Chapter 377 – The Cotton Field
I stared at the ten captain’s face. He subtly avoids my eyes and looks at the distant mountains.
He says it was a chance encounter, but he’s a bastard who insisted on using an escort, talking all sorts of nonsense until I threatened him and ordered him not to attach an escort.
I said, ‘Yes. I understand.” It must have been that he had followed the slave and approached after seeing the strange appearance of the slave.
Why would this guy tail me? Of course, it must be so that it looks good to me.
If I get caught up in the slightest bit of trouble, it must be the purpose of stepping in and helping me and making up for the worst I showed on the first day of scoring.
Because now I’m in power!
A bastard like a bidet who licks the butthole of the powerful.
These guys are the parasites that hinder the sound development of organizations and eat them up.
“So you mean you stumbled across us at a random place and at a coincidental timing while on patrol?”
“You may not believe it, but yes. You’re right. Quite by accident. Yes.”
If you’re going to lie, it would be nice if you showed sincerity by spitting on your lips, but this shameless guy doesn’t even show anything similar.
“…”
“Ah, then we’ll go patrol somewhere else!”
While thinking about what to say to get rid of this leech-like creature, I quickly ran away.
On the contrary, it might be a good thing because you don’t have to say hurtful words.
“Tsk. Let’s go to the warehouse first.”
I put away my thoughts about the leader of the Ten and walked along the road the cart had passed. Inside the warehouse, I felt the presence of the residents who were working, so I peeked inside the warehouse.
It looks the same as when I was introduced to it by the village chief yesterday.
The expressions of the residents working in the warehouse are incomparably brighter than the slaves pulling the wagons that we saw earlier.
“Hmm…”
The old man, who was peeping at the warehouse together, let out a small silence.
“Why?”
“No, the person I ran into earlier.”
“A slave who drove the cart?”
“The village chief said he was a slave who worked in the cotton fields, right?”
“Perhaps. Why?”
“No, the village chief said that. He gave the slaves hope.”
Apparently, the village chief said something like that. If there is hope that people can get better than now, blah blah…
“What about the opportunity?”
“By the way, did you see his gloomy face earlier? That face didn’t look like the face of someone who could win a better situation with their own hands.”
“Is it? Isn’t it just because the work is hard?”
Whether things get better or not, in the end, the things that are difficult right now are all the same. It’s hard right now, but isn’t it strange that you can laugh?
To me, these kids who are working laughing in the warehouse now feel more like crazy people.
It’s the same as first-class that laughs the harder it gets. Laughing when it’s hard is just being crazy.
“Maybe it’s because the work is hard, but what to say… It felt like we had something to say.”
Roin’s senses have never been wrong. If Roin felt that way, he would be right.
“Hmm… But I don’t think that slave can help us in our business.”
That’s the point. I don’t know what the slave wanted to say to us, but I don’t think it’ll help much.
Even though he’s a slave, in the end, he can make a living by processing cotton and selling it in this village. They say they will set fire to earn a living, but they won’t welcome or help, saying please do it.
“Damn it, it’s frustrating. There seems to be no way.”
In broad daylight, there are many people in the warehouse, so it seems difficult to light a fire unnoticed, and in the middle of the night, it is difficult to reach the warehouse without being noticed by anyone.
Feeling frustrated, I left the warehouse and looked down at the river in the back.
Looking at the cool flowing river, I feel a little better. It would be nice if the current affairs could be solved in a cool way like a flowing river.
In the end, I returned to the village chief’s mansion in the evening without thinking of any other sharp method. But you can’t give up just because you can’t find a way. I will definitely set fire to this village.
After dinner being entertained by the village chief, I waited in my room until nightfall.
“Good. Let’s approach the warehouse one more time using the route we took during the day.”
Turning around the outskirts of town would be less conspicuous and more reachable than traversing the center.
Just like you did during the day, go around the outskirts of town and see if it’s possible to get to the warehouse undetected.
I left the room with Natalia and Roin and came down to the unlit lobby on the first floor. The old man who was leading the way stopped when he reached the door.
“There are two of them.”
“At the door?”
“Huh. It looks like the guards are guarding it like yesterday.”
“Tsk, even though I told you not to do it, you’re not listening.”
I forcibly swallowed the nagging. Even if you get annoyed, the guards guarding the door won’t disappear. Here we have to find a way to sneak out without getting caught by these guys.
“Wouldn’t there be a back door or something?”
“Huh. I think you better look for it.”
If I had known it would be like this, I would have searched the back roads in advance during the day.
It’s my first time doing something like this, so I can’t help but get lost.
“Usually a mansion like this will have a door behind the kitchen. Let’s go there.”
I followed Roin’s guidance and headed to the kitchen. The kitchen, entered through a door connected to the dining room, is filled with dreary air.
As the old man said, there was a door to the outside from the kitchen, so I followed the old man out of the mansion.
“Phew, if it weren’t for the guards, you could just come out the front door.”
“It’s better. Compared to the front door, the back door is really inconspicuous. Let’s assume you practiced beforehand.”
The back of the old man who skillfully examines the surroundings and walks in the lead is very reliable. Would this have been possible if it had not been for the help of Roin, who was skilled in stealth and stealth? She should also take good care of the woman.
With the two of us, we started to walk slowly along the outskirts of the village, leaving a little distance from the private house.
“It’s fortunate that the chief’s house isn’t in the center of the village.”
“That would have been really difficult.”
“Oh, it’s dark, so I can’t see well.”
Natalya, who was following me, gave a pained sound and gripped my collar tightly. Unlike yesterday, there is not much moonlight today, so it is really dark.
“Shall we just turn on the lights today?”
“You have to be invisible to infiltrate?”
“It’s not like we’re going to ‘play’ today. Besides, if you turn on the light here and reach the warehouse almost unnoticed, it means that if you move without using light magic, you really won’t be noticed.”
“That’s true too… Then grow up.”
As soon as the old man’s permission was given, Natalya summoned a sphere of light. Seeing the sparkling light made my head feel lighter and came up with a new method.
“If you can’t get it right after trying this, let’s use magic.”
“Magic? Suddenly, what kind of magic?”
“It is golden magic. Why don’t you bribe some of the vigilantes in town with money?”
The old man who was walking in front stopped and looked back at me.
“Buy with money?”
“Huh. How is it?”
“Uh… I hadn’t even thought of that. Is it possible? What if he betrays us?”
“I need to find a guy who is in dire need of money. If the vigilante doesn’t work, the village slaves will be fine too. Or you can use the money as bait and keep your mouth shut.”
It’s not a completely impossible story if you use the black moon’s financial power. Roin nodded lightly as if he agreed.
“Hmm… It’s something worth considering…”
Okay. If the defense is solid and there is no gap, it is enough to create a gap.
Thinking this way made me feel a little better. But the eased mind didn’t last long. The old man who was looking at me frowned and looked at the road I had passed.
“Is someone coming?”
“What?”
The one who approached was a slave who drove a cart he had encountered during the day.
He cautiously approached us and glanced around, looking at us.
“You are that slave. What’s going on? Did you tail us?”
“Are you really the sheriff dispatched from the city? Are you investigating the security of the town?”
“I asked the first question. Answer my question By following you, did you follow us from the mansion?”
At my question, the slave bit his lower lip and knelt on his muddy floor.
“I, please… Please help us.”
“You want help? What are you asking for help with? I have no intention of picking up cotton.”
“It’s not like that. It means we were unjustly enslaved.”
I was stunned by the slave’s words and sighed.
“When I said something… Ha, yes yes All criminals say they are unfair. Are you asking me to free you from slavery with sheriff privileges?”
“It’s not like that.”
