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You've decided to go big with a gate-shaped low-altitude hanging rail and a large steam train, which would be a good fit for a labyrinthine town dominated by trade. Even in the Age of Magic, it was easy to see that this thing, once built, would greatly improve the Kingdom's logistics, which had previously been said to be poor.

In fact, the centipede type and the subway type are also not bad, except for the ......

Recalling the scene in the evening when the dwarf count was strongly recommended, it was very emotional.

"Your Excellency, would you like to think twice?" the dwarf count kneaded his eyebrows with his index finger and thumb, and pointed to the design of the flying wing monorail, "Anyone who knows a little bit of mechanical engineering knows it, and this is the best of the four schemes! Look! Glider that controls updrafts, single-row huge wheels that make full use of the law of inertia to speed at high speed, half-human-high rails with super-first-class grip, and a streamlined front face! This is the embodiment of speed and passion!"

Everyone around you responds the same – silence.

"Speed! Speed is the most important thing! Safety factor or something, don't you feel less romantic if you don't explode!" He became more excited the more he spoke.

Even if he was a minority nobleman in a small place, Hathaway maintained due courtesy to him. Hathaway saluted and asked, "I mean hypothetical, hypothetical...... You see, how many legs does a person have?"

"Two. ”

"How many wheels does the carriage have?"

"Four. ”

"How many legs do insects have?"

"Six. ”

"Are they all in close contact with the earth?"

"Yes. ”

Hathaway finished speaking, smiling, hoping that the whimsical and clever eccentric earl would figure it out for himself—in fact, if only two parallel rails were laid honestly on the ground?

Tilting his head, the dwarf count suddenly realized, and then thanked him repeatedly, and immediately buried himself in the desk and drew a new, more performant, and more reasonable rail scheme - countless iron pillars were erected on the ground, and huge wheels were installed on the iron pillars, each wheel rotated in the opposite direction, so that the whole train completely left the ground and maintained a wave-like trajectory. "Miss Secretary, you are so smart! this can not only avoid the attack, but also reduce friction, and the important thing is that the speed is handsome!"

Imagining herself in one of these roller coasters, Hathaway felt like throwing up.

In short, the final scheme was determined to be a "door" shaped low-altitude hanging rail.

He is worthy of being a master of the heretical technology club, and the wheels of the large vehicles designed are all on the roof.

At the top of the tower, you wait for the masked man of the Scarlet Punisher to appear.

Dead

Good for thinking.

In fact, the original steam car can be transformed, add a few more iron plates, add a few more steam engines, and hang a trailer behind it to load the magic energy conversion equipment. The road is long and dangerous, and the manual transportation is simply fantastic, and the horse is easy to die if it is pulled by a horse-drawn cart, and the cart will be useless at that time, but if the steam engine is used to pull the goods, all problems will be solved...... Slow down, slow down.

With nothing to do, you start sketching an imaginary armored steam vehicle on a notepad, at least double in size, be able to call two squads of adventurers, and be able to pull more than a dozen tons of large equipment. This armored car will not be built too small.

Hathaway bends over and stares behind you, finding it amusing.

Melanie tugged at your sleeve and motioned for someone to wait, coming.

A crow,

In the moonlight, it flew to the top of the tower and landed on the shoulder wall.

Nothing needs to be explained, no normal crow will fly in the dead of night, and it will fly right next to you. This masked man of the Scarlet Punisher is so cautious that he won't show up even if you're only with Melanie as a guard. Possession, manipulation, beak-tricking?Before you can confirm the details, the raven opens its mouth to speak.

And it's not human words, it's just ahhhh

More cautious than cautious, this is for fear that someone will overhear so you are forced to cast your own spell to translate the bird language. You've done a trick on yourself and Hathaway, and you've learned the crow's cry.

The following dialogue has been translated:

Raven: "You don't have any use value to us, and you don't have bargaining chips, I'm here to see if Hathaway has changed her mind." ”

Hathaway: "Yes, I changed my mind. ”

She looks back at you, pauses slightly, and then continues to the raven, "My head has commanded me not to resign, and I promised a long time ago to obey any of his instructions. Since he has decided in this way, he must have considered the whole situation more wisely, and I choose to believe it. ”

The raven turns his head and stares at you, "That's the war, huh?"

No, representation. -- You responded.

"Lao Tzu has already said that you don't have any use value or bargaining chips at all. Waste of time. I can't bind you in three days, I'll put my name upside down......" The crow felt that he had been tricked, and ran in vain, and was about to fly away angrily but suddenly stopped. It closes its mouth and stands silently in place, wings folded, and stares behind you.

Behind you, an iron hook suddenly hangs from the shoulder wall.

Soon, a heavily armored man climbed up the rope - the captain of the law enforcement team. With a sigh, he climbed up the spire, sat on the already narrow platform, and muttered: "I'm also a little old, and it's a little difficult to climb the ladder." ”

The crow remained silent.

Pull him up from the ground and tell him that you don't have to keep an eye on Melanie, and that if she runs away, you, the lord, are still there, and you can't even be watched while you sleep.

