Chapter 16: : Kidnapping Cangbeard

Charm Blue God.
The sea of murloc belief.
The fairy tale of the mermaid is his artifact.
However, everyone knows that his followers are not just murlocs.
Faith will spread.
Any aquatic ethnic group is very likely to believe in Charm Blue God. When the blue goddess hadn't ascended the throne, his body was a mermaid. Therefore, most of the mermaids also believe in Him.
Similarly, it is not surprising that humans believe in this god. Especially in coastal areas, His faith is more easily spread.
For a long time, there was no orthodox sea in the Shengming Empire.
The Charm Blue God is a rather orthodox sea god.
Believe in Him is great for believers. It can make sailing more smoothly and collect more fish. Sometimes sea fishing can bring out large shells containing pearls or other rare fishes.
The point is that he is a of an alien race.
The Shengming Empire has always severely cracked down on such gods.
Because faith is very important, this unique resource has always been fierce competition among the gods.
Faith is a very powerful force.
It involves the secular, the donations of believers bring massive wealth, and sectarian forces can segregate their arms. It also involves humanities, and the mutual understanding between believers must be far beyond ordinary people. The same beliefs mean the same values. Especially positive beliefs can greatly promote the collaboration and cooperation between human beings.
Finally, it involves the gods. Gods are the oldest beings in the world, and they are often the most powerful combat power. The secrets of the gods are not well known, but in general there is a rule-the more believers of a god, the stronger his power.
Therefore, anyone who believes in gods like the blue will be classified as a cultist. Cultists often end up miserably. From the perspective of the empire, they must be killed!
"This is really an unexpected gain!" Cangxu was moved. He didn't expect to find out the clues of Charm Blue God in the tavern.
They are now encountering a great dilemma, part of which is related to the fairy tale of the mermaid.
This artifact can produce pearl foam, and everyone consumes these pearl foam to hide themselves. However, the output efficiency of artifacts is getting lower and lower, and in the near future, there will be no pearl foam available for everyone.
At that time, it will be difficult for them to resist spells, prophecies in divine arts, and investigative methods, and they will quickly expose themselves.
Once they were hunted down by the Empire, they were finished.
"If we find such a cultist, we can use him to find a way to help the artifact increase production capacity, or use pearl foam more efficiently. This will be of great help to us!" Cangsu thought in his heart.
Zidi is too addicted to wake up, it is difficult for everyone to contact the patriarch of Baizhen. For a while, it is difficult to atone for sins.
In this case, the longer the time delay, the greater the chance that everyone will be saved.
"Unfortunately, this cultist was arrested. This may be his carelessness or his lack of strength. The end of the poem also stated his fate-being publicly executed. But even so, this is a valuable clue. Uncertain, I can find more things. Maybe there are cultists of the same faith hidden here, and he does not refer to him alone."
So in the middle of the night, when the four of them left the tavern and began to act, Cangsu said, "We will act separately. Spirophyta, Sandao, you go to explore the dock and make sure it is safe. And Bai Ya and I went to check. The residence of that cultist."
Cyanobacteria nodded in agreement.
The fairy tale about the blue and the mermaid, this clue is indeed worth exploring.
However, Bai Ya was hesitant to speak, a little unsatisfied and beard alone. The young man is now faintly afraid of the old scholar.
But the blue algae and Sandao left straight away.
"Let's go." Cangxu also urged.
Bai Ya gritted her teeth, but bit her scalp to follow the old scholar.
The residence of the cultists is located at the seaside, and is a poorly constructed small dock. The dilapidated wooden stairs and the roof that had been in disrepair were leaking wind, which was extremely bitter.
The old scholar arranged for Bai Ya to guard the door, and opened the door alone to explore.
The marina was impoverished and clear at a glance. After the cult thing happened, other people have visited this place many times.
"Wait a minute." After looking around for a week, the old scholar suddenly paused, his eyes rested on his feet.
This piece of floor seems to be too loose.
The old scholar leaned down and stretched out his hand to explore for a moment in the clear moonlight.
Soon, he lifted the floor.
It turns out that this is a specially made floor that can be moved.
But Cangxu soon became disappointed again. There was calm water under the floor and nothing else.
But just as he was about to close the floor, he accidentally caught a glimpse of a symbol.
This symbol is engraved on the bottom surface of the floor, as if it was carved directly with a knife. The symbol is very clear, like adding a straight vertical line in the middle of a U letter, the vertical line passes through the bottom of the U and extends out long. At first glance, it looks like a stick figure of a fork.
At this moment, Cangxu's pupils shrank sharply. He was shocked because he was one of the few people in the world who knew the special meaning of this symbol!
"Don't move!" At this moment, a sharp dagger suddenly straddled Cangbeard's neck.
A human-shaped black shadow gradually appeared behind Cangbeard.
Is a thief.
"I stopped him!" the thief shouted.
Obviously, he still has accomplices.
The next moment, the door of the house was kicked open. Another thief walked into the room holding Bai Ya.
Although Bai Ya was restrained, she struggled hard and did not yield.
The thief who escorted him gave a cold snort, and immediately used his anger.
Dou Qi rushed into Bai Ya's body, causing Bai Ya to howl miserably, his strength was suddenly exhausted, and he almost fell to the ground.
"Be acquainted, brat. If the trouble goes on, I will kill you!" the thief behind him threatened.
"It's you." Cangbeard was shining in the moonlight and saw the thief behind Bai Ya. Wasn't it the one who successfully stolen his purse in the tavern?
It turned out that although the thief failed to steal and was thrown out of the tavern, he did not give up. He is a member of the Thieves Guild, and he has found a helping hand, and has been staring at Cangbeard and waiting for the four people.
