Where the Wind Rises (7)
This requirement is not an exaggeration, and after all, the incident happened in Mount Singa, so the managers of the tourist site cannot stay out of the matter and are willing to cooperate.
What's more, when they report this matter, they are very careful when they get the orders they receive, "try to cooperate, participate carefully, observe closely, and report at any time."
This command can be understood as the meaning of closely monitoring, or as the meaning of "try not to participate", and the managers of the tourist site chose the latter without hesitation. This planet with symbolic significance over practical use is indeed not valued, but staying here is rare and peaceful... They do not want to get into any trouble at all.
In short, it is best to let these people solve it themselves.
Privately, Bertram also admitted that the suspicion of those guards was not impossible.
"That tour guide may be innocent, maybe bribed..." he said, "he might have gotten a teleportation ring or something, and the real manipulator behind the scenes may be really in our own world."
The world of Yaoxing is generally peaceful and prosperous, but it is not without any contradiction. In order to ensure their status, some short-sighted spellcasters have always rejected technology as heresy and tried to destroy their voyage; the remaining Nethers's craziest believers are still hiding in the darkness; the Southwest Federation, which made the wrong choice in the last war, was suppressed and dying, and they would not be willing to sit back and wait for death; Friedric's rule is becoming increasingly stable, and there are also people who are ambitious to overthrow the Boford dynasty...
Although Moira no longer interferes in state affairs, she is still the queen mother of Rutger and has a lot of prestige. And Willy... Although the little boy is only nine years old, it is not the first time that he has encountered such danger.
He is the son of Ed Singer, and many people hate Ed to the core.
"But those people's hands can't stretch out that long, right?" Tess felt that something was wrong. "Bertram, don't you even believe your own crew?...I think, let's ask the guy who was frozen."
The man who had been fighting her for a long time was frozen in the ice by Is without hesitation.
They didn't let the guards know about the existence of this man - at least it would be impossible to hand over the man before they could squeeze out the things in his mind.
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The man after "disfreezing" was still stiff for a while, his whole body trembled involuntarily, and his teeth were shaking. Even though the ice shell was not completely attached to his skin, the chill had already soaked in his bone marrow.
He thought he would die in this incredible way. But when he found that there were still several breathable holes in the ice shell, he realized that these people were not planning to kill him.
He held on and even kept awake. When a warm feeling made him regain his consciousness and able to speak, the first sentence he said was still: "This is a misunderstanding..."
"Okay, okay." Taisi interrupted him impatiently, "Even if it's a misunderstanding, you can tell me what we misunderstood first!"
The man gasped for a few hard times, laughing and crying - am I just about to say this!
"I have no intention at all, hurt that little fat man!" He almost yelled, "I just wanted to see if there is something I'm looking for on him!"
Willie listened seriously, his tight little face was very serious, and he seemed to be careless about the three words "Little Fatty". Instead, Xiaolong immediately bared his teeth fiercely again. Ice's gaze was colder than Bing, and the man immediately raised his hands with understanding: "Okay! He is not fat! Not fat at all!"
The little fat man reacted because of this and subconsciously flattened his mouth.
The man screamed under the wings that Xiaolong slapped his head and face. Taisi frowned and thought. What was going on at that time? Little fat man... Little Willie was playing hide-and-seek with Nana, and she followed behind, but she didn't see her mistakes, and the boy lost his shadow. She chased him quickly. When she found him, the man was half-squatting on the ground, stretching out his hands to the boy, and the boy shrank back very vigilantly... Of course, she stabbed him without hesitation.
But she didn't feel that she had overreacted at all. After all, this man with gills behind her ears looked terrified.
This is not the first time Willie was almost taken away.
"Then why didn't you say it earlier?" she looked suspicious, "What are you looking for?"
The man held his head and held his breath - I wanted to say it earlier, have you given me a chance? The attack like rain was so fast that he couldn't breathe at all!