"Haha, no, the elder misunderstood. The law enforcement captain smiled and raised his hands to signal innocence, "I just thought that I couldn't find a chance to get along with you in private, so I struggled to climb up, and it has nothing to do with this vampire." First of all, I need to express my gratitude to you. ”

Thank?

The law enforcement captain pointed to himself: "Thank you for being willing to travel thousands of miles to protect my brother on the cusp." Maybe you don't know, I'm the third brother of the Duke of Destruction, my own brother. It's no joke to kill whoever I want, although I don't really do it. Although my brother doesn't really need protection, hehe. ”

It is nothing new that only one of the heirs of the nobility can inherit the family business, and the others will earn their own living, some will work as housekeepers for their elder brothers, and some will go to the army as small leaders.

He glanced at the crow and said with a wry smile, "The elder is so elegant?"

The reaction is nothing more.

Miraculously, he didn't wonder why a crow stopped in front of you in the middle of the night, maybe it had something to do with your usual unpredictable anomaly, and while raising vampires, coexisting with hidden wives and harems, and reaching out to the realm of the gods, chatting with birds at night seemed less surprising - and importantly, the captain didn't hear a word.

Melanie was inconvenient to interject, and Hathaway asked tentatively, "Your Excellency has something to order, right?"

"I can't talk about commands. The law enforcement captain scratched his head honestly, "On behalf of my own personal interests, I would like to make a 'private commission' to the Adventurers' Guild - to kill a great nobleman in the Sand Kingdom. ”

Belch?

Hathaway was more surprised than anyone else! Bullshit's personal interests, the captain of law enforcement definitely represents the Big Five, or at least one of them. Kill the nobles of a neighboring country before the war breaks out?

In a panic, Hathaway dropped the crystal in her pocket...... Two pieces.

The crow and the law enforcement captain then looked at the crumbles, but found only a single piece of debris. The former thought it was just an ordinary identification crystal, and it didn't seem impossible for the secretary to carry the identification crystal with him, but the important thing was that it was broken, and the latter thought it was a wine glass. It's already broken anyway, so it's no problem.

Who are you going to kill?—you ask.

"A young lord whose territory is still full of wealth, his name is Chayanop Margolier. He was an innocent and good young man, but his life was enough to shake the situation in Saudi Arabia. With that, the law enforcement captain patted the dirt on his pants, turned over and grabbed the rope and turned back, "You can investigate for yourself." Remember, to sell me is to sell to the entire kingdom. ”

He just came to say such a sentence, and when he finished speaking, he would stay more.

After confirming that it was gone, the raven finally spoke again.

“...... It's not that it's impossible to negotiate. If you can kill Elander, we at Scarlet Punisher can offer you more kindness. Our friendliness is precious. ”

"Why ...... Why him?" Hathaway was even more surprised.

"Because you are currently in contact with him, the law enforcement team is directly under the jurisdiction of Elander. The crow paused, "There is another reason why I might as well tell you." Everyone misunderstood - the shortcomings of the Big Five weren't Swane's mad dogs. Ever since they were cubs teaming up to make stupid, Swaney has always been this virtue, and has always been a drag on the team. I'll just ask you a question: if Swanai is really the team's shortcoming, can they survive until now?

Belch.

"This ploy to the bone marrow was devised by two bitches, Saint Sisilang and Val. Because Swanai is so rampant, it is easier to attract the enemy's plots, and it can't be easier for four people to work together to protect a fool, which is the real reason why they tolerate Swanai's death for decades, for the survival of the entire team, become a decoy. ”

Elander is the opposite. He has the fewest enemies, his defense is the highest, if the hard bone of the Big Five is gnawed off first, it will not be Swane who has not died for more than ten years, it will not be Saint Sisilang who will never leave his territory, it will not be the king who guards the two huge buildings personally, and it will not be the Vaal who plays with life and death. Which of the four of them is going to seriously protect Elander? Kill Elander! Isn't he making things difficult for you lately? Just right, let's take Elander's head as a vote. ”

With that, the crow flew away.

For a long time,

Much later,

Two voices rang out from the debris at Hathaway's feet.

"Honorable foreign lord, I heard them all. I wanted to talk to you about a lot, but I was in no mood at all...... If you can send the head of any member of the Scarlet Heavenly Punisher to the Sand Sect Temple, whether it is to collect troops or negotiate peace, it is easy to say. ”

"I've heard all the conversations just now. To tell the truth, the "Scarlet Heavenly Punisher" has also been causing trouble in our country in recent years, and his methods are clever, which is a secret that only a very few people know. I wanted to negotiate with you about reinstating the Duke of Hathaway's daughter, but now...... Let's first bring a head of the "Scarlet Heavenly Punisher" to the "Rain Sect Temple". ”

The communication energy contained in the crystal was exhausted, and the spire of the tower fell silent in the middle of the night.

Which side do you prefer?

A, help the kingdom kill the sand country

B, help the blood kill the kingdom

C, help the Sand country kill the blood