Honestly, because of its non-productive nature, this pirate island presents Lorraine with a peculiar sense of comfort in which man and nature coexist in harmony.

Following the forest, the path is deep, turning and turning for dozens of minutes, and Lorraine's eyes suddenly open up.

It is a small clear lake, along which are scattered and messy with simple wooden buildings, and clustered around the largest, most standardized, and most neat domed houses in the middle, which makes it easy to distinguish the main and the secondary, and incidentally adds to it the majesty and holiness that would otherwise be extremely difficult to possess in a building of this scale.

And it's surprisingly lively.

There are people, men, women, drunks, drunks, drunks, drunks, drunks, drunks, and drunks gathered around each wooden building......

Singing, dancing, fighting, in broad daylight by the lake**......

A small clearing in the forest was filled with the sound of all kinds of wandering corpses, and by the winding of the road, it did not penetrate the forest at all.

What a magical place......

Lorraine looked at Xian curiously, and saw a tall and heroic young man approaching with a wave of his hand, revealing the long sword at his waist and the short spear hidden under the placket of his trench coat as he ran.

"Raise your gun! Stop! ”

Thirty spears were all aimed at it.

The naturally familiar young man's face turned pale with fright, and he raised his hands and waved them again and again.

"Hey, bro, let your sailors relax! This is Tortuga, except for duels hosted by the Brotherhood, private fights are prohibited, and firearms are not allowed! ”

"Barto, tell everyone to put down their guns." Lorraine smiled kindly, "The gun in his arms didn't press the hammer, and if he only used a long sword, it would not be a threat to me and Henna." ”

Touching words are certainly not good, but fortunately, they work well. The gunners raised the barrels of their guns in unison, and their movements were so neat that the young man's eyes lit up.

"Brother, your sailors don't look like free pirates."

"It's not like it, we're privateers."

"Privateers?"

The young man exclaimed in surprise, but his face was as clear as it should be.

"The noble privateers have become more and more reluctant to have anything to do with lowly pirates."

"Really?" Lorraine maintained a smile on her face, "Could it be that the Maritime Brotherhood no longer recognizes the skull flag on the tip of the privateer's mast?" ”

"Not really. Peers, even if there are differences in philosophy, we still agree on the same way of life. The young man thought for a moment and added, "At most, the emphasis is different. ”

"I like that you're focused on a different level." Lorraine held out his hand, "Kingston Drake Chamber of Commerce, Lorraine. Drake. ”

"Bellamy III Leonardo, according to the traditional rules of piracy, I discarded my surname."

The two big hands were clasped tightly together.

Feeling the power of his palm, Lorraine took a serious look at the sunny and somewhat familiar young man in front of him for the first time.

He is about 190 cm tall, with slender limbs, extremely large hands and feet, his eye sockets are slightly sunken, his eyebrow bones are prominent, and his facial features are clearly defined and hard.

He has a large mouth, the corners of which are wider than normal, and when he laughs, he shows a mouth full of white teeth.

This large mouth, as well as its huge hands and feet, became a strange feature of his body, leaving a deep impression on people, like a shark transformed into a human form.

He is Bellamy III......

One of the six surviving pirate kings, he inherited the surname and honorific title of the famous Robin Hood of the Sea, but from the name and appearance, he appears to be a young man of Hispanic descent.

Lorraine looked at Bellamy, and her smile gradually became intriguing.

"Tortuga is worthy of being a holy place for pirates, and I didn't expect that I deserve to be greeted by a pirate king in person."

"You seem to have misunderstood something, brother!" Bellamy retracted his hand in a panic, still the same gesture that showed his innocence, "No, your communication shouldn't like the frivolous name of brother, what should I call you?" Mr? Friend? ”

"It's good to call Drake, and Lorraine doesn't matter."

"Then Lorraine." Bellamy happily accepted Lorraine's suggestion, "Lorraine, I didn't approach you with a purpose. Our encounter was a coincidence, and I was just curious as to why someone would enter Tortuga through the blood of the exiled Apocalypse. ”

"Exiled ......" Lorraine? He glanced behind him, "This is not the main road?" ”

Bellamy laughed, "It's really your first time on Turtle Island." When you landed on the island from the south coast, didn't you feel that the island was too deserted? ”

"It seems...... That's true. ”

"You should find a guide, or go around the island and you will find that the north shore and the south shore are two very different worlds."

Bellamy happily patted Lorraine on the arm and reintroduced, "This is Tortuga, both a mecca for pirates and a bustling Black Harbor. ”

"The jungle where you are standing now is known to the pirates as the Crown Oasis, the holiest place on the entire island. Its passage to the north is called the Freedom Road, which leads to the bustling market town, and the passage to the south is called the Bloody Road, which is the final place of redemption for the betrayer. ”

Lorraine raised her eyebrows in confusion: "Why do you say that this road is a place of salvation for traitors?" ”

"Because of the kindness of the first black baron." Bellamy said, "The Great Morgan issued the Code, and the pirates had their own laws from then on. ”

"In order for pirates to stay on board with peace of mind, there are many provisions in the code to protect ordinary pirates. One of them is that the captain must not harm his own crew on the ship, even if it is a great crime like betrayal, he must be issued a black ticket after the trial, and then send the betrayer ashore, and give him a chance to struggle and escape before execution. ”

"And then?"

"And then the law wasn't very well enforced. The Emperor simply forbade the captains to kill people on the ship, and the captains could have exiled the condemners to small islands and reefs, leaving him with nowhere to hide and nowhere to escape. ”

"The first black baron-to-be amended this law. He stipulated that those who had been issued a black ticket could surrender and be taken to Tortuga to be punished by bloodshed if they wished. ”

"When the Bloody Punishment begins, a small wooden boat with food, rum and muskets will be left on the beach on the south shore of the island, and the betrayer must escape the two-kilometre-long jungle road with his bare hands, find the boat, and row out to sea."

"The pirate captain and his supporters can hunt him down by any means before the boat goes to sea, and once the boat is at sea, the betrayer must be pardoned and protected by the Brotherhood of the Sea."

Lorraine was somewhat incomprehensible to the pirate's brain circuit: "Protect the betrayer?" Does this law really make sense? ”

"So pirates and privateers are just peers." Bellamy held his head up proudly, "Pirates are subjects of freedom, loyalty is freedom, and betrayal is freedom." The leader of the ship can dislike this freedom and can give appropriate punishment, but in no way can deprive the led of the right to freedom. ”

"What's more, the original intention of the first generation of black barons to revise the code was not to let the punishment of blood replace the original regulations of the emperor, but to set basic norms to ensure that the punishment of black coupons can be treated correctly by everyone."

"Sounds like that's funny......" Lorraine couldn't help but laugh.

Bellamy laughed too.

He naturally took Lorraine's arm, clenched it tightly, and at the same time raised his other hand and pointed to the chaotic and filthy "holy place" in front of him.

He said aloud, "All right, Lorraine, the story is over." Now tell me why you, a wealthy merchant who looks more like a prey, came to Tortuga? Outing? ”

"I've been told that if I want to join the pirate king's race, I need to get approval from the Brotherhood of the Seas. That's the main purpose of my coming to this backwood. ”

Lorraine flipped her wrist and easily broke free of Bellamy's restraints.

"You know what? For the pirates who flaunt freedom, this is not freedom at all. ”