First mate is not easy

In the end, Lando rushed out from the chief mate's lounge with a blushing face.

Don't blame him for being worthless, if you want to blame it, blame the extremely weird atmosphere at that time.

When Lando returned to the deck with reckless steps like a brown bear, he happened to see the old quartermaster giving severance pay to some people.

Those guys who spent almost all of their youth on the Schitz are now lined up obediently, carrying their meager bags, stretching their necks and looking at who is discussing with each other in front of them. After taking a relatively large amount of severance pay, and began to weigh how much they could get, they lowered their voices to speak, and their small words were almost blown away in the sea breeze...

Lando noticed that some of them were reluctant to disembark, but his own name was listed on Raymond's list. At this moment, their wives were holding or leading their children standing on the pier There are some people who stood on the pier and rebelled with the fat sailor this morning. Lando guessed that they were just trying to get some benefits at the beginning, but he didn't expect to lose face in the end. If you continue to stay, when the other sailors lined up and walked forward, they just stood at the end of the line in a group, and everyone's face was speculative and uneasy, as if they were afraid that they would encounter trouble when they got to themselves. To the ridicule of the old quartermaster who issued the severance pay, the last penny was not taken.

After waiting for these people to disembark, the Sheath will have less than half of the original number of people left.

Even if Raymond didn't tell him, he knew that this number probably wasn't enough to support the fleet to reach Babrus Island—oh no, if everything didn't go so smoothly, they might not even be able to reach the place where the Leviathan statue was .

Lando sat on the stairs and watched for a while, watching the leaving team of sailors squirming slowly. Many of them had fought with him on the lower deck holding cards, but at this moment he even lost his way. Going forward to say goodbye to them, the black-haired young man just held his face and looked at them for a while, then stood up worriedly and left the first deck.

Lando came to his favorite place on the Sheath - the bow and the side of the ship. Not far away was the calm and endless sea in the night. The sea breeze blowing away some of the restlessness in his heart. He took out a piece of tobacco from his pocket and held it to his lips, but before he could light it, the tobacco was pulled away from his lips by something.

Lando froze for a moment, before he even realized what happened, he heard a whistle in his ears, and the next second his cheeks were held by a pair of warm hands——

"Look at our little princess Lando, this sad look really doesn't suit you."

A magnetic voice rang in his ears. Lando was very familiar with the banter that was always carried in the other party's words. He took a breath slightly, raised his eyelids, and both noses almost touched each other's extreme From a close distance, they looked at each other with a pair of green pupils...

"...Little Jieluo?"

"it's me."

The blond-haired pirate captain took a long step, jumped in from the side of the ship with agility, and landed steadily on the side of the ship with a soft "boom" - swaggering like a wanted poster with his face painted on it It wasn't plastered all over the streets of Silton.

"Why did you run back, I thought you—"

"Thought I was gone, didn't you?" Dill put his hands in his pockets, chuckled and completed Lando's words, "My little slave is still suffering on the Seaz, how could I leave him alone? Just leave? If he cries secretly in a place where I can't see, it would be bad."

Lando wanted to say who the hell would cry secretly where you couldn't see, but then he thought about rebutting like this, wouldn't he admit that he is the "little slave" he said? ... Speechless, he raised his head, but unexpectedly looked at the smiling pupils of the other party - Dill bent slightly and stared at Lando with a smile, those eyes seemed to be able to see through him all thoughts.

Upsetting.

"I thought you would be so angry because I pointed the pistol at you." Lando said in a mocking tone.

"Why should I?" Dill withdrew his smile, "That bastard Raymond asked you to do this, and you have to listen to him—besides, you're not willing to pull the trigger."

"..."

The man felt too good about himself.

Lando snatched back the tobacco in the other party's hands, frowned slightly and said, "Now there are Royal Guards chasing you everywhere, why don't you take your Mora and run away earlier? You are running so swaggeringly Did you come aboard the Sheath just to talk nonsense to me?"

When Dill heard this, he first smiled, and then took the tobacco that the black-haired young man was biting on his lips and put it directly on his lips—this familiar action had been done countless times when they were "friends". Taking a deep breath of the cigarette, Dill narrowed his eyes slightly, spit out a few smoke rings, and then slowly said: "Of course not, as I said, I'm here to take you away—"

"What? Why do you think I'm going to go, it's my father's—"

"Lando, your father's last wish, no one said that Raymond can help you fulfill it."

