Lolo walked up to the girl holding a book and asked, "Little girl, are you alone?"
"Ah, I'm not the person the Whale Pirates are looking for, nor do I know the guy tied to the mast. I'm just a second-year intern from Varys Botanical College. Look, this is the badge of our college." The girl pointed at the wooden badge on her chest and said hurriedly.
Unfortunately, it would have been better if she hadn't opened her mouth. The panic in her tone only confirmed her identity. Rob knew that she was most likely the person the Whale Pirates were looking for. However, Your Honor, the future supreme magus, was a little strange. At least the girl didn't lie about her identity as a student. He didn't know why the Whale Pirates wanted to capture this insignificant intern.
Lolo said gently, "Don't worry, we're not bad people. We're just here to see if there's anything you need help with. If you run into any trouble, you can come find us. We're staying in room 13 of the second-class cabin." After a pause, Lolo reminded the girl, "Be careful of that half-elf guy over there. He's not a good person."
The girl nodded gratefully. She opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but then seemed to remember something and closed it again.
After Captain Oden finished his speech, he ordered the ship's service staff to reopen the entertainment areas. The most important thing now was to calm everyone's emotions. Panic was worse than being a pirate. After being a captain for so many years, he knew better than anyone that once panic started to spread among the passengers, it would cause many uncontrollable dangers. As for the guy hiding on the ship, he had already done everything he could. He gave him a deadline. If that guy didn't want to watch his companions get exiled, he would come to see him before sunset.
The crowd left the deck one after another. Captain Oden assigned four sailors to watch over the man tied to the mast to ensure that he would not be rescued. In fact, even if someone did rescue him, unless they could take over Six Flower as well, there was nowhere for him to run in the vast sea.
At dusk, the sky gradually darkened. Lolo was listening to Rob talk about the key to casting water magic in the cabin. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. She got up to open it and saw the little girl standing outside.
"Are you really willing to help me?" The little girl bit her lip. It was obvious that she was at her wit's end. Otherwise, she wouldn't have come to seek help from two strangers whom she had only met once.
"Tell me what's going on first," Rob said calmly without giving any promises.
Lolo waited for the girl to come in and closed the door again.
"I'm sorry. I lied to you on the deck. I was very scared. My name is Ursula. The Whale Pirates are probably coming for me," Ursula said.
"How do you know they're looking for you?" Your Honor, the future Supreme Magister, raised his eyebrows.
Ursula hesitated. "Uncle Barber told me. He came to warn me."
"Barber is the guy tied to the mast, right? What's his relationship with you?"
"Uncle Barber is our family's guard. Well, actually, our family can't be called nobles anymore. My mother makes clothes in a tailor's shop, and my father works as an accountant. Even so, Barber never leaves us. He protects our family," Ursula said. Ursula said, "About two years ago, I left home to study in Varys. Five months ago, I suddenly received a letter from home. The letter said that my father was seriously ill and that I had to return home immediately. So, I applied for leave from the academy and rushed to Sword Bend Harbor to board the Six Flowers. On my first day at sea, I ran into Uncle Barber."
"You recognized him?"
"No, I wasn't on the deck when he was rescued. He sneaked into my room at night," Ursula said. Ursula said, "At the time, he looked … very nervous. He said that he might be under surveillance, so he could only use this method to find me. Also, he seemed to have a premonition that something like this would happen today, so he didn't want anyone to find out about our relationship. Other than that night, he didn't come to find me again. He also pretended not to know me."
"Oh? Why did Barber come to find you? "
"He told me that the letter was a trap. My parents and brother died seven months ago. One day, a group of masked men suddenly broke into my house and forced my mother to write that letter. After that, they started killing people without saying a word. Barber rushed out of the house to protect my six-year-old brother, but my brother was shot in the head by a cold arrow. Only Barber survived. He wanted to come to the Free City-State to warn me, but he was chased along the way. Barber said that the enemy was very powerful and told me not to think about revenge."
"How did he know that you were on Six Flowers?"
"It's the Bloodline Ring."
"Huh?"
"It's a magic item passed down in our family. With that ring, we can roughly detect the location of our family members. However, only those with the family's bloodline can use the Bloodline Ring …"
"Oh, then why can your family's guard, Barber, use it?"
"Barber's ancestor married a woman in our family, so he actually has the blood of our family in him. Usually, everyone treats him as a family member, and no one really treats him as a guard," Ursula explained. "He disguised himself as a drowned person to get on the ship to find me."
"Wait, but what about the woman who fell into the water?" Luo Luo asked.
"Uncle Barber said that it was the body of a death row inmate that he stole to increase the credibility of his identity as a drowned person."
"Well, this explains the strangulation marks on her neck. They match the wound of the hanged prisoner, and it also explains why he happened to bump into Six Flowers on a prosperous sea route." Rob tried to put all the clues together. "The other party obviously came for you, but they didn't go to the academy to find you. Instead, they forced your mother to write you a letter to ask you to go home. This means that the other party didn't want to do anything in the Free city-state. But if that's the case, why did they do something unnecessary and let Barber go?"
"Uncle Barber wasn't released by anyone. He ran out on his own," Ursula explained.
"No, he survived because the enemy didn't want to kill him at all. The Bloodline Ring on his finger has been marked by magic. Otherwise, how do you think the Giant Whale Pirates were able to intercept Six Flowers so accurately in the vast ocean?"
"What?" Ursula was shocked.
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