The Salanders sensed danger.

Returning from overseas this time, the Salander sold all his possessions, settled his few remaining relatives and friends, and prepared to leave completely. Having had his own business overseas, the conservative and chaotic Old World no longer appealed to him. On the other side of the ocean, people are trying to create an ideal country like never before. There, engineers from Svadia and Rhodok, warriors from Nord, horse breeders from Vecchia and Kujit, and craftsmen from Salander lived together as brothers, where life was rich and ideas were free. Since they got used to life there, few people wanted to come to the hierarchical Old World.

After Swadia was invaded by Kugit, the council of the 'Pioneers' quickly responded by believing that this was a good time to absorb immigrants.

In the past, due to the lack of information and obstruction by governments, the new 'Pioneers' colonies encountered great demographic difficulties. Highly profitable overseas trade, as well as advanced agriculture and medical technology, allowed the 'pioneers' to support a considerable population from the beginning, but objective conditions limited its rapid development. The 'pioneers' encouraged population growth and provided generous subsidies for families with multiple children. The 'Pioneers' had long known about this war, but its warnings were put on the shelf. On the day of the outbreak of war, the 'pioneers' immediately changed their role, from a peaceful organization to a war-preventing organization to a new world that absorbed the war-fighting population.

The people of Salander always remembered how angry the old captain was when his fleet was warned not to dock. The old captain was Lily Marlene's father, the first consul of the Pioneers, the man who had expanded the legacy of the Pioneers several times and found a habitable island overseas. As the Pioneers set out to build a new nation, opposition ensued, which dealt a severe blow to the Pioneers' cause, with members arrested and deported from all over the country. It was one of the most difficult times for the 'Pioneers', with branches losing contact with their headquarters every day, and the First Archon ordering some of its members to go overseas to stand by, and gradually shifting the location of their activities on the mainland from the center of the empire to the frontiers.

In order to weaken the suppression of conservative forces, the 'Pioneers' secretly supported the opposition forces in various places, and in those years, many of the tactical advisers of the Nord guerrillas and Rhodok University professors who advocated the New Deal were members of the 'Pioneers'. After the beginning of the era of the Great Schism, the 'pioneers' served in the armies of various nationalities. Rodok, Kugit and even later Nord and Vekia were all funded by the 'Pioneers'. But immediately after the war, the 'pioneers' were abandoned, and the leaders of the nations had promised their friends a return before the founding of the country, but once the country was founded, these people were reluctant to let people get their share of the pie.

The betrayed 'pioneers' no longer prayed for help from other countries, and they actively opened up new worlds, hoping to find a land big enough to start from scratch and build a new nation!

The people of Salander were so excited by this great prospect that he was willing to dedicate himself to it, and he was the first to sign up for this return to the mainland to absorb immigrants. In times of difficulty, the coastal states, including Rhodok, were unwilling to grow stronger, and they did not hesitate to refuse the request of the "pioneers" to lease ports and go ashore freely. It was in this context that the First Concourse's migrant ship was slandered as a pirate ship trafficking in human beings and was attacked indiscriminately. Unable to dock, the fleet had to venture across the ocean back to new territory. Unfortunately, on the southern coast of Rhodoc, the fleet was caught in a storm, during which the ships of the First Consul strayed from the fleet and sailed to the seashore, and Miss Lily Marlene ordered the fleet to depart first after the storm, hoping to find her father or his body. The roof leak happened to rain continuously, and just as Lily Marlene was leading the sailors around the coast, the White Dove Valley stared at her.

After that, the people of Salander knew all too well: a senseless escape and Captain Lili-Marlene's perilous plans.

The Salander had already considered himself dead from the moment he boarded the dinghy, and he knew that such a trick would have failed nine times out of ten, and if the other party was a shrewd and fierce captain, he might have been chopped to meat sauce as soon as he boarded the boat. But what happened next gave the Salanders a glimmer of hope, and the captain of the ship seemed inexperienced and cowardly, and if he could be forced to sign the alliance or simply kidnap him, the operation would be a complete success.

