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Chapter 297 Nine Eight Objects!Traitor among pirates!
Eight Pirate Kings gathered around the table, some coming alone, others guarded by attendants.
Each of the pirate kings who came to the meeting had a total of eight long swords inserted into a nearby globe.
The pirates left their swords there before taking their seats, and in theory, it should have been a peaceful assembly.
In fact, it would be surprising that Jack Sparrow escaped from this room alive.
Behind the Pirate King, their subordinates lined up the human wall, and the whole room was full of vicious and heavily armed pirates!
Although all of them felt threatened by the East India Trading Company, they had also had conflicts with each other in the past.
Mutual trust has not been high.
Barbossa continued to pound the table until the room finally fell silent.
He gestured to a wooden bowl lined with a red cloth towel in the center of the table, "My brothers and captains, your eight items."
Reluctantly, the Pirate Kings got up and put something into the wooden bowl.
Pantel sat on the ledge, staring over the heads of the pirates in attendance, and realized that the objects weren't actually silver objects, they were items that could be found on any pirate ship or busy port. bits and pieces.
"These aren't things," Pantel objected to Gibbs. "They're just junk."
Gibbs nodded. "The original plan was to use coins."
He explained: "But when the meeting was held, the first Pirate King didn't have any money, but everyone liked 'nine eight objects', so the name was decided."
This is hard for Pantel to understand, but then again, he is not a pirate king, so what can he know?
Besides Barbossa, Jack, and the missing Pirate King, there were six pirates sitting around the table.
The Pirate Lord of the Black Sea was a tall, black-haired man known as a scourge on the Barbary Coast of North Africa.
Sitting next to him is Captain Villanueva, a taciturn and ill-tempered Spaniard.
Next came Captain Chewell—a contemptuous, aristocratic Frenchman, elegantly dressed in brocade with lace cuffs.
The fourth is Gentleman Drocard, an ex-slave turned pirate who attracts a lot of attention with his shiny dark skin and formidable muscles.
Then there is Mrs. Aoki, a Chinese female pirate who is the only woman, but she is also one of the most dangerous characters in the room.
And finally there's Mr. Sam Haye, a quiet pirate who crossed the Indian Ocean to attend the meeting.
He looked like a simple and kind priest, but he was flanked by two huge and hideous bodyguards named Aksha and Pusan, so he was not easy to mess with.
When the eight items fell into the bowl clangingly, Mrs. Aoki raised her head and said vigilantly: "We are still missing two items."
Villanueva turned her head and glared at Jack, growling: "Sparrow."
Jack tilted his head, thinking that if he surrendered his belongings, he wouldn't be needed here anymore.
God knows what they'll do to him once they get hold of it.
After all, there are a lot of people who pirates must pay for every penny.
"We're missing a Pirate King," Jack pointed out. "I'd be happy to wait until Sao Feng joins us."
"Xiao Feng will not come." A voice came from the door.
Everyone turned their heads and saw Elizabeth Swan dressed as a pirate, with Tai Huang and another Chinese crew member standing behind her.
Jack opened his mouth in surprise.
"He made me captain of the Empress," Elizabeth explained, "and passed on to me his reign."
She stepped forward, but Tai Huang touched her shoulder, stopped her, and pointed to the globe.
Elizabeth took off her sword and inserted it next to the swords of the other pirate kings.
"Captain?" Jack yelled indignantly. "Captain? They're literally giving the title away!"
"What happened to Xiao Feng?" the Black Sea Pirate King asked scoldingly.
"Maybe she killed her," Jack whispered.
"Will you never forgive me?" Elizabeth said to him.
Then she turned to answer the Pirate Kings' questions: "We were attacked by the Flying Dutchman."
At the mention of this terrifying ship, chaos ensued in the house.
Jack and Elizabeth saw the horrified expression spread across the Pirate King's face.
"That sea monster!" Chewell yelled in panic.
The pirates on the side also screamed in fright, asking them to set sail and escape before the Dutchman came to the door.
"Listen!" Elizabeth shouted, "Listen to me! Our position has been exposed! Jones is now under the orders of Lord Beckett, and they are already on their way here!"
This message will undoubtedly only spark greater riots.
"Who is the traitor?" bellowed Gentleman Drocard, as if he was ready to strangle the traitor to death with his bare hands.
"It won't be one of us," Barbosa said.
Elizabeth looked around and suddenly remembered something: "Where's Will?" she asked Jack.
"Not among us," said Jack sharply.
Barbosa knocked on the table again and asked everyone to be quiet: "It doesn't matter how they found us!"
He exclaimed, "The question is, now that they've found out, what do we do next?"
"We're going to fight," Elizabeth said in a voice that sounded stronger and braver than she felt.
The room full of pirates started laughing.
Against the Flying Dutchman?Is she crazy?Did she think the others were fools who would lose their lives so easily?
Mrs. Aoki stood up and spread her hands, proposing another option.
"Shipwreck Cove is a fortress, a well-supplied fortress," she pointed out. "If they can't get us, we don't have to fight."
There were whispers of approval in this hall, and it was true that they could hide here for a long time, until the Dutchman and the East India Trading Company finally gave up and ignored them.