258. Route
Coming to this riverside cabin alone, Benjamin really had no choice but to decide to take another risk.
When he was a seaman on the Kumquat, Benjamin had some dealings with the slave traders of the Partington plane, and they would often bring out half-blood elven slaves from here and sell them onto the Kumquat.
This time, Benjamin and Abt went to the city of Padestor and rented a small cabin to live in, and they rarely went out, only when they lacked daily necessities, they would go out to buy.
The two of them had been living in Padstow for two months, and it felt like they had almost escaped the limelight, and Abt had been studying the charts of the Endless Sea during this time.
Benjamin has always had a sense of danger, he is worried that one day the elven guards of the guard will suddenly come to the door, and even if the two of them want to escape, will they be able to drill into the Warcraft Forest again?
He wanted to buy two teleportation tickets to the city of Paddestow in case he needed it.
I had just rented a carriage and went out, but I didn't expect to meet Roy on the street, if he wasn't alert enough, maybe he would have been locked up in the prison of the guards by now.
In this city, no elf knows what he is about.
But Roy is different, Roy knows him and knows that he is the fish that slipped through the net of the Kumquat.
Once caught by the elven guards, it is estimated that they don't need to go to the inquisition of the elven elders' council, and they can directly meet their old friends in the Pallam Island Prison.
That's why he ventured here this time, ready to talk to this group of landlords, and wanted to leave Padstow as soon as possible.
The leader of this group of slave traders is a half-blood elf named Jones, and the other half-blood elves are Jones's subordinates, who have been trading half-blood elves in the Partington plane for a long time, but this group of slave traders seems to be very promising, they can pass through the city's portals unhindered, and they do not need to be cross-examined.
Seeing the few half-blood elves grinning and smiling so treacherously, Wizard Benjamin knew that it might cost him some money to leave the Partington plane safely this time.
He ventured into the living room of the cabin and sat across from Jones, a slave trader.
Jones had a nautical chart in front of him, which happened to be the sea area of Castletown Bay, on which not only many small islands were drawn, but there were also dotted lines between the small islands to form a voyage.
"Benjamin, are you going to leave Padstow?" Jones raised his head, and there was a dark red scar on the left side of his cheek, as if it had been scratched by the claws of some magical beast, so that his originally handsome and handsome face looked a little hideous and terrifying, which was rare among elves.
Benjamin lowered his head, took two magic crystals from his pocket, and pushed them in front of the slave trader Jones.
"Well, Jones, I need you to get me two portals tickets." Benjamin said.
Magic crystals are hard currency everywhere.
Jones was noncommittal, so he directly accepted the two magic crystals, and then raised the corners of his mouth and laughed intriguingly.
The slave traders laughed along with Jones......
This made Benjamin feel that something was wrong, and he secretly cheered himself up, and he must not be cowardly at this time.
So Benjamin also stared at the slave trader Jones coldly, and sure enough, after staring for a while, Jones put away his smile and said directly:
"Benjamin, you see that the Kumquat no longer exists, as long as you give me the chart that can cross the endless sea, I will not only help you leave the Partington plane, but also take you back to the Roland Continent, our business here is always to open up this sea route, and that chart is useless in your hands......"
Benjamin now understood that the slave trader wanted to build his own ship and do the slave trade at sea.
"Jones, you want to do the slave trade at sea?"
Jones smiled slyly and said calmly: "You can't always sell slaves to those mine bosses, they have been pressing down too hard recently, and it is also risky for us to catch slaves here, if there is no profit, it is better to hunt wind foxes in the southern jungle." ”
Benjamin hesitated.
"But the navigation chart of the Endless Sea is not in my possession, but I have been trying to draw that route recently, and the half-blood elf young man next to me is actually very familiar with the various seas of the Endless Sea, but unfortunately I have not been able to draw a complete chart until now."
Benjamin was talking about Abt, who Jones had met once and had a deep impression of the half-blood elf young man who was obsessed with charts.
In fact, Abt was only focused on finding the treasure of the sea, and he didn't know Benjamin's true identity at all.
And the chart that spans the endless sea has long been firmly remembered in Benjamin's heart, but this chart cannot be taken out anyway.
Benjamin knew that once he gave this chart with both hands, Jones might sink him and Abt into the sea to feed the sharks, which of these slave traders didn't have blood on their hands?
……
Instructor Eleanor hid in the shadows of the closet at the back of the hut's living room, she had no interest in what the slavers were talking about, but she could see that the human magician wanted to buy two teleportation tickets, but the slave traders clearly wanted to make things difficult for each other.
