Chapter XXIII: The Trident and the Port of Tortuga
"Boy, I hate you. ”
The Captain of the Black Pearl's interior, the low-key and luxurious decoration is as always, but the people in the house are not in the mood to appreciate it.
Looking at the gray-white owl on the table in front of him, which was more than half a meter high, both Carl and the owl itself looked constipated.
On the other side of the table, Hades stared at the scene in front of him for some reason.
Converted from a human, it is far more psychic than a normal pet, but it still can't understand what is going on.
"By the way, why didn't you pick it?" Karl asked helplessly, pointing at Hades.
"Even if I die, I won't attach myself to a crow named Hades!!"
Hela's beak made an almost roaring human voice, the mighty size, hideous appearance, and sharp claws made this roar quite powerful, coupled with that fierce expression, ordinary people would immediately be frightened enough to choke when they saw it.
Especially the sharp voice, which sounds inexplicably chilling.
"Then you can't blame anyone else. Karl spread his hands towards Hela.
Hearing this, Hela let out another roar.
"But you didn't tell me this owl was female!!"
"I was going to explain, but you're moving too fast, what can I do? Carl said helplessly.
"Bastard!!"
It is difficult for ordinary people to imagine how an owl can show the expression of gnashing its teeth, but Hela in front of her did it.
Beside him, Hades jumped a few steps to Hela's side and pecked at her feathers with her beak.
The relationship between the two birds has always been good, and at this time, seeing that Hela was in a different state, out of concern for his colleagues, Hades came to the side to ask for warmth.
However, the other party did not appreciate it at all.
"Fuck off, don't touch me with your dirty mouth!!"
Hela flapped her wings and flew Hades, who was several sizes smaller, to the table.
This didn't hurt Hades, but he stood at the table, and Hades looked at Hella from a distance and shivered, and didn't dare to step forward anymore.
Seeing this, Carl shook his head helplessly, "Otherwise, you can come out of it yourself and attach it again." ”
Hela gave Carl a roll of the eye with her hawkeye, "You try to get out of your current body." ”
"Then it can't be helped. Karl shrugged his shoulders.
The captain's room fell silent, and for a moment, as if remembering something, Hela spoke hurriedly.
"Hurry up, use your magic, and change me. ”
"I don't have that skills. Carl shook his head.
"Then kill me, and I'll possess me again!" Hela said again.
"Don't even think about it!" said Karl categorically.
Hela was a birthday present that Nick and Louise bought him for a long time, and they had been together for a long time, and they had already had a relationship, so he was reluctant to kill him like this.
"You're going to leave it at that. ”
Carl reached out and wanted to pat Hela on the head, but when he saw Hela's murderous eyes, he decisively withdrew his hand.
For a long time, Hela seemed to have finally calmed down, and she didn't see her noisy anymore, her eagle eyes were a little straight, and she seemed to accept her fate, and even her originally sharp voice seemed low.
"What are you going to do next?"
Next?
Karl looked down at his fingertips, and a blackened orange-red flame pulsed at his fingertips.
At this moment, shouts were heard from outside the cabin.
"Ahead, discover the island!!"
Immediately after, there was a burst of exclamations outside the cabin......
"Oh my God! that's beautiful!!"
"I'm not mistaken, there's a gem on it, right?!"
In the captain's cabin, Karl got up from his chair, pushed the door open, and walked out, standing on the deck outside the cabin, looking ahead.
He saw that on the sea not far ahead, an island glittering with crystal starlight, as brilliant as the reflection of the heavenly river, and almost entirely composed of precious stones, appeared in front of his eyes.
Then, it seems, only one last thing remains.
......
The port of Tortuga is a paradise for pirates.
The law is useless here, day and night, where pirates have unbridled joy and no one has jurisdiction over it.
Violence, squalor and chaos are the eternal subjects here.
Ships visiting the island don't even have to dock to hear the laughter and curses of the island, as well as the chaotic music of guitars, violins, and accordions.
