The businessman Fang Plover rescued was called Bunigu. He was not from Istania, but a Kaolin business traveler returning from Istania. This middle-aged businessman with a fat body was full of gratitude to the Seven Seas Brigade and said:
He continued: "Ms. Roman's blessing." He took out the Holy Emblem of the Scales and kissed it several times with tears of gratitude.
Fang Plover interrupted him and asked: "No caravan has passed here for a long time, why do you appear here?"
Upon hearing this, Bunigu immediately cursed: "If it weren't for these damn air pirates, who would come here? My caravan met these guys in the Eden area. They killed my guards, and why didn't they come here?"
Let us go, and escort the remaining people for three days and three nights before arriving at this inhospitable place... Now all my goods have fallen into their hands, and more than half of the beasts of burden have died. This time it is considered a blessing.
All the money was lost.”
After saying that, he spat on the ground angrily and stepped on it with both feet, as if he was the Blood Shark Air Pirate.
Eden went west here, which was closer to Anquid Bay. Fang Plover knew that there was indeed a trade route passing through there, so he believed what the other party said was true. However, the Blood Shark Air Pirates went to great lengths to hijack these people and take them
What did they mean by bringing them to Idos?
It is obviously easier to directly kill people and steal goods, but it is not realistic to kidnap hostages. This is not the earth. The relatives of these businessmen are far away from each other. It is unlikely that they can raise all the ransom and hand it over to this place. Moreover, they are directly connected with Kaulin-Ishulian.
If we negotiate, the only thing waiting for us is the kingdom's navy.
Do the Blood Shark Pirates need labor? Only this possibility seems more reasonable.
After hearing Fang Plover's question, Bunigu quickly replied: "I know something about this, Mr. Little Leader. In fact, it's not just us. I heard that air pirates invaded several villages in that area and killed all the people."
I rushed to this place."
This confirmed Fang Yu's suspicion, but he only asked: "What do these air pirates need so many people for?"
"This...I don't know for sure, but I heard that they want us to help them dig something." Bunigou took another 'pooh' mouth, "They said that if they do a good job, they will
Returning goods to their original owners, only a three-year-old kid would believe these nonsense - can they still make my beast of burden live?"
This person was still worrying about these losses at the end of the day, which made Fang Yu feel a little speechless.
At this time, he heard a low whimpering sound coming from behind. Fang Plover looked in that direction and saw a half-grown boy kneeling next to a woman.
In a pool of blood.
His cousins, Ji Ta and Tian Lan were also there. Tang Xin stood up from the ground, put away the sacrificial staff, and shook her head gently towards the others. "How is this possible?" Ai Xiaoxiao, who was standing behind, looked a little surprised.
She couldn't help but grab her friend's hand and asked again: "Tangtang, would you like to try again?"
"She is dead, little princess," Tang Xin looked much calmer, but her face was very ugly: "There is no resurrection after death."
Ai Xiaoxiao took a step back absentmindedly, her face pale. This was the first time Fang Piao saw the little girl showing such an expression. Beside Ai Xiaoxiao, the ragged little boy wiped his tears with his arm, while using the other
He touched his mother's cheek with his hand, and the cry became even deeper.
"This mother and son are not members of our caravan," Bunigu sighed when he saw this scene: "When you showed up earlier, those people thought she was blocking the road and chopped her with a knife... This poor woman no longer has
Starry, these damn beasts!"
It's not that Fang Pliance has never seen dead people - in Du Lun, he also saw the so-called "rebels" hanged, hanging precariously on the gallows like dried shells. But looking from a distance, they were different from the others.
It's very different now.
He walked over silently and checked the woman's injuries. When he got closer, he saw that the woman was only in her early thirties at most, but she had wrinkles on her forehead and her hands were extremely rough. She didn't look like a girl.
Like a pampered status.
The knife described by Buniguk was slashed on her neck, and the blood stained the ground red. The woman had long since lost her life. But even so, her pale hand still kept reaching for the little boy.
