First mate is not easy

After he walked out of the captain's cabin, Lando was in a bad mood, and his mind was full of how Raymond would be furious when he knew that Dill was going to snatch the Schitz with them... The bloody scene of dismantling was so serious that he ignored the person behind him who had been eerily quiet since he left Dill's lounge.

Lando didn't realize it at first, until he watched helplessly as the man sliced ​​the pineapple with the iron slices in it and handed it to a pirate. When the pirate was rolling and screaming on the deck, all the man could do was to lower his head, pull out a nail from the apple that was about to be handed out under the horrified gaze of the next pirate who came to pick up the food, and then remained expressionless. Say, "Next."

In the past, at this time, Xiaobai would at least say "sorry" politely.

Xiaobai is also quite abnormal today.

The black-haired young man sitting on the stairs with his face in his hands speculated for a moment, and while Xiao Bai was turning around to get some fruit, he stretched out his leg and kicked him meanly: "Hey, what's wrong with you?"

Xiaobai turned his head, glanced at him, patted the kicked trouser leg, and said in a muffled voice, "It's nothing."

"I don't believe it, you are abnormal."

Xiaobai stopped answering, picked up the empty buckets that had been distributed and walked towards the kitchen. Lando also stood up and followed the man's pace. He stepped on the shadow cast by the tall figure in front of him step by step. And it seemed that he was addicted to playing this game—until the person walking in front suddenly stopped, and the black-haired young man who followed behind couldn't brake enough to hit his strong back muscles with the tip of his nose!

Lando backed away again and again with an "Aww", at the same time, he heard Xiaobai's hoarse, deep and terrifying voice sounding above his head——

"I want Dill's book."

Lando burst into tears from the pain. He squatted on the ground rubbing his nose and wiping his tears. Hearing this, he raised his head in surprise, "Book? What book?"

"I saw it in the captain's cabin before, the one in the window." Xiao Bai said, "I want to take that book again."

Lando thought about it carefully, and then he remembered what the book Xiaobai was talking about—it was the one with ghostly symbols on the cover, and Dill carefully placed it in the precious item display cabinet... During the previous conversation They seem to have mentioned its special features a little bit, and he almost thought that the book came out of "that island", after all, Dill's statement is so ambiguous...

But what does Xiaobai want that book for?

You must know that Lando has never heard this guy ask for anything since he was picked up by Dill.

What's worse is that once such a person asks for something, it will give people a strong illusion that "he wants this one, if he doesn't give it to him, who will he be worthy of?"

"That book Dill will definitely not give you," Lando said, "that thing is put behind the window like a treasure-I promise, Dill won't even let you touch it, first of all he is So petty..."

"So tonight I decided to go and steal it."

"Secondly, you have to think about who we are—what, what?" The black-haired young man was taken aback, thinking that there was something wrong with his ears, "Sorry, what did you just say?"

"I said, I will steal the book tonight, just read it, flip through it casually, and put it back after a while." Xiaobai lowered his eyes, glanced at the front of his eyes and stared at himself with astonishment. The dark-haired young man seemed to find the latter's appearance very interesting. Under the bandage, he slightly narrowed his blue pupils—probably showing an expression similar to a smile. Rubbing Lando's chin with his thumb, he asked in a teasing tone, "So surprised? Do you want to participate?"

"... Stealing is a capital offense." Lando stammered, "And this is on a pirate ship, do you want to be rewarded with a bullet, a water bladder, and a deserted island——Dill will kill our!"

Xiaobai's smile subsided slightly: "Are you afraid of him?"

Before Lando could answer, Xiao Bai said again, "I thought you were only afraid of that Raymond."

Lando: "No matter what kind of statement it is, it makes people quite unhappy... I am not afraid of anyone, I just need Raymond to be a cow and a horse for me, so I don't want to offend him for the time being. As for Dill, hehe, I Why are you afraid of him? How can I be afraid of him? Didn’t I just get a book from his captain’s lounge to show you? You took so many whips for me and ran to the middle of the battlefield to save my life , how could I have the heart to refuse you—steal! Steal tonight! If you don’t steal, you won’t be happy!"

Lando finished speaking in one breath, and then suddenly felt that the big hand on his chin was taken away... He raised his head to look at Xiao Bai in a daze, but was surprised to see the latter's thin lips at the moment Jiao didn't know when he had maintained his nice-looking arc slightly raised, but unexpectedly, he showed an incomparably clear smile at him!

——Uh, to be honest, the smile is pretty pretty, but for some reason, Lando always has a feeling of being cheated when looking at such a smile.

The man reached out and touched the soft black hair of the person in front of him: "I'm here, don't be afraid."

