Chapter 181: Tranquil Prosperity Before the Storm (3)
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When those player lords began to discuss how to unite to seize Chen Kai's territory under the organization of Li Xiangrong, the old fox, or directly force Chen Kai to give up the benefits of the Gem Abyss, they would never have imagined that less than half an hour had passed. The content of their discussion and the final covenant were all on Chen Kai's desk, and Chen Kai only paid 500,000 gold coins for this.
Although this price sounds a little high, if you consider the privacy of this information and the timeliness of the message, it is worth the price. Of course, this qiē was not brought to Chen Kai by the player, but the news provided by the thief guild in the game.
When Chen Kai got the news, in addition to being glad that the news channel he had obtained at a huge cost was good enough, he was even more frightened of the methods of these aboriginal thieves' guilds. He didn't think that Li Xiangrong, Qi Shaohuang, and the others would discuss these things in the form of a tea party in the open air under the blue sky and white sun. If it were Chen Kai, he would definitely put the place where things were discussed in a safe enough place, and the place where the player lords from the Thieves' Guild would hold their meetings would be private enough.
Even Chen Kai couldn't have imagined that these players would leave the meeting place in the inn of Barony Kemdal's domain. If it was a spy sent by Chen Kai in this inn, it would be difficult to infiltrate Baron Kaimad's territory in the first place, and these player lords were discussing how to attack Chen Kai in this lord's territory, obviously in Chen Kai's opinion, they might have colluded with that baron. Although this conclusion is Chen Kai's inference, it is very close to the truth. Because in the Hugodi territory, the relationship between the player lord and the aboriginal lord is definitely not good. Baron Kemdal's hatred for player lords is the highest among all the aboriginal nobles, but in order to deal with Chen Kai, he even began to woo other player lords.
It's a pity that there is no evidence of collusion between the player lord and Baron Kemdal in the information provided by the thieves' guild, or it is not that there is no evidence, but the price offered by Chen Kai is not enough to make these aboriginal thieves excited, so as to provide these news and evidence. But according to the information that Chen Kai has at hand. It was enough to deduce that there was a message that made him anxious.
"Thank you, esteemed Dark President for me," Chen Kai said to the aboriginal thief in front of him after he had paid nearly fifty white magic crystals. The latter gently weighed the money bag in his hand, and the corners of his mouth, which were exposed under half of the mask, slowly pulled out a very dangerous-looking smile.
"Thank you, Honorable Baron Berkner, I think you and our president are very satisfied with this business, if there is such a relaxed fellow, please let me know directly, then if it is fine, I will retire first" The thief did not give Chen Kai any time to speak, in fact, Chen Kai did not have any idea of retaining. When Chen Kai raised his head, the figure of the thief had slowly faded away with the wind, and finally only a trace of shadow was captured in Chen Kai's field of vision. This is a great thief whose strength is at least at the ninth order. If the other party wanted to assassinate Chen Kai, then Chen Kai would hardly have any ability to resist. But no thief would be stupid enough to assassinate a lord, because doing so would have a disastrous effect on the entire thief profession. While thieves can accept the task of assassinating a nobleman, they will never accept a task to assassinate a domain lord. This is because the lords of the territory are the local nobles who are under the direct control of the Hansting Empire, unless these thieves want to offend the entire empire so that the thieves will be completely wiped out of the territory of the Hansting Empire.
You must know that the thief industry itself is a contradictory profession between darkness and light, and if they are going to carry out dark activities, then no one can escape their assassination. In the Dark Ages before the establishment of the Hansting Empire, even kings had a record of dying at the hands of thieves, and assassinations that were not carried out by thieves were even more frequent. In the last epoch and the nearly 100 years of darkness and chaos that passed this epoch. It was the most turbulent time on the entire continent, and few records have survived. It was during that period that the skeleton structure and rules of the current thieves' guilds were slowly established, and when this era opened, with the slow formation of several large empires, all guild organizations were limited by the unity of the various empires. In particular, thieves with criminal records will be even more restricted. However, thanks to the strong thief who set the rules of the thieves' guild in the dark ages, if it weren't for the rules set by the thief powerhouse, it is estimated that the current thieves' guild would not be able to operate on the bright side. Instead, it becomes a dark organization that can only survive underground.
But in any case, Chen Kai has enough amazing news at the moment, of course, for Chen Kai, these news are not enough to give him a headache. After all, the strength of those player lords was not comparable to the strength that Chen Kai had now. Although the number of soldiers on Chen Kaiming's face has not changed, whether it is cavalry or infantry, there is still only the original number, that is, 3,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry, but in fact, if you count the militia that has been armed, then Chen Kai's actual military strength exceeds nearly 10,000.
