Chapter 32: The Adventure Group
Chapter 32 The Adventure Group
Paul Greiman walks Morrison through the room while asking, “Isn’t there any treasure or anything like that here?”
“I’m not sure about that, the Shark Gang’s money is very tightly controlled, and it’s always been known only to the core few. But about two hours ago, a group of people came by and carted away some large and small boxes.”
“It looks like they really ran away with the money, help me pray to the Lord of Light to be able to them. But there’s still infighting at this juncture, they really don’t know how to die.”
Morrison heard very strange: “Infighting? Never seen a pirate infighting ah.”
Paul asked, “Then what’s the matter with these several pirate corpses?”
Morrison was puzzled: “Wasn’t it your people who did it, my lord? I hid after I heard the commotion.”
Paul panicked when he heard that and immediately ordered to the soldiers around him, “Pay attention to the alert, there might be others ambushed here.” After saying that, he took out a powder bottle to load ammunition for his pistol.
The soldiers pumped up their twelve points of energy and escorted the count to the first floor lobby.
At this time, a soldier ran out from the side corridor and came to stand in front of Paul and reported, “Report! Supervisor Cecil discovered a basement with some suspicious people in it, and has now disarmed them all. But the other party claimed that they are not pirates, and he asked for your advice on what to do.”
“Oh? So there really are other people in this church. Let’s go, lead me over there and take a look.”
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“How many times have I told you, we’re not pirates, have you ever seen a naturally beautiful maiden pirate like me?”
The head of the Leachman Adventure Group, Meru Heimer, wrinkled her eyebrows and protested loudly, now that her hands were tied, she could only vent her dissatisfaction in this way.
However, no matter how much she protested, the man with a gloomy face just turned a deaf ear and just stood across the room with his hands clasped to his chest.
“Release and don’t release, kill and don’t kill, what exactly do you want?” Meru asked aloud again, and again, it was stone cold.
The green-haired girl with the scholar’s cap advised, “Meru, stop shouting for now, I guess this man is waiting for his superior to deal with us.”
Alas, this time it was really in the gutter! Next to him, Dean sighed in his heart.
The plan went smoothly at first, and after two strange loud noises rang out outside the city, most of the pirates who stayed behind to guard the church were drawn over. They ambushed in the vicinity of the church and quietly waited for a while, very good luck, the church was not much left in the pirates and then separated a group of people to carry out a few large boxes loaded on the carriage to the pier side. They judged that the pirates could not resist the intention of the bottom of the oil skipped, can not wait, must seize the opportunity, in case the pirates will later transfer the hostages away on the bad.
The members of the Adventure Group, each showing their skills, raiding the church. There are still a few pirates left in the church, it is estimated that they are checking out what important things are still missing in the church, but in terms of combat power are all chickens, not their opponent at all, three times will be resolved. After the battle, they carefully searched the church, at the end of a corridor to find a basement entrance, went down and found that inside only Susan’s mayor grandfather, the old man has been tortured to unconsciousness, their initial target – the Horned Cove Alliance’s Bourne Grand Master is not here.
The leader of the group, Meru Helmer, decides to let the green-haired girl, Lardy, help Susan’s grandfather to go back first, while the rest of the group goes after the pirates. Just as the group was about to return to the surface, however, the sound of heavy footsteps came from above and they had to duck back into the basement.
Intelligence chief Cecil led the soldiers rushed into the basement, sensed that there are people inside, immediately ordered the gang of “pirates” surrendered, and affirmed that Lord Alda led by the army has arrived, resistance to the end of the death of a cloud.
Only then did the adventurers understand that the attack on the port of Fulan was the local lord’s army, and hastened to explain that they were not pirates, but came to rescue the kidnapped hostages of the adventurers.
How can the suspicious intelligence chief easily believe, insisted that the adventurers put down their weapons, the head of the Meru Heimer and is a hothead, the two men disliked each other, in the two sides of the sword is about to start, the adventurers of the group has always been calm Dean and Lardy persuade the head of the group, so the people surrendered their weapons, Cecil ordered to bind their hands, and then sent to ask for instructions from Paul.
Time passed, and after what felt like an incredibly long wait to the Adventure Crew, someone finally made their way down the stairs and into the basement. “A boy?” The crowd was very puzzled when they took a good look at the visitor.
Paul asked, “These are the suspicious people you caught?” A pink-haired flat-chested girl, a blue-haired white boy, a yellow-haired killjoy, and a green-haired girl with a scholar’s hat who couldn’t see much of what she looked like because the hat covered her and the light was too dim.
Cecil replied respectfully, “Yes, my lord. They claim to be adventurers from the south, here to rescue hostages kidnapped by pirates, but my subordinates think it’s better to be cautious.”
Paul nodded, “Well, you did very right.”
He turned to the crowd of adventurers, “Tell me, how do you prove your identity?”
The people of the Lichtman Adventure Group were surprised, listening to the boy’s voice, it was obvious that he was still in the stage of voice change, so his age was about fifteen, which was too young to be a lord.
The regiment Meru said eagerly, ”You are the lord of Ri? We are really here to save people, quickly release us.”
Dean heard tears, hurriedly attached to Meru’s ear and said quietly: “Lord regimental commander, we are now the meat on the chopping board of others, you can at least use a respectful title ah. The other party is a fiefdom noble like Greedy Wolf Giles, he is the master of his own territory, unlike our vestment nobles who are as easy to talk to. I’ve heard that these northern lords are brutal and tyrannical, so if he’s not happy, he’ll just find an excuse to cut us down and find someone to blame.”
Seeing the way they whispered, Paul became alert: “What are you doing? I warn you not to collude!”
Dean was about to open his mouth to defend himself, next to the silent companion Dyla suddenly said: “This noble lord, I think you should first take into account the safety of your own people, next to the old man who was tortured by the pirates to the point of unconsciousness is the mayor of the local town, please give a hand, his family can prove our identity.”
Paul looked to the green-haired girl who had spoken, and the girl stared back at him head on, revealing her face.
She was dressed in a traveling scholar’s outfit, all wrapped up in a tight package, her face above her stand-up collar displayed a charm far beyond that of the average woman, and her eyes had ruddy pupils that were extremely rare even in this world.
Just as Paul was staring at her, he suddenly felt a faint light in the girl’s pupils, was it an illusion?
A slight sense of dizziness came, he shook his head to dispel this feeling, and thought in his heart: “Alas, last night because the next day’s siege was too excited, did not sleep all night, now the spirit is atrophied, have to find a time to make up for a good night’s sleep. “
He resisted the urge to yawn and said, “Well, what you said has a few points. Cecil, do you know the mayor of Port Fullan?”
Cecil had a difficult look on his face, “I’m sorry my lord, I know that the mayor is an old man, but I’m not really sure exactly what he looks like.”
“You go find a healer to save this old man, and by the way, find some townspeople to confirm his identity.” Chief Ford, who was in charge of the territory’s political affairs, might know the local town mayor, but he didn’t come with the army.
“Yes!” Cecil answered and greeted two soldiers to carry the old man out.
Paul turned to the few from the adventuring group, “As for you guys, wait for the old man to wake up and prove your innocence before you can leave.” He wouldn’t be gullible enough to believe one side of the story just because there was a beautiful woman inside.
Dean said, “Lord Lord, the town mayor was unconscious when we arrived, and he doesn’t recognize us. But you can get his granddaughter Susan to testify for us.” Then he reported the address of Susan’s house.
Paul promised, “I’ll get her here right away, and I hope you are truly innocent.”
No one noticed the quiet sigh of relief from the green-haired girl off to the side.
(End of chapter)