Lando sighed: "...that's the only way to go."

……

That night, the round full moon hid in the thick clouds, and it was another cloudy day with no stars, the moon was dark and the wind was high.

The sea water rolled and slapped the ship's side, making a "squeaky" sound of waves. The Mora was protected by two huge warships, and slowly sailed towards the final destination of the Royal Port of Silton according to the original direction... …After the fierce battle with the Frankie escort team the night before, the pirates who spent the whole day counting the remaining personnel, supplies, and repairing the deck fell asleep early—tonight, the deck of the Mora was more visited than any other night It was quieter, no one came quietly to drink on the deck, no one sneaked in the corner to gamble with hidden cards, and even the orchestra stopped playing.

On the deck, there are only the "creaking" sounds of the patrol officers assigned to watch as they walk back and forth on the deck, and the soft whispers they make when they talk.

On the second deck, the small kitchen window was always open. No one noticed that there was already a figure lying there tonight, maintaining a fixed posture for the whole night. The cold sea breeze was blowing in front of him. The black-haired young man He was almost frozen to the point of losing consciousness, but at this moment, he heard the kitchen door being opened and closed behind him, and he didn't look back until the person who walked into the kitchen came behind him.

The man didn't speak, just stretched out his hand from the body of the black-haired young man, wrapped his arms around his waist habitually and dragged him back. At the same time, he stretched out his long arm and closed the window that had been open all night. .

When the wind was cut off from the window, the small kitchen seemed to warm up quickly.

The man leaned against the ear of the man in his arms, and said lightly, "You are blowing the sea breeze here before your fever subsides, isn't it fatal... your hands are so cold."

He squeezed the dark-haired young man's hand, then complained about the coldness of his palm.

Lando turned his head and broke free from the man's arms—as the only light source in the kitchen, the swaying kerosene lamp made a soft "creak" and "creak" sound. Lando looked at him and stood in front of him at this moment. Looking down at his man's beautiful blue pupils, he took a deep breath: "You asked me to watch Dill's movements here."

"I let you watch it, but I didn't let you watch it all night." Xiao Bai frowned, "I didn't expect that you didn't even know that you need to wear extra clothes when it's cold..."

While talking, Xiaobai took off his coat and put it on Lando. The latter sighed comfortably due to the enveloping temperature, rubbed his hands and muttered, "My eyes are almost blind."

Xiaobai smiled: "How is it?"

"Dill left the lounge an hour ago and went back to sleep. It seems that he was very tired last night." Lando pulled the clothes that seemed a bit too big for him, "It should be Now that we're asleep, we can get started."

Xiaobai nodded, but he didn't act in a hurry, but stretched out his hand to button up the clothes of the black-haired young man in front of him with ease, and also tied up the extra section of clothes for him by the way—that movement was so skillful, Lando blinked and asked, "Xiaobai."

"Huh?" The man replied without raising his head.

"I've wanted to ask for a long time, why do you look so good at taking care of people?"

The man was taken aback when he heard the words, and he just finished tidying up Lando's clothes at this time. While walking out while grabbing his wrist, he said calmly, "There is also a younger brother in the family, who is stupid, ignorant, can only make trouble, and often The cheated Tuantuan came back to me to be stupid and begged to wipe his ass, and basically belonged to the kind who can't take care of himself without me... If I don't look at it for a while, he will make a mess of himself."

"Ah, I never heard you mention it!" Lando said in surprise, "Then you have been on the Mora for so long, isn't your brother dying of anxiety?"

"It's okay." Where the black-haired young man couldn't see, the man slightly narrowed his blue pupils, "He's still alive and kicking."

"what?"

"Shh."

Pressing his fingers to his lips, the man made a gesture of silence—although Lando was interested in Xiaobai's brother and wanted to continue asking, but now they had business to do, so he had to keep his mouth shut .The two walked down from the second deck without a sound, and Lando followed behind Xiaobai. The two carefully hid themselves in the shadows to avoid the pirates on duty on the deck, and quickly and smoothly arrived at the captain's lounge nearby……

There are two pirate guards in front of the captain's lounge.

Under Lando's stunned gaze, Xiaobai quickly hit one of the pirates on the back of the neck with a hand knife and knocked him unconscious—Originally Lando wanted to imitate the gourd, but he didn't expect to be caught by Xiaobai before he did it. Bai hugged him, and under the gesture of the latter, he had no choice but to act as an unskilled porter and dragged the fainted pirate into the shadows. When he came back, he happened to see Xiao Bai carrying the second fainted pirate, Guang Rong. return.

"Why don't you let me do it?"

"you stupid."

"What?!"

