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A man wearing a navy hat leaned out of the window of the cab and said in astonishment: "It's not me, I didn't do anything! It's the ship, the ship is moving backwards!"

"???"

Everyone was stunned and ran to the side of the boat to observe carefully, and found that the boat was really moving backwards!

"Brother, our ship is moving backwards!"

"It's really retreating!"

Aldridge looked at the White Agate approaching with a sullen face. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly looked up and shouted, "I wonder which gentleman is joking with us? Can you come out and see us?"

Edward was about to show up when he saw Aldridge wink at his men, and then six or seven of them surrounded a pile of barrels.

Hearing the approaching footsteps, Klein, who was hiding behind the wooden barrel, became anxious: If I had known that I would hear the noise, I would have called Edward to join us.

He was awakened from his sleep at that time, so he followed the sound and found that the group of people were stealthily carrying something out of the White Agate.

His first reaction was to make a noise to attract everyone's attention, and then he saw the captain of the White Agate was among them. Then he looked at the "thing" they were carrying, and it turned out to be a person wrapped in a quilt!

Is this human trafficking again?!

Klein, who had just experienced a related incident, was immediately furious. He followed quietly, intending to find out the situation and then go back to inform Edward.

As a result, as soon as he got on the "boat", the boat started moving.

This was beyond Klein's expectations: more than a dozen people acted carefully in the middle of the night, found another ship, and colluded with the captain of the White Agate, but ended up kidnapping more than a dozen people?

Are you sure you won't lose money by doing this?

At this moment, Aldridge suddenly accelerated and rushed over. He picked up a huge wooden barrel nearby and smashed it towards where Klein was hiding.

Bang!

A ball of fire burned, and Klein jumped away and arrived at another place.

Aldridge's men immediately opened fire, and Klein jumped three times in a row and disappeared.

"stop!"

Aldridge raised his fist, signaling his men to stop shooting, and said loudly: "Friend, I don't know why you sneaked into our ship. We have no intention of being your enemy. If you come out now, I can give you a boat and let you row back to the White Agate; if you don't come out, I can only regard you as an enemy and fight you to the death. \Novel^Zhai_! I~wrong' content?"

There was no response.

"In that case..."

Aldridge lowered his raised fist forcefully, and a group of his men immediately stepped forward.

At this moment, the bodyguards walking in front suddenly fell into a frenzy, dropped their weapons and started running around. This was the frenzy of a wriggling, hungry and overgrown psychologist.

Then Klein jumped again and changed his position.

Aldridge seemed to have anticipated where he would jump and land, and rushed over as a shadow.

But after running a few steps, he felt a pain in his head as if it exploded, and he almost stumbled to the ground. However, he gritted his teeth and survived this mental puncture, firing several shots with the revolver in his hand.

The first shot hit a ball of fire.

The second shot missed.

The third shot hit Klein accurately, but his body suddenly became smaller and thinner and turned into a paper man.

The next second, Klein was behind Aldridge, snapped his fingers, and fired an air bullet.

Aldridge quickly rolled to avoid it, and the moment he stood up, another mental piercing attack came, followed by shock and frenzy.

Klein leaped again, intending to subdue him completely.

At this time, a woman's voice came: "What happened?"

A brown-haired woman wearing an animal skin cloak walked out of the cabin. She looked sleepy and rubbed her eyes as she looked at the messy bodyguards: "Aldridge, what are you doing?"

Klein immediately gave up the action: This matter seemed to be different from what he imagined?

Aldridge endured the splitting headache and quickly asked everyone to move over together, protecting the woman in the middle, and whispered: "Miss Olivia, this person sneaked into our transfer ship, I am worried that it is..."

The brown-haired woman was startled. "Ah...you, didn't you say this was foolproof?"

Aldridge said, "It's no use talking about this now. You should hurry back to the cabin and leave this to us. I understand that the news of the bookstore has been released and the results have been announced."

"Okay, okay."

The woman hurriedly wrapped her clothes tightly and returned to the cabin under the escort of two bodyguards.

During this process, Aldridge's eyes were fixed on Klein. Seeing that he did not take any action, a certain guess emerged in his mind: "Sir..."

Before he finished speaking, Edward beside him also took off his invisible cloak: "Good evening, Mr. Aldridge."

The sudden sound startled Aldridge and his men, and they immediately turned their guns towards the target. However, the next second the guns in their hands turned into venomous snakes spitting out their tongues. All the crew members hurriedly let go and dodged the poisonous snakes on the ground.

Another burst of flames leaped, and Klein came to Edward's side and nodded slightly at him: "You are here too?"

"Well, I heard some noise and came out to take a look. I didn't expect to see this. At the time, I didn't know if it was kidnapping or human trafficking, but now it seems..."

