188. Chapter 186 The second half of each volume is about the conspiracy of the nobles.
188. Chapter 186 The second half of each volume is the drama of aristocratic conspiracy.
Author: Gushan fishing snow
Chapter 186 The second half of each volume is the drama of aristocratic conspiracy
After Wang said this, he pointed at Rosalie: "You can take good care of them - I mean entertain them well. We are going to discuss who should go to Qianshui City."
Rosalie: "Leave it to me. But... you're not going to Shallow Water City, are you? What if you go to the center of the Floating City and cause chaos?"
Wang: "Don't worry."
Wang glanced at the "guest" and did not continue, but made a follow-me gesture to the team members.
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As soon as he arrived at the underground command center, Wang asked Marika: "Do you know the clone technique?"
Marika: "Do you mean mirror shadow?"
"No, it's just that... uh..."
"I know what you mean, I'm joking." Marika said, "You are going to Shallow Water City and you need a powerful rogue to be your intelligence expert. At the same time, you want a powerful rogue to stay here to protect Luo.
Sally and the others, right?"
Wang nodded: "Yes, I want to break you in half and use it. I originally thought that one rogue would be enough, but now it seems that it is not enough. After all, the team always needs to split up."
Flint: "Bards generally have the skills of rogues, and their rich experience can also counter espionage."
Wang was stunned: "It makes sense. Now that we are doing such a big job, the bards are probably coming to us. The problem is how to identify whether these bards are coming with other purposes. I can't identify them anyway, so I'll leave it to you.
Already."
Elizabeth shook her head: "No, I think it might be just right for you to identify them, because no matter how cunning a guy is, they have never seen someone like you. Maybe you can just restrain them."
Xiaobai: "It makes sense, this is the legendary fool defeating the wise, and nature defeating the arrogant."
Wang: "If you feel relieved, I can come."
Marika raised her head and said, "No, it's better if everyone is present. After all, it's a big deal to add a team member."
Rosalie: "Let's get down to business, who is going to Shallow Water City?"
King: "Flint, are you familiar with Shallow Water City?"
Flint shook his head: "It's too humid there. During the late winter and early spring, there's a layer of water on the walls. This is not an exaggeration. It's really a layer of water on the walls. If it's a stone wall with holes, you can
The entire wall looked like it had been peed on by a naughty child."
Xiaobai: "Maybe this scene is not very disgusting, but your description makes me disgusted."
Flint: "The actual situation is so disgusting, no, it's even more disgusting than this. Most people smell bad during this period because their clothes can't be dried at all, even in the bright sun.
“During this period, the temperature has been hovering around 7 or 8 degrees Celsius, and mold will grow on everything.
"Rich people will use a special oven like an oven to dry their clothes. Ordinary people can't afford to buy firewood and charcoal, so they can only wear wet clothes... huh?"
Wang: "What's wrong?"
Flint scratched his head: "I remembered that there was a mage living in Shallow Water City who could use tricks to dry people's clothes, and then he got the title of Master Dryer."
Wang: "Is this related to our purpose of going to Qianshui City?"
"No. Speaking of which, what is the purpose of our going to Qianshui City?"
Rosalie sighed: "Have you even forgotten this?"
Wang: "Go to the craftsmen to build the ground buildings of the floating city."
At this time Elizabeth raised her hand: "Let me ask a question, what about the Order? Where about Salvation?"
Wang was silent.
After a moment, he touched his nose in embarrassment: "If you think about it carefully, none of this seems to have anything to do with salvation... No! It does! We are going to bring the Lizardman army to fight against the Order! The Order has an army, so we must also have one.
Army! It has something to do with it!
"So we are building floating islands to fight against the cult. It makes sense for us to find craftsmen!"
Xiaobai: "You obviously just remembered this. You wanted to build a house on the floating island before."
Wang forced the discussion forward: "Since Flint is so familiar with Shallow Water City, he will be the guide, so we don't need Marika's experience."
