First mate is not easy

Seeing the seaweed-haired middle-aged man grinning at him not far away, Lando was completely dumbfounded.

He even forgot to pester Dill again, and just stood there in a daze, staring wide-eyed, watching the uncle whom he called "Mate Pad" pounce not far away and was originally arranged to run Lu's Xiaobai——different from the shocked black-haired young man, who was only momentarily stunned after watching "Hamster Turns into a Living Man", but he quickly reacted, frowning, From the corner of his lips, he smacked his tongue in disdain, and immediately gave up the will to escape——

To be precise, he didn't seem to have any intention of running away from the beginning to the end.

At this moment, I saw Xiaobai turning over neatly, twisting his solid waist nicely, his long legs nimbly lifted up the chair by the window, and lifted the chair up to the middle-aged man—— Hearing the middle-aged man shout violently, he stretched out his fist without avoiding it, and actually smashed the thick and delicate chair to pieces with one punch. Between the splashes of sawdust, his heavy and powerful fist did not change direction, but rushed Beat Xiaobai face to face!

"noob!"

The scene in front of him finally brought Lando back to his senses. He watched Xiaobai being exposed to the first mate's fist in horror, and the voice he shouted changed in tone!Under his worried eyes, Xiaobai and first mate Pade fought into a ball. Wherever they went, it was like a hurricane passing by, and no utensil was spared—all the collections were swept down from the display cabinets. Fragments of expensive oriental porcelain were strewn across delicate Persian carpets, and the heads of Mercurian statues were missing...

First Officer Pard was as powerful and fierce as he had said in the legend, with two heavy axes on his back, he hacked the captain's rest room beyond recognition—truly worthy of his "colosseum" back then. At this time, even Xiaobai, who conquered the deck of the Mora with his fists, had a hard time coping with such a strong attack—after just a few collisions, he and Pa Germany has varying degrees of damage.

Thinking about why Pad wasn't given some rat poison when he was a hamster, Lando's intestines turned fluorescent green with regret.

At this time, under the nervous gaze of the black-haired young man, Pade's huge double ax dangerously brushed against Xiaobai's cheek, the bandage on the latter's face made a "tearing" sound, and at the same time a strand of red hair Falling down——Lando's heart was in his throat, but at this moment, the latter seized the opportunity of the two people approaching instantly, and kicked Pad hard at the wrist holding the big axe, Pad let out a rage He roared loudly, and only heard the crisp sound of "crack" when the bones were broken, and the weapon flew out of his hand, and "bang" was inserted on the bulkhead of the captain's lounge that was already in a mess!

"Son of a bitch!"

Pade, who had lost one weapon and injured his hand, resisted the intense pain, his eyes were red, and he was about to pounce on him again. The red-haired man over there also frowned slightly and put on a parrying posture... But this time Lan Duo was no longer prepared to continue to sit on the sidelines, he moved his feet, and subconsciously wanted to step forward to join the battlefield——

However, before he took a step, he suddenly felt that someone was hooking the leather belt around his waist from behind. With the slight shaking of the ship, he staggered and fell backwards uncontrollably—his back was very tight. It quickly hit a strong chest, and the smell of sweat and strange incense on Dill's body penetrated into his nose. The fingers behind him loosened his belt, but the strong arms wrapped around his waist like a python. For a moment, Lando blinked in astonishment, and before he had time to remember that there was another person behind him at this moment, he heard a deep, teasing voice in his ear: "Ah, the body is still hot. , shouldn’t a sick kitten lie obediently in the arms of its owner, meowing and begging for its ears to be scratched?”

"..."

Ah, yes, Dill is still behind.

Just thinking about how I forgot about this dangerous person for a while because I paid too much attention to Xiaobai and First Officer Pade just now, Lando's goose bumps all over his body - different from the inexplicable feeling on Xiaobai's body. The familiar aura, the aura belonging to Dill that enveloped his body made the black-haired young man feel uneasy, so he began to struggle desperately, put his hand on Dill's arm and began to push desperately, exerting all his strength Even the veins on his forehead were bulging. He heard Xiaobai asking Dill to let him go in a hoarse voice not far away. The first officer Pad was sneering. The night sea wind whistling outside the cabin. When the two sides sounded at the same time, there was only one piece of humming——

Until he heard the crisp sound of a "click" pistol being loaded close at hand.

The cold metal pushed against the back of his head, which was slightly sweaty from the previous series of actions.

Lando froze for a moment, subconsciously stopped struggling.

