The trouble for the Emergency Committee was certainly not just the loss of Gloren Harbor, Blackman, Steelbrier, and Fortress Daroshure, plus the loss of a third of the main fleet in the Hilren Skycloister, and certainly not a group of students who were holding on to the disgusting people in Dugu Castle. As a ruling institution, foreign enemies are never a matter of life or death, at least not the highest priority. If you can't even settle inside, you have to go with him...... The ruling classes of all dynasties must have had such a similar understanding of this issue.

At the moment, of course, the interior of the Federation is uneasy. There are "rebellions" of varying sizes in almost every zone controlled by the Emergency Committee, even in the mantle of the gates. And Elichar, who has millions of citizens, is really like a bomb (meow) medicine barrel under the scorching sun of dog days, and theoretically as long as the most basic safety measures are done, it should not be boom...... However, do you dare to go up and sit?

There's no way around it. You know, Elichar has been in port for a whole month since the large transport ships that came from the ground arrived. The market is becoming more and more depressed, but the prices of daily necessities such as grain, cloth, fire oil, candles, etc., are soaring. The citizens of the capital are able to watch their savings dwindle day by day, and dissatisfaction with the Emergency Committee is growing.

Of course, since the Ganglord faction bosses of the Emergency Council want a coup d'état...... I mean, the initial preparation must be very sufficient. They have already hoarded a considerable amount of grain and other strategic materials, and the reason why they did not put them in the market to stabilize prices is not really because of the insatiable greed of white-glove profiteers with aristocratic backgrounds, at least not only that. The more reason is that in the Orso Central Heavenly District, where Elichar is located, in addition to more than a million citizens, there are still more than 100,000 troops controlled by the Gate Valve Sect. Even if they are a rabble of private soldiers, mercenaries, and second-line soldiers, they are still the most powerful military force in the Federation. With them, the Emergency Committee has the capital to control the most densely populated areas of the central government. There must be no shortage of their salaries, rewards and provisions, so that the leaders of the Emergency Committee will not dare to use their strategic reserves at will.

The consequences of all of the above problems are inevitable.

Nivea Lingo held a bag of fruit treats bought from her favorite store and walked the streets of downtown Elichar with Lim. Less than a tenth of the familiar shops on the street are still open, and there are even fewer pedestrians, but not everyone has moved. The perception ability of the two girls is also extraordinary, and they can naturally easily sense the breath in the nearby houses. Obviously, in such a very chaotic moment, most citizens in ordinary communities are not as heartless as those in the slums, and they try not to go out if they can.

"Now even the baked apples and rock sugar hawthorns in Four Seasons Plaza have risen to a bag of silver coins, and they are limited to purchase every day!"

"Uh-huh." Lim was holding a skewer of baked apples and eating them earnestly.

"And don't you think it tastes a lot worse?"

"Indeed......" Lim nodded.

"The boss said that he used to use fresh red snow apples from the Dragon's Claw Peninsula and Crosbell's golden linge nectar, but now he can only use his own orchard." Nicole said with a bitter face.

"It's still delicious."

"You're so good to pass ...... And oh, the group of red-robed people who came to collect food just now are really annoying. Obviously, the family has six children. ”

"Damn!" Lim nodded in agreement.

"If a soldier can't protect the people but wants to deprive the people of their life-saving rations, then they are a bad party that is worse than bandits, and they should be defeated!"

"Knock it down!"

"If it were the same as before, I would have defeated those guys in red and exchanged the food for that family. But in this way, the family will definitely be retaliated against in the future. ”

"Definitely."

"So we killed them all and threw them into the sea of clouds, and then secretly sent the food back, and the villains above couldn't find a target for revenge, right?"

"I can't find it."

"Lim, we've grown up, haven't we?"

"Yes."

"If you're not expressionless from start to finish and licking baked apples with a pair of dead fish eyes, I really think you're complimenting me...... Eh, forget it. Anyway, Lu Lu is right, in a while, they themselves will be finished. ”

"Yes." Lim swallowed the last apple and threw the skewer in the garbage heap next to her.

"But if we wait for them to be finished, the citizens of Elichar will be in bad luck. That's why Lu Lu asked us to come over. Nicole said again.

I know, so who are you explaining this to? Lim glanced at her companion, still expressionless, but maybe she thought so.

