Chapter 282: The Pirate Captain's Retirement Money

'Heihudao' is not big, with sparse trees, desolate beaches, and scattered rocks. Except for a deep black lake, it is no different from the countless islands dotted on the Storm Sea.

A small island with no resources and off the route wouldn't have human footprints for years, but today it welcomed a wave of visitors.

Nie Yingying took the lead and brought the excited 'Night Skeleton' pirates ashore, and under the leadership of Pirate Captain Hendrik, walked toward the black lake in the center of 'Heihudao'.

"Captain, you are really something, being able to think of hiding the treasure in this place where birds don't shit!"

Yorkshire's tone was teasing, his burly body and heavy iron anchor leaving deep footprints on the beach of Heihudao.

Originally thought Hendrik would be furious, or even curse.

But his face just changed, and he ignored the boatswain's teasing and continued to lead the team toward the only black lake on the island.

'Black Bone' Hendrik always had a gloomy face, and Yorkshire had always been committed to finding other expressions on Hendrik's face... anger, happiness, sadness, disappointment, but each time he was not very successful.

The 'Heihu' is really a 'black' lake. The entire lake surface is deep and calm, with only the drizzle brought by the crowd splashing ripples on the lake surface. From the water's edge, you can't see the scenery at the bottom of the lake after about one meter, and the entire lake surface is pitch black.

Instead, the surroundings of the black lake are lush, with tall and short shrubs connected into a piece, looking full of vitality in the misty drizzle.

The little red umbrella slightly broke away from Xie Yaoyao's palm, circled Nie Yingying and Duanmu Xing's heads, and finally fell into Nie Yingying's hand.

The pirates of 'Night Skeleton' had also become familiar with Little Annie's existence after more than ten days of getting along. They all knew that the little red umbrella in Xie Yaoyao's hand was actually a strange object with self-consciousness, which would often leave Xie Yaoyao's palm and circle around the ship, but generally wouldn't be too far from the three.

"Excellency, my life's collection is under this black lake. I am willing to offer them to you to thank you for sparing my life."

Hendrik lowered his head humbly to show his respect for Nie Yingying.

"Hehe!" Nie Yingying curled her mouth, holding the little red umbrella, and stepped forward slightly toward the water surface. "Willing! Since it's willing, then you fish it up!"

"Yes! Excellency!"

Hendrik bowed again, waved his hand to let the four zombies following at the end of the crowd follow, and under the excited and expectant eyes of the pirates, walked toward the lush shrubs along the edge of the black lake.

Halfway through, Hendrik suddenly stopped, dug out a stone block curved into a snake shape from the pile of rocks on the ground, nodded, threw away the stone block in his hand, and then followed his four zombies and began to turn toward the depths of the black lake.

Before long, the black lake water submerged the heads of the zombies, and the crowd all stared nervously at the occasionally swaying lake water, occasionally discussing in low voices.

Pirates, besides being keen on robbing, are also keen on finding treasure.

"I didn't expect the captain to hide the treasure in this black lake, it's really cunning!"

"Zombies don't need to breathe, they can easily walk to the bottom of the lake. Hiding treasure in the lake is much safer than digging a hole and burying it casually."

"Exactly! Exactly! This treasure must have been buried three years ago when we were hiding from the Lisi Kingdom naval fleet and fled here. I said why the captain suddenly wanted to drive the ship to the back of the island, and said something about preventing being seen by the navy. It turns out it was to prevent us from seeing it!"

"Right! Right! We were all gathered together, and the navy's pursuit attracted our attention. He controlled the zombies to hide the treasure in the black lake, hehe, he is really a shrewd good captain!"

"Hehe, no matter how shrewd... in the end... hehe, this world is ultimately the world of the strong!"

Facing the discussion and ridicule of the crew, Hendrik's face didn't change at all, as if he had really completed a transformation of mentality and completely surrendered to the strong.

Soon, the water surface of the black lake became more turbid, and accompanied by the sound of 'clatter', four zombies jointly lifted an iron box and appeared in the black lake.

Everyone's eyes became heated, and a few pirates stepped into the black lake, grabbed the iron box from the zombies' hands, and dragged it to the shore.

The iron box lay crookedly by the lake, rusted and mottled, the cracks filled with broken snail shells and green moss, and the corners were peeling like shrimp crackers.

The keyhole was rusted into a knot, the rust knot was uneven and fishy, and the box corners were cracked and grey-white.

Seeing that the keyhole was rusted, the pirates didn't have the habit of opening the box with a key, and boatswain Yorkshire was even more impatient, holding the iron anchor and smashing it toward the iron box on the ground.

"Boom!"

The hundred-catty iron anchor, under Yorkshire's great strength, smashed heavily on the iron box, and the rusted iron box was immediately smashed into pieces, and countless gold coins and silver ornaments were scattered on the ground.

The pirates exclaimed, and their eyes shot out greedy light, and a few couldn't help but reach out to the gold coins on the ground.

"Hey! What are you doing? Are these things for you to touch?"

'Skinny' pushed the crowd away, and slapped away the black hands reaching for the gold coins on the ground, with a smug look. "Big Sister, I didn't expect the captain to be able to hide so well. These things might have thousands of gold coins! Hehe!"

"Eh! Where is the captain?"

Since they couldn't get any benefits, the pirates didn't dare to show their teeth to Nie Yingying, but this didn't prevent them from mocking the victim.

Unfortunately, when they looked up, they found that Captain Hendrik, who had originally stood behind the crowd, had already retreated very far at some point, and it looked like he had already walked into the shrubs beside the black lake.

Sensing the eyes of the crowd, Hendrik no longer hid, and shouted loudly: "Warwick, do you see the gold coins over there? That's all my retirement money. As long as you kill that woman, all the gold coins and silver ornaments will be yours!"

At the same time, the four zombies standing quietly beside the iron box almost simultaneously attacked Nie Yingying.

Seeing the zombies go crazy, the crowd of pirates immediately scattered like birds and beasts. They didn't have any tradition of sacrificing themselves for others and fighting bravely, not to mention fighting for a nominal boss who had only been on the ship for ten days.

Only 'Skinny', who was on the path of the zombies, suffered from the disaster, and after leaving five blood marks and a blue-black fist mark, he was knocked away by the zombies.

And around the black lake and on the way 'Night Skeleton' crowd came, groups of pirates with grey wolf tattoos surrounded the crowd.

"It's... the guys from 'Sea Wolf'! How did they know we were here?"

"It's the captain, he betrayed us! Didn't you hear what he just shouted?"

"But how did he do it? He has been with us all along!"

Just when the pirates were discussing, the captain of 'Night Skeleton' pirate group, Hendrik, shouted loudly again.

"Warwick, as long as you kill that woman, not only will all my retirement money be yours, but I will also lead 'Night Skeleton' to join your 'Sea Wolf' and become one of the pirate fleets under your command." Hendrik took a deep breath and shouted again: "So, please don't hurt the brothers on my ship, we will all be brothers in the future!" ===== CHAPTER 283 =====