All the voices in the cabin also disappeared. First officer Pade lifted up a chair with one leg missing, and sat on it like a gentleman; Xiao Bai tightly pursed his thin lips, and glanced at Lando finally fixed his cold eyes on the guy standing behind the black-haired young man. The cabin was quiet for a few seconds, and then Dill's satisfied voice sounded——

"Look, if you insist on making me do something that makes Xiao Guaiang sad, isn't it good that I was so obedient earlier? Let's sit down and have a good talk."

10 minute later.

When the pirates in charge of logistics were woken up by Dill cursingly, and rolled into the captain's lounge, which was comparable to ruins, as the creators of the ruins, Dill himself, Lando, Xiaobai, and the hamster became living creatures Pad has moved into the comfortable and dry conference hall.It was the first time for Lando to come to this meeting place for pirates. The decoration inside was astonishingly luxurious, exaggerated crystal chandeliers, a huge nautical map, and the map was drawn in a mess. A huge skull with a fork was drawn on the location of the Royal Palace...

There is a thick carpet under his feet, and the conference table is covered with various decorations. Lando swears that he seems to have seen among them, the Frankish King Marcius II who was hotly discussed not long ago. Shi clamored for his favorite cat ceramic ornament that disappeared from his bedroom...

The whole conference room is more like a huge treasure cave, even every chair beside the conference table is terribly delicate, and each chair looks different and has a completely different style.

"Of course, these chairs were snatched from different ships in different countries." Seemingly noticing the strange gaze of the black-haired young man, the pirate captain stood behind him and explained kindly, "This carved chair is from the west. This pink one was probably moved out of the boudoir of a noble lady by one of my subordinates, ah, that one, the mahogany one, did you see it? It’s my favorite The tea and silk I bought were snatched from a merchant ship of the Eastern Dynasty. I still remember that time, tsk tsk, those Orientals, but it made me suffer—"

Lando: "..."

Dill: "What?"

Lando: "Everything here was stolen?"

"Of course," the blond pirate captain glanced lazily at his little slave, "unless it's gunpowder and rum, who can get even half a copper coin from the famous Dill? I'm from Babylon Notoriously penny-"

"This bullshit is blown," Lando blurted out with a twitch of his head, "You gave me all the bag of gold you won back when you were still little Jieluo?"

As soon as the black-haired young man finished speaking, Dill was taken aback, and slowly turned his head to look at the speaker meaningfully—and at this moment, the black-haired young man who realized what he said also felt very embarrassed He closed his mouth, waved his hands and was about to say that let them skip this topic in harmony, but he was terrified to see a bright smile suddenly appearing on the handsome face in front of him. The famous and unshakable Captain Dill stretched out his hand and rubbed his soft black hair: "That's right, now you know how much I love you?"

After that, Dill withdrew his hand, then took a big step, came to the edge of the mahogany chair, pulled it off the table, and sat down lazily.

A young man with black hair who was left standing in place disheveled in the wind.

Lando felt Xiaobai's breath appearing behind him, and after a pause for a few seconds, Xiaobai asked calmly, "Are you an idiot?"

"..."

"What's so good about showing affection with this person?"

If it wasn't for the other party's tone of being too calm and indifferent, Lando almost felt that Xiao Bai was sour——

Although he was absolutely right, even Lando felt like an idiot right now...

He moved, grabbed the skirt of the red-haired man who was about to move behind him with his backhand to prevent him from leaving, and then turned around himself. I wanted to say something to myself, but I didn't expect him to lean into my ear and said in a very nervous tone: "Xiaobai, no matter whether you have a chance to meet Raymond in the future, in short, the joke just now must not let Raymond know , otherwise this is another piece of evidence for that stepmother to break my dog's legs..."

noob:"……"

"Did you hear that?" Lando felt that he needed reassurance.

Seeing Xiaobai's eyes twinkle and slowly nodding his head in agreement, he let him go with a long breath.

"——What are you two whispering about? Did you just leave me alone like this after being coquettish with me?"

At the same time, Dill's strange voice sounded.

Lando felt that Xiao Bai's breath subsided instantly, he stretched out his hand, and patted his chest as if comforting, then raised his heavy eyelids and glanced at the blond young man not far away, and then made a gesture towards him. grimaced—

"I didn't act like a baby with you, just shut up."

Dill sneered, raised his chair and put his two long legs on the edge of the table. First Officer Pad sat down on his right hand side. Lando pulled the chair on his left hand side and was about to sit down, but was inexplicably caught by Xiao Bai. Taking the first step, the black-haired young man looked at Xiaobai who was sitting firmly next to Dill inexplicably. At this time, the latter calmly pulled the chair on the other side of him and looked at him with a concise voice. said, "Sit."

