Chapter Ninety-Six: The Captive
The knight gritted his teeth, his forehead throbbing with pain, "I have a choice, unless you tell you who you are first!"
Kane looked at him and glanced at James next to him, James understood, and whispered a few words into the knight's ear, and saw that the originally arrogant knight's face instantly turned pale, and he was shocked: "You... It can't be!"
James didn't answer, snorted and turned away, Kane smiled, "Nothing impossible, you just open your eyes and look at our age and strength." ”
"How is this possible!" the knight looked even more incredulous.
Kane ignored him, "I think you should be able to answer my question well by now, where did you get them?"
The knight was stunned for a long time before sighing, and said in a compromise: "I am only in charge of the route within the empire, and I don't know where they were captured, I took them over in a small town in the west, so I am afraid that only those few bounty hunters know their origins." ”
"Which town?" Kane asked with a frown, he was a little convinced, at least with the strength of these few people, it was indeed unlikely that they would run to the orc tribe to go wild.
The knight hesitated for a moment before saying, "Black Mist Town." ”
"This can't be!" Mark next to him was shocked when he heard him say that, and walked over angrily, "You lie, Black Mist Town was destroyed by the Holy See more than ten years ago, and now it no longer exists!"
Kane saw that he seemed to want to rush up and beat someone again, so he hurriedly stopped him, "Listen to him." ”
The knight nodded, "You're right, the previous Black Mist Town was indeed destroyed by the Holy See, so the current Black Mist Town is in another place. ”
"What are you talking about?!" Mark became more and more excited, and despite Kane's obstruction, he came up and pulled the knight's collar angrily, "What you said is true?!"
The knight was frightened by his appearance, and was speechless.
Kane hurriedly pulled Mark away and said angrily: "If you want to save those people, stand aside for me!"
Mark was very emotional, and he wanted to say something but forcibly held back, snorting angrily before walking towards the orc women.
Kane's expression was relieved, and he looked at the knight and said, "Then who is the bounty hunter in charge of connecting with you?"
The knight shook his head, "It's not that I deal with them directly, they only take care of the hunt, and then send the goods to an intermediary in Black Mist, and I pick them up from him, and I don't meet those bounty hunters." ”
"Who's that middleman?"
"I don't really know who he is, I just know that he's been in this business for a long time, and everyone calls him Hunter, and I think it's just a nickname. ”
Kane nodded, "Okay, I'm done with my question, but for now you're still making a multiple-choice question, either you're going to die right away, or you're going to take us to that Black Mist Town." ”
"What are you going to do there?" said the knight, somewhat surprised.
Kane raised an eyebrow, "If you know of any other safe way to get us out of the country, you can not go there." ”
The knight hesitated for a while, but heard the fox girl behind him shout: "My lord, we still have a few sisters who are also there, please save them, we are willing to give the most precious thing in return!"
Kane looked her up and down, not understanding what she was talking about, could it be...
"My lord, I also ask to go to Black Mist!" Mark next to him said firmly.
Kane looked at him and frowned, "What the hell is that Black Mist Town, and why are you so excited when you hear about that place?"
Mark's expression darkened, "It's the most evil place in the world, specializing in buying and selling orcs captured from all over the world, and all the people living there are scum and no good people! ”
Kane nodded, and didn't ask anything more, with Mark's true identity, it was not difficult to think that he might have been to that place, and maybe even had a painful experience there.
"I'm afraid it's not worth the risk of our current situation, not to mention that we have a hostile relationship with the orcs, and now saving these people is already considered benevolent, if they lose their lives instead, I think it would be stupid. Shirley said suddenly.
Leah nodded sympathetically, it seems that she is also very hateful to orcs, after all, her family died at their hands.
"I agree with what this lady said. The knight suddenly said, "Although the strength of the few of you is good, if you really want to mess around in that place, I'm afraid there will not be enough people to double." ”
Kane thought for a moment, "Let's talk about this matter, let's go to the front and find a place to stay for the night, and wait for Wengeris and the others to arrive before making a decision." ”
A few people had no objection to this, after all, it was almost dark, and no one wanted to stay in this place full of corpses, so the group cleaned up the scene, left their clothes and horses, and burned the rest directly.
