Chapter 187 Rescue 2

Chapter 187 Rescue 2
Xie La didn’t care to hide it and said anxiously, “Yes, my daughter …… Scholar Dirac, is my daughter Ladisertia Gerard!”

Quirk jumped up at once, “A female counselor?”

Then slapped himself hard on the head.

“What a stupid pig I am! Green hair, so handsome looking, and that familiar figure, isn’t it just Ms. Counselor?”

But now it was too late to complain about my stupidity, since the other party’s mother had come to ask for help, how could he not help? Escorting their family back to the Northwest Bay safely was his own mission.

“Mrs. Sertia? Where is your daughter now?”

“Should be in the forest north of Nisborough, the parrot will take us there.”

“A parrot?”

It was only then that Quirk realized that a parrot had somehow landed on Mrs. Sertia’s shoulder.

“Yes, this parrot is in tune with my daughter’s mind, and it senses that Ladi is in danger.”

Despite the many doubts in his mind, Quirk didn’t doubt the other woman, Lady Lardy was highly trusted by Earl Gladman, and what could be wrong with her mother as she herself admitted.

Moreover, the place where she was in danger was a forest, so it shouldn’t be an entanglement with the government of the Horned Cove Alliance, and most likely she ran into bandits or wild animals.

But if he really got into trouble with the alliance government, then he could only go to the Foster family for help.

He immediately sent the sailors to the cabin to wake up everyone, and then called the first mate, the second mate, and Lardy’s mother to the captain’s cabin.

Quirk briefly explained the situation and immediately made arrangements:

He and the second mate led thirty men to follow Lady Thothia to the forest north of the city to search for Miss Ladi, while the second mate led the remaining ten men to guard the Southern.

All of them had no objections and immediately began to move.

The sailor on duty who was responsible for waking them up had already told his companions the reason for the incident, and they were incredulous to learn that Mr. Dirac, who had been on the same ship for so long, was the dainty female advisor beside the Lord.

And this beautiful female adviser is now even in danger, a group of excitement, clamoring to save the hero.

Quirk even saved the pre-battle mobilization, immediately ordered thirty men, ordered them to take their weapons and go ashore in formation.

Curious, a few bratty prospects eagerly wanted to sign up, they too wanted to see the outskirts of the city, and going on a rescue mission in the middle of the night was exciting to think about.

Then they were locked into the captain’s cabin.

There was a clamor in the cabin as the men pulled out their own gear. For the safety of this southward exploration, the navy had taken great pains to prepare, in addition to cannons and gunpowder, the Southern ship was also loaded with 40 handguns with socketed bayonets, and 10 “big spitballs” – large caliber short-barreled muskets that could fire loose bullets.

Sheila watched in amazement as the sailors ran ashore to line up with their “guns”.

Captain Quirk had ordered them to prepare their weapons, but what strange things they had come up with.

She saw some of them put a spiky thing onto the end of a strange “stick” – she didn’t know how to describe it, but it seemed to have an iron pipe embedded in it – and it was quite a sight. It was kind of like a spear, but much shorter than a real spear.

But the group was well-trained, and in just a few minutes they were lined up in a neat line on the dock, so it was clear that Captain Quirk must have drilled them hard during the day.

Sheila was even more amazed, she had never seen an army that could do that.

Yes, an army, and now she knew for sure that this was a real army, not just an expedition.

Quake said to Xela, “Mrs. Sertia, just please …… uh …… just please lead the way with that parrot of yours. “

Xela nodded.

“Please, Polly.”

Polly, the parrot resting on her shoulder, immediately spread her wings and flew off into the air, squawking as she did so to give her bearings, with Xyla following close behind.

“All hands on deck! Stay close to Lady Thothia.” At the captain’s command, the impromptu rescue team took off at a fast pace.

……

At the northern gates of Fort Ness, a few City Guard soldiers were roasting a small fire; the fall and winter months in the Horn were not as cold as the north, but it was a bit cool to be standing outside in the middle of the night for a long time.

The soldiers huddled together, listening to the captain ramble on about the world while he barred his pipe.

“You youngsters, you’ve never heard of many of the old legends about Fort Ness.”

“Chief, you’re a local here, right, so you must know a lot?”

The captain raised his head, a slight smugness on his face.

“Of course, my family told me every day when I was little.”

“Tell me a few to hear!”

Seeing that his men had their appetites whetted, the captain opened his box.

“It is said that before the Horned Bay Alliance was even formed, Fort Ness was nothing more than a small, ordinary town by the sea.”

“It was bad luck for the people who lived here, they prayed to the Lord of Light every day for their lives to be safe, and if it wasn’t for a spice that was a specialty of this place, the people would have left long ago. The residents face the threat of a horrible plague.”

Was it a horror story? The soldiers gulped, “It’s …… what kind of plague is it?”

The captain had a mysterious expression on his face and said word for word:
“The wolf plague!”

“Wolf plague?”

The soldiers were surprised, there were quite a few wolves around Fort Ness, but they rarely attacked passersby on the main road, as long as they didn’t forget to run deeper into the forest, they would be fine.

The captain nodded and confirmed, “That’s right, wolf plague!”

“Captain, the wolves we have here seem to be very tame.”

“Hmph! That’s now, it wasn’t like this a hundred years ago!”

The captain continued to play mysterious.

“It is said that a long time ago, the wolves of Fort Ness were very fond of – eating people!”

“Not the way they do now, only looking for the unlucky ones lost in the depths of the forest! Rather, they attacked merchants and travelers in packs in broad daylight, and those wolves were very organized, just like a human army.”

The soldiers scrunched their necks.

“The biggest packs nowadays are only about a dozen or so, but back then the wolves appeared in hundreds and hundreds.”

“By the time the moon is full, it’s even more of a time when hell descends on the people of Fort Ness, when the hungry wolves aren’t content with robbing pedestrians on the roads anymore, but instead, they’ll take it upon themselves to attack the towns by storming into yards with unlocked doors and taking poultry, livestock, and even human children.”

“The pioneers suffered terribly, not that they didn’t try to organize themselves to clear out the wolves, but they suffered heavy losses when they went deeper into the forest. Legends-“

“Legends of what?”

“Legend has it that there is a wolf king leading them ……”

Just then, a wolf howl suddenly came from far and near, and the captain and soldiers could hear it clearly.

“Ow-“

(End of chapter)