"Hahaha! Sorry, sorry!" Roger apologized to Bromarin, who was lying on the ground with panda - like eyes, with a big smile on his face. Fang Yi and Shanks were standing beside him, looking quite uneasy.
It turned out that since Rayleigh saw the three of them hadn't returned, he sent Bromarin to look for them. And as soon as Bromarin opened the captain's cabin door, he was attacked by the three. Shanks and Fang Yi punched him right in the eyes, one on the left and the other on the right.
Unlike Roger, who stopped in time, the two boys, extremely nervous, didn't have time to stop. So they were standing there uneasily now.
"Captain, what are you guys up to here? It's just an empty warship. Why do you all look so nervous?" Bromarin naturally wouldn't hold it against Fang Yi and Shanks. After all, it was just a misunderstanding, and they were still kids.
Bromarin was wearing a horizontally striped shirt and a headscarf. He was a combatant on the ship. His strength wasn't particularly outstanding, but he was an old pirate who had been on the ship for a long time and had rich experience. He usually cared a lot about Fang Yi and Shanks.
So the two of them felt really embarrassed now. When faced with Bromarin's question, they naturally wouldn't say that they were scared by the so - called ghost. So they didn't know how to explain themselves.
"Sorry, sorry, Bromarin. We thought it was an enemy!" Roger explained with a smile.
Suddenly, Fang Yi remembered that when the footsteps sounded outside the door, Wangzai didn't show the same strong hostility as before. He didn't even bark to give a warning.
"Little guy... Did you know it was Bromarin coming? You just watched us make fools of ourselves. Just wait until we get back and see how I'll deal with you!" Fang Yi said, glaring at Wangzai fiercely after figuring it out.
Roger and Shanks naturally heard his words. Thinking back to the previous situation, they found it was really the case. They couldn't help looking at Wangzai with strange looks.
You know, even Roger couldn't sense that strange presence before, but Wangzai could always detect it in advance whenever it got close to them.
"Whimper..." Looking at Wangzai's pitiful look, the others couldn't help laughing out loud.
At this time, Roger explained what had just happened with a smile.
"Really? A ghost? There can't be such a thing, right?" Compared with Shanks and Roger, Bromarin was much more rational. His view was the same as Fang Yi's. It should be something in disguise, not a real ghost.
So the group searched the whole ship carefully again, but still found nothing. Fang Yi even took Wangzai around the whole ship on purpose, and Wangzai didn't show any abnormal reaction.
"Did that thing leave?" After the four of them gathered again on the deck, they all said they had found nothing.
"Forget it, Captain. Let's go back first. Mr. Rayleigh said we're about to weigh anchor and set sail!" Bromarin looked at Roger and said.
Although Roger was quite interested in this ship, he couldn't find any clues at the moment, so he nodded and led everyone back.
Since the Oro Jackson had been here for several days when Roger was in a coma, it set sail directly after Roger led Fang Yi and the others back.
Back in the cabin, Fang Yi casually did a ten - draw. As expected, no good thing showed up.
Just like this, time passed to night. While Fang Yi was sleeping, he suddenly heard the lookout's shout. It seemed that something had been discovered.
Do a quick sit - up and get off the bed. After quickly putting on his clothes, Fang Yi came to the deck. At this time, there were only a few scattered crew members on the deck who had heard the commotion and came out to check.
"Goran! What's going on?" Rayleigh looked up and shouted towards the top of the mast.
"Mr. Rayleigh! There's a black shadow behind our ship. We don't know what it is. It seems to have been following us!" Goran shouted loudly from the mast towards the people below.
"Hmm?" Hearing this, Rayleigh came to the side of the ship and looked in the direction of the stern. There seemed to be a mass of black shadow there, but it was not very clear because of the dark sky.
"Let me do it!" Fang Yi took off the bow and arrow on his body, tied a flare to the arrow, and then shot an arrow in the direction of the black shadow at the stern.
"It's a naval warship!" Under the illumination of the flare, everyone could clearly see that the black shadow was indeed a naval warship.
"Damn it. They must have found us! Inform Rowan to turn the ship immediately! Also, wake up all the crew and get ready for battle!" Rayleigh frowned and said.
Rowan was the helmsman on the ship, a big man with strong arms.
After receiving Rayleigh's notice, the Oro Jackson immediately began to turn. But soon they found that no matter how they turned, the naval warship behind them always followed closely.
"Mr. Rayleigh, something's not right! Why aren't they launching an attack?" Fang Yi, holding the bow and arrow, looked at Rayleigh with a puzzled face and asked.
Normally, as soon as the navy discovers a pirate ship, they should first use artillery to attack.
