r18novel Chapter 144 Brando, how did you get arrested?
Chapter 144 Brando, how did you get arrested?
"Damn it! Why did those people from the Church of Storms suddenly come out in full force?"
In a secluded, dark alley in Bayam, Danitz, disguised, lowered the brim of his hat and warily scanned the church personnel and police patrolling the street.
After sending Lorne away that day, he did not return to the "Golden Dream". According to the captain, his previous vacation was interrupted by a series of accidents, so after sending Lorne away, he did not have to rush back and could continue to take his vacation.
However, he had only been enjoying his freedom for a few days when he heard the news that pirates had plundered a passenger ship and that no one had survived.
Subsequently, rumors of a crackdown emerged from Bayam.
"Could something have happened at sea..." he muttered to himself. "I've heard rumors about the Storm Church besieging the Sea God..."
"Hopefully, this won't affect our 'Golden Dream'."
Meow~
"What is that?" Danitz's leg was suddenly hit by something, causing him to stumble and almost fall.
He turned his head sharply and found that the culprit was an orange cat, which was looking at him with shining eyes.
"Where did this stinky cat come from?" Danitz cursed under his breath, and was about to kick it away when he suddenly froze.
This cat... gave him a strange sense of familiarity. A feeling that... it wasn't the first time he'd been outmaneuvered by it.
"Wait!" He crouched down, examining the familiar orange cat closely. "Are you the cat that's with Brando?"
"Meow." Laki nodded in a human-like manner.
"What are you doing here?" Danitz asked, looking puzzled. "I remember Brando saying he was going back to Backlund. You haven't left yet?"
"Meow...meow meow meow...meow!" Laki gestured wildly.
"?"
Danitz looked completely bewildered: "What are you yelling about?"
"Meow!"
Seeing that communication was ineffective, Rachel bit Danitz's pants and pulled him in one direction.
"Hey! Hey! What are you doing!" Danitz was caught off guard by this sudden action.
"Meow!" Rachel turned around and looked at him with a "you idiot" look.
"You mean you want me to come with you?" Seeing the orange cat's anxious expression, Danitz seemed to understand something.
"Has something happened to Brando?"
"Meow..." Rachel nodded, with an expression that said, "You finally understand."
……
Let's rewind to a few hours earlier.
Tracy originally intended to sail this small ship, still adorned with treasure, directly to her pirate flagship, the "Black Death."
However, the situation in the surrounding seas was beyond her expectations, with many official and Storm Church ships suddenly appearing nearby.
If she continues along the original route, she will definitely run into them.
However, if they change course and take a longer route, it becomes questionable whether this dilapidated ship can withstand the change.
After some deliberation, she finally abandoned her original plan and sailed to a little-known "private port" near Bayam that was barely big enough to dock ships.
"We've arrived." After the boat came to a smooth stop, Tracy breathed a sigh of relief, her tense emotions easing slightly.
She went to the cabin and fell into deep thought as she looked at Lorne, who was still unconscious.
But a new and more pressing problem arose for her: how to move Lorne and the entire warehouse of materials. She clearly couldn't do it alone.
"Sigh..." She rubbed her temples. In the past, these things could be easily handled by her subordinates. But now...
"What should we do?" She leaned down and gently stroked Lorne's cheek.
In fact, for Tracy, there is only one solution to the current situation—to find someone to help her.
If this were the "Black Death," or if all her equipment were still intact, it would be a piece of cake for her to notify her subordinates; she has many magical items that can do just that.
Unfortunately, she is now on a wrecked ship, and even the clothes she is wearing belong to Lorne.
This place isn't too far from one of her strongholds; if she hurrys, she can bring her people back in as little as half an hour.
But the moment this thought arose, it was rejected by her strong possessiveness.
No! Not leaving him here alone? Not even for a second! Tracy shook her head.
She considered taking Lorne with her, but soon dismissed the idea...
From the official ships that had appeared earlier, Tracy knew that something was definitely wrong with Bayam.
Under these circumstances, it was far too risky for her, a notorious pirate, to take the still unconscious Lorne with her.
Not only would it slow me down, but if I ran into members of the Storm Church, or some of my peers...
Most importantly, her injuries hadn't fully healed yet, and she didn't even want to think about the consequences if something happened to her while she was with Lorne.
