Chapter Seventy-Three: Serendipity
Emma wiped tears from her face, her head tilted, her lips squirming slightly, as if whispering a prayer to the spirits of the dead who were watching her from heaven.
After a while, she lowered her head, her teeth clenching her lip, until she bit out the red blood, and then she walked slowly but surely out of the back room of the bar.
As soon as the door was opened, a cacophony rushed towards her, and some of the sailors, whose sharp eyes saw her figure, immediately whistled sharply.
Emma trembled slightly at the various gazes of these sailors, like a young lamb, she trembled and hesitated for a moment, she took a deep breath, and then suddenly raised her head, tears in the corners of her eyes, and resolutely walked towards these nasty sailors.
The brown-haired sailor was stunned for a moment, he was suddenly shocked by the little girl's surprisingly sharp gaze, and unconsciously pointed to a corner of the bar: "Where is it...... Hey, it's still there!"
The corner where Maria and Tang Jie had been sitting was empty, leaving only two wine glasses.
Emma glanced around the bar, and saw in a gap in the doorway the long soft red dress that only Maria would wear.
Emma left the sailor in front of her, pushed open the door, came to Maria, and said loudly, "You're right, I've made up my mind!"
Her voice was so loud that even she was startled.
But Maria, as if she hadn't heard, looked at the street in the distance with her eyes in a daze, her expression was very complicated, and she was faintly distracted.
Emma followed Maria's gaze, but saw the figure of a man disappearing into the shadows of the street, and at that glance, the figure only felt a little familiar.
"Who's that?" asked Emma, who asked unconsciously as she opened her mouth wide and flashed a flash of surprise in her heart.
Maria sighed faintly, "A man." ”
"A man?" Emma was puzzled.
Maria sighed, and at this moment her eyes made Emma feel an indescribable vicissitudes and loneliness: "In this world, who can come in a hurry, leave in a hurry, and can't stay, except for men?"
Maria looked at the direction of Tang Jie's departure, and her heart turned a thousand times, and she found that her heart was filled with ripples because of this man's departure without hesitation.
She began to keep him again and again, wanting to spend a passionate night with him.
In all fairness, this is a man who makes her heart sprout, and she can feel her wetness and spring just by imagining his strength.
But this man smiled slightly in the face of his retention, and left himself without hesitation, as if she didn't have the slightest **** power, and looked like a pheasant on the side of the road, neither high-grade nor physical.
What a bastard, am I so unattractive?
A flash of irritation flashed through Maria's heart.
But she thought about it, if Tang Jie had a spring breeze with her tonight, maybe she would soon lose interest in him, but his decisive departure tonight made Maria's interest and impression of him even deeper.
What you can't get is always the best!
He knows how to grasp a woman's heart, this guy......
Maria smiled.
Emma listened to Maria's self-pity on the side, she seemed to understand or not, somehow, a bloody, fierce lion-like figure flashed in her mind, Emma trembled all over, her teeth clucked: "What you just said, I have already thought about it!"
"Oh, is it?". Maria turned her head, looked at Emma, and said lightly, "Do you really have this kind of awareness? abandon self-esteem, abandon shame?"
Emma shuddered, she took a deep breath, and nodded heavily.
Maria smiled: "Don't make yourself feel like you're going to be abused by a man in the next second, it's just to let you get used to the harassment of these good men, it's not so exaggerated, relax and relax." You go and say hello to all the men in the bar first!"
Emma hesitated, nodded, and then walked inside with a fierce gaze.
Maria immediately stopped her: "Hey, do you have a grudge against them, do you want to drive all my guests away? What kind of eyes do you have?"
Emma: "......"
......
Grugir Street, the Avenue of Sisis known for its squalor and filth.
It's a notorious place.
It's dirty and dirty, not because it's full of sewage and garbage.
On the contrary, the buildings on both sides of this street are very neat and clean, and even the corners are not a single piece of garbage, and it is even several times cleaner than other streets.
Grugir Street, its filth refers to its trade: the slave trade.
Everywhere along this street you can see open-air prisons made of stone bars.
These prisons were narrow and low, and the slaves in them could only sit and not stand, and a cage of only two square meters often housed four or five slaves, which was very crowded.
Wherever there was war, there was the slave trade.
Countless merchants in the Pound Empire made their fortunes from the slave trade and sucked in countless blood-stained gold coins.
These merchants tasted the benefits of the slave trade, and they formed an incomparably powerful force to ensure and promote the growth and development of the slave trade industry.
Due to various slave needs, the Pound Empire has waged fourteen wars against the southern continent in the past ten years, and has captured nearly five million slaves.
