They followed the same strategy they had used to find their last shop, walking down the street while asking Lisina to translate the sign. They didn't find a hotel, but they found some strange names such as "eyeball culture" and "tongue bifurcation surgery". Nick, who had not yet woken up from the wine, almost walked in and asked what it meant, but Seren stopped him in time.

By the time the evening breeze began to feel cold, the wine was almost awake. They walked into a particularly remote alley. The scrap wood piled on the ground was covered with thick vines, and the perforated empty barrels seemed to have been abandoned here for a long time, and the water stains were connected to the ground.

Rick sighed and said, "I'm thirsty. 」

"No way. Seren's walking steps became heavier.

They walked in front of the three shops. The first shop says it's a "nail dealer", then she moves on, pointing to the third shop and saying it's a "hook replacement".

Rick stood in front of the second store. Compared to the two shops before and after, the décor is noticeably newer, at least not covered by smudges. He pointed to the curtained glass of the shop and asked, "What is this one? What does it sell?"

"Nail dealer?" Lisna turned around, confused.

"No, the next one. 」

"Hook replacement?"

"No! There's another one between the nail dealers and the iron hook substitute, don't you see?" said Rick as he walked under the hanging sign in the second store, reached out and grabbed the sign.

For a moment, Lisna and Seren, as if startled by something that suddenly popped up, jumped back.

Xi Ke looked behind him suspiciously, there were no monsters.

"When was that shop there, is it magic?" asked Seren, pointing to the storefront.

Only then did Syk realize that neither Lisna nor Serene could see the shop. It wasn't until Rick grabbed the sign with his hand and pointed them through his body that there was something here. For them, the shop didn't exist until Syk grabbed the sign.

"Lisna. Signboard, what's written on it?" Rick shook the sign anxiously. Although the sign was made in the shape of a monster and did not look like it, he knew that a restaurant chain that had multiple branches in Altaro had such characteristics.

"Apple's dream. Lisna replied. Her eyes widened. She also remembered that Naimo would often take her to the chain.

Together, Rick and Lisna pushed open the door and scrambled inside.

"Welcome. A strange demonic phrase sounded in the store, like a parrot.

"Give me water. Rick walked straight up to the voice's owner and handed out a sum of money.

The owner of the voice is a member of the elven clan named Monmer. The Monmo in this shop looks exactly like the Monmo in the other store. Skinny, small, silvery-blue, shoulder-length hair parted aside. The skin is pale, the eyes are like two pearls, and there are no pupils. He wears a plaid shirt, black shorts, and an apron with winged apples printed on it. Around his neck he wore a modest metal ring with the numbers engraved on it: Seven, Five, Two, Four, Nine.

He took the money and took out a large jug of water for Xi Ke. Xi Ke immediately poured most of the pot into his stomach.

The interior of the store looks like you're inside a cave. The walls are uneven stone walls, and there is a dripping stalactite in the depths. From the outside of the store, it seems that this cannot be inside a cave. This branch is a little more spacious than the one where Nemo took Syk to eat last time. There were four tables outside the bar where Meng Mo was standing. The store was empty, and there were no other customers.

Filled with water, he asked, "Aren't you an Earth Enterprise, and how come you have a shop here?"

"This is an era of cross-border development, and we also need to develop the intersectoral market. Monmer said as he wiped his already very shiny cup. He switched to the standard language of the Ethero, "What to eat?"

"Two parts for the Ethero Humans, one for the Demons. Rick said.

Monmer turned and busied. He made two human meals and put them in the oven, and then a demon meal. Zuihou he made another extra-large meal. It was a fruit and vegetable roll the size of a watermelon. It contained two cabbages, six apples, two melons, a large number of cucumbers, corn shoots, boiled eggs, and so on. He wrapped them in a universal pie crust and pushed them across the bar.

Then he took out a pen and paper and put them on the table, and asked Rick, "What do you want to know?" Eat at Apple's Dream and order with grapevine. Monmer's way of doing business is very popular with black market members.

Rick asked, "Do you know where the Merger is?"

"We don't know. What is the Merger?" said Monmor, shaking his head. The Merger is a law-abiding fishing vessel, and its contents are very legal, whether it is the business it conducts or the route it sails, and it has nothing to do with the black market. No wonder Meng Mo didn't know. The black market has no interest in the ship, and no news about it will be circulated.

"So-what's that name? The four-handed guy, the one who fought me in the ring—" Rick frowned and turned to look at Seren, who pronounced the bartender's introductory words in the original pronunciation. When Meng Mo listened, he knew who Rick was talking about.