Of course, Chen Kai also ruled out the unstable combat power of the player, you must know that the number of players in Burkner Town has exceeded 30,000, and most of them are coming towards the abyss of gems. But because the threshold of the Gem Abyss was too high, some of the people did not stop in the town of Burkner, but ran to other places. The number of players in the entire town of Burkner is now almost unstable, reaching nearly 50,000 at its peak. Such a large number of players could have been organized to attack the trade route to Altinis, but in the end, they were unable to open the trade route to the south because no one organized or they did not fight.
Although the current trade route to the south will be connected for a few days at some point, for example, the grain that Chen Kai transported back from Altinis is the result of him organizing nearly 30,000 players to attack together and finally barely get through. Unfortunately, the trade route was cut off again after less than three days, and the terrifying number of nightmarish monsters and wingless imps in it caused the players to flee back to the castle with a lot of blood.
If it weren't for the various defenses that Chen Kai had newly installed in the Southern Castle. Including the support of the two magic crystal cannons he secretly bought, it was estimated that the southern portal of Chen Kai's territory would be destroyed under the attack of tens of thousands of demon monsters and nearly seven hundred wingless little demons wielding fireballs. But even so, tens of thousands of monsters have also caused extremely severe damage to Chen Kai's Southern Castle, if it weren't for luck, it is estimated that the garrison of Chen Kai's Southern Castle would have to be replaced again. But in that battle. For the first time, the number of aboriginal soldiers killed in the Southern Castle exceeded 1,000, and nearly 500 veterans died under the fireball of demons and demons. Even if the number of monsters and little demons killed added up to more than 10,000 after the fact, Chen Kai still felt that it was not worth it. You must know that as a southern castle with very complete city defense equipment, in Chen Kai's opinion, even if tens of thousands of regular troops attack, it can easily defend it. If it weren't for the recklessness of some players, it is estimated that Chen Kai's losses would not be so much, but after the incident, Chen Kai had no way to take those players.
For mobile players, if Chen Kai wants to target them, there is really no way to do it, they are all wandering around with the intention of not keeping their master here and having their own place to stay. Some players even have a wanted warrant in the territories of certain aboriginal nobles, which is a small matter, but if they return to those territories, they will definitely be arrested and imprisoned. Even in Chen Kai's town of Burkner, hundreds of players were caught and thrown into prison by patrolling soldiers during the month, and hundreds of players were wanted by Chen Kai and are at large. Either picking quarrels and provoking trouble, or molesting indigenous girls on the street, or simply engaging in some unprofitable business. Chen Kai even encountered three robberies against him, of course, those players who were not allowed to have the right ideas were directly sent by Chen Kai to drink the tea of the Hades King Antolo.
These players have caused the law and order situation in Burkner to plummet. So sometimes Chen Kai also has a headache with the new players in Burkner Town. Although they brought a lot of tax revenue to the town of Burkner, and at the same time made the city that originally looked a little empty more lively, but unfortunately at the same time, Chen Kai's soldiers were exhausted. Even late at night, there are a lot of players roaming the streets, and their noise makes it impossible for the original residents to rest. But fortunately, as the novelty of the player passes. They began to quiet down, and as the gem gathering industry began to get back on track, the number of players gradually decreased.
This is not because Chen Kai deliberately monopolized the gem mining industry, but because the environment under the abyss is too harsh. The player whose explorer of the Gem Abyss is named Wang Lei has been missing for nearly a month, or it can't be said to be missing. At least occasionally I can hear from him. But he couldn't figure out exactly where he had touched it, and the existence of zài in the underworld made him more frightened than stunned.
At the same time, the most important reason for Chen Kai to prohibit more players from mining in the abyss is to control the price of the gems. When a large number of gemstones began to flood the market, the price of gemstones in Hansting began to fall. It can't be said to be a crazy fall. But at least the price has fallen by at least one level compared to before the gem abyss was mined. If Chen Kai opens more players to abyss mining, it will inevitably cause more gems to flow into the market, and the end result will be that the price of gems will fall again, threatening the interests of other gem merchants.
Whether it is for the safety of the territory or for the sake of his own life, Chen Kai must prevent more gems from entering the market. When the gems in Chen Kai's territory began to flow into the market in large quantities, he had actually threatened the vested interests of some gem merchants in the Hansting Empire. Because the price of gems has not fallen very strictly, these vested interests, that is, the original aboriginal merchants in the game, will not trouble Chen Kai. But if the price of gems continues to fall, then Chen Kai can be sure that those big businessmen who have been cut off by him will directly wave their butcher knives and directly destroy Chen Kai, a player nobleman.
So while Chen Kai knew that opening more gem mining areas would attract more players to stay, it would also put him in a more dangerous situation. This danger is that Chen Kai's income from mining in the gem mining area cannot be filled, even if Chen Kai gets more gold coins because of the newly added gem mining area, but if he himself is killed, so much money will become someone else's money. At least Chen Kai knew now that several Player Lords had planned to take out Chen Kai, a bastard who ate alone in their eyes, so as to occupy Chen Kai's Gem Abyss.
