"Probably tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, the wind should stop. ”

The captain looked up at the sailing flag on his back, and under the winter sun, he could clearly see the strength of the flag fluttering, which had obviously stabilized a lot compared to the previous few days, and it seemed that the devil's wind that had lasted for many days was finally about to stop.

"But little brother, you are really diligent in asking, so anxious to go to the headwindy harbor?"

The captain still holds the familiar purple velvet grass pole, sailing on the sea is a very long process, and people who often accompany the ocean will form some of their own habits of eliminating worries and relieving boredom, such as smoking poppy leaves and the like, but he thinks that the smell is too heavy, and expensive, and he is easy to get addicted to listening to his peers, but there is nothing in his mouth is always unsteady, so he has developed a unique habit of holding the straw pole, and even this action is also particular, only the grass pole of purple velvet grass has no peculiar smell when it is held.

Hodge smiled and said, "I have a friend who lives there and hasn't seen him for a long time, and I miss him a lot." ”

"That's right. The captain nodded as if he had come over, "The little brother is a nostalgic person, and there are fewer and fewer such people now." ”

After finishing speaking, he frowned again, beckoned Hodge to come over, and whispered to him: "But little brother, you have to be mentally prepared, I heard that the current headwind harbor is not steady, if something happens to your friend, don't be too sad at that time." ”

Hodge said that having a friend who lives in Adverse Harbor is just casually made up, of course he will not casually tell the real destination to the captain he has never met, even if this person seems to be very good, but in this kind of world, even if you know that the other party is a good person, try not to tell him too much, which is good for yourself and the other party.

But looking at the captain's appearance, it really hooked Hodge's curiosity: "The headwind harbor is not steady, what happened?"

The captain thought for a while, and said what he knew: "I also heard from others, after all, I haven't run this trip to Adverse Harbor for half a year, you should know that Adverse Harbor is mainly engaged in the slave trade, it is said that in the past few months, a guy who calls himself the "King of Slaves" has appeared out of nowhere, inciting slaves everywhere, I heard that several slave owners have died, and some civilians have been affected, hey...... Hopefully your friend will be okay. ”

"Hopefully. Hodge squeezed out a reluctant smile and asked, "Are you sure the wind is about to normal?"

"Can't be wrong!" the captain slapped his thigh a few times, and promised heroically, "Look at the wind, I know it." ”

......

"Sneeze!"

Hodge was woken up by the cold, and the cold wind flow penetrated through the cracks in the tightly closed windows, and hit him on the cheek, making him wake up from his sleep, and involuntarily wrapped in his clothes, his brain had not fully awakened, and his eyes were full of confusion when he looked around.

Strange why he woke up at this time, he didn't remember that he had a habit of getting up all night.

Could it be because the devil's wind had leveled off yesterday and could be boarded today?

Wait a minute...... Why is the wind so cold, compared to last night, the contrast is not too big.

An ominous premonition suddenly popped up in his heart, which made him completely sober, and he hurried to the window, pulling the window open and leaning out, trying to confirm the premonition.

As soon as he opened the window, a bitter cold snap hit him directly, and he didn't even have the strength to open his eyes, and his cheeks, which had been blown the most, were almost as stiff as if they were frozen into a discus.

He struggled to poke his head out and look at the sky, which was still not fully bright.

The snow wind whistled outside the window, the goose-feather snow fluttered along the wind, and the ground last night was only a shallow layer of water stains, and after only half a night, the snow had already passed the position of the second step, and if you calculated it as an adult's foot, you would probably go out in boots and not above the ankle.

That expectation was confirmed, and he closed the window and door, and whispered a damn curse.

This damn cold wave was coldly advanced.

......

The cold spell is the coldest time in the north, usually occurring in the second half of winter and lasting for a week or two, and this year's winter has just begun, who would have expected that the cold wave would rarely appear at the beginning of winter.

This completely disrupted Hodge's plans.

You must know that in the cold wave, just going out is already quite difficult, most of the outdoor work will stop in the cold wave, and even the business will be mostly closed.

During the cold spell, people in the north are more willing to squat at home and raise a bonfire than to run through the snowy and misty streets, and maybe one stumbles into the snow and has no strength to get up, and no one else passes by, and the body is not found until the snow is cleared of the castle after the cold wave, which is not unheard of before.

The terrible thing about the devil's wind is that it is easy to get lost, and the blizzard is the nemesis of the ship, and the huge force will directly overturn the sailboat, even if it swims out of the water in time, it will be bruised by the cold wind, and most of them will not survive the time to drift to land.

Even ships that have already set sail will dock at the nearby shore and spend the week or two in their cabins when they are sure that the cold wave has arrived.

Hodge, trembling in the cold wind, struggled to the position of the harbor, and sure enough, there was not a single captain or sailor, who must have gotten into the cabin, and he climbed onto the sailboat of the captain who liked to stalk straws, and knocked on the wooden door on the deck, and there were clearly people inside, but there was no response to him, and it seemed that as he expected, these people would not have ventured out before the cold wave was over.

He climbed down again and puffed on the snowy ground, thinking to himself what was going on, first the devil's wind, and then the cold wave came, which could drag on for more than a month, and it would take at least half a month to sail from Stone Fort to Adverse Harbor, plus the time to take the Tun Lo merchant group ride, and I don't know how long it would take to reach Antler Bay......

He wrapped himself in his velvet coat and found that it was still too cold for Daphne to ignore the temperature changes around her, which he and Hera could not do, and immediately decided to go to the clothing store that was still open to buy some thick clothes.

After looking for a long time to find one on West Street, he flipped the money bag around his waist, and fortunately asked Daphne to get some money before coming out, otherwise he really didn't know what to do now.

He chose one for himself, and chose a small thick coat for Hera by impression, and since he only valued whether it was thick or not, and did not care about style, the two did not cost much money together, and there were only three silver coins in total, which made him quite satisfied.

Putting on a thick coat and holding Hera's clothes under his armpits, he walked out of the shop, and just past the corner of a street, he saw a number of soldiers gathered in front of him, gesturing and discussing something with each other.

Just as he wondered why so many people were gathered around, the crowd spontaneously dispersed, and two soldiers were carrying a wooden single frame with a woman lying on it, with stiff and white skin, apparently dead.

But what really made Hodge care was the appearance of the woman, his eyes were good, and he saw from a distance that the woman's exposed skin appeared in dense small holes except for the head, about the width of a thumb in each hole, almost all over her skin, and it looked quite penetrating.

What the corpse looked like...... What can cause such a wound?