They discussed it for a while on the bed with big eyes and small eyes. In the end, no result was reached. At this time, there was a knock on the door.
"who?"
"Captain, it's me." The first mate's voice came from outside the door, "I have something to report to you."
Lufei got up from the bed and sat on the chair, while Pinky climbed onto the table in front of her.
"Come in."
With a creak, the adjutant wearing a skull eyepatch pushed open the door and entered the room with a respectful expression.
"Tell me what's going on."
"It's like this. On the ship we plundered during the day, there was a black mermaid. He was brought back to the ship by a brother and locked in the bottom cabin."
"Black mermaid?"
When the adjutant saw the surprise on the captain's face, he knew that the report he submitted was regarded as waste paper again, although it was not written by him, but by another sailor who had been a naval staff officer.
"Yes, it was mentioned in the report I submitted this afternoon..."
"That seems to be the case," Lufei put away the surprise on her face and put on a serious face, "What happened to that mermaid?"
"She's missing."
"Huh? My trophy ran away?" Lufei just became interested in the black mermaid mentioned by the adjutant, and then learned that the other party was missing, and her mood suddenly became worse.
"This is the strange thing," the adjutant's remaining gray eye flashed with confusion, "The passage from the lower cabin to the deck is guarded by brothers on the night shift. Unless she can become invisible, it is impossible to escape from the exit. Fallen. No trace of damage was found in the lower cabin. She seemed to have disappeared out of thin air." m.
"Oh?" Lufei stood up, "Take me to have a look."
She stretched out her right hand towards Xiaofen on the table, and Xiaofen climbed up her arm and onto her right shoulder.
On the way to the lower cabin, Lufei and Xiaofen had a secret communication.
"Have you ever seen a black mermaid?" Lufei asked in her mind.
Xiaofen can communicate mentally with the people it touches. Its tentacles are like mind eavesdroppers. As long as it touches the target, it can read the target's thoughts and instill its own thoughts into the target's body.
"Of course, the world in the sea is much broader than on land. What's the fuss about a black mermaid?"
"I thought mermaids were all very beautiful, with hair as bright as the sun, skin like milk, big breasts and a slim waist, an elegant tail, and shiny scales."
"Of course there are those, and it is said that they like to seduce men on land. Maybe because of this, they are more popular on land." Xiaofen responded, waving a tentacle.
"Why do they do that? Are there no men in the sea? Uh, I mean the same race as them, mermaids?"
"Of course, but according to human aesthetic standards, they are very ugly. In addition, they are touted as beautiful legends by humans on land. With the title of 'mermaid', female mermaids have also become more high-minded. They look down on the males of their own race at all, but are very interested in handsome human men. Therefore, sailors often see mermaids leaping out of the sea under the moon, which means they are seducing men."
"Haha, what a bunch of piaozi." Lufei said scornfully.
Coming to the lower cabin, there is a straight passage connected under the wooden stairs. The passage divides the hull into two halves. There are eight doors on both sides. Behind the doors are warehouses, but the things stored are different.
The room where the black fish is kept is at the end of the ship. There are no stairs leading to the middle level. This is the only entrance and exit, and there are two people guarding it.
When Lufei asked the two of them, they both said they didn't hear anything, and Xiaofen told Lufei that they were not lying.
Lufei was walking towards the room at the stern of the ship when a sound like a wind chime suddenly came from deep in the passage, but it rang twice and then disappeared.
At first she thought she had heard it wrong, for she did not remember such a thing on her ship, but then the sound came again.
This time she heard it clearly.
"Xiaofen, did you hear the sound of the wind chimes?"
"Yes, I heard it." The tips of Xiaofen's tentacles trembled slightly, as if she was sensing something.
Lufei couldn't help but wonder, did one of the crew members secretly buy it? How could this group of pirates who eat people but not spit out bones be interested in such gadgets?
"This sound... seems a bit strange." At this time, Xiaofen poked the back of Luffy's neck with a tentacle.
"Is there danger?" Lufei suddenly became alert and stopped, thinking that the sound coming from ahead was some kind of weird magic item.
"Danger... I haven't noticed it yet, but it's just strange. Look at him." A tentacle pointed behind Lu Fei.
Lufei turned to look at her adjutant, and saw that his face was expressionless, as if he hadn't heard anything.
"Captain, did you find anything?" The adjutant saw her suddenly stopping, thinking she had discovered something.
"Did you hear anything?" Luffy asked.
Although the one-eyed adjutant felt strange, he still answered the captain's question honestly.
"Ah, of course, I heard the sound of the waves," he tilted his head and listened carefully, "and the sound of seabirds, which are night gulls. They are really annoying things. They always scream at night. "
Lufei nodded and continued walking towards the source of the wind chimes.
The adjutant stared at the captain's ecstatic back with some confusion, wondering why the captain suddenly asked this, but his attention was soon attracted by something else. Hey, these legs are so white!
"He's looking at your legs again." The pinkie on Lufei's shoulder reminded her, "Poke his remaining eye out as well."
"Let him see it, but he will never touch it, haha." Lufei's pirates have never been good at concealing their desires, and she has long been accustomed to these animal-like looks.
If she blinded them all, her ship would not be able to find the right direction in the future.
Lufei finally came to the source of the sound. A string of colorful wind chimes hung beside the door. There was no wind in the passage, but the small bells swayed gently, making a pleasant sound.
"The black fish was originally locked up here." The adjutant said.
"Who hung this?" Lufei pointed to the wind chime by the door.
"What?" The adjutant's remaining eye turned blankly, not seeing anything except the wooden wall.
"He can't hear it, and he can't see it," Xiaofen said.
Lufei stretched out her hand to touch the string of wind chimes, but her hand went through the middle of the wind chimes.
"You can see it, hear it, but you can't touch it." Xiaofen added.
"Come and try."
"...Okay." Xiaofen hesitated, then a tentacle reached forward, and ended up passing through the middle of the wind chime.
"It seems that I am the same." Xiaofen's eyes looked at the door, "Open it and go in and take a look."
The one-eyed adjutant stood aside, watching the captain and her pet groping around the door, a little confused. What were they touching?
Then the captain opened the door and walked in. When he wanted to follow in, his head hit something.
"Huh? Why is the door closed?"
He covered his head and looked at the closed wooden door in front of him in confusion.
He opened the door again, but found that there was no captain inside.
"captain?"
Some people died, but not completely...
