Chapter 28 Port Fulan
Dean Ithaca turned into the alley next to the street. After confirming that no one was following him, he walked to the door of a private house and knocked three times, then paused briefly. Knock twice.
The door opened, and a girl stuck her head out. After glancing at the roads on both sides, she grabbed Dean's clothes and pulled him in.
"Hey! Be gentle, your clothes will be torn to pieces." Dean protested dissatisfied.
“You still have the nerve to say that if you haven’t come back after being out for so long, you thought something happened to you.”
The pink-haired girl frowned and put her hands on her hips, obviously a little angry.
"Huh? Huh? The sun is rising in the west. Are you worried about me, the leader?" Dean pretended to be surprised.
"You - believe it or not, I'll give you a slap in the face!" The girl's face turned red and she raised a hammer that was quite inconsistent with her physique.
Dean immediately raised his hands to beg for mercy: "Spare my life, spare my life!"
"Hey! You two have time to flirt, right? Susan's grandfather is still in the hands of the pirates. ." A tall young man with yellow hair said helplessly.
Then his face came into "close contact" with the girl's hammer.
"If you don't speak, no one will think you are mute, you 'fly'." The girl said sadly while holding the hammer.
The yellow-haired Shamat young man covered his bulging cheeks and said sadly: "It's the leader, I don't dare to do it anymore."
As soon as he finished speaking, Two more people walked out of the back room, a girl wearing a pointed academic hat and a girl with a ponytail. Only the girl with a ponytail in the room was wearing Northwest Bay-style civilian clothes. She said happily: "It turns out to be brother Dean." Back."
The two couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that Dean was back safely.
The girl dressed as a scholar asked: "Dean, have you found out any information?"
"I really got a lot of useful information."
Everyone sat around the table After coming down, Dean continued: "The whole town of Port Fulan has been put under martial law and no one is allowed to enter or leave. I heard that the pirates hit a snag some time ago."
The hammer girl asked dissatisfiedly: "Who asked you? Now, where is Susan’s grandfather and the goal of our trip?”
“Don’t worry, I’ll tell you right now. I got a pirate kid drunk and took some out of his mouth. Things, Susan's grandfather and our target are imprisoned in the church, but I went to take a look nearby. The pirate handles are very tight, so it is difficult to get close there. "
The hammer girl shouted dissatisfied: "Why is it so troublesome? Let me tell you, can't we just rush in, pull out the 'shark', give him a good beating, and let him hand him over to us?"
Dean smiled helplessly, "Captain, you have to consider the comparison of the numbers of the enemy and ourselves."
The hammer girl glared angrily: "Then what do you think we should do?"< br>
Dean was unhurried: "I do have a plan, and this goes back to what I said at the beginning. Do you know how big a setback the pirates encountered some time ago? They lost more than 400 numbers. People! This is almost half of the Shark Gang.”
The bruised and swollen Shamat asked, “Who is so powerful?”
Dean spread his hands and said: "That little guy doesn't know. Haven't you served in the army? You should understand. For these low-level people, the superiors often don't want them to know too much. If the other party is too strong, they may desert. He just informed him when the battle was about to happen and then pushed him to the front to serve as cannon fodder. He also learned about the loss of more than 400 people through his acquaintances."
The hammer girl: "It's possible. The lord’s army, Su...?”
“Stop joking, do our lords care about the lives of coastal civilians? They sold us to pirates more than ten years ago.”
Before the hammer girl finished asking, the ponytail girl said something tough.
The girl's face changed from the previous expression, which seemed to be disdain and anger, and she clenched her little hand into a fist.
“The shameless nobles have the audacity to come to us to collect taxes every quarter. As the mayor, in addition to satisfying the pirates’ greedy appetites, my grandfather also has to deal with the tax collectors sent by the pig-headed lords. For this reason, he is still complained by many townspeople. ”
As she spoke, the girl’s eyes became moist, and tears welled up in her eyes.
Miss Scholar immediately put her hand on the girl's back and comforted: "Don't be sad, everyone should just talk about it, and understand the old man in their hearts. Otherwise, why would you elect your grandfather to be the mayor every year? "How long?"
The ponytail girl wiped away her tears and sobbed: "Well... I know everyone's feelings. Being blackmailed by pirates and lords at the same time, there will inevitably be some complaints." "Uh-huh!" Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit heavy, Dean cleared his throat to attract everyone's attention and continued to talk about his plan:
"No matter who is the one who caused the pirates to hit the wall, but judging from their recent deployment, which includes reinforcing fortifications and prohibiting entry and exit, it seems that the other party will soon come to Fulan Port to deal with them."