Rick asked, "Where's the dockyard of the organization to which he belongs?"

"We know, they're famous. Monmer began to write, "Their dock is connected to the water system, near the top of the mountain. We draw the map for you. 」

「xiexie。 Finally there was a clue, and Rick sighed.

After the food was baked, the three of them gathered around the table and ate it all at once. Syk went to order the rat series of pastries, and Seren added a lot of food, so they had a lot of money to ask questions. After they had asked all the information about the four-handed men's fleet and the situation of the dockyard, Serenie asked Captain Naringer about the background of the mage captain who had destroyed the slave auction. He huddled at the bar with Rick to listen.

"Naringer is from the country of Sarafaydo in Ethero and is a graduate of the University of Venthal. 」

Rick let out a "wow" exclamation. It was the top mage university in Ataro, named after the founder of the Staff of Light. Each class of students is booked out by major companies before they graduate. It was that university that refused to allow the privilege of the congenital transformer, Norpige Snowson, to be admitted.

"Did you know that Sarafaydo is a big country in the Altaro region?" Monmer continued, his hand writing, "After graduating, Naringe worked for a cross-border international transportation company...... Seven years ago, his merchant ships were besieged by pirates. Merchandise was looted, crews were sold into slavery, and so did he.

"Nearly three years ago, he killed his master, freed the slaves on the same boat, and took the ship himself as its captain. Later, in the same way, many ships were liberated and their own flotillas were organized. He usually made a living by eating black and black, and would also join forces with the white way, mainly to obstruct the slave trade.

"His style of conduct is typical of the high-level Ethero intellectuals, with the spirit of an ancient scholar, who takes it as his duty to protect others. After forming the fleet, he has been tracking the whereabouts of the kidnapped crew members and rescuing them by various means. Because his reputation is getting louder and louder, some captains are afraid that they will be killed if they are hostile to him, so they take the initiative to release the crew, so the search and rescue operation is relatively smooth, and many only get the news of death.

"Now there is only one person who does not know his whereabouts. 」

Serian asked, "Didn't he think about going back to Atari?

"He won't go back to Altaro until he finds everyone. 」

When he heard about Captain Naringer, he admired him. With Captain Naringer's academic experience, he will definitely be able to live a stable and well-paid life when he returns to Etero, and he doesn't need to fight for his life at the end of Shijie to save the crew, and live this kind of life of blood and mud.

But he chose to stay here and continue the fight, for the sake of his crew, and for the sake of many others who had suffered the same thing as him.

For a sense of responsibility. What a great sentiment this is.

Seren's voice suddenly interrupted Syk's thoughts, "That's stupid, he should go back to Etello right away!" he said quickly and urgently. Apparently he was making a scathing criticism of Captain Naringer, but his tone sounded more like a justification for himself: "Does he really know what he's doing? How stupid does a person have to be to waste his life in such a poor country?"

"Hey, he's great, okay? This has nothing to do with waste!" Rick couldn't help but get angry when he heard this, and glared at Seren.

Seren raised his palm and made an impatient movement to hit the back with the back of his hand slightly: "He obviously has a great future and is saved, and it won't be good if he doesn't bring the crew back!"

Rick spoke louder and louder, "That's why it's great. It was a difficult choice for him to sacrifice his future to save the slaves!"

The two men clasped their fists close to each other and glared at each other.

"It's because he's so stupid. Serenne said.

Rick took a deep breath, inhaled until his entire ribcage expanded to the limit, and exhaled, "Even if he chooses to save the slaves, no one will say that you are wrong that you are not committed to saving the slaves. You don't need to defend yourself by criticizing him. 」

"I'm not—" Serenian wanted to say more, but what Rick said hit the nail on the head, and he couldn't hold on to his original words. He shook his head and sat back, resting his right elbow on the bar table, hunched over his back and supporting his forehead with his fingers.

"What the hell is going on?" Cyck didn't just let Seren go. He rested his left hand on the bar and leaned forward, staring at Seren's expression, "I feel like you're getting frustrated easily, and you're trying to find reasons to give up. Obviously no one blames you, but you blame yourself first, and even start attacking people who are better than you. What happened to you that made you like this?"

"All things. Seren let go of the hand holding his head, waved it twice, exhaled, and whispered in a voice just enough to hear, "It's not 'anything,' it's everything. With that, he fell silent.

