Schwenningen, the town of the Place of Origin on the Neckar, is nothing but a port to go with it.
Zhong Ye was driving to Schwenningen when he saw several boats risking their way across the river with broken ice.
He stopped them, he could see that the ships were supposed to be looking for Marcus.
Whether it's to confirm the 'murder results', to pretend, or to really want to find Marcus, it's very dangerous to sail at this time, so Zhong Ye stopped them from this dangerous, no-nonsense. act different from suicide.
In order to prove to those ships, he also pulled out Marcus who was sitting in the carriage and let them take a look, and they were relieved to return.
Zhong Ye set off with Marcus and arrived in Schwenningen ahead of schedule.
This is a quiet, peaceful and unremarkable small town with nothing special except the Neckar River.
Zhong Ye sent Marcus back to his home - as expected, he was the son of the current lord of Schwenningen, only the second son.
Even this remote town has an adventurer's home.
Zhong Ye After they sent Marcus back, they drove the carriage to the adventurer's house and checked in as usual.
While registering, Zhong Ye asked the warehouse keeper: "Do you have a mysterious and secretive ship here that never pulls people along?"
Guarding The clerk paused for a moment, thought about it carefully, called the head, "It doesn't seem like..."
Before he finished speaking, he said "Yi" himself: "Although I have never heard of such a A boat, but we do have a big boat here."
The caretaker put down his pen and looked up towards Zhong Ye, "Everyone in Schwenningen knows that the lord's house has a big boat, and you can bring it with you every time you travel. Many wealth and novel goods are returned, because it is a ship controlled by the lord, so they will not hire other people to board the ship, only the local people selected by them can become the crew of that ship.”
Zhong Ye looked thoughtful and nodded, and smiled at the caretaker, "Thanks."
"Are you looking for something?" the caretaker asked curiously.
Thinking for a moment, the brainstorming just now stopped, Zhong Ye said with a smile: "The ship I inquired about may be a tool used by a group of traffickers to transport people. In order to evade inspection, They would rather spend money to bribe the chief guard of the local port, and never pull people along the way, and never let outsiders board the ship."
"...Wow." The guard stared blankly at Zhong Ye, no It's good to know what to say.
The big man in front of him doesn't look like a wandering Paladin, a bit like a demonhunter, but no matter which kind he is, he is fighting for the better welfare of mankind.
——After all, 'human trafficking' has been strictly prohibited in Xilu for a long time.
Even so, there are still incidents of missing residents in Schwenningen from time to time. Some of them can find corpses, some can find living people, but some can find nothing. .
The caretaker can quite understand what this big man is doing, because his neighbor lost a child a few years ago. At that time, the church helped to search the town, but couldn't find the child. There is no trace of monster haunting, I can only wonder if someone has napped the child kid.
He had seen the grief of his neighbors and his wife, so he also hated the traffickers who didn't know whether they existed or not.
"Good luck."
When Zhong Ye was about to leave, the caretaker stood up and shook hands with him, "I hope you can find yours soon. Target!"
Zhong Ye's mouth twitched lightly and nodded, "Thank you."
After saying that, he turned around and walked out of the warehouse to the hall.
Zhong Ye met Lillian and the others in the lobby, saw Lily make a secret gesture, tapped her chin lightly, didn't say anything, went to the front desk to register, and then took the key Go to your room.
After he had put away his luggage, there was a knock on the door.
Zhong Ye opened the door, and Lily and Lilian jumped in.
"What did you hear?"
The gesture Lily made to him earlier was that they had negotiated between them. Once they encountered something that was inconvenient to talk about in front of outsiders, they would do it. Make that gesture to say 'this matter requires a covert conversation'.
"There have been many disappearance incidents in this town."
Lily said with a serious face: "Before the adventurer's house was established, there have been ten incidents in this town in eight years. In several disappearance incidents, some found dead bodies, some still found living people, and some found nothing, even dead bodies were not found.
“The receptionist at the front desk is one of them. The younger sister of a missing person, her big brother disappeared five years ago, and no body has been found, so she is very concerned about the disappearance of Schwenningen until now. "
As soon as the information drifted into Zhong Ye's ears, it was absorbed by his brain.
Immediately, he raised his own question: "You are asking her in public." this problem? ”
Lily was stunned for a moment, and then nodded.
The pieces of information were randomly pieced together in her mind, causing Zhong Ye to generate many bizarre guesses, which he rejected one by one. Only a few suspected probabilities remain.
“How many people were in the hall at that time? More than ten? "
Hearing Zhong Ye's question, Lily and Lilian looked at each other and thought about it carefully.
"Ten people?" "Lily guessed.
"Twelve? Lilian also said.
