Liu Xing nodded, but he was complaining in his heart that this is the hidden depth of Bahamut's believers, and it is completely that this background story has not yet been made up.

"Now that we are in the light and the enemy is in the dark, in order to reverse the passive situation, I think we will go around the blacksmith village later and see if there is a chance to confirm that those people are believers in Bahamut." Zhang Jingxu said seriously.

Of course, Liu Xing and the others nodded in agreement.

As a result, Liu Xing and others were divided into several groups by Zhang Jingxu.

With the choice of melee long-range cooperation, Liu Xing and Yin En formed a team and were arranged to go to the largest blacksmith shop in the blacksmith village to collect intelligence.

So ten minutes later, Liu Xing and the others came to the largest blacksmith shop in the blacksmith village.

Liu Xing and Yin Eun looked at the sign of a blacksmith shop, and they didn't know what to say for a while.

To be honest, Liu Xing now wants to pry open Zhang Jingxu's skull to see how big this guy's brain hole is, so that he can arrange such a Chinese martial arts style store name in the background world of Dragon Quest.

But then again, Liu Xing suddenly remembered that he seemed to be staying in an inn, not a hotel...

It seems that this is a worldview of a merger of East and West.

Because of the nature of the work in the blacksmith shop, Liu Xing and Yin En could clearly feel the heat coming from a blacksmith shop, so Liu Xing looked at the standard priest's robe on his body and began to think about whether he wanted to go in.

As for Yin En, the knight's leather armor on his body is even more "hot".

"Why don't we go back and change our clothes first?" Yin Eun spoke.

As soon as Liu Xing wanted to nod, he saw Shen Aotian, who had a depressed face, walking out of a blacksmith shop.

"Lord Liu Xing, Lord Yin En, why are you here?" Shen Aotian said with some surprise.

Fortunately, Liu Xing and Yin En had made a draft before they came, so Liu Xing said with a smile: "Shen Aotian, didn't your father say that those materials were stolen from a blacksmith shop?" So we planned to come over and see what the situation was and whether there was any chance of redress. ”

Shen Aotian nodded, and said helplessly: "I thought the same thing just now, so I will appear here now, but the current situation is indeed a little bad, I'm afraid we can only go to those goblins to get back their own things... By the way, Lord Liu Xing, do you want to go in and have a look? ”

That's of course.

Liu Xing and Yin En nodded in unison.

So, Shen Aotian brought Liu Xing and Yin En into a blacksmith shop.

I have to say that there is a blacksmith shop that is really summer... And it is also the summer of the Chinese double celebration.

However, Shen Aotian also realized this, so he first took Liu Xing and Yin En to the dressing room of a blacksmith shop, and changed Liu Xing and the others into a short vest of the work uniform of a blacksmith shop.

Of course, this work uniform is a bit ashamed in the eyes of Liu Xing and Yin En, because the only function of this work uniform is to cover those two key points.

However, after following the customs, Liu Xing and Yin En still put on short vests.

Sure enough, it's a lot cooler.

"There is a blacksmith shop that makes these work uniforms made of ice silk, so it can always keep the temperature low in the high temperature environment, but because the price of ice silk is really high, it can only be made into a short vest style." Shen Aotian gave Liu Xing and the two of them a popular science.

Although this is just cold knowledge that is of no use to Liu Xing and the others.

Then, Shen Aotian took Liu Xing and the two to the warehouse where there was a blacksmith shop, and at the same time continued to introduce the situation of the blacksmith shop to Liu Xing and the others.

There is a blacksmith shop is the first blacksmith shop in the blacksmith village, and it can also be said that because there is a blacksmith shop, so there is a later blacksmith village, but the most important point is that there is a blacksmith shop that was originally the family property of Shen Aotian's family, but it was later handed over to the state by Shen Aotian's grandfather Shen Liangchen, and then Shen Aotian's father Shen Qianglong became the head of the blacksmith village.

Well, when he heard Shen Aotian's name last night, Liu Xing knew that Shen Aotian's family should have the same cool name, so Liu Xing won't complain here.