Syk saw that Seren's chatterbox was closed again, and decided to solve the problem in one go. He grabbed Seren's collar with both hands and pulled it to his side, threatening Seren's teeth and cracking his mouth at close range. Xi Ke said word by word: "Give me, detail, detail, handover, replacement, come out!"

In the face of such an explicit threat of "bite you if you don't say anything", Serian felt that his life and dignity would be in danger if he resisted any longer, so he had to tell the story: "On a previous mission, one of my comrades cut off the prisoner's hand. Because the prisoner didn't want to break up with his girlfriend, he took the woman hostage with a knife. In order to protect the woman, my comrade cut off the man's hand with the holy sword, after the warning was ineffective. 」

"Is the girl alright?" asked Rick.

"Unharmed. 」

"So, what's the problem?" asked Rick again. The victim is safe and sound, isn't there no problem?

"We later helped him ice the prisoner's hand. Seeing that Rick was not at all inclined to ask what had happened to the prisoner, Serian added to himself. The correct way to ice a severed limb is to wrap it in clean, wrung out moist gauze or towel, seal it with a plastic bag, and then put it in another plastic bag with ice cubes. It should never be placed directly in an ice pile or soaked in water, as frostbite and immersion will necrosis faster. Seren continued, "Later, I was sent to the hospital, and I was brought back, and it was inevitable to rebuild. The problem was that the prisoner's family later accused my colleagues of mishandling. They say that knights should find a way to solve the problem without getting anyone hurt, and that it is not justice to cut people. 」

Xi Ke listened quietly.

Serian continued, "Another colleague is a police officer who works with us. He brought a serial rapist to court, only to be released by the judge who ordered bail. That night, the prisoner immediately committed another crime, this time rape and murder. The victims' families were of course furious, and the judges had gone back. As a result, the judge said that it was the prosecution's fault that the prosecution did not tell him clearly how dangerous the prisoner was. Seren's voice was lowered, and he said almost to himself, "Anyone with common sense knows that serial rapists are dangerous, right? Anyone who knows anything about crime should know that this kind of prisoner has a high rate of recidivism, right? Anyone who is willing to see how evil a prisoner is can tell from the information we submitted that this guy is only one step away from murder, right?"

Rick nodded, his lips pursed.

"This time too. In order to search the office of La Maha, the faces of those parliamentarians who were so troublesome did not match their usual declaration of integrity.

"I'm starting to wonder if justice is only meaningful for the victims? For others, those who uphold justice are making trouble for them, and justice is just an excuse for them to put on show, and it shouldn't be put on top of their cheapness. It's better if no one is administering justice, and they can use the pretext of 'restorative justice' to interpret justice dictatorship.

"If guarding justice is so great, and the weishenme?weishenme knights guard justice, and the reward is that the officials smear them, the parliamentarians scold them, and the people use them as horses, and the weishenme does a good thing, but it makes the knights' lives worse?"

Rick had let go of Seren, and he put his elbows back on the bar, his hands on his cheeks. He made sure that Serene didn't have any more to say before he asked, "Have you talked to anyone else about these questions?"

Seren's gaze avoided Syck, and began to drift towards the corner of the room where there was nothing.

Xi Ke squinted, leaned forward and approached Seren: "You didn't say anything, and you kept holding it by yourself?"

"Isn't that okay?" Seren finally made eye contact with Rick, his lips tightened a little angrily, "Everyone is very burdened, how can I use this kind of unseemly trouble to annoy them. 」

Syk stared at Seren's face for a long time. Feeling a lot of pressure when he stared at Seren, he shrunk his neck and stepped back, stuffing rat pies into his mouth to ease the tension.

After a long time, Rick finally spoke, "You are too arrogant. 」

Serenia choked and coughed violently. With them only fifty centimeters away now, he almost sprayed the rat-pie red bean filling onto Rick's face. He quickly wiped his mouth with a tissue and asked suspiciously, "Weishenme is arrogant?" If it is weakness, he can still understand it, arrogance is not touched at all.

Nick finally let Seren go, and stopped stabbing him with his sharp eyes. Xi Ke straightened his upper body, pulled away from him, crossed his left thigh on his right thigh, and crossed his hands on his abdomen: "What did the Knights make such a big organization for? I thought it was for team fighting, didn't it? If you take on work-related things alone, you lose the meaning of calling for support at every turn, right?"

Serian said, "It's just my personal confusion. 」

"With your personality, if your companion has this kind of confusion, you will listen to him for days and nights, right?"