"Okay, what do you think now?" Sit on a huge rock chair in the council hall. Chen Kai's hand gently tapped on the table top of the newly added giant round table in the conference hall, and the entire table made a clicking sound under the tapping of his fingers.
"What else can I do? Strike first to be strong, and then attack the chickens that are killed first, show those monkeys, and let them understand what the consequences of provoking us will be" The first to speak was Guan Yu, who was wrapped in a mummy, and the so-called good scar forgot the pain. Now the scar on Guan Yu's body has not healed, and he has forgotten the pain. As a battle maniac, he has already revealed his position, but his words have not been approved by everyone, at least Chen Kai does not agree with this in his heart.
Although Chen Kai shared Guan Yu's desire to fight, he would not pull up the entire town's fighting force for no reason, and launch an attack on his nominal ally simply because of what the Thieves' Guild had provided. In Chen Kai's opinion, it can't be him who tears up the covenant first, although this looks a bit like being a bitch and setting up an archway, but at least for his own prestige, Chen Kai has no intention of being a oathbreaker. You must know that Chen Kai is also a temple professional, whether it is a lie or a broken oath, it will damage Chen Kai's reputation and lower Chen Kai's faith. The camp of the director zhì Chen Kai is offset.
So even if Chen Kai agreed with Guan Yu's words a little in his heart, in the end, after thinking about it, he still chose to veto Guan Yu's suggestion.
"Okay, just take care of your illness, don't interject" Xu Fei nodded lightly at Guan Yu, Guan Yu still wanted to say something, but his mouth was directly sealed by a thin layer of magical power, and he couldn't say anything. The poor creature could only cower in a corner now. There was nothing else to do except draw circles in his heart and curse Xu Fei.
"Actually, the leader's idea is very simple, he can't break the covenant first, even if that covenant looks like waste paper to that Xu Dan, but because the leader is a temple professional. The oath he made in the name of the Lord of the Morning Sun cannot be broken first, otherwise the first unlucky person will not be the Xu Dan but the leader himself" Xu Fei slowly stood up after sealing Guan Yu's mouth, and the brilliant gems on the arcane mentor's robe on his body continued to shine with the light of the arcane law. Although the making of secret gems can only be done by Wang Xuewen. However, it does not mean that the secret gems made can only attach the spells of the secret mage, and other lions can also attach their own spells to the secret gems to become their own special gems of this spell system. The only thing the arcane mage needs to do is to make a spell base on the gem, and everything else will be done by Xu Fei himself.
"So what we have to do is actually very simple," Xu Fei picked up the letter from the table that recorded the words of those players, and then slowly tore it open.
"Since we can't be the first to break the covenant. So let's let these guys break their vows first, all we need to do is wait, in order to adapt to all changes, except to be prepared. Don't show any guard, do what you should do, do the same, but once those guys do it, then don't blame us for being polite, I hope that Xu Dan's teeth are hard enough. Won't break your own teeth, our bones in Berkner are very hard, and it's hard to gnaw on, I say, yes? Dear Mr. Thieves, I think the Thieves' Guild still wants to continue to survive in Burkner Town" Xu Fei's words at first were extremely sonorous, but when his last few words sounded, both Xu Fei himself and the other lions sitting in the lord's hall had already activated the spell gems they were wearing, and at the same time they had already grabbed their wands and staff with their hands. A large amount of magic power surged in the gems and wands, and Xu Fei's eyes looked directly at someone in the corner.
"Hehe, I'm just passing by, the brother in the back, how do you say it's a pot of mixed rice to eat and get some face, and the dagger is removed a little?" As the voice sounded slowly, a masked man in thief's leather armor slowly appeared in the corner of the lord's chamber. When he appeared, Fei Yun's figure also appeared, but Fei Yun did not listen to his words and let go of the dagger in his hand.
"Passing by? Do you think we'll believe it?" Whether it was Xu Fei, Chen Kaiyi or others, they all had such a look in their eyes when they looked at this thief. Of course, this thief himself also understood that no one would believe his words, but he couldn't understand how he, a ninth-order great thief, could miss, and was touched by a junior in the back of his ass.
In the end, this thief was sent out of the City Lord's Mansion by Chen Kai and them, of course, all the things on his body were searched, except for a linen dress, and Fei Yun did not even leave a spare rope to the other party. In fact, if it weren't for the self-proclaimed president of the Dark Thirteen in the Thieves' Guild in Burkna Town, this thief named Leif wouldn't have thought of leaving Chen Kai's lord's mansion completely, at least he would have been locked up by Chen Kai for ten days and half a month before he was released. _
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