Alien landlady

Chapter 170 Provoking a Declaration of War
"We're almost in port and there are pirates chasing you. Are the pirates so rampant here?" Bai Tongtong followed the captain into the cabin. The sailors cleaned the battlefield, threw the dead pirates into the sea, and fetched water to wash the deck. There were no casualties.

"As long as you don't escape into the port, you are not safe."

"How could the warships of various countries allow pirates to cause trouble at their doorstep?"

"You don't know, Mr. President, these coastal countries are the most powerful in Giles. I have long heard that many pirates are actually funded by the nobles of Giles. Most of the time when the pirates grab the goods, they go directly to the nearest Going ashore to resell the stolen goods, the ports and terminals of the surrounding countries have obtained this benefit. Of course, they turn a blind eye to the fight against pirates. Even if there are warships from other countries fighting pirates, please provide convenience to all countries. These port and terminal cities are also local. Deaf and blind people ignore official documents from their superiors."

"Well, there's really no way around it. The pirates funded by the nobles might actually be the private army of those nobles. I'm too embarrassed to guess whether the royal family is also involved."

"Oh, we're too embarrassed to make wild guesses about this."

"Well, let's stop guessing. Let me introduce some delicious and interesting places. It would be even better if you can buy souvenirs."

"If the president goes deep into the hinterland to their royal capital, I heard that there is an auction house there, where fresh local products are first auctioned and then shipped to various places for sale. Our merchant ships are not allowed to enter the inland river, and we can only purchase them at the port. Many Non-local products are more expensive in terms of purchase price alone.”

"How to get to the capital?"

"Go straight up, if you come from the Biddle trail, you can reach the capital directly."

"Oh, no wonder, it turns out that the advantage of land transportation is here."

"Yes, Mr. President, you can go directly to the capital by land, and you can only stop at the port if you take the sea."

"You have been walking on the sea for so long, you must not know that Biddle's teleportation array has been reopened, right?"

"Huh? Has it been reopened? That's great! If I can return to the voyage smoothly this time, I'll use the teleportation array to come here next time. The sea route is really too dangerous, and I'm close to death."

"When there was a teleportation array in the past, did more of our merchants travel by land or by sea?"

"There are many people who travel by land, and the delivery fee is more expensive than the sea route, but you can directly buy goods in the capital, and the goods you bring can be sold intact. The caravan is not life-threatening. If you are willing to spend the cost, bite your teeth and buy more. Space bag, run once a month, earn all the capital in one year, and make profits in the next year, which is easier, safer and time-saving than sea-going ships."

"No one robbed you on the road?"

"Don't grab the land route. The countries on both sides are very friendly to businessmen from all over the world, but it's normal to think about it. How many towns and villages do our business travel business along the way, and the route of the Biddle Trail has been a regular business route for so many years, and they often come here. Veteran runners will never get lost without a map."

"And the hotels you frequent are treated as regular customers, right?"

"That's right, the ones I frequent along the way are all old acquaintances."

Bai Tongtong patted the captain on the shoulder, "The next time you come from the teleportation formation, you will be able to play with them again."

"Thank you, President, for your good words." The captain bowed beamingly and saluted, "President, please rest for a while, we will be there soon, I will go to the deck to have a look, there is wine in the wine cabinet, you can do whatever you want."

After the captain left, Bai Tongtong peeled back the secrets that had been stripped from the pirates before, looking for clues about their origins.

Originally, I didn't expect to find any interesting information, but I couldn't stop my luck. I discussed with the captain that there might be aristocratic private soldiers among the pirates. The evidence in hand told Bai Tongtong clearly that the person who attacked the merchant ship The true identity of the pirate is the private soldier of a nobleman in Giles.

Now that he was caught, there is a reason to seek some moral compensation.

Ah Huang never came down from the deck. He climbed to the observation deck and huddled with the sailors on it. This was the highest place on the whole ship, and cats like to squat on high places.

The port is just around the corner, and the surrounding ships are densely packed. It is reasonable to say that they have entered the safe waters, but among the ships passing by is a pirate ship with a pirate flag swaggeringly, and the sailors are all nervous. Anxiously praying that the pirate ship sailing after resupply would not take a fancy to his merchant ship.

