Chapter 124 1 Child

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Ride a horse from the Whitewater River wharf in New Cecil Land, just a day's journey from Tanzania.

At the last section of the journey, Gao Wen and his party detoured from the main road and reached the stone bridge in front of Tanzania town under the cover of trees. Then, they lurked on the south side of the stone bridge and watched the Tanzania gate opposite the bridge.

"Did you notice? The town seems to be under martial law," Pittman muttered in a low voice, looking at the gate from a distance, "There are no pedestrians on the bridge, the number of soldiers at the gate is abnormal, and there are many by the pier next to the town. The boats, all seem to be detained there."

The shadow under the nearby bushes twisted for a while, and Amber's figure poked out from the shadow: "I just watched the road for a long time, and I didn't see any caravans or travelers passing by. The martial law in the town should last at least two days... …”

"It seems that the town was restricted from entering and leaving the town just after Golden Eyed Pigger's ship left here," Gawain analyzed, "As planned, Byron will stay in Tanzania to continue recruiting serfs. It's hard to get out, no wonder no news came back."

Amber Crow pouted: "Could something have happened already?"

Gawain shook his head: "Looking at the situation of the gate, the town only restricts access, and the order inside is still normal. Byron is a mercenary, and he is very slick, so he won't fall into trouble in this environment."

"Cough, the question is how do we get in," Pittman coughed twice, "Tanzan town is surrounded by rivers and mountains on both sides, and the entrance is only a stone bridge and a gate in front of the town, all under the eyes of the soldiers - swaggering. Are you going in?"

An upright person like Knight Philip couldn't help shaking his head: "I don't know the situation in the town now. In case the cultists have controlled Viscount Andrew, our appearance will definitely arouse the vigilance of those sinners."

It turns out that the young knight was just stubborn and upright, he wasn't stupid...

Gao Wen narrowed his eyes slightly, and a high-definition satellite imagery image immediately formed in his mind.

"Tanzan Mine has a road that can go around from the east side of the town to the back of the town, and it can be directly close to the castle area," Gawain opened his eyes, "but crossing the river is still a problem, this bridge is... Who?!"

Gawain suddenly sensed a weak and sneaky aura swaying nearby, and immediately turned his head in that direction and asked, and after he made a sound, Amber realized the "dissonance" from the surrounding shadow fluctuations. "Shadow", immediately took out two daggers and turned the knife in front of him: "Come out! We have found you!"

Deathly silence in the jungle,

But after a while, the bushes under a certain tree suddenly swayed twice, and then a small dirty and messy head emerged from the back of the bushes. With tousled trimmed hair and a pile of patched and ripped burlap shorts, this is a typical poor man, sallow, stunted, and stunted from years of malnutrition, but he has only one pair of eyes, a pair of Bright eyes were on his face, with a gleam and brilliance in them that adults of his class did not have.

But at the moment, these big eyes were filled with a layer of light mist, which was full of horror. He stood up from the bushes in a daze, his body trembled slightly, and he even seemed to have forgotten to escape.

"Is it a child?" Knight Philip frowned, never expecting that "lurking" in the jungle, the sneaky activity would be such a child who looked like his early 10-year-old - and he didn't have any power fluctuations, the code of knights The training bar about helping the weak made his face a little slower, but the knight's martial arts training made him not dare to take his hand from the hilt directly, "Don't be afraid - come slowly."

The child suddenly screamed "Ah" in horror, then turned his head and ran away.

"You're carrying such a big sword, it's a ghost if you don't run!" Amber glanced at Philip like a fool, and then the figure flashed into the shadows. After a while, the direction of the child's escape was reported. There was a short exclamation, and then the shade of the tree in front of Gawain wriggled, and Amber emerged from the shadow with the collar of the child in his hand—a ghost-level shadow talent is good, this guy just follows his body when he runs. Comes with any door.

The child was easily captured by Amber, and he probably went through a short trip to the Shadow Realm in the middle, which made him completely stunned and completely forgot to escape, but his fear increased sharply. So much so that Gawain felt that he might be scared to cry in the next second - but the child just clenched his face and pursed his lips. In the end, he didn't cry out, he just looked at the stranger in front of him in fear.

"Don't be afraid," Amber hurriedly took advantage of this time to comfort the child, "We are not good people..."

Gawain immediately glared at this shame of all things.

"Ah, no, we are not bad people," Amber quickly corrected, and then explained to Gawain apologetically, "The occupational disease in the past has not been corrected..."

"We won't hurt you," Knight Philip put his hand on the little boy's head. "Look, I'm a knight, and I'll protect you."

