Hongdu City is a large trading city, one of the most famous cities in the whole continent, trade has driven the economy of the whole city, making many people rich, of course, the first to get rich, and the rich Liutian, of course, is still standing at the top of the nobility.

Earl Smith is one of these counts, and although he is not the most powerful of the nobles, he is a very clever one.

He has a cooperative relationship with large chambers of commerce, and he has done a lot of black industry.

The slave trade is not a black industry, it is gray at best, because there is no country that explicitly prohibits it.

Of course, there is no encouragement, no support or discouragement, and it can be regarded as a tacit attitude.

The real ones that can be regarded as black industries are those that will harm the interests of the country, that is, the enemy, such as the iron trade with the orc empire.

Although this is an explicit forbidden, there are many people secretly doing it, just because the benefits are extremely rich.

On the side of the human kingdom, the price of iron tools is not expensive, and the raw material is even cheaper.

It's not that there is no iron ore on the orc Empire's side, it's just relatively rare, and their mining and smelting skills are not very good, and they can't make a few finished products for most of the day.

But if you don't have iron weapons and armor, fighting with flesh and blood alone is undoubtedly a very disadvantaged thing.

On the Terran side, it is to seize this point and confine the Orc Empire to the wilderness, so that they cannot leave.

However, there are many nobles, in private, who sell iron tools to the orc empire for huge profits, and Earl Smith is one of them.

This is an ancient castle, and generally speaking, the castle can only be lived in by nobles with status and status.

There is no way, the maintenance fee of the castle is very expensive, at least tens of thousands of gold coins a year.

Smith's castle, although it is only a small castle, has a long history, and it is not very clear how long it has been there, but at least it has been around for hundreds of years.

According to the agreed time, at around the dawn of the morning, Chen Nai, Qin Haiyan, Burton, Emma and Anna, a combination of four people and a cat, came to the gate of the ancient castle.

There was darkness all around, dead darkness, not even the sound of insects.

It is said that it is quiet in the dead of night, but in the 21st century earth, because there are many entertainment activities, many young people often stay up until two or three o'clock in the morning, and then lie in bed.

And a person like Chen Nai who stays up late to eat, is used to the silence of the night, and the darkness and silence will not put too much pressure on him, but it will make him feel a little lonely occasionally.

I am always alone, fighting alone in the game.

Life was very fulfilling, but looking back now, there seems to be an indescribable loneliness.

"Master Cat, what's wrong with you, your mood seems to be a little low."

Emma was keenly aware that Chen Nai's mood was not quite right now.

"I'm fine, I just feel that the weather is not very good, the atmosphere is not right, and I don't know if the other party will ambush us, I'll talk to Qin Haiyan and Emma later, Burton and Anna, you are at the door, responsible for picking us up."

"Yes, Master Cat!"

Burton carried the Scarlet Demon Dragon on his shoulders and nodded heavily.

"I don't want to watch the door!"

Anna pouted, expressing strong resistance to the job of janitor, she is also an elf royalty, is the janitor like words.

"Well, there's no way around it."

Anna can bless herself with eagle eye skills, bird's eye view, plus her own night vision, if Smith is really prepared to ambush nearby, it will definitely not be able to escape Anna's eyes.

In addition, there is also a shadow leopard that acts in the dark, and if you cooperate with Burton, you don't need to worry about the ambush at all, and it will be easy to leave when the time comes.

Although Anna was a little emotional, she was not ignorant of the general situation, so she did not continue to dwell on this topic.

Chen Nai was in a place not far from the gate of the ancient castle, first set up a teleportation point, first prepared the way to retreat, and then went to knock on the door.

I knocked a few times, and soon, the door slowly opened.

The voice is very dull, and in such a dim and treacherous environment, the sound is extraordinarily clear.

The butler was waiting behind the door, and it seemed that he had been waiting for a long time.

"Several, please inside!"

Emma was a little nervous and scared, although she was in the Holy Light lineage, but she was afraid of such a thing, it didn't have much to do with attributes.

And it was the first time for her to experience such a thing as negotiation, so she lacked psychological experience, so she was naturally a little nervous.

In fact, Qin Haiyan was also a little nervous, because she couldn't figure out Smith's plan, didn't know what tricks the other party was going to make, and how she should pick up.

"You're here......"

With a voice, the heavy door behind them had been pushed shut, and the two of them also walked to the center of the castle hall, which lit up with a luminous bead, illuminating the entire hall.

Before the light came on, Chen Nai had already seen the situation clearly and confirmed that there was no ambush here.

At least, he hasn't found out yet.

Probably because he was afraid of the light coming out, the castle's large windows were all closed, and a thick black curtain was covered.

It was Smith who spoke, and he was at one end of the long table, sipping red wine and looking at Qin Haiyan and Emma.

Smith, a middle-aged man in his fifties, as an earl, he is still very majestic, but compared to Qin Haiyan's father, the grand duke of a principality, he is still not much different, so when facing him, Qin Haiyan looks very indifferent.

"You're not sincere."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Chen Nai didn't come."

What he wants to meet is Chen Nai, but looking at the appearance of Qin Haiyan and Emma, no matter how you look at it, it has nothing to do with the forging master Chen Nai.

"Well, his situation is a bit special, it's really inconvenient to meet with you, and it's the same for me to talk to you."

Chen Nai sighed slightly, he was obviously in front of the other party, but unfortunately no one believed that such a cat would be a forger.

"You did the Lord."

"Of course, I signed a soul contract with him."

Signing a soul contract, whether voluntarily or unwillingly, can show that the relationship between the two parties is not simple.

"In that case, let's talk!"

"Earl Smith has made an appointment tonight for the sake of the previous slave catcher and a thousand private soldiers."

"Since you know very well, then I won't talk nonsense, I can ignore the affairs of the slave catcher, but that batch of goods, as well as my private soldiers, have caused me huge losses, how do you plan to compensate."