Chapter 230 Cannibal River Pirates

"Is the thing really useful?" After leaving the manor, Bachelor Xiufu asked slightly worriedly.

Linde smiled and said, "Don't worry, that thing can save his life."

Originally, he only expected the Bachelor to help move the Sphinx Academy to Summer Hall, but he didn't expect that the Bachelor would give him such a big surprise, allowing him to get a town for nothing.

What he needs to consider now is where to draw an army to station in Ge Duohe, and how to rebuild the city.

It was obvious that Kvera, who had been almost collapsed by the threat of the Faceless Men, had no way to refuse Lind's request, and quickly agreed to Linde's intention to incorporate the Water City Walled City and his people into the Summer Hall. As long as Lin De De was able to save him from an assassination attempt by the Faceless Men.

Linde's method of saving him was very simple, which was to give him a few iron coins with special functions that Jia Kun gave him. This kind of iron coins was different from the iron coins that Arya obtained in later generations. This kind of iron coins He bought his life from the Faceless Ones.

Linde asked him to remove the guards in the manor tonight, put the iron coins he gave him on his body, and then sleep peacefully. When he found that the iron coins disappeared tomorrow, it meant that the danger had passed.

Although the crisis of the Faceless Men can be easily resolved, the matter related to Ge Duohe has not yet been resolved. It was because the powerful man from Norvos, whom Kvera said, coveted the interests of the water city and attacked him. He even paid to hire a faceless man to assassinate him, which is obviously unreasonable.

Although this floating city is the largest distribution center for smuggled goods and dirt on the Lorne River, it is precisely because of the relationship between smuggled goods and dirt that these things cannot be sold at high prices, and the people selling the goods do not make much money. The transaction tax in the Walled City is naturally not high.

Moreover, these goods are not available every day, and can only be traded three or four times a month at most. The benefits generated during these three or four transactions may not be as good as the benefits generated by Miracle Port in one day, and they are distributed to the governor of Kwela. Even less.

Therefore, it is obviously unjustifiable for the powerful man in Novos to take action against Kvira because of the so-called interests of smuggled goods and dirt.

You must know that the price of hiring a faceless man to kill is very high. The price of killing an ordinary businessman is enough to hire a mercenary army of hundreds of people. The price of killing a river governor like Kwela who is in charge of a region is very high. It is enough to hire an army of thousands or even tens of thousands of people.

The price of the smuggled goods and stolen goods in the water city, even if accumulated over decades, is probably not comparable to the cost of hiring the Faceless Men.

Therefore, Linde suspected that the powerful man in Novos was targeting Kvira for other reasons.

No matter what the reason was for the Norvos dignitary to attack Kvira, Linde already regarded Ge Duohe as his territory, and naturally needed to resolve the matter completely, so he could only change his route and take Valyrian Way, heading to Norvos.

However, even if there was no matter about the powerful people of Norvos, Lind would probably go to the vicinity of Norvos, because he learned from Kvira that the team of Dothraki hired by Norvos is now in Cruising in the middle of the Valyrian Avenue to Norvos, Lind guessed that this group of Dothraki should be the group of Dothraki secretly controlled by the Soyd family of Qohor.

"Do you need to prepare anything?" After returning to the manor where he was staying, the monk asked.

"No need, just prepare a boat for me." Lind thought for a moment and said, "Also, ask Kwela to pick up the Udawu fleet tomorrow and dispose of their bodies."

Located east of G. Dohe, at the confluence between the Little Lorne and the Lorne, a temporary camp has more than twenty punting boats commonly used by river pirates docked on the riverside. In the camp, five to six hundred people wearing simple leather armor , the river pirates smeared with white powder carve up the cargo they had just robbed, and at the same time roasted the youngest crew member on the ship on the fire. They would later eat his flesh, complete the sacrifice, and then go attack Ge Duohe's water city.

The leader of this band of river pirates, White Skull Udawu, is a native of Kohor, but his mother was a slave. When he was very young, he watched his mother being sacrificed to the Black Goat, and he Instead of hating the Black Goat, he claimed to have been inspired by the gods and became a fanatical believer in the Black Goat.

