When Lux read that "the Ionians are preparing to send an inspection team to Forsbyro to observe and inspect", she did not feel any problem.
For large-scale trade, and large-scale trade that needs to be transported tens of thousands of miles, it is normal for Ionia to dispatch a special inspection team, just like before Forsbarrow carried out the northern trade, Ino made a special trip to Ning
Like Frost Harbor, these are necessary information collection steps.
However, when Lux continued reading and found out the personnel and purpose of this expedition, she was finally a little dumbfounded.
Originally, according to Lux's idea, when he was in Zaun, he had always been in contact with Shadow Stream, so the current inspection team should also be formed by Shadow Stream - the Shadow Stream sect is also important to Lux.
They are old acquaintances. Although they act a bit ruthlessly, as partners, when their interests are consistent, their efficiency is really high and their cooperation is very smooth.
However, unlike what Lux expected, Ino stated in the letter that the person who sent the inspection team was not Shadow Stream, but "a professional team composed of monks and elders." This made Lux subconsciously frown.
He raised his eyebrows.
Monks and elders?
Why would they get involved at this time?
What about Shadow Stream?
Full of doubts, Lux turned over a page of letter paper and read a page about the situation in Ionia.
Ino arrived in Ionia through Sarah's relationship, and the first person she came into contact with was the Shadow Stream Sect, so among the information about Ionia, she first described the situation of the Shadow Stream Sect.
To sum it up in one sentence... Shadow Stream's life in Ionia was not a good one.
Shadow Stream was originally from the Kinkou sect. They were dissatisfied with the Kinkou sect's attitude toward the Noxian invaders. They advocated reciprocating tooth for tooth, eye for eye, and punishing all invaders with death and blood. They were among the radical groups in Ionia.
Radical.
There is actually no big problem with using revenge as a concept of action. In the Ionian War, Ionia was a pure victim. In Ino's view, they are qualified to avenge Noxus - not to mention now
The area including the southern part of the Weili Peninsula, the eastern part of the Balua Province and most of Philo Island is still under the control of the Noxians at this time. The war is not completely over yet. Now attack the Noxians.
, this is completely an act of war to regain lost territory.
However, when it comes to specific actions, Jie and Shadow Stream are struggling.
According to the description in Inno's letter, the Shadow Streams are a group of guys who "do not look like good people." Even though their goal has always been to drive away Noxus and avenge the Noxians, they are completely
He doesn't know how to deal with other forces and is almost considered "the enemy of the whole world" in Ionia.
In order to accumulate enough psychic magic and train more warriors, Shadow Stream decisively attacked the vastayas, allies with whom it had no good relationship, and raided and occupied many vastaya temples.
The temple supported Shadow Stream's large-scale military expansion, but directly pushed all vastaya people to oppose them.
Then, Shadow Stream had no intention of repairing the relationship between the two parties, nor did it "state its righteousness". It told the Vastaya people that they were tolerating each other for the sake of the country. Instead, they continued to treat the Vastaya village as their own blood.
Bao, when there is a lack of military resources, just raid them.
It is no exaggeration to say that apart from using gas bombs, the Noxians could only do this.
Therefore, even not long ago, Shadow Stream took advantage of the civil war in Noxus and directly used Tivasir as a starting point to regain the entire territory of Baru'e and drive the local Noxian forces to the sea.
, but they did not receive any substantial support from the Ionians.
Originally, when Ino came to Ionia and started trying to conduct trade, she was also connected with Shadow Stream. However, as soon as the negotiations started, the monks and elders of Presiden heard the news and approached Ino directly.
According to them, in the past trade in Ionia, many of the goods provided by Shadow Stream were "proceeds of plunder", so the Presidenian authorities did not intend to sit back and watch Shadow Stream continue to host another trade, because this would
Resulting in "disaster for many innocent Vastaya villages".
When she heard this, everyone in Ino was stunned. She really never thought in her wildest dreams that Shadow Stream would be so outrageous to her own people - plundering villages, even when Piltover exploited Zaun.
To the point of such violent plunder!
