"I, I don't know anything," the man who was about to speak seemed to have changed his mind again. He leaned his back against the trunk behind him, and looked down at the ground uneasy under Alexander's gaze. "I'm just a worker, I really don't know anything."

Alexander frowned and he looked at the woman with inquiring eyes.

"What are you talking about," the woman squatted down in panic and grabbed her husband's hand and shook it constantly. "Didn't you say you know about Columbo? Didn't you say that if you say it, you could let the black-hearted noble who drove you home from the mine be ruined? Why don't you know what you say again?"

The man pissed off the hand that was being grabbed by the woman in anger, then looked up at Alexander and said in a rough voice: "Sir, I don't know anything. Don't listen to her. I just talk nonsense because I was kicked out by the mine master."

Alexander was really annoyed this time. Not only did he take a lot of risks, he even let people faint the tail of the tracking. This was already ready to turn against Columbo completely, but this man actually said that he was just saying a few angry words because he was angry.

If this is true, then Alexander doesn't mind letting him know the consequences of talking casually, and if he hides something, he doesn't mind using any means to let the man speak.

"It seems that someone needs to know what he did wrong." Alexander looked at Paul Busako next to him. The silent captain walked to the man two steps before. He squatted down slightly to look at the person in front of him, and then raised his hand.

"Please don't," the woman hugged the man's neck in panic and pulled him into her arms. "He would say that he is already very sick, and if he is beaten, he will die."

The man kept gasping and trying to struggle out of the woman's arms, but he couldn't use his strength.

"I used to be a hunter," Paul Busako whispered. "I know how to catch wild animals, and I know how scary the injured beasts are, so I can always find ways to deal with those beasts. Believe me, I have ways to make you suffer but I can't die."

Paul Busacco's words made the man's originally ugly face look like earthy. He looked at Busacco's hand in horror. When he saw Busacco's hand landing on his straight legs, the man trembled and screamed in fear: "Don't, please don't do this."

The woman rushed forward to stop her, but was immediately pressed down by the Agri soldier next to her.

"Did your legs be broken?"

Paul's voice was not high, but it scared the man. He kept nodding and staring at Paul's hand, because he was afraid that his lips would be trembling so hard that he could not make a sound.

"Speak out what you should know, otherwise you know what I will do." Paul's voice was still very low, but to that person it sounded like a low murmur from the devil from hell.

"I really don't know what's going on," the man said first, feeling Paul's hand start to force. He immediately continued without waiting for the terrible pain to come. "I only see some people and things. I only know that Columbo hid them tightly, and I don't know the others."

Alexander signaled Paul to stop and asked in confusion: "Where are the people and things you are talking about? Why did Columbo hide them?"

"I don't know, I just saw it by chance," the man said, looking at Alexander in confusion. "Sir, who are you, why do you know this."

"Don't worry about who I am," Alexander knew what the man was scrubbing, and he squatted down to look at the man. "If you tell me everything you know, I will let you leave here, and it will also make people treat your legs. Although you may not be able to walk, if you don't treat the disease, you may die."

The man was still hesitating, and his fear of Columbo made him unable to make up for a moment, but the woman could nodded. She immediately nodded: "Sir, we will say it, as long as you can help us." As she said that, she looked at her husband anxiously, "Why don't you say it? Do you want your legs to rot like this?"

The woman's miserable appearance finally touched the man. He took a breath and calmed himself down a little, then said: "Actually, I don't know much. I was originally a captain of the Sangsangroni Mine, and I took more than a dozen people to specifically explore the deposits. The deposit is..."

"I know what that is." Alexander interrupted the man and signaled him to continue.

The man licked his tongue, as if he felt a little dry. A guard next to him stuffed a water bag into his hand. After drinking a few sips of water, the man finally calmed down: "The coal in Sanroni Peak is buried very shallowly. In many places, you can see coal seams by digging a few feet of the ground. However, most of these coals are not large. Many mine pits are exhausted after being dug for a long time. I need to find other deposits again. I do this."

"The coals I found were my husband who taught me how to identify them, and told me where I should find them." The woman whispered from the side as if she was to testify to her husband.

"Just a few months ago, I found a good deposit in a place behind Sanroni Peak. The layer was very shallow and there was a lot of coal. There was a place far away from it. I just accidentally passed by and looked at the deposit. I thought I had never noticed that place before because it was remote, it was in a very secluded valley." The man's voice became low, and his eyes were staring at the ground, as if recalling his original experience. "I was very happy at that time, and came back to report to the mine owner. I originally thought I could get some rewards, but I didn't expect Columbo to take it seriously. And when I mentioned that place to him again, he became very angry and said that I was just cheating him, and then drove me to the mine to work and did not let me take people to find the deposit."

The man's words aroused Alexander's interest. He looked at the man and said with a smile: "But you think it's strange. I don't know why Columbo did this, so you began to think that there was something weird about it, so you went to that place again, right?"

The man looked at Alexander in a little surprised, then nodded with a wry smile: "Yes, I was so curious at that time. You must know that even if I didn't believe me, the mine owner shouldn't be so angry, as if I had done something wrong, so I decided to go and see what was going on in that valley."

