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19

The boy swam for a long time in the sea near the island.

He has no legs, and it is very difficult for him to leave the beach without external help. He can only stay in the sea and look at a quiet island in the distance.While telling myself: He drank your blood, nothing will happen.On the other hand, he couldn't help but feel restless.

He remembered what the pirate had said, plunged into the water and swam, but his mood was still dull and he didn't see any improvement.

Unhappily, he went back to the cave in the rocks by the sea. The sleeping turtle was awakened by his movement, and slowly turned to look at him.He stroked the turtle's thick thighs, with envy in his eyes: "It's nice that you have four legs."

He sat on the turtle's back, staring at his own tail in a daze.The turtle under him suddenly moved, which startled him.

"Where are you taking me?"

The turtle walked slowly and steadily between the reefs with heavy steps. When he saw the buildings on the island, the boy couldn't help but get excited, and his heart beat fast.

"Are you going to take me to see him?"

The turtle's head moved little by little as it walked, as if nodding.It seems to be very familiar with the roads on the island. It can skillfully pass through the paths and bushes without any guidance, and take the shortest path to the only place where the light is on.

The pirate's residence was brightly lit, and a few human voices could be heard faintly, it is estimated that intensive treatment work is underway.The boy was full of excitement, and when he was caught off guard and fell to the ground, he was in a daze.I got up and saw that it was the stairs in front of the residence.

The turtle crawled back to him, looking a little sorry, the boy hugged it gratefully: "It's okay, I will be careful this time."

However, he only went up a few more steps before rolling down again.

The boy's mood instantly cooled down. Looking at the dozens of steps in front of him, he realized for the first time that the road was so long.

"Try again, this time I'll grab your shell."

This time, even the fish and the turtle rolled down together.

The boy lay on the ground, looking up at the sky.Tears suddenly rolled out of the eye sockets, scrambling to become small pearls, and fell to the ground crackling.

The night on the island was very quiet, as long as he shouted a few times at the top of his throat, the people inside would be alarmed and come out to investigate the situation.

But he just got up and picked up the pearls on the ground one by one, almost unable to hold them in his palm.Said to the turtle: "Let's go back."

The turtle stretched its neck long and rubbed against his wet face.

20

After dawn, the pirates went to find the boy.

His face was a little pale, and his arms were wrapped in bandages.

It stands to reason that he injured his leg, was stabbed twice in the waist and abdomen, and soaked in sea water for a long time. He couldn't get off the ground without lying down for ten days and a half months.However, he was very energetic at the moment, and easily slipped out while the guards were not paying attention.

He knows why.

"You gave me your blood to drink?"

"That's right," the boy who had always been sullen suddenly smiled softly: "I heard that people can live forever. Many, many years later, your friends will lose their teeth, but you will still look like this."

"Acquaintances die one after another, only you are still like this."

The pirate was taken aback when he heard the words, grabbed his wrist, stroked the smooth skin, and asked after a while, "Does it hurt?"

The boy's tears "swish—" fell down, the pirate was startled, and hurriedly reached out to wipe them off, only to find that they all turned into pearls and fell into the water very neatly, and he was even more at a loss.

"What's wrong? Does it hurt?"

The young man didn't know why he was crying, and his expression looked more bewildered than him, but he couldn't help sobbing as soon as he opened his mouth: "Don't you understand what I just said?"

Loneliness has always been a terrible thing for human beings.

"Understood." The pirate looked confused: "I think longevity is pretty good."

He paused for a long time before saying, "That way I can protect you all the time."

The boy couldn't help hiccupping, and looked at him in surprise.

It turned out that he heard it.

Hearing his aggrieved and meaningless complaints when he swam to exhaustion: "You can't even protect yourself, why are you protecting me!"

It turned out that he had already given the answer at that time.

The young man's stupid look made him curl his lips in a funny way. He slowly approached the young man's face, pressed it against the other's forehead, and made a promise in an extremely gentle tone: "In order to be able to protect you, I will try my best to protect you." my own."

The boy laughed, with tears in his eyes: "I lied to you, it's not so easy to live forever."

The pirate sighed and kissed the tip of his nose: "You can bully me."

21

The teenager officially lived in the pirate's big house.

The pirate was so excited that he rearranged the pool and pushed a hanger full of clothes. The boy saw all the coats on the hanger and didn't know what to say.

"Anyway, it will become wet after wearing it, ugly and embarrassing, why do you have to prepare so much?"

