116. Panic is rife
The Pohlsen Tree Sea, located in the southeast of the continent, traverses hundreds of thousands of kilometers from north to south of the Azea continent, and the distance between east and west reaches more than 100,000 kilometers.
However, due to the topography, in the middle of the Poulsen Tree Sea, there is a section of less than 10,000 kilometers between the east and west ends.
On either side of this terrain are the Silvermoon Empire and the Kingdom of Kurion.
What's even more eye-catching is that this distance is basically the least dangerous area in the sea of Polsen trees - the edge of this location is indeed the least dangerous compared to the location of other countries.
Therefore, the kingdom of Kurion established a large-scale fortress city here.
The Great Fort of Poulsen City.
In fact, this fortress city was supported by the hollowing out of a two-kilometer-long mountain interior - the Kingdom of Kurion bulldozed the summit of this mountain, hollowed out the inside, and at the same time leveled the terrain at the left and right ends of the mountain, and finally used this small mountain range as the core, together with the forts built on the left and right sides, to form the current Poulsen Great Fortress City.
At the time of the Evil Moon, this fortress is at the forefront of the defense against the tide of monsters in the Poulsen Sea of Trees - October to December is the most active and ferocious time of year in the Poulsen Sea of Trees. Just as humans will hold carnivals at various festivals, at this time, the magical beasts in the sea of trees in Poulsen will pour out of the sea of trees and then attack everything around them in a frenzied manner.
Because of this, it is a huge burden of misery for small countries that border the sea of trees in Poulsen.
For this reason, they all had to seek the support of the Knights of the Church under the command of their respective gods of faith.
Interestingly, however, the Seven Churches from the continent of Azea have an iron rule: all church personnel are forbidden to enter the Poulsen Tree Sea.
Although no one knew why the Seven Great Churches issued such an oracle, it did not prevent those mercenaries, monster hunters, and adventurers from being happy about it. Because the materials produced by the demonic beasts in the Poulsen Tree Sea are far more valuable than similar Warcraft in the outside world - the same kind of Warcraft, but the Warcraft in the Poulsen Shuhai has a brighter color of fur than other Warcraft, the demon core in the body is larger, and even the activity in the blood is stronger.
No one knows why.
But at least, without the knights of the Seven Great Churches competing with them for business, everyone was naturally happy.
When Su Yan and the others arrived, it was already evening.
However, they had no intention of staying in the city of the Great Fortress of Poulson.
The airship flat in the city of the Great Fort of Poulsen was converted from the bulldozed peak. Underneath is the hollowed-out interior of the mountainside, which has been converted into numerous inns and taverns – where most of the merchants and inns who came by airship stayed. Because the entire inn and tavern industry in the city of Polson Great Fortress was controlled by the royalty and nobility of the Kingdom of Curion, they were not allowed to have any private inns and taverns here, not even homestays.
So no matter how expensive the price is, the hotels, adventurers, and mercenaries who come to the city of Poulson's Great Fortress can only pinch their noses and approve.
And in order to collect money, the Kingdom of Curion even issued an order: anyone who came on an airship must stay in these hotels for a day, and only after confirming that they did not carry any flu illness was allowed to go to the sub-cities on both sides.
It may seem that it was set up for the health of the entire city's residents, but in fact, one need only look at the price of accommodation in these hotels to see that this is not a well-intentioned policy: three gold coins a night for a single room; Ordinary double room, 5 gold coins per night; Spacious double room, 8 gold coins a night; Deluxe King Room, 15 gold coins per night; Deluxe Suite, 30 gold coins per night.
However, it is also specially noted below that there is no toiletry service except for the Deluxe King Room and the Deluxe Suite.
Want to take a bath and wash up daily?
Then you can only go to the bathhouse, or spend extra money on services.
Most people who can take the airship naturally don't care about the cost of dozens or hundreds of gold coins this night. At the very least, the people who dare to come to the city of Poulson are people who have some confidence in their own strength, and they only need one successful hunt to bring themselves at least thousands of gold coins, so most people will definitely not care about these expenses.
But what if the hunt fails?
Then this means that they are buried in the sea of Poulsen trees, and there is no point in leaving more money behind.
