"Who is that lady behind it?" Bam Criss asked.

"The sir?" The Pirate King Hissok said slowly, "That Lord is the one who rescued you, and the one who arranged for you to meet with me, if he hadn't recommended you, I'm afraid you would have been captured and sent to Dubrovnik's prison by now, where you would have died forever." ”

"It's someone in the palace of Dubrovnik...... Bamkris can only guess here, the people who have the right to direct and buy off the guards, and can arrange for ships to escape to the Pirate King's territory, no one else has such great ability except for those adults.

Moreover, it seems that this adult has a great relationship with the pirate king Hisso, and even his tone has a faint sense of respect.

"There are some things that are not convenient to reveal right now, but the Lord must have a reason for choosing you, and he has always proven himself to be strong and reliable." The Pirate King Hisok replied.

"Why did you choose me, you are so sure that I will listen to you?" Bamkris sneered.

"Lord Bamkris, according to that adult's estimate, the Chris family will soon be on the verge of extinction, you should understand what it means to perish." The king of pirates, Hisso, said bluntly, "The royal family of Dubrovnik means to kill everything, and there will not be a single member of the Chris family left, as for your head, it is even more valuable, if the Chris family is destroyed, then Lord Bamkris will be a fugitive from exile in the future, and even we pirates are inferior, isn't it?" ”

Bamcris couldn't deny what Seeso had said, he was telling the truth, and if everything turned out as the adults had speculated, then there was no place for him, even if he still had a glimmer of hope for Jocris.

"You think I'm going to be in the league with a bunch of pirates? Why don't you tell me to die! I thought I would hear something new when I got to you! Bam Chris was inexplicably annoyed, even though he knew in his heart that it was the adults and the pirates who had saved him.

"No, it is true that we used to be just pirates, burning, looting, and doing all kinds of evil, but the appearance of that lord has changed me and changed us, he has taught us rules and faith, taught us how to live and be strong, he is our savior, without him, I am afraid that now I would have been targeted by the royal family and solved, or lonely on some kind of desolate island, but now I am sure that the future of us people is bright, the gods are above, although we are not pirates, But our reputation is gradually being restored, and you can see, Lord Bamkrist, that the people who live on my turf at least live in peace and contentment, and that there is even as much prosperity as any small town. ”

Bam Criss admits that what he said is indeed the truth, except for the identity of pirates, everything seems to be in line with the practices of other lords or nobles, as for the rules and faith, at least in Bam Cris, he sees that these pirates are indeed trying to do these things, and all this happens during the journey, and the eyes do not lie, which has changed his previous view of pirates......

Or is it all within the plans and expectations of the Lord?

"I can't promise what I can do for you right now...... Bamkris pondered for a long time, then said slowly, "If it's for fairness and justice or something, maybe I'll help." ”

"That's enough for you, my good lord." The Pirate King Hisso said with a smile, the expression on his face relaxed and relaxed, "Now you, you need to heal your injuries and wait for news, we are all waiting for the next instructions of that adult." ”

Bam Criss nodded, now he is not only injured, but also has no way out, he has thought about escaping before, but where can he flee to, there are royal troops everywhere to arrest him, only the territory of the Pirate King is safe, at least he still wants to continue to see who the Lord of Pirates is and what kind of plan they have, is the Chris family really on the verge of destruction as the Lord said?

Now that he can't do anything but wait, he's lost all his strength, can he have a better choice?

"Perhaps we should take Lord Bamkris to those slave markets, as a nobleman, he has certainly never been to such a place, so that our good adults can fully understand what it is to be free to live." The Pirate King said to the steward.

Later, the pirate kings, Hisso and Bam Criss, both wearing masks, walked through a camp.

The camp here is not just a tent, but a group of hundreds of tents in the shape of a crescent around the wall, a city of silk and canvas, with its streets, neighborhoods and slums, between the land and the bay, scattered like mushroom-like tents, some small and shabby, a faded canvas to shelter from the rain and sun, but there are also tents large enough to hold a hundred people, some of the camps look orderly, with campfires as the center, and tents arranged in concentric circles around it, Weapons and armor were piled up in the inner circle, and horses were tied to the perimeter, but other than that, most of the camp looked chaotic.

A secluded slave trading market.

"Lot 97." The auctioneer whipped his whip. "A pair of dwarfs, skilled and delighted for you."

Bam Criss smelled the salty smell of the air, mixed with the stench of the pit behind the slave bar, the stuffiness was more unpleasant to him than the heat, and the air here seemed to press him like a wet blanket over his head and shoulders.

"Dogs and pigs are also included," said the auctioneer. "Gnomes ride them, and it's up to you to do something stupid at your next entertaining feast."

Buyers sat on wooden benches sipping their juices, some had slaves fanning their hands, others dressed in ordinary clothes—men with short tunics, hoods and cloaks, women with dyed silk, prostitutes and commoner women, all looked similar, and it was difficult to distinguish them in the pirate king's territory.

Behind the benches stood a bunch of mercenaries, joking with each other about the auction process, hiring knights, which Bamcris knew. Will you buy it? Or is it just for the show?

"Who's going to make a bid for this pair of gnomes?"

“300。” A seated woman bids.

“400。” An extremely obese man raised his voice, and he was dressed in yellow silk.

Slave sailors, on the other hand, were sold for anywhere from 500 to 900 yuan, and experienced seafarers were a precious commodity, and none of them resisted when the slave traders boarded their wrecked ships, for whom all this meant a change of master.

