Lin Ze was half-kneeling on the deck, his wings drooped, like two black sails soaked by heavy rain.
He panted for a long time before he managed to stand up. The two shoulder blades on his back were in burning pain. His soaked robe had two big holes. When the sea breeze blew, the rags slapped against the scales.
"Have you seen enough?" he said hoarsely, without looking back.
Bellatrix was leaning against the hatch, wrapped in the dirty blanket, with water dripping from her hair. The expression on her face made Lin Ze want to throw her back into the bilge again.
"No."
Lin Ze didn't want to pay attention to her, and just lowered his head to study the pair of newly grown things on his back.
The wings protrude from under the shoulder blades. The skeleton is long and slender, covered with a membrane of the same color as the scales on the body, with a circle of dark golden fine lines on the edge.
He tried to control them with his mind.
The tips of the wings trembled twice, like cramped chicken feet.
"I feel like a kebab."
Lin Ze stretched out his hand to grab one wing and pulled it out, trying to see if it could be folded back. Halfway through pulling it, a heartbreaking pain shot from his back to the back of his head, and he let go with an "ouch".
"If you pull it again, it will fall off, ha." Bellatrix giggled at the door.
Lin Ze turned around and glared at her. The golden thread in his eyes was a bit scary in the morning light.
Bellatrix's smile became half a point lighter, but the corners of his mouth were still raised.
"You look much cuter now than before, little mouse." Bellatrix's eyes showed a look of fascination.
Lin Ze I'm too lazy to talk to her. This woman probably has some special hobbies, she likes weird and inhuman things. Voldemort This is the case, even when it comes to me...
Lin Ze got up and walked to the cabin and started to look through the things left by Bados.
After rummaging around, I found that there were quite a lot of Bados and Lin Ze that were neither useful nor useless, so I stuffed them all into their own small wooden boxes.
After digging around for a long time, Lin Ze dug out a stack of manuscripts that were soaked in water.
Lin Ze flipped through a few pages, and Portuguese, Latin and who-knows-what languages were all mixed together, which made his brain hurt.
He folded the manuscript and put it into the wooden box, and his steps were still a little wobbly when he stood up.
The wings cannot be retracted and can only be pressed against the back.
Bellatrix was already sitting on the edge of the deck, his legs hanging outside the boat, his bare feet swaying, and humming a tune he had never heard before, intermittently and without any tune.
"Why are you at Miami airport?" Lin Ze walked behind her and asked.
"Waiting for someone."
"The one with blonde hair?"
"Guess."
"That guy has become a fool now." Lin Ze said.
Bellatrix was stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud, "He deserves it."
"What's his name?"
"Guess what." Bellatrix raised his face and smiled a little nervously.
Lin Ze gave up talking to this crazy woman.
So he began to think about how to make himself look human again before returning to Britain.
At this time, the badge in his arms suddenly became hot.
Lin Ze Take it out quickly.
A lazy voice floated out from inside. "What's the matter?"
Lin Ze gritted his back molars and tried to sound less crazy, "I might... have something wrong."
Silence...
"What's the problem?" Rodna asked.
"I seem to have... mutated..."
"Pfft--" A sound of water spraying came from the opposite side.
It's a pity that I missed a glass of good wine, Lin Ze said secretly.
"Tell me more about the variation." Rodna said.
"We have to meet to clarify." Lin Ze is now eager to solve this mess.
"Okay, wait for me for half an hour, I have something else to do here." After saying that, the badge dimmed.
Lin Ze was about to curse a few words to relieve his anger, when Bellatrix's voice came from the direction of the deck. "Hey, little mouse, this ship seems to be broken down."
Lin Ze rolled his eyes and walked in the direction of Bellatrix.
"Your wings can't drag the ground like this. The ground is full of scales you shed." Bellatrix stood at the door of the cockpit and tilted his head to look at him.
Lin Ze looked down and saw that there were indeed a lot of broken scales on the deck, but these scales would disappear within a short time of leaving his body.
"Do you think I want this?" He raised his wings with a painful expression.
"Want me to cut it off for you?"
"How dare you!"
"Huh, good intentions are just like a donkey's liver and lungs." Bellatrix hummed and entered the cockpit.
Lin Ze followed in and found that the compass on the bridge was spinning like crazy, several indicator lights were flashing desperately, and the whole ship made a buzzing sound like an old ox pulling a cart.
Okay, it seems that the plan to sail back is temporarily unworkable. Fortunately, he has "Boundary Break" and can return directly to Britain. It's a pity for this ship. He still thinks that he can sell it second-hand to earn some Galleon...
Lin Ze was feeling sad that this ship could not bring him any economic benefits, when a crack suddenly opened out of thin air in the cockpit.
The blue-white electric light was like an opened zipper, cutting the sea breeze in half.
Rodna stepped out, her long silver-white hair spread by the sea breeze. Her heterochromatic pupils, one blue and one silver, glanced around, and finally landed on Lin Ze.
Then he stopped.
The entire portrait was cast "Petrificus Totalus".
"Pfft." Rodna tilted his head and his shoulders shook.
"Why are you laughing?" Lin Ze stared at him warily.
"It's nothing." Rodna took a deep breath, pressed back the corner of his mouth, looked at it again, didn't hold it back, and simply turned around, his shoulders shaking even more.
"Rodna, are you fucking laughing at me?" Lin Ze's anger rose.
"No." Rodna turned his back to him, raised a hand, and tried to sound serious, "It's just... your new look is very unique, and your wings are nice."
"Not bad, uncle!"
Lin Ze stamped his feet in anger, and the deck trembled.
Bellatrix came out of the cockpit, and when he saw Rodna, his eyes were filled with stars.
Her eyes slowly opened wide and her mouth opened slightly. Her expression was like a gilded statue that she suddenly dug up while picking up trash in the swamp.
"This handsome lord..."
Her voice suddenly became soft and sweet, completely different from the "little mouse giggling" crazy woman before.
"Are you here to retrieve your mount?"
Lin Ze:"???"
Rodna:"..."
Bellatrix took two steps forward, his movements were as light as stepping on clouds, and his eyeballs were almost stuck to Rodna's face and could not be removed.
"Mount?" Rodna raised his eyebrows and looked at Lin Ze with a half-smile.
Lin Ze wants to die.
"Bellatrix, shut up," he growled.
"Little mouse, don't make any noise, I'm talking to this adult." Bellatrix shook him off without looking back.
Lin Ze almost spit out a mouthful of old blood.
This woman had called him "cute little mouse" just a few minutes ago, but then she demoted him to a mount.
Rodna ignored Bellatrix. He walked towards Lin Ze, circled around him, and reached out to pinch the tip of one of his wings.
Lin Ze felt excited all over.
"Don't touch blindly."
"Relax."
Rodna let go of his wings and flicked the scales on the back of Lin Ze's hand with his fingertips.