Since the standard naval artillery is more powerful and has a longer range than the pirates', they can eliminate pirates through long - range fire suppression.
But this naval warship following them hadn't even fired a single shell. You know, the distance between them should have been well within the navy's fire coverage range.
"It's really strange. What on earth are these guys up to?" Rayleigh frowned and said, puzzled.
"Rayleigh~~ What's going on?" At this time, Roger, yawning, slowly walked out of the cabin.
"Roger, there's a strange naval warship following us!" Rayleigh pointed in the direction of the stern and said softly.
"The navy? Where? Where? These guys! They caught up so fast?" As soon as Roger heard there was the navy, he was instantly wide awake.
However, after Rayleigh explained the situation, Roger stroked his chin and said to Fang Yi, "Shoot another flare over there and have a look!"
Although Fang Yi didn't understand why Roger gave such an order, he still followed Roger's instructions and shot another arrow carrying a flare. This time, he deliberately shot it towards the sky so that he could see more clearly and also figure out which part of the navy was behind them.
But when the flare Fang Yi shot illuminated the entire naval warship, Roger said in surprise, "Xiaoyi... Look at this warship... Doesn't it look like the one we climbed onto before?"
"Captain! How could that be possible? That ship was an unmanned one. How could it have been chasing us out to sea?" Although Fang Yi also felt that the ship looked more and more familiar, he still didn't want to admit what Roger said.
"What's going on?" Rayleigh looked at the two of them and asked.
So Fang Yi told Rayleigh what had happened during the day.
As he spoke, he felt more and more creeped out and couldn't help shivering.
"It's easy. Stop the ship and go over to take a look and we'll know," Rayleigh nodded and said with a smile after listening.
"No need, right? Mr. Rayleigh, I think we'd better just blast it to pieces and let it sink to the bottom of the sea!" Fang Yi shook his head vigorously as if it were a spinning windmill and said.
"Hahaha... Xiaoyi... You're not... scared, are you?" Roger looked at Fang Yi with a strange expression and asked.
The surrounding crew members all looked like they were holding back their laughter, which immediately made Fang Yi feel underestimated.
"Come on! How could I be scared? Since the captain has said so, then we'll stop the ship. I'll be the first one to go up and show you that I'm not scared!" Seeing everyone's expressions, Fang Yi slapped his chest and shouted.
But when the Oro Jackson really stopped and made contact with that unmanned naval warship, Fang Yi began to back down a little.
This warship in front of him was really the unmanned ghost ship they had explored during the day!
Originally, Fang Yi believed that there were no such strange things in the Pirate King world. But since he could end up here, it wasn't surprising that there were some unexplainable things.
Moreover, he had really searched it carefully during the day and there really was nothing. And Roger was there too. If someone was up to something, Roger should have noticed.
Coupled with Wangzai's reaction at that time, Fang Yi felt a bit spooked.
That's just how people are. What they're afraid of isn't ghosts and monsters, but the unknown.
Before, he firmly believed that there were no strange things in this world, so naturally he wasn't afraid.
But now he wasn't so sure anymore, and subconsciously he also believed that there was something strange about this warship. So out of fear of the unknown, he started to back down.
"Mr. Rayleigh... Captain... Really not think about my proposal again?" Fang Yi stood by the ship's railing, making one last-ditch effort.
"Huh? What proposal? Are you going by yourself? Come on, Xiaoyi! Such an interesting thing, I've gotta be part of it!"
Roger looked confused about what Fang Yi was saying, which made Fang Yi so angry with qi that he gritted his teeth.
"Puhahaha... Captain, what little Yi means is to destroy this ship directly! Not that he'll go over there alone!" Petrom, standing beside them, let out a loud laugh.
"Huh? Why? This is a rare chance for adventure!" Roger asked, looking puzzled.
"What else? He's scared!" Petrom said, teasingly trying to hold back his laughter.
These two were like a cross - talk duo, talking back and forth, which almost made Fang Yi explode with qi. Especially the expressions of the other crew members made Fang Yi wish he could take out his bow and arrow to skewer them all.
"I see~ Little Yi, how about..."
"Humph! Wangzai, let's go!"
Before Roger could finish his sentence, Fang Yi took Wangzai and got on the lifeboat directly. Then they used the lifeboat to reach the ghost ship and finally boarded it.
"Hey... Is it really okay? It seems like little Yi is really scared! And according to the captain, there must be something wrong with that ship!" Looking at Fang Yi actually going towards the ghost ship alone, the chef, Yao Yi, frowned and said.
"Don't worry. The captain and the others will set off soon and follow him! And little Yi isn't a reckless person. Didn't you see he took Wangzai with him when he went?" Rayleigh said with a smile, "As pirates, we can't be intimidated by this kind of situation!"