Chapter 361 Two Years Later·The Second Generation of Straw Hats
Haiyuan calendar year 1505.
Grand Line, Paradise Stage.
In the gentle sea breeze, there was a faint sound of roaring artillery fire, and the waves surged.
The sound of fighting echoed for a moment, and then fell into silence.
In the red sea of blood, a heavy three-masted sailing ship moved slowly along the waves. It had a bright red dragon-headed bow, and there were dark holes on both sides of the hull, shining with metallic black. The muzzle of the cannon was exposed, and smoke spread from the entrance of the cave.
On the mast of the sailboat, there are several pure white canvas flags hanging. The flags depict a huge white skull with slightly open mouth. Behind the skull is a pair of crossed swords, which looks very simple. (Note)
The Redfors is the name of this dragon-headed ship.
"Hey! Did you all see that the faces of the pirates on that boat just turned pale with fright, and they couldn't even hold their knives, hahaha!"
"Who made them encounter us [Red Haired Pirates]?"
"There are so many newcomers who have emerged recently - Hiccup, I forgot, we are also a rookie pirate group, hahaha!"
"But to be honest, the closer you get to the Shampoo Islands, the more pirates there are!"
"Isn't this nonsense? Pirates who want to go to the New World have to pass through the Chambord Islands. We are not like ordinary people who can go through the Red Earth Continent!"
Although the Redfors had just experienced a battle, it did not affect the warm atmosphere on the ship at all.
Most of the pirate crew members on the ship were arm-in-arm, smiling playfully, and pouring wine into each other's mouths. There was no sense of the usual strict hierarchy on pirate ships.
"Shanks, a troublesome character is coming soon. Do you need to stop these guys?"
The speaker was a middle-aged man with a black ponytail, a strand of hair hanging from his left temple, wearing black short sleeves and baggy trousers, with a short musket stuck on his yellow waistband. .
"Beckman, don't worry - burp!"
Shanks, who was blushing, straightened the straw hat on his head, then put his hand on the shoulder of his deputy captain, holding a wine bottle in his other hand, and burped a little drunkenly.
"That long earlobe is not a troublesome person."
The stench of alcohol mixed with an indescribable smell of mixed food broke into Ben Beckman's nasal cavity, making the middle-aged man's face look depressed and bitter.
As the [Vice Captain] who is beneath one person and above everyone else on this ship.
Ben Beckman often feels powerless.
There was no way, who let him deal with such a careless "good" captain?
Beckman still hasn't figured out why he believed Shanks' words two years ago and boarded his pirate ship so obsessed!
This guy is obviously more than ten years younger than him, and he always looks so immature.
As the captain of a pirate ship, he has no dignity at all among the crew. He drinks, holds banquets, fights, drinks, is ridiculed by the crew, and holds banquets all day long...
Beckman touched his chin and fell into thought.
With his extremely clever intelligence, he still couldn't recall the reason why he followed Shanks at that time. (Oda once said in the eighth volume of SBS that Beckman had the highest IQ among the characters who appeared at that time.)
Beckman didn't speak for a long time, and Shanks ran directly to the busiest place on the deck, calling happily.
"Wait! Wait! Leave that piece of delicious meat to me!"
"I don't want it! The meat is mine..."
The person being called by Shanks was a fat man with small round sunglasses. He wore a sailor's turban on his head and a short-sleeved shirt with green and white stripes on his upper body. He was the leader of the Red-Haired Pirates—— Lackey Road.
At this time, Lucky Lu was holding a piece of bone and biting the meat frantically, with an attitude of "No one can snatch it from me."
"Hey! Lu! So cunning! This piece of meat was obviously my first choice!"
Shanks ran over and complained with a dissatisfied look on his face.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Lackey Lu was biting a piece of meat in his mouth and humming indistinctly. No one could understand what he meant.
"Remember to bake it for me later——"
"Shanks!" Beckman walked over quickly, "Enilu will be here soon! Please be more serious!"
"Don't worry!" Shanks laughed loudly, "Just leave that guy to me later!"
"By the way, Shanks, you never said before, why does that long earlobe always like to follow us?"
Lucky Lu swallowed the piece of meat in his mouth and asked doubtfully.
"And what does he mean when he keeps shouting, 'I'll take you back'?"
"Ah?"
Shanks looked a little shocked.
"Have I not told you about this before?"
Lucky Lu replied affirmatively: "No! Beckman can vouch for me."
Beckman stabbed him abruptly: "I testify that Shanks has actually said it many times, but you have never paid attention to it, Lucky Lu."
"Ah? Really?"
Lucky Lu took out another big bone and meat from somewhere and stuffed it into his mouth.
"Then it'll be okay."
Shanks' head was full of black lines, "Lu, you just wanted to change the subject and steal this piece of freshly roasted meat, right?"
"Shanks!"
Beckman lowered his face, took out his musket, turned the gun upside down, and tapped Shanks' straw hat lightly with the gun handle several times.
"Don't be vague this time!"
Beckman said in a serious tone: "We are about to arrive at the Shampoo Islands. This time period is what I am deliberately looking for, and you know why."
Shanks was silent for a moment, then smiled nonchalantly.
"Isn't it Adrian?"
Shanks raised his arm, flexing his very inconspicuous biceps, and then pointed at the rest of the crew on the Redforth.
"I'm not alone anymore... there's nothing to be afraid of."
Beckman let out a breath and said seriously: "If possible, I would rather you call the other person by his nickname. After all, everyone is more familiar with the title [White Ghost] than 'Adrian'."
Lucky Lu swallowed the food again and looked at Shanks with the same solemn expression.
"Shanks, you really haven't told us how you became enemies with the White Ghost."
"Enmity?"
Shanks waved his hand and said with a smile.
"No, no! At most we can only have a small conflict in personal philosophy."
Beckman looked towards a certain cabin of the Redfors with an incomprehensible look, "Is it related to Ms. Olbia?"
"Olbia?" Shanks was slightly startled, "This really doesn't have much to do with her, right?"
The words fell.
An infinitely arrogant voice came from a distance.
"Straw Hat! Stop the ship! This is the last warning from God!"
Thank you very much to "White_Ink" for the 100 starting coin reward! !
Note: On the flag logo of the Red-Haired Pirates, there are three bright red marks on the left eye of the skull, which means "the three scars caught by Blackbeard".
When Roger was executed, Shanks had no eyes.
When the red-haired pirates arrived at Windmill Village, they already had.
This shows that the timeline of when Shanks was caught by Teach with these three scars was between 1498 and 1507 in the Hainan calendar.
Before the war, when Shanks landed on the Moby-Dick, he explained to Whitebeard the source of his injuries.
The general content can be inferred.
Sometime between 1500 and 1507 of the Era Calendar, after Shanks came of age, went to sea, and formed the Red Haired Pirates, he encountered Blackbeard who [went out alone] and [left the White Group for a short time].
The two fought, and Shanks was left with a scar on his left eye by Teach.
Considering the action trajectory of the Whitebeard Pirates, the battle site will definitely be somewhere in the sea of the new world.
In the timeline of this chapter, the red-haired pirates have not yet arrived in the new world, so they do not have those three scars for the time being.
But then again. Was Blackbeard's big gaping tooth caused by Shanks?
(End of chapter)