The lone wolf of Freyrdrand

: Slaughtering Wharf

“Well, Nami, I want to tell you something.” Lothar walked up to Nami who was washing the mast.

“Well, okay, what’s the matter, Mr. Lothar?” Nami temporarily stopped what she was doing, and looked at Lothar with big eyes flickering.

I don’t know if it’s because the water is dry and the air is relatively dry. Nami often blinks, and she looks very cute.

“That… I think…” Lothar couldn’t bear to see Nami’s ignorant and ignorant appearance, but he could feel Syndra’s burning gaze from behind, so he said it bravely , “Can you… be my pet?”

“Pet” Nami held the Tidecaller staff and thought about it carefully, “What does that mean?”

“It’s a good thing she doesn’t know…” Losa breathed a sigh of relief, and made up nonsense to Nami, “You don’t need to do anything special, just stay by my side more often, and I’ll give you food.”

Lothar has already made preparations to be rejected by Nami [source; source group]: 9? 8; 0; 2? . 0′. 5,,8″5.;6 Prepared, but Nami excitedly grabbed Lothar’s hand: “Really, Mr. Lothar! You really want me to be by your side all the time! ”

“Hey…you…will you?” Lothar looked at Nami in surprise. Nami’s hands were extremely slippery to the touch, as if they were wrapped in two pieces of soft soap.

“Of course! I can’t ask for it!” Nami said excitedly, “The Tidecaller Rod asked me to follow you. I heard you said that you would not take me to Bilgewater. I’m with you, I didn’t expect Mr. Lothar to see my thoughts long ago!”

Lothar could only laugh dryly.

In short, Nami has now become Lothar’s “pet”.

“Are you satisfied now?” Lothar walked back to Syndra, and now he still had to think about how to bring Nami to Bilgewater in a hidden way.

“Well, it’s more or less the same.” Syndra no longer looks at Nami with appetite, but looks at her the same way she looked at Yuumi before, “Call her to sleep with us tonight.”

“Oh… what?” Lothar said dumbfounded.

Syndra took it for granted: “Of course pets need to be hugged to sleep. I also hug Yuumi to sleep every day.”

Lothar realized that he had made a mistake.

He thought that the gap in consciousness between himself and Nami caused by the racial differences was huge.

I didn’t expect that it was me and Syndra who really had a huge gap.

In the distance, the mermaid girl was still cleaning the canvas with sea water, not aware of the fate that awaited her in the future.

…

Fortunately, Lothar managed to persuade Syndra not to let Nami andThey sleep together, but Syndra urges Lothar to go to Bilgewater and buy a whole new set of furniture, or better yet, a new boat, even if Nami is serious about cleaning it inside and out Syndra, who is getting more and more obsessed with cleanliness, still doesn’t like it very much.

“This is Bilgewater…” Syndra looked around at ships of all sizes sailing towards the same port.

Half of these ships were pirate ships. They made a living by plundering merchant ships from other countries and regions. Some daring pirates even dared to rob Noxus warships.

The other half are fishing boats. Only a small part of them are fishing in shallow seas, catching some small fish and shrimps. Most of them go to wider and deeper sea areas to hunt large sea monsters.

Lothar looked in amazement at some fishing boats dragging huge sea monster carcasses, and some boats even joined forces to slowly sail with sea monster carcasses four or five times larger than himself.

Lothar is very curious about how they killed such a big sea beast. Lothar doesn’t believe that there are powerful mages on every fishing boat, and mages generally don’t willingly come to become fishermen.

Nami’s eyes widened, and the scene in front of her seemed to have an impact on her. She pressed her hands on the ship’s side, looked at the sea beasts being dragged by the iron hooks and ropes, and showed a sad look on her face: “May you all find success in the sea.” peaceful……”

“It’s so dirty.” Syndra didn’t have any other emotions. She was just looking for a beautiful and clean boat that she liked. The result disappointed her a lot. None of the boats here were clean, and all of them were dirty. In contrast, the boat cleaned by Nami was too clean among these boats.

Syndra pinched her nose, she smelled the pungent smell of blood: “Why is it so stinky!”

“This is the slaughtering pier.” Lothar saw in the notes Swain gave him, “The sea beast hunting industry here in Bilgewater is very prosperous and the profits are very high. All the sea beasts that are hunted will be dragged to this pier. slaughtered, and over time the waters here have been completely stained red with blood,”

“This place is rotten.” Syndra had already seen the huge sea beasts being dismembered on the shore. The bloody internal organs and cut sides made Syndra feel sick. “I don’t want to stay here anymore.”

“We have to buy a lot of things before we can leave, or do you want to continue eating fish every day?” Lothar’s words blocked Syndra’s mouth.

