"Your Excellency Capello, how did you encounter so many bandits?" Just when the old knight Capello was sighing for everything in front of him, Leo had already got off his horse, walked up to Capello, and asked
road.
"We don't know this either." Hearing Leo's question, the old knight was pulled back from his thoughts, looked at the corpses of the bandits around him, and said.
"I don't think this matter is simple." Sylvia also got off the horse at this time and said: "Logically speaking, this place has entered the middle zone of Toussaint, so there shouldn't be such a large bandit group.
." After saying that, she turned to Leo and said: "Do you still remember the two groups of bandits we saw on the way here? It is definitely not the same thing for three groups of bandits of different sizes to appear on such a short distance at the same time.
Ordinary things, the two groups of bandits are more like intercepting people who may interfere with the fighting here. If my prediction is correct, this road should be able to encounter one or two groups of bandits blocking the road in the past."
"You mean someone deliberately targeted this caravan?" Leo said, following Sylvia's thoughts.
After hearing the conversation between Leo and Sylvia, the look on the old knight Capello's face became very ugly. Because the incident happened suddenly, he didn't have time to think too much, but now that the matter has passed, and Leo and Sylvia
After analyzing it, he still couldn't see the weirdness in it.
So, he turned around and called over the caravan leader who was sorting out the goods in the carriage, and asked: "Adot, let me ask you, do you have any special goods in your carriage?"
When the caravan leader was called over, his attention was completely attracted by the gorgeous armors on Leo and Sylvia. He didn't pay attention to the old knight's question for a while. He didn't reply until the old knight asked for the second time.
After coming to his senses, he quickly shook his head and said: "No! Mr. Capello, you know that my caravan is just an ordinary caravan, and it also transports some ordinary goods. Where can there be any special goods? If there are any
, I won’t have to work so hard every day leading the team to run around every day, not only eating and sleeping in the open, but also worrying about encountering robbers.”
Seeing the caravan leader's answer with such certainty, the old knight Capello couldn't help but show doubts. Then the caravan leader asked why the old knight wanted to question him like this, and then said the words of Sylvia and Leo just now.
Guess told him.
After listening to the old knight's words, the caravan leader immediately showed a look of shock on his face. Obviously this matter was unheard of for him, but after being shocked, he seemed to have thought of something and couldn't help but look.
Look at the old knight.
This little move was easily caught by Leo and Sylvia. Sylvia asked: "Mr. Adotte, have you thought of any clues?"
Hearing the Valkyrie-like Sylvia's question, the caravan leader quickly lowered his head and said, "There are indeed some clues."
As he said that, he turned his head and looked at the old knight.
"Is this clue related to Mr. Capello?" Leo asked clearly when he saw the appearance of the caravan leader.
"What? Does it have anything to do with me?" The old knight also looked blank, staring at the caravan leader and asked: "How can this matter have anything to do with me?"
The caravan leader shrank his neck and cautiously reminded: "Mr. Capello, have you forgotten the sealed box that Count Britta asked you to take back to him?"
Following the reminder from the caravan leader, the old knight quickly thought of something. He was stunned for a while, and then his face became so gloomy that it was almost dripping with water, and he could not speak for a long time.
Seeing this, Sylvia asked the caravan leader about the situation. The caravan leader did not hide anything and carefully told what he knew.
It turns out that the time for the wine conference is approaching day by day, and the disappearance case of Britta Manor has not yet been solved. The wine stored in the cellar of the manor will have a high chance of staleness and other problems if no one takes care of it.
Therefore, Count Britta felt that he might fail miserably at this wine conference, so he decided to make two preparations. On the one hand, he was still looking for a solution to the disappearance case, and on the other hand, he had secretly sent people to other countries to buy wine at high prices.
I got an extremely advanced wine-making recipe, and I plan to use this recipe to make wine next year that will stand out at the wine conference.