It would be fine if the Black Goat he believed in was a normal Black Goat sect, but the problem was that the Black Goat sect he believed in was an evil sect that had been classified as taboo. This sect followed the ancient method of human sacrifice and entered the The ritual involves sacrificing relatives to the black goat and eating the blood and flesh of the sacrificed relatives to show that they are one with the black goat.

That is to say, in addition to watching his mother being sacrificed, Udawu also ate his mother's flesh and blood.

Later, the Black Goat Church in Kohol learned that such an evil sect existed in the city, and naturally sent people to suppress it. In the end, he was the only one in the Udawu family who survived, and fled to Dagger Lake, where he became a river pirate.

After he became a river pirate, he robbed ships while spreading his Black Goat sect beliefs. Soon he gathered a group of fanatical believers around him, and he gradually became one of the top river pirates on Dagger Lake.

The reason why he accepted the hire of the powerful man in Norvos to attack Kvira this time was mainly because he promised him that once he captured Ge Duohe, he would allow him to establish a A temple of his own, the Black Goat, where his sect's ideas are openly spread.

This was an absolutely impossible condition for him to refuse, not to mention that he had already thought about plundering Ge Duohe's floating fortress, and this time he was just following the trend.

He has already killed half of Kevera's men before, which will save him a lot of trouble when attacking the water city. Moreover, there is a prepared internal response from Novos in the city. As long as he reaches the bottom of the city, That person would rebel and lead others to open the gate, so in his opinion, occupying the water city was a certainty.

Just when Udawu was thinking about whether to hold a grand human sacrifice to please the black goat after capturing the water city, he suddenly felt something was wrong. He stood up from his seat and looked at the river in front of him and the The surrounding woods immediately shouted to everyone: "Be alert!"

As Udawu's shout came out, everyone fell silent and looked at their leader in confusion.

"Idiot, something is wrong with the fog!" Udawu drew his weapon and pointed at the fog outside the camp and shouted loudly.

At this time, everyone discovered that the river had been shrouded in thick fog at some point, and the thick fog was still slowly advancing towards the camp. At the same time, the surrounding mountains and forests were also filled with thick fog. These thick fogs enveloped the entire camp. And narrow down the scope bit by bit.

Udawu's men are all extremely vicious men who have been wandering around the Rhoyne River for many years. The reason why they have been able to stay alive for so long is not only due to their strength, but also their alertness to all kinds of abnormal dangers. sex.

They realized almost instantly that something was wrong, and they drew their weapons one after another. Some of them were frightened by the unusually thick fog that slowly approached, and ran to the boat on the shore, trying to punt away.

These traitors who escaped were not hunted down. The loyal men of Udawu watched as these people sailed the boat into the thick fog. It seemed that they wanted to use these escapees to test whether the thick fog was dangerous.

However, what disappointed them was that those who got into the thick fog did not report any news, not even shouting, as if they were all swallowed by the thick fog.

"Light the camp, the fire can block the thick fog." Udawu immediately thought of something and shouted quickly.

Upon hearing this, his men immediately lit several bonfires around them and threw everything that could burn into the fire.

However, what disappointed them was that when the thick fog approached, the fiercely burning flames began to weaken rapidly, and then completely extinguished before their eyes. Even the wood that was on fire a moment ago was now covered with a layer of ice.

Seeing this scene, some people couldn't help the pressure in their hearts, shouted loudly, and rushed into the thick fog with weapons in hand. However, the moment they rushed into the thick fog, all the shouting stopped instantly, and they also Those who had escaped by punting before made no sound.

Although the advancing speed of the thick fog was very slow, it would not stop. Soon the space of the river pirates was compressed to a small area, and the people on the periphery had been squeezed into the thick fog. At this time, they also I understood why the people swallowed by the thick fog instantly lost their lives, because without exception, they were all frozen into ice sculptures in an instant.

The horrific scene in front of them made these murderous and evil river pirates instantly lose their courage, and they all fell into despair. They did not want to freeze to death alive, so they chose to kill themselves. Those who did not have the courage to kill themselves asked others to kill themselves. He asked for help, but no one paid him any attention. He could only watch himself being swallowed by the thick fog and frozen into an ice sculpture.