Fang Yu couldn't help but feel moved. He looked at the little boy and subconsciously thought of his parents.
He looked at the others again. Several ladies' eyes were a little red. Ladies are naturally soft-hearted. Except for Miss Elf, she was calm, but she sighed softly when she saw this scene.
There were seven people in the hijacked team. Except for Bunigu's two servants, none of them were members of the caravan. Fang Pulmon also saw a girl whose right hand was broken at the same level as her arm and her sleeves were empty. She kept her head lowered.
Head, silent in front of everyone.
Bunigou told them that the air pirates wanted to violate the girl at that time, but the latter forced her to die and had one of her hands cut off during the resistance. Fortunately, those bastards failed to succeed in the end. The girl was dying, but was still killed.
Others were rescued.
"It would have been better not to save her if I had known earlier," Bunigou said regretting a little: "These people who deserve to go to hell will not let us go in the end. They will have to report to Ms. Roman sooner or later. If I hadn't still cared about my own goods,
I won’t follow you to this place either.”
"Will her arm return to its original shape after being resurrected?" Tang Xin couldn't help but ask.
Bunigou shook his head: "That's not possible. Lord Mirela will not be so kind for no reason. Unless we find a priest who can cast high-level restoration skills, but such priests are at the level of archbishop, how can they care about us?
Such a little person."
"These damn air pirates," Tian Lan was almost furious: "Do they have any humanity at all?"
"Can you still call yourself a sky pirate if you have humanity?" The Papalar people couldn't understand Tianlan's logic.
Tianlan said to him angrily: "If you don't know how to speak, just shut up, Parker!"
Parker had no choice but to shut up.
However, everyone couldn't help being a little silent for a while. Both Baggins and Princess Brianne's old captain had told them about the behavior of these extremely vicious pirates. But at that time, 'extremely vicious' was just an adjective.
, far less bloody and chilling than it is now.
Fang Yu couldn't help but think of Tirion, the bishop of Yunzhi Port. If he holds the position of bishop of the diocese, he should be able to use high-level restoration techniques, right? However, the girl seemed to be very uneasy and fearful after this disaster, and she
Close up and not communicate with outsiders.
And they can't contact Tirion at the moment, so they can only ignore this matter for now.
The remaining person was a sailor on the ship, probably because their ship encountered the Blood Shark Pirates. The other party also suffered a lot at the hands of those people, but as a strong young man, he behaved quite optimistically.
Only then did Fang Yu find Baggins and ask him to "well" torture the Blood Shark Pirates - as an old sailor above the sea, Baggins was certainly proficient in these torture methods.
The ladies were originally a little resistant to this, but after this incident, they also became hostile. Since these air pirates do not treat themselves as human beings, there is no need for them to treat these guys as human beings.
After some howling, the big cat man, who had been watching with great interest, suddenly came back with a bad expression.
After he came out, he lit the pipe, took a deep breath, and blew out the smoke from his big mouth. His silver eyes seemed to sparkle in the smoke, and he said to Fang Plover:
"Ed, although revenge is temporarily satisfying - the goddess tells us to stick to the integrity of our hearts. Although I follow my heart and have a clear conscience, the Paladin is still better after all."
Fang Yu looked at the big cat man in surprise, thinking that he had understood something after watching a 'good show', so he couldn't help but ask: "Are you going to let that man go, Mr. Reid?"
"You think too much, little guy," the big cat man shook his head, and the gold ring hanging under his mane jingled: "But I will give him a happy one."
Among the crowd, Box and Papalar, who were equally curious, quickly ran out. Box vomited all over the floor with a sound of "wow" beside it - and soon Papalar was not spared and began to vomit.
Luo Hao was the only one who persisted to the end, and was curious about his experience with Baggins, which greatly amazed the old sailor and felt that this little fat man was a promising talent.
But our Mr. Iron Guard soon became a public enemy in the eyes of the lady.
Tian Lan looked at this guy and suddenly said angrily: "Damn perverted fat guy!"