Foreign merchant ships have to abide by the laws and regulations of the local country when they dock. There are a series of formalities to go through, so Bai Tongtong can't disembark before the inspection is completed. The patient and ferocious Demon Pet speeded up the whole inspection process a lot.

After the inspection, the merchant ship was allowed to unload. Bai Tongtong bid farewell to the captain and the crew, followed the inspector to disembark, and then caught up with the two of them. They introduced their country's customs and customs, as well as tourist routes.

The inspector took the money, and enthusiastically took Bai Tongtong away from the pier to go to the land. He found a child with bare buttocks, and asked the child to take Bai Tongtong to the street to find local snakes, where she would get everything she wanted, from goods to news. .

The climate here is hotter, it is definitely near the equator, everyone’s clothes are very simple, men and women wear a piece of cloth wrapped around their bodies, and it is a blanket to sleep at night to keep warm.

From the local snake, Bai Tongtong spent a lot of money and got several different types of maps, including maps of routes to various places, maps showing local specialties, city maps of royal capitals, and even the distribution of nobles in various territories in the country. map.As long as you are willing to spend money, you can have everything you expect.

Ah Huang didn't forget to give the local snake a candid spell, so Bai Tongtong basically got all the information he knew. From the map, he found the real owner of the pirate ship that robbed the merchant ship just now. The territory is nearby, but the coastline is not. It is only long enough to build an artificial pier, which is disguised as a noble's private pier, but is actually a passage for pirate ships to enter and exit.

If local snakes know about these things, it means that nobles sponsoring pirates is an open secret here, and foreign merchant ships from afar being robbed by pirates are not worth making a fuss about in the eyes of the locals.

Bai Tongtong decided to go to the aristocratic territory first.

The map was given to Ah Huang to study for a while, and then the two of them disappeared from the hidden place on the street and went directly to the territory of the unlucky nobleman. Bai Tongtong took off his robe and changed into a mercenary uniform, and then came to the town where the manor was located.

Bai Tongtong was wandering around the town first, Ah Huang separated from her, did not show up in front of people, directly lurked into the manor, skillfully stole the valuables hidden in the corner of the house, and then met Bai Tongtong on the street to transfer the cash Give it to her, so that she can go to the hotel to open a room in her own currency.

Valuables were lost in the manor, which naturally became a mess. The lord's soldiers went to the streets to look for suspicious persons, making the streets frantic.Bai Tongtong, however, was leisurely shopping on the street, buying big bags of local specialties, all of which were dried seafood, all of which seemed to be of good quality, and the seafood soup in the small restaurant also had a unique flavor.

They searched in vain for a day and found nothing. At night, when everything was silent, Bai Tongtong and Ah Huang sneaked out of the hotel, sneaked into the manor, and cast mind-peeping tricks on the lord couple and the army commander in charge of the soldiers, and then went back to the hotel to continue sleeping. Check out early the next morning and head towards the capital.

In the three days before arriving at the royal capital, bizarre thefts occurred in the aristocratic territories along the way. In addition to the loss of property, many secrets that were originally hidden were exposed. It is not a big deal for the lord and his wife to have lovers. , the number of illegitimate children exceeds that of legitimate children, causing couples to quarrel a lot, but the heir carefully cultivated by a lord is the child born to his wife and groom back then. It was a disaster for the family.

With the looted property, Bai Tongtong went all the way to buy local products, and sat with those low-level people who smelled of sweat and other peculiar smells in the crowded tavern, blowing all kinds of cowhide and spreading all kinds of truth. Even if someone thinks she is suspicious in retrospect, she has already lost her whereabouts, not to mention that there is a consensus in the mercenary circle that it is best not to mess with female mercenaries who dare to act alone.

After arriving in the capital, Bai Tongtong went to inquire about the auction house. She had been out for almost a week, and she wanted to go back to Biddle as soon as possible, use the teleportation array to go back to her own site to see the situation, and then come back to continue torturing these Giles people after dealing with business for a few days.

