Chapter 22: The Gluttonous Ship
Despite his reluctance, Phil eventually helped the half-giant out of the narrow back alley and left Luca with an autographed note:
I, Phil Parker, hereby solemnly promise to the captain of the Peregrine Falcon, Luca Lester, that I will provide him with classified information at least three times in the future, free of charge, with an intelligence level no lower than the Class-A ciphertext of Sunset Express, the specific content of which will be specified by Captain Leicester. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Of course, the bear child himself did not want to write the conditions so clearly, this note was written by Luca and asked him to sign it.
"How binding can such a piece of paper be?" Nora said, stretching out her hand.
"Don't, you take it and burn it!" Lukka quickly dodged, "This thing, if the person who wrote it really intends to pay the bill, it really has no effect at all." ”
"And what do we want this for?" Nora was even more confused.
Lukka folded the note, put it back in his coat pocket, and said with a smile, "I don't do anything, I just want to tease the bear child." ”
Ollie carefully examined the blade of the sword on the side, raised the giant sword and observed it in the sunlight for a long time, and saw that the giant sword did not have any chips and cracks, so he let out a sigh of relief and interjected:
"If you want me to say, you're too easy to trust people, Luca!"
Lukka dusted off his crimson coat and asked, "Do I have one?"
The three of them said in unison: "Yes!"
A harsh familiar voice slowed down a little, and said with certainty: "Great!"
With this voice, Shut Mouth fell from the sky, flapped his wings a few times, and landed firmly on Luca's left shoulder.
"Why are you here, have you slept enough?" asked Ollie, carrying the greatsword behind her back.
Shut up and restlessly crawled from Luka's shoulder with two paws to his waist, rummaged in the outer pocket for a long time, and muttered quietly: "Starving, I hid a few chestnuts here last time, why can't I find it?"
"I ate it. Luca honestly confessed to his crime.
"Idiot, you want to grab the bird food too?!Spit it out for me!" shut up and yelled.
"Don't, don't be angry, can't we buy it again?" Lukka grabbed his mouth and put it on his shoulder again, turned to the three Cretans and said, "Let's go eat again? I didn't even have time to move my mouth just now." ”
Ollie happily replied, "Okay, I didn't eat it just now!"
Nora's eyes lit up: "Can you eat again?"
Back at the tavern, Lukka reordered four main dishes (yes, there was only one Nora this time), plus a plate of roasted peanuts.
The hostess has been dumbfounded several times today, and it can be seen that the squirting people who are squirting with peanuts while closing their mouths are still staring at it for a long time.
Shut up and finally squirted tired, slowly paced up to Luca's plate on the table, looked at it with disdain, and suddenly remembered something and shouted, "Oops!
"What?" Lukka almost choked on a potato.
"I was here to tell you something important!" the gray feathers of the shut mouth exploded, "all of your sailors on the ship!"
"Poof!" a piece of beef squirted out of Ollie's mouth.
"What do you mean?" asked Luca.
Shut up and shook his head and said: "When I woke up, I heard those sailors chatting with the sailors of several ships next to me. Anyway, in the end, old Bill, the one who likes to wear a headscarf, said that he couldn't work on this ship anymore, and asked the captain to quit!"
"Why didn't you hear clearly?" asked Ollie.
Shut up and shake your head.
"Captain!" a hoarse voice came from the half-open doorway of the tavern, and it was the boatswain of the Peregrine Falcon.
Old Bill is actually only in his forties, but he has been exposed to the wind and sun on the sea all year round, and naturally looks a little old. He had a dark blue turban wrapped around his head, and he was running out of breath, probably all the way from the docks.
Lukka beckoned him to sit down at the table and ordered five glasses of ale.
Bill took a big gulp, calmed down, and said with a thick accent, "Captain, I'm actually too embarrassed to say it!"
Lukka nodded, motioning for him to continue.
Bill sighed: "A few brothers on the ship really don't dare to go anymore, do you know why this place is called back to Sail Town?
"What will happen ahead?" asked Luca.
"Ahead is the abyss of the shrike bird! Originally, a few of our brothers could barely go to that place, but just now on the dock, our brothers inquired clearly, and the 'silent grim reaper' ran out again!"
"What is the 'Silent Death'?" Lukka continued.
Crete replied, "It's the legendary ghost ship." The legend goes back hundreds of years, and it is said that the ship would occasionally emerge from the fog south of the 'Shrike Bird Abyss' and sneak up on approaching ships along the reef, and the ship it targeted would be dragged to the bottom of the sea no matter how much it struggled, and only a few pieces of broken wood would float to the surface. ”
"Isn't it just a legend?" said Luca.
"It's not just a legend! Many people have seen it! A ship has been eaten!" said Bill's face flushed.
Crete continued: "Although the timing of the appearance of the 'Silent Grim Reaper' is uncertain, sometimes for years, sometimes for decades, but every time it appears, it will not go back until it stays on this surface for six months and eats a dozen ships. ”
"That's it!" said Bill, "it came out at the end of last month, and it was in a hurry to eat the boat!"
"What do you mean, Bill," Lukka asked, "let's turn back?"
"Yes, yes, don't die in vain!" Bill nodded repeatedly.
Lukka frowned, "What if I still want to go over there?"
"Then our brothers have to disembark here!" said Bill unequivocally.
Lukka thought for a moment and said, "Okay, you go back first and let them wait, and we can discuss it." ”
Bill took a big sip of all the remaining ale from his glass, got up, and hurried back to the docks.
Before the others could speak, they shut up and came to a categorical conclusion: "Don't think about it, if you don't go to the 'Shrike Bird Abyss', you will definitely die! You have ten days at most." ”
"Yes, it will take at least twenty days to get to the other two locations from here, and there will certainly not be enough time. Crete said.
"I didn't plan to change the target!" Lukka looked at the worried crowd, "I just want to ask, who of us will drive the boat?"
"Don't learn from Bill!" Shut up and flew over Luca's head and grabbed his hair with a paw, pulling his head to the left.
"I can sail!" Ollie changed her accent as well.