"What? You lost your key?! Boris couldn't hold back and cried out.

"Hey~" The old fishman sighed, "High Priest, you know. I am the previous patriarch of the Fish-People, who disappeared while exploring the mist. Along with him was the key to his body. ”

"What then? You ......"

The old fish-man waved his hand, "We don't care about the key, after all, we have been living on this island for hundreds of years, and this is an irreplaceable place for us. We didn't have any intention of going anywhere else...... Besides," the old fishman looked at the bookcase beside him. "Besides, there's something here that deserves to be guarded forever. As long as there are still people out there who remember this place, just come here and take a look. ”

"But this key, High Priest, is very important to you. After all, you still have to rely on it to make your way through the vortex. It is possible to find the traces of the Star Spirits. ”

"So how do I find the key? Even if I go to the mist, I don't know where your patriarch is. ”

"There's no rush on this matter, as long as we can cut through the fog and go to the coral of the King Octopus, there is nothing it can't find." The old fishman swore an oath.

Boreth nodded, "Looks like I really need to deal with the fog." I found the poison ...... in Ollie's house just now," Boris shook his head, "There is no cure for it, it seems that I must have found the King Octopus until I find it......"

"High Priest ......"

"Huh?"

"Don't you want to ask, why is the King Octopus able to do these things?"

"Why?"

Elder Fishman smiled deeply, "No one knows...... It is probably one of the oldest creatures in this ocean...... It could also be that we didn't know everything, just like the entire Star Spirit Continent...... Isn't it? ”

——

"No, no, no! Don't open it! The captain clutched the keyhole in the iron cage, "You give me the key, and I'll do it myself." ”

"Does it matter who opens it?" Will took the key and looked at the old captain with a frown, "Does it matter?" Didn't you always come up with it? ”

"Of course I want to come out, but it's not the time yet."

"Cut, what a weirdo...... Take it. Wiel tossed the key to Captain Hierro.

A hand with long nails grabbed the key, and the wrinkled hand stretched and retracted, and the key fell from the cuff to the ground in the cage.

"Don't play without those two hits."

"Oh, mistake, mistake." Captain Hierro picked up the key from the ground, "Boy, now the misunderstanding between us has been cleared up. You see, I'm really not a dishonest person, am I? ”

"Hehe, but you don't want me to make any good impression of you."

"Impressions don't really matter, I prefer valuable deals to impressions." Hierro added. "Now, now I've got another deal in mind, how about it? Are you trying to get rid of that tiger shark? The murderer? ”

Wiel waited for the following.

"I'll help you get rid of it, and you just need to do me a handy favor and take me to the swamp, and you just need a pointer." Captain Hierro had a cunning look in his eyes.

"What do you want to do?"

"I'll be the bait, boy, what do you think?" Weir frowned, "You are a bait?" …… I'm afraid that no one will be able to show me the way. ”

"Haha, do I look like such a weak person?" "Like!" Weir said of course.

Hierro choked, coughed awkwardly, and patted the cage that trapped him but refused to come out. "Well, to tell you the truth, this thing is the key."

"This cage?" Wiel was a little confused.

"As I said, this cage is specially made to protect me while trapping me firmly." Hierro patted his pocket, "Of course, when it wasn't opened." ”

Will looked up and down, remembering his helplessness about the cage that day, and he was suspicious and no longer dwelling on this issue. "You said you were bait, so why did the tiger shark attack you? Will you be ridiculed? ”

"Taunt? No, no, no, I'm a pirate captain, I wouldn't do it in such a low-level way. Captain Hierro smiled slightly, "I have my own way." Let's talk about what you're going to do. ”

"Huh?"

"Your task is to lure that thing out of the sea and into my vicinity."

Then, Hierro's hand pointed to the cannon on the side, "Then, the old monkey will use my old buddy to give him a hard blow." ”

"Will it work?" Weir asked.

"You mean monkeys fire? Or how are you supposed to attract it? ”

"Both." Will said without hesitation. "The old monkey is a good shooter, you don't have to worry about this, as for how you bring it out, that's your business, don't let me think about everything. Of course, where that guy will be, I'll show you. ”

Will frowned and thought about it, thinking that this tactic was still feasible. "Time is of the essence, let's go now."

"Oh, don't worry, we've got something to prepare."

"What's that?"

"Cannonballs!"

“……”

——

Wiel first pushed the cannons onto the raft in the river, and standing on the raft, the two "orangutans" placed Hierro on the other behind.

"Good craft, boy." Hierro looked at the rafts with some novelty. "Let's get started, we need to find a place to go."

The group went down the river, along the river, towards the back of the sea.

The mountain wall on one side was towering, and Wille noticed the sign dangling back and forth. "What's that?"

"That? A boring sign, this is the place where the star spirits gather the most in this part of the sea, do you know why? This is because it is a famous tavern. Hierro looked at the several bottles around him, and all of them said happily. If it weren't for these wines, I would have been depressed to death, old man. …… You know, alcohol is a pirate's blood and a third life. ”

"Oh, so I'm curious what the first two lives were?"

"It's good wine and good wine, hahaha!" Hierro laughed, completely unaware that he was already an old man. "Boy, but there is only one thing that is more precious than these things, more precious than life!"

Vere did not speak.

"It's the flag of a pirate, the spirit of a pirate!" Yero said loudly, with emotion. "When I can go back to sea one day and raise the pirate flag, I will surely drink again for another day! Haha, now, I'm one step closer to that goal. ”

With that, Hierro looked at Veil, who was rowing in front of him

"Hey! Boy, why are you in such a hurry? Separated from your chick? Captain Hierro behind him asked.

"I didn't expect you to be such a gossip person." Wiel stopped the oars and let the raft flow with the water. "Yes, I did get separated from them, and it doesn't look like they came to this island."

"You have a lot of people?" Hierro asked.

"Not much, just three people." Wiel did not hide it.

"Only three?!" Hierro gestured a three with his finger and said exaggeratedly, "Three people dare to cross the nearby current?" I said, even if all three of you are as good as you, it's too little. ”

"Don't you know?"

"Know what?"

"The Stars are gone."

"Oh?"

"On the entire island, I only saw you and Pease, two living star spirits."

Captain Hierro rubbed his chin, "Hey, when you mentioned it like that, I just found out~ You kid is not a star spirit." ”

"Well, I'm a human ......"

"But you still haven't explained, why are you in such a hurry."

"I've got to find them, I'm afraid something will happen to them......"

"I'm afraid something has happened to them, right?"

"Boris will be fine...... Ollie too. ”

"Oh? ~You're talking about that Boreth? Captain Hierro's eyes lit up. At the end of the day, it's about finding ...... Boreth? This pronunciation, is it still a woman! Hahaha. ”

Will didn't bother to pay attention, so he didn't say more, but there was still an inexplicable awkward feeling in his heart.

Soon, the current led the group to the beach, stopped the raft, and unloaded everything that had been prepared.

"Alright, we're going to start preparing, it's a one-time thing, there's no second time." Captain Hierro began to direct the monkeys around him, and with his things, he walked along the side near the woods towards the boulder beach where the tiger shark was.

What Wiel didn't notice was that the monkeys around Hierro were walking in the other direction.

"Boy, come with me first. I'll leave it to you here. Hierro's eyes sparkled, "Cannon, it's going to take a while." ”

"Let's go and prepare for the tiger shark's death trap."