While Alwyn was trying to survive in the Duchy of Burr, Kwai had already piloted the airship to the southwesternmost principality of the Northern Continent, the Duchy of Putrani.

It's not so much a principality as a desert off the beaten track.

This is the wildest area of the northern continent, with the most unique landform, the wild sand is the most common scenery, of course, the robbers and bandits in the desert are the most common specialties here.

Madeira, the "City of Sand Cone" in the middle of the desert, is the largest city in the Duchy of Putrani, and of course, the only one.

At the same time, the city is also a huge exchange.

All the stolen goods stolen from the nobles of various countries would be brought here to be sold. As for why these thieves come from far and wide to sell their stolen goods, because in Madeira there are the most knowledgeable buyers, and the thieves can sell their goods for a price. Compared to the black markets that are good at black and black, Madeira should be considered a paradise for thieves to sell their stolen goods.

In addition to the stolen goods, there are also those looted and looted in the desert, which are also sold in the city market.

These unscrupulous goods would be bought by speculative merchants who pretended to be clever, and when they were transported out of the city, into the desert, and then robbed by the robbers who had been ambushed, and so on.

Then why do any businessmen dare to come here to buy goods? After all, this method of "self-selling and self-cutting" is so obvious.

Because in the face of huge profits, merchants always have a fluke mentality, thinking that they can smoothly bring goods out of this desert. Every businessman who thinks like this has actually fallen into the trap of the "Prince of Yunmoyan". They only see huge benefits, but they don't know that there is such a thing as a risk cost.

Of course, there is also a part of the businessman who is very sensible and wise.

They wittily paid enough tribute to the "Prince of Cloud Desert Smoke". The bandits under the prince's command would open up their nets to them, and they would be able to walk out of the desert safe and sound with their goods. As long as they can bring these things out smoothly, then there will be opportunities to earn money back from the nobles in the future, and earn it back exponentially.

But who is this "Prince of Cloud Desert"?

This name, which sounds so disobedient and funny, naturally cannot be canonized by the emperor of the Fuwei Empire, but can only be self-proclaimed.

In fact, the Duchy of Putrani was indeed the fief of a certain great nobleman. Of course, this was hundreds of years ago.

As the desert encroaches on the oasis little by little, it has long been uninhabitable. The nobles of that line also moved out of the area many years ago.

Over time, this desert has gradually become a gathering place for those chickens and dogs, after all, no one wants to run all the way into this vast desert to catch these fugitives.

Then, in the last few decades, a figure named "Cloud Desert Smoke" has risen to prominence among the bandits, and has gradually ruled the desert by virtue of his audacity.

Originally, Madeira was just a dilapidated camp in the desert. But over the years, relying on the management of this "cloud desert smoke", he used all the money he earned and robbed Looney to build this "city of sand cone". And so, all the outlaws had a home.

For the person "Yun Moyan", these outlaws living here are also quite convinced, and they obey this leader very much. Of course, those who don't follow have long since become white bones in the desert.

In addition to those lawbreakers, there are also many poor people

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, the fallen nobles, and those who were chased and killed by the enemy, moved in one after another. Over the years, the city has expanded and now has reached a size of nearly 100,000 people.

Prince Yun Moyan is also very tolerant of these people, as long as they pay the room fee on time.

In Madeira, there are no overnight hotels, and as soon as anyone enters the city, the prince's men will register and lead you to your lodgings.

In fact, you can also think of Madeira as a hotel of unprecedented scale, and the owner of the hotel is Yun Moyan.

Of course, this is a bit one-sided, in fact, all the shops in the city belong to Yun Moyan, whether it is a restaurant, a tavern, a weapon shop, etc., as long as it is an industry in the city, it belongs to this prince.

So, as soon as you step into this "city of sand conils", you start spending, and you only have the silver coins in your pocket.

However, in terms of room rates, the prince is still quite kind, and the price is quite low. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many residents willing to move here.

It can be said that the consumption of food, clothing, housing and transportation here is at a fairly low stage, and it is not even as good as many small towns in the north.

So the people who come to settle here, as long as they bring a few thousand loonis, are enough to live for decades.

It's just that the living conditions here are relatively bad. Located deep in the desert, water is scarce. All the water was distributed by Yun Moyan's men. Fortunately, the cost of these waters has been included in the room rate.

But here, bathing is quite a luxury.

