The "Canyon Road" built by the Parnia along the Twilight Valley is nearly 600 miles long, stretching from west to east, crossing almost the entire Parnia Peninsula. The beginning is bordered by the Coral Sea, and the end reaches the Gobi zone at the edge of the Tianfang Desert, and the scenery along the way gradually transitions from lush vegetation to barren and lonely.

Located on the eastern stretch of the Canyon Road, more than a hundred miles from the border between Parnia and the Order of Naro, the Mulberry Bay Mine has a ratio of about 8:1 between humans and half-vampires, and the local population has been cultivating wasteland, growing grains and mulberry hemp as their main livelihood for many years, and is not very attractive to the Parnian nobles who are not good at agricultural production, only a few small mines, and the production of magic crystals is negligible, so it is rarely harassed by the Naluo cultists who are as keen to plunder the mines as bloody sharks.

However, the good times did not last long, since the beginning of the year Mulberry Bay explored the rich reserves of magic crystal deposits, the local mining industry has risen, magic crystal mines have blossomed everywhere, the symbol of wealth of magic crystal ore has been excavated, and the local calm and peaceful pastoral life is gone. The owners of large tracts of land turned to mines, and large tracts of farmland, along with their crops, were destroyed without hesitation, and holes were dug in the fields, and although most of the pits proved to be unprofitable, people were driven by greed to try to dig new mines, like gamblers eager to win the jackpot.

According to the statistics of the Parnia authorities, there are a total of 325 large and small mines in the Mulberry Bay area, 2,560 pits, of which forty percent belong to the state-owned, after professional geological exploration in advance, it can still ensure that ten pits have a profit, as for those privately excavated pits, most of them have not carried out geological exploration, and are completely the products of following the trend, with an average of 30 pits digging a magic crystal vein, this kind of swarming mining method is no different from gambling.

Carroll and Theodora are nationalizing the mines in an attempt to buy land from private local mine owners in an attempt to curb the wild growth of the local mining industry. However, most of the miners were wealthy and powerful, and they were reluctant to sell the mines, and the acquisition plan was implemented for more than half a year, but the results were far less than expected.

At the delicate stage when the contradiction between the royal family of Parnia and the local wealthy families of Mulberry Bay was intensifying, the Naluo Order also stepped in and embezzled and encroached on the huge wealth of this land in two ways.

First of all, it is the old way, sending followers to cross the border, infiltrate the Mulberry Bay area, kill civilians, create an army of the undead, and launch an attack on the mines. Of course, it's best to have the opportunity to rob the magic crystal, otherwise simply sabotage can be considered to complete the task.

This kind of terror is the Naraku's specialty, and it often takes only a few necromancers, Naraku priests, or high-ranking vampires to make the local area uneasy. These terrorists can either transform the corpses of their victims into low-level undead such as skeletons, zombies, and ghouls, or they can summon high-level undead such as ghouls, demon corpses, and ghosts, and the latter will kill people of their own kind - an evil ability to constantly create morphs is the same as that of vampires.

In addition to the traditional practice of spreading fear and chaos through terrorist activities, the Order of Naro is also adept at playing political intrigues, privately reaching consensus with some local private mine owners who are hostile to the "mine nationalization policy" in Mulberry Bay, and raising these ambitious local tycoons to fight against the royal family of Parnia and even seek independence. Codenamed "The Thaw", this covert operation, was planned and carried out by Princess Tamara of Nara, fanning the flames throughout the Mulberry Bay area, with the ultimate goal of establishing a city-state in the Mulberry Bay area under the rule of the local half-vampire tycoon, making it a buffer zone between Parnia and the Order of Nara.

The Hao people of Mulberry Bay are happy to accept the assistance of the Naraku Order, but they may not be willing to become vassals of the Naraku Order, and it is their ideal situation to be torn between Parnia Fort and the Dagger Tower. Tamara knew their calculations, but she did not express dissatisfaction, in fact, she had already understood the situation, if Mulberry Bay really broke away from Parnia and sought independence, due to the military pressure of the Vlad royal family, she had to choose to rely on the Naluo Order to live.

Tamara's activities in the area of Mulberry Bay are very secretive, and the wealthy families of Parnia who cooperate with her are also strictly secret, but the paper can't contain the fire, and there are still all kinds of suspicious signs exposed to arouse the alarm of the Parnia royal family. One circumstantial evidence was first noticed by the Rev. Eudocia, who was stationed at Mulberry Bay, who counted all the terrorist attacks in the Mulberry Bay area in the past year, and found that the vast majority of the mines attacked by the undead were directly operated by the royal family of Parnia, while the local private mines were rarely attacked.

In her last letter to Crown Prince Veronica of Parnia, Yudosia analyzed the aforementioned statistics. If the undead attacked the mines to loot the magic crystals, then it seems more reasonable to choose the state-owned mines with higher production of magic crystal ore, but most of the mines that were attacked did not have ore refineries, and an average of 100 tons of natural ore could be used to refine 1 pound of industrial magic crystals, and even if the Naro Order succeeded, it would not be able to transport these mountains of ore back to the "Dagger Tower", what was the point of such a "raid"? In fact, if the Naro Order was really here for looting, it would only make sense that they should choose the Ore Refinery to start - it was obviously more profitable to directly rob the Refining Crystal, and it was easy to transport.

From this, it is not difficult to conclude that the main purpose of the frequent activities of the Naraku Order in Mulberry Bay is not to loot the magic crystals, but more like simply creating chaos and terror, constantly killing and injuring the guards and miners of the local mines, so that the mines cannot produce normally.

If the above reasoning is true, why didn't the Naraku Order choose private mines with weaker defenses and more vulnerable to terrorist attacks, and instead focus on gnawing at the hard bones of state-owned mines?

If it weren't for the faintness of the decision-makers of the Naluo Cult, it would only prove that this cult had reached some kind of tacit agreement with the local private miners, and that the real purpose of the terrorist attack was to expel the state-owned mines from Mulberry Bay and join hands with the local private miners to carve up this mining area, which is buried with amazing wealth.

Mulberry Bay is lit up at night. If you look down from the night sky, you will see that the lights do not exactly match the distribution of the local pits. The north side of the bay area is mostly private mines, and the lights are relatively dense, while the state-owned mines on the south side are mostly invisible and appear extremely dim, only the magic crystal refinery area near the Mochizuki River is still brightly lit.