"Lord Todd, our losses are too great!" A Holy See knight looked at dozens of corpses covered with white cloth and said to the monks worriedly.
The latter nodded, looking at the frozen soil covered with blood under his feet, feeling lingering fear.
The knight came closer and lowered his voice: "If we go back like this, I'm afraid it won't be easy to deal with Father Paul."
Understanding that the other party has good intentions, Todd's words are sincere and full of gratitude: "Thank you for reminding me, I will find a way..."
The knight patted him on the shoulder and walked away.
With a wink at Huggins, Todd lowered his face and walked towards the place where the prisoners were being held.
Among the ten captured pirates, except for the unconscious Sakru, who was tied into rice dumplings, the remaining nine were tied to trees. Their hair was clumped together with blood, and their wounds were blown away by the cold wind.
Bloodless.
According to the watcher's account, these pirates cooperated tacitly and fought without fear of death. If it were not for the long-term hunger and fatigue that gradually weakened them in the later stages of the battle, the church's troops might have suffered greater losses, and naturally there would not have been any
So many prisoners.
Todd stood in front of a young pirate and said, "What's your name?"
The other party seemed to have no intention of cooperating. He sucked in his throat, rolled his tongue, opened his mouth, and spat a mouthful of thick phlegm on Todd's face. A series of actions were completed in one go.
The stench of "Swedish canned herring" hit my face.
Almost vomiting out his overnight meal, Todd quickly wiped his face clean with his sleeve and moved his body back a little.
When the guard saw this, he yelled and cursed, raised a wooden stick, inserted it into the prisoner's wound, and stirred it vigorously, causing the pirate to scream loudly.
Reaching out to stop the violence, Todd looked at the beard hair that had just grown on the other person's chin and said again: "Can you understand the 'Common Language'?"
The young pirate remained silent, but the movement of his eyes still made Todd realize that there should be no problem with the communication between the two parties.
"I know you are not afraid of death." Todd's praise made the prisoner raise his chin proudly, but what he said next made the pirate's heart drop into an ice cellar: "But there are too many things in this world than death.
It's even more terrifying. For example, I can kill all your companions, and then send their bodies back to the "Greyskull Tribe", and claim to the outside world that you were ambushed because someone tipped you off. You might as well think about it, when they saw it
Among the corpses, you are the only one missing, what will you think and do?"
The obvious threat of logical loopholes is just a layer of window paper that can be broken in the eyes of sophisticated people, but for young people who are just starting out and only know how to be brave and competitive, it is an intractable knot.
Todd patted his sleeves, looked at the depressed young man, and said slowly: "Let's do it all over again. What's your name?"
"...Gant."
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When Todd finished asking his questions and left the prisoner, the guards of the militia regiment looked at his retreating figure and whispered.
"Have you ever heard a rumor?"
"What?"
"Someone in the tavern is saying that the Gutero Empire left a large amount of treasures on an island in the north."
"Treasure? I think you are crazy about getting rich."
"No, no, I didn't believe it at first. When Lord Todd was interrogating the prisoners just now, he repeatedly asked about the terrain of the northern archipelago, and I just remembered this."
The militiamen looked at each other, and for a moment no one made a sound.
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The church's escort group escorted the prisoners, collected the bodies, and embarked on the road back to the camp.
Todd declined the request for escort. When a knight asked him about his plans, he only answered with two words, "Go to sea."
When Alfonso Decavo said goodbye, he walked up to Todd, but it seemed that the other party's target was obviously not Todd. After searching to no avail, he just said a simple hello and took him with him.
The retinue followed the team.
Only then did Todd finally understand the reason for Huggins' hurried look when he left.
Just as the armored knight turned to leave, Todd discovered that a piece of armor on his back had been damaged and fallen off in the previous battle. Just as he was about to step forward to remind the knight, he suddenly discovered that a squirming figure was inside the damaged area of the armor.
The figure crawled slowly under the knight's gray shirt.
The frightened Todd used his clairvoyance ability to look at the body of the knight Alfonso, and was instantly frightened and speechless by the sight in front of him.
A "huge parasite" almost as tall as a person, like a skeleton, connected the knight's limbs, protected his chest, and was firmly embedded in his body.
What on earth is this?!
Todd stood there blankly. When he came to his senses, the team had disappeared without a trace. While thinking about the giant parasite he had just seen, he set off alone in the opposite direction of the church guard group.
After some thinking, Todd found nothing. In the medical world in his previous life, he could not find such a huge parasite. Thinking of the agreement with Huggins, he could only put aside the matter temporarily in his heart and use "Speed"
’ was heading west all the way, and it took less than forty minutes. I could already hear the sound of waves crashing on the shore, and my nose could faintly smell the smell of sea salt. A thought came to my mind that the sea was almost here.
After walking some distance further, a white coastline stretching for several kilometers appeared under his feet.
The wide beach is covered with crystal clear and fine sand. When you step on it, it is like stepping on a soft and comfortable carpet. The sea water in early spring rushes to your feet, which is cold but refreshing.
"This is...Twilight Coast." Todd breathed in the moist air hard and said to himself happily.
Huggins walked towards him from one end of the beach and greeted him with a smile: "You showed up much earlier than I expected."
Todd couldn't wait to ask: "How's it going? Did you find it?"
The man made an okay gesture, took Todd, and walked to a hidden boulder on the beach. He directed a few helpers who had been waiting for a long time, lifted the tarpaulin, and revealed a large trench about 20 meters long.
The ship revealed its appearance. The bow of the ship was marked by a dragon head statue. The hull was very slender, with a huge mast erected in the middle and a square sail hung on it. The ship had a displacement of about 50 tons.
The pirate's cross-sea battleship is the most important part of Todd's plan.
Seeing the battleship intact in front of him, Todd was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief. With a relaxed tone, he asked again: "Where is the cargo? Has it arrived?"
Huggins pointed to the carriage slowly approaching from the distance on the beach, and said with a smile: "Look, the timing is perfect."