Chapter 702 Tracy and Elaine
"This is an extinct volcanic island northwest of Toscat Island, near the Gargas Islands."
Elaine, who had been at sea for several years and was familiar with most of the unnamed islands, explained.
Angel faced the suddenly stronger sea breeze and squinted his eyes to look towards the island.
The location where the Queen Anne's Revenge appeared was less than two nautical miles from the island. Even in the sea shrouded in dark clouds and fog, this High-Sequence Beyonder could easily see the coastline.
There was a natural depression there, next to a small pier, where many ships of different sizes and ages were docked. There were three-masted sailing ships with their sails furled, hybrid ships with both sails and chimneys, and fast battleships with a lot of armor on their exteriors, disguising themselves as ironclad ships, which left Angel stunned.
It's simply a ship museum. Some of the ships are floating on the water without sinking, and no one knows how. It's very mysterious... She complained in her heart, and moved her eyes horizontally, and found that more ships did not dock, but gathered near the coast. They were in groups of two or three, or alone away from other ships. It is obvious that they don't want to mix with the "miscellaneous troops".
Among them, she saw the "Golden Dream", which was topped with golden cannons and had gold coins such as gold pounds, gold horns, and fel gold painted on its sails, and was like an iceberg, refusing other ships to approach; she saw the "Vice Admiral Dusk" fleet, which was guarded by two slender fast warships and was closely packed together like a formation; she saw the "Future", the flagship of the "Admiral of the Stars", which was highly recognizable, with only one frigate and was shrouded in mysterious starlight.
Most of them were familiar faces, I'd seen them at least once, and why did they all bring the fleet with them...
Angel's expression was a little stiff. He subconsciously looked at the empty deck where he was and once again felt that he was lagging behind in momentum.
"According to the requirements of the 'King of the Five Seas', the pirate kings are only allowed to bring flagships, and generals are allowed to bring no more than two frigates. This is because they are worried that someone will bring an entire fleet and pose a threat to other participants."
Elaine whispered an explanation beside her.
"No wonder Vice Admiral Dusk only brought two ships. He has an entire militarized fleet. Allowing him to bring a small number of ships would allow him to compete with Vice Admiral Iceberg, who only has one flagship..." Angel nodded and suddenly asked, "How do you know so much? Did Tracy tell you?"
"She... I only attended the last pirate conference and heard some rumors!"
Elaine turned her head away and answered in an unnatural tone.
Even if that's the case... Angel smiled and stopped asking this question. He continued to look for other ships on the sea.
As Anne piloted the ghost ship, which required no crew, and quickly approached the island, the pirate generals waiting offshore and the pirate ships docked at the pier spotted the silhouette of this behemoth in the mist on the sea, and the commotion quickly spread to every corner.
The fleet of "Vice Admiral Dusk" retreated cautiously for a distance, but the gun ports on both sides of the ship were not opened to show that they would not take the initiative to provoke a fight. The two generals belonging to "Future" and "Golden Dream" had both had contact with Angel and were relatively familiar with her. They did not retreat with Bulatov. Angel soon saw Cattleya in a black robe and Edwina in a beige coat with a command knife on her waist on the decks of the two ships.
As for the other pirates whose names could not be remembered, they were either terrified or excited and were confined to the dock. No ship dared to leave the main force and approach this mysterious ghost ship.
After the ships offshore changed their directions, a three-masted sailing ship appeared in the fog. It was completely black with a skull and crossbones flag on its mast. It seemed that it originally wanted to approach the dock, but was a little panicked by the sudden appearance of the "Queen Anne's Revenge". It pulled the rudder, raised the sails, and quickly sailed to the other side.
"It's Tracy's flag... She really did come to the Pirate Convention, but she's wearing a different flagship and came alone, without a fleet.
"Do you think she is here to see you?"
Angel said with interest, looking at Elaine beside him whose expression changed several times and finally looked lost.
With a light laugh, she forcefully pulled the red-haired hunter's somewhat cowering shoulders and walked to the side of the ship, letting her flamboyant red hair flutter in the sea breeze, like a bright red spot on an oil painting with a black hull as the background and a gray sky as the cover.
In an instant, Angel felt a gaze falling on him.
Those were the azure eyes that were vaguely visible behind a porthole of the new "Black Death" that was sailing sideways, staring at this side intently.
Oh--
Angel gave a provocative smile, tightened his right hand, and hugged Elaine in his arms before she could react.
At that moment, she was even prepared for "Vice Admiral Disease" Tracy to become desperate and crash into her with her flagship.
But in the end, those blue eyes, like those of most members of the "Witch Family", simply closed in despair and disappeared into the shadows behind the porthole.
