The sound of the bell from the direction of the harbor was like a doom crow announcing the coming of calamity and misfortune, and the drinkers in the Fragrance Shell Tavern almost held their breath and felt a deep unease in their hearts.

This danger signal came from the direction of the port in the North Township District, indicating that there was an enemy invading the harbor town on the other side of the harbor.

The panicked atmosphere filled the entire fragrant shell snail tavern, and the people in the tavern hall began to commotion, and then squeezed out one by one through the narrow main entrance of the tavern.

Finn, Arroyo, and Lilith followed the drinkers out of the tavern into the street outside, seeing more and more people coming out of the house along the way.

The locals of Blue Harbor asked each other about the truth of the matter with confused and uneasy looks, and several guards who had escaped from the direction of the harbor exclaimed the name of Redbeard Jackson all the way to the spine-chilling hearing of it, and the residents who understood the gravity of the situation then hurried home, carrying their families and large bags of luggage in the direction of the south gate.

The news of the pirates' arrival spread like a plague through the neighborhoods of Azur Harbor, causing more and more people to start their flights, and for a while, the street outside the Fragrant Shell Tavern was filled with people.

A flow of people gathered to flee for the rest of the city was formed on the street.

The young, ignorant children held the hands of the adults and looked around with their big curious eyes, but they did not understand why their parents were taking them on a long trip outside the town on this rainy night.

As the merchants walked in the direction of the flow of people, they kept looking back at the port area to the north, and their hearts ached like blood for eighty percent of their possessions that had been plundered by pirates.

The women's faces were full of nervousness, all they could do was to share the weight of some luggage for their families, force down the irritability and anxiety in their hearts to coax the children around them to obey, and the rest was to pin their hopes on the men they relied on.

The flow of people slowly moved south in the night rain, the wet and smooth ground was splashed by countless pairs of shoes, and the "whooshing" rain effectively drowned out the footsteps of this huge procession.

"Finn, it's crowded outside." Lilith walked behind Finn by the corner of Finn's clothes, and from time to time she was touched by a duffel bag or two, and complained softly.

Miss Warlock's voice was as calm as ever, as if she was just stating the facts, and it was impossible to hear that she really felt any dissatisfaction in her heart.

Arroyo walked ahead of Finn and Lilith to clear the way. When the young thief heard Lilith's words, he turned his head and showed a wry smile, and said, "It's not only crowded outside, but it's also quite chaotic. ”

As he spoke, his eyes suddenly sharpened, and he reached out and grabbed a small dark hand from the air on Finn's waist.

"Hey, take care of your dirty hands! What do you want to do? ”

Arroyo feigned extreme anger and pulled the owner of the little black hand out of the crowd.

A dirty little boy then staggered over to Finn.

"Yes, I'm sorry, sir, I ......" The dirty kid looked up at Finn nervously, and his words trembled with fear.

Sensing the movement around her, Lilith peeked her head out from behind Finn and looked at the dirty child in rags, short, skinny.

Finn glanced at the kid and knew immediately what had just happened.

The other party wants to steal his money.

"Sir, I haven't eaten for five days, I'm ......hungry," Seeing that Finn didn't get angry at first, the dirty boy was ready to begin to tell his tragic story.

"Nonsense, if you don't eat or drink for five days, you'll already die on the streets." Arroyo glared at the dirty child, leaving no room for interruption of the latter's words, "You're just trying to steal." ”

"No, it's not." With two tears in his eyes, the dirty child argued, "I'm really hungry, my father is a gambler, and I want to find some money to treat my mother." ”

So saying, the swarthy little boy looked at Finn and Lilith with a sad expression that was about to cry, and pleaded, "Good sir, beautiful big sister, please let me go, I will never dare to steal your things again." ”

As the words fell, tears welled up in his eyes, and he stood in front of Finn, Lilith, and Arroyo and sobbed quietly.

“…… Arroyo, let him go first. Finn looked at the dirty child for a moment, then calmly asked Arroyo to say.

"But, sir—"

"Let him go first."

Fein turned to look at Arroyo, still holding on to his decision.

Arroyo and Finn looked at each other for a second, lowered their heads to look at the dirty child, and snorted coldly to shake off the little black hand that the dirty child had a little smell because he hadn't bathed for a long time.

The dirty kid withdrew his painful little hand from Arroyo's hand, turned around and tried to run away from the three of them.

However, as soon as he tried to do so, Finn stopped him with greater speed and took out a small string of copper coins from his purse.

He placed a string of small bronze coins in the palm of the dirty child's hand, who looked at the coins in his hand with eyes that were almost stunned.

That's ten copper coins, the price of a grilled fish in the fragrant shell snail tavern.

