traveler among pirates

Chapter 9

After Hughes left, the mayor still stood where he was, not recovering for a long time.

"Whoo~"

The mayor wiped the sweat off his forehead with his hand and let out a long sigh of relief.

He looked in the direction Hughes was leaving with a look of fear on his face. For a moment just now, he thought he was going to be chopped off.

"Hey! You guys, hurry up and show me that boat! If the boat is missing a piece of wood, I'll take you apart and put it on!"

Different from the submissiveness to Hughes, the mayor is instructing the group of dock workers who are still waiting on the shore with a fierce look on his face.

And the group of villagers faced the mayor, who was much weaker than himself, he didn't dare to complain, and trotted all the way over.

They tied the boat left by Hughes aside and stood guard on the shore, it seemed that they planned to stand until Hughes came.

crunch~

The shutter door of the tavern was pushed open, and a figure walked in.

The originally noisy environment in the tavern became quiet in an instant.

Hughes looked around, the interior of the tavern was very simple, and it didn't look like the decoration that a tavern owner would make.

There are just a few old tables, benches, and a bar.

On the surrounding wooden walls, there are only large areas of mildew as decoration, and the roof rails and corners are covered with cobwebs.

Behind the knife-scarred bar, there are no drinks on display. There is a wine list on the wall behind, and there are only a few kinds of wine on it.

It was such a dilapidated tavern, and it was actually full of people at the moment.

These people have fierce eyes, scars all over their faces and hands, poor clothes, and guns and weapons in their hands.

Hughes ignored the group of pirates, walked to the bar, sat down, and ordered a glass of cold beer.

Because apart from beer, Hughes couldn't see what was written on it. The words were so ugly.

"It's coming, it's so lucky, it's actually coming to us!"

"Hey, those guys probably regretted it to death now."

"Captain, shall we board now?"

"No hurry, just follow the old method."

"Cough cough."

A light cough came from the crowd, like a signal.

"Hey~ hello!"

A pirate with a thick bandage on his head picked up the flintlock gun on the table, tilted his head, and strode towards the bar.

click.

The gun was pointed at the back of Hughes' head.

"Do you know that this tavern has been booked by our captain!"

Hey~
Hughes flicked the wine glass, and the water drops fell on the surface of the glass. Through the reflection, the wine glass filled with light yellow liquid reflected the figure of the gun-wielding pirate behind Hughes.

"Ah! You hear that"

The man in the bandage was very annoyed at Hughes ignoring him, and slowly pulled the trigger with his finger.

"stop!"

A man in a captain's suit, with a black blindfold over his left eye, and a hood.

Standing up from the wine table in the corner, he raised his hand to stop the bandaged man from moving.

He walked to Hughes and sat down, putting his hand on Hughes' shoulder.

"My friend, I apologize for the rudeness of my men, come, this glass of wine is my apology to you"

After finishing speaking, he also slapped the man in the bandage who was standing beside him to the floor, and blood seeped out of his bandage.

Goo-dong, goo-dong.

Captain Blindfold took a few sips, and swallowed the strong wine in the wooden wine glass.

After drinking, he kicked the bandaged man who fell to the ground.

"Don't get up and apologize to this little brother!"

The man in the bandage struggled to raise his head, met his captain's icy cold eyes, and got up from the floor in a jerk.

"Yes, sorry!"

He apologized with a ninety-degree bow to Hughes.

Hughes quietly watched the actions of the two without opening his mouth.

Answer, answer.

Seeing that Hughes didn't speak, the man in the bandage could only maintain a bowing posture and didn't dare to move. Big spots of sweat mixed with blood dripped from the tip of his nose.

Hughes drank the beer in his hand, waved his hand, and signaled the man to get out.

He also wanted to see what new tricks these pirates could play next.

It's just the first stop when I go out to sea, and I can meet such interesting things.

This kind of scene, which could only be seen on TV before, unexpectedly appeared in front of his eyes now.

And he is one of the protagonists, Hughes is still a little excited.

He didn't want to interrupt this farce, he hoped that this group of pirates could add more fun to him.

"Don't hurry up!"

The blindfolded captain kicked the bandaged man away.

