This is a secret passage that turns down gracefully, the whole body is made of a white stone similar to marble from the previous life, the internal space is dark and silent, without the slightest light, but as the light created by Allen's spell lights up, the walls of the secret passage in front of him have become shining, the light is very clear, it seems that the light created by the light spell has penetrated into the depths of the wall, and then spontaneously spread along the inside of the rock.

"Marble has always had good light guiding properties. ”

He turned to look around at the secret passages, and when he saw the surprised faces of some of the guards behind him, he casually explained.

"I think your spells are a little more magical. ”

Noland, who was following behind him, said this, looking at the white light floating around Allen's head in amazement, as if he had never seen such a thing.

Alan was used to this kind of look at him, and shrugged his shoulders in response, and then saw that all the guards above had come down, so he turned around and walked towards the depths of the secret passage.

As he walked, looking at the road under his feet, Alan touched his chin and muttered, "There's a secret passage under my kitchen?

"Actually, this secret passage is very difficult to find, as you have just seen, I opened the passage behind the cupboard. ”

Noland was watched closely by the guards, but he didn't seem to worry about his own safety at all, and he was still able to talk and laugh with Allen.

"But no matter how difficult it is to find, it will be exposed sooner or later after a long time, and the former city lord of the bay was poisoned and killed by us because he found the signs. ”

What he said was not subtle at all, it sounded like a bad association, and Alan was a little surprised that he was so frank: "You just said it so directly, aren't you afraid that I will taboo you?"

Noland was still tied with his hands behind his back, and he staggered to Allen's side, but with a little smile on his face, different from the humble gesture of the black hand, the smile was slightly flattering, but more than that, neither humble nor arrogant.

"I think it's better to say it all and let any misunderstandings that may arise disappear than to let you think about it. ”

Alan smiled: "You pirates, aren't you all smart? ”

Norland replied, "The pirates of the Western Sea are not known for their martial arts, not even for secret skills, and have nothing else to do, but to rely on their own ships and the wisdom of their heads to make a living." ”

"So the Black Hand cut off your heads?"

"The Black Hand is a poisonous snake that will only show his fangs when the right time is right, and with all due respect, I think you should be careful of him. ”

"If you encounter a snake catcher, you can only be a lamb to the slaughter. ”

Allen's words made Noland feel a little arrogant, but then his idea disappeared.

"As you said before, I mean old Tyron, but I don't think I can subdue him, in fact, he serves my father, not me. ”

"You're humble. Noland complimented him.

"Well, that's called self-knowledge. ”

“......”

After the front and rear guards opened the way, Alan and the two walked in the center, and as they gradually deepened, a ray of light also moved, the front lit up, and the back went out, like a firefly that kept wriggling forward.

The secret passage seemed to be very long, and the time they walked was not short, but they still couldn't see the end, and the scenery was the same, constantly spreading downward, and I didn't know when it would be a head.

The conversation continued.

"This secret passage looks interesting, the black hand doesn't know this?"

"The Black Hand joined us later, and we didn't tell him the secret. ”

"It seems that you still have a certain degree of wariness against him, so why are you still being cheated by him?"

"The main thing is that the sea snake has a grudge against him, and we have mentioned letting him know about it, but many times the sea snake has stopped it...... In fact, the Black Hand is well hidden, and we all look at him wrong, except for the sea serpent. ”

"Well, the black hand hasn't interrogated you since you were caught?"

"Of course there is, he would send people to question me every day, but I didn't say it, because I knew that if I said it, I would die!"

"So you're talking to me about this now. ”

Speaking of this, Alan turned his head to look at him, and the words in his mouth made Noland's face sink.

"Presumably this is the real gift he gave me, right?"

Although he was a little flustered, Noland still pretended to be calm and said: "I think, you overestimate him, how can he know that I will tell you the secret?"

Alan smiled and said, "He doesn't need to know completely, but as long as you say this, I will admit it to him, and if you don't say it, he has nothing to lose." ”

"So, it's still nice to deal with smart people. ”

After saying this, Alan was silent, because Noland's face was very bad at this time, and he probably didn't have the heart to talk to him anymore, so he decided to concentrate on hurrying.

The slope of the secret passage under his feet is very small, but it spreads downward, and he doesn't feel much at first, but gradually, Alan finds something abnormal.

At this point, they had been walking down for a long time, but the inside of the secret passage was still very dry, which was very abnormal.

You know, because of its proximity to the sea, the castle above the horizon is very wet, not to mention the basement of the castle, and now this secret passage is much deeper than the basement of the castle, how can it not be damp at all?

