Unknown Knight

The next morning, the five people who had almost no gains prepared to set off back to Aaron City. This trip was almost in vain and everyone was very depressed.

Before they left the town, the carpenter from yesterday rushed to their car again and said to James excitedly:

"Sir, sir, wait a minute, I just remembered something."

After saying this, he looked at James eagerly. James did not expect the carpenter to have any useful information, so he casually took out five or six copper coins from his pocket and handed them to him, just as a way to get rid of the beggar.

Seeing James' lack of interest, the carpenter knew that his words yesterday had no effect on the gentleman. He did not dare to complain about the small amount of money, so he hurriedly said to James:

"Sir, the news I told you about the Isle of If was all heard from others, but there is a person who has actually been to the island. If you want to know the details, you can go find him.

This man is a boatman. In the early years, he transported supplies to the prisoners on the island. However, since the island was abandoned a few years ago, he has lost this livelihood. In recent years, he has made a living by fishing. If you ask who in Aaron City still knows about the island, I think he is probably the only one. "

The carpenter paused imperceptibly and looked at James eagerly. James was familiar with his tricks. He took out a few copper coins from his pocket and handed them to James. Only then did the carpenter continue the half-sentence he had just spoken:

"His name is Fisher. He lives in a wooden house on the east side of the old dock in Aaron City. You can find him if you ask."

The carpenter, who seemed to have made the biggest profit, weighed the dozen copper coins in his hand and stuffed them into his arms with satisfaction. Little did he know that his cleverness might have backfired. If he had not played tricks and told all the information honestly, with James's character, he might have gotten not dozens of copper coins, but several silver coins.

The Alanmayer family valued James and his party very much and accompanied them all the way out of town. When James was leaving, he seemed to remember something and took out a gold coin from his pocket and handed it to Alanmayer, saying:

"Mr. Velen asked me to give this to you. He said it's a souvenir and he wanted you to use it in an emergency."

After saying that, he was about to drive away, but Allen Meier grabbed his sleeve and said:

"Sir, can my brother Velen come here again next year?"

James saw Alan Meier with tears in his eyes and knew what his ordinary question contained.

After so many years of getting along, with such similar looks and such selfless care, even if Alan Meier had never seen the world again, he had lived for most of his life after all. How could he not have guessed the reason behind this? It's just that no one said it out loud.

His question was no different from asking about Velen's life or death. James didn't know, even if he knew Velen was dead, he couldn't bear to tell the old man this fact, so he patted his hands and said seemingly unintentionally:

"Mr. Velen, old mayor, that's not certain. Hjalmar is really busy. Don't worry, I will definitely pass on the message to you. Maybe he will be free next year."

The two of them then exchanged greetings and said goodbye.

After driving for a while, James couldn't help but look behind the car and found that Alan Meier had just turned back to the town. However, he was no longer as vigorous as when they first met. He was hunched over and seemed to have aged ten years in an instant. It was really:

A lonely traveler separated from his parents at a young age, whose life and death are unknown to me?

No one dares to recognize blood relatives in person, and I miss my brother so much that I wonder when he will return.

……

The five people returned to Aaron City the next afternoon and still stayed in the inn.

As soon as they settled in, James took Bestul and Aisu to the old dock. Just as the carpenter said, Fisher's home was easy to find out. They found out the exact location of his house by asking everyone.

When they were about to reach Fisher's house, Aisu grabbed James' sleeve. It turned out that Aisu, who was a very good archer, also had excellent eyesight. He saw the difference of the man repairing fishing nets in front of Fisher's house at a glance. On his arm with his sleeves rolled up, half of an inverted pentagram tattoo was exposed.

When Aisu was in Tangquan Fortress, he often went in and out of the cave secret room and was very familiar with the inverted pentagram mark. When he had nothing to do, he also read some books about the Dark God Cult and knew that the Dark God Cult members had the habit of tattooing inverted pentagrams on their bodies.

Maybe Fischer was careless for a moment, or maybe he thought no one would notice him in such a remote corner, which allowed the sharp-eyed Ai Su to see the mark on his body at a glance.

The three of them discussed it and decided that based on the mark on his body, it would be a bit disrespectful to go over to him during the day. If the noise was too loud, it would not only easily alert the enemy, but might also cause some other situation. So it would be better to keep quiet and visit him at night.

Late at night, the full moon made the night tides particularly large, and the sound of the huge waves masked all the smaller sounds near the seashore.

Three masked men came to Fisher's wooden house silently. Bestur pried open the wooden door with a machete, and James lit the oil lamp with a flint. The couple in their forties on the bed were still snoring in their sleep. It seemed that they were used to sleeping in such noise and automatically filtered out all the sounds around them.

James had no choice but to ask Bestur to wake up the two people on the bed, and let Bestur and Aisu hold their weapons against them. James did not waste any words and directly stated his purpose and asked them to tell him about the situation on If Island.

But after the couple recovered from their shock, Fischer's wife suddenly turned pale, trembled all over, and muttered:

"Darkness is coming, the world is annihilated, only by believing in my Lord can you gain eternal life..."

When the three men understood what was going on and felt something was wrong, Fischer's wife suddenly took out something from under the pillow and quickly stuffed it into her mouth. When Bestur pinched her chin and squeezed her mouth open, she had already swallowed it. Moments later, she died with foam at the mouth.

"Old woman, why are you doing this?"

Obviously, Fischer's wife is a fanatic of the Dark God Cult, and the kind who is determined to die. But the same cannot be said for Fischer. Although he is lying on his wife and seems to be crying bitterly, he is actually trying to wipe his nose and tears while stealing glances at the three people. It is obvious that he has something in mind.

James was also a kind-hearted person. He sighed and said:

“Alas, we just wanted to find out about the situation on If Island, and we didn’t want to murder you and your wife. We didn’t expect this to happen.

There are one hundred silver coins in this bag. As long as you explain the situation on If Island to us clearly, all the money will be yours.

I think you are still very young. With this money, you can completely get away from this sad place, buy a piece of land somewhere else, marry a young wife, and then start a new life. "

Bestur, a tough guy born in the grassland, had long been fed up with James's soft-heartedness. He snorted contemptuously and decided to play the bad guy. He grabbed Fisher's collar and said,

"You'd better tell the truth. If the information you give us is different from what we have, and you dare to lie to us, I have a hundred ways to make you die in agony!"