a short gun directly from his waist and pulling the trigger.

Edward Titch didn't even look at the freshly discharged body in his seat, but looked over at Mr. Count, whose voice sounded colder than sea water.

“I told the pirates outside that I had come for Kid's treasure, but I knew better than anyone that Kid had left no treasure at all, and I came here tonight for one thing only, to avenge him. ”

Belomont can no longer maintain even superficial calm, his eyes filled with fear, the whole person curled up in his seat, shaking constantly, "I can give you whatever you want, whatever you want, I can give you forgiveness, I can give you wealth that will last forever. ”

“Don't bother, just do what I want.” Edward Titch finally finished his last sentence, holding on to the knife in his hand, at a moment when there was no more violent smell of the past and all he had was intense sadness.