He turned his back to Hughes and motioned for his little brother to bring him two glasses of wine.

Seeing his captain's expression, the pirate immediately knew what wine to take.

"Hey, boss, here you are."

The blindfolded pirate took two glasses of beer and turned to Hughes.

"Come on! My friend, this glass of wine is my treat!"

As he spoke, he put a glass of wine in his hand on the bar, and the wooden wine glass slid in front of Hughes.

"I'll do it first."

Hughes looked down at the glass of wine, held the handle of the glass with one hand, and poured the wine into his mouth.

Gollum, gollum.
The pirates around are all smiling at the moment.

"The captain has started again."

"Hey hey hey! This man is dead! The captain's wine is not so good."

"Captain, he is a man known as a poisonous scorpion!"

Seeing that Hughes drank the glass of wine, the blindfolded man couldn't hold back the smile in his eyes. He put down the glass in his hand and couldn't stop laughing.

"Hahahahaha! Idiot! Is my wine so delicious!"

"Hahaha!"

The surrounding pirates also laughed together.

"You will slowly die under my snake venom, hahahaha!"

When Hughes stepped into the bar, he had already noticed it.

That knife, the strange red blade, the sharp edge that hurts when touched.

You can't be wrong, it is definitely a famous knife, and it may even be one of the 21 Gongda fast knives!
"Stupid guy, holding such a knife, it's not worthy of a scabbard to hide it, but it's still ostentatiously placed on the body, it's really life-threatening."

The reason why Hughes didn't attack as soon as he entered the door was that he wanted to take the knife all by himself.

He didn't want to make this a big deal, after all, they were not the only pirate group here.

There are many more powerful pirates in this small town.

Moreover, his own strength is not very strong. What he is good at is the method of poisoning without anyone noticing. His crew is generally not very strong.

He usually only robs and robs in this kind of small town, and uses the indiscriminate methods just now to deal with some seemingly powerful characters.

As for whether the provocative pirate will be killed, he doesn't care about such things.

But for those pirates whose bounty is higher than his own, he will choose to give up immediately.

He also knows his own poison, so he deals with those who have no strength.

He has already confirmed that Hughes does not offer a bounty. In this sea, the stronger he is, the higher the bounty.

For the sake of reputation and status, all pirates are trying their best to increase their bounties.

For this reason, let alone murder and arson, they can do it even if it is to massacre villages and destroy the country.

As for those pirates who don't have a bounty, they are basically not even miscellaneous fish, which is basically the consensus of all the people they use.

So the moment he was sure that Hughes didn't offer a bounty, he decided to do it, and with that knife, it's strange that he didn't do it.

The only difference is that the way of doing it has changed from taking by force to poisoning and solving it quietly.

boom!
A figure fell to the ground, the wine glass fell to the floor, and the wine spilled out.

"Hahaha…"

The laughter all around stopped abruptly, the accident was not the fat sheep they thought, but their captain!
The blindfolded pirate rolled his eyes white, his head covered in blood, and fell to the ground.

Hughes was still sitting at the bar, his body position did not change, only the wine glass that should have been in his hand disappeared.

"It turned out to be poisoning. I thought it was a scene of throwing cups to give orders. It's boring."

"Go! Avenge the captain!"

"Hey hey hey!"

The surrounding pirates held guns and knives, grinning grinningly, and surrounded Hughes.

boom!
A red light flashed across, the pirates present didn't see what was going on, they all lost consciousness and passed out, the tavern was instantly turned into ruins.

As for the owner of the tavern, there was no such thing from the beginning. This tavern has only pirates from the beginning. This may be a place for these people to 'fish'.

It's just that this time they encountered an existence they couldn't afford.

"Ah~ It's really troublesome, can't you just be honest."

Hughes got up and frowned slightly, and looked helplessly at the ruins around him. Originally, he just wanted to come in and ask something, but he didn't expect it to end up like this.

However, Hughes doesn't care, after all, there are other taverns.

This street seems to be full of pubs, but I don't know how many are real pubs.

"Hey, it seems that there is something to play."

Hughes stepped away from the ruins.

(End of this chapter)