Codex Pirates

Chapter 260 ACE

"It seems that you think I'm sure of you," William said.

"Of course!" Golden Lion Shiji said easily.

"Don't be so sure about the best in everything, I'm used to being prepared for the worst in advance." William said.

The golden lion bit his cigar and sneered, "That's because you are too timid and too weak."

William shook his head. When the two were talking, he discovered that there was a poker game on the side of the road. There were a lot of pirates in this town, and gambling was one of their main forms of entertainment.

White Pine Town itself has a formal casino, but when many pirates become addicted to gambling, they don't rush to the casino, and this kind of casual gambling game with random stakes is also a way to pass the time.

However, when the pirates who played cards saw William, they all had the same expression as if they saw a ghost, and they all left the table nervously. Owner of a small town.

William led the Golden Lion Shiji to the table, and William fiddled with the cards on the table casually.

"They seem to be very afraid of you?" asked the golden lion Shiji.

William glanced at the pirates who were sitting here: "Because I don't like them playing cards here."

Golden Lion Shiji raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "You don't like gambling?"

"No, I just don't like them betting here," William put down the cards and explained, "It's easy for me to manage gambling in the casino. I can't collect taxes for this kind of game."

The corner of Golden Lion Shiji's mouth twitched downward.

At this time, the gamblers who were sitting at this table saw that William was only talking to the Golden Lion Shiji and didn't care about their intentions. They looked at each other and took a few steps back tentatively, seeing that William didn't do anything about it. , ran away at the same time, regardless of the cards and money on the table.

William returned to the previous topic. While sorting out the scattered cards, he said, "You were very strong back then, and you had the upper hand when you faced Roger, the Pirate King, but you were also defeated by an unknown storm?"

The golden lion Shiji looked angry, but William didn't give him a chance to refute, and directly raised the cards in front of him: "Would you like to take a gamble by the way? Let's see which one of us has the worse luck?"

"I never gamble, because I won't let illusory luck influence my victory." Golden Lion Shiji said coldly.

"People can't rely on luck alone, but they can't ignore luck either," William smiled slightly. "Isn't it also a kind of luck to have the overbearing arrogance you mentioned before?"

William slapped the cards onto the table with a "snap", and then spread them out with a swipe.

"Let's each draw a card and see who gets the bigger number?" William said, and he had already drawn a card.

Shi Ji, the golden lion, half-closed his eyes, raised his chin slightly, and looked at William meaningfully. After a while, he sneered and drew a card from the table.

Golden Lion Shiji flipped over the card casually, and it was a ten of diamonds. Seeing this, William also flipped over his own card, and it was an ace of spades.

William's face darkened.

"ACE?" Golden Lion Shiji's expression was half a smile, "It seems that your luck is really bad. If it is played in other ways, your card can be regarded as a big card. Unfortunately, we are only comparing numbers, and your card is the smallest. Your cleverness makes you look more like a clown."

The golden lion Shiji picked up his ten of diamonds, tore it into a pile of confetti, and threw it on William's face jokingly: "I haven't realized the reality yet, the gap between your strength and me is like the difference between us two. The same card you drew, and you still want to dispel my thoughts through a game of betting. You really let me down. Don’t you understand that the lamb is not qualified to be on the same table as the lion? You can. Only the dining table!"

"I'll give you a month to think about what I said, and think about whether you want to stay in the East China Sea for the rest of your life and be a prey, or hunt the whole world with real lions," said Golden Lion Shiji, "In addition , no matter what method you use to settle and convince your subordinates, I don’t want to take over a mess when I come back.”

William knew that this month was actually mainly reserved for the last sentence of the golden lion Shiji.

After Shi Ke finished speaking, he greeted Crick, and then led him away slowly, leaving the ugly-looking William, Selkirk, Aramis and others standing in place.

"Captain Skee? How's it going?" After walking a certain distance, Creek asked. When William talked with the golden lion Skee, he had a certain distance from Aramis, Selkirk and others, so just now He didn't really hear the content of the conversation between the two.

"Originally, I had high expectations for him, but after talking for a while, I found that I overestimated him. He is indeed very smart, but not decisive enough. Putting hope on a game of cards? Naive!" Golden Lion Shiji couldn't help laughing again Aloud, "And at this time, he is still thinking about gambling and tax collection. Doesn't he know that if he can't defy me, what is the use of all he does, even if he collects more taxes? Stupid!"

"The most important thing is that he has no courage. He thought he was forbearing? Or was he repeating the old story of the first fortune? But he never thought that it was different back then. There were only two or three people around him at the time, but now his subordinates are successful. Tens of thousands of people, I seized his boat, killed his people, and forced him to surrender, but he did not resist at all," the golden lion Shiji commented harshly, "in a blink of an eye, he will be popular. It’s all lost, or he knows this, but he just doesn’t have the guts to resist me.”

Crick glanced at the golden lion Shiji, and then looked away: "Isn't this just right for us?"

"Of course." Golden Lion Shiji laughed loudly, "Now we will go back to the island, and wait a month before we come to receive everything about this island and this country!"

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On the other side, after a long time, after the golden lion Shiji and Crick disappeared, Aramis called out: "William?"

At this time, the negative emotions such as decline and despondency on William's face were gone. With a blank expression, he twisted out the fallen card fragments from his collar and threw them on the ground. Then he raised his hand and drew a picture on top of his head. lock up.

Located at the port on the edge of Baisong Town, on the towering lighthouse, Dampier, who has been holding a telescope, patted on the side with a special sniper rifle. Ever since William and the Golden Lion appeared on the same street, they have been motionless and have been lying down until now jesus cloth.

"alright."

Hearing this, Jesus Bu moved his eyes away from the sniper scope, stretched his sore neck, then spit out suddenly, and said with some displeasure, "I can kill him with one shot."

Apparently, Jesus Bu saw the scene where the golden lion Shiji threw the confetti in William's face.

"You'll have a chance to make up the shot," Dampier said reassuringly, "but, man, it's up to William to kill himself."