The sailors who followed bravely pursued the remaining pirates, but after the captain and first mate and other high-ranking and main combat forces were all killed, the demoralized pirates could only be killed one by one in despair, even if they were fierce.

Half of the battlefield was finally taken over by the Prell family, looking at the two empty ships, Shepard said with some interest: "I'll leave it to you...... Take an inventory, search the cabins, and maybe you'll find a princess dressed as a man, or a servant dressed as a woman, or something......"

Although the subordinates did not understand the earl's jokes, it did not prevent the sailors from cleaning the battlefield with excitement after the first battle.

"My lord, the merchant ship...... It seems to be an armed merchant ship. The well-informed Simon Montford walked up to Shepard and whispered that the scholar who had traveled from kingdom to kingdom had more knowledge than Henry Drake as a mage.

Shepard snorted, "That's retribution, it looks like our boys might be able to find out something." ”

Armed merchant ships, unlike the merchant ships in general, are mostly owned by smugglers, and are undesirable in any kingdom and territory, especially these guys often play the role of pirates, there is little difference between smugglers and pirates, everything that exterminates them is legal, and all the booty obtained from the ship's branches, belongs to the victor.

The two ships needed to be searched, and in order not to waste time, the sailors naturally had to investigate separately, and several knights were also fully armed and led in batches, so as not to hide the fish in the cabin.

Edward carried a long sword, with a team of sailors straight to the bottom of the pirate ship, the pirate's treasures are in the captain's room, the pirate captives are locked in the bilge, Edward is no longer the ignorant teenager at the beginning, those easy to take care of and good places are naturally knights to search, but not many people like such dirty work, he is about to take the initiative to take it, but also in front of the earl to show a show.

Whether the Earl had noticed his actions or not, Edward, who was a little apprehensive, did not know, but when he led the sailors down to the cabin, he found several closed doors, and in one of them there was even a distinct audible gasp.

The young swordsman sneered, took a step back and said to the left and right, "Smash it open!" ”

The sailors with two-handed axes on both sides looked at each other, and invariably raised their axes to slash the old wooden door, and seeing that the door was about to collapse, Edward suddenly stopped the sailor's movements, and he took two steps in the tattered doorway, and suddenly kicked on the door!

Bang!

The cracked wooden door fell off the door frame in its entirety, and slammed into the pirate hiding in the house with a strong wind, only to hear a whimper, and the wooden door fell to the ground in all parts, revealing the tragic pirate behind him who was covering his nose and bleeding.

Edward didn't bother to say anything at all, picked the pirate with a sword, then searched out a bunch of keys from the pirate's corpse, looked at the markings on it, checked it with a smile, and waved his hand: "Go!" Next room! ”

smashed open the second door, but there were two female screams, Edward supported his hands to block the sailors who were about to enter, and stepped in first, as soon as he entered the door, he saw two naked women hugging each other in horror and hugging each other in the corner, but these two women were full of filth on their heads, and their bodies were also scars and bruises, not only not beautiful, but very pitiful.

"These damn crumbs!" Edward scolded that he had entered the city from the country, and that he had no reserve of the old men, and he could not help but curse when he thought of what the pirates had done.

The two ** were so frightened that they were like small animals that were frightened after being abused, Edward simply exited the room, looked left and right and said, "Don't care about it here, go to other rooms!" ”

smashed through four houses in a row, but did not find the two unfortunate women again, all of them were hiding in the net, one of the pirates even brought a barrel of gunpowder into it, fortunately Edward immediately rushed into the house and killed the guy, otherwise the side of the ship would have to explode a big hole immediately.

After sweeping the floor, Edward and his sailors finally found the entrance to the bilge, and before they could enter, a foul smell rushed to their nostrils.

"Vomit...... Did these guys leave their bodies here? A sailor behind him was caught off guard and threw up at once, and the people next to him immediately distanced themselves from him.

Edward's expression was also ugly, especially the bilge was extremely dim, a few oil lamps were better than nothing, and he could only barely see the dozen or so human-height black cages in front of him, but he couldn't see what was in them.

Edward took the people around, and now nearly half of the cages were full of filth that had not been cleaned for a long time, but there were no corpses, obviously the pirates were also afraid of the plague caused by the decay of the dead bodies, but in the remaining cages, the poor people who were locked up were not much better than the corpses.

After looking around and finding nothing else valuable, Edward frowned and said, "Go up!" I'll have to ask the Earl if he wants to save these guys, and don't die halfway down the road before he even moves to the ship. ”

As if the sailors had been pardoned, they immediately hugged Edward and walked up, and when he got out of the cabin, Edward took a deep breath of the air full of the smell of the sea, and for the first time felt that the air full of the smell of the sea was so beautiful, and then hurriedly ran to Shepard, and respectfully explained the following situation one by one.

At this time, the people searching for the armed merchant ship were already reporting, Shepard listened quietly, bowed slightly from time to time, and waited until both sides finished talking about the situation, Shepard frowned slightly: "Since they have encountered it, you can't let them wait for death below, you can bring more people down and rescue them all." ”

He looked at the knight in charge of searching for the armed merchant ship: "Are you sure that the mark on it belongs to the Nasir family?" ”

The knight nodded heavily: "I confirmed with Mr. Simon, he is proficient in heraldry, it is definitely the family crest of the city lord family of Neverwinter, it can't be wrong!" ”

"Interesting," Shepard suddenly laughed: "The Nasir family's things actually appeared on an ordinary armed merchant ship, and what is even more interesting is that this merchant ship was robbed by pirates, I said how can pirates attack armed merchant ships, it seems that both sides are not simple!" ”

He nodded his head: "You bring that closed box up, and all the other people who know about it give a gag order to reward each with ten silver coins, you know what I mean?" ”

The knight said solemnly: "Yes! My lord, no one will leak the news. ”

Shepard said, "Hmm...... Okay, when Edward and the others get their hands back, let's leave these two boats behind, it's too much trouble to scuttle or burn, so let's speed up and get to Winterfell as soon as possible! My gossip soul has begun to burn! ”

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