The meeting of the wind and snow
How long will it take us to get to Otto? Ivan sat quietly against the cargo next to him.
"I guess you can see it through this rift."
Lu Duo looked at the map he had borrowed improvisedly, which happened to be one of the two roads leading into Otto, at the Olli Rift Gorge on the northwest side.
Three days had passed since the battle with the mysterious black knight in Stone Cliff Village, and the three of Kevin went to Otto with the caravan the next day to hide their eyes. Originally, the person in charge of the caravan refused to take them on the grounds of inconvenience, and it was said that the situation was chaotic because Otto had recently been facing the envoy of the Blue Sky Empire who had come from the upper realm, and the Principality of Oz had also sent the current leader in charge of the research institute to participate.
But when there is money, although Kevin's money falls on Sen Ling's side, they also have an eldest lady from a noble family.
"Thanks to the eldest lady, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to ride this ride!"
Kevin was bored and lying on the cargo across from Evan, the strangely shaped sword tightly wrapped in coarse cloth and placed beside Kevin.
"Hmph, how can you be like you, a poor ghost, who didn't want to give you that money, but saw that you repelled that strange black man, and rewarded you as a master."
Evan still didn't miss every opportunity to talk to Kevin, and Kevin was also very cooperative to kowtow to Evan on his knees.
"Thank you, master, for the reward."
Evan glanced at Kevin in feigned disgust, sorting out his Oz clothes.
"I said how long does your potion last, I always feel weird, I feel so uncomfortable wearing this clothes."
"Don't worry, the effect of this potion is incomparable, it can last about a day, and it is estimated that I will have to make up for it again after entering the city."
After Kevin answered the eldest lady's words, he quietly moved behind Evan.
"Eh, what are you doing?"
Ivan felt that his waist was touched, and his body trembled very sensitively.
"You didn't say it was uncomfortable, I'll help you get it."
Kevin then loosened the folds around Ivan's waist, and Ivan's face turned red, but the truck was too dark to notice.
"Hey, don't mess around!"
Evan struggled slightly, since he was a child, he had never been touched by anyone except his mother, not to mention that he was still a boy!
"Huh? The eldest lady is afraid of itching! ”
Kevin grinned like a devil and gently rubbed his waist in question, and the immediate response was Evan's whispered gasp.
"Ahh Don't touch it, ah-"
After rubbing it a few times, looking at Evan's uncontrollable trembling body, the flush had overflowed her cheeks, and Kevin also took it when he saw it, and after sorting out the clothes behind Evan, he retreated to the opposite side.
"Are you itching?"
Ivan clenched his fists, and the condensed psionic energy shone pink light around it.
"I didn't expect the eldest lady to be cute, it would be better if she didn't have this stinky temper."
Kevin didn't look at Evan, just caressing his long sword wrapped in coarse cloth. When Evan heard this, his anger immediately disappeared, and he glanced to the side in embarrassment, muttering something on his lips.
And Lu Duo on the side saw the two people who had changed their bodies and appearances, if they hadn't seen their previous appearances, they thought they had a delusion.
"Such a lovely pair of dolls." Lu Duo groaned, looking at the constant gray scenery on both sides of the car and couldn't help but smile bitterly, at this moment he really wanted to see the scenery above, maybe as described in the book, the beauty of light, warmth, and leisure.
The leader of the caravan beckoned to Lu Duo at this time, as a large area of light shone in the darkness not far away. The town in front of you exudes a mysterious atmosphere is the most prosperous commercial capital in the entire underground world - Oto.
Viewed from above, the castle is surrounded by a bottomless abyss on both sides, and is divided in two by a huge cliff in the middle. The outer part of the front is a residential area for ordinary residents, and the inner part extends to the inner side of the cliff wall is the business area of the main body of Oto. The sloping platform behind it, formed by a massive rock wall, is the heart of Otto City, where the Duchy's residence of Paiarosse is located, and where the mysterious Mithril Order is based.
Lu Duo watched as the Otto garrison, dressed in jet-gold armor and with the Mithril Order's armband on his shoulder, walked in the direction of the caravan, after all, such an important meeting was held during this period, and it was necessary to conduct routine inspections of the entire caravan.
"Even the Mithril Organization has sent people, which shows that this meeting is not ordinary!"
