Chapter 82
When seeing Donald's old face that kept a gentleman's smile but pointed cheeks, Su Wen's first reaction was "Damn this person is absolutely poisonous", and his second reaction was "When will you stay if you don't run away at this time?"
Just kidding, when I learned from the system that Donald was a little doubtful about his identity, how could Su Wen give him a chance to contact him? It was definitely not a pure accident to meet him here. It must be that he found it through some method, and what is the matter worth Nard himself chasing?
Is it because of that terrible monster of Shirley, or because of something else?
The more Su Wen thought about it, the more he became, the more he was wrong. It would be fine if it was the former. What Su Wen was most afraid of was "something else". Although Donald had never expressed his malicious intentions to him, judging from his strength, if he really discovered something, unless he owed a huge loan of several million to the system, there would be only one result, and that would be the end.
"I've been disturbed, I've gone to the wrong place."
Su Wen said, and at the same time he flew back and stepped over the dark corridor in three or two steps, but when he returned to the stairs, he found that the basement door had been closed at some point.
Finished...
Although he had guessed that this must have happened, Su Wen was still very disappointed.
In the room behind, Donald's voice sounded in dissatisfaction: "You ran away without even saying the opening remarks. Is it really that scary to see me?"
Seeing that there was no way to escape, Su Wen no longer covered up and simply turned his mind and turned it back.
"Tell me, what's wrong."
"Aren't you here to find me first? I'm the intelligence merchant here, tell me your needs quickly." Donald glared at Su, rubbed his blue hair like a bird's nest.
"I want to know the secret of the species outbreak two thousand years ago."
"puff!"
Even though he didn't drink water, Donald actually forced a sip of water: "Only only the goddess of light can answer this question, will you change to a more reliable one?"
However, Su Wen was not in the mood to play a tucao game with him.
"If you have something to say, let me go if you have nothing to do. I don't believe you have nothing to do to play. If that's true - as a customer, it's normal to cancel the consultation of intelligence merchants?"
"So, I do want to ask you something."
Donald suddenly looked dark, his little eyes stared at Su Wen, and a rare seriousness projected inside: "You took me 20,000 gold coins but didn't get things done. At least you can give me an explanation?"
Su Wen breathed a sigh of relief, but frowned and replied, "That kind of thing is really dead! By the way, how did you find me?"
"I made some tricks on the black card..."
"It's such a low-quality way! But I've changed that black card long ago, and you should have to follow it to the bank." Su Wen had long expected that Donald might be foolish, so he took out all the gold coins in the card as soon as he left Trides Province and divided it into three accounts and deposited it into three different savings cards. So even if Donald had tampered with the things he sent, the clues should have been lost since then.
"So after I came back from Pandora's ancient battlefield, I began to inquire about your whereabouts, and finally found the little light magician, and then I knew where you were going."
"So you're waiting for me here? There are about ten entrances in the Tielu Province!"
"Yes, I'm waiting for every entrance."
Su Wen simply wanted to extend his middle finger to express condolences.
"Damn it, it's just for those 20,000 gold coins, is that as for it?"
Donald sighed and shook his head: "It's not because of gold coins. The main reason is that Trides can't stay there. It's better to run around. Before the start of St. Peter's College, I decided to find something here, and whoever loves to take care of that small and broken place will take care of it."
"So powerful?!"
Su Wen was so creepy that Donald couldn't stay still. He could think of the reason why he could use his toes. There was probably no second possibility except Shirley. Su Wen couldn't help but sigh that this guy was really unhappy at the beginning, and he actually planned to throw him a terrifying existence that he couldn't stand. If he hadn't escaped decisively that time at the Trides Mercenary Union, he really didn't know what he would be like now.
"Tsk, haven't you seen it with your own eyes? Forget it, I won't mention it..."
Donald was a little sad, but in the end he didn't mean to ask Su Wen for money. Instead, he grabbed a bottle containing red liquid and threw it to Su Wen, which looked a bit like blood.
"What's this?"
"Special medicine, maybe it will be helpful to the poison you get."
Su Wen's mouth twitched. If the system did not lie to him, the poisoning would be nonsense, but Donald obviously felt that he believed in it, and it would be difficult for him to reveal it.
"Thank you."
After making the decision to throw away the thing when he went back, Su Wen accepted the so-called special medicine and gritted his teeth and replied.