Speaking of this man, he looked back at his wife next to him and asked in a slightly suspicious tone: "If I say everything, will you really help us leave here? I don't know who you are, but if you can't help me, it's all."

"My lord is the Lord of Agri," said Paul Busako, "he is also known as the hero who saved Naples, and he is also a member of the Council of Rome Order, and you should understand how important the promises made by those who possess these identities are to you."

The man obviously didn't know what great figure Agri's lord was, but he knew Naples. As for Rome, it was a bit difficult to know whether he wanted to.

And perhaps it was because of hearing Rome that his face showed an expression of excitement and eagerness.

"That's great," the man murmured for a few moments before he raised his head and said anxiously, "I did go to the valley again, and this time I went further, and then I realized that the place was bigger than I thought, and there was a larger basin behind the valley, where I saw an army."

army?

Alexander looked at the man with some surprise. Seeing him nodding with certainty, he squatted down and looked into the man's eyes: "Tell me what kind of army it is, and do you know who they belong to?"

Seeing Alexander's expression becoming solemn, the man licked his lips again. He originally wanted to make another request, but when he looked at Paul Busacco, who was staring at him, he continued honestly: "I can't tell the number of people in that army, because I was very scared at that time, and I was afraid that they would take it as something to inquire about the news, so I quickly left. I think there were about hundreds of people, but they should not be just that."

"Why do you think so?"

"Because I noticed that although they were in that basin, they didn't bring anything. You know, it was so cold that they could not even have fire. But if life would be seen, I think they should live in other places, and that valley was just for them to store things." The man continued, "Because the coal bed was shallow, all the coal would burn on its own. When we saw it, we would go to that place to look, but I have never seen smoke rising there, or it wasn't that there was no one but they were afraid that they would be discovered and destroyed early."

Alexander nodded silently, but he still felt strange.

An army hidden in the Colonia of Sanroni may not be large, but if used well, it may be an unexpected force.

Judging from the man's narrative, Columbo not only knew the existence of this army, but also spared no effort to hide them.

Alexander thought about it and suddenly stared at the man's face and said, "Did you have something else to tell me?"

The man's face changed slightly. He looked at Paul Busacco, who was standing aside with anxiety. At this time, the latter was holding a sharpened branch in his hand and playing with it. Looking at the white and miserable tips of the branches, the man nodded nervously.

"Yes, I think those people are strange. Although they are military, they don't have any flags, and they have left a lot of things in that basin, as if they regard it as a place to store things."

“A camp?”

"Yes, a camp, they don't seem to live there, they just treat it as a temporary camp," the man nodded and said nervously. "I saw so many things at that time. I thought I could make some money by the way, so I was going to steal something inside. But they defended very tightly, but I found a strange flag from them."

Speaking of this, a strange look flashed in the man's eyes, which contained huge fear and some doubts that seemed unspeakable because of the incredible situation.

"A flag?" By this time Alexander felt that he had already touched the key to the matter. No matter what the man found, the flag was obviously the real reason why he was afraid. "Tell me do you know that flag?"

"No, I have never seen a flag with a pattern, but I heard someone say it, and I was frightened because of this, but no one dared to tell it, because it was too ridiculous. I don't know who should believe, and even who would believe me. As a result, something happened when I was distracted and I was smashed to my legs when I went back to work."

Or was really scared, and the man seemed to try not to mention the flag, but looking at Paul Busacco's face that had begun to be impatient, he finally said in an incredible tone: "I saw a pattern of moon and stars on the flag. I swear I was not wrong. It was indeed that pattern. I had heard people talk about that pattern, but wasn't that, yes..."

Speaking of this man, he could no longer say anything, but just looked at Alexander with a confused look.

Alexander also looked at the man in front of him. He never thought that what he heard in the end would be such an answer that he could never imagine.

In the era of heraldic science as a profound academic discipline, people who can master various complex and changeable heraldic origins and family genealogies are often regarded as scholars with rich knowledge. These people are not only well aware of the origins of the heraldic origins of each family's inheritance, but also familiar with the background of the formation of these complex heraldic heraldics. Many of them can even trace the context of the Melowen Dynasty thousands of years ago from a pattern that looks like ordinary shields.

But the crescent moon and stars, this pattern does not require the heraldic officials to explore according to classics, because the empire with this pattern flag is opposite the Mediterranean Sea, because the owner of the flag is staring at the whole of Europe, and in front of that flag, even the most powerful monarch in Europe must be nervous and anxious all day long.

"The Crescent Flag of the Ottoman Empire?"

Alexander was surprised and surprised. It was only now that he understood why even if the man was driven home by Columbo after he broke his leg and lost his livelihood, he did not dare to say what he saw.

Because who would believe that a Milan noble would collude with the Ottomans and even hide an Ottoman army?

Even Alexander was half-believing and half-doubting about the news at the beginning, but then he knew that this person should not have lie.

Because if he wanted to lie, he could make up even more inexplicable lies, and even if he said that he had seen the angel, Alexander would not find it strange.

But he said he saw the Ottomans.

But then a mystery that made Alexander feel strange came to his heart.

"How did those Ottomans come here? Didn't anyone find them so many people?" Alexander couldn't help but whisper to himself because of the strangeness.
Chapter completed!