"Huh? Chen Ping, the pirates seem to have spotted us. Look." Gabriel pointed to the pirate ship, where a dozen or so pirates were gathered, staring menacingly at them.
Upon hearing this, Chen Ping withdrew his divine sense and looked in the direction Gabriel was pointing. Sure enough, he saw more than a dozen pirates, and judging from their gazes, they were indeed looking this way.
This is why pirates didn't all swarm onto merchant ships at once; they needed to leave people on the pirate ship to keep watch, to prevent being double-crossed, or encountering pirate assassin groups that specialized in hunting pirates.
Pirate killer groups are special organizations hired by powerful nations or conglomerates in various sea areas to combat piracy and maintain maritime security. Once hired, these professional hunters will conduct continuous patrols and cleanup operations in designated waters for one to two years until the contract expires. Extending their deployment to a particular area requires additional payment.
After all, the prosperity of a sea area is inseparable from all kinds of merchant ships. So basically, every sea area will hire pirate assassin groups from time to time to clean up the pirates in the sea area.
However, Gabriel and Chen Ping were unaware of this. All they knew was that they were being targeted by pirates. Perhaps the pirates weren't too worried because their ship was too small to hold many people.
Chen Ping had already slowed down the yacht. He was bored anyway, so playing with the pirates wouldn't hurt. He could just kill some time, since he had just woken up and wouldn't be able to fall back asleep anytime soon.
After thinking for a moment, Chen Ping looked down at Gabriel and smiled, "Gabriel, how about we play with them for a bit? Hmm, and rescue that merchant ship while we're at it, so we don't have to run around aimlessly."
Upon hearing this, Gabriel nodded indifferently. Since they didn't have any plans for coming out anyway, she personally didn't care and would just listen to Chen Ping.
*Clap clap clap clap!*
With a sharp whooshing sound, several hooked arrows attached to ropes struck the yacht with lightning speed. The powerful force caused the arrows to pierce through the yacht and become firmly attached to it. As the pirates pulled on the ropes, the yacht was slowly lifted up and suspended in mid-air.
Seeing this, Chen Ping helplessly twitched the corners of his mouth, then complained to Gabriel, "It's over, this yacht is totaled, it's been shot through."
There was nothing they could do. This yacht was just an ordinary modern luxury yacht, made of common materials made of alloys. How could it withstand an extraordinary attack?
If it weren't for the protection of magic, even a slightly larger wave could smash the yacht to pieces.
The two pirates on the pirate ship noticed something unusual while pulling the rope. One of them muttered in surprise, "Hey, why is this yacht so light? I remember the small boat we towed last time was much heavier than this."
Another pirate responded with similar confusion: "That's right, that little wrecked boat was clearly smaller last time, while this yacht is obviously much bigger, yet it feels lighter than that small boat? Could it really be built with some rare, high-tech, lightweight material?"
The two men had expected a difficult tugboat operation, but it turned out to be surprisingly easy, leading them to remark that this might be the easiest tugboat task they had ever experienced.
The two pulled the rope with ease and joy. This was probably the easiest rope they had ever pulled in their lives. As the rope was continuously pulled back, the yacht was soon pulled to a position level with the pirate ship's deck.
"Hehehe, let's see who's got the guts to charge forward when they see us robbing them?" A pirate leader laughed arrogantly, but his laughter stopped abruptly and was replaced by a gasp of surprise.
"Wow! Look at her! What a beauty she is!" The pirates exclaimed in amazement. When Gabriel appeared on the deck, her stunning beauty instantly captured the attention of all the pirates.
Her extraordinary temperament and breathtaking beauty were unprecedented, even for pirates who had seen countless beauties. Some even thought she was more beautiful than the legendary elves.
The pirates stared in disbelief, swallowing hard, their eyes filled with excitement and greed as they looked at Gabriel. In their eyes, such a celestial beauty was an extremely rare and priceless existence, enough for them to spare no expense to possess her.
Gabriel felt extremely uncomfortable with the scene, and her brows furrowed involuntarily. This gaze made her very unhappy, and she quickly took two steps back, hiding behind Chen Ping, trying to avoid the pirates' greedy and vulgar stares.
The pirates' eyes followed Gabriel's every move. When they saw this stunning beauty hiding behind a man, they all showed expressions of disbelief. Some even widened their eyes and repeatedly checked the scene before them.
"Damn it, get out of my way, kid!" one of the pirates roared, clearly unable to tolerate anyone blocking their view of this rare beauty.
"Damn it! A stinking man trying to block the way? Kill him!" Another pirate gritted his teeth, believing that Chen Ping's existence was a desecration of his pleasing beauty.
"What are you all standing there for! Charge! Take down that troublesome man first, and we must capture the beauty!" The pirate first mate shouted, igniting the ferocity of the pirates.
At this critical moment, several impatient pirates jumped onto the yacht first, seizing the initiative, while the pirates who were a little slower could only sigh with regret, lamenting that they had missed the opportunity to get close to and touch the beauty, fantasizing that if the beauty was struggling, they might accidentally touch her incredibly alluring skin.
Those pirates who failed to board the yacht immediately were filled with resentment and envy. They glared fiercely at their companions who had already boarded the yacht, cursing them in their hearts that they hoped the others would suffer misfortune immediately.
Witnessing all this, Chen Ping's face suddenly darkened. He coldly stared at the approaching pirates and warned, "You are choosing your own path to destruction!"
Before he finished speaking, a mysterious weapon containing immense power—the Seven Deadly Sins—instantly appeared in Chen Ping's hand. Without hesitation, he transformed it into a form symbolizing greed, and a black energy entity appeared before him.
Chen Ping issued a ruthless order: "Greed, unleash your power and devour all these invaders."
Upon receiving the command, the power of greed instantly transformed into an invisible giant maw, first swallowing up all the pirates on the yacht. Then, like a ferocious beast, this power crossed the sea, leaped onto the pirate ship, and began to frantically devour all living things on board, creating a terrifying and shocking scene.
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