Ram's soul was almost frightened, so much so that his hands on the rocks on the riverbank came loose, and he slid down the slope to the dry riverbed.
He looked up and saw two faces on the river bank. One was the guy who knocked him out yesterday, and the other was the gentleman next to the flying boat.
"What are you doing here if you don't go home?"
The look in Ram's eyes that was flustered and hesitant to speak made Walter wary. He slid down the river bed and grabbed Ram by the collar.
"Hey! Answer honestly!"
"I can't go home! My parents didn't escape, and my sister went to take revenge! I want to help, but I don't know what to do..."
Ram kept muttering, clenching his fists and hitting the river bed, his words filled with hatred for his own incompetence.
Ampton squatted next to Ram and patted Ram hard on the shoulder.
"Stop yelling and tell me what happened!"
Ram sat on the river bed and told the story of the incident. He wiped his tears and cursed the bishops and nobles who always sent people to the gallows.
"Is your sister really a witch?"
Faced with Apton's question, Ram was stunned for a moment, and then he said angrily: "I hope she is, and I hope her curses can be effective! Those people deserve to die, they deserve to die..."
Ram said, suddenly his head drooped like a deflated rubber ball.
"But she's not, she just fell in love with someone she shouldn't have.
I don’t know what you like, but is this wrong? "
Ampton touched Ram's head and quickly calmed his emotions that were about to collapse.
"That's right, that's right...then what are you going to do now?"
"I don't know. I plan to wait for an acquaintance to stop him when he passes by the city gate and ask him to help me go into the city to inquire about my parents and the whereabouts of my sister."
"Why don't you go in and find it yourself?"
"That won't work. There's a high chance that I'll be stopped by the guards, and then..."
"Then your sister might have been stopped."
Seeing Ram's almost desperate look, for the first time, Apton felt unbearable.
He sighed and said, "How about I help you go in and look for it."
Ram no longer despaired, but became grateful. He grabbed Apton's hand and began to tell him about the route after entering the city, and who to find where to find information.
While Ampton listened carefully to Ram's description, Walter stretched out his hand. He gently pulled out the sword from the scabbard and looked at the bank of the moat.
A head wearing a helmet appeared there. Under the helmet, there were extremely surprised eyes.
"Ram! What are you doing here!?"
Walter took action, and it only took a moment from drawing the sword to jumping onto the river bank and knocking down the guard. If Ram hadn't yelled "Wait a minute", the guard would have been a corpse at this time.
"Uncle House!"
House was still struggling, but his sword was not unsheathed and was being held down by Walter. Walter's sword was already pressed against his neck.
"Ram, what do they do?!"
"They are not bad people. If you let Uncle House go, he is not a bad person either..."
Upton looked at House, who was holding his sword against him and still struggled, and then at Ram, who was trying to climb up the river bank, and said to Walter: "Walter, pull him down first."
"I didn't do anything to them, I just encountered..."
House sat cross-legged on the river bed, looked at Ram who was also sitting in front of him, and sighed.
Walter on the side held his sword tightly, not intending to let down his guard at all.
"Why are you like Selu! Why are you running back here?"
"Have you met my sister?"
"I've seen it before."
"Where is she now?"
"Enter the city."
"How could you let her into the city..."
Faced with Ram's questioning, House sighed again.
"What can I do? She threatened to report me for going to the Weber's house to listen to the sermon! I have an elder and a younger one, and I'm scared!"
"Then...then how are my parents?"
"They've been hanged in Temple Square, kid, go away!"
Ram felt that all the strength in his body was drained. House in front of him was shaking and his words became difficult to distinguish. Ram felt that he was light and airy. He even felt that his consciousness had left his body and was floating in the air, staring. He and House who were talking about something.
"What is he talking about? Are his parents dead?
No way... My father is so strong and my mother is so smart. How could it be possible?
Is Uncle House lying to me? No, he had no reason.
Is the only sister left?
No, I can't let her leave me too, I want her to live. "
Ram gritted his teeth, and the feeling of separation disappeared. He looked directly into House's eyes with hatred on his face.
"I want you to take me into town."
House, who was still gushing, was stunned, staring at the young man in front of him in disbelief.
"Are you looking for death? Leave quickly! There is no way to survive in the mountains."
"If you don't, I'm going to report you."
"What the hell..."
House stood up excitedly, but was held down by Walter on the shoulder. He sat back down with a look on his face.
"Why can't you two siblings get along with me?"
"Because you are a good man, Uncle House."
"Good people should be threatened? What is the truth of this!"
Ram looked directly into House's eyes, and at this moment he was as determined as Selu.
"You will take me into the city, you will tell me which direction my sister went, you will hide our whereabouts...
Because you didn't want to arrest me or kill me when you saw me just now, because you know the injustice that has been imposed on us, and you don't want this injustice to cause more and deeper harm...
So you're a good guy, Uncle House, but please let me be a good guy too. "
Ram's eyes were determined, House's face was shocked, Ampton's mouth curled up, and Walter's face was expressionless.
At the same time, Hilpeter was hiding in the dark, watching the restrained Jimmy knocking on the door of a farmer's house unnaturally.
This was his order, and eight crew members were sent out in groups of two in order to obtain more information about the empty island from nearby farmers.
He deliberately put Jimmy and the helmsman Pound in a group.
Pang De was notoriously lazy. When faced with assignments like this, he always found a place to let his companions do the work.
Not long after, Jimmy walked out of the farmer's house. He looked frightened, slung a small bag tremblingly on his body, and walked away quickly along the muddy path.
Hilpeter narrowed his eyes. He came to the door of the farmer's house, and the smell of blood wafting from inside made him feel nervous.
When he opened the door, he saw a middle-aged man lying on the ground. There was a stick-thick penetrating wound on his chest, and blood was gradually spreading out.
Hilpeter closed the door and quickly followed Jimmy in the direction he left.
"Finally showing your tail, you bastard."
