The war was followed by reconstruction, and as the thunder season came to an end, the first rain also marked the beginning of the messy rainy season in March.

Thunderstorms are often followed by heavy downpours, a common natural law that still exists in this wasteland, but in a somewhat strange way.

Although there is a half-year thunder season, the rainstorm season that follows does not last more than a month, and although the continuous rain is disturbing, the rainfall does not reach the level that can be called troublesome.

As the rain falls, the thunderstorm clouds will gradually dissipate, and the interludes between spring rains can occasionally lead to sunny days that see the sun for a few days.

As we go back, it's time for the demonic fog that has been dispelled by Thunder Season to return, and the pitch-black Harait Wasteland is coming.

Generally speaking, the great star and great soothsayer of the Seymour people in Horn City will calculate the longest sunny day in advance and announce it to the people.

It's probably the best time of the year in the wasteland, and at this time of year, as the focus of the tourism program, Kakurashi also hosts the second half of the Sunshine Festival, which is the final celebration after the end of the thunder season.

With the passage of time, this is no longer a simple celebration, the inconvenience caused by the thunder season will affect the circulation of a series of goods, and the half-year lockdown will make many materials scarce, and the actual shortage of supply and demand, coupled with the ubiquitous price hike and hoarding profiteers, will naturally make prices rise to the highest point of the year.

Half a year's consumption, so that no matter how skilled the housewife is, she will face the lack of leakage, and the hard demand for life is pressing, even if it is three times the original price of killing pigs, you have to buy a little.

And if the thunder season of that year lasts a little longer than 10,000 years, the more materials are consumed, such as the rock salt that the Seymour people need for daily life, which is necessary for life but has a limited storage time, and even the situation that there is no price in the market and cannot be bought at all.

At the end of the thunder season, it doesn't matter if you purchase at a premium of dozens of times, your connections can't see the goods at all, and nine out of ten citizens have no channels if they want to buy at a premium.

At this time, the people of Jiaocheng are more and more envious of the same people living in New Tonia City, I heard that their prices are quite stable, even if they fluctuate, they are at most 10% to 20% of the reasonable range, and there will be no situation where money cannot buy goods........ once there is a shortage of goods, the prices will rise a little, and those Ash profiteers who are driven by interests will go crazy themselves, because there are too many competitors in various industries, most of the materials can be produced by themselves, and the profiteers of New Winteria City have no chance to speculate on goods.

Some people may be able to transport by air, but in the age of the earth, we know that the freight of air freight is extremely expensive, and the basic physical rules determine that large ships and planes must consume huge amounts of energy to go to the sky, so the corresponding fuel cost is necessary, which is the same regardless of the world...... Many cheap materials went up to the sky and then went down to the earth, and they really became special offerings for the nobility, and ordinary citizens couldn't afford them at all.

Under the current conditions of Anoraine, land transportation is the mainstream of logistics.

The opening of the Sunshine Festival is the beginning of the thunder season, and it is also the last caravan promotion, the foreign travelers will empty all their inventory and return to their homes, and the local merchants will start all kinds of big sales, and the citizens who have stocked up on the materials of the thunder season will naturally buy and buy.

The second part of the Sunshine Festival concludes with the festival season, which is the end of the thunder season and the first wave of trade routes opened after the thunder season.

In the past, in the last days of the Thunder Season, a large caravan was waiting at the entrance to the Great Harait Wasteland, and as soon as the Thunder Season ended, it was the day when the large caravans entered the corner city, and it was also the day when the citizens began to go crazy for the New Year.

But this year, in the anticipation of all the people of Kakura, there was news that the second half of the Sunshine Festival had been finalized ........ held in New Winteria City!

Looking at the empty rice bowl in the house, the citizens fell into an inexplicable rage........ cough, seriously, this news came out, and it was quite unfortunate to say to the unlucky guy who was about to run out of food that the new grain that your family had ordered this year was taken away by the wolf, which naturally caused a big wave.

But soon, the second wave of news came, it turned out that the first wave of news was wrong, it was not that New Winteria City took away the right to hold the Sunshine Festival, but that the two places jointly held this year's Sunshine Festival.

"I heard that this Sunshine Festival is divided into two venues, Tonya and Kakushiro are held together, and several big lords are in charge of Kakushiro here, and the previous ones are all there. Tonya City is very powerful, not only the traditional projects, but also the Ash, it is said that the merchants there have now prepared a large number of foreign specialties, which we have never seen here. ”

"........ sounds great, but it's too far away......."

"During the festive season, tickets are half price, and one ticket for every ten passengers is free, and there is also a S$100 shopping voucher and accommodation discount. ”

"........I'll book a ticket right now!"

"It's too late, the next ten days are gone, and the scalper tickets on the market are already four times the sales price.......

"Isn't that twice as expensive as the original price!What the hell is this discount! The tickets are gone, do you still tell me that it makes sense?!"

"Ahem, of course it makes sense....... I have a batch of tickets here, which is only three times the sale price. ”

"So you're a ticket seller!"

In a sense, the development of events is really embarrassing.

I don't buy the original price ticket, but I can't buy it after the discount stimulates the desire to consume, and then there are many people who buy scalper tickets that far exceed the original price.

But in any case, this time the sale was a success, the train tickets between Horn City and Neotonia City were sold out, the temporary Midnight Express stalls, the tickets for the stunt motorcycle seats on the top of the train were also sold out as soon as they came out, and some people even organized walking groups to walk along the railway.

