"Hey, hurry up and come aboard! We'll take you with us."
The pirate ship slowly approached the lifeboat, and rough ropes were thrown down from the ship's side. Luo En looked up, the deck was crowded with faces that held ill intentions, gleaming with an oily sheen in the sunlight.
All their thoughts were written on their faces; do these pirates not even try to hide it? Luo En muttered to himself, glancing at Tracy beside him.
He raised his head and activated his Spirit Vision, scanning around briefly. The spiritual reaction was very weak, and his spiritual intuition didn't give much of a warning.
And this ship is so small… Luo En surveyed the pirate ship before him.
Compared to the Golden Dream, this ship was practically a toy.
"This kind of small pirate crew, at most, only has one or two Sequence 9 Beyonders…" Luo En calculated inwardly, "If two of us go together, it shouldn't be a problem…"
Having thought this through, he looked at Tracy beside him: "I'll go first, and then you…"
Luo En hadn't finished speaking when Tracy interrupted, "Ladies first."
Saying that, she had already grabbed the rope, preparing to climb up.
"Hey!" Luo En stopped her, "Their target is clearly you, and you're still injured. Let me…"
"Hey, you're underestimating me too much." Tracy shook off Luo En's hand. Her voice was cold, but her ears were inexplicably red.
"Ungrateful…" Luo En shook his head helplessly and could only follow her up.
Soon after he started climbing, Luo En noticed an awkward point: their positions were too… intimate. He couldn't look up at all. Since Tracy was above him and wasn't wearing safety shorts, if Luo En looked up, he would inevitably see some…
'Tsk, awkward.'
When the two climbed onto the deck, the pirates had already formed a semicircle. A burly man with a gold tooth pushed through the crowd, his shoes thudding on the wooden planks.
"Welcome to the 'Blood Shark'." He grinned, revealing his gold tooth, "I am—"
"Bang!"
The pirate leader's self-introduction came to an abrupt halt.
Tracy's elbow strike accurately hit his Adam's apple, directly knocking him to the ground.
'Too impatient, Miss. Couldn't you have stalled for a bit? Why do I feel like you really want to show off…' Luo En grumbled in his mind.
"Leave this to me, you go check the cabin." Tracy said to Luo En without looking back.
"Alright." Luo En picked up his Destroyer and walked towards the stern.
Four or five pirates surrounded Tracy, but no one dared to step forward. Tracy sneered; the suppression of the past few days finally found an outlet for release.
...
"There were only two people guarding the storeroom in the cabin; I knocked them out. How about your side…?" After circling the pirate ship, Luo En returned to the deck.
What met his eyes were Sailors sprawled all over the ground.
The person dressed as the captain was now kneeling before Tracy, constantly begging for mercy.
"Spare us, both of you!"
"We were just passing by here; we didn't mean to do anything to you."
"Really."
"Hmph." Tracy snorted, about to make a move.
"Wait!"
"I remember now." After seeing Tracy's face up close, the pirate leader suddenly realized something.
"You… you are the Disease…"
"Ah!"
His words were cut short as Tracy kicked him unconscious.
"Was that necessary?" Luo En came to Tracy's side.
"He was too noisy…" Tracy answered nonchalantly, but her hand instinctively clenched.
Clearly, she was feigning composure.
Tracy herself didn't know what had come over her just now. The moment the pirate was about to reveal her identity, she inexplicably lost her temper.
She glanced at Luo En behind her and subconsciously squeezed her legs together… as if, as if she didn't want him to know that she was a notorious pirate who had committed many evil deeds.
"Hey, how are things on your side?" she asked, feigning composure, but saw Luo En leaning against the ship's rail, his face pale.
"Cough, cough."
Why do I feel something is wrong…? Luo En felt his condition seemed to have worsened in an instant.
Strange, even if he hadn't been in good shape after days of hunger, this deterioration was too fast.
'Oh no, I forgot he was also within the range of my ability.' Tracy remembered that she had used her Disease ability to make the Sailors unable to resist.
She rushed forward and said, "Are you alright? I…"
"Watch out!" Luo En pushed her away.
"Bang!"
The Destroyer spat fire, and the pirate leader, who had tried to ambush them, fell to the ground, blood gushing from several bullet holes.
"A Beyonder…"
"Probably a sequence 8." Luo En stood up, holding the shotgun. He looked at Tracy:
"You're not calm enough."
"Damn it." Tracy came to the corpse and kicked it over.
"Cough, cough…"
"This is?" Luo En approached the corpse. He noticed a crimson symbol on the back of its neck.
"That's the Rose School of Thought's symbol."
"Many pirates belong to this organization," Tracy explained from the side.
Rose School of Thought… Parasitic Beast!
Bad memories resurfaced, and Luo En quickly asked, "You knocked all these people out, who's going to steer the ship?"
Tracy waved her hand indifferently: "Don't worry, this is just a small ship, I can pilot it."
"Small ship…"
"It's indeed much smaller than the Golden Dream, not even a tenth of its size," Luo En murmured.
Golden Dream… Tracy, who was nearby, heard that term.
She subconsciously blurted out:
"You know Edwina Edwards?"
"Uh…" Luo En didn't like being eavesdropped on, but seeing Tracy's inexplicably anxious expression, he still nodded:
"I do."
"What's your relationship like?" Tracy took a step forward.
What a strange question… Luo En rolled his eyes: "Is it any of your business?"
"I…" Tracy suddenly choked.
"Hmph!"
"I just wanted to remind you, Edwina isn't a good person. That bitch has a whole ship full of men, changing them every week without repeating…"
"That's enough," Luo En interrupted her, "The Captain isn't that kind of person."
"Captain?" This word seemed to infuriate Tracy.
"You're defending her."
"Huh?"
...
Looking at Tracy, who was standing with her arms crossed, saying nothing, Luo En shrugged.
How strange.
Are people in this world all a bit problematic?
...
Wheelhouse.
"Even though the ship is small, it's quite well-equipped." Luo En toyed with the shotgun shells in his hand.
"Too bad, they're just regular bullets."
"At least there's enough food, though."
After replenishing food and water, his condition was noticeably better.
"Lachi, you have some too." Luo En teased the Orange Cat in his satchel with a piece of dried fish.
"Strange, why is there an island here?" Tracy, who was steering, frowned. "Could the chart be wrong?"
In the distance, a primitive island suddenly appeared on the horizon.
...
"Ah…choo!" Alger rubbed his itchy nose.
Why did he have a bad premonition?
"Boss, we've arrived."
Hearing his subordinate's report, Alger perked up: "Got it, we're ready to move."