There is a fight almost every few meters on the island.
Pirates don't know what politeness and humility are.
These drunken sailors and villains would raise their punchbag-sized fists and smash them at the bridge of their noses at the slightest disappointment, often ending in the complete incapacitation of one of them.
The pirates with guns unbridled their guns everywhere, most of them celebrating and venting their irritability, and some of them were recklessly targeting other people's bodies.
There were a lot of drunken pirates who lost their lives in this way.
Just like now, a buckshot coincidentally struck Carl's eyebrows, who had just come off the Black Pearl and stepped onto the docks of the seaport.
However, before it could hit its target, it crashed into an invisible wall, and then the lead bullet actually burned on its own, turning into steam in the blink of an eye.
The pirate who fired the bullet was so drunk that he couldn't even see what was within a few meters of his eyes, let alone where the bullet was going.
Someone noticed the scene, and on the docks, many drunken sailors were lying sleepily next to the large pile of cargo.
They have squandered the last copper plate on the island, just waiting for tomorrow to set sail and return to the sea again.
Although they saw the scene just now, they were all like the pirate who shot them, but they thought they were dazzled, and they muttered meaninglessly, and soon fell asleep in a daze.
......
Today, the port of Tortuga welcomes a strange visitor, a person who is absolutely impossible to visit.
When Karl walked from the dock to the muddy streets of the harbor, many people noticed him at a glance.
The men in the fight stopped half-swinging their fists and watched in amazement as Karl walked past them.
Everywhere Carl went, the cacophony of yelling was silenced.
Eventually, when Carl came to the end of the street in front of one of the most popular taverns, the whole street fell silent.
It seemed that someone had turned off the microphone speakers, and even the sailor playing the piano on the second floor of the tavern stopped and looked at the boy standing below.
It's not that Carl's outfit is unique, but that white face alone doesn't fit in with the filthy and foul-smelling environment of the entire harbor.
Not to mention his conspicuous white hair and the obviously valuable robes on his body.
The sea and the heavens bear witness to the fact that these pirates and sailors who often come to the island for pleasure have never seen such a person.
There was not the slightest stain on the clean face, and it was not like theirs, which was soaked in sea salt and scorching sun, red and black, and so white that it was outrageously white.
And that face...... Although you know at first glance that it is a boy, but God, have you sent your messengers down to earth?
For some reason, the boy seemed to be holding an unknown object in his hand, which looked a bit like a harpoon, but it was much thicker, and it was not made of iron, but it was colorful and irregular.
But no matter what, you can see that it is worth a lot of money at a glance.
Just standing there, Carl drew the eyes of everyone on the street to him.
However, if it was nothing more than that, Carl had long been accustomed to the gaze of the people around him.
However, just as Karl was about to enter the tavern in front of him, several drunken sailors stopped him.
One of them grinned, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth, and the stench from his mouth rushed towards Carl.
"Boy, can't you find your mother, do you want us to take you to find milk?"
After that, several people behind him burst into disgusting laughter.
Seeing this scene, Carl felt quite familiar.
If it was just him, in the face of such a scene, it would inevitably be like when he made a big fuss in Tumbledown Alley, but fortunately, he was not alone this time.
"Bang!"
A gunshot rang out, and the bullet hit the man in the left chest.
Blood gushed from the bullet holes, and in the blink of an eye, the clothes on his chest were stained red.
The sailors who had been with the man woke up in an instant, and fled in both directions.
After doing all this, Barbossa didn't even look at the man lying in a pool of blood, and took a few steps forward, standing behind Carl with a blank face.
He turned around and glanced around, and the whole street was staring down at his glance.
Jack stood beside Barbossa, followed by the menacing crew of the Black Pearl.
A group of people stood in front of the tavern, and the usually lawless villains on the whole street behind them did not dare to breathe at this time, and they all bowed into quails, trembling at the group of people at the end of the street.
With the Trident in hand, Karl and his party just stepped on the land of the port of Tortuga.