Chapter 65: A Crisis Emerges
"Where did you get so much money?" Sol wondered, he frowned, and asked with some distrust, "By smuggling?"
"Of course not, Chief Chief—" Toby remained cooperative, even smiling on his cheeks:
"We bought a couple of rats in Worms, and the money was stolen from Mitch Capone. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
"If you can steal money from Mitch Capone, the "rat" you bought is too capable, right?" Morey stroked his beard and retorted directly to Toby's words.
"Wait a minute, old man, who is Mitch and Capone?" Thor wondered if there was another big Worms involved.
Morey turned his face, Thor had rarely seen him so serious, and the wrinkles on his wrinkled face were almost gathered together, and he explained to Thor in Barbarian language;
"Mitch Capone is the head of the Worms underground—" After a pause, Morey continued, "Trade with the Nameless of the Servellos is a man involved. ”
Thor suddenly noticed that Bertha, who was sitting not far from him, also trembled slightly when he heard this person's name, and he understood that he was afraid that Morey and Bertha were sold to the desert as nameless slaves in the first place, and they were also inseparable from the gangs of Worms.
"In other words, this person is very difficult to mess with?" Thor frowned, two eyebrows that were not too thick, curved into the moon tonight, and hung upside down like two scimitars above his eyes, making his face a little sharper.
Toby couldn't understand the conversation between Thor and Morey, but he patiently closed his mouth, bowed his head quietly, and stared at the loess floor as if something beautiful had been painted on it.
Morey hesitated, raised his hand to scratch the silver hair in his ear, and said to Thor, "In the lower part of Worms, if you annoy Mitch Capone or one of his men, the Dark Brotherhood will come to your bedroom at night and give you a disemboweled wildcat—and that is usually the most merciful warning. ”
"But he's not the worst to mess with—" Morey rejects Saul's words at the end, "Worms has a lot of "big guys" that he doesn't even dare to mess with—at least the name "Conrad" alone is enough to make Capone shy away. ”
Saul nodded, secretly remembering such a person, his money was stolen by the gang of smugglers in front of him, no matter what the specific situation is, now it is in his hands, there may be twists and turns in the future, he should always remember this.
As for whether Toby cheated on him and how he got the money, Thor had already seen it from Morey's attitude, and the other party must have hidden a lot of facts.
However, Saul was noncommittal, he only needed to know the name Capone, after all, it was not this that was the most important thing to him at the moment.
Clearing his throat and looking at Toby, who was looking at the ground motionless, honestly and surprisingly, Thor had a serious face and a deep gaze on him, and slowly spoke:
"Who are the pirates who killed your companion and brought you here?"
Keeping his emotions in check and trying to stay as calm as possible, Thor asked the questions he had been most concerned about throughout the night.
Toby was still very cooperative, he nodded slightly, and then replied meticulously and respectfully, "It's the sea seal, Barya, the honorable chief." ”
"Sea dogs?" Thor squinted at Morey a little with his peripheral vision, the old man was sitting precariously and had no intention of communicating at all, Thor understood that even the old man had never heard of this name.
With a sigh of relief, he naturally continued to ask: "What is the origin of Baria?"
Toby nodded, and slightly brushed away a strand of blonde hair on the left side of his head with his hand, and a few handfuls of blonde hair were thin and long grinding against his eyebrows, making him itch very much.
"According to him, he is a subordinate of Charles Vane......" As soon as he finished speaking, Saul visibly felt Morey's body trembling violently on his left, he remained silent, and continued to ask a few innocuous questions, then beckoned to Pompey on the other side, and commanded:
"Take him down and find a room to be locked up alone—" With a wave of his hand, Pompeii grabbed Toby and left the hut.
As soon as the two left, Thor hurriedly turned his head, and before he could speak, Morey had already guessed what he was going to ask, only to see him spit out a sentence with an ugly face:
"Lord Noem - I'm in trouble. ”
Thor had a bad premonition from Morey's trembling before, and looking at Morey's frowning at this time, it confirmed his premonition.
Diana sat on her knees next to Morey, she usually asked the old man for some of the common words of Wotan, and she understood some from the conversation between the three of them just now, and when she saw that Morey had lost his previous calm, she actually said something like trouble, and couldn't help but ask strangely:
He said Charles...... Who is Winn?"