Of course, you can't buy ordinary alcohol in taverns, the only thing you can buy is "dry sake".

What is dry wine?

This thing is based on the "violet tim", a unique plant in the nearby desert, whose fruit has been fermented and has a slight taste of wine.

One by one, the "dry wine" is served in a beer glass, and it looks like rotten grapes, and it tastes jerky and dry and hard, but it is a little juicy. The people who live here can only talk about the juice for comfort, saying that they have drunk.

If you can't take a bath often, and you don't have alcohol, why would anyone want to move here?

As mentioned earlier, there are people in this world who are so poor that they will starve to death and freeze to death, and there are also the unlucky people who have inexplicably provoked a lot of enemies, for them, survival is the first priority, and as for enjoying something, they have come to settle in Madeira, what do you want to do?

One wonders, therefore, what will happen if the people who come here are too poor to pay the bills? Will they be eaten alive by this terrible prince, or will they be thrown into the desert?

That's not going to happen.

These people, who were so poor that they could not even pay for their houses, had to go to the prince to serve as manpower to pay for their houses, such as repairing the walls, building houses, and cleaning the streets, but they needed manpower.

The main prince also provided food for these people, at least one jerky per meal.

Another reason why these nearly 100,000 residents are willing to stay in the city is because Madeira is a city with good security, and it can even be said that Madeira is better than most cities in the north in terms of security.

Mainly because of this prince in the desert, His Majesty is extremely strict. None of the bad men under his command dared to do anything wrong in the city, because they knew that if they broke the prince's rule, they were not allowed to loot or steal in Madeira

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Stealing the goods of the occupants and merchants, he will be thrown into a human-shaped cage in the depths of the desert, and the only thing that awaits him is hunger and thirst, and the desperate sunshine.

In addition to the Prince's subordinates, these residents of the city also kept in mind the rules made by the Prince and did not dare to violate them. Of course, they have also seen the fate of those who break the rules.

So in Madeira, even fights and brawls rarely happen.

If any of the foreign merchants broke the prince's rules, he would have fallen into the prince's hands, and if he did not hand over a large sum of money, he would not have thought of leaving Madeira.

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As for why Kwai Tilt chose this place as a foothold?

In addition to the fact that it is closest to the Trastile Mountains, there is another reason. That is, she knew in her heart that only here could she find the fastest people who dared to go into the depths of the Traledi Mountains, those who wanted money and did not want their lives.

The airship slowly docked at a spire in the City of Snipe. Around the minaret, a patchwork of "branches" forked out, and the airboat stopped at the end of these branches.

The rest of the Quartet Mercenary Group felt the stinging sand wind, and their hearts were at a loss. At this time, they can only count on the little girl Kwai Tilt to lead them out of their predicament. Obviously, Alwin's disappearance was quite a blow to these people.

Especially in a foreign country, this confusion is infinitely magnified.

"It's a humble airport. Langyun, who was standing on the deck, thought, "Could it be that there are often empty boats coming and going in this hellish place?"

The answer is yes. Not only the merchants, but also the prince had his own fleet of airboats, but they were not docked nearby. However, judging from the flying sand and smoke in the air at this time, even if it is parked nearby, it is not real.

After all, there are those merchants who think they are smart and think they can bring their goods back from the air, but how can it be so simple.

The Prince has five small modified airboats, small in size and fast speed, especially suitable for pursuit in the air, and these airboats are equipped with special bed crossbows, which can burst the main airbag of the target airboat with a single bolt.

Unless you have modified the protection of the airbag like the Tingxiao people, you can't defend against such crossbow arrows at all.

But once the armor is added to the airbag and the weight increases, it is basically giving up mobility.

Then these small airboats can be quickly encircled, forming a siege battle with more fights and fewer fights.

Therefore, it is better not to think of not paying tribute to the prince, because the prince has a way to keep the goods of the merchants in this desert, both by land and by air.

"Miss Kwai is here. A bearded man with windproof goggles smiled and beckoned, tying the cable thrown from the airboat into a large iron ring at the end of the "branch".

Only then did Langyun and the others see clearly that the "branches" were actually long steps in the open air for these people who came down from the airboat to enter the spire.

Aoi waved his hand to the big man, and said hello.

She glanced back at the people on the deck and told them not to take off their goggles. When the big man tightened the cable little by little, and the airship was close to the airport, she led the group down the deck, down the long steps, to the spire.

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