Chapter 221: This money…pay it or not?

The boy’s name was Ronnie Cole.

He is the only son of the Ronnie family, one of the few families in the village with the surname.

His father, Ronnie Nassef, makes a living by fishing and is a fishing tycoon that Lian Xia He recognizes very much.

His unique fishing skills enable him to return with a full load almost every time he goes fishing at sea.

It can be said that even if Xia He had not come to Roccadilli Island, he could still live a life of ease and comfort with his fishing skills.

But now…

“Let…let my son go, and I’ll do anything you want me to do!”

Nassef knelt on the ground and shouted at the pirate with red eyes.

Seeing this, the tattooed man grinned with satisfaction, “What are you waiting for? Hurry up and raise money to redeem the person. I believe that with your financial resources, it shouldn’t be a problem to raise tens of millions of Baileys, right?”

A few hours ago, this morning.

The tattooed man, Torbas, was collecting protection money on the street in his own territory when he ran into Cole who was trading goat milk and deer antlers with someone.

When meeting a stranger like this, Torbas would of course step forward to ask about the other person’s background and then ask for some “toll” to spend.

however……

When he stepped forward and revealed his identity to Cole, instead of handing over the money, the other party looked at him with contempt, put away his things, and turned away.

This made Thorbas very angry.

So he ordered someone to break one of Cole’s legs on the spot, and then forced him to tell him where he lived. Then he took a group of his followers and rushed to Roccadilli Island by boat.

In his opinion, an island that can produce so many medicinal herbs, goat milk, and wool must be a very wealthy place. However, he did not expect that after arriving at this place, he found that the wealth of this island seemed to be far beyond his expectations.

If I could take over this entire village…

Torbas couldn’t help but let the corners of his mouth rise.

“Tens of millions of Baileys?”

When Nassef heard this, he froze in place.

“Hey, you are crazy about money, do you think we are the kind of people who can come up with tens of millions of Baileys?” Faith couldn’t help but say.

“That’s right, tens of millions of Baileys? Why don’t you just rob them? Even if you sell all of us, it’s impossible to raise so much money.” Walter and Kurto echoed.

However, Torbas did not want to waste time talking to them, and simply replied: “If you don’t collect one… no, twenty million Baileys within half an hour, I will chop off a part of his body for every minute that passes, until he is reduced to a skeleton.”

After saying that, he pulled out a dagger from his arms, licked it gently with his tongue, and then placed it on Cole’s neck.

Cold sweat suddenly covered his face.

Cole, who had never experienced such a thing before, even felt like he was about to pee.

“Please… please wait a moment! I’ll go collect the money now!”

Nassef was so frightened that he turned around and stumbled back to the village, and began knocking on doors to borrow money.

When Feis and others saw this, they bit their lips, and the anger on their faces became more and more evident.

But even though they were extremely angry, they still couldn’t think of a better way.

It’s because Cole is now in the hands of the other party. Once they take the first move… Cole’s life is really hard to guarantee.

The situation became stalemate until more than 20 minutes later, when Pat and Kedemo appeared at the dock with more male villagers.

……

The pier on Roccadilli Island was built at this location half a year ago after Xia He proposed it.

The space in front of the dock is large enough to accommodate more than 20 small boats that can accommodate about 50 people at a time. It was specially built for the people in the village to facilitate their cargo transportation.

Even if the village’s population grows in the future, it will definitely be enough for decades.

But now is not the time to talk about this.

More than fifty men followed behind Kedemo. All of them wore wooden armor, and some held flintlock rifles, some held machetes and iron axes. Compared with the hoes and shovels they used to fight the wild beasts when they entered the forest a year ago, their level of armament had increased several times.

“Let Cole go!”

“Damn pirates, if anyone dares to touch Cole, I guarantee that he will never leave this place alive today!”

The roar filled the sky above the dock.

Looking at this extremely turbulent formation, even Torbas, who had a look of confidence in his opponent just now, became a little timid at this moment.

But he did not show any fear. Instead, he sneered and continued, “I admire your courage, but you should know that blind self-confidence may cost you your life.”

As soon as he finished speaking, several crew members behind him also aimed the ship’s cannons at the location of the villagers.

Looking at the black muzzle of the gun, many people subconsciously took a half step back, and their faces began to show some fear.

“If that thing fires at us, I’m afraid at least a dozen of us will die, right?”

“It’s hard to say. If the shot is more accurate, it might be possible to kill us all with one shot.”

Some villagers were whispering.

Similarly, seeing that the villagers of Xiaoquan Village were intimidated by him, Torbas touched his hair and spoke again: “How about this, everyone should take a step back. It only takes 10 million Baileys. As long as I get the money, I will release the person immediately. I will keep my word. What do you think?”

The words fell.

Kedemo and Pat looked at each other.

“Should we give them money?”

Someone glanced at Nassef, who had already stuffed all the money in his family into a sack and was kneeling on the ground with tears in his eyes, begging the villagers.

At the same time, he calculated in his mind that if he really wanted to gather together all the remaining cash in the entire Koizumi Village, excluding the money spent, it should be more than 10 million Baileys.

“But even if we give them the money, they may not necessarily release the person.”

After all, it was the pirates who made the promise.

Do you expect pirates to keep their word?
How is that any different than hoping Pat would stop drinking?
“So are we just going to watch Cole get killed?” Pat asked.

“Let me think about it again…” said Kedemo.

Time passed by minute by minute.

There were only less than two minutes left before the half-hour deadline set by Torbas.

However, at this moment when Kedemo was still a little hesitant…

boom!
A lead bullet suddenly flew from the sky and penetrated into Torbas’ forehead.

(End of this chapter)