A huge ship squeaks and squeaks of wooden planks squeaking against each other, swaying up and down and swaying on the surface of the sea, and every time the waves hit the boat, the boat's round body sways from side to side, looking like a ball floating on the water from a distance.

But in fact, this somewhat comical looking ship was a terrible fellow, and on its deck, in addition to the full crew, there were forty soldiers on board, and these soldiers armed with crossbows, scimitars, daggers, and a few muskets were the indispensable killing weapons on this ship, and in addition to these, the ship was also equipped with ten terrible cannons, and these cannons were the most feared fangs of this seemingly harmless ship.

Although the power of the cannon is limited for various reasons at this time, this does not prevent it from being terrifying in the event of a roar that can not only make people tremble, but even change the color of the heavens and the earth.

Especially for some of the ships that were supposed to be smaller than the Galen ship on this day, in the face of such a huge creature, looking at its muzzle of the terrible black hole exposed on the side of the ship, it was enough to make the faint of heart tremble with fear.

Now there was a smaller, medium-sized schooner struggling on the sea not far in front of the Galen, the schooners who were originally trying to find a way to escape, after the Galen's threatening shot hit the nearby sea, and the huge waves that splashed in an instant almost overturned the hull, finally gave up resistance, honestly dropped sail and anchored and stopped.

The men on the schooners gathered on the deck with trepidation to watch the approaching Galen, and although they could clearly see the flags fluttering above each other's sails, none of them knew what they would face next in an era when the difference between an army and a robber was only in the mind of the commander.

The Galen ship was so large that the people on the ship had to poke their heads out of the time to see each other's situation when they got closer, so the heads on the schooner saw their heads poking out from the side of the ship, most of them were dirty-haired and hateful-looking guys, although these people were uniformly dressed and looked like a regular army, but the look on their faces was not reassuring at all, on the contrary, it only made people feel more and more uneasy the more they looked at it.

The owner of the schooner secretly wondered that he was desperately ready to be robbed, and only hoped that God would be merciful to these robbers, and not kill the whole ship by the way after stealing something.

The owner of the ship couldn't help but pray secretly, and he looked up at the terrible figures that kept appearing on the other boat, until a figure that he didn't expect to appear in such a place came into his eyes.

Under the reflection of the sunlight behind her, an elegant figure appeared on the side of the Galen ship, although it only had the upper body, but it happened that the sea sunlight projected from between the sails behind her perfectly set off the figure, and even reflected a faint rose gold light on the side of her rather graceful outline.

The shipowner, who was standing in the light and tilted his head, looked down a little on the face of the woman who suddenly appeared in front of him, but he was sure that this was a very young woman, even if he couldn't see her face clearly, but the vitality of her body that seemed to be full of youth could infect anyone who saw her.

"Madame! Noble lady! Please help us! ”

The owner of the boat shouted desperately, although he didn't know who this woman was, but he had only one way to go, and if he was a little late, he might be thrown into the sea to feed the fish.

After the shipowner finished shouting, he waited in fear, like a prisoner waiting for the final verdict.

He could feel that when the young woman appeared, the terrible sailors standing on the side of the ship seemed to cause a little commotion, which made him somewhat sure that the woman seemed to have some place in the ship.

Sure enough, he heard what someone on Galen's ship was saying, and there seemed to be a bit of an argument, but after a while he heard a young woman's gentle voice: "Who are you?" ”

For the owner of the schooner, this was probably the most beautiful female voice he had ever heard in his life, and he even felt the urge to kneel down at this moment, which made him secretly swear in his heart before he could answer: "As long as I can return to my hometown safely, I will definitely make a statue of this angel in my heart, with good pure white marble, no, better or even the best black marble sculpture, I will pray for this guardian angel every day, thank God for giving me such a guardian angel." Of course, I had to make it home alive. ”

The ship's owner's journey was tortuous, but he was not slow to answer the question: "God bless you, madam, I am a merchant from Bariari, I promise that I am not a bad person, this ship is full of goods that I loaded in Barali before, I can give them to you free of charge, as long as you can talk to these people to let me go home, I will be grateful to you, and I will remember your kindness and mercy for the rest of my life!" ”

At last, the ship's owner could not control himself, his legs were so weak that he almost fell to his knees, and the thought that he might eventually be beheaded or tied up and thrown into the sea, or stuffed into the hold and transported across the Mediterranean to be sold into slavery by the infidels, had long since vanished his mind, leaving only a desperate fear of the future.