But... with the unconscious Lorne and this ship full of treasure, even if it's only for half an hour, the risks involved are not much smaller.
Tracy was caught in a dilemma and felt anxious.
"No, we can't hesitate any longer."
"Fate is on my side," Tracy told herself.
Although the journey nearly cost her her life, she gained everything she wanted in return.
Wealth, love, and the hope of promotion and possible freedom.
All of this made her believe that fate was on her side.
Fate has dealt her the best cards; she has no reason to back down at the last step.
As long as you are fast enough, the probability of an accident is extremely small in this remote private port, given the half-hour window.
If we delay until Lorne wakes up, the risks will only increase.
Hesitate and you will lose!
She acted immediately. After confirming that the ropes binding Lorne were secure enough, she tenderly extended her slender fingers, gathered a wisp of barely visible black energy at her fingertips, and gently touched Lorne's forehead.
She cast a small curse on Lorne to make sure he wouldn't wake up anytime soon.
"I'll make it up to you later," she murmured softly, stroking Lorne's face.
"Wait for me to come back~"
Tracy put on the coat that still carried Lorne's scent, and her figure quickly disappeared into the shadows on the shore.
"Meow..."
After Tracy left, a pair of amber eyes slowly opened in the darkness.
Clearly, Tracy was focusing too much on Lorne, to the point that she completely disregarded the orange cat in the cabin.
Miss Witch also made the mistake of lax quality control.
The orange cat tore through the ropes binding it and slid off the boat.
……
"Damn it, slow down." Danitz gasped for breath, surprised to find that he couldn't outrun a cat.
"This is... a wrecked ship?" After running at top speed for several minutes, Danitz was brought by Laki to the dilapidated pirate ship.
But the ship in front of us, weathered by time, was simply too dilapidated.
The hull was covered with scorch marks and cracks, as if it would fall apart at any moment. If you didn't know better, you would think it was an abandoned ship.
"An ominous aura."
Of course, if he knew that the ship had been baptized by the wrath of the high sequence and was still able to float on the water, he probably wouldn't have thought that way.
"Meow!" Laki called out eagerly, leaping onto the deck first. Danitz steadied himself and followed, using both hands and feet to climb up.
"Is nobody here?" He stood on the deck and looked around. After confirming that no one was there, he followed the orange cat into the cabin.
It didn't take them long to find Lorne still unconscious inside the ship.
"Shit." Danitz gasped.
"Brando, how did you end up here?"
"And what about the clothes you're wearing?"
As Danitz said, Lorne was in a rather unsightly state at the moment. Not only were his limbs bound, but his upper body was also naked, and there were a lot of strange red marks on his neck.
"The taste here is really strange."
The surrounding air was filled with a strange odor, a mixture of fragrance, sweat, and some kind of...peculiar body smell.
"I hope he wasn't tortured."
Or perhaps...
Danitz sniffed and couldn't help but feel sorry for Lorne as he looked at him.
"Looks like your luck isn't so good after all..."
He sighed, then conjured flames that burned away the ropes binding Lorne.
"Wake up, wake up!"
"Hello!"
Danitz nudged Lorne a few times, but when he didn't react, he became a little anxious.
In his mind, Lorne's strength was quite good. With the help of his pet cat, he was still tied up here, which meant that the person who kidnapped Lorne was very strong.
He's probably no match for him either, and staying here might be dangerous.
After several attempts to push him failed, Danitz instinctively reached out to slap him.
"Meow!"
"Alright, alright, I'll carry him, okay?" Danitz, who was being stared at by the orange cat, had no choice but to reluctantly withdraw his hand. He took off his coat, covered Lorne with it, and carried him on his back.
"Meow……"
Laki, however, disappeared somewhere.
Less than a minute later, the orange cat returned, dragging a familiar satchel in its mouth and a shattered camera hooked in its paw.
"This is Brando's bag." Since Lorne used to carry it every day, Danitz still remembered the bag well.
"What would you do with this crappy camera?"
"Meow!"
"Okay, I'll take these things with me."
And so, Danitz, with Lorne, escaped from the ship during this brief window of opportunity.
However... what Danitz doesn't know now is what consequences his actions today will bring.