Wu Ta finished speaking and, before Shen Feng could react, snatched up the longbow beside her, leaped to the ship's rail, climbed down the rope ladder, and landed on the shore.
Light on her feet, swift as a swallow, she sprinted toward the crumbling aircraft carrier wreckage.
She was even faster than when she had fled from it, enough to reveal the longing in her heart.
Shen Feng raised a hand to signal the cannons to stop firing, walked to the rail, and said without looking back:
"Bring thirty people and weapons. Come with me and take a look. Everyone else stays on standby and waits for my orders."
With that, he grabbed the rope ladder, flipped over the rail, swiftly descended, and headed after Wu Ta toward the carrier wreckage.
Old Bill immediately gestured, selected thirty men, armed them, and followed their captain.
After watching him bombard "Heaven" into hell, the sailors' admiration for Shen Feng had reached a new height.
In their eyes, this captain had not only managed to subdue a minstrel, but also possessed such terrifying power. He was practically a living god—perhaps even the Savior of old had not been as formidable as him.
More than half of those Old Bill selected came from the AN-13 Floating Island Market, while the rest had once been pirates. The few original pirates from the Beast God Pirate Crew were left aboard the sailing battleship as a precaution.
Most of the sailors carried harpoons and crossbows. Three of them, including Old Bill, held firearms bestowed upon them by their captain, and they were immensely excited.
They had heard rumors of the Purification Church and the Ghost Pirate Ship before, and knew those people were utterly vile scum who devoured people whole.
Now they were wiping out the scum