It's brutal, but it's also realistic.
So here in the city of the Great Fortress of Poulson, in order to satisfy the desires of these outlaws. Hope, all kinds of entertainment and facilities here are very complete.
It's just that the purpose of the others is different, after leaving the airship flat, Su Yan and the three of them immediately set off for the bridgehead city gate.
This is the only way out of the mountain city - the Great Fort of Poulsen is made up of two fortified cities on the left and right, and the mountain city in the middle. Whether you want to go to the fortified city on the left or right, you must first leave the mountain city.
However, their direct behavior naturally attracted the attention of others in the same industry.
Most people's faces showed a look of watching a good show.
Obviously, this wasn't the first time these people had come to the Great Fort City of Poulson, so they knew exactly what to expect after leaving the airship. In their opinion, only those stunned young people who don't understand anything will go to the bridgehead gate as soon as they leave the airship flat, not the hotel area.
Among them, there are many people who show sarcasm.
These people are those stunned young people who have no experience before.
It's just that the Poulson Great Fortress City taught them more ways to survive.
A team of guards quickly came up and blocked the way ahead of Su Yan and the others. There were even several teams of guards next to them who also began to adopt a tactical formation of encirclement, blocking the back road of Su Yan and the others, and even the surrounding towers had archers.
Seeing this scene, many people's faces changed.
"The garrison commander this time is the vampire?" Someone let out a low exclamation.
"Do you want to die? Dare to say this name. Soon, one of them covered the other's mouth and snorted coldly.
When I saw that the man's face turned pale: "Yes...... I don't think I heard it......"
No one paid attention to him, and most people knew that this guy who had just been open-mouthed was going to be unlucky. Because they are convinced that as long as they lock up the hotel where the other party is staying for a while, someone will definitely go to the informant.
A few of the people who had shown sarcasm on their faces before had already begun to show unbearable expressions.
"These guys are going to be unlucky."
"I didn't even figure out the rules here, and I just met the big guy, and they were unlucky." Someone sneered and said, "But that's fine, a guy like this who is not favored by Lady Luck will die soon if he enters the sea of Poulsen trees." ”
"Maybe it's another kind of smile that Lady Luck shows them." Someone laughed.
Soon, many people echoed and laughed.
These voices, word for word, all fell into the ears of Su Yan and the others.
It's just that Su Yan and the others didn't have any reaction to this.
It's as if the dragon would never care about the roar of an ant.
"Three, after you arrived at the airship pad, didn't you look through the "Polson Great Fortress Urban Quarantine Regulations"? It's ...... inside."
"Get out of the way." Su Yan said coldly, "My time is very precious, and I don't have the opportunity to waste it here with you." ”
The man who seemed to be the commander obviously didn't react a little when he listened to Su Yan's words. He looked at Su Yan blankly for a few seconds before he spoke, "What did you just say?" ”
"Fuck off." Su Yan's face became even more gloomy.
The commander's face changed.
A kind of anger that came from being humiliated made his face flush.
And because Su Yan's voice did not evade it, and even raised his tone because of anger, all the onlookers in the distance naturally heard it clearly. The faces of many of them also changed suddenly, and some of them who were a little smarter turned around and left this place of right and wrong.
They may not know who Su Yan is, but they know who the commander who was humiliated by Su Yan is.
The identity he now represents is the president of the city of the Great Fort of Poulson.
It's different from the average city.
Once a year, the city of the Great Fort of Poulsen changes the presidential commander who is responsible for the overall defense line.
These presidents are all from the interests of various nobles and royal families in the Kingdom of Curion. Therefore, in the year that they were in charge of the city of the Great Fortress of Poolson, in addition to the profit that should be shared equally, the maintenance expenses of the entire fortress and the pension of the evil moon moment, the remaining income naturally became the income of the nobleman behind the commander.
Therefore, the commanders of the defense line assigned by these noble families and royal families to sit in charge of the entire fortress of Poulsen must not only have strong command and combat skills, but even their political management skills must be very good.
After all, each rotation is likely to be more than ten years later.
So no matter who it is, they will not give up this opportunity.