Back to the topic, although there is now a blacksmith shop that nominally belongs to a state-owned enterprise, but in fact it is still under the control of Shen Aotian's family, because the blacksmiths in a blacksmith shop are basically Shen Liangchen or Shen Qianglong's disciples and disciples, so the affairs of the blacksmith shop are still in charge of Shen Aotian's family, and sixty percent of the income of the blacksmith shop is owned by Shen Aotian's family.

However, how could the empire let this old hen that could only lay golden eggs be under the control of others, so recently, the empire sent a lot of blacksmiths and managers into a blacksmith shop, and also directly sent people to control the ledger of a blacksmith shop, which made Shen Qianglong angry that he had not come to a blacksmith shop for a long time.

Looking at Shen Aotian, who dared to say anything, Liu Xing and Yin En didn't know whether to say that he lacked heart or big heart.

Of course, it is also possible that Shen Aotian is lying.

However, it is not difficult to see from what Shen Aotian said that there is a lot of contradiction between the current Shen Aotian family and the empire.

"By the way, Shen Aotian, what is the origin of the other blacksmith shops in the blacksmith village?" Yin Eun asked suddenly.

Shen Aotian thought for a while and said: "The reason why our Shen family chose to establish a blacksmith village here in the past is because there are a lot of mineral resources near the blacksmith village, and it is not far from the national capital of the empire, so not only can you get a lot of raw materials here, but you can also sell the goods easily, and the most important thing is that you can sell them at a higher price in the national capital, so there are many blacksmith shops in the national capital who have moved their shops here after seeing us making money. Later, blacksmith shops from other regions also moved here, and some of the blacksmith trainee blacksmiths set up their own doors after leaving the school, so the blacksmith village became the size it is today. ”

This is similar to the situation that Liu Xing imagined.

Yin En nodded, and then continued to ask, "So have these blacksmith shops been adopted by the Empire?" ”

Hearing Yin En's question, Liu Xing immediately focused on Shen Aotian, because the answer to this question was still quite important.

What's more, Liu Xing wanted to see if Shen Aotian would lie at this time.

This time, Shen Aotian thought about it for a longer time, and then said with some hesitation: "Actually, I don't know much about this situation, because I joined the largest restaurant in the blacksmith village as an apprentice since I was a child, so except for the situation of a blacksmith shop, I don't know much about the situation of other blacksmith shops, but I have heard that some of the more famous blacksmith shops have received acquisition applications from the empire, because the scale of the blacksmith village is getting bigger and bigger, and the difficulty of the empire's supervision is also constantly improving. Especially after that incident a few years ago, the Empire's management of the Blacksmith Village has become more and more strict, so those blacksmith shops can only choose to accept the Empire's acquisition. ”

The thing?

Liu Xing hurriedly checked his memory, and sure enough, he saw that the incident that had just been "made up" was three years ago, the empire had a war with another human kingdom next door, and as a result, the imperial troops captured a batch of imperial ordnance in the battle, and these ordnance turned out to be made by a blacksmith shop in the empire, and judging from the appearance of this batch of ordnance, it should have been made after the war.

Obviously, this blacksmith shop is in touch with the enemy.

Here the mod also adds a setting, that is, the mineral resources of this continent are not too rich, so an excellent blacksmith has a good status on the continent, and the blacksmith shop qualified to manufacture ordnance is a local star enterprise.

So this can be regarded as one of the reasons why Shen Madlong was able to serve as the head of the blacksmith village.

Upon learning that a blacksmith was collaborating with an enemy nation, the Empire quickly made the blacksmith a thing of the past, and intended to reclaim the right to manufacture weapons from all blacksmiths in the country.

However, the profits of weapons must be higher than that of agricultural tools, so the blacksmith shops within the empire have opposed it, so the empire has to retract its order, ostensibly to strengthen control, but in fact it is forcing those blacksmith shops to become state-owned enterprises to ensure that the same thing will not happen again.

As an activist, Shen Qianglong also became the propaganda material of the empire at that time.

But then again, Liu Xing suddenly felt that the painting style of this mod was getting more and more strange, how did he suddenly shift from combat to business?

