Thanks to the resupply, dinner on the Golden Dream was exceptionally lavish today.
Sausages, fresh fruits and vegetables, some canned goods, and the Sailors' favorite strong liquor...
Luo En also followed the crowd and had a few drinks, though Danitz was still watching him from the side.
"Gulp!" Luo En took another big swig of alcohol, then looked at Danitz, who was sipping his drink beside him.
"That's not like you, Boss? Back in Bayam, you used to drink straight from the bottle~"
"Mind your own business~" Danitz pouted. If he could, he would have indulged in drinking too.
Due to the Iceberg Admiral's strict requirements for her crew, ordinary crew members rarely had the chance to drink freely. Only on days like today, when supplies were received, were non-duty crew members allowed to drink their fill.
But to keep an eye on Luo En, he had to reluctantly give up the opportunity to drink strong liquor and instead took small sips of the beer he had previously disdained.
Luo En naturally saw what Danitz was afraid of and comforted him, saying,
"Actually, you don't need to be so scared. It's very difficult for a Beyonder to get drunk."
"You never know..." Danitz muttered.
The atmosphere between the two fell into awkwardness again.
Using the alcohol as an excuse, Luo En started a new topic.
"Since you're so afraid of the future."
"How about I tell your fortune?"
"Fortune-telling?" Danitz was a bit surprised. He hadn't expected Luo En to bring up that topic at all.
"You actually know how to tell fortunes?"
"I'm a professional... Let me see..." Luo En said, grabbing Danitz's left hand and examining it carefully under the light.
"What kind of fortune-telling method is this?" Danitz, whose hand had been pulled over by Luo En, was a bit confused.
"Palmistry, that's a skilled job..."
In all fairness, after becoming a Robot, his fortune-telling ability had indeed greatly improved, but Luo En wasn't sure if it had any bonus for this special "fortune-telling" method of palmistry.
The result of Danitz's palm reading, however, exceeded his expectations.
"This... this!"
"Oh my god!" Luo En gasped, holding Danitz's hand.
"What! What's wrong!"
Hearing Luo En's words, Danitz was a bit startled and urged him anxiously.
"Don't rush me, let me see." Luo En tried hard to recall the knowledge about palmistry in his mind.
This, this life line is too good, this, is this really the palm of a Fourth Sailor?
Even with some twists and turns, his future is just too...
Although Luo En himself could only be considered an amateur Seer and had only read palms a few times, Danitz's career line truly surprised him.
Such a sky-rocketing future... Was he favored by some True God and became a Dear?
Impossible... Luo En looked up at Danitz.
This guy doesn't look like someone who would be chosen by a deity.
Looking at the anxious Danitz, Luo En raised an eyebrow: "Your palm is one in a million."
"Alas!"
He sighed softly, deliberately using a sorrowful tone: "Your fate is very special!"
"Ah?"
Upon hearing this, Danitz, who had been cheerful, suddenly became nervous. Driven by alcohol, he managed to overcome his initial fear of Luo En and questioned him excitedly.
"Really?"
Luo En felt like playing a trick and said with a half-truth: "Your fate shows signs of hardship, and your future work may not be something you like."
"May not be something I like?" Danitz savored the sentence. "Does that mean I'll leave the Golden Dream?"
"How is that possible!" Danitz's face was full of disbelief. He was very satisfied with his current life: adventure, gold pounds, a few Sailor subordinates, and the captain... Everything was perfect except for Brando, who was a spoilsport.
But as long as Brando left, wouldn't everything be fine? He had no reason to leave at all!
"Fate is winding, and I cannot fully know it. I think it's probably some kind of accident..." This was the truth. Although Danitz's career line indeed suggested a sky-rocketing rise, it also had certain twists and turns.
"Accidents, I've had accidents everywhere these days..."
"Wait! You didn't tell anyone about what happened to me those days, making it impossible for me to survive at sea and forcing me to change professions, did you!" Danitz suddenly realized something and looked at Luo En, who had a smile on his face.
No matter how he thought about it, this was the most likely scenario right now.
"Am I that kind of person!" Luo En was unwilling to take the blame.
"Besides, fortune-telling works if you believe it, and it doesn't if you don't."
"You don't need to dwell on this too much."
"That's like saying nothing at all..." Danitz muttered under his breath, but with Luo En beside him, he didn't dare speak his thoughts aloud.
Their conversation was drowned out by the surrounding noise. But the alcohol indeed diluted the barrier between them, and the topic gradually shifted to the attack that day.
"Speaking of which, the day we were attacked, I was lucky enough to pick up a few houses." Luo En recalled his experience of using the Door charm that day and falling into the basement of a certain house.
Drunk, he also began to brag.
"Houses? How is that possible?" Danitz shook his head, his face full of disbelief.
"Even if the houses are uninhabited, you can't just claim they belong to you."
"Although Bayam is a colony, the management in this regard is very strict."
"You don't believe me?"
"I even found the property deeds, several of them."
???
"Ah? Is that true!" Danitz also became interested. In all his years at sea, he had heard of finding money, guns, and even children, but houses were a first for him.
"Where did you find them?" He took a swig of alcohol and asked.
"It was around Xiangshu Avenue, probably number 13?"
Xiangshu Avenue? Number 13?
What a coincidence, the house I bought is also there.
Wait!
Danitz, whose mind had been slightly numbed by alcohol, suddenly sobered up.
This address sounds familiar... Danitz shivered.
"You didn't find the property deeds in the basement wall, did you?"
Uh, it's true...
Strange? How did Danitz know that... Luo En was a bit curious.
When he saw Danitz's face, which was still pale despite having drunk alcohol, he suddenly realized something...
Could it be, those houses are...
It can't be such a coincidence!
No, that's not right. That day, he encountered those things near the rendezvous point Danitz had arranged. It's not impossible for the rendezvous point to be near his own house.
Because he was on the Golden Dream, the houses looked like no one had lived in them for years...
"That's right." Seeing Danitz's anxious expression, Luo En simply nodded in admission.
"What did you do with those property deeds...?"
"I mortgaged those documents to Roy King for a sum of money." Luo En deliberately used a relaxed tone.
This was a lie. Luo En couldn't just directly snatch someone else's houses; he wasn't that bad.
So, before he left, he deliberately dug another hole and reburied those documents.
Saying this now was just to tease Danitz.
"It was only mortgaged for a few hundred pounds in total, not much, but it was free money anyway..."
Luo En hadn't finished speaking when Danitz excitedly stood up. At this moment, anger successfully triumphed over fear.
"Bullshit, only a few hundred pounds? The price of those houses is at least ten times that!"
"How are you going to compensate me!"
"Cough cough... Danitz, secret~ secret." Luo En reminded him.