"Humph!"

A crisp and pleasant, but angry snort came from overhead, and the shipowner, who was talking incessantly, was suddenly frightened, and he looked up in a daze, and then saw a face that he would never forget for the rest of his life.

Dark blue eyes, a pretty nose, and a head of flowing blonde hair that was like a brilliant crown in the sun, on this face that made the owner of the ship in a daze, it was the angry eyes that appeared, they were glaring at him unhappily, but he was not afraid at this time, and even had the urge to make these eyes stare at him a few more times because of hatred, even if it was worth the severe punishment, and the snort was a pair of bright red lips under the tip of her slightly pointed nose, and at this time the lips were slightly angry and scolded: "What do you think of us, pirates? Your thoughts should be hoisted to the mast at once. ”

"Hanging mast!" "Hanging mast!"

"Let's go to the boat board and put some blood on him first, so that we can attract big fish."

"I think it's still tied to a winch, I've seen a person twisted into a hemp rope and not even dead."

"Let's just be generous and let these hapless guys enjoy everything."

A group of crew members followed with a loud shout, and they stood in front of the gang and yelled at the poor crew below, as if they were looking at the prey waiting for their torment, which would have been difficult to say that they were not a group of pirates.

The ship's owner looked at the young woman with trembling eyes, he no longer knew if this woman was a pirate, but the scene in front of him did not make him think about the good side at all.

"Shut up!" A crisp rebuke rang out, and the young girl angrily interrupted the sailors who were still shouting, "Shame on me for your actions, this is not what a soldier should be." ”

The sudden rebuke made the sailors silent, but then they began to shout angrily, and one of the sailors' leaders even took a step closer to the girl.

"Miss, you shouldn't have been on this boat in the first place," said the leader dissatisfiedly, "we are not your men, and you have no right to command us, so leave these people to us." ”

The sailor's leader's words immediately caused a reaction in all directions, and a group of sailors surrounded him with ill intentions.

"Miss, we won't be unreasonable to you, so go back to the cabin and continue to be your eldest miss, and when this sailing is over, we may never see each other again, and we don't need to get along with each other." The sailor's leader stopped his men around him, and he seemed to have some scruples, and his voice was a little small.

The owner of the schooner looked up at this scene in despair, he didn't dare to imagine what would happen next, after all, how could such a weak young girl dare to resist these powerful and brutal sailors, and then what else could she do but obediently return to the cabin and hide?

The owner of the ship looked up in despair, and he saw that the girl's figure had slowly disappeared by the side of the ship, and he heard the boos of the sailors, and he let out a desperate sigh from his mouth.

Then, before his sigh could fall, he heard an exclamation from the Galen ship!

The shipowner was awakened by this exclamation, and he instinctively looked up with wide eyes, and then was surprised to see that at some point, the girl actually had an extra short-handled musket in her hand!

The muzzle of the musket was pressed straight against the head of the sailor, and a monk in a black robe with messy hair came out of nowhere, as he heard the shouts of voices before anyone could see them.

The monk froze at the sight before him and let out a "Ahh

"What are you going to do, you damned prisoners, nasty embryos, maggots in the gutter, pimping third-rate prostitutes, don't think I don't know who you are, I know that some of you make money by selling your ass......" At this, the monk turned back slightly and whispered an apology to the red-faced girl behind him, "I'm sorry Miss, I shouldn't have said such vulgar things in front of you, please forget these words." And his curse made everyone stunned, and no one dared to imagine that a servant of God wearing a sacred robe would scold the street so viciously and vulgarly, not even repeatedly.

