First mate is not easy

When the first ray of morning light shone through the simple windows of the cell, the royal attendant of Sildon woke the pirates from their sleep with a rough voice.

Lando opened his eyes in a daze, and was pulled up from the dry and warm straw in the next second. The shackles on his hands and feet were untied and replaced by heavier shackles—the new shackles followed The kind connected by others, led by the pirate captain Dill, connected dozens of pirates with long shackles, all of them were linked together like grasshoppers strung on an iron rope, they I have to lift my left foot and right foot in a uniform "one two one" at the same time to move forward slowly. If one of them can't keep up with the beat, it will fall to the ground and be eaten by a dog.

He raised his eyelids and glanced at the brim of Dill's hat. It was empty. The fat mouse hadn't come back, and he didn't know if he hadn't found the "Aria of the Mermaid" or just ran away by himself—after all, the catastrophe was imminent. It's not the first time he has done this kind of thing.

If this is really the case, it seems to show from the side that they are really "imminent catastrophe" this time - when he realized that this second is finally coming, Lando's mood almost fell to the bottom, he was in a trance, He staggered a step forward and almost fell. At this time, fortunately, the person standing behind him stretched out his hand and grabbed him before he could stand still. He turned his head and glanced at the face still standing behind him The tall, red-haired man wrapped in a bandage gave him a wry smile: "Raymond still didn't come to me in the end."

"It's okay." Xiaobai said calmly, "As long as you wish, he will come."

Lando shook his head wearily, and his mood was worse than before - he didn't know why he insisted on mentioning Raymond at this time, and he didn't know why he said it after mentioning him. His mood was a hundred times worse than before. He slowly followed the team, took a few steps and began to think about another question: For example, as an ordinary fisherman, Xiaobai's character is really indifferent like a ghost .

Lando thought about this, trying to get through this difficult time, but when he walked out of the underground prison and came to the street, looking at the people of Silton Imperial Capital standing on both sides of the street, he suddenly realized that the most difficult time That moment seems to have just arrived - even though he has been bearing the notoriety of "the useless second lord" since he was a child, he has never tried the experience of being smashed with rotten eggs in the street.

Lando stretched his neck, trying to see how far it was to the gallows along the way, but what he didn't expect was that the moment he stretched his neck, Dill, who was walking in front of the team, He also looked back at him—the two stared at each other abruptly in the crowd, the latter seemed to see the tension and embarrassment on the face of the black-haired young man, he smiled contemptuously at him, and then, Unexpectedly, Dill opened his thin lips and sang a song——

"My pirate, my dream, my mission of burning, killing and looting!

In the dark blue sea, where the sea splashes merrily,

Our hearts are so limited, our thoughts are far and wide! "

The poet Byron's "Piracy", under the skull banner, the favorite song of the sailors on deck.

The monotonous singing voice is low and full of magnetism. There is no soundtrack, but it looks so prominent in the noisy crowd - the first time Lando heard Dill sing like this, when they were drunk on the Sheath He also sang, but in Lando's memory, it is definitely not such a singing voice. Dill should be tone-deaf, but at this moment, his singing voice is beautiful and vast, as if there is a kind of voice that can calm people's hearts and then become Fierce magic—

It was as if in an instant, the blood that had been frozen all over his body began to flow again.

"Where the wind blows, where the waves roll, O vastness,

Measure our territory and take a look at our hometown!

This is all our empire, its power sweeps all,

Our flag is Wang Hu, and we will never fail to meet—"

In the beginning, a few pirates started humming along, and as time passed, more and more people joined in, and the handcuffed pirate team slowly moved forward, and the singing became louder and louder, obviously it was nothing In the singing performance of a professional band, there may even be one or two people walking away in the team, but when the singing is loud, the singing is shocking enough, hovering for a long time in the early sun, in the vast blue sky...

When death becomes so calm.

The people standing on both sides of the street even forgot the insults they should have had. They watched the pirates march forward with their heads held high. At this time, the pirates made another move. They lowered their shackled hands. , took out gold and silver coins from various hidden parts of the body—under the collar, in the shoes, or in the pockets of the underwear, and then sprinkled them on the crowd without looking—

Lando had seen this scene when Dill executed the cook who committed the crime.

Seeing so many pirates throwing money together today, I have to say that he was shocked again.

The action of the pirates throwing money slowed down the progress of the entire team. The surrounding crowd still remembered smashing rotten eggs. They were bending down and making a noise in a ball to grab the gold and silver coins on the ground—unexpectedly, the escorting pirates The Shilton royal soldiers who came to the gallows did not stop them from doing this. They seemed to have long been accustomed to the various actions of the pirates before they died. There were even one or two people who urged: "Throw them all clean, and let them go!" Knowing that every hair on your body has been snatched, and if you disperse the ill-gotten gains, you will feel more comfortable when you go to hell."

Of course, no one paid attention to their ridicule.

The pirates seem to be just doing what they should do according to the custom.

