Lord Moyu was forced to open

Crackling!

In the dark night, as the flames burned, the dry wood made crackling sounds, the hot flames rose, and a bonfire was lit on Changyue Island.

Forty red-haired foreigners with red magic and green eyes were discussing something in high spirits. Around them were many items with obvious Song Dynasty characteristics, but they were faintly stained with blood, which obviously indicated that they were of unclean origin.

"Chris, you said we've been hiding here for five days, so we should be able to leave now, right?"

"Oh! Michel, don't be so impatient. We have just destroyed a village in a huge country. The people of Song must be searching for us everywhere. If we reveal our whereabouts, we will be torn into pieces given the character of those people.

You don’t want to earn money with great difficulty but not be able to spend it, right? "

The leader, Chris, answered his men's questions while grilling fish.

Michel is a tall and strong man who is 1.9 meters tall. His full beard makes him look like a lion and full of oppression.

Hearing this, the tall and strong man said depressedly: "The Far East is really too troublesome. If it were us in Europe, they would just be some villagers. The European nobles would not care."

“Hahaha, Michelle, this is the difference between the East and the West, maybe in our eyes we are just attacking a small village.

But in the eyes of the arrogant people of Song, our behavior was undoubtedly a provocation to their entire country.

You have also seen the situation at sea these days. How many warships have been searching back and forth everywhere, just to find us.

These Song people must be mad as hell. If you want to return to Europe with these stolen items in peace, you have to wait patiently."

"understood."

Michelle nodded helplessly and took a big bite of the fish in his mouth.

The other people around were eating in silence and did not join in the conversation between the two.

Chris smiled when he saw this.

Compared to his subordinates' impatience, Chris was not anxious at all.

They were originally the famous Forty Thieves of Europe.

Just a few months ago, a great nobleman in France and Spain found them and offered them a reward of 400,000 francs. All they had to do was go to the Far East and do their old business of burning, killing and looting.

They would receive 400,000 francs when the deal was done. With this huge sum of money, they could live a carefree life for many years, so Chris and his friends agreed without hesitation and immediately boarded a British merchant ship to the Far East.

After obtaining the ships specially prepared for them by France and Spain in Southeast Asia, they landed directly in a village along the coast of Song State when they saw the East China Sea Fleet being led away by Europe.

This was a relatively wealthy village, and they actually looted quite a few things from it, including more than 10,000 taels of silver alone.

It was during the massacre that Chris found out that this village was actually in the salted fish business. Relying on their advantage of being close to the sea, they produced large quantities of salted fish and sold them to big inland merchants in exchange for rewards. The whole village gradually became prosperous, and every household built a brick house.

In addition to gold and silver, everything in this village made Chris and his friends greedy. Although they were robbers, they also knew how valuable things from the Far East were in Europe today.

Chris thought of this and turned to look at the blue and white porcelain vase next to him.

I got this from the village chief's house.

With just this thing, Chris can guarantee that if he brings it back to Europa, he can at least exchange it for an equal amount of gold!

A full three pounds of gold!
There is only 0.3 grams of gold in one franc, which means that this thing alone is worth 5000 gold francs!
One gold franc could buy about twenty-five loaves of bread.

In addition to this, Chris also obtained many other valuable things. Adding them all up, Chris estimated that it should bring him a profit of nearly 10,000 gold francs. This means that in this operation, in addition to the original reward, the things stolen are almost the same as the reward.

The Far East is really rich! The huge income made Chris very happy, so he had the patience to continue waiting. Now he just needed to wait patiently for the danger to pass. If they returned to Europe carefully to get the reward, they would have their pension money for the rest of their lives.

Although the items that the others stole were not as valuable as Chris's, they were still a lot when converted, so they all waited patiently.

Money can make people lose temper.

This is truly magical!
Just as the forty thieves were imagining how they would spend their money lavishly after returning to Europe, they did not know that the entire Changyue Island had been quietly and completely surrounded by densely packed warships.

Even the noisy sea breeze on Changyue Island seemed to stop blowing at this moment.

A depressing feeling emerged in the hearts of Chris and others.

Michelle was the first to notice something was wrong and asked Chris, "Chris, do you feel something is wrong?"

Chris Liansheng nodded solemnly: "You also noticed it."

Michelle nodded in response, and then said, "It's so quiet, the whole island seems to have gone quiet all of a sudden."

Chris stood up, looked at the people around him and ordered, "Immediately, form groups of four and go learn Taekwondo to see where the problem lies. Remember to bring your signal guns. If you encounter danger on the road, light them immediately to alert others to come and provide support."

"Understood! Chief!"

The bandits nodded, then stood up and formed groups, preparing to leave.

However, at this moment, a robber accidentally looked up at the sea.

His face suddenly turned into a look of fear. He raised his trembling hand and pointed at the sea, trembling and saying: "Chief... Chief... You... You look at the sea!!!"

Chris turned around suddenly and looked at the sea where the robber was pointing.

At this time, the other robbers also looked over.

This one glance, just one glance, made everyone's face change drastically!
Chris cursed with a gloomy expression: "Damn it! Why are they here!"

On the sea, densely packed warships slowly emerged. Five ironclad warships and countless huge wooden ships were approaching the island.

Chris hurriedly said:

"There's no time, brothers!

Hurry up and destroy all traces of our lives on this road.

Then we left from behind the island by boat!

We must not let these Song people know our location, otherwise we will not be able to return to Europe."

"understand!"

As it was a matter of life and death, the 40 robbers did not dare to delay and quickly began to pack up.

These things are part of their job, so they quickly finish what they need to do.

Then the robbers immediately followed Chris and hurried towards the back island of Changyue Island!

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(End of this chapter)