Two very beautiful girls, swaggering and exchanging contentless chatter while eating snacks, rubbed shoulders with a patrol of about ten people, but the team did not react at all. Instead, Lim glanced at them more, and then at the wide street intersection in the distance, where a small watchtower and sentry post had been built, apparently a temporary fortification made by magic, and it seemed that it could accommodate at least twenty or thirty people. Put the watchtower here, but it can form a suppression and monitoring of the surrounding five or six blocks, anyway, everyone doesn't want to go out, and there is really no need to consider the problem of affecting traffic.

"It looks very energetic, but it's not really good at fighting." Nicole said.

"Definitely." Lim said, thinking about it, probably because he felt that his current relationship with the elf girl should barely be regarded as a best friend, and it was not good to always have one or two words, so he added a sentence very face-savingly: "It's not as good as what I met before." ”

"Hey, even if the batch in the park is based on the standards of Lu Lu's subordinates, they can be selected for the flag protection group, and this batch, although it looks very glamorous, but I'm afraid it can't beat the group of human traffickers I met when I ran to Gloren with Lu Lu eighteen years ago." Nicole said, "But, then again, they just wear armor, so why do they wear green armbands?" ”

"Vigilantes."

"Huh?"

"The black-robed and iron-clad gendarmerie is the military police, the red-robed chain mail is the garrison regiment, and the leather armor and green sleeves are the security forces." Lim explained seriously: "It's all Lu Xi said. ”

“…… I know, I also know that, in addition to the gendarmerie, the so-called garrison corps and security forces are all made up of mercenaries and gangsters. I just wonder why the vigilantes wear green sleeves...... Uh, forget it. Nicole knew that this kind of conversation was destined to be nourishing, so she took the initiative to end it.

They had now circled into a secluded alley with an open door in front of them. Under the small door is a narrow staircase passage that can only accommodate one person, but it is not known how many floors lead there. The shabby little bar sign hangs listlessly from a rusty iron rod and creaks like it might fall off at any moment.

"The place Lu Lu said should be here, right?" Nicole looked at the words on the sign seriously: "Well, the Kuroshio Bar, it should indeed be here, it looks very suspicious." ”

"Let's go down." Lim said.

They descended the stairs one after the other, and in a few minutes they saw a thick iron door.

Nicole stepped forward and knocked a few times, but no one responded. She knocked a few more times, but still didn't respond. After waiting for half a minute, the elven girl sighed and pressed her hand against the door, and the long, slender and tough vines soon emerged from the cuffs of her robe. The serpentine vines roamed the iron door, quickly dusting away the door, finding a small keyhole, and slamming inside.

"Click!" The door just opened. Then, the two girls seemed to hear a nervous exclamation coming from within, but it was quickly suppressed. They could instantly feel the oppressive and dreary atmosphere in the room, as if the air inside had frozen into a solid that made it impossible to breathe.

The girls exchanged a look. Lim seemed to have her own understanding of Nicole's eyes, nodded earnestly, and then a charge squeezed Nicole straight away and crashed into the room.

"That's not what I meant! And what should I do if the matter is overturned and the enemy detects it? As soon as the elf girl thought this, she heard a series of screams, and hurriedly rushed in.

Fortunately, when she rushed into the house, she found that the area of this room was much larger than she expected, about a hundred square meters, and the long bar divided the house in half. On one side there are seven or eight round tables and chairs, and on the other side is a simple but large wine cabinet. In one corner of the room there was a small semicircular stage with a large harp that was not a high-end item at first glance.

This is an ordinary tavern that can be found everywhere, the kind reserved for working people and ordinary adventurers. Of course, this kind of place is often the starting point for the beginning of a certain heroic legend, and it is not surprising that some story will happen.

The situation inside the house was far less terrible than expected, with three moaning lying on the floor, and one struggling embedded in the wine cabinet. Of course, there were neither the dead, nor even the seriously injured and disabled. Even if she is a tenacious girl like Lim, her shots are no longer as light and heavy as in the past.

In addition, there were seven or eight people with sharp blades, surrounding Lim as if they were facing a great enemy, so nervous that they didn't even dare to take a breath.

"So, wouldn't you just open the door at first?" Nicole said helplessly, waved her hand casually, and the door behind her closed with a "bang" on the spot.

