An hour later.
"Honestly, where is your hideout?" Lu Ban asked the pirates kneeling on the deck, speaking with a severe tone.
The pirates, who had been fished out of the water or surrendered, looked at each other but no one dared to speak.
They remained silent for two reasons.
First, they knew that if they disclosed the location of their base, after these people found The Island, they would certainly kill them.
This wasn't land, it was the resource-scarce open sea, where freshwater and food dwindled with each use. With so many captives aboard a pirate ship, they couldn't possibly keep all of them alive; the pirates did the same, usually seizing goods from merchant ships, killing the men, and keeping the women for their own pleasure before killing them too, not sparing those who were just mouths to feed.
