The excited Barossa told Chen Daolin what she knew about this legendary town.

It turns out that this so-called "freedom paradise" is indeed famous on the continent! Even this reputation has spread far to the elves deep in the frozen forest.

Speaking of which, the existence of this town is also quite legendary.

As early as the late stage of the war between humans and aliens more than a hundred years ago, Duke Tulip, the commander of humans, led a large army to launch a counterattack, defeating the alien coalition forces in one fell swoop. The human army attacked at the same time in the central and eastern fortresses in the west, and penetrated into the areas occupied by aliens at that time, annihilated countless enemies.

This battle completely established the victory for mankind and forced the aliens to bow their heads.

Then, the war ended, and the aliens admitted their failure, and the Roland Empire was also exhausted by the protracted war.

Finally, the two sides entered the post-war negotiations with the cooperation between Duke of Tulip and the elf leader of the alien coalition.

That negotiation directly divided the power areas of alien races and humans, and used the entire Roland Continent to the north to use the Kaspersky line of the Roland Empire as the border line, the south to the territory of the Roland Empire, and the north to be the habitat of alien races.

This situation is the best that mankind can win.

The northern plain north of Kaspersky's defense line was originally small and had barren land. Although the frozen forest was vast, it was not suitable for living after all.

However, as a defeated alien, he had to sign such a peace treaty.

From then on, the area north of the Kaspersky Line was reborn as aliens—the only exception was a small town dozens of miles north of the eastern fortress.

Although this town is geographically located north of the border of the Roland Empire, it should belong to orcs. But this town is an exception.

Just because... this town is where Du Wei, the first Duke of Tulip in the past, signed a post-war treaty with the giant leaders of the alien race!

When the contract was signed, the human army had already occupied the town, while the coalition forces of the alien race were defeated.

Later, most of the human army retreated south of the border, but the town was always occupied by the Rolands.

The orcs wanted to send people to take over the town several times, but the Roland Empire refused.

After several oral wars and disputes between the two sides, the Roland Empire finally let go.

In fact, the reason for letting go is very simple: it is too difficult from a military perspective to continue occupying such a small town within dozens of miles of the border of the Orc Kingdom.

The human side obviously does not want to leave this memorable place to the orcs - after all, this is the place where humans force aliens to sign a defeated treaty.

The great legendary Tulip first duke Du Wei came up with a way. He negotiated with the orcs and made an agreement that in order to prove that "humans and orcs will be friendly forever and friendship will last forever", the town will serve as an eternal neutral existence as a free land outside the two countries.

Both the Roland Empire and the Orc Empire took the initiative to give up their sovereignty over this town, and were not allowed to send troops to occupy it, nor interfere with this neutral and free land.

Although the orcs were quite unwilling to accept it, the situation was stronger than that of humans at that time, so they could only pinch their noses and accept it.

So, under such an anarchy and stateless state, this town became a paradise of complete freedom.

After the army of the Roland Empire evacuated, some orcs originally wanted to come and settle in the town, but they did not expect that there were quite a lot of human residents left in the town.

These first generation of human inhabitants were all retired proletarian veterans from the Roland Empire mobilized many of the past.

A town occupied by thousands of veterans is not something that ordinary orc tribes can eat. At the beginning, orcs didn’t think about playing tricks, and wanted to organize a small tribe to pretend to be a bandit to seize the town. You know, in that era of war, most of these veterans were elites who had lived for the rest of their lives! Orcs could only die when they went there.

When it comes to playing with the brain, orcs are far from being the opponent of humans. Although orcs later tried to dispatch some people to infiltrate this town, they were completely excluded by humans after the first ten years.

Later, I heard that a few orcs who finally stayed in the town were assimilated by humans. Some orcs were willing to serve humans, as slaves and servants...

But due to the contract, the orcs never dared to send troops to openly occupy this town.

So, this town has been preserved.

