In the eastern part of the Golden Sea, the No. 3 private port of the Dragoon Pirate Regiment.

Although there are no large dry docks that are expensive to build, other facilities include camps, headquarters, training grounds, blacksmith workshops... Even the pirate group's own tavern is available.

It can fully meet the short-term survival needs of pirates.

"Ahh

Bang ——!

"Quick, hold him down for me, don't let him continue to go crazy and hurt himself!"

In a bamboo-made building, four powerful pirates in uniform black swarmed up and held down a young man dressed like them.

Calvin, who was giving orders, pulled out a relatively soft strip of cotton cloth and tied the young man who was held down firmly on the bed until he could not move at all.

"It's weird, how did this kid Jason get so strong? The four of us almost couldn't hold him down. ”

"Don't talk nonsense, break his mouth open and let me pour him sleeping potions. ”

As Aven's de facto second disciple, Calvin has a transcendent status in the "Dragoon Pirate Regiment", and the pirates who fought it did not dare to slack off and hurriedly complied.

Until a few minutes later.

Finally, when the effect of the medicine took effect, and when the young pirate who was crazy on the bed slowly fell asleep, several people breathed a long sigh of relief.

However, looking at the lump on his neck that was getting bigger and bigger, even jumping and jumping, Calvin frowned, knowing that he had a long way to go.

Bang –

Trample.. Trample.. Trample..

The door suddenly opened, and Evan in a white mask dressed as a white knight led several high-ranking transcendents of the privateer's fleet, including Milan, rushed in.

Seeing Aiwen's arrival, Calvin seemed to have found the backbone of his heart, and his brows immediately relaxed:

"Teacher!"

Beside him, several pirates saluted respectfully at the same time:

"Captain!"

"Well, everyone's worked hard. ”

Waving his hand and walking to the side of the bed, Evan stared at the young man on the bed, who still had a painful look on his face even though he had fallen asleep due to the effects of the potion.

Calvin, who had arrived one step ahead of time after receiving the news, asked:

"Is this the sick man with the strange disease?

"Yes, teacher! Actually, he was the first to get sick, and he was the most seriously ill at the moment, and he was almost completely insane.

There were three other fleet sailors in the other rooms, who were also ill, barely able to control themselves. This is a case of all of them, you see. ”

Taking a cursory glance at the stack of cases handed over by Calvin, Aven's brow couldn't help but furrow deeply.

Most of the Golden Sea has a tropical maritime climate, which is not friendly to the Nimansters, who grew up living mainly in the high latitudes of the Old World.

Malaria, yellow fever, bloody diarrhea, edema, colds, parasitic diseases... There are also all kinds of strange illnesses that people can't guard against.

But the strange disease of these sailors was clearly not one of those common tropical diseases, and...

Looking at the strange growth tumor on his neck, Ai Wen ordered at the first time:

"Suspend the looting activities in the No. 3 private port, all daily necessities will be supplied by the headquarters of the pirate group, restrict the entry and exit of personnel, and implement it immediately!"

The fleet executives and private port managers around him solemnly promised:

"Yes, Captain!"

Although they did not realize the seriousness of the problem for the time being, it did not prevent them from unconditionally carrying out Aven's orders, and they left one after another after receiving the order.

After staring at the young man on the bed for a while, Evan commanded:

"Alec, Calvin come with me, the rest of us are gone. ”

"Yes, sir!"

A moment later.

Aven, Milan, Alec, Calvin and his party have arrived at the headquarters built on the island.

They are all their own people who know the roots, Ai Wen didn't hide it anymore, and snapped his fingers directly.

Smack-

A ripple of light rose and automatically swept over the four of them.

【Sorcery Cleansing!】

As a wizard of the "living chemical school" who is good at dealing with all kinds of creatures, the work of sterilization and disinfection is as easy for him as a daily meal.

"Alright, Captain Alex, tell me the situation from beginning to end. ”

After confirming that the disinfection was complete, Evan sat on his chair with his fingers crossed, ready to find a way to solve this sudden big problem at the root.

The illness on the four sailors, although tricky, was rooted in nothing more than some kind of pathogen.

It may be troublesome from a medical point of view, but from a witchcraft point of view, it's just a matter of how much Evan is willing to cost.

Evan is now more concerned with the source of the disease, is this the end of it, or is it about to get worse?

"Captain, this goes back to a raid we carried out three days ago..."

It was evident that Alec's expression was visibly uncomfortable when referring to what had happened that night, and one could imagine how strong the impact of that experience had on such an old pirate.

"It's a small town of Cyrius on the island of Holguin..."

As Alec narrates, several people's thoughts are quickly brought to the strange rainy night before.

In the drizzle, Alec saw seven or eight strange "weirdos" who were originally normal humans walking out of town.

As a veteran pirate, how could Alec not want to explore the secret behind it?

People who are too curious in the otherworldly world often do not live long.

Especially when Sparrow, who was originally a wizard, analyzed for him and said:

"It's a very evil transcendent aura, and it may not be their own consciousness that dominates their bodies.

Since there was contact with the sentinels before nightfall, the anomaly only happened for a few hours, and the forces below the official transcendent would never be able to do this. ”

Hearing this, although one of them was a member of his own pirate group, Alec did not dare to take a huge risk to bring him back.