Considering that Shadow Stream's behavior was indeed outrageous, Ino could only express his agreement with the elder monks' proposition that "there is no plundering without buying and selling".
After all, the Precidian government is the only legal government in Ionia now. It is okay not to trade with Shadow Stream, but to trade with Precidian!
However, if that was all, then Ino would not have written such a long letter of more than 10,000 words to complain, and what happened next would be even more outrageous.
First of all, after the monks and elders agreed with Ino's kindness, they expressed the need to send an observation team to Forsbarrow to have a look. Ino also felt that there was no problem with this.
However, when asked about the direction of the inspection team and planned to remind Lacus to prepare early, the leading monk said very proudly that he wanted to "supervise whether there is any forced oppression and destruction of nature during the production of goods in Forsbarrow."
behavior".
Ino was stunned.
What the hell?
The Ionian language is really profound and profound. I don’t seem to understand it. Why do I seem to have heard that he wants to supervise the forced exploitation and destruction of nature?
Just when Ino was confused, the kind-hearted monk repeated his purpose. Ino heard and understood correctly. He was concerned about forced oppression and destruction of nature.
The dumbfounded Ino tentatively asked what forced exploitation and destruction of nature meant, and then received a very official explanation: If the fur production of Fosbarrow is not what the Forsbarrow people are happy with, if the Forsbarrow people are not happy,
If furs are obtained in a manner contrary to the natural balance, then Ionia will not accept such trade.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After finishing this part, Ino, who has always been easy to talk, wrote a full thirteen lines of swear words to greet these monks and monks who have a lot of thoughts in their minds.
Elder.
Obviously Ionia is in urgent need of reconstruction. Ionians need to adapt to the globalization trend of Runeland. The Noxians on Ionia have not been completely driven away. Obviously this is an Ionian
What Nia needs is a win-win trade in the true sense. These bastards who have the power to preside over trade are thinking about these messy things.
Are Demacians ten thousand miles away willing to hunt and process furs? Will the killing of wild animals in the Freljord ten thousand miles away disrupt the balance? Are you concerned about these things?
If you have the time, why don't you pay attention to the southern part of the Weili Peninsula that is still occupied by the Noxians, and the island of Philo, which is half in the hands of Noxus?
Ino had heard about the terrible crimes committed by the Noxians in Ionia. They used alchemical gas bombs to turn a large area of Navoli's once fertile land into a ghost. If the Noxians were there,
Demacia's arrival made the angry Demacians want to rush all the way to the Immortal Fortress!
However, before the war was over, the Ionians did not pay attention to their own development and did not accumulate strength to expel the invaders. Instead, they carped about a trade with huge benefits!
For a moment, Ino almost thought that these monks and elders were asking for bribes in a subtle way - if it wasn't for money, how could they pull off such a rotten job?
It's a pity that when Ino hinted that his subordinates would show some interest, the other party sternly refused.
It is their responsibility to pay attention to the natural equilibrium and the social equilibrium of Forsbarrow!
In response to this, Ino finally lost her temper completely, and her impression of Ionia also plummeted.
In her letter, Ionia was described as a "sloppy place" where the Ionians were "insensitive and short-sighted, harboring a foolish self-righteousness". Ionia's
The political situation is "a game of house played by a bunch of brats and Alzheimer's."
Judging from the large swath of words without any curse words but extremely sarcastic, it seemed that she had really learned the essence of Kalya, which made Lacus, who read the letter carefully, somewhat eye-opening and amazed.
At the end of the letter, Eno stated that "Although I am trying my best to fight for it, the inspection team is already inevitable, and I hope that Forsbarrow will be prepared." He also said that "I am working hard to get the opportunity to meet Ai
Relia or Kalma".
However, judging from her writing, it seems that she is not very sure about this kind of attempt. Even if she traveled all over the country, crossing the Great Sai Desert in Shurima, and walking through the vast snowfields in Freljord, it seemed like
The peculiar culture of Ionia is still beyond her level of understanding and knowledge. She may need more time to collect information and understand Ionia.
Ino planned to split the delegation into two, and let some people serve as guides to take these Ionia specialty Madonnas back to Forsbarrow, while he would take most of the people to stay in Ionia and study them carefully.
