The Slaughterhouse is located in the rat town of Bilgewater and is an extremely special place in this port city.

On the one hand, it's because this is the lair of the Ironhooks, and the boss of the Ironhooks is Planck, the scourge of the seas; On the other hand, it is because there is a smell of blood that has lasted for many years.

The term slaughter comes from a custom in Bilgewater where there are many large sea monsters in the waters around Bilgewater, and the fleet goes out at sunset every night to hunt these powerful sea monsters, and if they succeed, they return to the slaughterhouse to reduce these once powerful creatures into meat, bones, and armored hides.

So the word "slaughter" lives up to its name.

After passing through the civilian area with low buildings and slipping past the Butcher's Bridge, Rhodes finally boarded the slaughterhouse dock.

The smell changed from a foul stench to a fishy stench - looking at the time when the fleet was about to return, under the relatively calm sea, countless sea snakes writhed and waited for their feast.

This is the tacit understanding between Bilgewater and Naga Kapolos.

The slaughterhouse disembowels the beasts of the sea, taking away the useful ones, and the useless flesh and blood becoming food for the heirs of Naga Kapolos.

Rhodes blended himself into the crowd waiting for the fleet's return, looking unobtrusive.

Dark robes + hoods are the mainstream attire of outsiders in places like Bilgewater - and the vast majority of the members of the fleet involved in the hunt of sea beasts are outsiders.

(Hunting sea beasts is not a simple job, and the local old oilmen don't have a reason to do this kind of thing, which is troublesome and has low returns.) ）

Rhodes watched the sea and listened to the crowd.

Unfortunately, most of them are unnutritious words - praying for a safe return or something.

Apparently everyone understands people, and there are no fools in the bar who don't keep the door open - of course, maybe more importantly, because it's full of Hook gang thugs.

Any ship returning from a hunt has to pay a heavy tax to the Hooks, and since it's not far from Planck's treasury, it's full of Hook thugs.

With the terrain of the entire area in mind, Rhodes took advantage of the brief confusion of the fleet's return and disappeared with Cana in place.

This time, Rhodes spotted two interesting guys.

One was hiding in Planck's treasury - he seemed a little excited, his breath was very rapid, and he smelled of iron sand and gunpowder.

One is secretly fiddling with a fun deck of poker, watching the thugs' patrols.

Graves and Trist.

The next moment, Rod quietly appeared on the beams of Planck's treasury.

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Trist was irritable.

Fidgetiness is never a good thing for a gambler – but Trist is extremely irritable.

Nothing has happened lately.

It was very exciting for Trist to take on a rather big job, and the devil knows why he was suddenly entangled by that "woman" who couldn't figure out the situation.

The thought of the self-proclaimed widowmaker, the Bitter Hug, trying to give himself a hug and the phrase "Lend me your luck", Trist was inexplicably irritated.

Am I Trist the one who does things out of luck?

(Damn, it took me more than a month to get rid of a neurotic - didn't I just do a dance?!) ）

Shaking his head, Trist stopped thinking about Evelyn - at least for a short time, he had gotten rid of her, and now he needed to think about how to get the dagger his employer needed.

It's crazy to spend a lot of money to steal Planck's dagger yourself...... If it weren't for the lack of money, this madman Trist would definitely be as far away from him as he was.

After the return of the fleet, Trist's stepping point for today is basically over.

It's not the time to get into the treasure trove - it's always crowded during the day, and your little tricks are always better played in the middle of the night.

Let's hope I succeed this time......

The last time the divination turned out to be a hanged man - this is the first time this kind of natural result has appeared, so Trist intends to do everything at his own pace and leave the result to fate.

Damn fate.

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Meanwhile, in Planck's treasury, Graves is hiding his own in piles of silver snake coins.

No one knows more about Planck than Graves, who grew up in the slums of Bilgewater.

The pirate leader was notoriously terrifying - he ruled Bilgewater with his cunning and cruelty, and the Hooks, the Red Hats, and the Scarlet Blades were all obedient to Planck.

It stands to reason that Graves wouldn't have died infiltrating Planck's treasury - but this time, he had to come.

Graves' target was Tobias – or as we might call him now, Trist Fett.

Graves and Triste's joint action left a lot of interesting legends in Valoran, but ten years ago, the two had a little accident during an operation.

At the last moment, Trist uses his card trick to teleport away, while Graves is captured and stuffed into the famous prison, the safe.

For Graves, it was a betrayal.

So he spent years escaping from prison to find Trist - but the guy didn't let go, and Graves never really caught him.

However, it wasn't long ago that Graves got the news that Trist had taken on an interesting job.

Theft of Planck's dagger.

Graves is confident that with Trist's thirst for money, he will never give up on this task.

So Graves took a step ahead and swam through the manta blockade from the sea to the slaughterhouse - and then slipped into Planck's treasury through the gap where the guards were not looking.

Thank goodness all the best.

Below, all Graves needs is to wait, and when Trist is at work, he will give him a shot himself, and by the way, ask him why he betrayed.

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And Rod, who was hiding on the beams of the house, had an almost full view of the performance of these two people.

The breeze hid all traces of Rhodes, and on the wide beams, Rhodes stretched and summoned a magic dining table.

"Jana, relax—try my magic pudding, it's still early in the middle of the night, you don't have to be so nervous."

Jana turned back into her human form, took the pudding from Rod's hand, and took a bite - and her face turned red directly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At this time, Rod's reminder was belated.

"A little stuttering, maybe because of the Safron Flame Rune lately, the magic pudding I made is a little spicy......"