Udawu also looked at the disaster in front of him in despair. He didn't understand why such a terrible disaster would appear around him. His mind was completely blank. He couldn't issue a single useful command. He could only stand there and look at his hands. One by one committed suicide, one by one was frozen into an ice sculpture.

When the thick fog pushed in front of him, he calmed down. He reached out and held the holy symbol of the black goat around his neck, and recited the words his father recited when he first participated in the sacrifice and watched his mother being sacrificed. prayer.

What he didn't expect was that a miracle seemed to happen. The dense fog that had been advancing from just now stopped advancing and stopped in front of him, as if there was an invisible wall in front of him blocking the dense fog.

"God of Fertility, I offer sacrifices to you..." Seeing this scene, Udawu immediately guessed that his prayer to the black goat had an effect. His mood immediately changed from despair to excitement, and he spoke with extremely pious words. He chanted prayers while holding up the black goat holy symbol in his hand.

His prayer seemed to have had an effect. Instead of advancing, the thick fog was slowly retreating.

Seeing this, Udawu felt that he had been rescued. He was so excited that he shed tears and breathed a sigh of relief.

However, just as he breathed a sigh of relief, the thick fog that slowly retreated suddenly expanded and completely enveloped Udaw.

Udawu didn't even have time to continue reciting the prayer, and his whole body was frozen into an ice sculpture like his men.

After Udawu froze into an ice sculpture, the dense fog slowly faded and receded, and the areas previously covered by the dense fog were gradually revealed. Starting from the surface of the Little Lorne River, a thick layer of ice covered the entire river surface. The pole boats that tried to escape on the upper level were all frozen by the ice, and the people on the boats also turned into ice sculptures. All the living creatures in the camp were frozen into ice sculptures, and a thick layer of ice formed on the ground. It is also covered with ice and snow, as if you have entered from the velvet hills where spring is all year round to the Great Wall where there is always ice and snow.

In this world of ice and snow, a figure wearing two knight swords around his waist stood out.

Although Linde had guessed in advance that driving the Nameless King Rune to create thick fog and stimulating the power of the Frozen Dragon Rune would be very powerful, but now that he saw this effect, he still felt a little surprised.

This scene reminded him of the scene when the White Walkers appeared, and it also reminded him of the Wild Hunt that followed the hoarfrost in a game in his previous life.

However, his attention did not stay on the power of the runes for too long. He shifted to the raised arms of the man-eating river bandit leader Udawu. To be precise, it was the Black Goat Saint in his hand. emblem.

Just now, the thick fog stopped advancing and then retracted. It was not that Lind was teasing the opponent, nor was he deliberately letting the desperate opponent regain hope and then plunge him into despair, thus torturing his spirit, but there was really a force preventing him from using it. The icy thick fog formed by the power of runes is approaching, and this power comes from the black goat holy symbol in Udawu's hand.

Linde walked over, broke off Udawu's frozen fingers, took out the Black Goat Holy Emblem, and then used his special vision to see if there was any magic aura on it. The result was as he expected, in his special vision , the Black Goat Holy Emblem is just an ordinary metal emblem, nothing special.

But Linde did not give up the exploration because of this, and instead guided the power of the Unknown King's Rune to activate his eyes. As a result, the black goat holy symbol that was ordinary a moment ago turned into an eyeball, a sheep surrounded by black tentacles. Eye.

And this sheep's eyeball is still alive, because when Lind looked at the sheep's eyeball, the pupil of the sheep's eyeball also turned to face him.

This scene was so weird that Lind even felt an inexplicable chill, and he also found that the hand holding the sheep's eyeball had been wrapped in black tentacles, and they were seeping into his palm.

However, when Lind, who felt the danger, wanted to exit this special state of vision, a suction force was transmitted from the runes of the Nameless King, directly catching the black tentacles that penetrated into the palm of his hand, and swallowed them into the runes. And began to devour the power in the sheep's eyeballs along the tentacles.

Immediately afterwards, Linde heard an angry sheep cry, and then he automatically broke away from that special line of sight and returned to his normal state. The black goat holy symbol in his hand seemed to have experienced millions of years of corrosion. Generally, it becomes a pile of metal scraps.