"It's Charles Vane. Morey corrected Diana's language problem, and instead of dwelling on the question of her name, he looked at Saul with a solemn expression and said:
"If the group of pirates we destroy is really the work of this man, then I am afraid that the future of the cliff corner will be very dangerous, if necessary, I suggest ...... I would recommend moving somewhere else. ”
Morey's words made the air in the room seem to freeze, and most of the people in the room, except for Kratos, can understand the lingua franca more or less, and even Kaziba is said to have discussed the situation of the Wotan continent with Morey in private, and it is said that he is looking forward to some field trips, and is very interested in the plants on another continent.
At this time, after listening to what Morey said, except for Kratos, who closed his eyes and recuperated, everyone else frowned, and Ingvar's face was pale like a frosted eggplant, and he couldn't imagine that the tribe had just come out of the predicament, and seemed to have fallen into a deeper whirlpool.
Diana's face was also not good-looking, if the tribe migrated again, the cultivated land that was about to mature would be abandoned, and she would be the one who lost the most effort.
Saul calmed down at this time, he fiddled with ten fingers, narrowed his eyes, and calmly asked Morey: "Oh? Is this Charles even more terrible than Capone?"
"Lord Nome, he is different from Capone, no matter how powerful Capone is, he can't get to the Desert, but Charles Vane is one of the five great ship kings of Worms, and his command is said to have forty ships and more than 3,000 pirates. ”
Seeing that Thor's brows were about to twist together, Morey coughed and continued with a wry smile: "These pirates are usually entrenched in the Pearl Islands, occasionally going north or south to rob merchant ships coming and going, and actually secretly control the maritime trade of the entire Worms. ”
"And all this, with the tacit approval of the Conrad family, under the control of the Roses, through human trafficking, smuggling, and arms trading with the Serveros, the pirates have become an indispensable link in the chain of Worms' commerce. ”
Morey sighed and summed it up in a slumber voice, "If you are an enemy of Charles Vane, you will probably turn into an enemy of the Conrad family - this is the real scary place. ”
"yes, I see. After listening to Morey's narration, Saul took a deep breath, and then said lightly in a firm voice:
"We will not migrate, and the Soths will never leave the Wasteland. ”
There were joy, doubt, or deep thinking expressions on everyone's faces, and Morey looked at Thor deeply as if he knew this, and Thor gave him a bright smile back and continued:
First of all, it is not clear whether Charles will go out of his way for a "fur seal", and secondly, he may not have known that the "fur seal" was exterminated in the deserted corner. ”
Straightening out his train of thought, Thor continued in a deep voice: "Even if we are really unlucky, he knows about it and brings someone to attack us, as long as we can break out his fangs and let him know that it hurts, things will be simple." ”
"Presumably, neither the pirates nor the Conrad family will do unprofitable things, a group of people work on this deserted island for half a day without any gain, how can anyone do such a stupid thing?"
The more he spoke, the smoother he became, he glanced at the old dwarf Paladin who was sitting diagonally opposite, and said to him: "The matter of iron-making can't wait, after all, you still have to have the ability to fight them, tomorrow I will have someone take you to the iron mine to see, can you build the foundation of the mining shaft as soon as possible?"
"No problem, no one is better at this than us, and the Darkhearth clan has never forgotten for a moment the skill of merging into the bloodline. There seemed to be a rising flame burning in the old dwarf's eyes, as if he had suddenly become ten years younger.
Nodding with satisfaction, Saul looked at Diana again: "How is the cultivation of cassava and oil beans, and when can it be promoted on a large scale?"
Diana gently supported her chin with the back of her smooth hand, raised her eyebrows and said: "It's no problem to promote planting, the first batch will be harvested immediately, and the growth is very good, the problem is that there is not enough manpower and the tools are too poor - if it is promoted, I am afraid there will be no manpower to do other things." ”
Thor waved his hand and said, "It's not a problem, when the iron ore is mined, the first batch of tools will be made into farming tools, and as for the manpower-"
At this point, he looked at Kratos, who had his eyes closed, and said softly: "Kratos - tomorrow I want you to pick out a hundred warriors, and I will personally train them to form a full-time army, and then the first task will be to sweep away the wild people who live in the forests to the north, and take them all back to me as prisoners." ”
Thor believed that with the cooperation of the Dire Wolf and the leadership of Kratos, coupled with the steel scimitar captured from the pirates, it would not be a problem to deal with the lagging wildlings.
Finally, Saul said to Morey next to him and Diana next to him: "Regarding monogamy and the policy of granting land, let's continue to discuss it tonight, and strive to announce it within a few days." ”
"Okay—" The two agreed without hesitation.
After allocating everything, Thor stared blankly at the earthy mud wall, and made up his mind, no matter what, he still had to improve his strength, otherwise it would not be so easy to survive even in the southernmost part of the barren corner far away from the Cerverlos.