It's no secret that Winner's Freeze Harbor and Midnight City have differences.
In other words, the intervention of the Tribunal has made Vina Freeze Port incompatible with this world.
The only communication hub between the two cities belonging to humans is their respective embassies, and the locations where they stand are specifically targeted.
For example, Midnight City's embassy was placed on Queen Street by Wiener Freeze Port, adjacent to the slums. Midnight City's counterattack was to place the embassy of Wiener Freeze Port on ** Street.
Wiener's Unfrozen Port Joke: Midnight City has neither humans nor ghosts, and keeps company with weirdos. Midnight City's Jokes: Wiener's Unfrozen Port is extreme without knowing it. Many churches have this extreme exclusivity.
The difference is that their gods really exist.
However, Wei Na does not believe in a "god" that is false, has never recovered, and does not know whether it is true or false.
Although the differences are serious and the respective embassies are often targeted, the two cities share the same views on human interests.
Except after the exorcist Lu Li was wanted.
Midnight City newspapers published news about members of parliament, nobles, and scholars mocking the Vina Ice-free Port, such as "They are stupider than they thought", "The legendary exorcist was rejected by the Vina Ice-free Port and wanted",
"Mayor Mateusz is a soft-footed shrimp who dare not resist the trial court", "The trial court guards are useless people who stay at home and only fight among themselves."
The extreme ones include "Vina Ice-free Port is the gathering place for heretics", "The false god ordered his followers to hunt down Lu Li", "The next wanted people will be outsiders", "Vina Ice-free Port has been controlled by the church"
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"Vincent Grapevine" stole the show in this incident. They went to the old sewers to interview local weirdos, and told what they said "The Exorcist made them fear that humans were more like weird broken spiral halls and cities than they were."
The surface that was generally uncovered has not yet been repaired.
Well, this is the shame of the old sewers. No human has ever dared to do or be able to do these things. Many of us weirdos respect him." The record is attached with pictures of the spiral hall and damaged main lines and weirdness to prove that Lu Li is still a legendary exorcist.
Man, Weiner is just a bunch of young old antiques.
Whether it is true or false, whether it is biased, this has indeed increased the confidence of many human beings. Some members even proposed to form a new church that believes in Lu Li. Then they found more people who had the same idea, but Lu Li had not yet agreed.
As a result, Clines University, which appeared to have just contacted the businessman Lu Li not long ago, is once again experiencing a boom, but unfortunately it is not a swarm of students.
Regardless of the position, Midnight City is indeed not as extreme and out of touch with humanity as the Weena Freeze Port. For example, it allows the existence of old sewers and accepts the weirdness of human civilization.
And Weiner Freeze Port is not as extreme as Midnight City said. Only the Tribunal has the control. The city hall and the general public stand in the middle or are indifferent. After all, cold and hunger are more terrible.
While the disputes and scoldings continued, far away from the center of the whirlpool, Lu Li was preparing for the New Year that Pusius had mentioned.
Under the Anne tree, which has lush branches and leaves and blocks the coolness of the severe cold, Lu Li quietly read today's fresh Midnight City newspaper.
Pusius jumped up and down at his feet: "New Year's Day will come in more than a month. Mr. Lu Li, will you give me a gift? I want books! Lots and lots of books!"
"Wishes...should not...be spoken out." Ophelia approached the shade of the tree, and Anne gently shook her in response to her arrival.
The humanity of the gift awakened Anne, and she thrived in the past twenty days. Although she was still as thin as a sapling, she was more lush than ever before, and the leaves emerging from the branches weakly obscured the base of the tree.
She can only release simple emotions now. Gratitude, happiness, closeness, but as time goes by, she will become stronger and smarter, and gradually master the Elm Forest.
"Is that so? What is Miss Ophelia's wish?" Psius asked again.
Pusius asked hesitantly: "But Mr. Lu Li won't know if I don't tell him..."
"I hope...my...gift is"
The appearance of the merchant Anthony interrupts Ophelia: "A letter from Mateus from the ice-free port of Wiener."
Unfolding the envelope, it contained what had happened to him recently; the news about the return of knight Vino; the news that Lu Li had just gotten from the newspaper: the fact that he was wanted by Weiner Freeze Port; and the lack of firewood faced by Weiner Freeze Port.
Dilemma: The price of firewood has increased nearly seven times since the beginning of winter, and people cannot afford to buy firewood.
The poor people who wanted firewood even went to the streets to collect cow dung and demolished uninhabited houses to burn. Citizens who had nowhere to stay warm gathered in churches, restaurants and other places in large numbers. The trees around the city have long been cut down. In order to prevent citizens from going out to cut trees in the city, they would be killed or killed by strange things.
He froze to death on the road and had to send a large number of soldiers to guard it.
Lu Li can help with the shortage of firewood in Weiner's Freezing Port. Shadow Swamp has stored a large amount of dead and fallen firewood that the giant trees are reluctant to throw away.
He wrote a letter to the merchant Anthony and asked him to hand it over to the Swamp Mother. Not long after, Lu Li received a handwritten parchment with beautiful handwriting and rigorous wording. The simple content could not even reflect its preciousness: The wood is still there, do you need it?
Lu Li replied to confirm, and wrote to Mayor Mateus that he could supplement some of the firewood gap, prepare a warehouse for storage, and ask businessman Anthony to go to Shadow Swamp to transport the firewood.
When Lu Li mentioned the price, he said it was free because the Swamp Mother also gave it to him for free. Mayor Mateus thanked Lu Li for his generosity, but still gave Lu Li some money from the finance department of the city hall in the name of transportation fees.
This money was handed over to merchants for circulation, but if you want to expand the scope of trade, it is urgent to find the missing merchants.
"Can we let the Elm Forest and Shadow Swamp be together?" Pusius asked. Perhaps because Wanghai Cliff is a cliff and close to the sea, there is no strong presence to sit here, and the sense of security here is not as good as Shadow Swamp.
It's not lively there either.
After finishing speaking, Pusius felt Ophelia's unkind gaze and slipped behind Lu Li's legs with a sneer.
"Annie is not mature enough." Lu Li just replied.
May become a vassal of Swamp Mother.
Anna would not accept this happening, and neither would Lu Li.
The merchant Anthony returned soon, but he brought not a letter from the Swamp Mother, but a letter from the fugitive sect.
They said that the ocean-going ship had been built and invited Lu Li to say goodbye.
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"Your Excellency Lu Li is trying to make up for our firewood shortage... preparing an empty warehouse." Mayor Mateus breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the letter.
Everything was getting worse, and he could only try to make the situation not so bad.
"Will the Inquisition stop it?" Valendo asked.
"They don't dare. Without firewood, many citizens won't be able to survive this winter."
Mayor Mateus was proven wrong. The Inquisition became more radical and ruthless than he imagined.