Chapter Forty-Three: Treacherous Troubles
Jamil's face instantly became ugly, and he looked at Cheng Xiaotian and shook his head.
Cheng Xiaotian shrugged his shoulders and was noncommittal.
After all, it's not his own business, he just wants to get out as soon as possible now, rush to Stormwind City to join his subordinates, he hasn't seen him for so long, and he still misses them.
Just as the two of them turned around and were about to leave, a hoarse voice behind the door sounded again, "I heard that it has been raining in the Arathi Basin recently, and I don't know how the crops are going." β
Cheng Xiaotian was startled when he heard this, turned his head, and strode towards the wooden door.
"Lord Heske, the big leader doesn't seem to be feeling well, let's ......" Jamil wanted to say something to stop him, but Cheng Xiaotian didn't mean to stop at all.
"I think it's better for me to meet the Chief." Cheng Xiaotian kept walking to the door, and casually pushed open the door. The two goblin guards waited for him to pass, then closed the door and leaned in the middle, blocking Jamil.
At this moment, Jamil's face was gloomy and terrifying, and after a little thought, he took a step back and stood by the door and waited.
The structure of the stone house was almost identical to Jameel's, except for the addition of a desk, and a middle-aged man was hunched over a bookcase, writing something with a quill on a dim butter lamp. After Cheng Xiaotian entered the door, the person raised his head and smiled, put down his pen and got up.
Cheng Xiaotian observed coldly, this person was about fifty years old, tall, wearing a washed and wrinkled white shirt and sauce-colored trousers, and his appearance was dignified, much more fanned than old Dawson. It's just that the bloodshot eyes and the thick forehead lines show his anxious state of existence.
"Lord Van Cleef?" Cheng Xiaotian asked.
The man nodded, smiled and beckoned, motioning for Cheng Xiaotian to come with him. Cheng Xiaotian had a lot of doubts in his heart, frowned slightly, and followed.
Walking to the corner, Cheng Xiaotian found that a passage had opened horizontally in the corner of Van Cleve's room, which was so angular that only one person was allowed to pass, and it was completely invisible from the door.
Van Cleef smiled and stepped inside, carrying a wind lamp. Cheng Xiaotian calculated, this guy looks at energy, that is, he is a third-order thief, and he can be cured in a few moves. He followed suit.
The passage was narrow and narrow, and Van Cleve's footsteps were heavy and rhythmic, and after walking silently for a few hundred meters, he didn't stop and asked, "Should I call you the lord of the Arathi Basin?" Or do you call you an MI7 agent in Stormwind? β
"Just call me Cheng Xiaotian." Cheng Xiaotian said lightly. At this point, there is no need to hide it. "How did you know my identity?"
Van Cleef laughed and said, "My lord, I'll take you to meet someone, and you'll know when the time comes."
Letting Van Cleef sell the guanzi, Cheng Xiaotian just followed closely without moving, and his hand never left the hilt of Yuntong's sword. At such a close distance, he was sure that he would defeat the enemy from behind, and there was nothing to worry about.
The two of them didn't say anything all the way, and walked a few hundred meters in the passage. At the end, an iron gate blocked the way.
Van Cleef took out a key and opened the lock, turned back to Cheng Xiaotian and smiled, and pushed the door open. The long-lost sky light came in, Cheng Xiaotian squinted, and when he saw the scene outside the door, he was stunned.
As soon as the light dimmed, a tall figure blocked the door, and Cheng Xiaotian stared. The person who came was two meters tall, with a straight nose and a straight mouth. Wearing a white suit inside, covered with a white coat, and a long black hair casually draped, he was heroic and extraordinary.
So good-looking. It's a water elf!
"The Inspector of the Military Aircraft Department of the Xiaguan - CissΓ©, I have met His Royal Highness the Prince." The water elf outside the door touched his chest with his left hand and knelt down on one knee in worship.
Van Cleef also knelt down on one knee to salute his courtiers, and said respectfully: "Your Excellency Lord and His Royal Highness the Prince are here, and the Defia Revenge Army greets you."
Cheng Xiaotian didn't take a breath and almost fainted. What's going on here?