Lando said "Oh" and sat down.

In fact, he needs rest more than sitting down and talking... However, starting from the day, he knew that he had a strong opponent for the Leviathan; I saw the hamster turned into a living person—the so-called living person was still his father’s old department that he thought was dead long ago... All of the above, I received so many comments tonight. Shocked, God knows if anyone still remembers that the poor man is still a sick patient and needs to rest, instead of his little heart being stimulated one after another.

When Lando sat firmly, he heard Dill say: "Okay, everyone sit down now, no weapons, no violence, whoever destroys my conference room after destroying my captain's lounge, I will To make him regret being born in this world—well, the pleasant prologue is over, and now I would like to introduce the first mate of the Mora, Mr. Pard."

Lando raised his eyelids, and then saw the seaweed-headed man sitting diagonally across from him open his mouth at him, showing an unscrupulous smile.

……

Padresius.

Many years ago, there was a man called "Heracle of the Colosseum".

Despicable, insidious, greedy, cunning, cruel, and infinite power are his pronouns; behind him, the double-bladed ax that is stained with the blood of many pirates is his representative symbol.

Lando remembered that when his father, the old Captain Barcelolo, was young, Padhasius, who was his right and left arm, was almost as famous as Raymond today—but Raymond became famous because of his wisdom. Wisdom, precise judgment, excellent leadership and excellent appearance; but Padresius is different. He is famous for his ferocity, which makes both pirates and ordinary pirates frightened. For a long time, People even used the first officer's name to scare children who refused to sleep at night: If you don't sleep, first officer Pad will come to arrest you!

...Well, at least Lando's dad used this trick, and it worked.

Regarding this first mate of Pade, people were even very surprised at the time. As an upright merchant ship, how could the good Captain Barcelo use such a cruel, arrogant and greedy first mate... Everyone said, Pade Compared with staying on the Sheath, the first officer is more suitable to be a pirate or something.

……………………………… And now this guy really lived up to his expectations and became a pirate.

Lando sighed with a headache, thought for a while, and said to the man who was sitting across from him, who should have been treated with the same respect: "Pad, er, uncle, please forgive me for being too shocked when I saw you just now, if this If there's any offense in it, believe me, the main fault is that you came out in such a shocking way, how did you end up like this?"

Dill applauded: "What a polite greeting, congratulations, little boy, your etiquette lesson was perfectly swallowed into the dog's stomach."

Lando turned his head and glared at Dill. When he turned his head away, he felt as if he heard Xiao Bai who was sitting next to him sigh intentionally or unintentionally, but when he looked at the man, he found that the man was just blank-faced Sitting there with an expression - as if everything was his hallucination, feeling Lando's gaze, he even turned his head and asked him inexplicably: "What?"

Lando shook his head and looked at First Officer Pade again, but the smile on the latter's face remained unchanged at this moment: "I didn't die, I even became a man who never dies—oh, this is part of the curse; the other part Yes, you have also seen that if I didn’t get some special blood, I would maintain the appearance of a little mouse at most on weekdays, and every time I get a little blood, I can maintain the appearance of a human for three to four hours.”

Lando: "..."

The first mate Pad licked his lips and smiled: "Is it very similar to Cinderella? The bell rang and was beaten back to its original shape. In fact, once or twice, I really rolled and crawled from the woman in such a mess. I jumped off the bed, but there was no glass slipper, what was left was my big slipper—”

Lando said with a headache, "Don't ruin your childhood, thank you."

Xiaobai said, "You just mentioned 'special blood'."

The first mate Pad paused, and the smile on his face became more meaningful... Lando turned his head to look at Xiao Bai, who looked back at him expressionlessly: "Do you remember that book—this book? How long have you forgotten?' To find the island called Babrus, you must have a sacred item, and the person with special blood will guide the direction of Leviathan... the person with special blood Can bring back the dead, as long as they exist in this world in any form.'”

Why is your tone so fierce.

Lando said "Oh". At first, he was complaining about Xiaobai's bad attitude, but after thinking about what he said, he suddenly realized that something was wrong - his brain, which had gradually become dull due to fever, was turning with difficulty. Next, the picture finally freezes at the second before the first mate Pad appeared, the hamster squeaked and gnawed on Dill's hand, and quickly turned into a human after touching his blood... The black-haired young man There was a three-second pause on his face, and then without any struggle, he jumped up from his chair as if someone had pinched his buttocks, staring at the sitting position in the middle. The blond pirate captain who lit the cigarette!

