The merchant rescued by Fang Yu was called Bunigu, not from Istanya, but from Cowin, a merchant traveler returning from Istania. The middle-aged businessman was full of gratitude to the Seven Seas Brigade, and said, "Lady Roman's protection." And took out the balance emblem, and kissed it several times gratefully.

Fang Yu interrupted him and asked, "It's been a long time since a caravan has passed by here, how can you appear in this place?" ”

When Bunigu heard this, he immediately cursed: "If it weren't for these hellish air thieves, who would go this way?" My caravan met these guys in the Eden area. They killed my guards, and they didn't let us go, and they escorted the rest of us for three days and three nights to this place where birds don't...... Now that all my goods are in their hands, and more than half of the pack beasts are dead, this time it can be regarded as a loss of money. ”

With that, he spat angrily on the ground and stomped on his feet as if it were the Blood Shark Sky Pirate.

Eden was here to the west, closer to Anquid Bay, and Fang Plover knew that there was indeed a trade route passing through it, so he believed that what the other party said was true. But what does it mean that the Blood Shark pirates have gone to great lengths to kidnap these people and bring them to Idus?

It is obviously easier to kill people directly, and it is not realistic to kidnap hostages, this is not the earth, and the relatives of these merchants are all over the world, and it is unlikely that they can raise all the ransom money to pay to this place. Moreover, if they negotiated directly with Kaurin-Ihurian, they would only be waiting for the kingdom's navy.

Do Blood Shark Pirates need labor? Only this possibility seems more reasonable.

Bunigu listened to Fang Yu's question and hurriedly replied, "I know some inside information, Mr. Little Chief." In fact, it's not just us, I've heard that the pirates have invaded several villages in the area and driven people to this place. ”

This confirmed the speculation in Fang Yuan's heart, but he only asked, "What do these air thieves want so many people for?" ”

"This ...... I don't know, but I listened to them as if they wanted us to dig something for them," Bunigu snorted again, "They say that if they do a good job, they will return the goods to their rightful owners, and I would only believe them as a three-year-old child—can they bring my pack beast back to life?" ”

This person was still thinking about these losses at the end of the day, which made Fang Yu feel a little speechless.

Then he heard a low whimper coming from behind. Fang Yu looked in that direction, only to see a half-grown boy kneeling beside a woman, the woman was covered with weather, could not see her age, and had fallen in a pool of blood.

His cousin, Kita, and Sky Blue were also there. Tang Xin got up from the ground, put away the sacrificial staff, and shook his 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, don't try it again." ”

"She's dead, little princess," Tang Xin looked much calmer, but her face was very ugly: "People can't be resurrected after death." ”

Ai Xiao took a step back in distraction, her little face was pale, it was the first time Fang Yu had seen this little girl show such a look. On Ai's side, the ragged little boy wiped tears with his arm and touched his mother's cheek with his other hand, crying even lower.

"Mother and son are not from our caravan," Bunigu sighed when he saw this, "When you appeared earlier, those people thought she was in the way and slashed her...... This poor woman doesn't have Starlight anymore, you damn brutes! ”

It wasn't that Fang Yu hadn't seen dead people—in Dulun, he had also seen the so-called 'traitors' hanged, hanging and wobbling on the gallows like air-dried shells. But from a distance, it's very different from the moment.

He walked over silently, examined the woman's injuries, and when he got closer, he saw that the other party was no more than in his early thirties, but he had wrinkles on his forehead and his hands were so rough that he didn't look like he was pampered.

The knife that Bunigu described slashed her in the neck, staining the ground red with blood, and the woman had long since lost her life. But even so, her pale hand remained in the position of reaching out to the little boy.

Fang Yu couldn't help but be moved in his heart, he looked at the little boy, and subconsciously thought of his parents.

He looked at the others again, and the eyes of several ladies were a little red, and the ladies were inevitably soft-hearted by nature, except for Miss Elf, who was quite calm, but he also sighed softly when he saw this scene.