In order to avoid letting others know about this matter, Count Britta did not use his own men. Instead, he asked Capello, who had recently joined him, to continue patrolling the border and bring back this formula. This was considered a right
A test of Capello's ability.
The leader of the caravan felt that if there was anything in the caravan worthy of others' attention, and even colluded with a group of bandits to attack them, it would be the wine recipe, and the person who did such a thing was probably an enemy of Count Britta.
"Just for a wine-making recipe?" Leo felt a little incredible after hearing the caravan leader's narration, because in the three-dimensional cognition and ethical common sense he built after gradually gaining ordinary human emotions, the caravan leader
What the team leader said was completely contrary to his knowledge and could be described as absurd.
"Yes." Without waiting for the caravan leader's response, Sylvia replied: "Never overestimate the limits of what a noble can do. They can do anything to achieve their goals. The so-called noble spirit is just a
It’s just a layer of disguise, I’ve seen this kind of thing too many times in France.”
"But this is too absurd! What's the use of a wine recipe?" Leo still doesn't understand this kind of thing. At least he has just escaped from the absolute rationality of the cyborg and re-established his emotional cognition.
Understand this kind of thing.
"You forgot, the country of Toussaint is also called the country of blood and wine. Although the blood can be said to be the blood left by the Elf Kingdom in the past, it can also be said to be wine. This shows the importance of wine in this country.
Sylvia turned to the caravan leader and the old knight Capello, and said: "If my guess is correct, the winners and participants of the annual wine conference will not only gain benefits in money and fame, but also
You should also be able to obtain other benefits, such as status improvement, etc., right?"
The caravan leader and the old knight Capello both nodded in agreement.
"With such huge interests involved, it is not difficult to understand that those nobles would do such a thing." Sylvia smiled disdainfully, then looked at the corpses of the bandits around her and said: "
To be able to silently gather so many bandits to form a bandit group in the heart of Toussaint, the secret plotter obviously has a high status and power in the Beauclair court. You'd better rush to the nearby town as soon as possible and notify your respective parties.
Your boss, ask them to send someone to take care of you. Don’t think about separating, because the person behind the scenes will definitely think that you are in the same group. If you separate, it will only make him think that you are all suspected of carrying the formula. But as long as you arrive in the town
It should be safe, after all, as long as that person still has some sense, he will not do anything to let the bandits attack the town."
Hearing Sylvia's suggestion, the old knight and the caravan leader nodded. This was when the old knight Capello suddenly asked: "Can I hire two people..."
"Sorry, we still have our own things to do!" Before the old knight could finish speaking, Sylvia immediately refused, then gestured to Leo, turned around and mounted, and said: "Since the things here have been
Once it’s settled, we’ll continue on our way, hoping to see you two in Beauclair.”
After saying that, after waiting for Leo to mount his horse, the two of them immediately drove away from the small battlefield, leaving no chance for the old knight and the caravan leader to stay.
After the two of them rode horses for a certain distance, Leo couldn't help but be confused and asked: "Why didn't we accept Capello's employment just now? We directly helped Capello deliver the formula to Count Britt.
, should we also be able to gain Earl Britt’s thanks, and then get his guarantee?”
Sylvia looked at Leo with a strange look on her face and asked, "Are you planning to get involved in the power game within the Toussaint nobles?"
Leo was puzzled: "Don't we still intervene now? You must know that we killed the bandit group, destroyed the plan of the person behind the scenes, and we also received the task of Earl Britt."
"Of course not." Sylvia shook her head and explained: "We killed that bandit group just because we occasionally encountered people in danger and came to rescue them. This is a matter of following actual laws and virtues.
It has nothing to do with whose side you are on, who you support, or who you don’t support. And us taking over Earl Britt’s task is just taking on an ordinary employment task. It doesn’t mean that we support Earl Britt.
.But if we continue to escort Cappello back to Beauclair and deliver the formula safely to Count Britt, then this means that we are completely on the side of Count Britt, and the nature is completely different."