It was indeed a den for slave traders, but she didn't find Woods in the house.
After so many years of promulgating the prohibition of the slave trade, it is not only bold but also an indescribable irony that these slave traders have blatantly built their stronghold in an orchard.
All along, the orchards on the outskirts of Elven Town have been in the hands of the Silvermoon Elf nobles.
It's hard for a half-blood elf to have such a rich orchard.
I didn't expect that the group of half-blood elves in front of me was not only a group of slave traders, but also could live in such an orchard......
Instructor Eleanor didn't continue to think about it, she wanted to know where Woods was being held by them.
She searched the kitchen and storage room for the basement entrance, but the entrance was not here.
Instructor Eleanor is hiding in the shadows behind a door at the moment, and she can be completely invisible in the shadows, but this secondary stealth effect must keep the body in the shadows, even if someone walks over with a candlestick, the faint candlelight may make him visible.
Any glare of light would expose him directly.
So Instructor Eleanor could only wait patiently, while the slave traders were chatting in the living room, she touched the back of the stairs, and sure enough, there was a wooden door to the cellar, and the door was locked, the wooden door was very strong, and the grip on the wooden door was touched brightly, and it should always be used.
Instructor Eleanor waited a few more moments before he saw a half-blood elf carrying a bucket of apples to the cellar door, and he took out a key from his waist and unlocked the lock on the wooden door of the cellar, opening the wooden door to reveal a disgusting smell inside.
The half-blood elf pinched his nose and walked in with a bucket of water.
The door was not closed by him, and Instructor Eleanor followed the half-blood elf into the cellar, perhaps because it was not very ventilated, and the smell gave Instructor Eleanor a headache......
Then she found that there were a lot of iron cages in the basement, these iron cages that were only one meter square held many half-blood elves, both men and women, who could only sit curled up inside, wearing dirty clothes, and their faces were yellow and thin with hunger.
The half-blood elf slave trader then picked up a few apples and threw them into the cage like feeding pigs, and the half-blood elves hurriedly took them with both hands, devouring the apples, even the kernels into their stomachs.
Others sit in their cages, ignoring the apples that come in......
Instructor Eleanor hid in the shadows behind the steps, looking at an iron cage one by one, and sure enough, in the corner near the cellar, he saw Woods with his arms wrapped in bandages, locked in an iron cage, his face had obvious bruises and scars, and it looked like he should have been repaired by these slave traders.
Seeing Woods, Instructor Eleanor had no intention of lingering.
She slipped out while the half-blood elves were feeding the apples.
……
Roy hid with Instructor Nora in the bushes on the slopes, from evening until dark.
If it weren't for Instructor Nora's composure, Roy would have planned to rush into the cabin to see if Instructor Eleanor had had any accidents......
During this time, Instructor Virgil brought Scarlett Magician and Instructor Gru with him.
After a long wait, I finally saw the grass in front of me swaying slightly, and the figure of Instructor Eleanor appeared in front of everyone, the instructors had long been accustomed to it, Instructor Nora whispered to Instructor Eleanor:
"Did you find Woods?"
Instructor Eleanor took out a handkerchief at this time, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and replied in a low voice: "Found it, in the basement of the wooden house, there are a group of slave traders in the wooden house, there are six half-blood elves in the house, and a human magician......"
Hearing that there was a human mage in the room, Instructor Nora frowned.
Instructor Virgil rubbed the hilt of the sword at his waist and said:
"Let's rush in and get Woods out!"
Instructor Nora pressed Instructor Virgil's wrist and said to him:
"Wait a minute......"
Instructor Nora's gaze fell on the front of the cabin.
……
In the cabin, Wizard Benjamin finally convinced Jones with some difficulty:
The charts were not in his hands, and Abt was the key to whether or not he could draw them.
Wizard Benjamin smiled slightly, and said to Jones:
"I will urge him to draw the chart as soon as possible, even if there is a slight error, do not care, when the time comes, I will also accompany the ship, although I can't remember the route of the chart, but the islands along the way, I still remember some, once there is a deviation on the route, I can also correct it in time."
When the slave trader Jones heard Benjamin say this, he felt that Benjamin was full of sincerity, and his face became good......
Benjamin then said:
"Recently, the rumors have been very tight, and the elven army has been strictly investigating slave traders, so you must be careful."
Hearing Benjamin say this, Jones laughed and said confidently: "Benjamin, if you knew who was behind us, you wouldn't have such worries. ”
Today a change
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