Mystery: The Last Shepherd

Chapter 431 The Transmigrators Hold a Small Meeting
"I don't know how turbulent the seas are, but I have encountered some pirates," Lu Ze said, echoing the Hanged Man's words, then glanced at him, "So, are you interested in helping me redeem the bounty?"

[Temperance] Sir, have you gone to sea?
Audrey listened to their conversation and thought to herself.

Indeed, given what he accomplished in Backlund, he certainly couldn't stay any longer. Leaving the capital and heading to the sea was a wise choice, though those pirates might be in for a rough time.

"Pirates are part of the sea; it would be abnormal if they didn't exist."

Alger, in a tone tinged with dark humor, asked, "Which pirate crew did you encounter, and which pirate did you kill?"

Which pirate crew was so blind as to provoke him?
Alger thought to himself.

Then he heard the other person give the answer—

“I killed the second mate of ‘The Undead King’ Agarito’s fleet, ‘The Slaughterer’ Gilchias.”

As soon as the words were spoken, silence fell instantly above the gray fog.

Apart from the still-flowing mist, everyone else seemed to have turned into statues, completely motionless.

"Um, isn't the 'Undying King' one of the Four Kings of Pirates?"

After a moment, Derrick, the "Sun," asked uncertainly. He knew nothing about the area outside the "Forsaken Land," only having slowly pieced together some basic common sense from snippets of conversation.

"You're not mistaken."

The Hanged Man, having regained his senses, spoke in a strange tone.

"Are the pirate king's men so easy to kill?"

[The Sun] asked again.

Of course it's not easy!
"The Magician," Fors answered in her mind. The "Undying King" was a powerful pirate who had been active since her childhood; his second mate's strength was considerable. Yet, even so, he was killed without a second thought by Mr. Temperance.

After all, Mr. Temperance is a blood cultivator who stormed the palace alone. What is killing the second mate of a pirate king?
"I'm currently at sea and can't help you redeem the bounty."

"The Hanged Man," Alger said to Luzer after he had managed to calm himself down.

"Me too."

Klein manipulated the [World] dummy and gave the same answer.

"understood."

Luze was somewhat disappointed. It seemed that flesh magic was the only way to temporarily preserve the corpse.

How did they offend you?

"The Hanged Man," Alger asked tentatively.

He wanted to know more details about the battle.

“I didn’t provoke them; I just happened to run into them and killed them.”

[Temperance] Luze recalled and briefly described his situation at the time, including the adventurers searching for the "Fountain of Youth" and the thin blood crystals that separated from the bodies of the pirates after their deaths, but omitted the part about being in the ruins of the gods.

What do you mean by "killing someone you just happened to encounter"? It's made to sound like you're killing prey.
"The Hanged Man," Alger thought to himself, but was quickly drawn to what Luze was saying next.

“Every now and then, news of the ‘Fountain of Youth’ spreads out at sea,” he said in a deep voice. “There are always people who are drawn by the legend and gather a group to go out, but so far, no one has returned.”

"To put it optimistically, perhaps they have already drunk from the spring and are truly immortal. To avoid attracting attention, they have deliberately concealed their whereabouts."

—Even he himself didn't believe that.

Lu Ze thought for a moment and said:

"This must be an Agaritou hoax."

"Mr. Temperance, why do you say that?"

"Justice!" Audrey couldn't help but ask.

“Because Agarito is very likely a Sequence 4 of the Demonic Path, the ‘Devil.’ And the rule of the Devil is to deceive humans and manipulate their souls,” Luzer replied.

Having already obtained the "Abyss" tarot card, he was very familiar with this path. Hearing him say this, Audrey's eyes flickered slightly.

She thought of her deceased friend, Cons Rilsen.

According to the subsequent investigation, the devil who assassinated Duke Negan impersonated Constance's father and infiltrated his family. He seemed to have originally intended to digest the potion, but for some reason, he suddenly changed his mind and forcibly assassinated the duke.

康斯
Audrey sighed silently, feeling an even greater weight on her shoulders.

Only by constantly becoming stronger can we protect our families in this dangerous world!

"That's it for today."

The free exchange continued for a while, and seeing that no one had anything to say, the Fool, who was at the head of the table, spoke up.

"Your will is our standard."

Lu Ze and the others stood up to pay their respects, waiting for the red light to flash and for them to return to reality as pure memories.

However, he only saw the figures around him being enveloped in crimson and leaving, while he himself remained above the gray mist.

what happened?

He looked up in surprise, only to find that the Fool had also vanished.

"Don't be surprised, it was I who asked Mr. Fool to let us stay."

At that moment, a hoarse voice came from beneath the long table. Lu Ze looked in the direction of the voice and saw another figure remaining on the gray mist: [World] Klein.

"Is there something you want to tell me?"

He then relaxed and asked with a smile.

"Yes."

Klein said, "Let's sit down and talk slowly."

"Okay."

Lu Ze smiled and sat back down on the bench. He suddenly had a strange feeling; the two of them were having a private meeting after the conference, and they were doing it quite discreetly.
What have you been doing this week?

He asked Klein.

“I’ve set sail, boarded a steamship heading towards the Sunia Sea. I just stopped a few days ago at a place called Bansi Port,” Klein said, then suddenly seemed to remember something, “Hey, you know what? The people there have a habit of eating blood tofu!”

He pronounced the word "blood tofu" in Chinese. In this world, only in front of his fellow townsman, Lu Ze, could he share this excitement.

Blood curd?
This way of eating existed in my hometown before I traveled there.

Upon hearing this, Lu Ze felt both nostalgic and amused. He increasingly realized that Klein truly cared about food.

"You sound like you're having a good time."

"I can't be happy at all."

Upon hearing this, Klein immediately shook his head and smiled wryly, "Bansi Port is more dangerous than you imagine."

"What happened?"

Did you know that the ancient name of Pansi Port was Binsi?

Klein spoke earnestly.

Lu Ze's body trembled, and then his eyes widened instantly.

宾西
Binsey, the Red Angel evil spirit!

He once mentioned that in order to find the descendants of Medici, one could try their luck in Binsey!

He almost instinctively reached for his chest, afraid that the evil red angel inside him would hear the news. But the next moment he remembered that he was just a virtual persona brought to the gray fog, and there was no evil spirit herding inside him.

(End of this chapter)