"Hand over everything on board, and we'll spare your lives. Resist, and we'll sink you and feed you to the sharks!"
Aboard an armed merchant ship, Hao Shuai, dressed like a pirate, was directing the women, who were dressed the same way, as they carried out their grand robbery.
As luck would have it, the armed merchant ship, the Vaal, was fully loaded with gold plundered from the colonies and on its way back to France.
And then, by sheer coincidence, it ran into the Emperor~~
Truth be told, when the Vaal saw that three-hundred-meter steel behemoth, the Emperor, it had considered making a run for it.
But the Emperor took out its mast with a single shot, scaring the Vaal into stopping at once and not daring to move.
Only after Hao Shuai saw how quickly the Vaal had gotten the message did he leisurely hoist the pirate flag and lead the women in changing into pirate outfits, ready to board and plunder.
At first, when the sailors aboard the Vaal saw that a single man was leading a group of delicate beauties, they thought about putting up a fight.
After all, in the Age of Discovery, it was perfectly normal for sailors on armed merchant ships to moonlight as pirates. They were pretty familiar with the trade, too.
But after Zhao Min split a shifty-eyed sailor clean in half with a single slash, the crew of the Vaal became completely docile.
The Vaal cooperated, the raid went smoothly, and one side kept their lives while the other got the money. It was a win-win robbery.
Hao Shuai had planned to head for France after finishing the job, but Zhao Min and the others refused.
They wanted to keep playing pirates, especially after Hao Shuai divided the gold they'd