Chapter 45: Night in Rat Town
"Actually, don't worry too much, kidnapping is only done by small gangs, just for money." The first mate looked at Ize with an anxious face and comforted him.
Izawa nodded, not speaking, but his steps were more hurried.
The moon, as if it knew something terrible was going to happen tonight, retreated and sank into the thick clouds, shadows covering the entire dock. Dark clouds covered the sky layer by layer, like a curtain, black and oppressive all over the sky. Only the distant wailing of the seabirds at the ferry, and the hurried footsteps of Izawa and his party.
After crossing a few streets, there is the confines of Rat Town in front of you. As for why Rat Town has such an ugly name, it is because on every street and every corner of Rat Town, there are giant rats unique to Bilgewater. These creatures are a terrifying mixture of sharks and rats, larger than dogs, and they are famous for preying on drunks and lone fishermen on moonless nights. They often travel in groups and can easily bite off a person's leg. The names of the Bilgewater people have always been unique, like the Slaughterhouse, the Butcher's Bridge, and the Rat Town, all of which are named after things that ordinary people think are bad, as if to show something.
"The fish is hooked."
"Good."
"I hope you remember your promise."
"Of course. After we solve our own troubles, we will also help you get rid of your troubles. ”
"But in addition to the explorers, there are a few people with me."
"It's an organization called the Treasure Hunt Squad, we've looked into it, little character."
"Well, it's a pleasure to work with."
"It's a pleasure to work with."
In the alley opposite a warehouse in Rat Town, it can be seen that the conversation just now came from these three figures. One of the graceful figures is a woman at first glance.
"Whew. It's a town that lives up to its name. Treasure Hunt Team Two said as they breathed in the bloody stench of rotting sea snake carcasses. Every street here is like this, it stinks.
"Rat Town, to the east is a relatively large slaughterhouse. To the west, there are taverns and slums, and to the north are a few large warehouses clustered together. So, your friends certainly won't be tied to the east. The first mate looked around as he introduced, "It's strange, a few of the first crew members who arrived first should stay here to lead the way." It's hard to think that I don't have any brains. ”
"It's strange indeed, don't you hear anything but the rats scurrying?" Izawa looked around cautiously, and continued, "I don't think there is a shortage of drunkards on the streets of Bilgewater. ”
"That's true, but it's different in Rat Town. The reason is these giant rats, as I have just said. The first mate smiled, knowing that Ize hadn't listened to him just now. In fact, the first mate was not nervous at all, not worried, not because he didn't know anyone who was kidnapped, but because the small gang involved in the kidnapping he didn't care about at all.
"Jace, you take the treasure hunt team to the taverns and slums to the west. Fiz and the first mate went to the warehouse to the north. Izawa quietly watched the night shrouded in darkness.
"Okay." Jace nodded.
"If you don't find it, come right away, and if you do, send a flare to make sure it's safe to do so. The Heman Current had just passed, and we were going to leave tomorrow, but suddenly there was a kidnapping between these two events, and I always felt that it would not be that simple. Izawa said with a frown.
"Yes." Jace nodded, and turned around with the treasure hunt team and headed west.
And Iza and Fitz's team had made their way through the small streets of Rat Town at great speed, heading straight for the docks to the north.
"It's a little strange now, too, because we walked three streets and didn't see a single figure. Miss Doom sent someone before I came, so I think we should have left some code, why didn't there be any movement at all? The first mate followed Izawa's footsteps with a puzzled expression.
"They're all dead." Ize, who was walking in front, suddenly replied coldly, startling the first mate.
"Don't make fun of my crew." After the first mate regained his composure, he said unkindly, he had considerable confidence in his crew, which was also a matter of course, after all, it belonged to the crew of the second largest ship in Bilgewater, the "Call Girl", how could anyone dare to attack them here.
Hearing the first mate say this, Izawa also closed his mouth in amusement, but stared more and more cautiously at every black corner on the street in front of him.
It was a quiet street, and as it grew closer to the storehouse where the pirates had stored their looted treasures, there were no inhabited houses around it, only low shacks and huge crates piled up haphazardly, and there was not a glimmer of light.