Lando's eyes stared like brass bells: "You!"

Dill smiled: "Me."

Xiaobai said, "Sit down."

Lando choked speechlessly, staring at Dill as if staring at a monster. A few seconds later, under the oppression brought by Xiao Bai's slight frown beside him, he finally sat down reluctantly—— When he touched the surface of the chair again, his whole mind was still empty, as if it was difficult to accept the sudden bad news: Dill was actually the key person to find the Leviathan?How can it be?Why?Why?

At this time, Dill seemed to have figured out what the black-haired young man was thinking, and he said in a calm voice: "No matter how your little follower can understand what is written in that book Linguistic—it seems that he didn’t translate the content of that book to you. That book comes from Babrus Island, just like the owner of that book—just like me, the history of Babrus Island Longer than you think, and I bet there is no country in the world today that has a longer history than that."

Lando: "... Which island are you from? But my father said that the people on that island have-"

Dill lowered his voice: "I'm still alive."

Lando: "How can you be sure that you are..."

Dill said impatiently: "You really don't understand anything, do you? Because the people of Barbrus Island have the blessings of the gods in their blood, understand—I mean, the whole island. Everyone, everyone, no matter men, women or children, have been blessed by the "Leviathan", which is known as the incarnation of the "sea monster Leviathan". We are the people who are closest to God in the world——read " Do you know the Garden of Eden? Some people even speculate that the island of Babrus was the original Garden of Eden..."

Lando: "...Eden?"

Dill: "Yes, you should read a lot, boy. Leviathan, the Book of Isaiah describes Leviathan as a "curved serpent", and the Ugaritic epic records Leviathan as Litan. ), and described it as a "entangled snake", a huge monster from the sea——

Like the giant beast Xiz in charge of the sky, and the giant beast of the earth, the abyss Beamon, they are three intelligent creatures created by God before human beings—and because Leviathan comes from the deep sea, they are The human beings who have received its blessings have some unknown characteristics. Based on these alone, they can judge whether they are born from the island of Barbrus. "

Well, since the style of the story has been genetically mutated into this.

Lando tried his best to look very calm and asked, "What characteristic?"

Dill: "The descendants of Barbrus Island cannot eat fish."

Lando: "..."

The urge to flip the table over to the serious and handsome face in front of him came so suddenly and so violently.

Lando: "Are you here to quarrel with me? There are so many strange people who don't like to eat fish. They are all over the street. There are two in my family. My stepmother Raymond and my servant Xiaobai—"

Xiaobai calmly repeated: "Servant?"

Lando: "Uh, my buddy Xiaobai."

Xiaobai: "Well said, I am your servant."

Lando: "..."

He just feels a little headache now.

Ignoring Xiaobai, the business is important, Lando continued to ask Dill: "So the reason why you are looking for the Leviathan—"

Dill: "As the last descendant of Babrus Island, what's wrong with me taking back what belongs to me?"

The last descendants of the Isle of Barbrus.

…………Oh yes.

At this moment, Lando seemed to remember something. He raised his head and glanced at the first mate Pade not far away with a rather strange look. The latter seemed to guess what he was thinking, shrugged and said, "For me I have made my sincerest apologies to Dill for ruining Barbrus Island, and the happy ending is that he accepted my apology for the greater good and we finally found like-minded The goal is to let us live in peace, and I became the first mate of the Mora, oh yeah, a ship can't live without a first mate, that's a shame, isn't it?"

Lando: "..."

Being the first mate is an addiction, right? Shut up, you second-in-command.

"Leaving Babrus Island is like leaving Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. I also can't find the way back—this is why Babrus Island is known as the place where God lives." Dill said lightly, "Because the first mate Pad was the last survivor among the group of people who were found by the outside world to find Babrus Island, I decided to cooperate with him. Everything else can be put aside. The key now is to find my ship. , and my hometown.”

The three views of pirates are really different from that of ordinary people. There is no permanent cooperative relationship or hostile relationship, and they only have permanent interests.

Lando said that such a wonderful three-dimensional view expressed his five-body surrender.

"The things I know are limited to what is said in the book, the blood of a descendant of Babrus, that is, my blood, the blood leads us to find the secret treasure; and then there is the secret treasure that can turn on the navigation function and point to the island-this will be As a pirate, I spent my whole life pursuing the last treasure.” Dill said, “Back then, your father excavated it according to Queen Shildon’s order and transported it back to the country. Halfway this treasure took effect and guided them When you came to Babrus Island, outsiders landed on the island and destroyed the entire island. When you left, your father seemed very guilty, thinking that the treasure was a curse that would bring bad luck to people, and sunk it deep into the some corner of the Sea of ​​Babylon."