"Hush!" Xiaobai looked at the staring young black-haired young man and explained with a low smile, "If the force of this move is too light, people will not be able to pass out, but if the force is too heavy, it will kill people. of."

Lando moved his lips and wanted to say something, but at this time, Xiaobai didn't give him another chance to speak—clearing the two pirates guarding in front of the captain's lounge, he pushed open the door of the lounge. The window, and then turned into the back of the window with a flexible body that didn't fit the tall body at all. Lando froze and hurriedly followed, but when he climbed into the window clumsily and in various stupid postures, he looked up and found that Xiaobai has already arrived at the display case during the day, and at this moment, he is carefully taking out the book he has been thinking about from the display case.

But at this time, behind him, Lando's heart was about to jump out of his throat—he couldn't believe why he was so crazy, just because of a broken book!

However, when Xiaobai opened the book and glanced quickly, and raised his eyelids to look towards Lando from the edge of the book, he looked at him uncontrollably as if under some terrible spell. Walking away, he was obviously not interested in the contents of that book at all, but he was still obsessed. He stretched his neck and asked in a low voice impatiently: "What is written on it?"

Xiaobai took Lando, and the two of them moved to the window next to the sea. Tonight, Lady Luck seemed to be on their side. Through the moonlight, Lando could clearly see a certain page of the book spread out in Xiaobai's hands——

Blurred lines were drawn on the yellowed paper. It looked like a woman with octopus lower limbs and long-haired girl upper body. She was holding something high in her hand, and that thing was glowing. ...But I can't see what it is, because the only place where that thing is is considered to be burned with fire, and there is a scorched black hole in there... And this woman who looks like a sea monster In front of him, the sea water seems to be split in two from the middle, revealing a passage, at the end of which is an island, and a sign is drawn above the island——

Lando's eyelids suddenly started to twitch crazily.

He saw two giant pythons entangled with each other, they were spitting out letters and twisting.

Lando is so familiar with such a symbol, it is not only a bedside story that grew up with him, it is in every corner of the Sheath, on the deck, on the ship's side, on the mast, and even in his lounge On the side of the head of the bed, such a symbol is engraved-Leviathan, "Isaiah" describes Leviathan as a "curved snake", and the Ugarit epic records Leviathan as Litan (Litan). , and described it as a "coiled snake", a huge monster from the sea.

On the Sea of ​​Babylon, there is a ship named after it. That ship is called the "God-given ship", and it is the dream of all navigators in their lives.

In the last words of Lando's father, Mr. Captain Barcelo, to his dear son, there is such a sentence——

[Take the Leviathan to find the New World, son. 】

Leviathan.

This book actually talks about the Leviathan.

At this moment, the black-haired young man only felt his heartbeat speeding up to the limit, and his eyes were a little black. He had to reach out and grab Xiaobai's arm tightly, and said dizzily, "Is this a map? Or what? The Leviathan... This is the book pointing to the location of the Leviathan, Xiaobai-you are really amazing, my God, tell me what is written on it!"

But at this time, compared to Lando's excitement, Xiaobai seemed much calmer. He turned a page, and through the moonlight, Lando could see the next page of the book, with some strange characters written on it. Character--

[La Dehofhrtieindbluszshirriewnff, Y, LargergconditionlaqueapuntanfugenladirecdjiedelaLeviatán...]

"...What is this?" Lando looked puzzled, "Which language? I've never seen this language—can you understand it?"

"I can understand a little bit," Xiaobai raised his eyelids and glanced at the black-haired young man who was concentrating on the book at the moment. After thinking for a while, he said, "It says that we need to find this man named Babrus The island of the island, we must have a sacred item, and the person with special blood will guide the direction of Leviathan..."

"That island still has a name, let me go."

"Any island has its name."

"What is the sacred object? Is it the thing that Dill wants to exchange with Queen Christine? Is it that? Ahhh!"

"Maybe... don't worry, there are more below."

Xiaobai smiled slightly, and slid his finger down slightly, pointing to the next line——

[Apuntanfugenrebrongpeopletocrotrunackeninfes, Y, Jusetingsdingstillstuayeninfes...]

Lando: "What did you say? What did you say?!"

Xiaobai: "...I thought I was reading a fairy tale. It said that people with special blood can bring back people who have passed away, as long as they still exist in this world in any form."

Lando: "..."

While talking, Xiaobai quickly glanced at the rest of the text - when he saw a certain line, he suddenly made a strange "uh" sound, and after a moment of hesitation, he remained expressionless, " He closed the book with a snap... Seeing this, Lando was slightly taken aback: "Why did you close it?"

"The book doesn't seem to be of much use, it's just nonsense."

