Many years later, when Winston looks back on his life, he can't help but be proud of his magnificent second half of life, which was the time when he followed the One across the world.

Originally, he was just a pirate with no future. If nothing unexpected happened, he would die in his non-stop plundering career, or he might be lucky enough to survive, become disabled and quit the pirate group, and end up on some small island that he didn't know yet.

This remaining life was ultimately strangled by poverty and pain.

But he met that incident and that group of people, and his life was changed.

It was a memorable day, although when it happened, it was really unpleasant and even scary.

It was the 23rd day of the Frozen Month in the year 1637 of the nautical calendar.

In Winston's memory, he was still working as a lookout on Oni's ship. It was a difficult time. He barely got enough sleep every day, and he was constantly made things difficult, exploited, and harassed by the deck captain who was in charge of him.

It has to be accompanied by a smile.

Especially in those few days, they were executing a secret plan to sneak around Tut's back and conduct a crucial beach landing battle, so everyone's nerves were very tense, and the deck captain was always scolded, which caused him to

I was scolded even more harshly.

What he thought at that time was that if one day he could climb up, he would kill the deck captain and hang his body on the dock.

During that time, he had dreams like this.

But theoretically speaking, it was impossible, because he remembered that the deck captain was the cousin of the captain Oni, which meant that he would be promoted faster than him, so he was very negative during that time, and sometimes he thought about whether he could get along with him.

The deck is long and stretched.

Until that morning, probably the morning of the 24th, he was driven to the mast to work the night shift again, and he was completely paralyzed on the observation deck, half asleep and half awake.

Suddenly, he was woken up by the captain of the deck. He began to curse himself loudly: "Damn you, you are lazy up there again. I must tell the boatswain and ask him to drive you off the ship. A waste like you will stay here."

On the ship, we will be killed sooner or later!"

"I'm sorry, Captain, I'll cheer up!" Winston cursed him in his heart to die quickly, but on the surface he had to humble himself. He didn't want to get off the ship. Although life on the ship was very difficult, it would be better if he got off the ship.

What's even worse is that he hasn't saved enough money to marry a woman, and he doesn't have enough money to buy a house, so he can only endure it.

Although he is not optimistic about his own prospects, he also has relatively simple wishes.

"Now, come down, I have something for you to do." The deck captain ordered completely unceremoniously.

"Deck Captain, I have to watch from here..." Winston tried to convince the deck captain that he didn't want to go down, and there must be nothing good going on.

But the deck captain just said coldly: "Come down, I don't want to say it again."

"Okay..." Winston had no choice but to obey the command of the deck captain and climbed down from the observation deck. The night wind was very cold. In the middle of the night of the frozen moon, Winston's whole body was almost numb due to the freezing cold.

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"Captain of the deck, what are your orders?" He asked with difficulty, trembling all over.

"Go over there and have a look. There seems to be some strange noise." The deck captain pointed in one direction matter-of-factly.

Winston understood that he must have been called out by the bosun, saying that there was something strange happening on the ship and asking him to go and take a look.

As a result, this guy didn't want to go, or didn't dare to go, so he just came and asked him to go to work.

Damn it, I will kill you sooner or later!

Winston was so angry that he was shaking all over, but from the outside, it seemed that it was just because of the cold.

If Winston hadn't been able to defeat him, if Winston was stronger, he would have had the urge to assassinate this guy and then throw him into the sea.

Then he said he didn't know, maybe he accidentally fell into the sea.

Anyway...

Why are you so weak?!

Winston, in a very angry mood, slowly walked towards the place where the deck captain had said that the strange noise was coming from.

Are there any strange sounds?

There is indeed a sticky sound, like some kind of sea fish twisting on the hull of the boat...

What kind of movement is this...

"Tie the rope, go down and take a look." The deck captain took a thick cable and threw it to him as a matter of course, and asked him to tie it.

"This..." Winston hesitated a little. He was just an ordinary person, not an extraordinary person, and he was not very strong. What if there was something strange down there...

There are a lot of strange things in this sea. If he is attacked, he will be dead.

"Hurry up." The deck captain became dissatisfied again.

Winston took a deep breath and could only tie the cable.

But the moment he tied the cable, the strange sound suddenly became very clear, as if the thing making the sound was extremely close.

The deck captain took a step back, exposing Winston to the front.

Winston also wanted to retreat, but was pushed by the deck captain. He lost his balance and fell down.

But it was Winston who screamed, but the scream was just one sound, and he immediately became silent again, just whining softly.

Winston raised his head and took a look, and found that he was tied up by several thick tentacles, and his mouth was blocked by a thick tentacle. No wonder he couldn't make a sound.

When Winston saw those tentacles, his first reaction was, sea monster.

In legend, the sea monster looks like an octopus with huge tentacles.

A sea monster attacked them.

He wanted to escape from here immediately, but the deck captain was looking at him with extremely pleading eyes, hoping that he could save himself.

Winston looked at the deck captain who was being dragged into the sea by the tentacles, and then looked elsewhere. After confirming that there were no tentacles, he stood up and walked towards the deck captain step by step.

There was a look of hope in the deck captain's eyes, and he also showed unprecedented kindness to Winston, as if to say, as long as you save me, I will definitely thank you.

The next moment, Winston added more strength and pushed the deck captain who was still struggling desperately into the sea.

Looking at the resentful look in the deck captain's eyes at the end, Winston felt that his whole body felt much lighter. He felt happier than ever before.

"You did a good job, are you interested in becoming the next captain of this ship?" Just when Winston was extremely happy, a deep voice suddenly sounded in his ears.

He was startled, turned his head and took a step back, and saw a man whose skin seemed to be transparent, and the blood on his bones could almost be seen.

He was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, but thinking about what this man just said, he couldn't help but breathe quickly.

Captain... Of course he wanted to.

This was the beginning of his magnificent second half of life.

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Chapter completed!