Marika: "Actually, I'm not familiar with Qianshui City, because the climate there is too uncomfortable for drow, so I passed by it a few times and left immediately."
Wang: "Very good. Then you stay and Elizabeth stays too."
Elizabeth: "Why?"
Wang: "I guess there won't be a fight..."
Marika: "But your right eyelid twitched before."
Wang: "Yes, I originally thought that the twitching of my right eyelid was because of the Cyclops Golem on the elevator, but it turned out that the thing strictly followed the rules and only six came down at a time. There must be something bad happening."
"If the right eyelid doesn't twitch, it doesn't mean things are going well, but if it twitches, it's definitely not good. My junior uncle still uses memory crystals and other devices to help me remember things.
"We have to be careful, so we can't divide our forces. It's best to stay together at all times. But I'm worried that if we all go to Qianshui City, something will happen to the floating island.
"After all, no one can speak Cyclops, and the island cannot fly on the ground. Maybe someone will take the opportunity to attack."
Li Guang said at this time: "In this case, you should not leave Marika as the benefactor. You should leave the poor monk to lead the lizardmen to guard the island."
Wang looked at Li Guang: "Can I trust you...you?"
Li Guang: "What the donor said is wrong. You are our Dragon God's messenger. You have been a life-saving grace to each of us."
Wang: "I don't know this about you, do I? You are an extraordinary monk, and I am just a mage who has just reached the fourth ring."
Liguang: "Without you, I don't even know where the enemy is, or who is responsible for the evil attack on my village. You are kind to me. I and all the survivors in our village do not recognize anyone except you."
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Flint: "If it weren't for the lizard people not being good at music, I would have given you a whole hymn of the Dragon God Messenger or something like that."
Wang: "In that case, let's take Marika away, and you stay and lead the lizard people to protect Rosalie and Oscar."
Li Guang clasped his hands together.
Wang looked at the others: "Once again, we are the only team in action. This time I skipped my right eyelid. I am afraid that something big will happen in Qianshui City. Considering that the sect has been operating here for many years, it may be a very dangerous situation.
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"I want to quit... I want to say this, but we have been taking risks together for so long. I know you will not quit. No matter what happens, we will face it together. That's it. I decided to check the bags in our respective dimensions.
The fireball scroll, healing potion, and antidote potion, we will set off when they are ready!"
Marika: "As a captain's pep talk, it's not very contagious."
Wang: "I'm not good at contagiousness. How about Elizabeth?"
Elizabeth: "Eh? Me?"
"You should have learned how to speak in front of the people, right?"
"I have learned it, but that kind of speech requires ten clerks to carefully review the speech script. I am only responsible for reading it." Elizabeth shrugged, "I am stupid, how can I finish the speech script by myself."
Wang: "That's right."
"Don't answer like that! You should be complaining about me here!"
Xiaobai: "There's nothing to complain about. After all, it's the truth."
"You two!"
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Just as the rescue team boarded the captured dwarf airship and headed towards Qianshui City, the news had already spread in Qianshui City.
After all, it was yesterday that the floating city took off, and it took the floating city a day to float above the river under the watchful eyes of so many sailors on the river.
The Grand Duke of the Principality of Frank and a group of nobles were discussing this matter in the Grand Duke's study.
"These damn plague gods," the archduke's intelligence chief cursed. "Wherever they go, rivers of blood flow from the nobles! The key point is that they are not killed by any religious group, but are all caused by internal fighting among the nobles. In Langdon, killing
King Bruce launched the Blood Dinner, and in Monrovia, the emperor personally exchanged blood for the middle and upper-class nobles - a blood exchange in the literal sense."
The Head of Diplomacy nodded: "We all know about the cult's existence, and we have frequent contacts with them and have gained a lot of benefits."
The financial controller hurriedly agreed: "Yes, the cult has ways to quickly deal with the thorns among the people below and eliminate the evil thoughts spread from Sissel."