A sailboat that was a whole circle smaller than the "Black Death" destroyed by Angel just passed quietly in front of the "Queen Anne's Revenge". The pirates on it looked over here nervously, and no one had the courage to take the initiative to provoke a fight.
She was still relatively calm. If she had attacked me first, even the "King of the Five Seas" would have had no reason to save her. However, I felt that the "Despair" potion had been digested to a considerable extent. Was it because the action just now had made Tracy fall into real despair, or was it because she had almost completed the role of "pain" and was now qualified to launch an attack on the demigod?
Angel was thinking, and suddenly remembered that he was still hugging Elaine. He hurriedly left the side of the ship and entered the blind spot of the outside world's sight. He released his arm, which was soaked in the other's body temperature and a little hot.
"You, you..." The red-haired female hunter's face had become the same color as her hair, and she stuttered a little. "Ah... Tracy will definitely misunderstand."
"What misunderstanding? Between you and me? Didn't you want to take revenge on her before? Didn't you want to contact the navy to arrest her? Isn't making her misunderstand also a form of revenge?"
Angel asked back, feigning curiosity.
"I wanted to...retaliate against her, but not in this way, not at this time..."
Elaine murmured, her expression becoming increasingly red, and it was unknown what kind of revenge she was thinking of.
She wouldn't wait until she became the "Iron-Blooded Knight" to retaliate in another identity and method... Angel suddenly thought of a possibility, quietly took two steps back, felt Anne's gaze in the middle of the deck, and turned around to look.
This "girl" who had survived the Fourth Epoch to this day was looking at the two of them, especially Angel, with a strange look.
The latter seemed to see a word in Anne's golden eyes:
"childish."
Being evaluated in this way by a girl who was over 2,000 years old, Angel looked away guiltily and returned to the sea where the noise was gradually subsiding.
Beneath the sea, a black shadow was moving quickly, soon passing in front of the ghost ship and coming near the island.
It gradually grew larger, its color deepening, like a giant monster rapidly approaching the surface from the deep sea.
Wow——
Amidst a huge roar, a strangely shaped ship surfaced on the water. Its iron-black metal surface, which was constantly sliding down the seawater, formed a slightly raised oval shape. In the center was a metal pipe pointing to the sky, which bent into a right angle near the end and stretched forward.
This, isn't this a submarine?
Angel immediately forgot what happened just now and stared at the newly appeared "battleship".
The reason why Angel was so surprised was simple. In her previous life, she had seen a vehicle that looked like this and could dive into water.
It is a deadly weapon powered by nuclear energy, hidden beneath the water, and capable of delivering a fatal blow to ships at any time.
Although the oval-shaped steel monster in front of him was more crude, with traces of steel plates spliced together, rust and wear visible on its surface, and its shape was not completely streamlined and not elegant, the technological level it contained was still far superior to those sailing warships or steamships in the distance, as if it was not a product of the same era as them.
As Angel studied the "submarine" in front of him in some shock, the metal pipes on the top of the steel monster slowly retracted into the interior of the hull. Then, at about one-third of the height, the upper half of the elliptical hull cracked into several regular gaps, and the thick steel plates fell to the sides, revealing the flat deck inside, pointing at the surrounding artillery, the sailors operating them, and even raising the mast.
Swish——
Several sails were unfurled, and the metal machinery that was far ahead of its time just a moment ago suddenly turned into a sailing warship. Under the control of the helmsman, it sailed towards the port along the sea breeze.
Seeing the huge steel ship that instantly retreated from the futuristic style to the pre-steam age, Angel felt his eyes become dull.
"This is the flagship of 'Vice Admiral of the Deep' Hal Constantine. It shares its name with the 'Lost Newnes', a ship said to be able to travel underwater for hundreds of miles, suddenly appearing from the vicinity of its target to launch an attack, catching them off guard. It then departs in the same manner, making it difficult for the navy to capture it."
Red-haired Elaine calmed down her agitated mood, walked to the side of the ship, and spoke in a low voice, as if she was worried that the pirate general on the "Newins" who was not far away would hear it.
No wonder he's called "Vice Admiral of the Deep Sea." It seems the nickname wasn't wrong... Furthermore, this stealth ship resembles a submarine from a previous life. Could it be Emperor Roselle's legacy, ultimately completed by the craftsmen of the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery, and then in the hands of this pirate admiral? Or perhaps he's simply a collaborator of the Church of Steam, much like Vice Admiral Iceberg's collaboration with the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom...
Of course, compared with the target that Russell imitated, the "News", which still needed the help of wind to sail on the sea, was still far behind.
Angel thought about it and watched the "News" leave and meet up with other pirate generals outside the dock, instead of approaching the somewhat chaotic coast.
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