"..."

Lando's words came to an abrupt end, his brain was blank for a few seconds, and he couldn't understand what Dill meant by this moment - and Dill didn't seem to care about his stupid appearance when he was blank for a moment , I just finished speaking on my own: "Actually, I really wanted to leave today, but before I even set off, I heard the good news from my dog ​​leg: your Sheath is in rebellion. Hahahahaha, it's really satisfying to think about the shriveled appearance of that invincible Lord Raymond - I thought to myself that I can't miss such a good play, so I turned back and took a look, and as expected, I saw it Those..."

As Dill spoke, he raised his chin slightly and nodded not far away—under the light of the torches stuck on the side of the ship, a group of sailors were lining up to get off the Sheath.

"That's why I say I hate you pious businessmen, who obviously put their interests first, and are willing to bow their knees in front of gold coins, but act as if they are righteous—before I want to do a big deal, if anyone on my ship Dare to make me some moths, I will make them look good, instead of the Holy Mother giving them money so that they can live a good life with peace of mind."

"Raymond is not like you."

"You're quite proud, aren't you?" Dill showed a dismissive expression, "Look at the consequences of your 'different'—half the number of people on the Schitz, so you don't have There is no way to go out to sea to find the Leviathan, you don’t know anything, you don’t understand anything, and now you don’t even have enough manpower... Don’t be naive, Lando, touch your heart and ask yourself, do you really need it? Trust Raymond to help you find what you're looking for?"

"..."

Lando was silent.

He couldn't refute even a word. Although this guy couldn't spit ivory out of his mouth, he knew that what he said happened to be a burst of bloody truth-for the statue of Leviathan, they are now It can be said that they are ignorant, even if they heard the singing of the mermaid, they still can't figure it out, but at this juncture, there is a big problem of rebellion on the Shitz, which makes people panic...

They will be able to go to sea smoothly next time, and the possibility of finding the Leviathan that their father wanted is very slim.

"How about it?" Dill bent slightly to approach the black-haired young man, and said in a softly coaxing voice, "So, do you want to come with me? I already know that the statue of Leviathan is now—"

"Enough said?"

Dill's words were interrupted by a cold, deep male voice.

The two people standing at the bow were slightly taken aback, then turned their heads at the same time, and then saw a man not far away from them, who was supposed to be staying in the chief mate's office at this moment, and what he should be doing, descending from the sky, with his back on his back. With the light on, they couldn't see the expression on his face clearly, they could only vaguely feel the...unpleasant and dangerous information coming from him.

Lando subconsciously distanced himself from Dill, and the cowardly appearance of "caught rape" caused the pirate captain to sigh inexplicably.

"Dill, you are quite courageous. I let you go at the port today, but you didn't know what to do, but you took the initiative to come to my boat to kidnap people?" Glancing at the black-haired young man who was stunned in place, "And you, as an observer, the pirates have come to you, not only did you not take the initiative to sound the alarm, but you stood there listening to his nonsense with a heartbeat." A lot."

Lando: "...why is my heart fluttering, why am I—"

Raymond: "Congratulations, starting tomorrow, you'll be part of the deck-wiping team again."

Lando: "..."

When Lando was still immersed in the tragic blow of "being laid off before he officially started his job", Dill over there had already defended him - under Raymond's dangerous gaze, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the black-haired young man. The man fished into his arms, straightened his back at the same time, and said in a tone that could piss Raymond off: "What I'm talking about is not nonsense, Raymond, you know what you are doing best— —Oh, if it wasn’t for your pure intention not to go to sea to find the Leviathan, there’s no need to make the list of dismissed crew members so long!”

Dill deliberately lengthened the emphasis of his voice at the end, and at the same time lowered his head, stretched out his hand and quickly scratched the nose of the black-haired young man in his arms, and said to him in an intimate tone: "My little boy, have you noticed it too?" , this guy is abnormal, and he doesn't know what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd, how can you have a future if you follow him?"