They were just two bronze-level thieves. They didn't have a chance at first, but the benefits of tracking down quickly became apparent-the four Cangbeards separated.
The strongest three knives and cyanobacteria left away, and the weakest Cangbeard and White Bud took another path.
This strategy of dividing the forces seemed extremely stupid to the two thieves, but it also made them very happy.
They followed secretly and saw Cangbeard entering the marina, and no one else was around, so they immediately started.
"As I said, the opportunity always favors those who don't give up." The thief suppressed Bai Ya and looked at Cangxie triumphantly.
Cang Xu shook his head and sighed, "Don't hurt us, what do you want? I can give money."
The thief in front of the old scholar suddenly laughed: "Look, I said this is a fat sheep!"
In the next moment, Cangxu heard the thief behind him replied: "Anyone who can drink bronze cider is naturally a fat sheep."
"Speaking of it." Cangsu turned around, "You kidnapped us, don't you fear that our people will trouble you? Do you know who we are?"
The thief who detained Bai Ya laughed and said: "Of course you are not a mercenary group. But that goblin, I am afraid that he has been a mercenary. People are different from each other, although they are mixed together, in my eyes, you all have a distinct origin ."
"If I guess right, you should be a nobleman behind you. You are a running dog of the nobleman!"
"As for this young man, he is just a pure newcomer, too tender."
Cangxu nodded: "You guessed it, yes."
The thief was even more proud, and he continued: "I have been in Crescent Town for many years, and Crescent Port has gradually become different in the last two or three years. On the surface, there is nothing, but in fact, I know that it has been secretly Some power stretched its tentacles here."
"The noble behind you should want to smuggle."
"So I value it here, and want to seek huge profits through sea routes."
"So, you built a wharf, and secretly dispatched personnel, wanting to go among the pirates and establish a network of relationships."
"No, the power behind you is not necessarily the human race. Hehe, it could also be the elves in the honeymoon forest. I have heard rumors that the honeymoon elf king has always wanted to return to the elf sanctuary, although the trade with the empire is increasing. The bigger, but the status of the honeymoon forest has declined year by year."
Cangxu laughed blankly.
The thief in front of him was quite imaginative.
It is not surprising that the thieves knew that Cangbeard wanted to get into the pirate gang. Cangsu asks the bartender for other people's information, and the bartender will also sell his information to other people.
This is the intelligence business.
The thief's gaze was very accurate. To a certain extent, he could see the details of Cangbeard, Baiya, Sandao and others.
But he didn't know that it was the Imperial Navy that had secretly invested in the construction of Crescent Harbor.
The empire will turn this into a qualified secret supply port to facilitate the conduct of espionage tasks.
The thieves said that "Crescent Port has gradually become different in two or three years", which shows that the Empire's plan to promote the construction of a secret port has already begun two or three years ago.
The competition for the pirate throne began this year, but the wise men of the empire had long heard or predicted this situation and made plans in advance.
The reason why the Shengming Empire is the number one power in the world is not only its strong muscles, but also its clever mind and visionary eyes.
Although the result of the thieves’ speculation was wrong, it was logically self-consistent. It's a pity that he belongs to the bottom. If he has a higher status and receives more secret messages, he should be able to guess the correct answer.
"How many gold coins do you want? I cooperate with you. I hope you release me as soon as possible, because I have important tasks." Cangsu sighed, "Compared with the loss of this money, I delayed the task assigned by the above, and the consequences were more serious. In addition, I have to warn the two, after they get the ransom, please leave this town as soon as possible and try not to come back again."
"Because once I regain my freedom, I will definitely use manpower and material resources to find them. Of course, I don't really want to disadvantage the two, but my identity determines that I cannot shame the nobleman behind me. Please also Two of you cooperate, don't make me too embarrassed."
"Ha ha ha." The thief looked mocking, "I know, the honor of nobles!"
"Let's talk, how much ransom do you want? Can you write it? I can help you write a blackmail letter." Cangsu said.
The two thieves looked at each other. They didn't expect Cangxu to go on the way like this. One of them tentatively said: "Then a hundred gold coins?"
"Good." Cang Xu nodded immediately.
Seeing him so simply, the two thieves suddenly repented: "No, two hundred gold coins."
Cangxu nodded.
"Three hundred gold coins, no, five hundred gold coins!" The thief repented again.
Cang Xu shook his head: "Five hundred gold coins are too few. Why don't you just have a thousand gold coins."
The eyes of the two thieves shone.
"But the question is, can you afford this thousand gold coins?" Cangsu smiled.
The two thieves changed their colors suddenly, and the sarcasm in the gray beard smile was too strong.
"Old stuff, it makes you suffer." The thief who seized Cangbeard moved his dagger.
In the next moment, the dagger pierced Cangbeard's cheek, making a long wound on his face.
But no blood came out of the wound.
Not only that, judging from the cut wound, the inner flesh and skin of the whiskers were pale and without vitality.
"What are you?!" The two thieves were frightened.
Cangsu smiled and stretched out his hand to stroke his cheek. UU reading www. He stroked the wound, pressed with his fingers, and pressed the cut layer of flesh to its original position.
Then, the other three saw the wound on Cang's face heal quickly.
The two thieves realized that something was wrong, and wanted to retreat, and distanced themselves from Cangxu.
But at this time, they realized that they were already unable to move.
An unspeakable cold froze their souls.
"you you you!"
"Spare, spare!"
The two men's faces were distorted, begging frantically for mercy.
Cangxu began to sing.
After a dozen breaths, his spell was cast, and the souls of the two thieves were forcibly extracted, and their bodies fell on the floor.
"You are a Necromancer!" The souls of the two thieves screamed in unison.