After nightfall, "City of Generosity" Bayam appears more lively than during the day. This Rhoad Islands, and even the largest city of Above the Five Seas, has become a tourist attraction for tourists from all over the world., a gathering place for Adventurer and pirates. Even if the reward announcement is posted at the door of Red Theater, there are many pirates on the list who put on makeup and walk in grandly to enjoy a night of warmth.
Angel waited quietly at the window until midnight, and the noisy "Red Theater" gradually quieted down. A thin figure left the side door under the protection of two local guards and walked toward the pier.
William didn't need to remind him, Angel relied on Dark Vision and his excellent eyesight to see clearly that the man's left hand only had two fingers, the thumb and index finger, and the remaining three were only small bumps on the palm.
That was the contact person of "Mad Captain" in Bayam, Maduni, nicknamed "Finger".
"Follow quietly, I'm behind you."
Angel ordered William, who nodded, quietly jumped down from the second floor window, and followed "Finger" and the other three people from a distance.
After passing through alleys, avoiding the counter-tracking of "finger" Maduni and the guards, William, who is tall but good at hiding, soon came to a low-rise residence near Docklands. It is close to the coast, has convenient transportation, and is far away from the surrounding primitive deep forests. It is very popular with the residents who settle here, and the residential areas are continuous.
In front of a two-story house in Berdan Street, Maduni stopped. His two guards entered Door Opening first and turned on the lights in the living room, and then the short connector returned to his home.
Seeing that he was so cautious, William did not approach, but hid in a nearby alley. Just as he was looking around, looking for Angel "behind him", the latter released his invisibility and his figure emerged from the sky.
After taking out Magic Mirror and doing detailed divination in advance, Angel looked at William and said:
"Two servants and two guards. If I leave it to you, can you solve it?"
She brought "Luck" William into the operation this time, largely because she wanted to test his abilities. The other party was introduced by Dominic and joined the "Red Haired Woman" number of Helene. He will receive a high salary in the future, and as Beyonder, he will receive a proportional commission after participating in the battle. If he is just a rookie who sees no use, he will become a "salary thief".
"Give me two minutes."
William replied with a hoarse voice.
"I mean quietly, without leaving any traces afterwards." Angel reminded that she was just here to gather information today, not to directly kill the "Zhi Tou" family and alert others.
"That's what I meant."
The bronze-skinned man chuckled lightly and replied.
Then, he hunched his body and walked silently out of the alley, approached the home of "Finger" Maduni, stretched out his hands, and easily climbed up to the balcony on the second floor with the help of his tall body, pried open the window with a dagger, and slipped in.
Seeing how skillfully he moved, Angel nodded with satisfaction, used "invisibility" again, and disappeared on the street.
A moment later, her figure appeared in Maduni's bedroom.
She has short brown hair and a thin body, as if her malnourished "fingers" have been washed and she is lying on her bed. According to Dominic's intelligence, his wife and daughter were not at Bayam, and no relevant information could be found. He was the only one in the bedroom at this time, which was convenient for Angel's actions.
She first activated a "Slumber Charm" Charm to put Maduni, who had just fallen asleep, into a deeper sleep, and then took out the Klein's borrowed "Nightmare" Beyonder Characteristic held the dark and deep gem-like characteristics in his hands, spread out its own Spirituality, and surrounded it.
Klein has tried this simple exploitation method before and successfully invaded the dream of "Vice Admiral of Ailment". Today Angel will make a similar attempt.
The illusory darkness gradually spread from before her eyes, covering Maduni lying on the bed in front of her, turning him into a hazy human-shaped ball of light. At the same time, the figures of two servants and two guards also appeared in the darkness in the next room and the downstairs lounge. They had all fallen asleep with the "help" of William.
The efficiency is quite high... Angel chuckled and spread Spirituality to the "finger" Maduni, entering his deep dream.
The surrounding bedroom scene was instantly shrouded in darkness, and then the darkness faded, and Angel returned to the bedroom.
Um?
At this moment, she almost thought that "Nightmare"'s ability had failed, but after looking around, Angel realized that this bedroom was the scene in Maduni's dream.
Maduni, who was lying on the bed and falling asleep just now, had a fierce look on his face, standing by the window, holding a thick leather whip in his right hand, and whipped a thin body on the bed hard.
"Pah——"
Amidst the crisp sound of the whip contacting flesh, the thin girl on the bed cried.
"What kind of bad taste is this? His "sweet dream" is to bully people who are weaker than him?"
Angel cursed, hiding in the hazy and fuzzy corner at the edge of the dream, looking at the "finger" Maduni again, and found that the three fingers of his left hand had been restored in the dream.
"He didn't want to face his injury in his heart, so his fingers returned to normal in the dream, and he felt inferior to his body, so he bullied thinner women?"
Analyzing the dream of this contact person, Angel continued to spread Spirituality, touching the ability of "Nightmare", inverting Maduni's dream, turning the bedroom scene into a basement full of blood and torture tools. Maduni, who had just held the whip and took the initiative, had his limbs tied and hung up on a wooden frame.
During this time, Dominic helped Dominic solve his local troubles many times. Angel, who had interrogated many pirates and evil Adventurer, was already familiar with the relevant procedures. She used her control over dreams to transform herself into the "Vice Admiral of Ailment" Tracy that the other party was likely to have seen and even feared, and appeared in the center of the basement.