The little boy shivered with fright at first, but after hearing Philip's words, he calmed down a little, and nodded his head in confusion.

Gawain took advantage of this moment to speak: "You are the child of someone nearby? Why are you wandering in the woods?"

The little boy was taken aback by Gawain, a burly 2-meter tall man with a Chinese-style face, and he stepped back again and again.

"Don't be afraid, he is my lord," Knight Philip said quickly, "he is a good man of integrity and kindness."

At this time, Amber saw that the little boy did not speak from the beginning to the end, and couldn't help but muttered: "Could he be a mute?"

Just as Gawain was about to say that there is no basis, don't be blind, but saw Pittman frowning next to him, and then the old Druid stepped forward and pinched the little boy's chin, opened his mouth and took a closer look.

"His tongue was cut off," the old Druid said after a moment of silence, "and at least two years."

What Gawain wanted to say was suddenly choked on his chest. He didn't know how the expression on his face changed at that moment, only that Amber shrank his head suddenly when he looked at him, and then he suppressed his anger: "So Little child, what crime do you have to have your tongue cut off?!"

Even the barbaric and backward medieval laws will not cut off the tongues of children under the age of fourteen - even the Church of the Blood God, known for its harshness of iron and blood, thinks that children of this age are "sinless with words" !

Pittman shook his head: "The tongue cutting technique is skilled, and there are traces of magic treatment. It is not a crime to be punished, but a dumb child servant, most of which is a slave of a big businessman - those big businessmen often do this, and they use dumb servants as dumb children. Personal servants, because they can neither speak nor write, unless they encounter an extraordinary person who knows soul magic, they will never reveal the master's secret."

Gao Wen: "..."

He didn't know what he should say at this moment, and before he could speak, the little mute whose tongue had been cut off made a move-he suddenly stared at Knight Philip's breastplate, and then grabbed the arm of the young knight. , while pointing to a place on the breastplate, "Aah" shouted.

Philip was at a loss for a while, but this young and promising Mr. Knight had absolutely no experience in dealing with children. He opened his hands to indicate that he did not understand the other party's meaning at all, but Gawain noticed something on the child's finger: "You Have you seen this emblem?"

"Ah...ah!" The little mute nodded again and again, pointing harder at the things on Philip's breastplate.

That is the emblem of the Cecil family.

With a move in Gawain's heart, he instantly connected certain things, and immediately asked, "Where did you see it?!"

The little mute gestured indiscriminately, making a vague sound in his mouth, but he was completely unable to communicate with others, so he seemed extremely anxious, and finally the child simply jumped to a nearby stone, stood on a high point and pointed at a certain person. direction, desperate gestures.

Then he jumped down, grabbed Gawain's hand, and shook it vigorously.

Gawain: "Do you know where it is, let us go with you?"

The little mute nodded vigorously, with a pleading look on his face.

Gawain exchanged glances with the people around him, and without much thought, decided to follow the child.

Of course he thought about it a lot, such as whether this was a trap set up by cultists, such as whether the children in front of him were instigated and coerced to do so, after all, those cultists with broken brains can do anything Yes, but anyway - there are dangers that have to be faced, especially now that there is no other way out, and keeping up with this kid to see what's going on is the only option.

They quickly left the main entrance of Tanzania Town, followed the little boy and got into the woods, and turned south for a short distance along the direction of the Baishui River. As they walked, Gawain suddenly realized that the child was taking him with him. Where to go--

Going down this road, there is only one place that can be called a "landmark", and that is the "Golin Mill" located in the southwest of Tanzania Town. It is an old water conservancy mill next to the Baishui River. The property of the Leslie family has been in disrepair and has been abandoned for a long time. There are many unemployed homeless people squatting near the mill - but now the atmosphere in the town is so tense, the nearby thieves may have avoided far away.

Sure enough, not long after walking along the path in the woods, they heard the sound of the river slapping the river bank, and then walked out of the forest, a water conservancy mill with traditional Ansu style appeared in front of them.

"Ah-ah!" The little mute raised his finger to the direction of the mill, and then pointed to the emblem on Philip's chest, indicating that the person wearing the emblem was in the mill.

The group of four observed the surrounding terrain, then each raised their vigilance and walked towards the mill.

They were halfway there when they heard Knight Byron's angry voice from the mill: "You're back! You're back! How many times have I told you! Get out of here, go south, along the river Go to Cecil's family, go to them for protection! Or just throw me out, throw me in the open space and set fire to it! In short, don't be with me! Are you not only dumb, but also deaf?! "