Now, he stared at his captive in a wry manner, listening carefully to the conversation between Lily Marlene and the young man opposite. If the lad was really as impartial as he said he was, then it would be best to stop and give up resistance and get tested. But people's hearts are unpredictable, who knows if this kid will be treacherous? The best thing to do is to take this lad as a shield and leave him at some port.

The people of Salander heard that Ho. When Arcadio said, "Let them see what's there," he was immediately alerted to danger. When he observed the flash of smiles from the captives beneath him, he was even more sure of his opinion. Suddenly. Arcadio must have passed on the message here.

He exclaimed in a low voice, "Miss! Shut him up! He's reporting! ”

Lily Marlene's mouth opened in a circle of confusion.

She was about to say something when the door was kicked open with a bang, and several soldiers rushed in. The boatswain had a dagger in his mouth and a short knife in his hand. The young man of the Salander grabbed a stick and rushed at him, and the boatswain threw the short knife away, and the young man opened the flying short knife with his stick, and in this gap, the boatswain had already rushed to him, and with agility plunged the dagger into the man's left chest, and then pushed him to the ground, and took advantage of the momentum to draw the dagger, and no longer paid attention to the dying man, and turned to look at the remaining hateful female assassin and old pirate. Behind him, the young man tried in vain to cover his wounds, blood gushing out as he struggled, staining his clothes and twisted fingers red.

Several soldiers leaned in with their daggers, and Captain Lili-Marlene shifted his position, trying to hide behind the captives and use them as shields. The moment she turned, her back was exposed to the boatswain, and the dagger was still warm with blood, and it was about to sip new blood. The boatswain tensed his leg muscles and flicked it over, with precision and force, confirming that the first blow would kill.

Cesar felt the man on his back let go of him, and Cesar looked up to see the Salander dodge between Captain Lilimarlian and the boatswain, exposing his back to the boatswain.

Captain Lilimarene quickly turned sideways to control the captive in her hand, and she heard a roar, and the Salander fell at her feet, behind him was a blood-red man with a dagger on the Saland's back. Lily Marlene was shocked in her heart, if it weren't for the Salanders to stop her, she would have died.

The boatswain punched the Salander twice, and in order to stop him from struggling, the boatswain had to hold down the badly wounded man.

The boatswain beckoned the soldiers behind him to come and hold down the Salander on the ground, drew a knife from the waist of one of the soldiers, and put it on the Salander's neck.

"Lay down your arms", the boatswain only said his own request, without saying a single threatening word, because his actions were enough.

Father felt Lily Marlene's hands tremble, and his damp breath squirted down his neck. The father suddenly realizes that Lily Marlene's situation in this scene is very similar to that of himself in the Sunno Plains: she is obviously scared to death, but she has to pretend to be strong.

"Lay down your arms," said the boatswain a second time, striking the Salander in the face with the back of his knife, and the Salander had his eyes open and blood and sweat pouring down as if his head had been glued to the floor. Lily Marlene's eyes were damp, and she whined like a rain-soaked puppy when her last attempt to return home had failed.

"Well, you choose", the boatswain put his foot on the Salander's head, grabbed the man's hair with his left hand, and looked up at Lily Marlene, "I'm not kidding", and slowly cut off the Salander's ear. The Salanders see their ears as a symbol of their own honor, and there is no greater insult than cutting off their ears when fighting the Salanders.

Soon, a bloody ear was pinched in the boatswain's hand. He didn't give the woman much time to think, he turned the head of the Salander crying in pain, like a confident butcher, "Well, then the other ear, then the eye, then the other. Miss, I'm going to give you an anatomy class, I've learned first aid on the front line for three months, and I'm very skilled at disemboweling. ”

So saying, the boatswain stretched out his hand to cut off the remaining ears of the Salanders, just as the farmer was ready to harvest the last wheat in the earth with the joy of a good harvest. "Listen, warn you one more time, lay down your arms". Lily Marlene's tears finally fell, her face trembled, and her mouth was scribbling fragmented words.

The boatswain saw this as a refusal, "you chose".