"Okay, then again, what are you doing in the Iron Lunch Province?" Donald didn't care about the bottle of medicine and waved his hand and asked, "This is not a good place. You will know what hell is 300 kilometers north. The guys who die there every year are worth the population of two Trides, although ninety percent of them are alien cannon fodder."
"Just traveling, I'll leave in a few days."
Since Donald has arrived here, Su Wen understands that he probably won't have a big move this time, and he may really become a traveler. Otherwise, if he is found to have more abnormal actions, he doesn't know what kind of suspicion and trouble it will cause. Of course, as for how many days it will be in "in a few days", it remains to be discussed.
"Oh, so do I need to introduce the customs and culture here to you?"
Su Wen said helplessly: "You are waiting for me here, don't you know what I want to know yet."
"It seems right, no wonder you stopped at the gate of the Iron Lu Province. You originally wanted to create some riots to lure you over." Donald said, touching his chin, "I was frightened by the barbed wire of the Iron Lu Province? In fact, everyone was scared when they first came. This is what happened in recent decades, and there were no such tricks before."
"Yes, I feel that the Iron-Roof Province is like an independent country."
"That's right. 70 years ago, a group of ambitious goblins united to form an army armed with muskets, hoping to dominate this place."
"Then what?"
"Then it became the Iron Lu Autonomous Province."
"Puff, so it's considered successful or a failure!"
"Of course it was a failure. The Musket Legion looks powerful, but it can't be confronted by the Magician Legion. And there is no need to go straight. The king just sent a few top assassins to cut off the heads of the goblin kings." Donald smiled, "Those who are ambitious die, those who are not ambitious and can be controlled will naturally get there. The creativity of the goblins and the racial talent of the dwarves are of great use. Therefore, in order to stabilize the people's hearts, although they cannot really be allowed to be independent, the surface form must be insufficient. After this happens, because it is not very nice to say, you can basically not see it in any historical documents, but it is not considered a secret."
"Is that boundary line also because of form?"
"Not only, but also to prevent smuggling. You know, the Iron Furnace Province is the largest weapon and industrial province in the country. It is impossible to let go of this kind of thing, so the weapons and equipment produced by the Iron Furnace Province can only be sold to the Panyin Mountains. The Empire strictly prohibits anyone from opening export channels to the country, especially the new weapon such as muskets."
"So that's it, but I think the commerce industry on the road is quite developed?"
"It's all imported and exported raw materials and other supplies. Which business group dares to install weapons on the carriage? At least they dare not, and if they catch them, they will basically be executed."
Donald didn't say much, but Su Wen had basically clarified the situation of the Iron Lu Province.
On the social level, humans and alien races will never be able to live in equal terms. This is an obvious fact. At least there has been no counterexample in the history of the glorious continent. On this basis, giving them a province because of the value of goblins and dwarves is an extremely strange thing for the Doron Empire, a powerful human country. After all, although this province was almost completely destroyed in the racial war five hundred years ago, it was also the territory of mankind.
Although Donald did not say it clearly, since he had the ambition to form an army and prepare for independence, the mass base must be large, which shows that the alien residents in the Iron Lu Province also have a desire for independence: on the one hand, as the cancer of the Doron Empire has been criticized, and on the other hand, he also had to contribute economic value to the country. It is estimated that no one would be happy to do so. In this "revolution", the final result seemed to be caused by accidental ambitions and empire compromise, but in fact it was not as inevitable - at least on the entire glorious continent, human beings always have to draw a clear line with the aliens and control them under this premise.
"By the way, if you want to travel to the Iron Lun Festival, I have to tell you in advance that there are no scenic spots and historical sites worth lingering there, and even if there are, they will be completely destroyed in the era of race war." Donald said leisurely, "But because of goblins, Iron Lun Festival has been called a gold-absorbing cave for a long time, and the tourism value is still very high. So, are you ready to spend a lot of gold coins? If not enough, I have it here, and I can lend it to you. The interest rate is not high, 1% per day."
"It's okay, it's nearly 40 times the interest rate in a year. Even those goblins can't do such a thing."
"I can't say that there will be a fool who will be fooled."
"It's not me anyway"
Su Wen stood up and did not intend to stay. "You should continue to do your job. Since you understand the situation here, I will set off now."
"Hey, you don't want to leave now, right?"
nonsense.
Considering Donald's elder status, Su Wen still didn't say this word: "Since my question has been asked, are you still waiting for you to keep me for dinner if you don't set off?"
"I'm here to find you this time, but that old guy Ptolemy asked me to bring you something."
“Huh?!”
Chapter completed!