This strange place...
Putting down the letter, Lux was speechless for a long time, and even Kalya didn't know what to say for a while.
In fact, both Lux and Ino, before they actually arrived in Ionia, actually had a good impression of this land of birth - this favorable impression mainly came from the attitude of the land of birth to magic. Ionia
Demi-humans will apply magic to their lives. According to many travel notes and poems, Ionia is an idyllic country with "small towns and few people, where chickens and dogs hear each other".
In addition, Ionia suffered an invasion from Noxus, and the gentle Sona was also an Ionian, so they naturally had a good impression of this country where she and magic coexisted in harmony.
But now, as Ino has really arrived in Ionia, the beautiful bubble has shattered all over the place.
Ino was shocked to find that Ionia does have a balanced side that respects nature, but at the same time, this trend has also brought great negative effects. Ionia has no national consciousness, and each province has its own
Thoughts, and it seems that because they are too close to the spiritual world, these Ionians lack a string called reason in their brains.
In comparison, Yingliu doesn't look like a good person, but looks more pleasing to the eye as a collaborator.
"So, what should we do now?" After putting down the letter and being silent for a long time, Lux finally spoke, "Get ready to welcome a group of Holy Mothers?"
"Judging from Ino's letter, it seems that this is inevitable." Kalya said in a rare helpless tone, "But the good news is that it may not be difficult to fool these guys."
"Judging from Ino's description, these are a group of people who are irrational and difficult to reason with logic." Lux leaned back on her chair, "I really don't know what to do with these people."
"Actually, we don't need much preparation." Kalya quickly found a solution, "Don't forget, we have Sona!"
Sona?
Lux subconsciously thought of Mr. Durang's helplessness when facing Sona - as long as Sona didn't show her ability to communicate with Luo Hua, she could indeed deal with anyone.
"Sona is an Ionian." Kalya continued, "and it is a testimony of the friendship between Ionia and Demacia. When the war swept Ionia, Demacia was the only one who provided practical information.
Even if the help from the country is not too great, these kind and kind-hearted monks and elders will not refuse to accept it, right?"
"This is a good idea." Lux nodded, "But that is a matter for Demacia and Ionia. If they seriously go to the capital, I am afraid that with the current situation in the capital, everything will be over.
Already."
"If they really go to Xiongdu, the situation you mentioned may happen." Kalya paused and continued in a relaxed tone, "But I'm afraid these people have no interest in Xiongdu."
Not interested in Xiongdu?
That's the capital of Demacia... Wait, the Ionians don't seem to have a strong sense of country and centralization?
Blinking her eyes, Lux was pleasantly surprised to find that the Ionian bastards were not completely without merit. At least they would not plunge into the quagmire that even she was afraid of because they cared about Xiongdu's attitude.
Go inside!
That’s it!
After thinking about this, Lux made up her mind - Kalya was right. Although it was impossible to guess the thoughts of these monks and elders, it was actually not difficult to deceive these people!
Although I don’t know what these people are focusing on, and I don’t know what trouble they will cause after coming to Forsbarrow, but as long as you find the right people to deal with them, there will be no problem!
At this thought, Lux just felt that the world was wide open. She did not need Kalya to remind her. She directly prepared a "special reception plan for the Ionia Virgin Mary" for this Ionia expedition group.
Aren’t you the Holy Mother?
Then I will use the relationship with the Art Support Association to gather the most holy people in Demacia for you. The situation in the capital is so turbulent right now that those guys can't even understand it!
Don’t you have a sense of morality?
Let me take the example of when Demacia accepted refugees and Forsbarrow accepted Mithral City war refugees. We also have extremely high moral standards, and we can all become noble partners!
Don’t you demand balance?
Yes, our Forsbarrow is extremely balanced. Not only is man and nature harmonious and balanced, but there is also a balance between the real world and the shadow world. How about it? Is it balanced enough?
This reception plan is very long, and Lux has considered all aspects, and the core of everything is only one thing - facing the Virgin with the Holy Mother, and defeating the Balance with the Balance.