Schwenningen is a quiet and peaceful small town, there are not many adventurers and outsiders.
"If you don't expect it, ask the receptionist about these News of the matter has spread. "Zhong Ye affirmed.
Lily and Lillian opened their mouths slightly, but did not ask Zhong Ye why she said that.
Zhong Ye seldom said affirmative sentences, if he When he is not sure whether something is true, he often adds adverbs like 'maybe' and 'perhaps' to the sentence.
Even if something is certain, he will add The last sentence is 'no surprise'.
Zhong Ye must have thought of something to explain this. As for what they thought of, they don't need to know, it will only waste time.
"Maybe what we're looking for is in this town. After speaking, Zhong Ye hesitated for a moment, and then said, "If nothing else, the lords of Shi Wenningen may have some problems, but they just don't know to what extent they were involved.
“When I was registering at the warehouse, I asked the warehouse manager by the way, and he told me that everyone in Schwenningen knew that the lord’s family had a big ship, and that big ship could be used for every trip. Bringing back a lot of goods and wealth, if nothing else, in the eyes of the residents of Schwenningen, it was a merchant ship, and it was still full of cargo when it set off.
"That ship The crew members are all locals and need to pass the selection before boarding the ship, and their families live in this town, and only in this way, the crew will be willing to keep secrets 'all the time'. "
Lily listened to what Zhong Ye said, and her brain quickly processed the received information.
"That is to say, based on the premise of 'that group of human traffickers are transporting people through rivers' On, does the lord of Schwenningen really have the ability to quietly transform his merchant ship into a human-carrying slave ship on the road? "
Hearing Lily's explanation, Lillian finally figured out the joints of these things.
She blinked, looking towards Zhong Ye, "teacher, is that so?" ”
Zhong Yet>Zhong Yet>, “If these guesses are true, the place where the group of people traffickers and the Merchan ship, the lord of Shiwenningen, handed over, is probably not in Shiningen, but somewhere else. "
"But what about the missing people?" "Lilian glanced at the barrage and asked questions.
"I don't know. "Zhong Ye answered truthfully, "I haven't been able to connect those disappearance incidents with this matter yet, and it's possible that they have nothing to do with each other." "
"In this way, our next action should be to find a way to get in touch with the lord's house..." Lily looked thoughtful and said.
Then, their three people said yes Glancing at him, he said a name in unison.
"Marcus! "
Zhong Ye was driving to Schwenningen when he saw several boats risking their way across the river with broken ice.
He stopped them, he could see that the ships were supposed to be looking for Marcus.
Whether it's to confirm the 'murder results', to pretend, or to really want to find Marcus, it's very dangerous to sail at this time, so Zhong Ye stopped them from this dangerous, no-nonsense. act different from suicide.
In order to prove to those ships, he also pulled out Marcus who was sitting in the carriage and let them take a look, and they were relieved to return.
Zhong Ye set off with Marcus and arrived in Schwenningen ahead of schedule.
This is a quiet, peaceful and unremarkable small town with nothing special except the Neckar River.
Zhong Ye sent Marcus back to his home - as expected, he was the son of the current lord of Schwenningen, only the second son.
Even this remote town has an adventurer's home.
Zhong Ye After they sent Marcus back, they drove the carriage to the adventurer's house and checked in as usual.
While registering, Zhong Ye asked the warehouse keeper: "Do you have a mysterious and secretive ship here that never pulls people along?"
Guarding The clerk paused for a moment, thought about it carefully, called the head, "It doesn't seem like..."
Before he finished speaking, he said "Yi" himself: "Although I have never heard of such a A boat, but we do have a big boat here."
The caretaker put down his pen and looked up towards Zhong Ye, "Everyone in Schwenningen knows that the lord's house has a big boat, and you can bring it with you every time you travel. Many wealth and novel goods are returned, because it is a ship controlled by the lord, so they will not hire other people to board the ship, only the local people selected by them can become the crew of that ship.”
Zhong Ye looked thoughtful and nodded, and smiled at the caretaker, "Thanks."
"Are you looking for something?" the caretaker asked curiously.
Thinking for a moment, the brainstorming just now stopped, Zhong Ye said with a smile: "The ship I inquired about may be a tool used by a group of traffickers to transport people. In order to evade inspection, They would rather spend money to bribe the chief guard of the local port, and never pull people along the way, and never let outsiders board the ship."
"...Wow." The guard stared blankly at Zhong Ye, no It's good to know what to say.
The big man in front of him doesn't look like a wandering Paladin, a bit like a demonhunter, but no matter which kind he is, he is fighting for the better welfare of mankind.
——After all, 'human trafficking' has been strictly prohibited in Xilu for a long time.