"It's really complicated." Leo shook his head. He felt that this kind of aristocratic game was not something he could adapt to, so he didn't think about it too much. Then he asked Sylvia about the use of weapons and armor and problems.
.
"The dragon hunting gun is very easy to use." Sylvia patted the box containing the dragon hunting gun with satisfaction, then raised her arm and said, "But when the arm moves, Jianjia
It will cause a little obstruction when the arm is raised, and in addition..."
After hearing Sylvia's questions, Leo also solved these problems one by one, because he took the adjustment problem into consideration when designing the armor, so he reserved some adjustment space and devices. After a series of
After adjustment, this dragon hunter armor better fits Sylvia's figure.
The two of them didn't encounter any trouble on the way.
However, they did notice some small details on the road. For example, not long after leaving the abandoned manor, they encountered two groups of robbers on the road. Like the other two groups of robbers they encountered before, the two groups of robbers also felt the same thunder.
Ou and Sylvia were not easy to mess with and did not attack them. Moreover, Leo also discovered through the spiritual network that these two groups of bandits seemed to be very surprised and surprised that they could come from the other side of the road. The appearance of these bandits also confirmed that
Sylvia's guess.
Because they were traveling late at night, and they deliberately avoided some villages and towns while on the road, not many people saw Leo and Sylvia, but anyone who saw them would be struck by their armor.
I was so attracted that some mythological associations emerged in my mind. On the next day, there was a story about the light knight and the dark knight chasing each other in the villages and towns from the Videt Valley to the foot of Mount Gogong.
Although Capello's caravan also spread the news about Leo and Sylvia's elimination of the bandits, the scope of the spread was too small, and the story of the two foreign knights did not sound like it.
It was so mysterious and brilliant that it was quickly submerged in other more magical stories and legends.
In the early morning, Leo and Sylvia arrived at the outskirts of Earl Britt's manor after traveling all night.
Compared to the east bank of the Sansi Ledo River, where the sun shines brightly and the climate is suitable, the west bank only gets sunlight in the morning because of Gaogong Mountain. In the afternoon, the sun is blocked by the mountains, and the cold air flows on the top of the mountains.
In the early morning, a cold wave would sweep down. This cold wave was enough to kill young grape seedlings, so for a long time this land could not grow grapes and was in a state of abandonment.
It wasn't until a druid found a cold-resistant grape seedling and grafted it onto the local grape branches in Toussaint, giving the local grape seedlings the ability to withstand cold, that such a vast land at the foot of Mount Gaogong could be used.
Count Britta's manor is located in the middle of the foot of Gaogong Mountain. It is the only piece of gently sloping mountain land. The manor was originally built at the foot of the mountain, but halfway through the construction, it was discovered that there is a natural cave at the top of the slope, which is very suitable for storage.
Because of the wine, the main buildings of the manor were moved to the top of the mountain, and the unfinished manor at the foot of the mountain became the residence of workers.
At that time, many nobles believed that Count Britta's decision, although it cost a certain amount of money, was very correct.
Because Count Britta's vineyard is located very close to Lake Selawe, when the manor was moved to the highlands, standing on the small tower built by the manor, one could easily see the surface of Lake Selawe in the distance, and even
You can also see the island in the middle of the lake where the legendary fairy in the lake lives. When the morning sun shines down, the lake surface sparkles with waves and the scenery is pleasant.
If the weather is good, you can even see the blurry image of Beauclair Palace in the distance from the manor.
It is precisely because of the scenery and environment of Britta Manor that the land controlled around the manor was favored by many nobles. They bought the surrounding areas and built the manor, not only for making wine, but also for themselves in the summer.
Provide a place to escape the heat.
However, during this period, due to the disappearance of Britta Manor, the manors in this area became panicked. Although the disappearance was limited to Britta Manor, people in the surrounding manors were already scared and were considering whether they should abandon the property here.
Work and get out of here.
Chapter completed!