Lao Gong was alone, smoking a stuffy cigarette in the command room, the door of the command room was pushed open again, and Lao Gong didn't raise his head: "Boy, you hurry back to sleep, why are you coming back." ”

The palace chief changed his expression at this time, smiled and found a chair, sat next to the old palace, this time he was inexplicably captured by the old palace, as soon as he came back, it was the treasure of Blackbeard, and it was the big snake of Baqi, and it was the Naga Siren, of course, there was a fragrant experience, and the palace chief had a question mark in his stomach and wanted to ask the old palace, but he didn't know where to start.

"That, uncle" After a while, the palace chief stammered, "I have something to ask you." Lao Gong lit his cigarette pouch, took a puff, and spit out a smoke ring, "Ask, boy, I know you must have a lot to know now." ”

The palace chief just wanted to open his mouth, but found that there were too many things blocking his thoughts, and he couldn't help but shake his head, trying to clear the thoughts in his mind and eliminate those irrelevant things. "Uncle, have you ever been to the Sea of Stars, have anyone in our Lao Gong family been to the Sea of Stars, what is the Sea of Stars?"

Lao Gong narrowed his eyes and did not answer immediately, he seemed to be caught in a long, long memory, if it weren't for the thick smoke coming out of his mouth all the time, the palace chief would have thought he was asleep. "Ahem, ahem, the Sea of Stars, I've been there, and I haven't been." The palace chief waited for a long time, and when he got such an answer from the old palace, the second monk was even more confused.

"Uncle, if you have been there, you have been there, if you haven't been there, you haven't been, what is it, you haven't been there." The palace chief asked. Lao Gong didn't answer this question immediately, but looked at the endless stars outside the window, and said slowly: "Our Lao Gong family, in the history of the island world, is also a famous family, far away from our ancestors, once followed the first person Great Pirate King, close to your father, who was born out of thin air, in just ten years, it has left such a family foundation for our Lao Gong family. Lao Gong said as he straightened his waist, as if he had returned to those eventful years.

The palace chief listened quietly, he rarely heard Lao Gong talk about these things, "It's a pity that the sea of stars is like a curse, back then, the ancestor of our old palace family, following the world pirate king, fell in the sea of stars, your father, also with the elite of the Sirius Star back then, after entering the sea of stars, there was no news. Lao Gong sighed lightly, "This sea of stars is not only the curse of our old palace family, but also the curse of the entire pirate world, God knows how many heroes and heroes of the pirate world have been swallowed by the sea of stars." ”

"If so many people have died in the Sea of Stars, why do all these pirates go to the Sea of Stars?" The palace chief asked suspiciously, Lao Gong leaned back in his chair and looked at the ceiling of the command room attentively: "Xiao Chang, do you know what people want most throughout the ages?" The palace chief shook his head. Lao Gong laughed bitterly, and four words popped out of his mouth, "Immortal." ”

"Immorality? No wonder you want to send me to school, pirates are really illiterate, thanks to you didn't go ashore, uncle, do you know that there is now a kind of pyramid scheme on the shore, which guarantees that you pirates can make a lifetime of money in a week. The palace chief thought that he had heard it wrong, and almost fainted, and sneered at the old palace.

Lao Gong didn't pay attention to the palace chief: "For me, this is secondary, in case I can live forever, it is good, my purpose is to go to my brother, that is, your father." Seeing that Lao Gong had a serious face, the palace chief didn't look like he was joking, and he also put away his ridiculous tone. Uncle, what do you mean when you just said that you haven't been there? ”

Lao Gong smiled bitterly again: "I was still very young back then, and I was only a teenager, at that time, following my eldest brother's boat, I heard that I was at the entrance to the sea of stars, and your father asked me to get off the boat. Lao Gong took another hard puff of his cigarette: "And guess what, your father found a few people, pointed a gun at me, put a knife on my neck, put a sack on my head, and threw me off the boat." ”

The palace chief felt embarrassed for a while, and he couldn't imagine that his father was even more powerful than the uncle in front of him, who was known for his toughness, and the palace continued: "When I got off the boat, your father stuffed me with an envelope, which contained the addresses of all his belongings, that is, those Starlight, and asked me to take good care of you, after all, your mother left early." Lao Gong said, glancing at the palace chief, but the palace chief turned his head away, so that he could avoid Lao Gong's eyes.

"That old man, knowing that he has children to take care of, is still greedy for his own immortality. Hmph, ridiculous" For the palace chief, thinking of his parents makes his heart hurt, for so many years, he has never recalled these things, and from the heart, it is difficult to forgive his father who abandoned him.

"Xiao Chang" Lao Gong took another puff of smoke, "Don't blame your father too much for this matter, others don't know him, I understand, he went to the Sea of Stars to find a way to bring back your mother." ”

The palace chief was stunned, and Lao Gong continued: "That's right, legend has it that the sea of stars can not only make people immortal, resurrect from the dead, and be reborn with a broken arm, these can all be done. The palace chief was silent, and the old palace continued: "At that time, your father drove me down desperately, and I blamed him at first, but later, there was no news of him in this world, and I knew that he was a piece of hard work. ”

"About half a year ago, the quadrennial World Pirate Conference was held in that place in the Caribbean, and all the pirates in the world with heads and faces went," Lao Gong said to himself: "The World Pirate Convention, one of the most important contents is the treasure list. This treasure list is all about some capable people in the world, I don't know how to get some treasure information, some of them even start from the mythological era, they don't have the ability to find these treasures, they will find the World Pirate Guild, and pirates like us, from the form of accounting, they provide maps, we find things out. ”

"Then did you get the news of the sea of stars from there?" The palace chief asked.

Lao Gong nodded, "Yes, at that time, the top few of the treasure list were usually divided by several pirate kings, when your father was still there, the limelight was too strong, and it was close to a few pirate kings, so there were many enemies, so when I debuted, I was very low-key, not fighting or grabbing, I just found a random person on the list, and after contacting him, I learned that the information in the customer's hand, although it was incomplete, was very strange." ”

"What's that weird method?" "That map, anyone with a little knowledge of navigation can see which place it is, but when you look down at it, it is chaotic and distorted, as if someone has altered it, and then there is a map of another place, that map, I have never seen it in all my years at sea." "Based on this, you can conclude that it has something to do with the Sea of Stars?" The palace chief asked.

Lao Gong nodded, "It's not just this, there are strange words engraved on the map that I can't understand, I quietly copied it down at the time, and I found someone to read it, that is the text of our Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which means the land of eternal life." ”