Even so, there are still incidents of missing residents in Schwenningen from time to time. Some of them can find corpses, some can find living people, but some can find nothing. .
The caretaker can quite understand what this big man is doing, because his neighbor lost a child a few years ago. At that time, the church helped to search the town, but couldn't find the child. There is no trace of monster haunting, I can only wonder if someone has napped the child kid.
He had seen the grief of his neighbors and his wife, so he also hated the traffickers who didn't know whether they existed or not.
"Good luck."
When Zhong Ye was about to leave, the caretaker stood up and shook hands with him, "I hope you can find yours soon. Target!"
Zhong Ye's mouth twitched lightly and nodded, "Thank you."
After saying that, he turned around and walked out of the warehouse to the hall.
Zhong Ye met Lillian and the others in the lobby, saw Lily make a secret gesture, tapped her chin lightly, didn't say anything, went to the front desk to register, and then took the key Go to your room.
After he had put away his luggage, there was a knock on the door.
Zhong Ye opened the door, and Lily and Lilian jumped in.
"What did you hear?"
The gesture Lily made to him earlier was that they had negotiated between them. Once they encountered something that was inconvenient to talk about in front of outsiders, they would do it. Make that gesture to say 'this matter requires a covert conversation'.
"There have been many disappearance incidents in this town."
Lily said with a serious face: "Before the adventurer's house was established, there have been ten incidents in this town in eight years. In several disappearance incidents, some found dead bodies, some still found living people, and some found nothing, even dead bodies were not found.
“The receptionist at the front desk is one of them. The younger sister of a missing person, her big brother disappeared five years ago, and no body has been found, so she is very concerned about the disappearance of Schwenningen until now. "
As soon as the information drifted into Zhong Ye's ears, it was absorbed by his brain.
Immediately, he raised his own question: "You are asking her in public." this problem? ”
Lily was stunned for a moment, and then nodded.
The pieces of information were randomly pieced together in her mind, causing Zhong Ye to generate many bizarre guesses, which he rejected one by one. Only a few suspected probabilities remain.
“How many people were in the hall at that time? More than ten? "
Hearing Zhong Ye's question, Lily and Lilian looked at each other and thought about it carefully.
"Ten people?" "Lily guessed.
"Twelve? Lilian also said.
Schwenningen is a quiet and peaceful small town, there are not many adventurers and outsiders.
"If you don't expect it, ask the receptionist about these News of the matter has spread. "Zhong Ye affirmed.
Lily and Lillian opened their mouths slightly, but did not ask Zhong Ye why she said that.
Zhong Ye seldom said affirmative sentences, if he When he is not sure whether something is true, he often adds adverbs like 'maybe' and 'perhaps' to the sentence.
Even if something is certain, he will add The last sentence is 'no surprise'.
Zhong Ye must have thought of something to explain this. As for what they thought of, they don't need to know, it will only waste time.
"Maybe what we're looking for is in this town. After speaking, Zhong Ye hesitated for a moment, and then said, "If nothing else, the lords of Shi Wenningen may have some problems, but they just don't know to what extent they were involved.
“When I was registering at the warehouse, I asked the warehouse manager by the way, and he told me that everyone in Schwenningen knew that the lord’s family had a big ship, and that big ship could be used for every trip. Bringing back a lot of goods and wealth, if nothing else, in the eyes of the residents of Schwenningen, it was a merchant ship, and it was still full of cargo when it set off.
"That ship The crew members are all locals and need to pass the selection before boarding the ship, and their families live in this town, and only in this way, the crew will be willing to keep secrets 'all the time'. "
Lily listened to what Zhong Ye said, and her brain quickly processed the received information.
"That is to say, based on the premise of 'that group of human traffickers are transporting people through rivers' On, does the lord of Schwenningen really have the ability to quietly transform his merchant ship into a human-carrying slave ship on the road? "
Hearing Lily's explanation, Lillian finally figured out the joints of these things.
She blinked, looking towards Zhong Ye, "teacher, is that so?" ”
Zhong Yet>Zhong Yet>, “If these guesses are true, the place where the group of people traffickers and the Merchan ship, the lord of Shiwenningen, handed over, is probably not in Shiningen, but somewhere else. "
"But what about the missing people?" "Lilian glanced at the barrage and asked questions.
"I don't know. "Zhong Ye answered truthfully, "I haven't been able to connect those disappearance incidents with this matter yet, and it's possible that they have nothing to do with each other." "
"In this way, our next action should be to find a way to get in touch with the lord's house..." Lily looked thoughtful and said.
Then, their three people said yes Glancing at him, he said a name in unison.
"Marcus! "