The kidnapped party consisted of seven people, none of whom were members of the caravan except for two of Bunigu's servants, and Fang Yu also saw a girl with her right hand broken and her sleeve empty. She kept her head down and was silent in front of everyone.

Bunigu told them that the pirates had tried to assault the girl, but the latter was forced to die and had one of his hands cut off in the process. Fortunately, the bastards didn't succeed in the end, and the girl was originally dying, but was rescued by someone else.

"It's better not to save her if I knew better," Bunigu regretted a little: "These people who deserve to go to hell will not let us go in the end, and sooner or later they will have to report to Ms. Roman." If I hadn't kept my goods in mind, I wouldn't have come to this place. ”

"Will her arm come back to its original state when it comes back to life?" Tang Xin couldn't help but ask.

Bunigu shook his head, "That's not going to work, Mirela-sama won't be so kind for no reason." Unless you find a priest who can perform advanced restoration, but such a priest is an archbishop-level figure, how can he care about a small person like us. ”

"These damn air pirates," Sky Blue was half angry, "they still have a little humanity!" ”

"Is humanity still called an air thief?" The Paparals are incomprehensible to the logic of sky blue.

Sky Blue said to him angrily, "Shut up if you can't speak, Parker!" ”

Parker had to shut up.

But there was silence for a moment, and both Baggins and Princess Brianne's old captain had told them about the actions of these vicious pirates. But at that time, 'vicious' was just an adjective, far less bloody and chilling than it is now.

Fang Yu couldn't help but think of the Bishop of Cloud Harbor, Tirioan, the other party could hold such a position as the bishop of the diocese, he should be able to perform high-level restoration techniques, right? It's just that the girl seems to be very uneasy and afraid of life after this catastrophe, and she closes herself off and does not communicate with outsiders.

And they can't contact Tirioan right now, so the matter can only be skipped for now.

The rest of the man was the sailor on the ship, and it was probably their ship that 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 was quite optimistic.

Fang Yu then approached Baggins and asked him to 'do a good job' of interrogating the Blood Shark pirates - as an old sailor on the empty sea, Baggins was of course also proficient in these torture methods.

The ladies were initially a little resistant to this, but after this incident, they also became enemies. Since these air pirates don't treat themselves as human beings, they don't need to treat them with the same attitude as human beings.

After a ghost crying wolf, the big cat man, who was still interested in watching from the sidelines, suddenly walked back with a not very good face.

When he came out, he lit his pipe, took a deep breath, and exhaled the smoke from his big mouth, and his silver eyes sparkled a little in the smoke, and said to the other plover:

"Eddard, revenge may be temporary—but the Goddess has told us to stand for the integrity of our hearts. Of course, I follow my heart and have a clear conscience, but the paladin is still pure. ”

Fang Yu looked at the big cat man a little surprised, and thought that the other party had realized something after watching a 'good show', and couldn't help but ask: "Are you going to let that person go, Mr. Red?" ”

"You think too much, little one," the big cat man shook his head, the golden ring clinking from under his mane, "but I'll give him a good one." ”

In the midst of the crowd, the equally curious box and the Paparal people also ran out, and the box spat on the side with a 'wow' - and soon the Paparals were not spared, and began to vomit profusely.

Luo Hao was the only one who persevered to the end, and he was a little curious to discuss the experience with Baggins, which made the old sailor amazed, and felt that this little fat man was a manufacturable material.

But our Mr. Iron Guard soon became a public enemy in the eyes of the Lady.

Tianlan looked at this guy, and suddenly said angrily: "Dead perverted fat man!" ”

Luo Hao felt aggrieved when he heard this: "I'll admit the perverted fat man, why do you add a dead word in front?" ”

"I'd love to."

It was Fang Yu who pulled the two apart, so that the two guys would not quarrel.