Sure enough, as soon as "Tracy" appeared, Maduni's face turned pale and he struggled violently.
"Maduni, I'm very disappointed in you," pretending to be Tracy's slightly seductive but heroic tone, Angel took a few steps and stood to tie Maduni In front of the wooden frame of, he took a pair of scissors stained with blood and said, "Because of your mistake, a shipment of 'Mad Captain' arrived at Bayam, but no one took it. The loss was huge."
"No, what? It's impossible..." The fear amplified by the dream made Maduni's voice become sharp, "That guy Victor is very cautious. He couldn't have come to Bayam before he contacted me!"
Angel sneered silently, but the scissors leaned on Maduni's right hand and rested on his fingers.
"Wait, wait!"
The fear in his heart was awakened, and Maduni's whole body began to twitch.
"Yes, yes! I remembered! I, I may have indeed forgotten to pick up the shipment on the afternoon of March 2... My finger, no!"
Angel was satisfied with cutting off Maduni's little finger, and let the others go.
Amid the other party's half-panic, half-rejoicing roar, her figure disappeared into the nightmare created and returned to reality.
On the bed, Maduni's thin figure curled up into a ball, covering his good right hand with his left arm, holding his precious fingers tightly in his arms.
After getting the required information, Angel didn't stay too long. She packed up the "Slumber Charm" Charm on the ground, lit up the black Cursed Flame, eliminated the traces around it, then returned to the first floor, found William who was guarding the door, and left here.
Tomorrow is March 2, the day when "Finger" and "Mad Captain" are connected.
In the evening, there is a hidden dock not far from "City of Generosity" Bayam.
As the high tide surges in, a pirate ship flying the "One-Eyed Skull" flag quietly approaches. If this is a dock in the city of Bayam, any ship flying a pirate flag that dares to approach Five Sea Miles will be spotted by a high lookout and receive a "warm welcome" from coastal defense guns.
But this is a private port, a "pirate trading place" that is Bayam semi-public, but no one will expose it.
The city needs the items they smuggled, and the pirates need to go ashore for consumption, and some big shots also look forward to the "necessities" they send. Therefore, every time they attack the local resistance, these small docks are always bypassed tacitly, leaving a channel for the pirates to enter the island.
On the deck of the pirate ship, stood a middle-aged man wearing a three-cornered hat and a black eye patch covering his single eye. His single eye was squeezed into a monocular telescope, looking towards the dock.
After discovering someone waving a pennant and playing the agreed semaphore, "Mad Captain" Connors Victor did not let his men approach immediately. Instead, he carefully ordered them to play the corresponding semaphore and confirm. After repeated verification, he furled the main sail and slowly approached the dock using the waves and tides.
On the shore, after having a nightmare last night, "Finger" Maduni was still frightened. It was not until "One-Eyed Skull" attached to the pier, lowered the gangway, and the Sailors escorted the girls down one by one with their hands tied behind their backs and wearing simple linen clothes that they secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
He was really afraid that last night's nightmare would come true, and that "Vice Admiral of Ailment" Tracy would cut off three fingers from his intact right hand!
As the girls who were escorted off the ship came from the dock, his mind returned from the nightmare and gradually became more active. With the help of the lanterns held by the Sailors, his eyes observed the faces and figures of the slave girls one by one.
"Most of them will be sent to Red Theater. The blond Miss has fine skin and tender flesh. He is well-maintained and looks like he is not a civilian. He will be kept in the Governor's Mansion. The military will also have to keep a few, especially the navy. Hey, there is a short stature that no one will want..."
Before the pile of slave girls connected by hemp ropes came near, Maduni had distributed them in his heart. Those sold to Red Theater, those distributed to the big shots above, and those left to himself...
It wasn't until his eyes left the string of prey and rested on "Mad Captain" at the end of the team that his expression became serious.
"Mr. Victor," he nodded slightly as a greeting. The two were already familiar with each other through many transactions, so there was no excessive courtesy. "The last 'payment', a total of 1,400 pounds, is all here."
He handed over a thick envelope, waited for the other party to count it casually, and handed it to a tall guard behind him with slightly longer arms and a hooded cloak.
Such "business" occurs every two months, and is also the main reason why "Mad Captain" Connors has a reward of 3,300 pounds. Of course, compared to the vicious pirates who run rampant Five Seas, Connors This population transaction is nothing at all, so it has never been taken seriously by the military and Church of Storms. Even the upper echelons of Bayam have enjoyed many benefits and have acquiesced in this "gray transaction".
Only "Zhidou" himself knows that the actual scale of Connors's human trafficking is dozens of times that stated!
With the help of these carefully selected girls, Connors was able to travel around the world under the name of "slave merchant". However, secretly, more slaves were quietly transported to secret locations and then disappeared without a trace.
Of course, none of this has anything to do with me. As long as I take care of my own business, I can sit back and relax... Maduni is well aware of the principle of "the more you know, the more unfortunate you are". Even if he accidentally learns some truths during many years of cooperation, he pretends not to know and just thinks he is a broker who trades beautiful girls.
Just when he was daydreaming about the "good night" with the girl he had chosen, the hooded man behind "Mad Captain" Connors seemed to be alert. He took a step forward and unceremoniously reached out to hold Connors's shoulders and pulled him behind him.
"Someone is spying!"
His voice was hoarse and low, as if disguised.