Chapter 474: Black Flag
It's been a week, and everyone in the Peace Town Garrison is so busy that Amanda has canceled the meeting with the little nightingale in Yoson City, chickens and dogs are jumping, papers are flying, and ravens are running around the garrison.
However, the chaos became such a garrison ...... I didn't even have a clue!
Regarding the pitch-black floating corpse in the daughter river, they searched for a whole week, but they didn't find any clues!
Garrison Chief Amanda sent ten guards with the Order of the Second Class Samurai to the north along the Daughter River, and then found a tribe with no people, which could be regarded as their only clue.
There are scattered nomadic peoples in the north, who make a living by herding cattle and sheep. But in the tribe, not to mention people, cattle and sheep, there is not even a single sheep dung egg.
Is this their only clue?
The dead are the nomads of the north?
What's the use of them even if they're right?
Still clueless.
After they got the news back, the head of the guard, Amanda, sent them out again, and after two days of searching, they found another group of nomads with dozens of people.
It would be inaccurate to say that they were nomads, but they were a group of yodelmans who had fled to the north to herd sheep in order to escape the heavy taxes of some nobleman. When they saw a pair of guards riding black horses towards them, a fight almost broke out.
Because it is a sensitive period and the two sides are hostile, it is normal for the relationship to be so tense.
After a long period of communication, the misunderstanding was finally resolved.
The nomads discovered that the guards had not come to arrest them, and the guards had discovered that the nomads were not murderers.
Yes, what nomad could kill his neighbors quietly? The guards found that none of them were injured, and they had very few weapons, all broken hoes and shovels, and even if they themselves admitted to being murderers, the guards would not believe them.
So the situation is in chaos again.
No one can make a valid point about the Daughter River floating corpse incident.
Finally, the chief of the guard, Amanda, whose hair had been lost in the past few days, instructed his men: "Go to the carpenter's shop and find the blue hat." ”
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Peake's long-awaited Timberwolves mercenary group finally returned, and before dark, they chartered the only tavern in Peace Town, put two round tables together, and drank heartily.
Along with Pique was Sandy, who looked at the group of strange uncles in front of him, but he didn't have any fear, of course, it was possible that he never knew how to write the word "fear". This has a lot to do with Pique, who experienced all kinds of fears in his childhood, so when it comes to education, he knows how to avoid his fears, "Uncle Frank," Sandy only knows him, "We're here!" he shouted hello to Frank who suddenly appeared at the door.
After speaking, he looked at the bald head beside him very embarrassed.
Yes, the bald head is a wandering samurai, and after five years, he still hasn't grown hair. If Zhu Tian was here, he would definitely say with emotion: "It turns out that there is also nuclear radiation in this world. ”
Sandy's blue eyes were large and clear, and it was hard for a wandering samurai not to notice his blue eyes, "Little ghost, what are you looking at?" he asked coldly.
Sandy scratched his head and didn't say, but the nasty ghost next to the bald head laughed:
"He's suggesting that you're giving up your seat to his Uncle Frank? a kid who always likes to sit with people he knows. ”
The wandering samurai was stunned for a moment, looked at the big watery blue eyes, and reluctantly raised his buttocks.
Suddenly, there was a gasp around the circle, and when they saw the wandering warrior find another seat to sit down, they instantly relaxed again.
They can't help but be worried, this lord who draws his sword without saying a word, in five years, I don't know how many unlucky people have died under that thin-bladed long sword.
At first, they were not very accustomed to the style of wandering samurai, but after witnessing hundreds of duels, they were forced to adapt to it.
This is not to say that the mercenaries are absolutely rude to a five-year-old child, and the gasp is just a reflex for them to see the wandering samurai stand up.
When Frank, the former mercenary leader and current church martial arts instructor, sits next to Sandy, it means that the meal has officially begun.
There is nothing to talk about among the mercenaries, except for fighting and women. In the past five years, with the addition of the super combat power of the wandering samurai, all tasks are simply at their fingertips.
For Pique, he also doesn't have much interest in the topic between mercenaries, and it is better to talk about women and fights with them than to give Sandy two pigs' trotters.
The mercenary's wine table was filled with a lot of foul language, "What's the little nightingale?" Sandy asked his father.
Without thinking about it, Peake said, "It's a bird that flies in the night." He certainly wouldn't tell Sandy that it was a group of women who had betrayed their love for one night.
"What does it mean to hang up?"
"It's just gone. "There's nothing to hide from that.
"What is passed away?"
"......" Peake swallowed the greens in his mouth, stopping the mercenary's noise, "You all pay attention to what you say, there are children here!"