This scene was really like the preparations before killing people, so everyone present was in a jump. Two of the younger ones even showed a hint of despair, and then slowly turned into a certain determination.

This kind of sad expression is not unfamiliar at all. Those martyrs who were ready to put their lives on the altar probably did so before they were sacrificed. So, when one of the young men gritted his teeth and felt for a scroll, the elf girl suddenly felt a little congested. is so beautiful, so kind, so cute, what the hell is it to be regarded as a villain by these people.

The elf girl casually held a false grip in her hand, and the scroll in the other party's hand flew into her hand: "...... The Fire Cloud Scroll, opened in such a place, wants to die with us, right? So, people are not enemies at all. ”

The young man looked desperate.

"This is 187 Bullfighting Alley, the legendary Captain Blackbeard's pub, right?" Nicole Dow.

"Definitely." Lim didn't wait for the person on the other side to answer, and preemptively replied, "I've confirmed it three times." ”

"I didn't ask you...... Well, anyway, it's still the secret safe house of the Field Service in Elichar, right? ”

Everyone in the bar looked at each other, and this time, even the oldest one had a desperate expression.

"The little girl is really amazing! But it's just us, so you can listen to it. But if you want to torture the rest of your companions, you can't think about it! A half-elf woman with dark skin, a demonic appearance, and a small bar escort girl dressed as a barmaid sneered, and her face was full of martyr-like high-spiritedness and fearlessness: "Comrades-in-arms, fight with the eagle talons!" Fight to the death! Long live freedom! Long live the Federation! ”

"Long live freedom!"

The two men closest to Lim pounced. They knew that they were no match for them, but at this time, they came out with a fearless momentum...... Then, he was beaten back by Lim with a small fist.

"Well, Lu Lu asked me to come over...... No, so don't get so excited......"

"It was General Lu Xilin Ge Belenkarst who sent us over!" An eager voice rang out in the corner of the room.

This sentence finally regained the sanity of this group of soldiers who were ready to fight to the death for their ideals. And the elf girl couldn't help but look in the direction of the sound in surprise, it was the exhaust port of this speakeasy, only to see a huge fat cat squeezing its furry round face out of it with difficulty, but the fat body was still stuck in the ventilation channel.

"Mr. Panarsis, are you coming faster than we are?" Nicole happily said hello to the fat cat, and then pulled out a small dried fish from her pocket.

"Because when the ladies are fighting with the enemy and evading the pursuers, I can walk in a straight line. And there are also very reliable guides, there are many wild cats in Elichar City, but they are very good at finding places...... Uh, that's not the point. In short, please listen to me, on behalf of His Excellency Lu Xilin Goberenkarst, I hope to speak with your responsible person here. I know that you are all survivors of the coup d'état, fighters against the tyranny of the gatekeepers, and it is for this reason that you must unite all your forces! Now, Admiral Berenkast is the only hope for the people of the Federation. ”

The fat cat said high-sounding words in a serious manner while moving his body vigorously. It took him a long time to finally squeeze his body out of the small passage, and then he stepped on the air and fell to the ground with a "boom". Fortunately, because the meat and cat were good enough, they were not injured, and after a few struggles, they were able to get back on their feet with more than ten times the movements of ordinary cats.

"My name is Panarhis, the envoy of Admiral Lushilin Gobelenkast, and I hope to meet with Lieutenant General Makarov."

Everyone was silent, not unresponsive to the fat cat's words, but too reacting to his words and not knowing what to say for a while. After a long while, the particularly enthusiastic half-elf lady scratched her head with some distress: "...... This, I should have asked you where you came from and checked your identity. However, looking at this cat, no, this Mr. Cat's appearance, I don't know why I don't even have a little fighting spirit. ”

"So seeing me and Lim is full of fighting spirits, huh? I said that I am not an enemy! Nicole said.

Using magic to directly break through the door and spell camouflage, this represents hostility! Isn't that common sense? Miss Half-Elf, or Half-Drow's Female Public Relations Lady, glanced at Nicole, then at Lim, and said in a deep voice, "...... If you want to see Mr. Makarov, you have to lay down all your weapons and blindfold your mouth, but you won't agree, right? So, you can wait here. Just Mr. Cat and I, can you? ”