"Grab it and go." "There's a chance to take your mother to Aurora, where churches in big cities serve daily thanksgiving meals to the poor, and pastors sometimes banish the sick for free," said Finn gently to the dirty child. ”

“…… Well! ”

The dirty child was stunned for a moment, and then burst into tears.

He clutched the ten copper coins in his hand, and then forgot to say thank you, and disappeared into the crowd.

"My lord, I feel like you've been deceived." Arroyo looked at the back of the little dirty child that remained in his field of vision at the last second, and his brow furrowed a little unpleasantly, "I have seen many such children, and the reason why they can pretend to be distressing and pitiful in front of you is because the sound of the coins in your purse colliding with each other attracts them. ”

"But even so, I still can't afford to ignore this kind of child." Finn sighed lightly, "If it weren't for the hardships of life, why would these kids be willing to risk being caught stealing everywhere?" Arroyo, what do you say? ”

“…… You have a point, I can't argue with anything. Arroyo thought for a moment, then shrugged as if in the towel, "But not all people in the world have the same compassion as you. When these children are caught stealing, they are often given not the same kind of tolerance as adults, but usually a beating. ”

With that, he turned around, not wanting to get into an argument with the young paladin he respected on this topic.

The rain curtain enveloped the entire blue harbor, fear and anxiety filled the hearts of the crowd, and the huge flow of people continued to move forward in the night rain.

The huge fleeing procession seems to be dominated by an atmosphere of silence, but it is in fact filled with all kinds of chaos that is not visible from the outside, and the movement of the riot is not only manifested in the scene of the dirty child stealing things.

Arroyo, for example, took a casual glance in one direction and saw a sturdy man snatch a small fine box from a lone merchant.

As he walked, Finn heard the cries of women, and he immediately thought that there were women in the crowd who were being targeted by some ill-intentioned fellows, and at the same time realized that he could not even find the place where the poor woman was, let alone go to justice with a flood of justice.

And then there's Lilith, the black-haired warlock girl who was nearly rubbed by a groping pig hand that came out of nowhere—if it weren't for Finn glaring back in time at the owner of that hand, a lewd thug.

Soon, the chaotic colors embellished the scene of escape in the rain curtain more and more dirty, and some places in the flow of people even appeared silting, some people began to curse, some began to cry, and some even began to attack each other in order to fight for property, and did not hesitate to add fists and kicks.

Some families were scattered by the rioters in the chaos, some fell to the ground in the thrust and never had a chance to get up again, and an inexplicable sense of panic began to spread through the crowd at an alarming speed.

The pirates of Redbeard Jackson did not know when they would catch up from the direction of the port area, and the guards of the patrol had already taken the lead in escaping towards the south gate. There are no people to maintain order here, and many guys who are mixed in the crowd with the idea of fishing in troubled waters will naturally have a chance.

"Finn, why do these people hurt each other?" Lilith kept looking around with her dark eyes, a confused expression on her face.

When there is a doubt in her mind that cannot be answered, she always hopes that Fein can give her an answer.

In Miss Warlock's mind, Finn was sometimes an encyclopedia, because he always knew something that no one else knew, as if he knew everything.

"Because everybody has selfish desires, and some people are good at creating chaos and then taking advantage of it." Finn replied to Lilith.

"Even at this time?" Lilith was a little surprised.

"Even at this time." Finn nodded.

"But the pirates are about to catch up, and they don't want to die?"

"Robbery, violence, threats...... These indiscriminate tactics may help them obtain wealth that they would not normally imagine. When the benefits outweigh the risks, someone loses their minds with red eyes. ”

As he spoke, Finn's mind thought of some similar bleak situations in the Cataclysm period of his previous life, and he immediately shook his head with a wry smile.

Human nature is a very complex thing.

Sadly, this chaotic scene in the flow of people is showing one aspect of its inferiority to the fullest, and it is chilling.

Of course, there are still blessings in misfortune.

For example, this temporary flow of people can easily break people up. The middle-aged boss of the fragrant snail and the future sword master young Raymond, Finn has not seen these two people since he walked out of the main entrance of the tavern, and Arroyo and Lilith are still by his side now, and they have not lost their lives with him.

Arroyo watched the riots in the crowd and recalled the choices Finn had made to the dirty kid not long ago, and something suddenly came to mind in his head.

"Your Excellency." He turned back to Finn.

"What's wrong?" Fein looked at him.

"I don't know if I should tell you an idea."

"You say."

"Actually... I have always had little trust in the clergy of the Church. Arroyo hesitated for a moment and said.

"Except, of course, you."

At the end of the sentence, he did not forget to add such a sentence.