Lando felt Xiaobai sitting next to him adjust his sitting posture.

Subconsciously leaning towards the man, biting his chapped lips, the black-haired young man frowned: "Why do I think you're lying?"

Dill: "Cheat you rich?"

Lando: "It doesn't make sense, okay? If all the key is your blood, and there is a secret treasure that can lead you, why don't you use your own blood to find that secret treasure now?——And you said, I At the beginning, my father accidentally broke into Babrus Island to transport this treasure back to the country, and finally he sank this treasure into the sea. The order, the mission failed... However, I have never heard anyone mention that my father failed a royal navigation mission in his life."

When Lando spoke, he subconsciously stopped his back slightly, and his words were involuntarily tinged with pride.

From his peripheral vision, he could see the corner of Xiao Bai's lips curled up silently sitting beside him.

Then such a beautiful atmosphere was ruthlessly shattered by Dill, and the blond young man's angry voice sounded: "So you are really not as good as your father, with so many doubts overlapping, you have never doubted anything?"

"...What?" Lando was stunned for a moment, and then he said in shock as if he had thought of something, "Damn, did my dad put a fake—"

Xiaobai sighed.

First Officer Pad and Dill rolled their eyes at the same time, and the latter said helplessly: "Fake fart, do you think the Queen of Silton at that time was an idiot? It was so easy to fool? Your father was able to get away because he Indeed, the so-called "secret treasures" that were excavated were given to Queen Sildon—but not all of them, if the secret treasures were "two pieces" instead of one—and one of the treasures was needed to find Barbrus Island , your father sank this crucial treasure into the bottom of the sea, then brought another treasure back to Sildon, and handed it over to Queen Sildon."

This earth-shattering brain hole.

Lando was speechless.

After thinking about it, he asked unwillingly: "You guessed it too, why are you so sure?"

Dill stopped talking, and he looked at the first mate Pard, who opened his mouth: "Because I told him, I watched the old captain dig out two things from the sea - a ship that can ride the wind and waves. The statue of Leviathan, and a large jug the size of a water tank and exquisitely inlaid with precious stones—the statue is the 'Statue of Leviathan', and the jug is called the 'Aria of the Mermaid'—the two treasures Unfortunately, the statue of Leviathan can help the ship to navigate the wind and waves to find the island of Babrus and the strange thing is that the pot itself has nothing to do with the search for the island. It was created purely for the purpose of finding this statue. Your father had a scroll in his hand that recorded how to use this jug, but he destroyed it after reading it——I heard later that it was obviously two treasures, but only one of them was sent to the Queen. That jug is left..."

Speaking of which, First Officer Pad smacked his lips meaningfully and winked at Lando: "The Queen hasn't found that island yet, so your father probably didn't tell her the correct way to use the jug back then—I guess I chose to keep the jug as a gift. It’s probably because your father left a backup for the royal family. He probably didn’t want Babrus Island to disappear from this world, and he didn’t want people who are greedy for profit to find it again... You see, sure enough, later he I'll let you go find it, that old and cunning businessman, he's just waiting for a good time—"

"I, you... Damn, my father didn't tell me these things, so he asked me to find a boat, two words: find a boat!"

"Normal, how can anyone finish the last words in their entirety? How can you play the script after you finish the script?" Pad said, "Fortunately, there is no such thing as a path. You met me at a critical moment, and I am still alive." , I told you the truth—this is probably the last thing I can do for your father. After all, I felt ashamed of him for this matter back then. He probably regretted bringing someone like me to bed until he died. The island."

"..."

Pade shrugged, Lando was speechless at his attitude of "actively admitting his mistakes".

Lando: "Can I get a piece of paper and a pen?"

Dill: "What?"

Lando: "There's too much information, I'm afraid I won't be able to remember all of it at once, and then I will secretly report the truth to my stepmother."

Perhaps because of the information he brought back, Raymond would pay off all the crimes he committed on the pirate ship and let him be magnanimous.

Dill raised his eyes to look at Xiaobai, then looked at the black-haired young man, mocking: "You are really Raymond's loyal little pet."

Lando: "Bah, fart! Whoever knows him well, I'm doing it for... ah, a greater benefit."

Pud: "Stop messing with that word, pet."

Lando: "Shut up, mouse, if you want to talk, just talk about what happened back then!"

Pade showed a rough smile: "Okay, it's okay to tell you—let you see how heroic I was back then."