Luo Hao felt aggrieved after hearing this: "I recognize the perverted fat guy, why did you add the word "death" in front of him?"
"My pleasure."
It was Fang Yu who pulled them apart to prevent the two guys from quarreling.
The results of Baggins' interrogation came out quickly. Probably because of the general environment of Etalia, the bones of these so-called "hard bones" of hyenas in the sky seemed not as hard as they claimed.
In fact, most of the air pirates don't know much about mysterious spells, let alone the sacred magic of forest elves. When Baggins killed an air pirate in front of them, and the others watched the guy resurrected in front of them, they
He was almost stunned with fear.
Of course, they didn't know how long Etila's spell would last, nor did they know that the air pirate was killed and resurrected. In fact, if he committed suicide again, he could return to the temple elsewhere and be resurrected.
They were frightened, and after being tortured by Baggins to extract confessions, they naturally couldn't stand it anymore and told the truth. However, Baggins did not make it easy for these people. He repeatedly tested his methods on these people for several rounds, and confirmed that
Only after there were no contradictions in their confessions were they finally let go.
Tie these people up and throw them into Mr. Gray Rock's cabin, leaving them to fend for themselves.
"The situation of Idos has basically been determined, Captain."
Baggins washed off the blood stains on his body, changed his clothes, and then came to the 'Central Workshop' to find Fang Plover and said: "It seems that the news from the Elfendor Council is somewhat out of date. Blood Shark Sky Pirates
We arrived at Idos early in the morning and took control of the place."
"Controlled that place?" Fang Yu put down the map he was studying and looked up, somewhat surprised.
Baggins nodded: "That's pretty much it now."
"What does 'now' mean?"
"They entered Idos disguised as 'archaeologists' before. There were not many of them at that time - in fact, they arrested many people from around Anquid, all in the name of 'archaeology'.
There are some things to be unearthed in Doos City."
"So the people sent by the Elfendor Council actually didn't realize this."
"I'm afraid that's the case, Captain. Many archaeologists have always conducted excavation work here in Idos, which is indeed very confusing." Baggins took off his hat and hung it on a hook beside him: "Add to this
The Upper Elfendor Council received the news that the Blood Shark Pirates had landed in Anquid much later than the time when they sent the first team of men to Idus. Therefore, it is normal for there to be a lag in the news during this time.
…”
"And the people sent by the Elfendor Council are to find the whereabouts of Nicol Bolas. They don't know the plan behind the Dragon Cult like we do, so of course they won't doubt the blood shark pirates who are carrying out excavations here with great fanfare.
Is there any connection between them?" Fang Plover asked, "So what exactly are the Blood Shark Pirates digging for?"
"The people we caught were just peripheral members, and the captain refused to speak, so the remaining people didn't know what the people above were digging for. It is said that they also had some complaints. After all, they were here.
Being a pirate is not a hard job."
"The only news that can be learned now is that the excavation work was carried out in about three places at the same time. From the description, one of them should be the original location of the Idos City Hall." Baggins replied.
"How long have they been staying there?" Fang Plover asked again.
"Almost two months."
"Two months?" Fang Yu was a little surprised: "Isn't that what happened before the Vanrich incident?"
"Pretty much, Captain." Baggins replied: "But the real large-scale excavation activities only started in the past half month. Before that, the Blood Shark Pirates seemed relatively restrained."
"In other words, the raids around Anquid also started during this time period?"
Baggins nodded.
Fang Yu couldn't help but frown. Although he still didn't know the purpose of the blood shark air pirates, the other party would not speed up the progress for no reason. Either because they discovered something, or because the situation changed, they had to take risks.
Expose risks and speed up the excavation process.
As for the only change in the situation that can be called the last half month, it is probably the defeat of the Dragon Worship Cult in Vanrik, which happens to be closely related to them.
He thought for a while and then asked: "Are the people from the Dragon Fire Guild also in Idus?"
"Those people don't know it clearly, but there are indeed chosen ones in the city."