Serene thought for a moment before replying, as if he had never conceived in this direction before. He said, "It seems so. 」

"I don't know what the situation is in your group. But I know that what you want is not human, so I say you are arrogant. You intend to take responsibility for the evil choices of others, and that is simply not something you can control. Rick spoke slowly, to make sure Seren's voice was complete: "If you're as powerless as I am, then every time a bad guy is sanctioned, you'll fight again for believing in justice. But you are too strong, and the general evil is no match for you, and as a result, you pick the bones and the eggs. Ordinary battles against evil, and evil have wins and losses against each other, can't satisfy you. You want total victory, you want to completely destroy evil, and let justice reign in every corner. As long as you don't, you're going to get a blow. 」

Serian was speechless.

"You can't think of things that humans can do, so I say you're arrogant. Rick poked Seren's forehead with his index finger.

Seren froze there for five seconds before he reached out and touched his forehead and asked, "What the hell should I think about it? The knight doesn't have to think about it—justice?"

"I didn't tell you to give up justice, I just told you to plan small and bother with what you can do. Don't think about the things that can't be done, it will only make you waste your energy on disappointment. For example, you can think about how we are going to get back to Ataro alive. Rick picked up the kettle again and poured water.

"That is, to be practical. Serian began to think.

"Hmm. If you idealize too much, you can't count it as a merit. Going too far is like a mouth cannon. Rick put down the empty kettle. Meng Mo immediately took it and exchanged it for a full pot.

"Isn't it necessarily right to insist on protecting the good?" Seren's voice grew quieter and quieter, and his back became hunched over his back.

"Kindness is right, of course!" said Rick exclaimed.

Serene looked up at Rick.

Cheek laughed and said, "Compared to the person who will stab himself, of course I am the one who will give me food when I am dying of hunger!"

Serian couldn't help but smile bitterly, "The value of good and evil is too realistic. 」

"Reality equals work!" said Nick, and went on to order the next Mouse pastry. He said, "In order to ensure that one day when I am dying of hunger, someone will reward me with food, and if I have liliang, I will protect those good people who are willing to lend a helping hand to the weak, so that they can multiply, and this is justice!"

"What are you going to say about Naringer, he doesn't need those slaves at all. 」

"His crew helped him fight. Those must be the slaves he rescued, right?"

"That's right. But if he returns home, he won't need them. 」

"Have you ever heard of the financial tsunami? Since ancient times, feng shui has taken turns, and things are difficult to tell—"

"Yes. But I still think that with Naringer's ability, he doesn't need to be rewarded at all, so he has no reason to be on the side of justice—"

"Ahh

"Absolutely not!" Se waved his hand again and again: "Last time, someone asked her, but she was scolded for not being human!"

Rick growled, "So, she agrees that your troubles are self-inflicted!"

Serian crossed his hands on his chest, tilted his head from side to side to think, and after a while, he laughed out loud, followed by a daxiao, laughing until tears flowed out. He wiped his tears with his fingers and said, "I suddenly feel so relaxed. Weird, I feel so comfortable talking to you. Is it because you are not a good citizen?"

"Hmph. Rick replied in a nasal voice, eating his rat muffin. After doing it for a long time, it turned out that Serene just didn't work well and accumulated too much pressure. It's good to talk about all your troubles and vent them. Rick has learned something new about Seren. This person is afraid of loneliness, but he is very strong and strong, so he swallows it in his stomach when he encounters setbacks, and the pressure will break the table if he is not careful. He had a bad premonition that as one of the very few people who had the ability to force Seren to spit out his emotions, the bad relationship between him and Seren might continue to be cut like this.

One cannot trust in those who are weaker than oneself. It is one thing to work together and to recognize the reliability of the other person in the work, but it is impossible to do so mentally. Only those who identify as equal or stronger than themselves may let the other person bear their own mental pressure.

Syk can make Serene feel terrified, and for that reason, he is a match for Seren.

Syk is qualified to listen to Seren's troubles.

I don't know if it's sincere, or if it's just causing too much trouble for Syk, and trying to please him, Serian looks up at the top of the cave and says, "Naringer is really great. 」

"You still need to say it. Xi Ketou didn't reply. There was no anger in his tone. Although he had said those words to Seren, he had not thought about them himself before he spoke. Seren, who is disappointed in justice, is not alone, but also by Syke. In order to solve the problem of Seren's scolding, Xike actually said what he really thought that he hadn't even found out.

If I had liliang - Rick just said this hypothesis that is not currently visible to be possible.

Although he is so weak now, he wants to be on the side of justice.