Among them, the ability of government management, financial management, and military commander is particularly good, and the person who is most feared by all the monster hunters and mercenaries who come to the city of Polson Great Fortress is the head of the current Drevenster family.
Rogoff. Drevenster.
Fifteen years ago, at the age of twenty-eight, he was only the eighth in line to the throne of the Drevenster family, and it was only because of his slight financial talent that he was appointed here by the Drevenster family. At that time, the Drevenster family was already a declining aristocracy, so they didn't expect this heir to do anything at all, what they wanted was for him to collect as much wealth as possible for the family.
However, it took a year for the heir of the city government to bring the wealth that other families needed to work together for several generations to amass.
Because that year, the entire Poulson Great Fortress City, under his command, slaughtered the largest number of demonic beasts since the establishment of the Poulson Great Fortress City. Of course, it also set the record for the largest number of deaths in the city of Poulson Great Fortress in history.
But even if everyone knew that the heir of the Drevenster family was almost crazy about his money-making methods, no one complained.
At most, it's just a vampire in private - the so-called "Poulson Great Fortress City Quarantine Regulations", a frenzied means of accumulating money, was formulated by this one, and the others even include various weapons taxes, equipment taxes, and so on.
Because that year, under his leadership, the entire Poulsen Great Fortress City, whether it was an aristocratic force or a civilian force, and even those lone ranger adventurers, monster hunters and mercenaries with no background, had an income that satisfied them.
It was a real win-win.
But it is also because of this that Rogerf's methods of domination can even be said to be harsh.
In particular, it is rumored that he is a person who will repay him.
Now that Su Yan is insulting his adjutant in front of so many people, then this is completely equivalent to insulting Roger.
Anyone with a little brain knows what to expect next.
So choosing to leave here at this time is naturally to avoid being dragged into the water.
"Excellent! Very good! The commander laughed angrily, "Arrest them all!" ”
Su Yan looked at the surrounding formations in an instant, looking like they would immediately attack as long as they resisted, he turned his head to look at Junod: "Are you sure we are doing this now, is it useful?" ”
"Of course." Junod saluted respectfully, "What we need to show most now is to be strong. …… A powerful force that would make the Hurlis family feel the pressure. Originally, the plan was to start after crossing the sea of Poulsen trees, but now, it was possible. ”
"After all, there's nothing wrong with opening up your reputation in advance, isn't it?"
Junod laughed.
Su Yan glanced at the guards around him, and he found that the guards present were all focused on O'Hara and didn't pay too much attention to him and Junod.
Obviously, they just regarded Su Yan as a local nobleman with a slight background, while Junod was a non-threatening butler deacon. As for O'Hara, who was armed to the teeth, he was the one they thought was really the most threatening.
"If it's to open up your reputation in advance, to create pressure." Su Yan glanced at the guards who were already approaching him, and was stretching out his hand towards him, "Then I think it's more deterrent for you, as a housekeeper, to deal with these guys?" ”
"You're right." Junod bowed.
The next moment, the soldier who was reaching out towards Su Yan was stunned to find that his right hand suddenly lost consciousness.
He watched as his right hand fell to the ground with a blank expression, and before he could even feel the pain, he found himself as if he saw the whole world spinning. As hard as he tried to figure out what was going on, his consciousness soon fell into a state of utter darkness.
However, this scene, in the eyes of outsiders, is particularly terrifying.
The soldier who was about to arrest Su Yan suddenly fell off his entire right arm before his hand touched Su Yan.
Immediately after, his head flew into the sky.
And from beginning to end, no one saw who did it.
"Attack! Attack! Only the commander, who seemed to realize something, "Kill them!" ”
However, his order was obviously a little late.
"In view of your rudeness, you must pay for it with your blood." Junod bowed slightly to the commander, like a true aristocratic butler, elegant and calm without losing the face of his master's family, "I will accept your souls." ”
As Junod's words fell, the archers who had been on the watchtower at first suddenly fell headlong from the height.
Immediately after, the closest guards around Su Yan, O'Hara, and Junod suddenly fell.
Then, like a plague spreading, the soldiers and guards around began to fall in patches like harvested wheat.
Blood began to flow from these corpses.
stained the ground around him red.
A huge panic, in an instant, completely erupted.