Mr. Bluehat's words still worked, and everyone was silenced.
Sandy watched all this in amazement, and after watching it for a while, he shouted to everyone in a childish voice, and also in his father's tone, "Be careful when you speak, there are still children here!"
Suddenly, the meat-eating mouth of the smiling samurai stopped, Mr. Sissy's fork fell to the ground, and the hot pie of the meat shield got stuck in his throat. Two seconds of silence were followed by a burst of laughter that rang out through the tavern.
Everyone was laughing, laughing so much that the nasty ghost squirted out the soup in his mouth, laughing so much that little yellow hair's yellow hair trembled, and Sandy blocked his ears with laughter.
A feast was spent in an entertaining atmosphere, during which the drunkards in the peaceful town came to buy wine, and after seeing such a group of fierce mercenaries, they turned around and ran.
The wandering samurai seems to be quite gregarious, he doesn't drink alcohol, he doesn't eat meat, and like Pique, he loves greens alone.
The nasty ghost is still that character, constantly stirring up trouble at the wine table, one will say that the little yellow hair is not good at drinking, and the other will say that the meat shield is always stinky next to him.
The leader of the Timberwolves mercenary group, Grass Carp, spoke the least, and of course, when he spoke, everyone was silent.
Nothing has changed, it's still the same group, and Peake laments how quickly time passes.
Just as the feast was in the final stages, two guards walked in, and they hesitantly looked at the mercenaries at a large table in the tavern, and did not dare to come up to talk for a while.
In the end, it was Pique who noticed that they had walked over on their own initiative. After some exchange, he understood the purpose of the guards.
After everyone had noticed them, he spoke:
"Come with me, everyone, I've got a character for your Timberwolves mercenary group. ”
With two guards to send Sandy home, Peake led the mercenaries to the dark castle.
"Mr. Bluehat, what are you bringing us here?" the nasty would always be the first to ask, "isn't this the castle that was once the mayor of a peaceful town, and how is it ruined like this?" he said, looking at the weeds around the castle gates.
"There have been a lot of deaths here," said Peake, "and then there were undead spirits, and no one dared to live here anymore." ”
After the death of Mayor Grace, the noble lady and Haysja lived for a while. Later, it was abandoned for five years.
None of the mercenaries spoke, knowing that Mr. Blue Hat would explain to them what to do next.
I only heard Peake say slowly: "A week ago, a group of floating corpses appeared in the daughter river in the north of the peaceful town,
The whole body is pitch black, and the death is terrifying. The purpose of bringing you here is like learning from the experience of your Timberwolf mercenary group traveling across the continent, and see if I can solve this mystery for the peaceful town. ”
The gate of the outer courtyard of the castle was not closed, and without any hesitation, they entered the castle in the darkness of the night.
Walking through the outer courtyard gate, they were about thirty paces away from the main castle building, and in the middle of that distance they saw huge black cloth on the ground.
You don't have to guess to know that under the black cloth, it must be the floating corpse that Mr. Blue Hat said.
Visually inspect about 100 of them!
Seeing this scene, everyone couldn't help but gasp.
Killing so many people at once, without leaving a trace, must be the work of extraordinary power!
It has to be said that it was also a big project for Amanda to transport the bodies back to the town of Peace, in order not to cause panic among the townspeople, they first blocked the streets, and then waited until the wee hours of the night to transport the corpses wrapped in black cloth into the castle.
If it weren't for a deserted castle, they might not even know where the bodies were.
At this moment, the most curious annoyance directly lifted a black cloth. In the darkness of the night, he didn't see what was going on under the black cloth at all, because the corpse was charred black. But when he saw the dead man's eyes that glowed in the night, he realized that it was the corpse of a man.
Before they were salvaged from the water, they were still in a puffy state, and as soon as they left the water, they became dried corpses like this in front of them.
Pique explained the scene to the mercenaries, and then waited for their conclusions.
"It was the necromancer who did it. In the end, the leader of the Timberwolves mercenary group, Grass Carp, came to a conclusion.
This conclusion is completely consistent with the initial conclusions of Pique and Frank, who would like to hear more from them.
At this time, a bright light suddenly lit up in the crowd.
Light of Faith!
It was the light of faith on the fingertips of the wandering samurai, and through the light of faith, he observed the pitch-black dried corpses on the ground.
Then, with a clear goal, he came to the black cloth in the very center.
The black cloth was lifted, and something was removed from the corpse, and the wandering samurai showed it to everyone.
"Look at it, it's a very representative thing," said the wandering warrior, holding a small black flag in his hand, "This is the emblem of a certain legion of the Endless Wall!"