Cisse glanced at Van Cleeff and hurriedly said, "Your Highness must have a lot of doubts, let Your Highness speak slowly, please ask Your Highness to inspect our secret base first."
After that, the two got up and asked Cheng Xiaotian to step forward.
Outside the Iron Gate is a fjord, surrounded by mountains on three sides, steep and unclimbable, and the exit is located halfway up the mountain. The mountain wall is covered with plank roads, and countless people are rushing back and forth on the plank road, including water spirits, goblins, and more human craftsmen.
At the bottom of the fjord is a slip dock, and more than a dozen massive warships have completed their hulls and are erecting auxiliary facilities.
"Your Highness, Stormwind City wants to lure us to death with the support of the water elves, but we don't know that we have already cooperated with the water elves." Van Cleef said on the side.
It turned out that when Van Cleef raised his army, MI7 in Stormwind City sent Jamil Singh to go undercover, but at that time he was hiding very deeply, and Van Cleef never found out. Later, Jameel aggressively recruited manpower, called to expand his strength, but in fact, all the people they recruited were arranged in advance.
These people robbed homes and houses to do bad things, and the common people put all the accounts on Van Cleve's head, so that the Brotherhood of Defia was even more unable to recruit manpower, and Jameel's people were even more unhindered to join. Today, these people are more than half of the entire army, and they basically control foreign operations.
"What are they doing this for?" Cheng Xiaotian was puzzled, what was the intention of the people in power in Stormwind City to disrupt his own territory like this?
"For the Wild West." Cisse replied, "The Western Wilderness, as the largest grain producing area in Stormwind City, is in the hands of Count Tang Jia Feimi and cannot be completely used by the kingdom, which has always been a problem for the people in power in Stormwind City."
Cheng Xiaotian was still puzzled: "Is there a food shortage in the kingdom?" What do you want so much food for? β
The kingdom of Stormwind is located in the Elwin Forest, the land is fertile and abundant, and there has never been a food shortage, but this reason is not valid at all.
Cisse replied with a smile: "Your Highness, of course, there is no problem for the kingdom to be self-sufficient, but if you want to supply an expeditionary army, you must have a more adequate and stable source of food, and there is no other place except the western wilderness."
Cheng Xiaotian heard the words and thought about it, the expeditionary army? Stormwind is going to attack the Orc Empire? Or maybe it's the Amani Troll Empire? Or do you want to go south and annex Treasure Bay, the home of venture capital firms?
"Your Highness, between countries, there are only interests, and there is no affection at all." Cisse continued: "For example, these warships were originally prepared to attack Durotar, but now they are preparing to join forces with the Orc Empire to attack Andermai."
Cheng Xiaotian thought for a while and asked, "Then what are you going to do with these people who have mixed in?"
Now that more than half of these "traitors" have been eliminated, it is impossible to drive them out by force, and after uprooting the Phimi family, which is deeply entrenched in the western wilderness, they will inevitably turn against each other and exterminate Van Cleef's men and horses. After these two steps were completed, Stormwind City sent troops to the Western Wilderness again, and in the name of suppressing the bandits and avenging Count Fimi, they eradicated the bandits who had no use value, which not only won the righteousness, but also took the Western Wilderness logically.
This kind of poisonous plan, Cheng Xiaotian only felt that his hair stood on end when he thought about it, but there was nothing he could do.
"Your Highness, this is no longer our war." Van Cleef smiled: "Our fleet will be completed in three days, and when the time comes, I will take my men to board the ship and leave to join the alliance of the orcs and your country, the Grand Chief of Sal and Her Majesty the Queen have promised to give us a few islands in Andermai, where we will establish a home, as for here......"
"Just let them fight to the death with Tang Jia_ Feimi." Cisse said leisurely, and Van Cleef laughed heartily.
Cheng Xiaotian sighed, the depth of the scheming of these people in power is really amazing, compared to them, his lord is too tender.
Suddenly, he thought of something, his face changed, and he asked, "What did you just say, what is the name of the lord here?!"
Van Cleef was taken aback by his actions and replied, "It's the hereditary first-class earl of Stormwind City, Tang Jia Fimi." (To be continued.) )