Chapter 485: Debt Repayment
In normal times, the port area of Antonio Port can be said to be the most lively area in the whole city, and the merchant warships that constantly enter and leave the port make the port staff run back and forth.
The sailors who were about to go to sea seized the last chance to spend the last dinar in their pockets with the woman at the tavern, while the captain and first mate, who had just finished their journey, staggered in the hotel with a good pay.
Drunk professionals, mercenaries will wander the streets to see if they can find their favorite hearts, and those young nobles who are idle at night will sneak into this area to find some excitement despite the advice of their elders.
But all of that was gone, and when the Demon Hunters stepped onto the wooden deck of the harbor, the entire harbor area seemed silent.
The tax officer, dressed in his most modest clothes, meticulously examined the goods on board, refusing to overcharge a single dinar, as pure and flawless as a virgin.
There was hardly a single figure on the entire street, and it was as neat as if someone had just licked it with their tongue.
The tavern, which can be clearly heard hundreds of meters away from hundreds of meters on weekdays, closed early, and it was extremely dark.
It was the first time for Fan Li to come to Antony Port, and he was very satisfied with the environment in front of him, which was very in line with the values of the Republic, and his impression of the city immediately improved.
"It's so much better than I thought it would be, I thought it was as dilapidated as Godrim City." Fan Li took a deep breath, except for the fishy smell brought by some seawater, there was no peculiar smell.
"Don't think too much about it, it should be the reason why a large number of holy warriors have just landed." Xu Yichen walked forward along the empty avenue, intending to go out of the city directly, and rushed back to his castle overnight: "You can understand that the people's livelihood department came to inspect the colonial area at the time. ”
This code word, which is very characteristic of the Republic, made Fan Li understand the meaning in seconds.
In reality, the republic props up local governments to govern local populations in occupied territories around the world to prevent large-scale ethnic antagonisms.
However, without the Republic's efficient system of supervision and citizenship, corruption is inevitable in the ordinary mode of management.
The people's livelihood department of the republic has to conduct inspections every once in a while to determine whether its policies are being implemented, and at that time of the year, a group is basically rewarded, shot, and selected.
Slowly, the colonies developed a tradition of raiding before the inspection.
Naturally, the republic is also happy to do this, the republic sings red face, the puppet government sings black face, and for this reason, the people's livelihood department will even deliberately reveal its inspection time in advance, giving those moths a reaction time, until someone is willing to stand up and debunk their tricks.
The transformation of external hatred into internal contradictions is one of the few gentle policies of the republic in its foreign policy.
Until they walked out of the port area, Xu Yichen and Fan Li did not see any shadow of the holy warrior or priest, and the members of the expeditionary force from the old continent strictly adhered to their own schedules.
"Are we going to go out like that?" Fan Li looked at the patrolling guards on the city wall in the distance: "It looks like the city gate has been closed." ”
"It's as if you're walking through the gates." The demon hunter glanced at the assassin, who had lurked into the inner city with his wounds last time, and the sewage caused the wound to become infected, and it eventually cost him a bottle of healing potion to pull Fan Li back from the brink of death.
"Occupational habits, professional habits." Fan Li felt that he shouldn't have been a policeman in the first place, no, he shouldn't have taken up a career as an assassin, and the crime of knowing the law and breaking the law would be one more degree!
Fortunately, this time, the demon hunter walked out of the city gate with Fan Li openly.
The guards guarding the city gate were still the same ones who had watched the demon hunters kill Conrad under the city walls last time, and when they watched the black-haired demon come over from afar, the captain of the guard kicked up his lazy men one by one and opened the door.
The last time that guy came, it was because of the opening of the door.,Slaughtered the professional who was not easy to mess with at first glance.,Those holy warriors didn't even dare to fart.,And they saluted.,If you drive slowly this time, won't your life be guaranteed?
"My lord, I haven't seen you for a long time!" The captain of the guard didn't even dare to go down the city gate, standing on the city wall and nodding: "You go slowly, go all the way!" ”
Watching the two demon hunters go all the way, the captain of the guard was weak at his feet, sat on the ground, and sighed with the guards on the side, he escaped a catastrophe, and it was lucky......
Xu Yichen was a little surprised, because of the successive outbreak of Chaos Crisis at the city gate here, Antoine also filmed Conrad's player team to guard the gate, and Priest Richard also sent holy warriors and priests to each city gate.
Why is there only a group of ordinary city guards left? Not even a professional.
"Isn't the defense too lax here?" Even the assassin Fan Li couldn't help but complain, he had a lot of trouble infiltrating Godrim City last time.
"This is because of the defense outside the city gate, our retribution battle group has taken over, if it weren't for the fact that he couldn't get over the face, that fat man even planned to withdraw these city guards." A figure standing in a tree suddenly spoke directly above Fan Li, startling the assassin.
"Head, you're back!" Ji Wanbing, a ranger with a longbow on his back, jumped from the tree, wearing a strange auspicious suit......
"Yang Yuefan told us that you are back, and I came here to wait for you! This is what Alex's teacher taught us, that half-elf is very powerful, and he has improved this thing, and I don't know where he got a special plant that can change color with the surrounding environment! Ranger Ji Wanbing showed off his new equipment to the two of them: "He also taught me a little bit of a way to suppress my heartbeat, and the effect is not bad." ”
The Demon Hunter hadn't noticed Ji Wanbing lying in ambush in the trees before, and it seemed that Radia had trained this Ranger well.
Wait, why is that half-elf in Radia in her warband?
"That half-elf has been waiting for me at the castle while I'm away?" The Demon Hunter felt as if he had already found the egg he had pulled out.
If, I tell the half-elves now, that deal about exchanging technology for resources will have to wait for a year or two to be realized, the other party will not shoot himself with a bow and arrow, right?
The demon hunter looked at Ji Wanbing's professionally tailored camouflage suit, which was constantly changing color with the surrounding environment, and suddenly felt a little stressed.