"2000," a new voice came from behind the bench.

What does a hired knight want a dwarf for?

Bamkris stood up to see what was going on, and the new bidder was an older man, gray but still tall and well-proportioned, with tough brown skin, a gray beard, and a long sword and a pair of daggers half-hidden under a faded purple cloak.

“2500。” This time it was a woman's voice, a girl, not tall, with big breasts and a thick waist, wearing ornate armor, her badly worn black iron chest guards inlaid with gold claws with banshee motifs hanging from them.

“3000。” The brown-skinned man stepped out of the crowd, and his retinue hired knights pushed the buyer aside to clear a way for him. Many people gave up this price, but the fat man in yellow did not, he looked at the hired knight, flicked his teeth with his tongue, and said, "5000." ”

The mercenary knight frowned, shrugged, and turned to leave.

"If you don't have a higher bid......"

“7000。” The steward of the Pirate King Hissok shouted.

There was an uproar on the bench, the bidder seemed to be an idiot, two dwarf slaves were generally worth 5,000 at most, and they couldn't come up with 7,000 at all.

"Is there another bid?" The auctioneer asked.

No one responded at this time.

"Deal!" The auctioneer announced.

The next lot had already been taken in their place, a girl of fifteen or sixteen.

"Lot ninety-nine," the auctioneer shouted, "a warrior." ”

The girl was soon slapped away and brought to her new master, clutching the little body covering her small breasts, and the two slaves led the warrior to the high platform to take the girl's place, and the knight was nearly naked except for a fig leaf, his back was red from the whipping, his face was so bruised that he could not be recognized, and his wrists and ankles were bound by chains, which Bamcris felt a little cruel.

Even with his shackles, the warrior still looks like a dangerous beast with large, sturdy arms and slanted shoulders. The coarse hairs on his chest made him look more like a beast than a man, and his eyes were bruised, forming two dark pits on his weirdly swollen face, leaving an imprint on one side: the monster's mask.

"This, big and strong!" The auctioneer announced loudly. "Scrappy, I will present you with a wonderful show, starting at 300, who is lucky enough to be the first to increase the price?"

The slave auction was going on in full swing here, and Bamcris had seen a slave being whipped, and then he knew that his back was only blood and scarlet flesh, and a procession of shackled men passed by, with the clatter of gold and iron at every step, and they carried spears and daggers, but their wrists and ankles were chained.

After that, a juggler began the evening show, followed by three energetic actors, followed by a boy dancing absurdly with a slave, after which the gnomes took off their wooden armor and sweaty clothes and changed into clean yellow tunics that were used as servants' garments, and handed them a large jug of wine, and they poured their glasses as they walked around the tent, and their footsteps in shoes rattled softly on the thick carpet.

"Why did you buy those two dwarf slaves?" It was at this point that Bam Criss finally asked about the steward and the pirate king Hisso.

"The transactions here are all free, and since they are free, if you want to buy them, you will naturally buy them." Wearing a mask, the Pirate King Hisso, whispered that no one around him knew his true identity, only that he was a merchant somewhere.

"Slaves, pirates, merchants, travelers, I can't imagine that pirates are also free." Bam Criss sighed.

"The freest is probably the pirate, of course, freedom also has a price, so many people still hate us, even if we already have some power, to make people recognize that it is not possible to have no power, but power alone is not enough, the lord often said."

What Bamkris said about the lord in his mouth, he was now even more convinced that the lord could even mobilize the power of the pirate king Hisso, and hide his own strength, he was a certain lord in the palace of Dubrovnik, ambitious, full of scheming and planning, but for a noble knight like him, it was difficult to guess and deduce his identity.

He couldn't imagine that those nobles and people in high positions would have any connection with this group of pirates, let alone that the king of pirates, Hisso, respected that lord so much, knowing that pirates have always acted in their own way, ignoring any laws and rules, and only looking out for their immediate interests, but that lord seems to have conquered such a group of people, and even changed their minds.

Who will it be?

Obviously, it is impossible for the people of the Randall family to have any intersection with the Pirate King, they are powerful, and there is no need to do these things, which excludes the possibility of Queen Mother Innie Randall and McLandall.

George the captain of the royal fleet and the captains of the royal guards could not be this adult, especially since the captain of the royal fleet George has always been the sworn enemy of the pirates, and the royal fleet is always ready to destroy those pirates in the Adriatic Sea and those who are targeted by the king of pirates.

Prime Minister Glenamsi, the head of the treasury, is in charge of the finances of the Kingdom of Dubrovnik, and the head of intelligence, Varian Oyizi, has the intelligence and eyeline of the entire country, as well as the king's scholar Stanika Sadine, these three people seem to have nothing to do with pirates, but the intelligence director Varian Oyizi should be the most suspicious, and his intelligence will make him like a fish in water.

The rest of the nobles and lords Bamkris didn't know much and couldn't infer conclusions.

The steward said slowly, "We bought these two slaves to serve you. ”

"I'm not weak enough to need slave service." Bam Criss replied.

"You need someone to serve, don't dislike the status of these slaves, they are much better than any servant with a bad heart, as long as they are comfortable surviving." The Pirate King Hissok smiled and said, "Of course, if you like women, we can consider replacing them." ”

"Just them." Bam Criss didn't want to fall to that point yet, all he had to do now was just to maintain the face of the nobility, and then survive to witness a destruction or rebirth......