After passing through a dark street again, the first mate finally tightened his brows, pulled Raiza and said in a low voice: "It's really not normal to be here today. In normal times, the street should be full of patrolling thugs. ”
Izawa froze, looking at the row of bungalows at the end of the street, which should be the warehouses of Rat Town. Turning his head to the first officer, he said, "I'm sorry for you." Just bring us here, you don't have to follow us in. ”
"Wh... What do you mean? The first mate looked at Izawa, who had stopped him.
Instead of answering the first mate's question directly, Izawa said, "Didn't you hear that the rats here are a little more frequent tonight?" "Besides, I just said that the man you sent here on board is dead because Fitz smells a faint smell of blood in the air. ”
Combining the above two points, it can be seen that this is not a simple kidnapping, but a premeditated targeting. In Bilgewater, it is possible not to do bad luck, then there is only one person left... ”
"Planck?" The first mate asked.
Ize nodded, and continued, "And he is the only one who knows that Captain Ragu has something to do with me." It's just, I can't figure out what his motives are? ”
"Planck is a man who does things according to his preferences, and he never has any motives, and he...
Izawa interrupted the first mate's somewhat impassioned speech with a wave of his hand, "So I hope you can go back now and inform Doom right now." ”
"I understand." The first mate also understood what Ize was worried about, after all, Miss Doom and Planck had not fought once or twice, and the first mate knew Bilgewater better than him.
Just as the two were talking, in a shack dozens of meters away from the sides of the two, a graceful figure wearing a black tights and long hair reaching to the waist stood quietly in the dark, looking at Ize and his party indifferently, and the corners of his mouth drew a curvature.
"Okay, you have to be careful." I don't know what the first mate and Izawa talked to again, but when the first mate turned around and was about to return to the ship, he suddenly saw a figure standing behind him, and Izawa also noticed it.
"The ship... Captain! The first mate shouted, looking at the figure with his back to him, waist-length red hair, a slender waist and a perfect body. There is only one such woman in Bilgewater, and that is their doom captain, especially the striking redhead.
"Captain, how did you come so quickly?" The first mate looked at the bad luck that still didn't turn around after hearing what he said, and walked forward a little puzzled.
"Doom?" Izawa's first reaction was also Miss Doom.
Looking at the first mate who was approaching doom step by step, Izawa felt that the hairs on his whole body stood up all at once, and his heart was suddenly suspended to the extreme.
"Danger!"
The figure standing quietly with his back to him suddenly shook his wrist, and something that was completely invisible in the dark night tore through the air at an extremely terrifying speed, cutting through the distance of dozens of meters in the blink of an eye.
As soon as the fast Izawa took a step, he heard a "poof"!
"The ship... Captain? The first mate clutched his throat, his eyes widened, his mouth made a muffled sound, and blood kept pouring out of his throat.
"Ahh In the eyes of the first mate, there is a desire for life, there is endless fear, and there is the puzzle that always turns his back to his figure, it is his own doom captain. But as blood poured out of the hole in his throat, the first mate's eyes dimmed completely, and all these doubts were settled with the sound of falling to the ground.
And Izawa finally saw clearly that the weapon that pierced the neck of the first mate was a slender dagger that was still dripping blood. Although the figure hadn't turned around yet, Ize's tone was already filled with endless anger.
"Katarina!"
The west side of Rat Town, full of low-rise houses and shacks.
"There's no news from Izawa yet, and I don't know where to look for it here, so it seems that the scenery here is the same." Jace looked up and saw a swollen corpse being hung from a pole with a giant fishhook, swaying slightly in the midnight and wind blowing on the sea, the ground covered with muddy sewage and the pervasive stench coming from nowhere.
"Boss, I don't think those pirates are going to kidnap people here." Treasure Hunt Team No. 2 pinched his nose and looked at the rotten flesh that he didn't know what it was. Although the treasure hunt team already knew Jace's name, they still habitually called him Boss.
Jace didn't speak, and glanced again at the far north of Rat Town, but Ize still didn't hear from him.
"Let's go further." Jace pointed to a low shack in front of him that was shrouded in the night. At the same time, the heart gradually increased its vigilance, the darker it was, the less sound there was, the closer the danger became.
Jace and the treasure hunt team approached the shack cautiously with sewage dripping with sewage. However, apart from the pervasive stench and the "clacking" sound of the giant rat grinding its teeth, nothing was found.
Just as the group turned around and prepared to march towards the north where Izawa was, torches suddenly lit up in the originally dark shack, which was in stark contrast to the previous darkness and caught people off guard. A playful remark ensued.
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