Glancing at the town that had already been looted halfway, Alec gritted his teeth fiercely, tried to restrain his greed for wealth, and decisively ordered:

"Send an emergency signal and everyone evacuate the town immediately!"

The pirates who followed him heard the same strange movements, but they didn't have the eyes that could penetrate the night like Alec.

However, even after a slight hesitation because of the treasure, he immediately carried out the captain's order. To survive in a place like the New World, where there is no strong repression by the Church, no disturbance can be taken lightly.

The guy who didn't pay attention to the warnings of the strong was already three feet tall on the grave.

The next moment.

Phew-

The sharp sound of a brass whistle pierced the night sky and reached the ears of all pirates.

By the time Alec and the others returned to the town along the main road, the pirates scattered throughout the town had already retreated here after receiving the signal.

Most of them carried large bags and small bags, although they couldn't scrape the ground, but they were already quite fruitful.

There were even pirates who had brought back four other sentries who had been sent to the town in advance, and they were found from the corner of the alley from the same sleep as the townspeople.

"What's going on with the Captain? There are still a lot of gold coins that haven't been found. ”

No matter how reluctant you may be, obeying the captain's command when plundering is an ironclad rule of piracy.

After executing the order, it is no problem to ask the reason again.

"There is an unknown danger in the town, let's evacuate immediately..."

Suddenly.

"Woooooooooo

"Quack, quack..."

"Whew..."

The sound of a dog barking, a crow's cry, or the roar of a storm suddenly filled everyone's ears.

Then everyone saw one of the dark clouds overhead fall into the town so lightly, covering most of the town.

After a few breaths, all over the town came the roars of people and beasts, the sound of messy running, and... It's rushing in the direction of the town!

Everyone's faces changed, and they all looked back in the direction of the town.

Alec even ordered directly:

"Musket, ready!"

No one questioned Alec's decision, and immediately drew their muskets with rain shields and spread out in an array in the wide area at the entrance to the town.

When they saw the "thing" running out of the town, they were horrified and at the same time, they were glad that they had obeyed the order to retreat and left the town in time.

Because by the air lamp at the entrance of the town, they saw clearly.

Those guys who ran out of the dark clouds that shrouded the town were so ugly that they simply refreshed their three views.

The townspeople are still the same as they were, but each one of them had a disgusting lump the size of a human head on their bodies, or on their shoulders, necks, chests...

"Whew——!"

"Roaring ——!"

Roaring like a mad beast, it swooped down on the pirate's position.

"Fire!"

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang...

Two hundred bright red lines of fire intertwined into a dense network of firepower, piercing through the rain curtain, as if a fiery red hammer had violently interrupted the charging momentum of those strange men.

At the same time, Alec raised his right hand high and clenched it suddenly.

Boom, boom, boom, boom...

On the three pirate ships on the shore, the pirates who had long been ready to support launched a salvo. Whistling cannonballs slammed into the crowd of "cyst weirdos", and the massive kinetic energy easily tore them to shreds.

Even the dark clouds that enveloped the town slowly dissipated in this earth-shattering bombardment.

When the dust settles.

Looking at the town that has been quiet again, no one dares to propose to continue collecting loot, even pirates who regard money as their fate.

"Take a few sleeping brothers with us, and we'll retreat!"

At this time, there was no one who wanted to have anything to do with this strange town.

Time comes back to the present.

"Now the four brothers who started to get sick inexplicably are the four brothers who were brought back.

At first, when they slowly came to their senses, we thought they were fine, but we didn't expect that slowly their situation was getting worse and worse.

The worst one was almost as completely unconscious as the townsfolk in just three days. ”

Alec's tone was a little heavy, he had not expected a good raid to turn out like this.

"Okay, I see, your decision is not wrong. ”

Evan relieved Alec and evacuated the people in time to avoid greater losses, and Alec had fulfilled his obligations as captain.

Leaning back in the chair.

It seemed that while closing his eyes and thinking about the problem, Evan had already connected to the seagulls stationed near the island of Holguin through the psychic network, and easily saw the movement on the island.

"Sure enough..."

At this time, not only the town that Alik and the others visited before was in shambles, but the five towns that belonged to the Sylius throughout the island have now all turned into hell!

Both the Syrius rulers in the town and the Anuma slaves they enslaved had all become what Alic called "cyst monsters".

Although not in the center of the colony, Cylius was not slow to react.

The priests of the "Eternal Flame" have landed on Holguin Island, and with the cooperation of heavily armed soldiers, they have begun a bloody crackdown on the infected like wild beasts in the name of cleaning up the demons.

Bang!bang...

"Roar!"

"Ahh

And in the broad field of vision composed of many seagulls.

The "flames" are no longer confined to the isolated island of Holguin, and there have been sporadic unrest along the shipping routes in the Golden Sea and even the coastal areas of the New World.

Only then did Evan realize that the seriousness of the situation was far greater than he expected.

"The unpredictable rainy night of the Storm Bottle, the strange movements like dogs, crows, and storms before strange things appeared, all over the cystic human beings...

And this kind of transmission speed that is almost like flying, it is simply that someone has spread some kind of dangerous source of infection on a large scale!

Cult of Evil Gods, Evil Dark Wizards, Unknown Forces, What is the purpose of?"