The Archduchess who was attending the meeting, that is, the Archduke's wife said quietly: "I just don't know if the religious order has used their method of dealing with thorns on everyone here. Are you loyal to the principality or to the religious order now? I think it should be
Put a question mark."
Several general managers looked at each other.
Silence just fell.
The intelligence chief broke the silence: "Let's get down to business. We believe that a group of shadow thieves came from Monrovia and have entered the city, but the situation in Qianshui City... we can't locate the stronghold of these shadow thieves anyway."
The city of Qianshui City owes its existence entirely to the giant swamp across the Mashunya River.
Such shoals and swamps are dotted throughout the river basin countries, but most of them do not block the Mashunya River. After all, the flow of the Mashunya River is so large that any swamp will be washed into a river.
Only this swamp is different. The Duke of Frank organized several explorations of the swamp, and finally concluded that the swamp is the result of some large-scale legendary magic.
The dwarf explorers from the Thorn Islands concluded that this might be a man-made swamp created by the human empire in the Second Age to resist invasion and block the invaders' attacks.
Regardless of the specific cause, the existence of this swamp created Qianshui City.
Initially, they were just a group of pilots responsible for guiding ships through the swamp. Later, a group of Cao workers joined the pilots and risked their lives to open and maintain channels in the swamp.
Then the mercenaries joined in.
In this way, Qianshui City grew like a snowball.
The situation has grown, but the layers of slums have become the symbol of Qianshui City. The nobles who later occupied this place and declared it their territory never penetrated deeply into the shanty towns next to the swamp.
Everyone here knows this very well.
The residents of the shanty town seemed to regard the nobles as their human shields. After all, raising nobles was much cheaper than raising mercenaries.
The nobles only collect taxes, and if the mercenaries betray them, they will be killed.
However, the nobles are not easily betrayed because they have such a false thing as "territory" tied to them.
The relationship between the shanty town and the nobles is not so much a relationship between domination and being ruled, but more like a symbiotic relationship that can be seen everywhere in the rain forest.
Because of this, even if the intelligence manager knew the location of the shadow thieves' stronghold in the shanty town, he would not dare to send people to clear it. At most, he would say hello to the local gangsters in the shanty town and see if they were willing to use outsiders.
Shadow Thief.
The Grand Duke was speechless: "The Shadow Thief is here, where are the people in the south?"
Intelligence Chief: "The people from Catalonia arrived earlier than the Shadow Thieves. After all, the airship in the report came from Catalonia. They must have noticed the movement of the cult a long time ago."
Grand Duke: "I have always been puzzled, what is the relationship between the Catalan royal family and the religious order?"
The intelligence chief shrugged: "Maybe it's just a family, maybe it's not. Anyway, we all have to be careful."
At this time, the diplomatic chief said: "Ah, speaking of Catalonia, before I came here, I received an official visit application submitted by their ambassador. They have a princess who wants to come by dwarf airship."
The Grand Duke was speechless: "No need to ask, princess. This is for the 'Princess Collector'."
Princess Collector, this is the nickname of the Salvation Team. The name Salvation Team is only used in public, but privately they are the Princess Collector.
At this time, the female minister, who had been silent since she had just interrupted, spoke up: "You guys! You care about unimportant things, but turn a blind eye to the really important things."
The Grand Duke hurriedly said: "What is really important? Madam, tell me quickly."
"It's a floating city! This was discovered on our land!"
The Grand Duke frowned: "Does Madam want to rob the floating city? It's not realistic. Whoever discovers it takes possession of it. It's an archaeological rule."
"Idiot! Who said I was going to take possession of it! Think about how you got your position! Whether it's us or the gang of people in the shanty town, we are all outsiders. As for that floating city, we really need legal experts to take care of it.
Make it up, that’s evidence of legitimacy! He might be able to become king here!”
The nobles looked at each other.
The intelligence chief frowned: "According to the intelligence, the captain of the salvation team has no interest in these worldly things. You must know that both Cosania and Monrovia want him to be the prime minister."
The Grand Duchess killed his retort with one sentence: "What if?"