Although Liu Xing was confused about this, Yin En, who was a professional counterpart, already had an opinion on this matter, "It is understandable that the empire wants to control the blacksmith shop, after all, the products that the blacksmith shop can make can not only be used for civilian use, but also for military use, not to mention that all kinds of minerals are also important resources of the empire, and if I am the manager of the empire, I don't want any person to be able to buy a full set of weapons from the blacksmith shop." ”

Yin Eun's words reminded Liu Xing of the real-world American lighthouse country and civilian guns.

Although these civilian guns belong to the castrated version when they leave the factory, the power of these guns is still not to be underestimated, and the shooting cases that will occur every once in a while in the American lighthouse country are the best proof, not to mention that these civilian guns will be greatly strengthened as long as they are properly modified, so Liu Xing has heard that some illegal armed forces in Latin America will smuggle a batch of civilian guns from the American lighthouse country, and after the magic change, the power of these civilian guns even exceeds the weapons used by the local regular army.

Therefore, Liu Xing estimated that this plot is likely to be adapted from the civilian gun controversy in the American Beacon Country, these blacksmith shops in the empire are those weapons dealers in the American Beacon Country, they don't want to lose the opportunity to make money, but the empire in this mod can be tougher than the American Beacon Country in the real world.

After all, in the real world, arms dealers in the American lighthouse countries would provide campaign money to the president.

It is impossible to ban guns, and it is impossible to ban guns in this life.

Back to the topic, Liu Xing now feels that he has reason to suspect that the Shen family is dissatisfied with the empire because they have been cut off from wealth, but the Shen family has no ability to act against the empire, so the Shen family is simply evil and greedy for those precious materials.

According to the content that had just been updated in his memory, Liu Xing knew that the total value of that batch of materials was likely to exceed the wealth that the Shen family had accumulated over the years.

Therefore, as long as this period of limelight passes, the Shen family can take this batch of materials and fly away, anyway, there are still many human countries on this continent, and there are many countries that cannot get along with the empire.

In this way, the biggest suspect now is the Shen family, but I don't know if the Shen family has anything to do with the believers in Bahamut.

Thinking so, Liu Xing found that his group had arrived at the warehouse where there was a blacksmith shop.

As the largest blacksmith shop in the blacksmith village, there is a blacksmith shop that covers an area the size of more than a dozen football fields, and the warehouse is naturally not much smaller.

So now in front of Liu Xing and the others is a wooden gate that may be ten meters high.

Liu Xing looked at this three-story gate, and couldn't help but wonder how those goblins, with an average height of about one meter, could open this wooden door, which might weigh a thousand catties, and then enter it to steal those materials.

Yin En thinks exactly the same thing as Liu Xing now.

But at this time, Shen Aotian gave the answer, "This wooden door is made of extremely dense ironwood, so the weight of this wooden door has reached two thousand five hundred catties, which is also the most proud anti-theft method for our blacksmith shop, and we have a blacksmith shop before this There has been no theft case, but I didn't expect those goblins to dig tunnels to enter the warehouse." ”

Because it takes a lot of manpower and time to open the wooden door, Liu Xing and others entered the warehouse through the administrator's passage.

The so-called administrator's passage, to put it bluntly, is from a locked secret door at the top of the warehouse, and this locked secret door is only known to some members of the Shen family.

Then, Liu Xing and the others saw that there was a hole with a diameter of less than 20 centimeters in the middle of the warehouse.

Judging from the soil around the cave entrance, the tunnel was indeed excavated only today, and various traces of friction can be found in the visible range.

Of course, there are some strange paw prints mixed in.

"The average adult's shoulder width is generally about thirty-seven centimeters, so unless it's a child, this tunnel should only accommodate a short goblin to pass through." Liu Xing said with a frown.

"That's right, today we arranged for a child to enter the tunnel after discovering this cave, and finally found out that the entrance to this tunnel is in the wilderness outside the blacksmith village." Shen Aotian said seriously.

Liu Xing nodded, but he was a little puzzled in his heart, could this really be the material stolen by the goblin?

After all, a long and narrow hole like this is not something that ordinary people can dig. Fupin Chinese