After a hundred years, the town was sandwiched between the Orc Kingdom and the Roland Empire. Because of its special geographical location, it has become an important channel for many private transactions between the two countries. It can even be said that it has become the largest market for smuggling transactions between the two countries.

With the status of the hub of the North-South Trade Road, coupled with a hundred years of development, this town has grown from its initial population of thousands to its current population of tens of thousands...it is called "town", but in fact, in terms of scale, it is much larger than many small cities in the Roland Empire.

"The name of this town is called 'free port'." Barossa's eyes shined: "I heard that this name was chosen by the first Duke of Tulips back then, which means that the town will become a free harbor on land. Because of its special geographical location, all kinds of rare goods from south to north will gather there and trade freely!"

"Land harbor?" Chen Daolin's eyes emitted light, and he developed a lot of curiosity and interest in this legendary "free port".

He comes from the real world and naturally knows that any free trading port is often a very prosperous and vibrant place.

This town called "Free Port" is located between two forces, but there is no official transaction between the Roland Empire and the Orc Kingdom. All transactions come from private transactions or smuggling... As long as a small part of these transactions gather in this town, it is enough to make this town one of the most prosperous places in the world!

Chen Daolin and Barossa whispered. When his face was full of curiosity and yearning, he heard the cold voice of the Messiah coming from beside him: "Mr. Darling, what you elf friend said is good, but I'm afraid she thought of this freeport town too well."

"Oh?" Chen Daolin raised his head, looked at the Messiah who was leisurely sitting in the carriage, and pulled the corners of his mouth: "What advice does the Duke have?"

The Messiah smiled slightly: "Now, this town is a land that is not in charge of two unrelated areas - the laws of the Roland Empire cannot be controlled, and the orcs are even more powerless to take care of it. With your intelligence in this town, with Mr. Darling, you might as well guess what things are most abundant?"

Chen Daolin pondered for a while and said slowly: "I think there must be a lot of smuggled contraband."

He sighed and added: "Without official rectification, the transactions between the two countries are of great interest, especially those prohibited items. Smuggling must be awesome. Without restraint, these things must be flooded in this free port."

"Yes, the famous town of Freeport is this: as long as you pay for money, you can buy anything in Freeport!" Messiah said, and even deliberately looked at Barossa and said lightly: "Even the transaction of selling elf slaves that has been ordered to be prohibited in the Empire, no one cares about this freeport. When I passed by Freeport before going north this time, I heard that there was a slave trade team selling elf slaves there not long ago."

Barossa's face suddenly turned pale and her eyes were filled with anger.

"This elf friend doesn't have to look at me like this." Messiah said lightly: "The slave traders are mostly from the orc kingdom. As far as I know, several major human corps have agreed not to participate in this dirty activity... Of course, they just promise not to hunt, but purchasing cannot be prohibited."

"Hmph, there is no killing without transaction!" Chen Daolin suddenly said.

The Messiah's eyes lit up and she couldn't help but look at Chen Daolin: "This is very reasonable."

After a pause, she continued: "In addition to the abundant production of various illegal and prohibited transactions, this free port is another famous mainland specialty, Mr. Darling, guess what is it?"

Drugs? Arms?

Well, these are also considered to be the scope of banned transactions...

Chen Daolin thought about it, frowned and looked at the Messiah.

Messiah saw Chen Daolin not speaking, and a hint of pride appeared in her eyes. These days, the two of them chatted openly and secretly. It is rare to see this guy being defeated, which made the young master of the Tulip family quite happy. She smiled gently and said, "This other specialty is... a wanted criminal!"

Chen Daolin's eyes immediately tightened.

"Since the Free Port is not the territory of the Roland Empire, the laws of the Roland Empire naturally cannot control it. Moreover, because of the agreement with the orcs, the empire's army and official forces are not allowed to enter the Free Port. Therefore, for a hundred years, this Free Port has become the best place for all desperate wanted criminals on the mainland and a paradise to escape from crime."
Chapter completed!