As soon as Dill finished speaking, he suddenly felt that his arms were empty. The next second he fixed his eyes and found that the black-haired young man who was still in his arms a second ago had been taken away by one hand, and the man took him to As soon as I moved behind, I made a wrong step between Lando and Dill, glanced up and down at Dill, and then smiled faintly: "I was wondering where Pars and the others had the courage to rebel, now seeing you , but I have some ideas - how much benefit did you give them? Ten gold coins per person? Fifteen gold coins? Or fifty gold coins?"

Lando gasped, and the cat was behind Raymond, glaring at Dill with the eyes of "you liar". Lazily shrugged: "I did it, but so what? Don't try to push the blame on me. If you don't want the rebellion to happen, I guess it won't happen anyway. Can you Let me take advantage of the loophole, isn't it because you are happy to see it happen?"

"A bunch of nonsense."

Lando: "..."

The two attacked each other, one said that you just don't want to find the Leviathan, so don't argue, and the other said that it's not that I don't want to find the Leviathan, but I can't find it, and all of this is because of you... Lan Duo was dizzy from what they said, and could only think hard about some urgent issues, such as——

Right now, what Raymond is doing is indeed suspicious, and his words and deeds these days are also very strange, not to mention Dill, even Lando himself wonders whether he wants to go to sea to find the Leviathan The motive... Although the motive is still unknown; on the other hand, Dill, although this guy hates his mouth and is cheap, there is no need to question his awakening to find Babrus Island and the Leviathan, and, in terms of manpower and Dill also has a great advantage in his own understanding of Babrus Island.

...In contrast, Raymond is completely at a disadvantage no matter from which aspect.

Lando felt a headache, and Dill kept jumping around trying to reach out to grab him, and kept brainwashing him and said, "Raymond is not reliable, boy, come with me, I will take you to find Levi Tank", while Raymond stood in the middle of the two, using his tall body to form a wall between Lando and Dill that absolutely looked up. He didn't say a word, but silently moved Dill The outstretched hand clapped it off...

So toss each other for a while.

Until a sailor heard the movement and looked towards them curiously.

Raymond, who had been standing in front of Dill, was the first to break the deadlock—he stretched out his hand and pulled out the black-haired young man hiding behind him, allowing him to stand firmly between himself and the pirate captain. He looked at the black-haired young man who was staring blankly at him with those blue pupils calmly and indifferently. After a while, he said in a voice without any emotion: "Choose yourself, follow this idiot." , or stay on the Sheets."

Lando was shocked by Raymond's words.After all, as long as he can remember, Raymond has never given him a lenient multiple-choice question-it has always been a single order, and he only needs to be responsible for executing it.

"..."

Lando turned his head to look at Dill, and at this time, the latter also showed a winning expression after a moment of astonishment—he even turned his head, winked at Lando, and signaled him to hurry up. into his arms.

Lando was silent for three seconds.

However, these three seconds seem to be as long as a century to the people on the deck at this moment.

Long enough for Lando to make a decision.

In the silence, the black-haired young man stretched out his hand and grabbed the wrist of the tall red-haired man standing in front of him. He tightened his fingers, sniffed a little, and then said in a low and slightly hoarse voice: "Are you Are you sick? You said you wanted to take good care of me on your front foot, but you let me go with the pirates on your back foot. Isn’t it a little too soon to regret it?”

"..."

Unbelievable astonishment appeared on Dill's face.

He was completely unwilling to accept the fact that he was still the one to be dumped even though he had such an obvious advantage.

He didn't believe that Lando was so stupid that he couldn't see that Raymond didn't want to find the Leviathan at all, but this guy still...

How can it be!

How is it possible? ! ! ! ! ! ! !

His dark green pupils widened slightly, and he glared at the two people not far away viciously and aggrieved——

Wherever he looked, the red-haired man raised his hand and quickly rubbed the black-haired young man's head to mess up his hair a little. But it was still bright inside, shining with an indescribably complicated light... After a while, he seemed to have made up his mind, slightly raised the corners of his lips and smiled, and then said to the person in front of him in a calm voice: "I came down to find you just now. , just because I found some clues about the statue of Leviathan, have you ever heard of a place mentioned in the ancient books of the Kingdom of the East, in the depths of the ocean, called 'Return to the Ruins'."

Return to the ruins?

What is this strange pronunciation?

