The Lucky Star is a passenger ship that travels to Josh County all year round. Bundy is the owner of this ship. Like most young people in the Kingdom of England, he also ventured on the sea in his early years, but his luck

Better, I made a lot of money and knew how to advance and retreat. When others were still dreaming of making more money, I returned to my hometown in Josh County and started a passenger transport business.

Although both Josh County and Saber County have fallen into an economic downturn, and almost all industries have entered a period of depression due to the influence of the general environment, compared with other industries, the river shipping industry has still maintained a prosperous situation.

, this not only benefits from the developed mining industry in Sabo County, but also benefits from the Josh people in Josh County who go out to work.

Josh County is a huge swamp. In the early years, Josh County was settled by city citizens who were bankrupt and could not pay taxes, freedmen who lost their employers, and some serfs who escaped from the lord's territory.

These people gathered in Josh County to form villages. These villages all relied on this swamp to survive. They used their geographical advantages to resist the tax collectors sent by the kingdom and the armies of the lords of the surrounding counties. This also created

The people of Josh County are tough and full of gangsterism.

It is no exaggeration to say that out of ten people in Josh County, at least five have participated in one or even multiple robberies, the other four are gang thugs, and the remaining one is considering joining a gang or becoming a robber.

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Even though Josh County later broke away from the state of neglect and began to be directly managed by the kingdom and had its own lord, this gangster habit has not changed at all.

The roads in Josh County are definitely the most dangerous roads in the entire Kingdom of England, because there are a large number of robbers waiting on both sides of the road, waiting for the fat sheep to pass by, so anyone with a little spare money in their pockets will not choose to take the road.

On the way, we left Josh County and chose a safer ship, even though the ship ticket was very expensive.

Heel Bundy saw this clearly and spent a lot of money to hire professional technicians to transform the Lucky Star into the fastest steam paddle steamer for inland water transportation, and specifically used the city of Minie with a wide river channel.

This route to Fort Josh.

It takes other ships a week to complete this route, but his paddle steamer only takes two days, which virtually increases his shipping income by two or three times, and because his ship is more efficient

Smooth and fast, his tickets are much more expensive than others, but this has not affected his business. The Lucky Star is still the most profitable ship on the river.

This time, Bundy was originally planning to take a boat of people and start a new voyage as usual, but what surprised him was that someone actually booked his boat, and what was even more strange was that someone boarded the boat.

There were only a dozen or so people.

Although the Lucky Star is not as good as those sea passenger cruises that can easily carry thousands of people, but here, on the route between Minie City and Joshburg, its passenger ship that can carry 500 people at the same time is already considered a giant.

It is like a tyrant, so few people are willing to book the entire ship. Most people will only book a suite as their own private cabin.

But we have chartered such a big ship like now, but only a dozen people boarded it. This kind of thing has never been seen before.

Although Heel Bundy was very curious about what was happening at the moment, he knew the rules and knew very well what to ask and what not to ask. Moreover, he also recognized a person from the crowd, that person was the Mine City Wolf.

The leader of the gang is Willis the Wolf.

When doing business in the city of Migne, you may not know who the mayor is or who the city councilors are, but you absolutely must know the leaders and leaders of the major gangs in the city of Migne. Although the Wolf Gang does not count in the city of Migne,

The largest gang in the world, but its strength can also be ranked among the first, and it directly controls a city. It is one of the few gangs with a real base.

Willis, the alpha wolf, is definitely a legend in Miaocheng. A poor country boy from Joshburg joined the gang. In less than a year, he became the gang leader in charge of an industry. Later, he became a gang leader in the gang.

When the leader was unexpectedly beside him, he single-handedly killed the other gang leaders and became the unique leader of his gang.

After that, he changed the name of the gang to the Wolf Gang, and expanded rapidly, annihilating and annexing several other gangs around it, and became one of the largest gangs in the city of Minne.

It is precisely because of his legendary rise that many people from Josh County admire him extremely. If they want to join a gang, the Wolf Gang is always the first choice.

However, such a gangster leader who was famous for his proficiency in fighting was standing on the deck of the ship with wounds all over his body, and he was very submissive and lowered his posture in front of a woman. Anyone with a discerning eye could tell who the two of them were.

Whoever masters follows, and this person who made the leader of the wolf gang bow is also very famous in the city of Minne. The proprietress of the Jungle Hotel.

This landlady, who is famous for her beauty, is regarded as the mistress of the leader of the Wolf Gang. Therefore, under the protection of the Wolf Gang, the Jungle Hotel can become the safest hotel in the city of Migne. But now it seems that everyone has misunderstood it.

Well, this woman is not a mistress at all, but more like the owner of the leader of the wolf gang.

Compared with these famous people in the city of Minne, the other five people who got on the boat seemed much stranger. These five people did not look like a group of people. Three of them looked like that.

Mercenaries and the like, while the other two are more like nobles, walking together more like bodyguards and employers.

Heel Bundy knew from experience that none of these five people were residents of Minie City, because it was impossible for such nobles to appear in Minie City, and even if there were mercenaries, they would have already joined the gang. Those who did not want to join the gang either

Become food for wild beasts in the mountains, or be forced to leave the city of Migne.

Heel Bundy does not have a hobby of observing people, mainly because in addition to his apparent identity as the owner of the Lucky Star, he is also an intelligence collector for a secret agency in the kingdom, and needs to record the information of the passengers on the ship every day.

Every move is necessary for the investigation of that secret department.

However, apart from the speculation about the identities of those people, there is really nothing worth studying about those people, because after those people boarded the ship, they stayed in the cabin and never came out. People from the Wolf Gang were responsible for delivering meals.

Go in.

