Three Hundred and Fifty Sixth, the King of Fear

It was getting dark.

Under the blessing of the night, the shadow of the San Carlos looks extraordinarily huge, especially because there is a huge difference in height between the Sloop and the Brigantine. When you look up, this hugeness will become more and more intense. Makes people... shudder.

It was like watching a sleeping giant.

Blackbeard stood behind the handwheel, gripping the handle of the wheel with both hands.

His palms were sweating profusely. Sweat was slippery, and the teak handwheel that was coated with pulp also became slippery, and it didn't feel like a finger in the hand at all.

That's the beauty of fear.

As a competent outlaw, Blackbeard enjoys fear immensely.

In his eyes, fear is a panacea that can make people tyrannical and invincible, so that people will no longer be disturbed by the power of other fears, and they will no longer have to recall the cowardly and unwilling pains of the past.

In order to gain enjoyment, he challenges the madness that is impossible in the eyes of ordinary people all the time.

He has done a lot of crazy things, but if you add the crazy things of the past together, those crazy things may not be far superior to today's desperate gambling, driving a Sloop sailboat that can't even be called a "ship", Charge to the Brigentine gunboat with the Spanish Navy.

He is charging, in the Spanish colony, facing the garrison of this great lake, charging under the circumstances that the weather and hydrology are not favorable to him, and all he can rely on is invisible and intangible momentum, only after thousands of bets. The stunt of spreading fear to the opponent!

Put all the trump cards that determine the outcome into the opponent's hand. During the charge, before the collision occurs and the two sides are completely mixed together, as long as the opposite cannon fires again, the Caribbean Sea is destined to lose another pirate. Wang, his black beard will follow in the footsteps of Thomas the Fly without any suspense...

Could there be anything crazier than this in the world?

"Death, so sweet..."

Blackbeard laughed because he suddenly remembered an interesting thing.

In fact, this is not the first time that the Sloop under his feet has made such an irrational charge. Her original owner had done exactly the same thing to Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, two years earlier.

Sloop's name is the Beloved Lucia, and the reckless original owner was the famous hero in the Gulf of Mexico, the pirate hunter Fabiano.

In Blackbeard's impression, Fabiano seemed to be the most powerful swordsman he had ever encountered.

Back then, he was not the pirate king Blackbeard, and he was invited to hand over a business in the port of Tampico on the Gulf of Mexico, where he was ambushed by Fabiano.

In that battle, there were only four partners of justice including Fabiano, while the number of evil apostles was twenty-five even if Blackbeard was excluded.

But Fabiano just won.

With his excellent sword skills and the traps laid out by the hunters in advance, Blackbeard was defeated without any suspense.

His bodyguards were almost killed, and the three cadres, including the second person on board at the time, helmsman Simon, were all captured by hunters.

Blackbeard, who only escaped with his body, almost collapsed because of this.

In order to get back his confidence and dignity, he quickly found Fabiano's hometown of Bayes Town through an intelligence dealer.

On the day Simon was hanged, he captured the manor, burned the farm, and killed most of the living things he saw.

Among them are Fabiano's elderly parents and young two sons and one daughter.

At the end of the ceremony, he stripped the only survivor of the manor, Fabiano's beloved Ms. Lucia, naked, and nailed it alive to the front of the villa's foyer with five long nails, engraved with the Fabiano family crest that wall.

Fabiano disappeared without a trace.

Until half a year later, when Blackbeard became the current Blackbeard and his flagship was renamed the new generation Queen Anne's Revenge, he was attacked by Fabiano again in Nassau.

At that time, he already had the shadow warrior Zainni and the obsidian blade warrior Chamuyam by his side, and he himself had received the gift of endless fear, and he was not what he used to be, and he was a different person.

The mighty Fabiano couldn't even break through Chamuyam's giant spear, leaving behind a broken arm and the corpses of a dozen of his companions, and retreated sadly. Only then did he have the final battle, driving the Beloved Lucia to Queen Anne The starboard side of the Revenge launches a desperate charge.

The memories are vivid.

Once Fabiano, now Edward Blackbeard.

Blackbeard found that history had returned to the original point, and the retribution came quietly, just like the curse that Fabiano screamed before he turned into a broken sack came true overnight, which made him want to yell loudly.

"Boys, the Spanish battleship is ahead!"

"oh!"

"Those sailors were terrified at the Port Authority's villa. We were right in front of them, but they didn't even dare to fire their guns!"

"oh!"

"Kill them all!" Blackbeard laughed loudly, "Let us kill them all! Let them know why we are called the monsters of the Caribbean, and even the pirates regard us as the embodiment of fear!"

"Long live fear! Long live the leader!"

"The last 30 meters, get on board!!!!!!"

"kill!"

The pirates gathered on the deck were encouraged by Blackbeard and had nowhere to vent their anger. Some of them threw hooks from a distance, trying to lock the huge prey in front of them and prevent her from escaping.

At this moment, cheers similar to those of pirates erupted on the panicked and helpless San Carlos.

The high morale, the willingness to fight, and all kinds of positive things were expressed unabashedly from the cheers of freshmen. The smell in the air made Blackbeard feel sick.

He has passed the test of fate.

Why, he threw himself naked in front of the Spanish guns, and it only took a random bullet to kill him.

But the Spaniards couldn't grasp it.

The gun ports on the starboard side were wide open, and the guns jutted out of the hull and had not been retracted into their bays since their last firing.

Now there are only the last 30 meters left, and the Spaniards have already wasted the favor of fate. Even if they reload now, it is too late to complete the launch before the Beloved Lucia is docked.

In other words, Blackbeard won.

The winner takes everything, the loser pays with his life, the Spaniard...can't that damned shameless Marat honestly accept the bet?

Blackbeard felt his chest full of anger.

He wanted to board the ship right away and ask Mara for clarification, but he looked up just in time to see the San Carlos begin to turn awkwardly.

She maintained a nearly static state, and all the sails were not opened, but simply deflected with the rudder, allowing the water to drive the hull to twist slightly.

This kind of twisting is obviously not to avoid the boarding of the Beloved Lucia, but more like not wanting the two ships to be damaged too much in the collision, so the sheer angle is cut so that the subsequent boarding can develop more traditionally, In other words, let the man with black beard board the ship faster.

invitation to fight...

Such a word popped up in Blackbeard's mind, but he didn't have time to think through the cause and effect.

The two ships meet!

The left bow of Beloved Lucia hit heavily on the starboard side of San Carlos, and the location of the collision was deeply sunken, but due to the existence of the cut corner, it was hard to tear the gap.

The impact is not complete.

The incomplete impact was not enough to consume the kinetic energy accumulated by my beloved Lucia along the way, and the remaining force pushed the boat, pressing against the hull of San Carlos and squeezing it forward.

The San Carlos rotated faster, and the Beloved Lucia also adjusted its orientation uncontrollably. The angle between the two ships narrowed rapidly until the stern collided violently!

Chamuyam throws the hook high.

The iron claw attached to the rope was thrown to a height of five or six meters, landed on the deck of the San Carlos, and was hooked.

Chamuyam grabbed the rope and began to board the ship, taking the lead in rushing ahead of all the pirates.

"Quetzalcoatl! Curse my enemies, destroy my enemies!"

He prayed loudly to his god, turned his burly body onto the deck, and raised his hand to throw out the huge indestructible wheel axe.

"The Blackbeard Pirates are acting, according to the order of the leader, kill!!!!"