This pirate only wants to farm.

Congratulations! You have successfully drawn the following skills: Silver Moon Sword Technique, Water Blossom Dance Steps, Unwavering Will, Danger Premonition, and Luck.

Please select one skill you wish to learn.

Lin Qi's eyes widened in surprise. He had actually drawn the lucky draw?

Luck may be invisible and intangible, but if it's available, why wouldn't you choose it!

If he lingered his gaze on any other skill for even a second longer, it would be a disrespect to Luck.

Besides, what would a lowly farmer like him need those fancy combat skills for?

Choose luck!

Choosing a skill didn't feel particularly special, probably because the Luck skill doesn't have any special effects.

However, now was not the time to think about such things, so Lin Qi had to lower his gaze to Elizabeth, who was kneeling in front of him.

Lynch racked his brains but still couldn't figure out what had gotten into Elizabeth that made her suddenly want to pledge allegiance to him.

Elizabeth was filled with apprehension; in fact, she didn't know if what she was doing was the right thing to do.

She didn't think too much about it; she only knew that the ghost ship captain wouldn't speak without reason.

The captain said that her father was framed by the emperor, and that if she went to the capital, her father would be killed.

Since that's the case, it must be correct!

With her father arrested and her aunt and the emperor both watching her, what other choice did she have with nowhere else to go?

Perhaps there are other reasons, but her instincts told her that loyalty was the best option.

As for the future...

Let's talk about it in the future.

Elizabeth knew very well that she wasn't good at thinking, so following her instincts was the right thing to do!

Lynch never imagined that Elizabeth had so many inner thoughts, otherwise he would definitely have looked at Elizabeth differently.

"Um……"

"All right."

Lin Qi couldn't figure out what this simple-minded girl was thinking, so he simply gave up trying to figure it out.

He raised a longsword and tapped it on Elizabeth's shoulders once, saying casually, "I accept your allegiance."

Get up.

Feeling the gentle taps on her shoulders, Elizabeth's heart finally settled down.

"I salute you."

Elizabeth stood up, respectfully took Silver Moon from Lynch and sheathed it, her eyes slightly red.

Betrayal by her family and her father's misfortune—this series of blows ultimately revealed the vulnerable side of this strong girl.

No one knows how much courage it took for her to behead John, who was related to her by blood.

Looking at Elizabeth, who was struggling to hold back her tears, Lynch finally asked after a long while, "Don't you regret it?"

"I'm a pirate, you know."

Elizabeth shook her head stubbornly: "The Carter family will never regret this."

Lin Qi curled his lip, he had absolutely no trust in the so-called loyalty and these aristocratic rituals: "Fine, whatever you want. I'll have someone find out about your father's situation, and I'll let you go when it's safe to do so."

It's surreal to think that the daughter of a naval governor would pledge allegiance to a lowly pirate who only knows how to farm. If word gets out, the girl's life will probably be ruined.

Lynch didn't want to ruin someone's life because of himself; he was a peace-loving farmer who cherished life and didn't want to bear such a heavy burden.

Seeing Lin Qi's indifferent attitude, Elizabeth bit her lip and ultimately did not argue. As a swordswoman, she knew that actions speak louder than words.

She quickly wiped away her tears with her arm, sniffed, and regained her energetic self.

"Captain! What do you need me to do next?"

"Should I load all the goods here onto the ship?"

Elizabeth rolled up her sleeves, looking ready to get down to business.

However, Lin Qi shook his head, glancing with some disdain at the chaotic deck filled with corpses and blood: "No need, let's go back to the ship."

Elizabeth, who was just about to show off, was suddenly stunned: "No, you don't want to?"

"This is a pirate ship that just plundered a merchant ship; it might have a lot of good stuff and supplies."

Lin Qi waved his hand and led Wangcai, who was frantically scratching its ears, onto the wooden plank: "No need for that trouble, Wangcai can't wait any longer."

Elizabeth blinked twice. As the daughter of the naval governor, she naturally knew that supplies at sea were more valuable than any gold or silver treasure, especially since this was a calm sea.

The Hades was only a small to medium-sized vessel, not as huge as legend had it.

