Chapter 7: Lao Gan
The tall and thin man really didn't say anything big, and when Heiko came to the ship with Vito and the others, he immediately arranged for a few people to live in the most luxurious large bedrooms on the second floor of the cabin.
This guy is quite sensible, and after instructing the kitchen to prepare breakfast, he bowed respectfully to Heiko and left the second floor, without the slightest intention of continuing to do so, so as not to affect Heiko and the others to rest.
This made Heike, who was originally contemptuous, couldn't help but look up at this person.
"Ah......h
Closing the door and laying down on the soft velvet bed, Heiko groaned comfortably.
Looking at the ceiling, he felt like a captain again after a long absence.
Although this has been a long time away, in fact, it has only been a day or two, but there is no way, who let since he bumped into Vito yesterday, his experience is too tragic, and his status in this small gang of bandits is not even as good as that cat......
It's sad to think about.
So...... What's next?
Heiko was a little confused, he didn't know whether he should cooperate to the end, honestly in front of the puppet colonel, waiting for the man to climb to the top of the Navy step by step, or secretly looking for an opportunity to ask for help from the top of the headquarters.
The former is a little too aggrieved, but the latter is not a safe choice, maybe after the high-level of the headquarters learned the truth, it is not difficult to send someone to encircle and suppress Vito, but his own life is also hanging in the balance.
It's better to be false and wronged first, and then wait and see for a while.
Heiko sighed, he felt that this was the most appropriate way at the moment, after all, it seemed that these guys were not really vicious thugs, and just now, they had generously let go of the driver of the sea train.
The old man of the driver was in his sixties, and his eyes and memory were not very good.
At the moment when the front of the steam locomotive exploded, the old man was stunned, and when he woke up, the carriage had already been cleaned, and the number of Vito and the others happened to correspond to Heiko's followers, so he didn't find anything wrong.
I thought that I had been stopped by the train robbers, but no one was injured, and the robbers were all driven away by the colonel from Marinfando.
Thereupon.
After repairing the locomotive, the old man whistled and drove the car again, and after a night of sailing, he brought them to the station in Purang.
With Vito personally waving his hand, he happily turned around and drove the train and embarked on the journey back to the water capital.
Heiko couldn't do this by himself, but he was in Vito's point of view, and he was going to kill the old man of the driver anyway, cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, leaving no possibility of risk.
He thought so silently, and gradually became sleepy, last night in the carriage frightened all night, it is true that he did not sleep well, and now lying on the soft bed, tiredness came like a tide, and soon swallowed his consciousness.
And in the midst of this half-asleep, he faintly, as if from the corner of his eyes squinted into a slit, saw the reflection of a few birds in the window, dark and motionless, a bit like a crow......
Wait, Raven?
A chill rushed from his back to the back of his head, and Heiko's consciousness instantly cleared up, and he rolled over and sat up, staring at the porthole with wide eyes at the five identical black ravens staring at him.
What a familiar scene.
Heiko felt a tingling on his scalp, and fine goosebumps stood out on every skin surface on his body.
What the fuck is going on?
He stared at the row of ravens standing on the lattice, but soon, as if he realized something, he raised his voice sharply, and shouted angrily at the window:
"Who sent you guys?"
"The people who control you, just hide around here, right? Get out of Lao Tzu, what kind of man is hiding and hiding, show up if you have the ability, I want to see what you are trying to do with Lao Tzu all the way! ”
Naturally, he was not too bold to do this, and shouting loudly may not be able to scare off this group of weird crows, but it can alarm Vito and the others in the next room.
However.
What made him desperate was that even though he had raised his voice, there was no movement from the next door, but the five black ravens, whose eyes rolled and flew into the window and landed at the head of his bed.
"Don't ...... Stay back! ”
Heiko was so frightened that he crawled to the end of the bed, and was about to pull a gun from his waistband when he heard an old voice with a little mockery coming from the bedside:
"Hey, hey, hey, I'm also a person who has been in the Navy Headquarters for more than ten years, why do you panic like this when you encounter danger, you guy, are you really from a place like Marin Fando?"
Who's talking?
Heiko looked up and searched the room and out of the window for a long time, but there was no one to be seen.
Just when he was in doubt, he saw the five black ravens sneer, and opened their mouths at the same time:
"Where do you look, little ghost, stupid as a pig, isn't the old man right in front of you?"
The tone of the sound produced by the five mouths was exactly the same, and for a time it had a stereo effect.
Heiko was a little dumbfounded, he looked at the five crows close at hand in a daze, and after staring at each other for a long time, he swallowed his saliva and said in a slightly trembling voice:
"You...... What the hell are you, difficult, is it the ...... in the horror story? That kind of thing? ”
"What a mess, you're still in your thirties and forties, how can you still believe in these things that coax children?"
The black ravens gave him a disdainful look, "Of course the old man is a human, a human who has eaten animal-based devil fruits. ”
As if to verify the authenticity of this sentence, as soon as the words fell, the five black ravens suddenly converged and merged, and after a moment of distortion of light, they disappeared in place, replaced by an old man with white hair and white beard and wearing a loose and old white robe.
The old man was tall and fat, with a round and ruddy face, and with this white appearance, he had a bit of a kind old man's taste, but at the moment there was some dissatisfaction in his eyes, obviously for Heiko seeing himself as a monster-like existence, and felt degrading and intellectual.
Fortunately, it is human, Heike suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, he wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and there was a malicious slander in his heart, the devil fruit ability is indeed the most reasonable possibility, and he would think of this for the first time in normal times, but who made your old man's behavior so weird and gloomy, and almost scared himself out of his heart attack.
"You seem to have been a bit miserable in the past two days."
The fat old man dressed in white looked at Heiko, sighed, and sighed, "I didn't recruit anyone to provoke anyone, I was eating barbecue and singing on the train, but I was suddenly robbed by the bandits, not only did the little ones not be saved, but I was also controlled and threatened by others, and I couldn't help myself and was bullied." ”
He didn't expect the old man to know so clearly about what happened to him, and for a while he felt like meeting a confidant in a foreign land, and feeling sour and tearful.
"It's all in your eyes."
Heiko first smiled bitterly, shook his head with a gloomy expression, and then pretended to suddenly realize something, and asked tentatively, "Then who are you, who have followed me all the way, and took the initiative to appear in my room, are you looking for me for something?" ”
His tone had been as calm as possible, but there was an irrepressible excitement in his heart, and there was a faint expectation in his heart.
This fat old man obviously has some sympathy for himself, although he doesn't know what the way it is, but it seems that he really has two brushes in terms of strength, not only can he become a crow and follow silently for so long, but he also seems to have the ability to hide his voice, so that everyone on the whole ship does not hear his shouting just now......
If the other party can help, wouldn't he have a chance to escape the control of Vito's gang and regain control of his own destiny?
"Me?"
In Heik's expectant gaze, the white fat old man scratched the back of his head and showed a kind and gentle smile, "Then introduce yourself, the old man's name is Gandalf, he has just come out of the mountains for a few months, and he is the great butler who has worked for the Corleone family for decades. ”
"Oh yes."
When he said this, he seemed to remember something, patted his head with some distress and said:
"Although I don't know the reason, the young master always said that the old man's temperament is not worthy of this name, so he has been calling me Lao Gan, Seti and Arno guys, and they have been shouting like this all these years, and they are almost used to shouting."
"Since you want to be our own person in the future, well, then you can call Lao Gan or the housekeeper, just be happy with you...... Hey, little Heiko, why are you stunned and don't speak again? ”