In fact, the heel Bundy didn't know that the observation method he thought was hidden did not escape the eyes of Leo and others, and Leo and others were not prepared to delve into this matter. After all, they had to consider things comparable to dealing with this matter.

The secret department's eyes and ears are much stronger, and more importantly, who will be able to sail the ship after solving this person.

The Mines River is normal in Sabo County, but after entering Josh County, it becomes weird.

Because of the swampy terrain of Josh County and the tidal phenomenon of groundwater here, the course of the Mines River will also change with the seasons, which causes some difficulties in river transportation.

For example, today the boat can travel on a spacious river and finally reach its destination, but if he chooses to take the same river the next day, he will find that the river has been blocked. Even if it is not blocked, there will be some

Unexpected reefs.

If you want to drive on the Mines River in Josh County, the person at the helm needs to have a deep understanding of all the water pattern changes in this section of the river, and you also need to have some relationship with the villages and towns along the river. This is the Mines River.

This is the main reason why transportation on the Si River is basically completely controlled by the Joshi people.

Therefore, even if Leo and the others knew that Bundy and Bundy were secretly observing them, they did not teach each other a lesson. They just stayed in the cabin without giving each other a chance to observe.

After more than half a day, the passenger ship drifted through a relatively fast river section and entered a spacious and gentle river. The mountains around the river were gradually replaced by endless plain grassland, which also represented that they had officially entered the river.

Josh County.

Originally, everyone thought that the ship would continue to move forward directly along the spacious river, but Heel Bundy quickly turned the wheel and steered the ship into an extremely narrow channel, just enough for the Lucky Star to pass.

, and then stopped in a lake that was not too big or too small for the river shot.

"What's going on?" Willis, the leader of the Wolf Gang, sent someone to call Bundy over and asked about the situation.

"Sir, you can't drive on the river at night." Heel Bundy looked very nervous when facing such a big shot in the city of Minne, and replied quickly.

"At night?" Willis turned his head and looked at the sky. Although it was almost evening, it was not dark yet. It seemed that it would still be a few hours until evening. Seeing the sky like this, his face became gloomy.

He came down, grabbed Heel Bundy by the collar, and said, "Do you think I'm a fool?"

"No, it's not!" Heel Bundy shook his head repeatedly and said in a panic: "You are also from Josh, and you should know that Josh's swamp is active, but you may not know that Josh's swamp is active in the evening.

If we continue to sail during that period, we are likely to encounter reefs formed by swamp activities. And..."

Having said this, he suddenly hesitated, as if he didn't know whether he should say the next words.

Willis had a stern look in his eyes and asked in a deep voice: "Is there anything else you haven't said?"

Although Heel Bundy secretly worked for the kingdom's secret department, he was actually just an ordinary person. How could he withstand the coercion of a gang leader like Willis? Sweat immediately broke out on his forehead and he quickly replied: "Yes.

Papa, if you sail on the river at night, there is a high chance that you will meet Papa."

"Papa?" Willis didn't expect to get such an answer. He was stunned for a moment, then raised his head and laughed. The other gangsters from Josh County around him also laughed, except those who were not Josh.

The talented people from the county looked confused, wondering what everyone was laughing at.

Someone also explained what Papa was. After hearing Wan's explanation, others looked at Heel Bundy with strange expressions, as if they were looking at some kind of freak.

Legends about Papa have been circulating in Josh County for a long time, but these are only spread in some small villages, and other towns scorn such rural legends.

Papa is a local slang in Josh County. It originally meant a curse word, but now it means a monster in the swamp.

In the past, many people had seen some monsters in the swamp, but they could not tell what the monsters looked like. In addition, most of the rumors came from taverns, so these rumors about Papa were

It is believed to be the hallucination of some drunkards, and even the most superstitious Josh people would not take things like Papa seriously.

"It's true, it's true that there is Papa!" The heel Bundy who was being laughed at seemed to be very concerned about this matter. He suppressed his fear of Willis and said quickly: "I have seen Papa. I have seen Papa."

I saw Papa twice, and once everyone on the boat was killed by Papa. The second time I was lucky and found a place to take refuge in time, so I didn't die in Papa's hands."

"You must have encountered a disguised river pirate, right?" Willis said angrily.

It is indeed safer for ships to travel on the Mines River than carriages on the road, but this safety is only relative. Some thieves and robbers saw that there was less business on the road, so they also set their sights on the river.

They used a special reed growing in the swamp to make a reed boat. They paddled the reed boat in the dark and approached the freighter docked on the river to rob.

However, after this happened once or twice, the captains of the cargo ships learned the lesson. Most of them would estimate the distance and sail to the dock of the town before dark. The few who had to sail late at night would try their best.

Maintain speed so that those reed boats cannot get close.

It's not like those river pirates haven't thought about robbing ships during the day, but that requires a very good and fast ship to do it. But if there are such ships, why would they do such a business that can make them lose their heads at any time, and go directly to Mignes?

The freight and passenger traffic along the river are enough to make them a lot of money.

Before, Willis saw that the boat did not continue sailing, but docked in this small bay. His first thought was that the boat owner was colluding with the river pirates and wanted to attack them at night.

But then I thought about it, and I felt something was wrong, because the boat owner knew their identities very well, and it was not certain who the gangsters were in front of them, who were wolves and who were sheep, so the boat owner should not be so stupid as to want to join forces with the river bandits to rob them.

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But now, after listening to the captain's account, Willis felt that the captain might really be a lunatic. Who would take some unbelievable legends seriously? And even if Papa was true, could he have docked the ship in a nearby village?

Isn't the dock safer than docking at this remote river?

"No, it's not the river pirates! We were parked in the village, and the river pirates didn't dare to enter the village!" Sensing Willis's distrust, Heel Bundy hurriedly explained.
Chapter completed!