Chapter 19: A New Way
Bone leaves with Nicole.
But that doesn't mean it's over.
An hour later, two figures descended from the sky, a man and a woman, young and in their early twenties.
When the two of them saw that the land was devastated, their expressions became ugly.
"I remember there used to be a village here, why is it gone?" said the man, urging you.
The woman rushed straight over, and soon, the two saw an overwhelming body of corpses.
Appalling.
Many of the bodies were apparently tortured and killed.
"What the hell is going on here? These are soldiers of the Shadow Empire!" the woman said.
"Look, the corpse of the First General of the Shadow Empire!" the man shouted.
Although the general's head was smashed by a stick, his identity could still be distinguished from his physique and clothing.
The man only felt creepy, who the hell was it? not only killed thousands of soldiers of the Shadow Empire, but also killed the generals of the Shadow Empire.
He knows very well the strength of the general, far above himself.
"Where's Brother Wujia, why didn't you see him!" the man shouted, but soon, the couple found Wujia's body beneath the pile of corpses.
Suddenly, the man wailed and cried: "Brother, brother, I'm sorry for you!"
Heart-rending, painless.
His wife also wiped her tears silently, Wu Jia and her husband and wife were friends of life and death, and this time in order to help their husband and wife, they died tragically here.
"Where's Nicole? I didn't see Nicole's body!
The man wiped his tears, his eyes blood-red, "I didn't see Nicole's body either! Maybe, maybe Nicole is still alive! Quick, let's see where the nearest city is?"
The woman opened the map: "It's Icefish City! If the killer leaves, it's likely to go to Icefish City!"
"Chase! Maybe you can catch up!"
The man put away Wuga's body, took the woman, and left the sad place.
......
In order not to scare pedestrians, Ah Gu put on a black cloak with his brain, anyway, from top to bottom, no skin and flesh were exposed.
He's been away with Nicole for two days and two nights, and he's not going to get tired anyway.
"It's so close to Icefish City on the map, but I haven't been there for so long!"
Nicole doesn't care about these, holding a piece of bread and eating a mouth full of scum, this girl knows to sleep when she is full, and there are few times to cry, as long as she cries, she is sure to be hungry.
After two days of contact, Ah Gu probably figured out this girl's temper, as long as she is full, she can say anything!
At this time, Ah Gu had already left the deep mountain, and the edge of the deep mountain was a sparse forest with a small river next to it.
Occasionally, traces of human life can be seen.
Finally, at noon on the third day, Agu saw the human village.
People are busy in the fields for the autumn harvest, and the heat is turning.
Seeing Ah Gu, a strange man dressed in black, several peasants stopped what they were doing and looked at Ah Gu with a bad look.
Of course, for these gazes, Ah Gu has always chosen to ignore them.
"Hey, outsider, what's going on here!"
Just as Ah Gu was about to move on, a rough voice came.
Ah Gu looked in the direction where the voice came from, and saw a strong man with three people walking towards Ah Gu.
The strong man at the head was more than two meters tall and carried a large knife behind his back, and the other three were wearing leather armor and weapons, and they were obviously not peasants.
"I'm a passer-by, and I want to go into the village and buy some food!" Ah Gu said.
Ah Gu uses magic to vibrate to make sounds, so ordinary people sound this sound very weird, like a parrot that has been grabbed by the neck and growls in death!
"Take your hat off! no outsiders are welcome here!" said the giant.
Ah Gu found that he didn't know when, the farmers around him were looking at him, and Ah Gu reacted immediately, I'm afraid something bad has happened in this village recently.
"I'm sorry, my face is burned by the fire, I can't see the wind!I just want to buy some food and I'll leave right away!" said Agu, pulling out a few copper coins.
The giant man looked at Nicole on Ah Gu's shoulder, the little guy's chubby face was very cute, and the giant man's face was slightly softened.
"Is this your daughter?"
"Well, it's my daughter!" said Agu.
"Alright, I'll take you to the tavern in the village, don't play any tricks!" the giant man turned to the other three and said, "You guys patrol well!"
These three people couldn't cry or laugh, obviously the captain wanted to be lazy, and they said it so high-soundingly.
Ah Gu followed the giant man to the tavern in the village, which was much larger and more populous than the one that had been destroyed before, almost five thousand people, not so much a village as a smaller town.
The two came to a restaurant, and the giant man first found a place to sit down, with a comfortable face on his face, and waved his hand arrogantly: "Boss, let's have a big glass of ale first!"