The results of the interrogation on Baggins' side came out quickly, probably because of the general environment of Aitalia, these 'hard bones' who were known as hyenas in the air and sea, it seemed that their bones were not as hard as they claimed.

In fact, most of the air pirates don't know much about mysterious spells, let alone the sacred arts of the forest elves. When Baggins killed an air thief in front of them, and the others watched the guy come back to life in front of them, they were almost stunned.

Of course, they didn't know how long Attila's spell would last, or how the air thief would be killed and resurrected, and if he killed himself, he would be able to return to the temple elsewhere.

They were stunned, and after some torture by Baggins, they naturally couldn't stand it and spit out the truth. However, Baggins did not let these people feel better, and repeatedly experimented with his own methods on these people several rounds, and after confirming that their confessions did not contradict each other, he finally let them go.

Bundle them up and throw them in Mr. Graystone's bilge, leaving them to fend for themselves.

"I've almost settled on the situation with Idus, Captain."

After Baggins washed off the blood stains on his body and changed his clothes, he came to the 'Central Workshop' to find Fang Yuan and spoke: "It seems that the news from the Elffindor Council is a little outdated, and the Blood Shark Air Pirates arrived at Idus early in the morning and took control of that place. ”

"Took control of that place?" Fang Yu put down the map he was studying, looked up, and was a little surprised.

Baggins nodded: "That's pretty much what it looks like now." ”

"What does 'now' mean?"

"They had entered Idos under the guise of 'archaeologists', and there weren't many of them at the time - in fact, they had captured quite a few people from the vicinity of Anquid, all of whom were excavating in the city of Idos under the guise of 'archaeology'."

"So the people sent by the Council of Elffindor didn't actually notice this."

"I'm afraid that's exactly what happened, Captain. Idus has always had a lot of archaeologists excavate here, which is indeed very confusing," Baggins took off his hat and hung it on the hook beside him: "In addition, the Elffindor Council received the news that the Blood Shark Pirates had logged in in Anquid much later than they sent their first team to Idus, so it is normal that there is a lag in the news......"

"And the men sent by the Council of Elffindor are looking for the whereabouts of Nicol Bolas, and they don't know as much about the plans behind the Worship of the Dragons as we do, so of course they won't suspect that the Blood Shark Pirates who are making a big deal of excavation work here have anything to do with it," Fang Plover asked, "So what exactly are the Blood Shark Pirates excavating?" ”

"The people we caught were just peripheral members, and the captain didn't say anything, so the rest of us didn't know exactly what the people above were digging for. It is said that they also complained a little, after all, they were here to be pirates, not hard labor. ”

"The only information that is known now is that the excavations were carried out in about three places at the same time, one of which, according to the description, is supposed to be the original town hall of Idus." Baggins replied.

"How long have they been there?" Fang Yu asked again.

"It's almost two months."

"Two months?" Fang Yu was a little surprised: "Isn't that still before the Van Rik incident?" ”

"Almost, Captain." Baggins replied, "But the real large-scale excavation activities have only started in the last half month, and before that, the Blood Shark Air Pirates were relatively restrained. ”

"In other words, the raids on the area around Anquid also started from this time period?"

Baggins nodded.

Fang Yu couldn't help frowning, although he didn't know the purpose of the Blood Shark Air Pirate, the other party would definitely not speed up the progress for no reason. Either because something was discovered, or because the situation had changed, they had to risk exposure and speed up the excavation process.

And to say that the only change in the situation in the past half month is about the defeat of the Dragon Worship Sect in Van Rik, which happens to be closely related to them.

He thought for a moment and then asked, "Are the people from the Dragonfire Guild also in Idus?" ”

"Those people are not known, but there are Chosen ones in the city."

"That's it." Fang Yu thought to himself that who else would deal with these people—Dragon Worshippers, Blood Shark Sky Pirates—and only these guys from the Dragon Fire Guild would be like this.