Elizabeth had secretly watched when she went to the cabin to chop bones that morning. Perhaps because of the calm sea, the ship had very little supplies besides the crops the captain had harvested.

Not to mention that the fields need watering, which is a huge expense.

On the high seas, water is a precious commodity; otherwise, pirates wouldn't have been so fond of rum.

Despite her confusion, Elizabeth, who had just pledged her allegiance, obediently followed the second mate, Skull, back onto the Hades.

The group had just boarded the ship when the Netherworld started moving on its own without any wind, slowly sailing forward without any power, until it arrived in front of the Blood Shark.

"Finally back home, the smell of our own fields is the most comforting."

The first thing Lynch did upon boarding the ship was to check on the crops in the fields. He gently plucked the leaves of the spice bushes, his face beaming with the smile of an old farmer.

However, Wangcai, who was perched on Lin Qi's shoulder, was no longer as impatient as before, and simply sat quietly on Lin Qi's shoulder.

As the Netherworld slowly moved, it came to the Blood Shark in front of it, and the entire ship began to rotate, about to face the Blood Shark head-on.

Although I already knew it was a ghost ship, I was still shocked when I saw it move in person.

"Squeak squeak".

Wangcai barked.

Lin Qi straightened up and patted imaginary dust off his hands: "Understood."

After saying that, she turned to Elizabeth, who was still somewhat bewildered, and said, "Didn't you want to know why I wouldn't let you move things?"

"Come on, let me show you something interesting."

Lynch waved to Elizabeth, then walked briskly to the bow of the ship.

The second mate, Skull, waved for Elizabeth to hurry up, while he himself, as if it were nothing out of the ordinary, climbed up the mast, hung his neck on a rope, and continued to lie there like a corpse.

Elizabeth was puzzled, but she quickly followed.

When she arrived at the bow of the ship, Lin Qi already had one foot on the railing, and he couldn't stop smiling.

He looked as if something good was about to happen.

"Captain, what's this?"

Elizabeth blinked twice, glanced at the somewhat happy Lynch, and then at the Blood Shark, which was now facing her bow to bow.

She didn't understand what she was being asked to see, nor did she understand what it had to do with not moving things.

Lin Qi chuckled: "Hold on tight."

Elizabeth looked completely bewildered.

But then she heard the captain she had just pledged allegiance to suddenly say to Wangcai on her shoulder, "Can't wait any longer, can you?"

"Then..."

"Eat it."

As Lin Qi chuckled and spoke, Wangcai squeaked twice and then opened its mouth.

At the same time, the Hades also made a sound of wood being pulled apart, and the planks that wrapped around the bow of the ship cracked one by one.

Boom boom boom...

The sound of fibers breaking, the rustling of wood, and the gradually widening gaps undoubtedly foreshadowed something.

The Hades has come back to life.

The bow slowly rose, and the deck formed a 60-degree angle.

"Huh?"

"Eh!"

"Huh?!"

Elizabeth's screams grew louder and louder as she realized what the captain meant by telling her to hold on tight.

In her haste, she grabbed the fence to avoid slipping into the farmland.

But through the cracks at the bow of the ship, Elizabeth's eyes widened.

Because she could see the seawater below the crevice, and the Blood Shark.

The Hades was like a giant sea monster with its jaws wide open, devouring the Blood Shark.

The cracked keel and hull resemble jagged teeth, while the falling seaweed and seawater look like the greedy saliva of a giant beast.

"Hahahahaha!"

Lin Qi laughed heartily; no matter how many times he saw such a view, he was always amazed.

However, to Elizabeth's ears, this laughter became synonymous with evil.

From the air, she could clearly see the bloodstains on the deck of the Blood Shark and in the seawater.

Awoo.

Wangcai took a bite of air, and the Underworld Ship also fell down.

Huge splashes of water flew on both sides of the bow, soaking Elizabeth's clothes as well.

The cracks closed up, the broken planks were restored, and apart from a few more pieces of broken planks still floating on the sea, it was as if nothing had ever happened.

But Elizabeth, still clinging to the railing, knew that this was not the end.

Boom boom boom...

Click...

Click...

That was the sound of chewing.

I don't know if it's just Elizabeth's imagination.

The Hades seems a bit too big?