When the pirates were empty-handed, Lando and the others arrived at the gallows about half an hour later than expected.

Then, including Lando, all the pirates were tied with thick hemp ropes around their necks, and there was a movable plank under their feet, and the movable plank would suddenly loosen when the execution officer gave an order. , The person standing on the plank will fall directly, and the rapid impact will quickly separate his head and neck. At that time, he only needs to hear a click, perhaps accompanied by incontinence, and the person who is hung will fall. Die!

Thinking of that scene, Lando not only swallowed hard his saliva.

At the last moment, as the famous pirate captain, Dill got the final say, and he was allowed to leave some last words to warn future generations of pirates and let them return to the right path as soon as possible-of course, this is only the royal officials of Silton In their naive fantasy, in their expectant eyes, the pirate captain was silent for a long time, and just said: "Before death comes, I hope that I will be executed not by hanging but by beheading. You let my men surround me Standing around, if my head falls to the ground, and I can still walk around the feet of someone they said, please spare their lives."

Official: "..."

The corners of Lando's lips twitched wildly: "Wait a minute, don't lie to me because I don't read much, but why is this line so familiar? Who is he learning from? The famous pirate Klaus Stoltbecker?"

Xiao Bai raised the corners of his lips mockingly: "He's just delaying time."

Lando: "Huh?"

In the end, Dill was of course severely rejected. Amidst the annoyed curses of the Silton royal officials, the executioner began to count the crimes committed by Dill one by one—only those serious enough to require execution, all Enough to cause him to die eight hundred times, Lando was so amazed when he heard it that he forgot to mourn his impending death for a moment. While sighing, he accidentally saw from the corner of his eye that on the almost frozen entire gallows, a A furry, chubby thing was crazily striding its short limbs, approaching them rapidly.

Lando: "..."

When the executioner who announced Dill's crimes unhurriedly unfolded the scroll in his hand to the second page, the hamster had already climbed up Dill's shoulders along his feet.

When the executioner who read Dill's crime read out the first word on the second page of the scroll in his hand, the hamster bit hard on Dill's earlobe.

Tremble, human beings, the pirate captain is about to amplify his moves.

Lando thought blankly.

When there was an uncle who didn't look good on the gallows for no reason, the whole gallows naturally fell into chaos—especially when the uncle who didn't look like a good man laughed wildly and raised the big knife in his hand. When the hemp rope hanging around Dill's neck was cut off, all Silton officials stood up from their positions, and the officer closest to Lando and the others saw that Dill was free, and realized that there was nowhere to go. If it’s not good enough, they won’t be able to shut down any more, and they yell at the executioner loudly: “Execute quickly! Hanging one is one!”

Lando yelled at Dill in his heart, you are also a bastard.

At this time, he heard Xiaobai beside him, and asked abruptly: "Do you want to go to the pirate ship by yourself next time?"

Amidst the chaotic clamor of the crowd, Lando always felt that Xiaobai's voice sounded a little different, but at this moment he didn't have time to worry about it any more, and when he was about to die, he could only roar with all his strength: " Give me one more chance, and I swear to keep a safe distance of 1000 meters from the pirate ship for the rest of my life, and if I get any closer, I will jump into the sea and kill myself!"

Lando finished roaring in dismay, closing his eyes and waiting to die. At this moment, Xiao Bai beside him sneered—then, a familiar whistle sounded, and Lando suddenly opened his eyes. At the same time, , he heard a high-pitched hawk call from the top of his head.

"!"

Lando raised his head in a posture that almost broke his own head.

Then he saw Raymond the bald bird, hovering over the gallows.

At this moment, the bald bird swooped down, and then steadily threw the sword held in its paws into Xiao Bai's hands—it was too late, before Lando had time to realize what happened, then The man who passed the sword has quickly cut off the hemp rope hanging around his neck and Rando's neck, and there was a loud "bang", Lando blinked, and found that the handcuffs on his hands also "cracked" With a sound, it was divided into two and fell on the gallows.

Lando: "...?"

He twisted his neck stiffly, and looked at the red-haired man standing beside him—at this time, the latter threw the sword in his hand down the stage without any haste, among the crowd, the man named " The charge captain of "Old Pad" appeared like a ghost, jumped up and caught it steadily like a monkey, and looked at the stage with shining eyes.

He took off the bandage that Lando had wrapped on his face in circles.

Azure pupils.

High nose.

The thin lips that looked serious and a bit mean when they were pressed tightly.

When the last bit of yellowish bandage was pulled away from his slender neck, under Lando's shocked gaze, the man's thin lips kissed, his voice changed from the previous hoarse, mature, low and full of magnetism——

"I am Raymond, first mate of the Sheets. I boarded the Mora to collect information and rescue the future successor of the Sheets due to the mission authorized by Christine and the Queen. I confirm my identity here and use the Queen's power of attorney as evidence." , begging pardon to be hanged."