When transporting these slaves back to the Eastern Continent, these dead slaves, if their corpses are connected, can be connected from the Southern Continent to the Eastern Continent.
People who hate the Pound Empire in the Western Continent once mockedly said: The reason why the Pound Empire has been able to recover from the unprecedented civil strife in the past ten years is all because of these gold coins stained with the blood of slaves!
Walking on this slave trade street, there are open-air prisons everywhere, like forests, these slaves sitting in the prisons are some dark-skinned, dragging their families from the southern continent, some are powerful orcs with fangs, and some are short in stature, bearded dwarves, and even in some of the more high-grade cages, you can still see elf slaves.
Dressed in a crisp white shirt and straight-leg trousers, Nia's favorite high leather boots struck a loud blast on the hard bluestone floor, showing a strong and heroic aura that made people's hearts awe-inspiring.
She walked down the street, her eyes sharply scanning the slaves back and forth, and when she saw a suitable one, she clicked a little, and Darius on the side quickly wrote it down.
In Nia's eyes, it was almost impossible to see her sympathy for these slaves, nor in the eyes of Darius.
The law of the jungle is the only rule of survival in this world.
As long as she is weak, she may become a slave like them who is bought and sold, which is the way of survival that Nia deeply understands.
Here, there is no market for sympathy!
By the end of the day, the number of carefully selected slaves had far exceeded five hundred, reaching more than seven hundred, which greatly exceeded Darius's expectations.
What surprised them even more was that they saw two dwarves in the slave market!
Darius spent a thousand gold coins each to buy the two dwarves without hesitation!
These dwarves, each of them is proficient in the art of construction, masonry, casting and alchemy, although these two dwarves have been tortured to the point of dying, but Darius believes that if he buys them back, they will be raised for a few days, and with the strong physical fitness of the dwarves, it will not be long before they will be alive again.
The only thing to consider is: when they regain their strength, how can they be controlled?
You must know that the dwarves are a strong, unruly race.
When Darius expressed his doubts, Nia just smiled faintly: "Captain Tang Jie will tame them!"
Darius nodded and said no more, believing that the dark-haired captain had this ability.
Along the way, the two of them gained a lot of money, Darius originally wanted to buy a few orcs and elves, but was stopped by Nia.
Nia sneered, "Do you want to see a racial scuffle? I don't want to bring the unstable factor on our ship!"
Darius suddenly realized: The long river of time has not washed away the enmity between the major races in the distant divine war.
Elves and dwarves hate each other, dwarves and orcs despise each other, not to mention orcs and elves, orcs slaughter the most elves, and elves kill as many orcs as a cow, both sides are masters who kill each other without saying a word!
After giving up the tempting idea, the two turned around and prepared to leave.
Along the way, they were crowded with begging children and old beggars, as well as all kinds of sales traffickers, and these children, beggars, and traffickers suddenly became more and more noisy when they saw that they were about to turn away.
"Master, miss, you can do it, give a little bit!"
"Pretty young lady, give me a little, please!"
"Oh my God, my lord, look at me like this, isn't it miserable?
"Sir, do you want to buy slaves? What kind of slaves do you want to buy? Do you want sturdy and sturdy southern barbarians, or fierce orcs? Or, sir, do you want to buy a few beautiful slave girls to try them out?"
"Beautiful young lady, don't you need a few sturdy male slaves, look at how strong they are, and how thick they are...... Hey, hey, don't go, I don't look good, I have better goods!"
Nia angrily swept away the crowd, glared viciously at the beggars, children and traffickers chasing behind her, pulled out the long knife on her waist, and threatened with a fierce light: "Come with me again and eat me!"
This group of people who were pressed by the black suddenly changed their color in horror, screamed in unison, turned their heads and ran, like birds and beasts.
Darius smiled wryly, and wiped the sweat on his forehead with the silk handkerchief in his hand: "These guys, when they see such a generous buyer as us, they all know that when they meet the big sheep, if they don't get some oil on us, how they won't leave." Fortunately, it's really a pleasure for you to cut through the mess with this quick knife, and I'm almost annoyed to death by them!"
Nia looked at the fleeing crowd and sneered: "A group of useless guys!"
Darius laughed to himself: if they are useful, as for begging and fooling around here, do you think that the people of this world are as brave as your captain?
"Let's go, let's go! these slave owners will send us slaves to the docks later! We need to get back to see the ship and the cargo to be delivered!" Darius said, wiping his sweat and gasping for air.
Nia nodded, she knew that her task was too heavy to delay here.
The two of them were about to leave, but they heard a weak voice behind them: "Honorable lord, beautiful young lady, you ......"
