Mystery: The Stars Returner

Damier Island, to the west is Puning Port in South Wales, and to the southeast is Bansi Island, where the famous Bansi Port is located.

Hastur stood at the bow of the ship, observing the movements on the sea with his naked eyes. It was now the time when darkness shrouded the sea, and the sea was like a mass of black water, and they were sharks traveling in the black water.

When a shark smells prey, it opens its ferocious mouth.

"Do you like the sea?"

Hastur suddenly spoke, and the two adjutants standing beside him were stunned for a while. One of them laughed dryly and said: "What do you like or dislike? I remember the first time I came back from a long boat trip, I almost fell ill." I had a phobia of the ocean and had nightmares for a while.”

Another adjutant said: "I like the sea because it always accepts every creature that arrives here. No matter it is dirty, poor, or dead, the sea will give it a place to rest."

Hasta nodded lightly and said nothing more.

As the ship gradually approached the waters near Damier Island, they encountered the patrol ship of the pirate group.

The pilot lights on the warship are too dazzling in this dark night. Once the distance is close, it is normal to be discovered.

But for the pirates entrenched on Damir Island, such lights are the golden light that symbolizes wealth.

There will always be some merchant ships that stray into the nearby waters in the dark and become their prey.

The two patrol boats quickly called their captains, saying that a big fat sheep was coming to their door.

As for this light, it could be a navy warship?

The joke wasn't very funny, and the nearby pirates were having a hard time gaining a sense of superiority over South Wales' navy when it came to mocking it.

After all, people can't always be compared to a puddle of mud.

Hastur asked people to temporarily turn off the headlights on other warships, leaving only the lights on the two leading warships.

When about eight pirate ships came one after another under the cover of darkness, wanting to tear apart their prey, the two leading warships stopped where they were, waiting for them to deliver their goods.

Who is the hunter and who is the prey can only be known when the gunfire sounds.

Most of the ships of ordinary pirates are ordinary fishing boats that have been modified. They can carry four or five cannons, which is considered a good firepower.

Only those large-scale pirate groups have warships that can compete with warships.

Therefore, when they hunt merchant ships, they usually fire a few cannons in the waters near the merchant ships to act as a deterrent.

Unless necessary, they will not directly attack the merchant ship itself to avoid capsizing the ship, causing it to catch fire, and causing damage to the cargo on board.

The grappling hook is a somewhat ancient weapon that can help pirate ships secure merchant ships. Firstly, it can avoid being thrown away by the speed of the merchant ship. Secondly, it can allow pirates to climb onto the merchant ship along the cable rope built by the grappling hook to rob.

This is the common method of plundering carried out by pirates.

The first batch of pirate visitors that Hastur and the others encountered tonight wanted to use this method.

The navy on the ship had already lined up with guns in line with the usual combat drills and stood guard at their combat posts.

Just waiting for a gunshot.

About a few minutes later, several rounds of gunfire rang out.

The two lieutenants beside Hastur have already led people to capture the captain of this pirate group and asked him to tell the story about Damir Island.

Then, the captain was hanged on the gallows along with the other pirates.

Whether they are pirates who lay down their weapons and surrender, or pirates who resist stubbornly, their destination is the gallows.

Hastur did not have the time, nor the thought, to screen out possible innocents among the pirates.

Half an hour later, the warship had arrived at Damir Island.

"fire!"

As the order fell, neat artillery fire took care of every inch of the entire Damir Island without any partiality.

Hastur narrowed his eyes and looked at the shocking scene of artillery fire washing the ground.

This island is not too big, and there is only one port for entry and exit.

When the sound of cannons rang through the port of Damir Island, the first reaction of the sleepy pirates was not that the navy was attacking, but which pirate groups started fighting again?

When the shells landed not far from where they lived, they were so frightened that they quickly got up from the bed and cursed: "What a heartless bastard, a brainless pig son, actually fired into a residential area!"

"When you hug your mother-in-law and have no place to sleep at night, I will definitely gather a large group of people to watch!"

It is said to be a residential area, that is, there are rows of wooden houses, most of which have only one floor, and a few have two floors.

The house was built crookedly and not beautiful at all. Under the baptism of artillery fire, the wood still faced the fate of being burned.