At this time, Aldridge, who saw the two of them clearly, changed his expression drastically and said with a wry smile: "You two, this is a misunderstanding."

"oh?"

"We are bodyguards from a security company, responsible for escorting the twelve ladies to their destination safely. However, for some reason, someone wanted to kill them, and there might have been a trap set for us ahead. That's why we thought of changing boats in the middle of the night and changing our destination."

Klein frowned and asked, "But... who would deliberately harm such a group of people?"

Aldridge was silent for a few seconds. "This... is the employer's secret. I cannot tell you. But I can swear to the gods that they are all a group of innocent people who have been implicated."

At this point, "Gentlemen, I can let my employer explain this matter to you later, but before that, can you please allow our ship to sail normally?"

Edward snapped his fingers, and the ship shook violently again, then sailed away from the White Agate again.

Klein looked at Edward and was amazed: Such a large ship can change its sailing direction effortlessly. How strong is Edward?

Aldridge then invited the two into the cabin and into the rest area, where he served them hot coffee.

"Mr. Klein!"

A few minutes later, a brown-haired woman named Olivia came over.

Klein was stunned, but he realized that she was looking at Edward - his face suddenly darkened.

Olivia's face was a little nervous at first, but when she saw Edward, it immediately turned into joy. "Did Miss Akasha ask you to escort us? I knew that seeing you during the day was not a coincidence."

Chapter 384: Follow-up to the Assassination

"???"

Edward was stunned. What happened to the vampire countess?

"No, it's just a coincidence."

Edward broke her fantasy directly, "Can you explain to us what is going on?"

Olivia glanced at the crew members around her, and Aldridge immediately waved his hand to let them go out, and he left as well.

"Did you hear about the assassination that happened in Backlund a few days ago?"

Edward nodded. "I heard that those who died were all high-ranking officials and dignitaries."

"That's right."

Olivia hesitated for a long time, and said with a bit of embarrassment, "The twelve of us are actually... the mistresses of those dead big men."

"…"

Edward and Klein were stunned.

Lilith lay in Edward's arms, refraining from asking what a "mistress" was.

"so..."

"After those big men died, the new successors were worried that we might have heard some scandals and secrets while we were with them, so they wanted to have us disposed of."

"Fortunately, we were in Miss Akasha's private bath at the time and were rescued by her. After learning about our situation, she found Aldridge's security company and used her connections to send us aboard the White Agate, away from Backlund."

Edward was surprised that Akasha was really doing things for justice.

"Our escape made it seem as if we knew something to those nobles, so they sent people to hunt us down. If it weren't for Aldridge, we might not have had a chance to get on board."

"But Aldridge said that their security company couldn't handle the endless pursuit, so they thought of secretly transporting us away in the middle of the night. That's why we were so ostentatious during the day, just to tell others that we were on the White Agate."

"We made others think that we were going to Damir Port to transfer passengers to Disi Bay, but in fact our final destination was Bansi Port."

Edward's eye twitched, "Wait, you're going to Bansy Harbor?!"

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

"I...I heard something happened in Bansi Harbor not long ago. What were you doing there?"

Olivia was stunned. "I haven't heard of it. Isn't Bansi Port a major stopover and supply point on the way to Bayam?"

Edward was surprised. Didn't the Church of Storms raze Bansi to the ground like in the original book?

"Mr. Klein, what happened in Bansy Harbor?"

Olivia asked cautiously, "Actually, the reason we decided to go there is because one of our sisters is from Bansi, so we don't have to go somewhere else without knowing what's going on."

Edward thought for a moment and said, "Let's put it this way. Going to Bansi... might as well let your people kill you directly."

"…"

Klein frowned, "What happened to Bansy Harbor?" He remembered that the White Agate would also dock there.

"Well, the residents of Bansy Harbor believe in an evil god, and the island is very dangerous."

Just one sentence made the two of them understand, and Olivia couldn't help but worry: "Then...where else can we go?"

"In fact, there aren't many truly safe places on this ocean. Pirates are present on almost every island. You girls will be targeted wherever you go."

Olivia was stunned. "Then...what should I do?"

"If I have to pick a place, Bayam might be safe for a short time. Some time ago, the pirates provoked the governor there, so the crackdown on the pirates has been intensified... I just don't know how long it will last."

Klein complained in his heart: What pirate offended the governor of Bayam? Wasn't that your "feat" Mr. Hightower?

At this point, Edward asked, "Since Akasha arranged for you to escape, why didn't you choose Feynaport?" - The blood clan in Feynaport seems to be quite powerful, right? Could it be that the blood clans of different countries have no contact with each other?

"Miss Akasha wanted to arrange for us to go to Feynaport, but we just wanted to live in a different environment..."