It sounds like a big deal, but what is it?

At this time, Lando seemed to have seen the majestic and mysterious Leviathan pouring out of the ocean, and descended magnificently in front of him. He was so excited that he couldn't help shaking his hands. He looked at Raymond for a while, and for a while. Looking at Dill, the former looked back at him expressionlessly, while the latter had an impatient face filled with "How could you know this kind of thing?"...

Lando grabbed Raymond and wanted to urge him to take him to look at the relevant information to learn more, but before he pushed Raymond two steps away, the ruthlessly forgotten pirate captain standing behind them He reached out and grabbed his other hand——

"Little boy, are you really determined to abandon me and go with Raymond?"

"What? Were we together? When was it?"

"Ah! You heartless fellow! Why!"

"He's taller than you."

"What's that, I'm not shorter than Raymond, don't you like him, a muscular man with a big body and a thick body? I remember you said clearly before that 'compared to Raymond's body, of course Jello's body is more popular with women 'In this case!"

"I'm not a woman. Raymond, look what I do, don't listen to him, I never said such a shameful thing."

"It's too despicable, haven't you already signed my treaty and agreed to be my slave?"

"I also have a life bond on the Schitz, maybe in some bar, do you know what it means to be ticklish when there are too many lice?"

"You are really shameless."

"It's really embarrassing to be praised by pirates like this, and at the same time a little bit proud-by the way, to remind you, first lie to gain the trust of the other party, and then turn around with a hateful and arrogant face. It's you, now what right do you have to run over to me and pretend to be pitiful? You were the one who wanted to bombard the Sheath." Lando took a deep breath, looked into Dill's eyes, "This is mine. Boat."

Lando turned his back to Raymond and couldn't see the man's reaction at this moment, but Dill, who was facing Lando and Raymond at the same time, could see it very clearly. While declaring "This is my boat", the corners of the man's lips twitched at the same time, showing a very nasty smile: It's as if the little milk dog I've raised for many years has finally learned to bite like.

Dill took a breath, and suddenly felt what it means to "take the blame" or "lift a stone and shoot himself in the foot". He didn't expect that he was making a wedding dress for someone from the beginning to the end...and in that handsome While his face was slightly distorted and twitched due to anger, the black-haired young man standing in front of him had already turned his head away. Although Dill was still "buzzing" in his ears, looking at the The chief mate of the Schitz, who was on the sidelines but won a big victory: "What is the 'return to the ruins' you just mentioned? A place name? A special geographical environment? Or a walrus weather term? Where did you see it? I found it In those books? Why didn't you tell me in the morning, which made me lose my temper..."

"Don't yell, monkey, I'm not very happy because you chose to stay on the boat, don't use that kind of tone of asking for credit to push your nose here."

"……Oh."

Passing over the black-haired young man jumping behind him, Raymond glanced lazily at Dill, who was following behind them in a fit of rage—it has to be said that he somewhat admired this guy, although on the surface It looks very unreliable, but its action power is surprisingly amazing... If Lando "accidentally" removed a lot of ancient books from the bookshelf yesterday, and one of the ancient oriental books was "accidentally" flipped by him. At the same time, he continued to "accidentally" see the place "Return to the Ruins"... or the description of the phenomenon, maybe he is still kept in the dark.

The most unbearable thing is probably falling behind Dill?

Gee.

Originally, he was skeptical that this place was the place they were looking for, but looking at Dill's expression now, it undoubtedly confirmed from the side that his guess was correct.

Back in the cabin, Raymond saw that after Lando swayed in, a certain golden-haired little tail shamelessly came in, and thought for a while to avoid wasting words and chasing him away. With strength, Raymond turned around and directly took down a pair of dusty nautical maps that had turned yellow and worn out from the top shelf of the bookcase.

When the nautical map was placed on the table, the two people who stood on the other side of the desk and got very close due to curiosity were blown in the face by the raised dust at the same time. Raymond looked at the two fools with cold eyes and "cough cough" There was a violent cough, and at the same time he said slowly: "Guixu, as the name suggests, everything returns to nothingness, the beginning is the end, and the end is also the beginning. Do you still remember the song sung by the mermaid? 'All life begins at the origin' ——The interpretation of the ancients about the 'Land of Return' is indeed consistent with the mermaid's song and the Uroboros symbol it put out at the end."