Nia was suddenly furious, she didn't wait for the person behind her to finish speaking, her hand quickly wiped on her waist, and the long knife slammed out, she turned around, and slashed behind her like lightning!
The person who spoke was stunned, he only felt a flash of white light in front of him, a chill on the top of his head, a sharp knife had stopped on the tip of his nose, and the cold blade aura made him tremble!
Darius on the side couldn't help but be startled, he could imagine that this woman must be very powerful, but he didn't expect this woman to be so powerful!
Without even looking at it, you can control your knife momentum so accurately, cutting the hair of the person behind you, but not hurting him in the slightest!
If she is so powerful, what will her captain become?
Darius couldn't help but fight a cold war, and he found that his cooperation with the black-haired pirate was clearly wise.
Nia saw that the annoying guy behind her was just a little boy who was about 1.3 meters and less than 1.4 meters, this boy had fluffy and messy brown-red hair, a pair of eyes that were big and round, and the azure eyes stared at the sharp knife on the tip of his nose, turning into a pair of eyes.
Nia withdrew her knife and said coldly, "Get out!"
The little boy was clever, trembled, and said quickly: "Master, miss, take me, I can work, I can do a lot of work! I can do all the work on the ship, even if you ask me to carry such a hard work! I have a small amount of food, as long as I eat a little food, I can do a lot of work for you! Please don't underestimate me because I am small, my strength is not small at all, look at my muscles!"
After speaking, the little boy bent his arm, revealing his barren and frightening big arm, and said shamelessly: "My arm is full of strength, don't believe me, I can hold the big top with one hand!"
The little boy spat into the palm of his hand, and was about to perform a performance of holding the big top with one hand.
Nia waved her hand impatiently: "Hurry up and disappear! I don't have the time to talk to you!"
With that, she turned and left.
The little boy stood there in a daze, watching Nia and Darius leave, and suddenly with all his strength, he shouted: "Let me go to sea, please!!"
Nia shuddered, and for a moment, she felt as if she had suddenly heard the cries of her own youth.
She turned around quickly, her eyes were surprisingly sharp, and her eyes were extremely complicated to stare at the little boy behind her: "Why do you want to go to sea?"
The little boy said loudly: "There was an old man who once said to me: 'A real man should conquer the sea!' I am fourteen years old this year, and I have long reached the age of conquering the sea! I beg you to let me go to sea, I can suffer anything!"
A flash of sadness flashed in Nia's eyes, and she remembered her father, Captain Barr.
Once upon a time, didn't this bearded man just hold himself and point to the sea and say the same thing?
Nia looked at the little boy, looking at the blue ambition in his eyes, she nodded slowly: "Okay, don't be afraid of hardship, don't be afraid of death, come along!" But I'll tell you first, get on our ship, don't think about going down, even if you are old, you will die on it, unless you die one day, we will bury you in the sea, and you can leave it! So are you willing?".
The little boy didn't expect this handsome woman to really agree to him, and he nodded desperately in ecstasy: "Don't worry, I'm very brave, I won't be afraid of death!"
Darius laughed a little on the side: "This little imp is kind of interesting. ”
Nia looked at the little boy and asked, "My name is Nia, you can call me Nia first mate in the future, what is your name?"
As if he had been granted some kind of sacred mission, the little boy's face bloomed with a strange look, he put his heels together, puffed his chest, respectfully learned the military salute of the Sisian Navy, saluted, and said loudly: "Garcia Link, you can call me Link, honorable First Officer Nia!"
A smile appeared on Nia's cold face, she nodded, and said lightly, "Let's go!"
Nia didn't know at this time that this thin little boy had been ruthlessly rejected by Tang Jie, and if Tang Jie had mentioned Link to her, she would probably not have taken this little boy in.
And in the future, Tang Jie's subordinates will also have one less fierce and resourceful pirate.
Garcia Link, the thin little boy, changed his fate when he suddenly screamed from the bottom of his heart and moved Nia.
This little boy stepped onto Tang Jie's pirate ship, and under his **, he continued to grow into an excellent fleet commander.
In the future, he and Morgan the Ripper were revered and known as the "Alcatraz Twins".
At this time, Tang Jie, who was hiding in a corner and falling asleep, did not know that just as he turned to leave the Green Forest Bar, a girl who hated him deeply happened to appear in front of Maria.
The two of them happened to be staggered and never met.
What would happen to Tang Jie if he saw Emma at the door of the bar?
What will happen to them after that?
If Link hadn't boarded Tang Jie's ship, what would have happened to him?
No one knows the answer.
Sometimes, the fate of the accident is so strange.