He then noticed that there didn't seem to be any rats or bugs here. The white marble looks crystal clear under the light, and the rock walls are neat and look very clean.

"Under normal circumstances, it would not be possible to be so clean if it was not cleaned regularly. ”

The voice of the captain of the guard who opened the way in front of him was a little serious.

"Then that's probably not the case. Alan followed up.

"Anyway, we have to be careful. ”

On a small island somewhere in the Golden Sea, there stands a cluster of wooden houses, scattered and numerous.

The complex is generally circular in shape, with a fairly flat meadow surrounded by wooden houses, and in the center there are traces of a large bonfire that stands out.

The place seems to be a gathering place for a certain group, with voices appearing from time to time in the houses, and people passing by on the roads between the houses, mostly dressed in scruffy clothes, and generally wearing bright red headbands on their foreheads.

A fat man was tied to a wooden pillar in the corner of the grassy square, and whenever he saw a person with a headband passing by, he would whisper a curse, but he seemed to be very jealous of these people, and the scolding was so weak that only he could hear it clearly.

"Ungrateful bastard!"

"Eat the mongrels inside and out!"

"Yin and Yang weird stupid, beep!"

"I'm also an idiot, how can I believe in your evil!"

"These shits..."

If there were people from the Gulf here, they would probably be able to recognize that this pale, embarrassed blonde fat man tied to a pillar was actually the former tax collector of the Gulf, Lord Keith.

And if Alan or other insiders are here, it is estimated that they will wonder even more, obviously his identity has changed to a kidnapper, why is he being tied up by others now?

It's a pity that there are no people from the Gulf here, so no one knows what happened to our treasurer.

At this moment, Keith seemed to regret what he had done before, and of course, there was a little resentment on his face.

"You dog-day pirates, don't keep your promises, and even eat black?"

"Do you want more? Not much at all! You take a big head, and you don't even want to give me a mouthful of soup, do you forget that without me, you wouldn't have been able to do this at all?"

"I was careful for fear of showing my feet, but it turned out to be good, I didn't eat the fish and got into a fishy ......"

As he spoke, he was obviously a little aggrieved, and he began to sob, his expression of wanting to cry without tears, and his embarrassed appearance looked very pitiful.

It's just that it seems that his current situation is very bad, no one has come here to take care of him, and no one has pitied him.

Although lonely, Keith was not alone, and his neighbor to his left was also tied to a pole, but since he was tied here, the neighbor hadn't paid any attention to him - because he had been dried and turned into a dried corpse, tilting his head, staring at the campfire in front of him with empty eyes, dead for an unknown amount of time.

The neighbor to the right of Keith, a diamond-shaped coffin tied to a pillar, wrapped in pitch-black chains, seemed to be a little sound coming from inside, but it was very faint.

The neighbor inside the coffin was injured, and Keith was sure of that, because there were many daggers stuck in the surface of the coffin, and blood was collecting at the foot of the coffin.

The one on the left is already dead, and the one on the right is about to die, which seems to foreshadow the fate of Lord Keith, so he does not dare to anger anyone here at all, for fear that this fate will come early.

"If only nothing had happened, what did I think?"

The fat blonde man muttered with his head down, the sun's rays were suddenly blocked, and then, a pair of legs in long buckskin boots appeared in Keith's sight, and he sighed in his heart, and slowly raised his head to look.

"Luther?"

"Hello, my fat friend. The person in front of him raised his hand "friendly" to say hello, his voice was gentle, and his smile was kind.

Keith said with a pleading face: "How long are you going to lock me up? I'm tired of being tied up here and smelling corpses every day, please let me go, I don't want to pay dividends, can't I!"

The man named Luthor also seemed helpless, and he sighed and said, "This is not possible, my poor fat friend, we have not yet achieved our goal, we cannot let you go, but rest assured, the detention is only temporary, and I think it will not be long before your father will come to your rescue." ”

"My father?" Keith muttered with a pleading expression, "What the hell are you going to do, why are you looking for him?"

"He's just a poor old mercenary!

"Hah, it seems that my fat friend doesn't know anything yet. Luthor grinned, then looked at Fat Keith maliciously and whispered something in his ear.

Keith's eyes were glazed by this, and after a long time, he suddenly shouted—

"You're lying to me, it can't be! How could he be ......"

"It's true, my fat friend. ”

Luthor sighed and patted his cheek, then said, "So you don't have to doubt that your life will be in danger, your father is so powerful, we don't dare to do anything to you." ”

......