"Catch that brute!" Before Lothar could recover from the shock of the kitchen knife flying past his face, a roar of rage came from the depths of the food store. With it, a dark shadow swooped down on the count's face. If it was an ordinary person, the best reaction at this time was to turn his head sideways to avoid this black shadow, but the Count of Montenegro was also a person, and he immediately gave feedback with the dynamic vision he had obtained from archery training and the reflexes he had cultivated in a hundred battles. The muscles of Lothar's right hand contracted, and the whole arm was raised like a spring, and the five open fingers were like five steel nails, forming a solid net, and the black shadow was a swimming fish that threw itself into the net.

"Bang!" The soft and hard touch of the hand was quickly reminiscent of animals, and it was only then that Lothar realized that what he had subconsciously grasped was a big cat with black spots on its body. And this big cat has a fish in its mouth. These key pieces of information are strung together, and the situation of the wild cat stealing fish and the boss throwing a kitchen knife to stop the thief becomes clear.

"Purr!" except that the guy who was caught by the Count now was no ordinary wild cat. With a low nasal voice and a tingling on the back of his hand, Lothar realized that the big cat was bigger than the cats he was familiar with, and the muscles under its fur proved that it was not a creature that existed to please its owners. But what made the Count even more strange was that even now, the big cat did not let go of the fish in its mouth, on the contrary, it bit even tighter.

"Close the door first, fool!" came the angry voice again, and Lothar took two steps into the room and closed the door behind him. In this way, even if the big cat breaks free from his control, it will not be able to escape for a while. At this time, the owner of the food store finally appeared, it was a middle-aged man with a rosacea nose, baldness, and a thick apron covered in stains. Judging by his left hand, which lacks a pinky and ring finger, he was either a gambler or a careless sailor before, of course, it could be both.

The man rubbed his hands together and looked at the big cat in Lothar's hand with a cruel smile, "Run, brute, why don't you run?" Seeing his appearance, the Count subconsciously took two steps in the other direction, and the two of them went in a circle, and the boss took advantage of the situation to pull out his kitchen knife from the door frame. "Dare to steal my fish! Hmph, ask anyone in Heartbreaker Bay who dares to steal fish from my old Jimmy's shop!

Just as the boss who calls himself Old Jimmy is speaking harshly at a cat, the door behind him opens again. "Bastard, don't you see I'm catching a cat?" said old Jimmy without looking back at the man who came in from behind, and was kicked to the ground. "You maggot on the deck, you dare to kick old Jimmy, I'm going to..."

"What are you here to buy? We have good fish and vegetables, and we have recently bought a new batch of sausages and serious pork, absolutely no lime!" The boss immediately changed into a groveling look, and disappeared without a trace of the cruel appearance he had just played against the big cat. It's just that the five pirates who entered the door after the door didn't look like they were here, and the leader who kicked Jimmy just now pouted his lips and pointed a scimitar at the food store owner's chest, "Today, we don't buy anything." We came to find people, we looked for bobcats. ”

Lothar cautiously retreated towards the inside of the shop, he didn't want to wade into the muddy water, and the big cat he caught in his hand seemed to realize that something was wrong, and stopped struggling and making noise, and quieted down. "Bobcat, what, what bobcat?" said old Jimmy for a moment, half-lying on the ground, puzzled, and then he looked like he suddenly understood something, "Oh, you say bobcat, no, that kid is holding in his hand! Hey, I don't know if this is your pet, you know that the sailors have parrots, monkeys, and lynxes for the first time." Offense offense, I don't want money for this fish, just give it away... Poof!" Old Jimmy didn't finish his words, and he was kicked in the stomach again, and his saliva spurted out, and the whole person curled up on the ground like a shrimp because of the pain. But the pirate who kicked him had no mercy on the man.

"The lynx we are looking for is your brother, that liar! Acquaintances hurry up and hand him over, he deceived our captain and caused us to lose several brothers, you are also an old man in Heartless Bay, you know how to deal with this kind of thing, right?" The pirate shook the scimitar in his hand, his eyes and tone full of undisguised murder.

"Oops... Hurt... I really don't know who you're talking about. Old Jimmy rolled on the floor with his stomach in his arms and whispered, "I have a brother, but that bastard is long dead, and even if he is alive, we haven't seen each other in years, how can we know where he is? ”

"Looks like you don't want to say it? Then don't blame us, when you chop off your fingers one by one, I hope you won't change this set of words. The pirate said as he asked his men to pull old Jimmy up and cut off his fingers. Seeing this, the Count sighed slightly, and saw another boning knife stuck in the board, carefully pulled it out with his free hand, and carried it behind his back. "Wait a minute, can you slow down and ask him again. I'm still waiting to buy something. ”

The pirates were just looking at the other person in the room, and Lothar was dressed as a laborer, holding a big cat in her hand, and she really didn't look like a deterrent. "What are you? Huh? It's between the Silver Skull and Old Jimmy, you outsiders have to keep your mouth shut if you want to survive. Or are you in league with this guy?"

"Haven't heard of the Silver Skull? But I can tell you that I'm here to buy food for Captain Havedan's Black Arrow, and you'd better be respectful. "To be honest, Lothar doesn't want to move Captain Havedan out as a shield. But now he was seriously wounded, and in such a small space against a nameless and armed enemy, even the Count of Montenegro was not sure that he would be able to win. But to turn a blind eye to the tragic fate that old Jimmy was about to face, the knights couldn't do it. Helplessly, Lothar could only hope that old Jimmy really had nothing to do with the bobcat, but was just an unlucky bastard who was innocently angered, otherwise it would have strained the relationship between the two ships, and he would have owed Hafdan more.

However, the reputation of the Black Arrow seemed to be even louder than Lothar had thought, and the five pirates were visibly stunned when they heard the name, and the leader seemed unwilling to flinch like this, "You said you were the crew of the Black Arrow, and you were, why should I believe you!"

"You can go to the docks and ask if the tarantula is a member of Captain Havedan's crew. I'm waiting for you here. Seeing that the other party had the intention of retreating, Lothar immediately put on a fearless look, and even took two steps forward.

"Tarantula?" the pirate leader muttered the name, as if to match it to the famous sailors aboard the Black Arrow. Thanks to the webworms, a nickname like tarantula could be shouted in the tavern and three or four people could be found, and the pirates couldn't confirm the reality of Lothar for a moment. A minion leaned into his ear at this time, "I seem to have heard this name, as if there was such a person on the Black Arrow, and now he lives with his wife in a warehouse by the sea." ”

The corners of the pirate's mouth twitched, and he nodded, "Oh, okay." You're lucky this time, but it won't be so easy next time. He pointed the tip of his knife at old Jimmy, then looked up at Lothar, "And you kid, the Black Arrow is the first ship to land this year, and we respect Captain Hafdan for giving you this face." But don't think that we Silver Skulls are to be messed with. With that, he left the house with his men.

As the door closed, old Jimmy let out a sigh, "The sea god is on top, this garbage is finally gone." He got up from the ground and reverted to his previous appearance, but his eyes were full of suspicion when he looked at Lothar, "You boy, are you really the crew of the Black Arrow?" The Count opened his mouth to speak, but before he could speak, another voice came from behind him, through the door leading from the front desk of the food store to the warehouse.

"It's true, this kid is here with the Black Arrow. But whether he was the crew of the old Havedan or not, it's hard to say. ”