The hotels near the auction house are full of business travelers from all over the world, and a considerable part of them are from Biddle. But counting the distance between the two countries, when the businessmen set off, Daly was still on the way to escape, and she probably had already entered the territory of Marzio. , During the rush to Wismar.

Although she couldn't get the latest news from the merchants, Bai Tongtong still took the opportunity to chat with them to find out what products were worth selling at the auction, and then followed the merchants to the auction to go through the formalities and pay a deposit to get a number plate, so that she There is only one seat on the spot.

Souvenirs from all over the world are gathered in the capital, and are sold through the auction house. The quality and quantity are guaranteed. Bai Tongtong relies on the money in his hands, and only selects the price of the first-class products. He has an attitude of charging as much as he can. Most of them are in the bag, leaving a small part for other businessmen.

After sweeping through all kinds of goods on the auction site, so many things only took up a little space in the new ring, and he stood contentedly outside under the scorching hot and dazzling sunlight, thinking about where to find a cool place to cool off, Ah Huang suddenly Sneaking stealthily into the ground beneath her feet, signaling her to go to a secluded place.

Bai Tongtong had just reached a dead corner when she was dragged into the ground by Ah Huang, and when she came out, she was already outside the capital city, and then she saw Harding.

A note flew out of Harding's collar, and Bai Tongtong caught it and read it. The content was to tell her to go back to the port town where she landed at the beginning. They were to be executed in public on the grounds of their masterminds.

Seeing that she finished reading the note, Harding activated the wind travel technique, caught her and Ah Huang and went back to the plain below.

Condescending, a lot of onlookers have gathered in the town square, surrounded by a square execution platform, surrounded by three floors inside and three floors outside, waving their fists and shouting to execute those foreigners, and a guillotine is placed on the execution platform , the captain and the crew were standing behind the platform tied up, the executioner and the beheading officer were checking the mechanisms on the guillotine and the sharpness of the blades to ensure that every time the rope was loosened, a head would be cut off.

Regardless of changing the mercenary uniforms on her body, Bai Tongtong put on the robes directly. Harding sent her and Ah Huang to the ground, watching them disappear, and it continued to float in the sky to observe the situation. If necessary, It will also help.

Standing in the underground space of the execution platform, Bai Tongtong discussed tactics with Ah Huang for a while, and then the surprise attack began.

A Huang first covered the captain and the others with defensive skills, then destroyed the execution platform, causing the captain and the others to fall to the ground, Bai Tongtong opened the ground to swallow them, and kept them with him, A Huang also jumped off and fled to the ground. elsewhere.

The sudden attack stunned everyone, and when the smoke cleared, they found that all the condemned prisoners had disappeared. The square became chaotic, and Harding looked around for where Bai Tongtong and the others might appear.

Bai Tongtong was not in a hurry to return to the ground, she just untied the ropes of the captain and others, gave them water and food, and let them stay in a safe underground space, while she and A Huang ran to the office of the mayor and kidnapped the mayor Intimidate things to pass.

In fact, the matter is very simple. The nobles who were severely injured by having their wealth stolen and their family scandals exposed vowed to take revenge. They judged that this matter could never be done by people in the country, nor could it be done by people from neighboring countries. , and the only foreigner who came from afar to appear in the port recently was the captain of the ship, so the angry nobles jointly ordered that they be caught and executed.

Pollock knew this in time because Harding would come over every day to see if there were any merchant ships of Gulis in need of help on the sea, only to find that the lives of his own citizens were at stake. Once they found it, they found Bai Tongtong, and the captain and the others had a chance to survive.

Bai Tongtong didn't make things difficult for the mayor, and let him go back after getting the information she wanted, but before leaving, he patted the mayor on the cheek, gritted his teeth and growled in his ear.

"Good nobles don't do it, they want to be pirates, and now they want to execute my businessman of Gulisi on unwarranted charges, and tell your majesty the king that the war has begun. Single out your country, wash your neck and die."

After finishing speaking, Bai Tongtong flipped off her magic robe gracefully, turned around and left, and the mayor behind her was already sweating from fright, sitting limply on the ground and unable to get up.

(End of this chapter)