Obviously, the giant man is a frequent customer of this restaurant, and the proprietress is not very old, about thirty, dressed very plainly, although the appearance is average, but the figure is uneven.
"Captain Matt, are you lazy again?" the proprietress teased.
An embarrassed smile appeared on the giant man's face: "What is lazy, I am looking at suspicious people!"
The proprietress also saw Ah Gu, and I have to say that Ah Gu's dress is very scary, if she didn't come with a giant man, she would definitely be turned away.
"Brother, what's going on here? I feel a little bit like we're all soldiers!" asked Ah Gu suspiciously.
The big man named Matt glanced at Ah Gu and said, "You don't know yet! Recently, the village and the nearby cities have been losing children! Even the Earl's grandson has been lost! In a fit of rage, the Earl turned the neighborhood upside down, but unfortunately he couldn't find it......!
Matt said as he drank half of a large glass of ale in one gulp, then burped with a comfortable expression on his face.
"Traffickers?" Bone heard Matt say this, and took Nicole off his shoulder and placed it on his lap.
"Hey, who knows! But I don't think that trafficker is so bold as to steal the Earl's own grandson!"
Moreover, Ah Gu learned that Matt was not from this village, but a mercenary invited back by the villagers here to protect the peace of the village.
Soon, the proprietress carried two portions of food, a large one for Matt and the other for Ah Gu.
Agut ordered the meat dish, Nicole has eaten dry food these days, if she is malnourished, it will be difficult to deal with it!
Matt gobbled up the food in a few minutes while Bone fed Nicole little by little.
This little guy is really meatless, and he has eaten two chicken thighs, and his mouth is full of oil.
The proprietress frowned, wouldn't the child have a bad stomach if she gave the child such a greasy thing?
"This man doesn't seem to have any experience with children!Isn't this kid his?And sneaky......" The proprietress had a little more heart, and secretly wrote a note in the back and slipped it into Matt's hand at the checkout.
There were only three words on the note.
Traffickers?
Matt was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Ah Gu, although it was a little suspicious, but he took care of Nicole, and this relationship did not seem to be fake!
By the time she hesitated, Nicole had already eaten.
"Hostess, check out!"
The proprietress immediately greeted her with a smile on her face, and she couldn't see what she was thinking at all, and while looking for change, she praised Nicole's cuteness!
Matt was also hesitant.
"By the way, Brother Matt, let me ask, how far is this from Icefish City?" asked Aku.
"Icefish City!" Matt was stunned for a moment, and then said, "It's about four days to go all the way north!"
"Four days? No, I've been gone for three days, why do I have to go for four days, what's the situation?" Ah Gu hurriedly opened the map and looked at it carefully.
Matt leaned over and laughed with a snort.
"Brother, you ...... The map is down!"
A bone is petrified in an instant, the map, taken down?
In other words, I have been going in the opposite direction of Icefish City for the past few days?
Ah Gu brushed away the map, if he still had a face, he must be red now.
"It's a shame!"
However, Icefish City was originally a target chosen by Ah Gu, and it didn't matter if he went or not!
"Forget it, what's the closest city to here?" asked Aku.
Matt patted Ah Gu's shoulder and pointed to the southeast: "Keep walking, you can see it before dark! But you have to hurry, when the city gate is closed after dark, you can't enter!
Such a stupid person will definitely not be a human trafficker!
Bone beckons to Matt and leaves the restaurant!
"Just let him go, maybe he's ......," the proprietress said unwillingly, not because she was so enthusiastic, but because the earl offered a sky-high reward.
"Isn't it just to take children? Isn't it normal for men not to take children?" Matt said disdainfully, "By the way, isn't your husband coming back tonight?"
The proprietress glanced at Matt: "Dead ghost, you're cheap tonight!"
The green grassland is green!
......
By mistake, the couple who were looking for Nicole and Ah Gu took completely opposite paths!
And Ah Gu has always believed that Hygi is Nicole's mother.
Bone placed Nicole on his shoulder, used levitation, and flew towards the nearest city.
Icegrass City.
The name is given to the fact that this place grows a special herb in winter, which is the best material for making spices, and because of this, the lord of the city is very rich!
But these days, Count Aaron was not happy at all, because. His only little grandson was stolen by human traffickers!
That's the meat of his heart, even if he digs three feet into the ground, he has to find out these damn traffickers, and then, the corpses are broken into thousands of pieces!