561.Chapter 561
Nolan said, “Serenity, your little bugs.”
When Nolan returned to the camp, he immediately spotted Eliza, who had already prepared the herbal concoctions.
She had started brewing the first pot of medicine, intending to test its effects herself soon.
As Nolan came in, she coughed lightly, her hand pressed against her lips, subtly acknowledging she had been. eavesdropping.
After taking the little bugs from Nolan’s hand, she couldn’t help but ask, “You really just captured the daughter of the Malone family like that?”
“She delivered herself to my door. Why not capture her?” Nolan said, matter–of–factly.
Eliza glanced at him before turning her attention back to the task at hand.
Noticing her small movement, Nolan paused for a moment and asked, “What’s with the look? Do you know her, and want to plead for her?”
Eliza immediately shook her head, “I don’t know her, and I certainly wouldn’t plead for her.”
“Then what is it?” Nolan inquired.
Eliza smiled, her eyes narrowing as she teased him, “I just didn’t expect you to be so unmoved with such beauty in front of you.”
At this, Nolan looked surprised, his eyebrows raising. He asked, “You mean Louisa is the ‘beauty‘ you’re talking about?”
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“Of course, who else could it be?” Eliza replied, slightly surprised by his confusion.
She hadn’t immediately thought of herself in that context.
But Nolan, sensing something, remained silent for a moment before turning his gaze toward her. He then softly said,* Serenity, don’t you have any awareness of your own beauty?”
He hadn’t paid much attention to Louisa’s appearance, but when it came to beauties, there was only one that caught his
eye.
Seeing Eliza touch her face, Nolan chuckled, “I’m not a block of wood. With a beauty like that in front of me, naturally, I’d be moved. But that depends on the person.”
“Not everyone can be called a beauty, and not every beauty can move me.”
Moreover, Louisa, in his eyes, didn’t even come close to being beautiful.
To him, Louisa smelled of death–her stench was unbearable.
Nolan said, “Louisa smells like death?”
Eliza, upon hearing this, raised an eyebrow in surprise.
Nolan nodded. “Yes, it’s a smell that’s been rotting for a while.”
Eliza furrowed her brows. “My bugs didn’t detect anything like that.”
If they had, they would have communicated it to her immediately.
More importantly, her bugs were connected to her five senses, though she usually only used them for communication since the other senses, especially smell, were too overwhelming for her to handle.
She had shut off her other senses for the sake of comfort.
But, if they detected anything out of the ordinary, such as the scent of a corpse, blood, or certain herbs, they would relay the information to her.
This time, however, even though her bugs were close by, they had given no such message.
Nolan thought for a moment and said, “It’s not just the stench of death; there’s also a strong fragrance of flowers.”
He hadn’t specifically gone to smell her, but when he approached to catch one of Serenity’s little bugs, the mix of these two scents had hit him.
If it had been someone else, they might not have noticed anything. But Nolan, having seen so many corpses in his life, was familiar with the stench of death.
The bloody battlefield, the mountains of corps
Successfully unlocked!
these memories would haunt him forever.
So, while others couldn’t detect it, and Serenity’s bugs didn’t react, Nolan had caught the scent of death.
Eliza, trusting Nolan’s instincts, believed there was truth to his words. Louisa truly carried the scent of death.
Eliza thought, ‘But why would such a beautiful young woman carry the scent of death?‘ Was it something she had
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encountered? Or perhaps… had she done something?
Eliza couldn’t shake the unsettling feeling creeping through her mind.
She looked at Nolan and said, “You’ve captured Louisa, and Jefferson will surely act–either tonight or tomorrow.”
Noten responded, “He’d better come soon. If he doesn’t, we’ll see tomorrow if I hang his daughter on the gates of Centrina CHY”
Nolan’s expression was chilling as he smiled faintly
Meanwhile, in the camp, Louisa, who had been captured, was now being held in a cage under a large tent by the Black Flag
soldiers
Never having been treated this way before, Louisa’s face darkened, and her eyes were filled with a terrifying glare.
Despite the situation, she still maintained some of her noble grace. Even though she had been forcefully captured, she didn‘ I make a scene.
After all, she was the daughter of the Governor, and this was her father’s territory.
No matter how high Nolan’s rank was, capturing her didn’t mean he could do whatever he pleased with her.
Louisa wasn’t worried about her safety at all.
But when she was thrown into the cage, she hadn’t expected to run into a familiar face in such a place.
“Louisa, it’s been a while,” came a voice from behind her after the two Black Flag soldiers had walked away.
Louisa turned to look, only to see another cage behind hers,
The person in that cage was sitting lazily, half–reclining, watching her with a mocking glint in his eyes.
Louisa asked, “Rafe? What are you doing here?”
She frowned at Rafe’s disheveled appearance, not even trying to hide the disdain on her face.
“It’s not just me here,” Rafe replied with a smirk. “Look behind you, Felix is here too.”
Louisa, unaware, looked back and was instantly horrified.
She gasped loudly,
Her face went pale as she saw the body of a man stuffed into a large jar, with only his head and torso remaining, the limbs hacked off.
The person–no, the thing–was none other than her uncle, Felix.
Louisa, who had seen her fair share of dead bodies, had never encountered such a gruesome and brutal scene. Trembling, she demanded, “What’s going on? How did your father end up like this?”
Rafe shot her a resentful glare, immediately responding, “He’s your father?”
“Pah! I am the daughter of the Governor, not the daughter of a petty county magistrate. And that bastard, a m son, doesn’t deserve to be my father.”
Louisa scoffed in disdain.
Rafe rolled his eyes at her.
“Oh, the daughter of the Governor, speaking as though she’s a princess,” he muttered, unimpressed.
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He was too lazy to deal with her attitude and quickly shifted the conversation. “Aren’t you supposed to be with your grandmother? How did you end up captured by the Prince Regent? Did you try to seduce him, only to get rejected and thrown in here?”
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