"That's it." Fang Yu thought to himself who else would deal with these people - Dragon Worshipers, Blood Shark Air Pirates - only guys like the Dragon Fire Guild would gather like birds of a feather like this.
He asked again: "What is the situation in Idos 'now'?"
Baggins replied: "Since the other party captured many slave workers from various places, it has completely controlled Idus. Now almost all the core areas of Idus are under the control of the Blood Shark Pirates. It is almost impossible for outsiders to enter.
It’s impossible.”
"Interesting." Fang Yu narrowed his eyes.
He was not stupid either. He immediately realized that the Blood Shark Pirates suddenly changed their strategy not just because of the emergency. They sealed Idos tightly, and it seemed that they had really discovered something in the city.
Thinking of this, he asked: "So is there any other information?"
"There is one. Starting half a month ago, they have blocked an area in Idos City. According to the air pirates, even their peripheral members cannot get close to that place."
"Is this a change that only happened in the past half month?"
"Indeed, I have repeatedly confirmed different statements, and there is almost no difference in time," Baggins replied: "Do you know that place, Captain?"
"I do know that place," Fang Plover nodded: "That place was originally the square in the center of Idos. After Idos was reduced to ruins, the ground there subsided, forming an open underground area."
"What do you think is there, Captain?"
"I don't know about that." Fang Yu looked at the map in his hand. The captured air pirates provided more information than he imagined, so their next action plan would be much clearer.
"But we can go there first and have a look—"
"Where to go and see?"
Fang Yu nodded: "Go and see what the Blood Shark Pirates, the Dragon Worship Cult and the Dragon Fire Guild are doing."
"Then how do we enter Idos?"
"I do have a preliminary idea," Fang Yu replied, "but I still need to plan."
…
Fang Plover came down from the platform and found Bunigu. There was no room for more people on the platform. Fortunately, Bunigu still had some tents and supplies on his back, so he could camp in the valley.
After being comforted by Alyssa and Jita, the girl with the broken hand no longer seemed so uneasy. Probably because she was a woman, she occasionally nodded or shook her head to express herself in front of Tianlan and others.
idea.
Others briefly disposed of the body of the little boy's mother. Luo Yu used the materials on the ship to make a simple coffin for the poor woman, and waited until there was a chance to find a suitable place to bury her.
The little boy stayed by his mother's coffin for a long time before finally reluctantly leaving. He heard that Fang Plover was going to investigate near Idos, so he silently pulled the reins to fetch Fang Plover a pack animal.
The beast looked up at him.
"I don't need this, Pasha," Fang Plover looked at the little boy and couldn't help but think of himself - the other boy no longer had any relatives, but he was even luckier because he still had uncles and aunts.
Cousin's family.
He had just learned the other party's name not long ago. This little boy and his mother were both from Istania, and they seemed to be from another caravan that was also in trouble. Fang Plover took out a clockwork goblin and raised it in front of the other party.
He gestured: "I am a craftsman."
The little boy seemed to understand what he meant and didn't say anything. He just led the beast back, but soon returned to him.
"Pasha?"
"I will go with you, Mr. Captain," Pasha whispered: "You are good people, I can help you."
Fang Yu was a little surprised. The other party had been silent. He thought it was because the other party was in disaster. But he didn't expect that when Pasha opened his mouth, he turned out to be very orderly, not at all like the calmness and rationality that should be expected at this age.
But Fang Yu probably thought that the other party was out for revenge, so he couldn't help but ask: "Do you want to join us? But we don't plan to fight the Blood Shark Air Pirates for the time being."
Pasha nodded: "I understand, Mr. Captain, I will obey your orders."
"But why?"
Pasha looked back at the simple wooden coffin containing his mother, then looked back at him intently.
Fang Yu couldn't help but feel moved. He made such a decision because Luo Yu helped his mother make the coffin. He was originally going to refuse, but after thinking about it, he nodded - he relied on the Clockwork Fairy for his investigation.
, it wouldn’t be too dangerous in the first place:
"Okay, but you can't stay too far away from me. If you don't obey my instructions, there will be no next time."