Lu Duo whispered to the two of them, and Evan helped him slowly get out of the cart.
And Kevin also silently followed the team, although the potion had changed his body, but it did not affect his other abilities at all, and he carefully looked at the coming garrison with the corner of his eye.
In addition to the conventional equipment, the life-tall giant axe is particularly conspicuous, and it can be seen from the structure of the spring and gear that emerges from the hollow of the axe blade that this giant axe with the ability to transform the structure should be the greatest capital of these garrison forces, just like the ring weapon that Ivan hides on his body.
The commander of the garrison who took the lead ordered the goods on the cart to be inspected, which contained nothing more than the specialties of Shiya Village and the food needed on the road, and after the inspection, the identity of everyone in the caravan began to be registered.
When it was Evan to register, when the commander of the garrison happened to walk up to her, his eyes suddenly glowed, and he couldn't help but want to reach out and lift Ivan 's face, even if Evan drank the transformation potion, he couldn't hide his stunning beauty.
But Evan threw his face aside with disdain, causing the captain's hand to flutter into the air.
"Very grumpy!"
Lu Duo immediately translated the captain's words to the two of them.
At this time, the leader of the caravan walked up to the captain with a smile and smiled with a very flattering attitude.
"I don't know what happened to the military master?"
The military master pressed the short dagger on his waist and looked at Ivan with a sinister smile.
"Leave this woman behind, and the others can go in."
At this time, when the caravan leader heard this, he replied with an embarrassed face: "These three people are not from our caravan, I'm afraid."
"Huh?" The captain immediately turned his head and glared fiercely at the leader of the caravan, directly covering his forehead with cold sweat.
The leader of the caravan was in a dilemma, after all, the three Kevin had paid the caravan to take them to Otto together, and if they handed over the people at the request of the garrison commander now, it would be tantamount to a shameful act of betraying others. But they are just an ordinary small caravan, and if they provoke this garrison, I am afraid that the consequence will be that they will no longer be able to do business between the two places in the future.
Seeing that the whole atmosphere was deadlocked, at this time, Lu Duo used the long sword bound in coarse cloth as a crutch and pushed it to the ground, and the surrounding garrisons suddenly became vigilant.
"Ahem!"
After coughing dryly, he pulled out a fist-sized silver rubbing from his pocket, engraved with an emblem similar to that of the Mithril Order.
When the commander of the garrison saw the rubbing, he hurriedly knelt on the ground, and the rest of the garrison members also knelt down to the three of them when they saw this, and then heard the captain of the garrison say a long list of Oz words with a panicked expression.
"I'm sorry for having disrespectful thoughts about you, and my subordinates are willing to bear your anger and repay the sin of disrespect just now."
After speaking, the commander of the garrison slammed his head on the ground and quietly waited for Lu Duo's answer.
Lu Duo just gently raised his hand to signal the garrison to disperse, and then motioned to the caravan leader to let the caravan enter the city. Evan asked the captain of the garrison to raise his head, and then kicked a large bubble of dust and threw it in his face, directly causing him to gnaw on the mud. This choked the garrison army's tears and snot, but he could only endure it silently.
In order not to reveal their true identities, Kevin gently pulled Raivan's sleeve and motioned to leave with his eyes.
"Humph!"
Evan glared at the kneeling crowd again, and this time she slightly activated her psionic energy and raised her foot to attack in a wide area, and the dust raised directly covered the faces of the guards, directly turning them into ashes.
Kevin could only shake his head helplessly, turned around and walked towards Otto City with Evan .
Entering the city, the leader of the caravan greeted Lu Duo very respectfully, and after arranging a place for the three of them to stay, he led the team to the inner trade area.
"Fortunately, grandpa, you wouldn't have killed those people!"
Ivan helped Ludot to a nearby chair and sat down, then placed the package on his shoulder on the table, and then took out a piece of thick skin paper and a bottle of dark green liquid inside.
"That thing was a rubbing that Mithril gave to all of our researchers back then, so we could get in and out of Otto City, but I didn't expect it to be useful now."
Immediately, Lu Duo unfolded the thick paper on the table, and then sprinkled the bottle of dark green liquid on it. The liquid spreads out on it, gradually depicting a complex plan of the city's structure.
"Well, this thing is very useful, so that you can show a map of the town."
