After listening to the sailors' report, just when Costa wanted to say something, Massimo on the side suddenly continued to speak.
"Hey! Costa, check out the charlatan fleet! They've raised the signal flag!"
Listening to Massimo's words, Costa continued to look at the fleet in the distance. After a slight pause, he chose not to use his ability to see, but took out a small telescope from his purse and put it in front of his eye to observe. Then he saw that the flagship at the head of the fleet in the distance had hung a combination of signal flags with distinct colors and shapes on the flag rope. As a captain, Costa could naturally interpret the meaning of these signal flag combinations, which meant to ask about the situation on his side.
Seeing the fleet in the distance raising signal flags, Costa couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Since the other party still had the patience to ask about the condition of his ship, it meant that his and Massimo's identities had not been exposed. The church was not aware of the pagan anomalies on their ship yet, and they were just conducting routine inquiries on the accident ship.
"If that's the case, then we can still support them..."
Costa thought so, and then he immediately turned around and shouted to his men on the deck.
"Those charlatans didn't discover our identities. They just used signal flags to question us after hearing the explosion. We can respond in the same way to let them go.
"Bins! Have your people immediately arrange to raise the flag in response! Just say that our ship has encountered an acceptable fault and can be corrected by itself! Tell them not to waste time coming here."
"Yes, sir!"
The first mate on the deck quickly responded to Costa's words. After seeing his men's response, Costa breathed a sigh of relief, and then continued to look at the Glowing Fleet in the distance. At this time, he hoped that the fleet would leave immediately after seeing the signal flag on his side.
The situation at sea is ever-changing, and a ship is an extremely large and complex system, so it is reasonable that various failures will occur. However, most of these failures can be eliminated by themselves, even if some of them look scary. Therefore, there is no problem with Costa's reply. Generally speaking, the church will leave directly after seeing this response.
At this time, Costa was already calculating in his mind. After the Glowing Fleet saw the signal flag and left, he tried to restore the power system of the White Pearl, then corrected the course, and continued to sail the ship to White Tears Island.
If the power system cannot be restored, then Costa can only resort to the last resort, slaughter the ship! By slaughtering all the passengers, find the thief K hiding inside, kill him and take back the Deep Blue Heart, then collect enough food from the ship that has just been slaughtered, and take the Deep Blue Heart to White Tears Island in a lifeboat.
Although more than two thousand sacrifices were gone, at least the Deep Blue Heart was still there, and they could wait for the next opportunity. Although Massimo and he would be severely punished, as long as the Deep Blue Heart could be kept, the punishment should not be unacceptable, and at most they would be executed.
But if even Deep Blue Heart is lost...
Costa shuddered at the thought of the mission failing and the ending of losing the Deep Blue Heart. In his mind, the Deep Blue Heart must be recovered, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.
Just as Costa was thinking about this in his heart, at this time, on the sea in the distance, the flagship of the Glow Church raised a new signal flag in response. Seeing the other party's move, Costa stared carefully at the new flag raised by the other party. However, when he finished interpreting the meaning of the new signal flag, his face couldn't help but sink.
On the flagship of the Glorious, a newly hoisted signal flag displayed a message that roughly meant "Our ship and fleet will do their utmost to rescue."
"Rescue with all our strength... rescue bullshit! I'm telling you to get out! Get as far away as you can!"
Seeing the model flag flying high on the Glorious flagship in the distance, Costa couldn't help but burst into curses. He didn't understand why they came directly when he clearly said that he could handle the accident and they didn't need to intervene! What about full rescue?
Costa was so angry that he almost took down the telescope. Then he looked up at the flag rope of the White Pearl. But when he saw the signal flag hanging on the flag rope, he was stunned.
The meaning expressed by the combination of signal flags hung on the flag rope at this time was not at all what Costa had ordered before, which was "Our ship has encountered a fault within an acceptable range and can eliminate it by itself." It was a combination with completely opposite meanings.
"Our ship has encountered a serious accident, a fire and severe water inflow. We need to abandon the ship and request rescue. There are a large number of people on board."
Seeing the signal flag flying above his head, Costa's face turned pale. What he wanted to do most at this moment was to jump up immediately, tear the flag rope and throw the damn signal flag into the sea. However, reason told him not to do this. At this moment, there were countless pairs of eyes with extraordinary vision staring at this side in the Glowing Fleet. If there was any abnormal movement on his side, the turret over there might turn around.
It is too late to change the signal flag now. If we hang signal flags with opposite meanings twice, it would be strange if people don't suspect that there is something wrong. Once they are suspected by Huiguang, no one on our side will be able to escape.
"Hey, Costa, what do they mean by the red flag? What did you just say about rescue? Didn't you say you wanted them to move? Not only did they not move, they actually moved towards us!"
At this time, Massimo, who was beside Costa, asked him with a puzzled look. Listening to Massimo's words, Costa gritted his teeth. He did not respond directly to Massimo, but shouted angrily towards the deck.
"Bins! What's the matter with you hanging the flag?"
Costa roared like this, but after he roared, no voice responded to him. At this time, Costa felt something was wrong.
"Something might have happened over there, let's hurry over there!"
As he spoke, Costa walked quickly towards the deck building. Although Massimo was a little confused when he saw him, he immediately followed him. In this way, Costa took Massimo and climbed up to the deck building and reached the position where the flag rope was connected.
Afterwards, he found a large corpse of Bins in a cabin near the flag rope connection. Including Bins, there were a total of three sailors' bodies lying on the floor of the cabin. They were all his subordinates of the Abyss Cult. Each of them had a horrified face and died on the ground with wide eyes. Scars were visible on their bodies, either on the neck or on the heart. It can be preliminarily judged that the three should have died in assassination, killed by a single blow.
Looking at the scene in front of them, Costa and Massimo couldn't help but open their mouths in amazement. They all knew that among the three people, including Binns, there was a total of one Black Soil and two apprentices. The other party was an extremely professional assassin who could kill these three people silently... Only an extraordinary person with superb "shadow" skills could do this.
"This, this is... what did the thief do?"
"Well... I'm afraid so. Currently on the ship, she is the only one who can do this... It seems that we have been completely calculated by her. She not only calculated the arrival of the church fleet and destroyed the boiler, but also calculated that we would hang a flag to deceive the church fleet. The flag just now was not hung by Bins... It was hung by her... Bins had been killed by her before this...
"Huh... She totally fooled me, huh? That guy!?"
Costa said with gritted teeth as he punched the wall of the cabin hard. When Massimo was about to say something, he suddenly saw that there seemed to be something abnormal with Bins' body. For some reason, one of his hands was clenched tightly.
Seeing this scene, Massimo frowned and squatted down. Then he pried open the hand that was tightly clenched around Binns' body, and then surprisingly found a button from clothes in the palm of his hand!
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