"I don't know what that is." The man who had never suffered this blow and had almost completely collapsed in self-confidence replied unhappily, "I only know that thing is on him."
He raised one hand high, and the other hand slowly pulled out a tracker from his arms, and moved it even more slowly in a circle of eyes that firmly nailed him to the middle. The red light flashed on the tracker indeed flashed the fastest as it approached Willie.
"Look!" said the man, "if you can allow me to scan him carefully from head to toe..."
Is' cold gaze pressed down heavily again, making him almost suffocated.
Before anyone could speak, the boy started to take out his things. After a while, a pile of candies, jerky meat, dried fruits, and snacks were piled on the table...
He even took out a small dagger and got Taisi's smile of satisfaction - it was given by her, and the little guy was always with him!
When he touched the bracelet on his wrist, Is stopped him.
"No need to," he said, "don't untie it at any time."
The dark gold bracelet is strung with three twelve-sided dice, also cast in pure gold. Each side is engraved with a small defensive magic array, which can be instantly activated when Willie is attacked. The length of the bracelet will change as the boy grows up. If Willie himself does not solve it, no one can remove it.
This is still... he and Ed spent several months making it after the little guy was born.
Finally, the boy untied the whistle around his neck.
"...this is it!" When the tracker flashed wildly towards the whistle, the man cheered in tears.
Taisi picked up the whistle and immediately realized something was wrong.
"Heavy than ours," she said.
The pottery whistle burned into the shape of a fat bird with the "old method" of the Britanns, and they found a small piece of metal in the bird's belly.
A strange metal with a faint blue light shining out of the lead ash, and there was a small mark on it, like a broken pattern.
The man looking for it, Weitt, swears that he really has no idea what it is.
He is just a registered, earnest bounty hunter in the guild. His mission is to retrieve the precious stolen collection for his employer, and his tracker tracks the unique rays emitted by this thing.
And the ray actually comes from the box that originally contained it. Whether the person who steals it will take the box away or throw it away, the radiation left on the metal sheet can be maintained for a long time, and may even be contaminated on the person who touched it.
This unique way of protection is difficult to find. Because the box is too big, it is pried open and thrown in the original place, which makes tracking easier. However, after turning the thing a few times in the middle, Weit almost chased after it. He persisted and crossed almost half of the star field, and after chasing it here with great effort, he finally found this mysterious gadget. He was so excited that he couldn't help but cry.
"Just give it to me," he said, "and let me do whatever it takes!"
"So," said Bertram, "you are not in the same group with the guys you can't see?"
Weit shook his head repeatedly: "Those people stole this thing. They can move quickly from one place to another in an instant, but they can't run too far, and they can't jump directly from one planet to another, nor can they maintain that 'invisible' state for a long time. If you want to find those people, I can help! The residual radiation on their bodies does not disappear so quickly."
The surrounding eyes fell on the tracker in his hand. According to what he said, this thing is much more useful than him.
Weit hesitated for a moment. To be honest, those people were elusive, and his luck... no, he didn't have that thing. He could not guarantee that he could bring the things back to his employer smoothly. If he lost the road and lost the tracker... all his previous hard work would be wasted.
"I've been chasing those guys for more than three months." He spoke tentatively, "I can guarantee that no one in this star field knows them better than me...I can help you. But..."
He thought about it and said, although he might have been misunderstood, "But, since your children have not been hurt, I suggest you don't bother with those guys. Although you are quite powerful... they are very difficult to deal with. I will let them know that the things are already in my hands, and they should not come to you again."
Bertram bit his pipe and said nothing. If he hadn't been playing tricks, the bounty hunter would have been unfair... His intuition also told him that the man was not lying, and was really considering them, not just to reduce his troubles.
But now he dares not make decisions easily by relying on his "intuition".
They asked the men many more questions. Although Weitt claimed that "no one in this star field knows them better than me", he actually didn't know who they were or which force they belonged to. He only knew that the two he had found were purebred Britans.
Chapter completed!