Lando held his breath, bent down, and wanted to see the map more clearly, but the map hadn't had time to be unfolded... The hand he stretched out to unfold the map was slapped mercilessly, and he slammed Withdrawing his hand, he looked at Raymond complainingly. The latter looked back at him blankly, and continued: "In ancient oriental countries, there are many descriptions about the 'Land of Return'. The island in the fairy mist is like a replica of Babrus Island; some people say it is a bottomless sea eye, where the vast ocean begins, ends there, and connects to the universe. Connecting endlessly..."

While the man was talking, he slowly unfolded the map. Lando and Dill, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, turned their heads to look at it at the same time, and then both found a strange nautical map in front of them—there was no map on the map. I don’t know other ordinary maps that mark the longitude and latitude as well as the current national territory and the ownership of the sea area, but draw the distribution of the current country’s territory, but what is drawn in the blank space of each country is not the royal emblem or flag of the country, but Some strange creatures, such as an antelope with a one-horned rainbow tail, a lizard with a mouth breathing fire, an unknown creature with a flying human-faced monkey, etc...

"what is this?"

"Have you ever read the ancient geographical book "Shan Hai Jing" for the nautical charts left by the ancient Orientals? This nautical chart should have belonged to a part of that ancient book, but was accidentally lost by the creator. It changed hands several times and passed through merchants hand, ran to your father's bookshelf." Raymond said, pointing to the place where the Babylon Sea is now, the sea area is no longer divided into the sea area map of several adjacent countries, but according to the different regions, draw There are many different creatures, including whales and sharks, and more and more creatures appear in the deep sea area. Lando even saw people who were probably drawn with simple lines in the ocean area of ​​Birgeria. Yes, creatures like "mermen" who live in fairy tales...

If you think about it carefully, over the years, if you hear old sailors mentioning creatures such as "mermaid", "mermaid" or "sea monster", they are usually on the islands near Bilgeria.

At this moment, "shock" is no longer enough to describe Lando's feelings.

He fixed his gaze on Raymond's fingers, watching the man's fingertips gradually approaching the corner of the nautical chart—passing through Lando's knowledge range, which may not even be as wide as the navigator's. In No Man's Sea, the man's fingertips finally stopped suddenly when the scroll was unfolded to the last bit.

At this moment, the light was a bit dim, and Lando could only vaguely see something that seemed to be drawn on the nautical chart—at this time, Dill, who was standing behind Lando, slightly raised the oil lamp and approached, and raised the Oil lamp, this time Lando was finally able to see clearly the lines drawn on the nautical chart: Compared with other compositions, the composition is much more complicated, and there is a swirl drawn in the center of the chart, which is probably a place similar to the eye of the sea , In the eyes of the sea, a round of setting sun almost sinks into the sea level, and directly above the setting sun, a round of bright moon is drawn.

Next to it are two twisted, ancient oriental fonts.

"Return to the Market." Raymond counted the two words and reminded.

In the middle of the three symbols is a huge monster whose long coiled body directly connects the ocean and the sky. It has the belly of a whale, the head of a crocodile, the tusks of a walrus, and transparent wings like a bat—the most Interestingly, in the entire nautical chart drawn in black ink, only the eyes of this monster splashing out of the sea are drawn in another color, which is very pure blue , like the sky or the purest gem.

Described in the mermaid's song: the years are eternal, and the sunset dies.At the end of the sea level, the three lines of the sky, the earth and the sea merge into one, the giant beast swallows the boat, the sea water dries up, and the statue appears.

The Behemoth is the Leviathan.

It is described in the Bible that God created three monsters on the sixth day of creation, Leviathan who lives in the sea, Beamon who lives in the abyss magma purgatory, and the sky tyrant Zizi who hovers in the sky-in other aliens. In Christian culture, Leviathan is a powerful monster that can compete with Satan in strength. It is ruthless and possesses powerful divine power. It can create all living creatures in the ocean.

Probably no one would have guessed that Leviathan is real.

"..." In the silence, Lando tightened his hand slightly, showing a tense smile, "So, we are really preparing to face a... soaring that can directly connect the sea level and the sky. Dimensional, Creation Era monster?"