Chapter 338: Pirate Brand
Will was forcibly taken to the barracks command room by the soldiers.
Xu Feng also secretly followed, and after sneaking into the barracks, he used his agility to climb onto the roof of the command room and monitor Beckett's every move from a high vantage point.
Beckett walked into the command room with his hands behind his back, and his pimple-ridden lieutenant walked in with his musket in his hand, staring at Will with a wary face.
Beckett didn't speak directly to Will, but walked to the floor-to-ceiling window of the balcony and pushed it open to look out over the bay.
"Today is a good day, this kind of sunny scenery, in the foggy Luntun, but not for long." Beckett seemed to be chatting with Will, and it was like talking to himself.
"When you get married on a day like this, you're still very good at picking a day." Beckett said lightly.
Will said angrily: "Beckett, you did it on purpose! β
Beckett smiled faintly, "No, it's fate, it's not something I can control." You have chosen this day to get married, and I have arrived at this time with the Queen's message. If my Endeavor had been a little slower, or a little faster, it wouldn't have arrived today. So, it's all fate, Will, fate won't let you marry Elizabeth. β
Will gritted his teeth and said, "Elizabeth and I are truly in love, we don't believe in any fate!" β
Beckett narrowed his eyes and smiled faintly, "...... Do you know? I appreciate you, Mr. Will Turner. This look and tone of your voice reminds me of me when I was younger. I was just a shipwright at the time, and I said I didn't believe in fate - you see, I'm a lord now. β
Will said coldly: "I'm different from you! β
Beckett laughed, "That's right, you're the son of a pirate, and you've committed piracy, I can hang you right now." β
Will gritted his teeth.
He knew Beckett was waiting for him to soften, but he didn't.
He would rather die than beg for mercy from someone like Beckett.
Beckett smiled faintly: "Or, I can also give you a chance to change your fate." β
Beckett turned around and pulled out a cowhide cover from the table.
"It's a privateer license with no name written on it." Beckett laughed: "As long as you put my seal, this privateering license will take effect, and with the privateer license, all your previous crimes will be exempted." β
Will was stunned, "You would be so kind to me?" β
Beckett smiled: "Of course I won't give it to you for free, and what I want to tell you is that I have only one copy of this privateering license with the queen's seal, which means that you and Elizabeth can only be exempted from one crime." β
Will said in a deep voice, "What do you want me to do?" β
Beckett laughed, "Will, you're a real man. What I want you to do is actually quite simple - we have an old friend in common, Jack Sparrow. β
Will was stunned, "You know Captain Jack?" Oh yes, Captain Jack is a legend, and no one wouldn't know him. β
Beckett sneered, "Legend? Hehe, then you should know that Jack has a P on his arm that represents the identity of a pirate, right? β
Will said in a deep voice, "I've seen it. β
Beckett said proudly: "That's what I branded him with my own hands." β
Will's eyes widened in horror, "What? You ......"
Beckett smiled: "Didn't expect that, right? Jack was originally one of my men, first mate on a merchant ship under my name, but the captain of that ship died of illness while sailing, so Jack appointed himself captain and drove my trading ship through many obstacles to the port of London. β
"At that time, he was still very young, but he had a great passion for sailing and a flexible brain, so I made an exception to make him a captain, and I also gave him a new clipper ship, so that he could specialize in African routes."
Will said in a deep voice, "Black Pearl......"
Beckett shook his head, "No, back then, the ship was called the Bad Girl. The ship's mission was to transport captured African slaves to the Americas, and this kind of business that we have been doing for more than ten years in the East Indo Trading Company, and it is very profitable, and I handed over such an important route to Jack, a novice, obviously to promote him. β
"It's a pity that Jack didn't take this opportunity."
"He actually drove my boat and let all the black slaves that belonged to me go."
"This cost me at least 100,000 gold coins." Beckett frowned slightly, obviously that long-ago thing still did not make Beckett completely let go.
Beckett turned his head to look at the beautiful scenery of the bay and said coldly: "So, I personally led the fleet to round up Jack in the Caribbean, I sank the ship that betrayed me, and captured Jack and asked him to beg for mercy." β
"It's a pity that he was stupid, he didn't beg for mercy, he just said that according to British law, I can't kill him at will."
"So, I put a pirate brand on his arm and told him that he was already a pirate, and if I caught him, I would kill him justifiably."
Speaking of this, Beckett smiled mysteriously, "What I didn't expect is that he hasn't really been caught yet, and moreover, he also dragged the bad girl out of the bottom of the sea and transformed it into the Black Pearl." β
Will said in a deep voice: "It turns out that you are the one who tricked Jack!" I used to think that Jack was crazy and a bad person, but now I realize that Jack is not bad at all, Jack is a chivalrous man, and you, the one who wears the cloak of a lord and hides under the so-called legitimate queen law, is the real villain! β
Beckett smiled faintly, "Whatever you say, if the bad guys are worried about accusations, then there won't be no bad guys in this world?" In fact, the accusations of people like you, who have no identity, no status, and no right to speak, are simply meaningless. β
Will took a deep breath and said coldly, "What do you want me to do?" If you want me to betray Jack and bring Jack here, I won't do it! I'd rather die with Elizabeth! β
Beckett smiled lightly and said, "Will, you are really high-spirited." But if it were Jack, do you think he would betray you? β
Will couldn't answer for a moment.
With Jack's temperament, there is a high probability that he will.
But for some reason, Will felt that even if he was sold by Jack, he would not blame Jack for anything.
Beckett smiled: "Think about yourself, if you really don't want to think about yourself, then you have to think about your flowery fiancΓ©e." The sooner you promise me, the sooner you act, the sooner your fiancΓ©e will be able to get out of that stinking pirate prison. β
Will asked, "What exactly do you want me to do?" β