However, this kind of work of disposing of corpses is naturally impossible for a few delicate girls to do it, except for the occasional help of Sala, the others are watching from a distance, Kane smells the smelly hands, he is a little disgusted, and he does not dare to take Lia's hand again.
By the time it was all over, Kane took out a rope and tied the knight tightly, pulling him behind like a horse.
He didn't sleep all night last night, so he went to bed early today, James next to him seemed to be thinking about something and didn't sleep well, speaking of which, there was no way to do it, they brought a total of so many tents, and now there were suddenly five more people, so naturally they could only squeeze in.
Kane woke up the next morning, James had gone out for some time, and he was the only one left in the tent, Kane frowned and thought for a while before getting up and going out, seeing that everyone except him had gotten up, presumably not sleeping well last night.
The group was all sitting together discussing something, even the fox girl, Kane knew from yesterday's conversation that her name was Pentani, which means happy and happy person, but now it was obvious that she was not happy.
Kane walked over and found that they were still arguing over whether to go to Black Mist or not, Mark and Bretani naturally insisted on going, while the others showed varying degrees of concern, only James stayed out and sat without speaking.
Kane had thought about the same issue before, saying, "I think we can go for it. ”
"Why?" asked Leah, and both Mark and Bretani looked at her with appreciation, and it was clear that Kane's decision played a big role.
Kane walked over to Leah and sat down, "There must be chaos on the side of Voss City now, if we rush over, I'm afraid it will be very dangerous, and I said that I went to Black Mist Town, I don't have to save those orcs, it depends on the situation, if I can save it, of course, I will try to save it, if I can't save it, maybe there will be a bounty hunter there, maybe for a few gold coins, he can take us safely to the west." ”
After saying that, he turned his head to look at Leah, "I know you hate them, but the current situation is that we may stay there for a long time, it would be best if we can get their friendship, and you should also understand that orcs are not necessarily all bad, for example, there are good and bad in humans, I think Betani and the others should hate humans the same way you hate them now." ”
"Thank you, my lord, if you can really save those sisters, the fox clan will always be grateful for your kindness!" Betani said with a grateful face.
Liya and Shirley couldn't find a reason to object when they heard him say that, so they could only nod slightly, and Shirley frowned, "Okay, but I have one condition, if it is not necessary, I must not use force there." ”
Kane nodded and smiled and said to Bethany next to him, "By the way, who did you learn the human language from?"
Betani hesitated for a moment before saying, "We are a tribe on the border of the Orcs, and occasionally humans come to us, and we exchange things with them, so there are people in the tribe who understand the human language, and I learned some from them when I have time." ”
Kane was a little surprised, "As far as I know, humans and orcs have always been not very friendly, and now that it is a time of war, are there humans going to your side in such a situation?"
Betani shook his head, "Not in the last few days, we are just a small tribe, and we don't know much about the outside world, these humans took advantage of this to pretend to be those who traded goods before and captured us, after all, humans were not so bad in my opinion before." ”
"Are the other two trolls and the rabbit clan from the same tribe as you?"
"No, we only have foxes and raccoons in our tribe, and I don't know where those sisters were captured. ”
"Sister?" Kane was stunned, "How old are you?"
Hearing him say that, Centani's face suddenly turned red, and he lowered his head and didn't speak for a long time, Kane saw that Mark on the side also looked at him in surprise, and hurriedly asked, "Is there anything wrong?"
Mark leaned over, "My lord, how can you ask the age of a fox girl face to face, this question is their biggest secret, if she answers you, then she will marry you!"
"Huh?!" Kane was stunned, and quickly said, "No need to answer...
"Sixteen..."
The two said it almost at the same time, Kane was anxious, and hurriedly said: "I didn't hear anything just now, I really didn't hear it..."
Leah and the others were a little confused when they saw him, but Bethany thought he really didn't hear it, and said loudly, "I'm sixteen years old." ”
Seeing this, Mark couldn't help but laugh, leaned next to Kane and said, "My lord, people have taken a fancy to you." ”
Kane glared at him speechlessly, took Leah's hand and stood up, "This matter is settled, there is no need to discuss it again, and we will leave as soon as Wengris and them arrive." ”