Looking at the dense lines on the map, Evan carefully examined the target they were heading to, and then Kevin, who was one step behind him, entered the room.
"I just asked the owner here, and there will be a celebration ceremony in Otto City after dark, when the pontoon bridge in the front and rear areas will be lowered, allowing citizens to go to Otto Square in front of the Kenya Mansion to participate in the celebration ceremony."
The map shows that the Pavilion is located across from Otto Square across from the Kenya Mansion, and the surrounding buildings are all owned by the Kenya Mansion.
"It's seven o'clock in the evening, and it is estimated that the garrison will concentrate its forces to maintain the order of the festival in the square, and then we will be able to take the opportunity to sneak in."
Ivan looked at the structure of the map, and had already decided a suitable route in his heart, but the moving horizontal bars on the map were moving regularly.
"These are all mechanical guards that Otto has, but after the improvement of the past generations, their combat effectiveness is probably higher than that of ordinary garrisons. And I haven't mobilized all the mechanical guards yet, so I'm probably preparing for tonight's festival. ”
Rudo thought with one hand on his cheek, because the city of Otto in his memory was very different from what the map showed now.
"Let's not talk about these mechanical guards, with the characteristics of the Oz people, I'm afraid that the power of this mechanical garrison will be more in the shadows. But I have more important information to bring. ”
Kevin took a sip of the local specialty drink and continued, "It is said that the envoy from the Blue Sky Empire this time is to sign a contract with the Principality of Oz on the Fountain of Life Essence Extraction Technology in exchange for the core technology of the source power of our country. ”
"What?"
The other two people present immediately turned their gaze to Kevin, with expressions of nonchalance on their faces.
"This is the news I just bought with money from a black market trader, and as for the source power core, the black dealer doesn't know the specific situation."
Mr. Lu Duo silently looked at the map in front of him, and gave an explanation of the core of the source force in a deep tone.
"Looks like they've overcome the technical difficulties of something like this!"
The Oz people were born with the inability to drive the spirit method because of the depletion of the spiritual breath in the body, so they could not withstand the six spiritual source power and produce spiritual energy, which is also the biggest secret that the Oz people cannot contact the sun. In order to change the status quo one day, the source force core plan came into being, coupled with the six spirit system plan that existed at the same time, so that a considerable part of the technology of the source force core was borrowed, among which the core technology spirit element stability balance cycle was the most important.
"Listening to the name, it is very similar to the spirit wheel cycle in the Six Spirit System, are you just trying to use this method to drive things that don't belong to you?"
When Kevin heard Mr. Lu Duo's explanation, he quickly came to the conclusion that the balance of the spiritual wheel circulation in the six spirit systems analyzed before is to use the spiritual breath in the human body as a bridge, and release the equivalent spiritual energy through the internal energy stabilization device to balance the external source force that is mobilized.
"This source force core is the existence of this variant, with a large number of spirit stones built on the pseudo-spirit breath, and the source force core is collected to mobilize the external spirit element method. What is the intention of the two countries to propose the exchange of technology as their top secret? ”
In the past, I heard that the Duchy of Oz had severed all economic exchanges with Otto, and it should have been a disagreement to deal with on the core of this source force, and the person behind Otto, Mithril sits on more than half of the principality's property, but considering that the two sides of this technology account for half - "Could it be that the Duchy is pressuring the Mithril Organization in the name of the Empire to force them to stop separatism, do you know which envoy Qingkong sent to come?" ”
As a high-ranking official of the Silver Flame Knights, Evan obviously has more access to state secrets than ordinary people, and from what comes out of her mouth, Kevin, a political novice, certainly does not dare to refute.
"Well, the black merchant said that the envoy has a seat in the Empire's branch council, but he didn't name it."
Evan immediately remembered that this year was the time for the rotation of seats in the sub-council once every four years, among which the top sub-president, Su Liepei, who had been re-elected for two consecutive terms; Hagen will step down from his position, and it is said that his position will be handed over to his younger brother Su Liepei; Hal took over, so all six seats will be completely changed this year, and the remaining five rotating seats have been confirmed for two seats: Cesar, the current head of the Silver Flame Knights; Samur and Aoori's current second leader, Aoori; The Leanon family, a venerable family that has been groomed as a puppet by Hagen, has long occupied a seat in the Chapter.