"Now There are only a few hundred pirates in the town. According to the information I got, most of them will be sent to the city gate for defensive operations, and only about 20 people will be left in the church."
"We. It's impossible to tell whether the visitor is good or evil. Since Susan said that the local lords are very incompetent, I guess it may be another group of pirates coming to fight. We can only hope that we can take advantage of the chaos... ...That way..."
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After everyone discussed the details of the action, the hammer girl made the final decision: "Huh! It's very simple! Let's do it like this. Just stay here. If we gather together, I think we can break through now."
"No way, who asked you to take on two missions, leader?"
"Hmph! I am also thinking about the future of our adventure group. But having said that, our target - the Horned Bay Alliance What is Young Master Foster doing here? "
"What other reason could there be? A rich young man like him is just having his brain burned out by some knight adventure novels. I fantasized about slaying the evil dragon, saving the princess, etc. The evil dragon was not found, but there were evil people. Wasn't this the territory of the great pirate Edward before? I heard that many people challenged him before, but none of them succeeded and they were all eaten. We caught a fish. This young master of ours is really lucky, just in time for Edward to be away.”
The ponytail girl said: “Brother Dean, Sister Melu, I want to help you too, let alone save. There is also my grandfather. I will go with you then. I am familiar with the inside of the church.”
“No! Susan, just stay at home and wait for us.” Good news.”
The hammer girl refused, a serious expression appeared on her face.
“I, Meru Heimer, bet the name of the Leachman Adventure Group on my promise to send your grandfather home safely.”
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At this time, the church in Port Fulan has become the headquarters of the pirates of the Shark Gang. The big and small leaders gathered in a certain room for a meeting to discuss the recent defeat.
The leader 'Shark', who was dressed in a classic pirate costume with a sinister face and an eyepatch on his left eye, said bitterly: "No wonder that guy 'Loach' ran back to the sea in a panic. It turns out that Gray The boy from the Man family really has some skills.”
A small leader said: "Boss, let's evacuate to the sea. The brothers below are a little panicked. Rumors that there are wizards inside the other party have spread."
The shark was furious and threw all the people in front of him. The water glass was smashed to pieces: "Give me the order, whoever dares to say nonsense again that I pulled out his tongue!"
"You still want to go back to the sea to live a life of wandering and helplessness, eating the last meal but not the next one? Days? Now that I have finally got rid of the nosy evil star of Edward, I have to swallow this piece of fat in Port Fulan."
"But this land belongs to the Graiman family... …”
“I don’t care what belongs to Graimann or Silemann, it’s mine if I take it.”
A former leader of the Quik Gang who had taken refuge showed fear: "But Boss Shark, their 'wizard' over there..." Before he could finish speaking, he remembered Shark's order not to talk nonsense and hurriedly shut up.
Shark looked like he hated iron. "Use your brains. If they really had wizards, magic, etc., the church would have troubled them a long time ago. Would they still have time to deal with us?"
Then he confidently said: "It's nothing more than some uncommon weapons. I carefully asked those brothers who had experienced it personally and summarized a set of methods to deal with them. As long as you wear thick armor, even It's thicker clothing, and those iron nails and debris won't cause much damage. As for the tubes that can shoot iron projectiles, they are nothing more than things like bows and arrows, but the projectiles are fired faster. It's more powerful, and the number is very small."
Although the shark's mouth was stiff, he was secretly afraid. He had seen a pirate who had been shot by Quaker. His arm was almost useless, and he died of a persistent high fever a few days later.
But he must not show it clearly, otherwise how could he fool his men into committing suicide, so he said some encouraging words, promising how many benefits he would give them after permanently occupying Fulan Port, etc.
All the subordinates were inspired by the shark, and Graiman's secret weapon seemed to be less terrifying. They all expressed their intention to follow their boss and fight to the death with Graiman's army.
"By the way, what happened to the old man, the mayor, and the young master of the Corner Bay Alliance?"
"The old man still refuses to cooperate and refuses to acknowledge your title of lord no matter how tortured you are. The young master is honest and writes whatever he is asked to do. "
"Huh! I have plenty of time to play with the old man when I stop the dog-headed noble army, but he won't admit it at that time. Use it. The young master is looking after me, he is our cash cow.”
“Yes, boss!”
(End of this chapter)