After more than ten rounds of artillery fire, and when the barrels of the guns were so hot that they could burn people to death, Hastur ordered the navy on board to form a formation and land.

All pirates who show up will not be allowed to let go.

It wasn't until gunshots took away the lives of the pirates that they saw them wearing uniform navy uniforms, and then they died with stunned eyes.

Here, no pirate would have thought that the navy of South Wales would take advantage of the darkness to catch them off guard.

Hastur stood at the bow of the ship, watching as nearly 800 sailors swept away every trace of pirates.

When it was discovered that there were so many extraordinary people who wanted to take advantage of the cover of night to escape or resist.

The gardener and chef who went to sea with Hastur, under Hastur's nod, also joined the battlefield with their own scissors and boning knives.

Even if the two of them didn't take action, the bodies of several Sequence 9 and Sequence 8 Beyonders were still very fragile in front of firearms.

A shot to the head or the heart can easily take away their lives.

Even a powerful shepherd like Mr. A would not choose to use guns and cannons. Bullets may not cause fatal injuries, but the recovery speed of a body that is constantly bombarded is far less than the speed of destruction.

Of course, the most powerful thing about such powerful extraordinary beings is not whether their bodies can withstand the baptism of artillery, but their high degree of flexibility.

This is the basis for their powerful threat capabilities.

The gunshots that resounded through the night sky continued until the sun rose the next day.

Except for some smart pirates who took advantage of the chaos and left with empty oak barrels, the other pirates on Damier Island were all here.

The broken limbs, intestines and heads on the ground were colorfully mixed together like a hot pot party.

The strong smell of blood becomes even more obvious when the sun rises, making people feel nauseous.

Last night, at least half of the navy who was like a god coming down to sweep away the pirates were vomiting, and a third of them had secretly vomited. Only a few of them were pale and still trying to calm down.

There is no way, the power of artillery is far beyond that of guns, and under its raging, not many intact corpses can be left.

Some pirates who surrendered early were also shocked by this bloody scene.

Among those corpses, many of them had just drank and had fun with them last night, and now they had completely turned into cold corpses. Some of them could not even be preserved intact.

In order to survive, they knelt on the ground and kept begging Hastur, the highest status, for mercy. They had all kinds of begging words.

In response, Hastur said calmly: "Bring them on board."

The pirates who thought they were lucky to have saved their lives burst into tears of gratitude, and some even shed tears and cried with joy.

When they boarded the ship and saw the corpses of hanged pirates, panic and horror began to spread.

But under the aim of rows of black gun barrels, even though they kept cursing, crying and begging for mercy, in the end they all turned into hanging corpses.

It's not that Hastur wants to imitate his predecessor, the Archduke of South Wales, but at this time, he needs to give the increasingly rampant pirates a little shock, and at the same time, it can boost morale and confidence.

No matter how powerful a pirate is, he still has one head and two arms.

As long as you have a gun in your hand, everyone is equal under one shot.

As the pirates on Damir Island were cleared, Hastur naturally took back the wealth they collected as trophies.

During this period, the gardener who had washed the big scissors came to see Hastur and said that he had captured the leader of the Dark Hand Pirates, a Sequence 7 navigator.

How else to deal with it?

Also hanging on the gallows, and then arranging his body at the front, he should also be given some respect to the leader of the Sequence 7 pirate group.

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Before the ship arrived at Puning Port, word had spread that the pirates on Damir Island had been wiped out.

Many people came to the port and waited eagerly for the return of the navy.

Some people who had relatives in the Navy started to straighten their backs and speak loudly, telling uninformed people how different the Puning Port Navy is now, from the layoffs of the Navy to the expansion of recruitment, and then to talk about daily life. train.

It greatly satisfies many people’s melon-eating mood.

Klein was also a member of the crowd. He had no idea that things would unfold like this.

He was about to tell Count Hastur Campbell about the pirate group, but he didn't expect that the other party had already wiped out the pirates on Damir Island first.

I don’t know if the Dark Hand Pirate Group mentioned by Mr. Hanged Man has also been wiped out.

When the setting sun began to shine on the sea, the neatly arranged fleet finally appeared in everyone's sight.

When the fleet approached, they discovered that the pirate corpses were also arranged neatly and hung on the ropes.