The pirate retorted: "Which blind person dares to say you are ugly? If you were ugly, I would be no different from a pig."

The boy mocked him: "You look like a pig."

When he pushed out the finished scooter, the boy stopped talking again.

The small car was not particularly delicate, but it was still decent, a bit like a wheelchair, and the person sitting on it could move by relying on his own strength.

The young man was very excited, but the pirate only gave him the car if he said something nice.He flicked and flicked his tail, unable to think of what would be "nice," and called the pirate's name as softly as he could.

The pirate was elated by his call, greedily wanting to tease him for a while longer, but he poured water all over his head in anger before stepping up to pick him up, put him on the cart, took a piece of silk to cover his tail, and pushed him The car goes outside.

The young man was very curious about this car, and insisted on asking himself to come when he got down the stairs and reached a flat place.The pirate stood aside and looked at it for a while, gave some advice, and went back to his room to change his clothes.

The boy pushed the cart around the neighborhood, panting with exhaustion but still in high spirits.It wasn't until someone came that he stopped his crazy movements and pretended to look at the surrounding scenery.

The person who came was the masked man I met last time. After taking a look, he left from the other side of the path.When the pirate came out, he quickly went up to him and asked, "Is it weird that I'm doing this? Someone looked at me strangely just now."

The pirate also wondered: "No, who did you meet?"

"The one with the mask on, he didn't go in, he went over there."

The pirate looked in the direction he was pointing, and found that it was a path leading to a barren land, where no one usually walked.

"Did I ask someone to do something over there?" Accidents happened frequently recently, and he really couldn't remember some whim thoughts clearly.

"You can even forget about your own family, what do you remember?"

"Remember to take good care of you."

The boy's face was red from the sun, he opened his mouth, making a gesture to bite the hand that touched his face.

This action is very childish, a bit like an impulsive and irritable little animal.But he was worried that if he didn't do this, he couldn't help but giggle like the person in front of him.

22

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the cook going out for purchases, the pirates took the boy on a low-key purchase ship to a small coastal town.

The boy was sitting in the car, his tail was covered with a wet blanket, his upper body was changed into a dry apricot shirt, his fin-shaped ears were covered by long hair, and some ornaments were hung on his hair to hide his eyes and ears.

He looked as if he really was a little prince with a hidden disease.

——If the car under him could be more refined.

The small town is full of people and shops, people of different races and skin colors can be seen everywhere, and it is a scene of prosperity.

The pirate dressed plainly and pushed the young man along the street all the way. His posture was like a humble servant, but his expression was kind and gentle.His tall stature and tough face attracted frequent glances from passers-by.

At first, the young man only saw the scenery in the small town, and he was very curious about this small town that he had never set foot in and was completely different from his hometown.But when he noticed that the passers-by seemed to have prying eyes, he completely turned his attention away from the street, and looked back at every passerby who looked at them with a little hostility, but he didn't achieve the expected effect.

"Why do people always look at you?" The boy was a little dissatisfied.

"Why aren't you looking at you? I'm much poorer than you."

If he brags about his "charm" narcissistically as usual, the boy can still hurt him a few words, but he belittles himself so much that people don't know how to reply.

The boy answered almost subconsciously: "Who dares to say that you are not good."

In exchange for his smug smile.

"Anyone can think I'm shabby, as long as you don't dislike me."

The types of plants on the island are limited, and even fewer can be used as seasonings.Even if the chef has superb cooking skills, what he cooks over and over again is those flavors.This small town with prosperous business is different. Both sides of the street are full of different delicacies. The young man is dazzled, he tastes a bit of this, eats a bit of that, and his eyes are still fixed on the semi-finished products in the hands of the merchants.

He ate all the way, and there was no sign of stopping at all, but most of the food was just eaten a little and then put down, by switching to other delicacies.

"This is so spicy."

The teenager was so hot that the grilled squid made his lips red and his eyes moist. While he was worried that tears would fall, he felt that this was simply a delicacy in the world.Just as he wanted the pirate to have a taste, he found that he had one hand on the cart and the other hand was full of snacks, and he had no extra hands to pick up the squid skewers.

The boy raised his hand as high as possible to his face, he bent down and approached, skipped the squid skewers, went straight to the boy, and kissed on the glistening lips.

Then he smiled wickedly: "It's not spicy."

The boy almost threw the grilled squid on his face.