"How dare you be unreasonable to Mademoiselle," said the monk, but the hapless shipowner standing below could clearly see that his hand on the gang was trembling, and he did not know whether he was angry or frightened, "all of you must be hanged, and your corpses will be dried and hung on the mast as a flag, so that whoever can see your abomination from afar." ”

"If you're not wearing this, I'll make you look good right away." The sailor's eyes passed through the girl's sun-soaked blonde hair, and he said to the monk behind her.

He was not timid because of the musket on his head, he did not believe that this delicate-looking aristocratic girl would dare to shoot, and he even thought that the gun was just a toy, because he did not even see the incense of gunpowder and the fire rope except for a strange device with a black flint in his grip near the handle.

If it weren't for the special identity of the girl in front of him, he would have reached out and snatched the toy from her hand, and then loved her well.

The sailor's body couldn't help but heat up a little when he thought about it, and his eyes returned to the girl in front of him, so close that he felt that he could even breathe in the girl's peculiar breath, and then he met the girl's gaze.

For a moment, the leader felt a little funny, a pampered aristocratic lady actually wanted to pretend to be a decisive killing, and even wanted to learn the posture of those famous powerful female lords and even queens, the leader grinned and showed a mouthful of yellow rotten teeth and wanted to laugh, but then he heard a crisp, and it was the last voice he heard in his life.

"Click!"

The twisted spring buckle bounced forward, and the flint on the spring buckle smashed into the anvil and sparked, instantly igniting the gunpowder in the medicine pool!

The smoke from the muzzle of the gun instantly engulfed the head and face of the sailor leader, and his head fell backwards as if it had been punched hard, and fell directly to the deck!

For a moment, everyone on the deck was stunned by this scene, even though they knew that the musket in the girl's hand was no longer a threat after this shot was fired, but they still stayed in place because of accident and fear, and no one had the idea of rushing forward.

The monk, who was still shouting loudly, was also stupid, he slowly turned around with his mouth open, looked at the girl who was putting away the musket, and after licking his lips, he said inexplicably: "Good marksmanship." ”

"Enough!"

A roar of rage came from the distance on deck, and the owner of the schooner could not see the scene from above because he was standing low, and he only saw the sailors who seemed to have just come to their senses and were about to move, and when they heard this shout, they panicked to get out of the way, and then he saw a gray-haired head, and then a thin man appeared on the side of the ship.

The man was obviously not young, and although he was wrapped in a thick fur coat, he still felt as if he would be blown down by the sea breeze at any moment.

But when the man appeared on deck, the unruly sailors immediately became much more honest, and they stood at a distance on either side and watched the old man walk up to the girl.

"I really don't know how to describe your actions, Miss Count," the old man looked down at the body of the sailor leader who had fallen on the deck, which was slowly freezing cold, "he is the best sailor leader under my command, and he can find the way even at night without any tools. ”

"Then I suggest you have to consider finding a better sailor leader now, Commander," the girl looked at the gray-haired old man without fear, "please don't forget, although your fleet is strong, you need our support more, in that case, please abide by the agreement between us, and it is absolutely forbidden to attack merchant ships at will and disrupt the course of our agreement." ”

The old man snorted indignantly, but in the end he didn't say anything, he turned his head to look down at the owner of the schooner, who was staring blankly at the scene, snorted again, waved his hand to his sailors, and then disappeared behind the deck without saying a word.

The owner of the ship still looked up at a loss, he didn't know what was going to happen next, and he didn't know what was going on, although he was sure that the ship he saw the flag of Venice was flying on the mast, but he couldn't understand what was going on.

"You're a merchant from Bari Ali?" The girl looked down at the owner of the ship with her head down, and then smiled at him that she would recall for many years to come: "I am Kosa Cosenza, now Count Kosenza, and you are now under the protection of our free trade zone, and I can guarantee that you are safe here." ”