Lothar’s ship entered the port smoothly. There seems to be no unified management in this port, and the operation depends entirely on the tacit understanding of the local people or the drive of money.

Lothar put a large cloak that he made overnight on Nami: “It’s approved, remember, as we said before.”

“Understood.” Nami was very obedient, “I will never take it off without your instruction.”

“Very good, take two steps.”

Nami’s tail curled up, and two legs made of water emerged from the cloak, stiffly imitating human walking.

“Well… almost, it shouldn’t arouse suspicion, let’s get off the boat.”

“I still won’t go down.” Syndra seemed disgusted by the smell of blood here. “I’ll just stay on the boat. You must come back before night.”

“Okay.” Lothar was a little happy to see that Syndra didn’t get off the boat. Syndra’s appearance is too outstanding, and she doesn’t like to walk but likes to float. Getting off the boat probably attracts a lot of attention.

Losa took Nami off the boat, and met a strong man waiting under the boat.

The burly man looked at the flag on the ship casually: “Isn’t this the ‘Sea Gull’? Old Toothmark sold it to you? The Ionians.”

Lothar immediately understood that the Seagull was the name of the ship, and the old tooth marks were the original captain. It is said that there were indeed many tooth marks on his face from being bitten.

“He’s actually been buried at the bottom of the sea…” Lothar didn’t say that. He just stopped in front of the strong man and said, “Yes.”

The strong man doesn’t care whether Lothar’s ship was bought or robbed. This is a common occurrence in Bilgewater: “The old rule is three silver snake coins a day.”

“What a day”

“Guardian fees, you don’t know about this? Are you confused at sea?” The strong man glanced at Lothar contemptuously, showing the iron hook tattoo on his shoulder, “I belong to the Iron Hook Gang, slaughtering the wharf. It’s all in the hands of Iron Hook, and three silver snake coins will keep your boat safe and sound for a day, and if you don’t give it, you don’t know what will happen to your boat.”

“It’s really the style of a hooligan…” Lothar thought to himself.

However, he did not doubt what the strong man said. He had seen the name of the Hook Gang in Swain’s notes. People can contend, the leader of the Hook Gang is the notorious [Pirate King] Plank.

Lothar remembers the name Planck very clearly, because Swain clearly wrote in his notes that this [Pirate King] had snatched a Noxus Navy ship from Swain many years ago. Flagship – Leviathan.

Swain also specifically marked that if Lothar passed by Bilgewater, he hoped that Lothar would help him kill Planck by the way.

It was the first time that Lothar saw who Swain suffered from, and it was Swain’s own admission, although he would certainly not listen to Swain’s words and provoke this person who had no grievances or enmities with him [Pirate King], but it does not prevent Lothar from being very interested in him.

To be able to snatch a battleship from someone like Swain, definitely notnormal person.

Lothar thought for a while, then took out a golden coin from his pocket and handed it to the strong man. The pattern on the gold coin was a sea monster in the shape of a large octopus, which he found on the boat.

“A golden siren!” The sluggish eyes of the strong man suddenly brightened, he took the golden siren with joy, quickly kicked it into his pocket, and patted Lothar on the shoulder enthusiastically, “Don’t worry, With me [Hammer] Dubin here, whoever dares to touch your boat will smash his hand!”

Lothar smiled: “Then trouble brother.”

Nami followed Lothar on the slaughtering pier. She couldn’t bear to look at the carcasses of sea beasts that had been cut into pieces, so she could only talk to Lothar to divert her attention: “Why did that person call me [Hammer]?”

“It’s just a nickname. In this kind of place, if you want people to remember you the fastest and most profoundly, it is necessary to have a resounding nickname.” Lothar looked at the ground. There was a lot of blood on the ground of the slaughter dock, which flowed from the body of the giant sea beast. The thick blood lipid covered the entire pier, and walking here after many years is like walking in a muddy field full of blood.

“Where are we going next?” Nami asked.

“I don’t have a lot of money on me, so I have to find a way to get some money first.”

Section 213

“Oh…but what is money?”

“…”

Lothar was about to explain to Nami when a person stopped him suddenly.

“This gentleman, this lady, don’t you come to tell your fortune?” The person who spoke was a man who set up a small stall on the side of the pier. He was wearing a black wide-brimmed hat and a leather trench coat, and he was asking Lothar and Nami entertains guests.

On the table in front of the peddler, there was a deck of cards.

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You’ll never forget the stench of the slaughter dock, and if you can’t finish eating, never go there, you’ll throw up your stomach too.

Although disgusting, the slaughtering dock is indeed a very important economic pillar of Bilgewater. The high-risk but extremely profitable job of hunting sea animals has made Bilgewater rich forever, and it has driven other industries such as piracy, smuggling, and gambling. , prostitution and other industries.

——Excerpt from “Valoran Travel Notes; Bilgewater