"No!" Lily Marlene finally gave up, her hand softened, and the dagger fell to the ground with a thud. Cesar, trembling to his feet, took my father by his uninjured hand, and now Lili-Marlene stood alone. The boatswain looked at her, and Lily Marlene trembled with fear, "Well, you "let him go, let him go".

The boatswain laughed, "As you wish," and then he picked up Lilymaren's dagger, picked up the Salander's head, lifted his neck, and slit the Salander's throat in front of Lilymaren, kicking the dying man at Lilymaren's feet. Lily Marlene crouched down with her head in her hands, and one of the soldiers drew his knife and struck her on the head with the back of the knife, knocking her unconscious. The last voice Lily Marien heard was Cesar saying, "Don't kill her." ”

The White Dove Valley suddenly began to accelerate, and the ships that escaped in front of it did not follow suit, on the contrary, the ship stopped.

In fact, when Captain Lily Marilyn left the ship, she had already told the people on board that once the White Dove Valley resumed pursuit, then her mission had failed, and there was no need for the people on the ship to escape with great effort, "Surrender".

The soldiers aboard the White Dove Valley soon learned what had happened: the well-meaning captain was willing to negotiate with the pirates, who took revenge and took the captain hostage and broke Cesara's first mate's arm.

After the news was relayed, the soldiers vowed to punish the bastards on the other side. As the two ships got closer and closer, the soldiers let out a cry of rage, as they usually do when they were engaged with the enemy, but the people on the pirate ship did not move. When the two ships finally came together, the White Dove Valley made a graceful arc around the back of the pirate ship, and then slowly adjusted its angle until the sides of the two ships were parallel, and the soldiers threw their hooks and locked onto the ship noisily.

The soldiers shouted and rushed along the planks laid between the two boats, and then they were all stunned, and all the people on the opposite boat were crowded aside, all the swords, guns, and halberds were thrown at their feet, and they all held white cloths to show that they had given up resistance.

Captain Arcadio had a tourniquet around his neck, and he stepped forward, followed by First Officer Cesar.

One of the clerks on Lily Marlene's ship stepped forward, "I'm the clerk of the 'Elwin', the non-commissioned officer of the 'Pioneers' Immigration Department. Now with eleven shipmasters, twenty-nine sailors, thirty paddlers, and one hundred and forty-seven immigrants, surrender to you. I have here a list of all the people, and I hope that you will be humane, and from now on I will accept your dispatch with seventy crew members. I have here the security pact that Rhodok has signed with our organization, and although this pact has been trampled on by most of Rhodok's naval officers, I hope that you will follow the above provisions and 'provide the necessary food, water, and medical care to the other crew'. Thank you. ”

My father nodded, took the book and the roster, and handed it to Cesar, who was pale.

"I accept your surrender".

"Sir, may I ask you a question?" The clerk asked.

"Say it".

The clerk was about to speak, but then stopped, "Our captain, already?" ”

"It wasn't me who decided the life and death of your captain. I will escort you to the Djalkara docks, where I will investigate all the slaves you have kidnapped, and their confessions will determine your fate. Now take me to meet them, the immigrants you claim. ”

"That is, not dead?" The clerk's joy was palpable, and he heard a turning point in the mouth of the young captain of Rhodoc: not only was Lily Marlene not dead, but all of them were likely to be treated fairly. "Thank you so much, sir! More than 200 people on board were grateful to her, and it would be a great sorrow if she died. I will give you all our possessions and hope that you will be impartial when you land! ”

"Yes," the father nodded.

Father always remembered how pitiful the frightened Swadias were, who knelt on their knees, wept bitterly, and made violent movements with their arms to show their fear. Most of them thought they had met a vicious ruffian, like the Kugit who had taken them captive, and they prayed to be spared death and were willing to be slaves. They knelt on the ground, kissed my father's uniform, took his hand and put it on his face.

The father motioned for them to be quiet. Having been taken captive from their war-torn homeland, these Swadias have lost all hope for life, and they are only praying for a place where they can barely survive. They awaited the fate of the young man, not knowing whether he would be executed, or whether his wife and daughter would be taken as concubines. They were trembling, and they heard a sentence of Su Nuo.

"Don't be afraid, I'm a Swadia"