He asked again: "What about 'now' Idus?" ”

Baggins replied, "Since the other party has taken a lot of slaves from all over the country, they have completely controlled Idus, and now the core area of Idos is almost all under the control of the Blood Shark Air Pirates, and it is almost impossible for outsiders to enter. ”

"Interesting." Fang Yu narrowed his eyes.

He wasn't stupid either, and immediately realized that the Blood Shark Air Pirates didn't just suddenly change their strategy because of the urgency of the situation, they sealed Idus tightly, and it seemed that they really found something in the city.

Thinking of this, he asked, "Is there any other information?" ”

"But there is one, since half a month ago, they have sealed off an area in the city of Idus, according to the air pirates, even they, the outer members, cannot get close to that place."

"Is this a change that has only happened in the last half a month?"

"Indeed, I have confirmed the different accounts repeatedly, and there is hardly any difference in time," replied Baggins, "do you know that place, Captain?" ”

"I do know that place," Fang Yu nodded, "that place was originally the square in the center of Idus, and after Idus was reduced to ruins, the ground settled there to form an open underground area. ”

"What does the captain think there?"

"I don't know." Fang Yu looked at the map in his hand, the captured air pirates provided more information than he imagined, so their next plan of action could be much clearer.

"But we can go there first—"

"Where to look?"

Fang Plover bowed: "Go and see what the Blood Shark Air Pirates, the Dragon Worship Sect, and the Dragon Fire Guild are doing." ”

"And how do we get into Idus?"

"I do have a preliminary idea," Fang replied, "but I still need to plan it." ”

……

The Plover descended from the platform and found Bunigu. There were no more people living on the platform, but Bunigu's pack beasts had some tents and supplies on their backs to camp in the valley.

And after being appeased by Alyssa and Kita, the girl with the severed hand no longer seemed so uneasy, probably because she was also a woman, she would occasionally nod or shake her head in front of Tianlan and others to express her thoughts.

The others briefly disposed of the body of the little boy's mother, and Luo Yu used the ship's materials to make a simple coffin for the poor woman, and waited until he had the opportunity to find a suitable place to bury her.

The little boy stood by his mother's coffin for a long time before finally reluctantly leaving. When he heard that Fang Ou was going to reconnoiter near Idus, he silently pulled the reins and brought a pack beast for Fang Ou, looking up at him.

"I don't need this, Pasha," Fang Yu couldn't help but think of himself as he looked at the little boy - the other party had no relatives anymore, but he was more fortunate because he still had an uncle, an aunt, and a cousin.

It was not long before he learned the names of the other party, the boy and his mother, both of whom were from Istania and seemed to have come from another caravan that had also been shipwrecked. Fang Yu took out a clockwork goblin and gestured in front of the other party: "I am a craftsman." ”

The little boy seemed to understand him, and did not speak, but took the beast of burden back, but soon returned to him.

"Pasha?"

"I'll go with you, Captain," Pasha whispered, "you are good people, and I can help you." ”

Fang Yu was a little surprised, the other party had been silent, and he thought it was because the other party had encountered a great disaster. But I didn't expect that when Pasha opened his mouth, he was actually organized, not at all like the calmness and rationality that should be at this age.

But Fang Yu probably thought that the other party was harboring the idea of revenge, and couldn't help but ask, "Do you want to join us?" But we're not going to fight the Blood Shark Air Pirates just yet. ”

Pasha nodded: "I understand, Captain, I will follow your orders." ”

"But why?"

Pasha looked back at the simple wooden coffin that held her mother, and looked back at him steadily.

Fang Yu couldn't help but feel moved in his heart, he made such a decision because Luo Yu helped his mother make the coffin. He was about to refuse, but after thinking about it, he nodded anyway - he relied on clockwork goblins for reconnaissance, and it wouldn't be too dangerous:

"All right, but don't stay too far away from me, and if you don't do what I tell you to do, there will be no next time."

Pasha nodded slightly.

……