"Nonsense, you can also translate it for me!"

"It's over."

"Liar kid, there's still a long way to go!"

"I said the translation is over," Xiaobai put the book behind his back, "it means the translation is over."

"... Well, well, I can't say enough about you."

Lando raised his hand to express his surrender, saying that Xiaobai would not do anything to him if he refused to continue translating... At this time, the black-haired young man's mind suddenly became active. It's too big - anyway, he didn't expect at all, because of a moment of curiosity, he would actually come into contact with the Leviathan so directly...

This book was circulated from the island named Babrus where the Leviathan was hidden, and it was obvious that there were some suggestive things written in the book. Not only Xiaobai could understand these things, but even Dill I also understand it, so Dill already has a general direction to find the island——

"I can't believe what Raymond is going to say if he sees this, listen, white, we can't return this book to Dill, I need it, I need it badly, it's my daddy's last wish... ...can't tell now, I'm too confused, anyway, we're leaving the Mora with this book tonight - will you come back to the Sheath with me? I promise you a copy of the Fisherman's Come to a more decent job—"

Lando babbled, but did not wait for Xiaobai's response.

Just when he thought that the other party was going to reject him, and raised his head in disappointment, he was surprised that the other party's attention was not on him at all—at this moment, the man's azure blue pupils dimmed slightly, just for a moment. He stared at the door for a moment.

After three seconds.

The captain's resting door was kicked open from the outside.

Flames instantly filled the entire captain's lounge.

"Nobody's going to go tonight, my little boy. I knew you wouldn't just stay in your cabin—you've never disappointed me once."

Dill's slender figure appeared behind the door, and he walked into the cabin with a smile on his delicate face, but in those green pupils that were as green as lake water, there was the fury of a storm.

The air instantly froze like a tight string.

Lando gasped, and his first reaction was: run.

He and Xiaobai, the two teamed up, may not be Dill's opponent.

However, this idea had only just formed in Lando's mind, and he saw the smile on the corner of Dill's lips widening, and his voice was soft and sweet: "Did you hear what I said, Lando, I said, tonight Nobody can go—and I keep my word."

Lando had to say that when Dill called him by his first name, he felt goosebumps all over his body, but at this moment he forced himself not to show a timid look: "Your crew members are no match for me and Xiaobai, Xiaobai! Jero, we can get out of here, and you will be the first person to be brought down by us here tonight."

While talking, Lando quickly pushed Xiaobai, and quickly whispered to him, "I'll hold Dill and you run away." Pounced - Dill took Lando's first attack calmly. When the two were fighting together, Lando suddenly heard Dill growl in a low voice: "Stop that red-haired bastard, little Pa Germany."

The creature whose name was called poked its head out of the captain's hat.

At the same time, Dill grabbed Lando's head fiercely, controlled him and slammed him against the solid cabin wall - Lando only heard a loud bang, and the severe pain was accompanied by black eyes, he But resisting the intense pain and dizziness, he stretched out his hand and hugged Dill's waist tightly: "You use a hamster to stop Xiaobai? Dreaming!"

Lando fell silent, but heard Dill sneer: "Hamster?"

Accompanied by the mocking question of the blond young man, the hamster that was squatting on Captain Dill's cap slipped from his head and landed lightly on his shoulder. It squeaked and opened its mouth Dill took a hard bite on the shoulder - Dill breathed a little harder, and at the same time, the hamster slipped off his shoulder and fell to the ground, and then, a completely incredible scene appeared ——

That hamster is getting bigger.

It was like being shrouded in a black mist.

But if there is no problem with Lando's eyes, the little Pad who sucked Dill's blood is indeed changing. It is growing rapidly by several times, its hair is elongating, and its bones are "cracking". The sound——in the captain's lounge, which was swaying with the sea water, was swayed by the kerosene lamp hanging casually, and in such an uncertain light, Lando's eyes widened slightly...

Watching that hamster transform into a human.

A tall and strong middle-aged man.

He has dark green hair like seaweed, dark pupils of the same color as his hair, thick eyebrows like swords, and a facial contour like a carved work of art. There is a long scar from the eye to the corner of the mouth. ... When he laughed, he showed his set of straight, thick white teeth.

Lando almost forgot how to breathe. He stared at the middle-aged man who suddenly appeared in front of him, his eyes were straightened, and he felt dizzy.

"Pa, first mate Pad..."

"Ah, First Mate Pad, what a nostalgic title—it's been a long time, Lando, the last time I saw you, you were a little fluff who could pee your pants."

The middle-aged man who was called by his name turned around and showed an unscrupulous and crazy smile at the panicked black-haired young man.