The two sides jointly reported that the main venue was not separated.

Even the most optimistic people in Horn City know that the current Horn City and New Tonia City are not comparable at all, and if this project is held on both sides at the same time, it will be clear that there are more highlights and gains there.

Although the Ash did not explicitly steal the festival of the people of Horntown, if it developed to an unprecedented level of pomp and circumstance, and two or three kittens on one side did not even have a festive atmosphere, then what was the point of keeping a name.

Merchants will also make a choice, and the gap will continue to widen if it is held a few more times, and I am afraid that outsiders will not know what the festival is over there.

Undoubtedly, this is not good for the corner city, the sunshine festival in the past has long been not only a commercial festival to stimulate the economy and market, but also a symbol of national unity and racial harmony.

But this time, they couldn't refuse, because the reasons given by the other party were too sufficient.

"We have just suffered a catastrophe and hope to dilute the atmosphere with a festival to bring people out of their grief. ”

Yes, this reason is very powerful, many regions and countries are accustomed to holding celebrations and Victory Day parades after the victory of the war, in addition to the real commemorative significance, but also to mourn the dead, comfort the living, and use the joy of festivals and victories to dilute the sadness of war damage and sacrifice, so that people can anesthetize the pain and return to normal life after the festival.

But if that's all there is to it, the bigwigs in Horn City will probably dump them with a sentence of "What do you care about us with heavy losses, why do you want us to share our festivals to you and forget your sorrows?".

What's more, it wasn't the New Tonya family that was damaged in this disaster, and on that night, the cultists in Horn City caused a lot of trouble, if it wasn't for the evil god who turned all his attention into the distance, Horn City's loss would definitely be not small.

But Rorschach, who was in charge of liaison at the beginning, blocked all the complaints of the bigwigs in the corner city with one sentence, no, to be precise, he occupied the moral high ground with only one name.

"Ahem... ”

After saying the name, Rorschach looked at the Corner City bigwigs with an embarrassed face.

“…… This person should be considered one of your high-level leaders. ”

This buddy was seduced by the evil god during the evil god war, became a minion of the evil god, and led the fleet to stab New Tonya.

"Do you need us to calculate the war reparations?"

Although this incident eventually became the merit of the game church, the fragments of the floating ships and battleships that were still burning in the airport were real astronomical battle damage.

Although everyone knows that he is an unlucky person controlled by the evil gods, Felix was once a member of Sidion's after all, and he is also one of the great warlords of Horn City, and he is an out-and-out high-ranking person in the city.

When a high-ranking person with real power in a corner city leads a fleet to attack the airports of other cities and kill civilians when other cities are dealing with strong enemies, this is already an out-and-out act of war.

If the fact that he is a minion of the evil god is ignored, this fact can already be used as a reason for declaring war, and even the Seymours of the two cities will feel that this reason is completely justified.

As a result of the declaration of war........ there will be only one ruler in this wasteland, and now the combat power of the two sides is not at the same level at all, not to mention that although New Winteria City has experienced war, it has just received strong reinforcements.

Even in the twenty-member board of directors, the idea was put forward and the idea was taken to solve the problem once and for all, but it was opposed by the majority.

After all, everyone is not stupid, and now is not the feudal era of enclosure and kingship, really playing the power politics of great unification, the Ich people are the rulers, and the Seymours are the ruled, and what will develop after a long time, everyone still has points in their hearts.

If you unify more with less, and suppress the indigenous people by foreign races, it will be successful in a short time, and if you do it for a long time, there will basically be endless problems.

If it is not handled well, endless uprisings and political struggles are inevitable....... the key is that the returns are low, and most of the energy has to be invested in politics and military, and these cost extra money!

To use a not-so-appropriate analogy, the churches are companies that come to run and make money, and a stable political situation brings stable income as the top priority, and they are lovers of strategy management games, not those lords who expand their territory, play power politics and big government strategies, and take the route of military conquest games.

The Ash people are already very tired, and they just want to make a small amount of money by mining and opening factories as a boss, not as an old rich man such as an official or lord....... and if they want to build a castle and hire a pretty maid to play peek-a-boo social security, isn't it okay to use money, and save worry and effort.

The difference in the concept of the times has caused the two sides to look at the problem from a completely different angle, and it has also caused a serious misjudgment by the bigwigs in the corner city.

The Ash people don't want to play the Great Unification, but the people of Horn City don't know, most of the Horn City bosses are from warlords, in their eyes, what they have to deal with now is the real threat of war, and now the enemy is strong and I am weak, "If I were the Ash, I would definitely take the opportunity to conquer Horn City!" The warlord mentality is deeply rooted.

For the warlords on the weaker side, as long as they can avoid a one-sided war, the "Sunshine Festival" is nothing to cut some meat.

And even if it didn't go to the war, just those warships lost in the airport, if the compensation was calculated, I'm afraid Kakuragi wouldn't be able to afford it.

Rorschach's role as a negotiating deputy (he was responsible for keeping his mouth shut most of the time while wearing a mask, just watching and not talking) had long been clear about this kind of caution.

It's too simple to talk about the Sunshine Festival, but it was the first step in Rorschach's plan.

If you want to lift the lid and make this wasteland your home, you can't do it in a hurry.

"The first step is to distract the public from the attention. ”