In the deepest part of the mine, the walls were full of holes. Mud and rock fragments were deposited under his feet. Lombardi let out two long breaths and turned his head to look at the darkness behind him. It seemed that no one was chasing after him.
"I, Lombardi, will never die here!" Gripping the dagger, his pale knuckles were exposed. His face was full of resentment and hatred. He half-squatted down and used the mud to dye his body black. Then, he lay down in a mine pit. His hands quickly dug at the surrounding piles of mud to cover his body.
Suddenly.
His movements stopped. His head turned stiffly. He saw a piece of the wall on the side was strangely festering. The mud and rock layers seemed to be fading, revealing a human face behind it.
Horrifying!
A chill rushed from his buttocks to his brain. Lombardi's scalp was numb. He suddenly got up from the ground. The dagger in his hand was placed in front of his chest. The hair on his back stood up. He stared at the man who seemed to be peeled off from the wall. "Crowe, it really is Yarlin who wants to kill me!"
"The power of the buyer from Alabasta is more amazing than expected, so this is for the sake of confidentiality. You should be able to understand Yarlin's difficulties." Crowe shook off the mud on his body, and five sharp blades shot out from his hand that was holding the frame of his glasses.
"Let me go!" Lombardi's pupils shrank to the size of a needle tip. He kept retreating backward. He didn't care what bullsh * t consideration Yarlin had to kill him. He didn't want to die.
"I'll think about it!" Crowe's figure suddenly disappeared into the air. The wall diagonally behind Lombardi shook strangely. A hand seemed to drill out of the wall, and a cold blade pierced through. "You've thought it through. You must die!"
Lombardi's heart sank. His nerves were suddenly stretched to the extreme. He could even hear the sound of the air flowing. His heart was pumping blood at a high rate. His temples were throbbing with pain. He suddenly lowered his head and his body staggered forward to avoid the blade. At the same time, his feet slipped and his right arm swung backward.
Clang!
The dagger clashed against the "cat's claw", and the cave wall behind him changed strangely. Crowe frowned and stepped forward. His entire body was like a transparent shadow that blended into the air. His five sharp claws cut through the air, bringing with them bursts of chilly wind that pierced into Lombardi's eardrums.
"It's completely invisible!"
In the already dim mine, no matter how hard Lombardo tried, he couldn't catch a glimpse of Crowe's hidden figure. Only the sound of something tearing apart in his ears gave him goosebumps all over his body.
Feeling a sharp pain in his brow and the skin on his chest trembling, Lombardi roared in despair and stabbed forward. Following that, a sharp pain came from his arm. Blood spurted out as his arm was cut into several pieces and fell to the ground. Crowe's figure reappeared, the sharp blade in his hand dripping blood to the ground.
"The gap is too obvious. So, even if you're alive, you don't have much value to Colonel Yarlin." Crowe put the blade on Lombardi's neck and sighed. "Whether it's you or Longshi Trading Company, continuing to exist will only become a hidden danger."
"It was you who advised Yarlin to kill me, right?" Lombardi stared at Crowe.
Crowe narrowed his eyes. Two sharp blades clamped on Lombardi's neck and suddenly tightened like a pair of scissors.
"One day, you will also …"
Whoosh!
The head rolled to the ground. Crowe walked over and picked up Lombardi's head. His face was expressionless as he forcibly closed Lombardi's open mouth. He turned around and stepped over Lombardi's headless body and walked out.
Turning back along the way he came, this time Crowe didn't hide his figure and bumped into the searching pirates. Several ferocious pirates immediately rushed up but were stopped by Ah Jin. Ah Jin looked at Crowe and then stepped aside to follow him outside.
The looting pirates retreated, leaving behind a dead island. Some heads were scattered on the shore. The waves washed them over and over again. Soon, they were rotten and couldn't be seen.
After Crowe said goodbye to William in a friendly manner, he took a small cargo ship and returned to 153 Branch.
On the other side.
In the captain's room of the Black Skull Pirates, William was sitting in Calci's seat, shaking a bottle of wine in his hand. His eyes seemed to be blurred.
Knock Knock …
With a knock on the door, Novi and Ah Jin came in. "Captain, you were looking for us."
William quickly came back to his senses. He picked up three wine glasses from the table, lined them up, and poured the wine from the bottle into them. Then, he handed two glasses to Noah and Ah Jin, while he raised the last wine glass.
Novi and Ah Jin took the glass, their faces were somewhat puzzled. Then they heard William sigh and said, "Calci is dead, Lombardi is also dead. There aren't many people who knew the real background behind our pirates."
"There are also murlocs on the ship that are like killing machines. They were all put in by Navy Branch 153. They …" Novi didn't finish his words when William waved his hand and interrupted him.
In William's mind, he seemed to recall the first time he was on the old Via, the crowded "morgue". It seemed to be the beginning of all this. It was also the most terrifying scene imprinted in his memory and soul. He raised his glass and touched Novi and Ah Jin's glass. He drank it in one gulp and said with a hoarse voice, "Those murlocs are actually not living people."
William didn't seem to intend to explain more, he just said it casually. Novi's hand that was holding the glass shook slightly. After drinking the wine in the glass, he suppressed the horror in his heart and said, "Captain, are you worried that the Navy will burn the bridge after crossing the river, or that one day they will turn against us and wipe us out like Lombardi?"
Although it was a questioning tone, Novi's tone seemed to be stating a terrible fact.
Ah Jin silently drank the wine. He didn't have a talkative personality. Although he was regarded as William's confidant and knew some of the secrets of the Black Skull Pirates, he never expressed his opinion. His life was saved by William, so he would only faithfully carry out William's orders without thinking too much about it.
Perhaps for others, being wiped out or dying is the most terrifying thing in the world. But in William's mind, death is far from the most terrifying thing.
"You didn't tell anyone about this, did you?" William held Novi's shoulders, his eyes suddenly became fierce as he stared at Novi and asked in a deep voice.
"How could I dare to tell others about this kind of thing. I can only remind Captain that we must be vigilant against the Marines, otherwise …" Novi hurriedly replied.
"That's good! The fewer people who know about these secrets, the safer we will be. " William held Novi's shoulders more and more tightly. He exhaled a strong smell of alcohol from his mouth, "Novi, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been able to easily kill Calci and take the position of Captain. I'm very grateful to you, but you betrayed Calci. How can I be sure that you won't betray me in the future?"
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