405. Clues

With Woody's assurance, Sean was not worried about the other party's debts, and directly sued Woody about the Blackhorn Phantom.

After all, Woody is the real head of the city.

After listening to Sean's words, Woody's face naturally changed greatly.

No more skeptical than Christina, Woody, as the real manager of Aderoan City, has to deal with the official business of the entire city every day, so he is naturally familiar with the changes in Aderoan City. So when he heard that the Blackhorn Phantom was seriously injured and used the entire city of Aderoan as a lair to nourish his injuries by devouring the living, Woody immediately knew that what Sean said was true.

"In the last half month, nearly 1,000 people have gone missing in the city of Aderoan." Woody said with a solemn face.

Sean's face changed drastically when he heard this, and he shouted in a deep voice: "The disappearance of hundreds of people, didn't you, the city lord, order an investigation?" ā€

"In the beginning, it was just some homeless people and poor beggars in the city who disappeared." Woody replied in a deep voice.

Sean is also a lord, and he naturally knows some of the strategies of the city's management plan.

Every city will have a large number of vagabonds and beggars, and even if the welfare of Void City is good, and the vast majority of people have been freed from the status of paupers, according to Neil's assessment, there are still more than 2,000 beggars. These people just came to Void City a little late, so they didn't catch the train when Void City was thriving, so naturally they couldn't put out the identity of a poor citizen, plus Void City became extremely prosperous later, and the market price naturally increased a lot. As a result, the lives of these poor people soon became difficult, and they had to rely on some welfare policies to survive.

Originally. As long as these people leave Void City and devote themselves to the construction of cities in the border area. Naturally, you can live a better life.

However, because of the welfare policy, these people have become a little lazy, and no one wants to leave as long as they starve to death.

This is a common problem in many cities and territories.

Ordering these to be expelled or killed is of course a cruel method, and it is impossible to achieve complete secrecy.

So no matter where they are, they will adopt an attitude of turning a blind eye to the disappearance of these homeless people.

Although Woody's words were not particularly clear, Sean could hear them, and he didn't care about the reason for the disappearance of these homeless people and beggars now. Maybe it seems to him. This is a good urban development trend, because it may be possible to reclaim some of the areas occupied by these homeless people, or even cancel some welfare policies.

Overall, the pros outweigh the disadvantages.

But Sean can understand, but it doesn't mean Christina can understand.

She was immediately furious: "As a lord, whether you are a vagabond or a beggar, they are your lords and not slaves, and you should treat them equally!" They're missing, and you should order an investigation immediately! Instead of letting go and ignoring their disappearance! ā€

Woody smiled helplessly. Naturally, I couldn't help but slander in my heart.

In fact, the concept of the development of the Peace Council is naturally incompatible with the entire Miracle Continent.

Because in the whole world, from the emperor to the commoners. Naturally, we are all striving for a better future. It doesn't matter to them at all whether world peace is important or not, and many of them are even very eager to plunge the whole world into war. Because only in this way can they squeeze more profits. Therefore, no matter what class of people they are, to put it bluntly, they are just laymen who chase interests and exist.

Even if it's the gods. For the sake of more faith and a larger faith area, isn't it also to let the church to which you belong fight to the death?

The idea of the Peace Council that wants the world to be one. For the entire Miracle Continent, nature is impractical.

However, there are many strong people who are desperate to devote themselves to this concept, not only fighting demons and devils, but even fighting with those conspirators who undermine world peace, which is simply the peacekeeping force of the Miracle Continent. Of course, some of the methods of this army are indeed too extreme and extreme, at least normal people do not have their methods of completely slaughtering all corrupt officials and high-level officials in the entire country in order to rid a country of corruption.

Looking at Woody's wry laughter, Sean naturally knew and knew what this person was thinking, but he didn't plan to say anything.

In any case, he is now dressed in the cloak of the Peace Council, and he can't refute Christina's point of view, right?

Would that be tantamount to admitting that he is not a member of the Peace Council?

It's just that when Sean turned his head and glanced at Alyssa and Levi, his expression seemed a little wrong.

Because Levi and Alyssa are looking at Christina with adoration on their faces at the moment. At this time, Sean remembered that the situation on the Floating Island seemed to be the real peace in the world, unlike the situation in the earth realm, where there were so many conflicts of interest and crooked thoughts. Sean didn't want these two powerful bodyguards from the Floating Island to be abducted by the idea of the Peace Council, and he was counting on abducting these two people back to the Void Principality to use as nuclear weapons.

So, Sean hurriedly spoke: "So...... What is the situation now? ā€

"It was only two days before Miss Christina found me that I really realized that the problem might be even worse than I thought." Woody said in a deep voice, "Although I have never counted the whole Aderoan, there are still two or three thousand beggars and homeless, but in the past half a month, there are enough beggars and homeless people, so I can't help but wonder." ā€

Aderoan's situation is different from Void City.

Since the war, the Void City and the Pan-Continent Chamber of Commerce Alliance have broken off a qiē connection, and the caravan trade has decreased a lot, so the unemployment rate has actually increased a lot. But Aderoan, which is also a thriving trading city, still has a lot of caravans, so the vagabonds and beggars can still find some work, in a sense. These vagrants and beggars still have a certain value.

But suddenly there were nearly half fewer homeless people and beggars, and this situation naturally created a shortage of porters. You can't even get noticed if you want to.

"It looks like this blackhorn phantom is seriously injured." Sean glanced at Christina, he didn't know what the battle had been like. But if you can force a demon to devour a large number of lives regardless of the means, it seems that the injury is definitely not light, "So...... Has there been a spike in missing people in recent days? ā€

Woody was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes, it did surge." Since the lockdown of the city and the imposition of military control, there have been reports that more than 30 to 40 people have been missing every day in the city of Adroan recently...... Even close to a hundred. …… In fact. It was this situation that caused some panic, so those caravans, mercenaries, and adventurers would join forces to put pressure on me to lift the lockdown, and they all thought it was ......"

"Think you're the hell?" Sean said coldly, "A bunch of idiots. …… I wonder, who is the caller who is joining forces to put pressure on you? ā€

"Yes......" Woody grimaced, and though he didn't say anything, he still looked at Azaz.

"How did you become the richest man with this kind of goods?" Sean rolled his eyes, he already knew roughly what was going on. "Asazi, get out of here!"

Hearing Sean's roar, even though Asaz was reluctant to do so, he saw that Sean and the others just now even killed Woody's army. Of course, he didn't dare to hesitate any longer. Especially watching the fight between Woody and Levy, even they didn't know what was going on, but they felt a silver light suddenly shine. Woody announced his surrender, which naturally made them feel unusually frightened.

"Sue me. Who told you to put pressure on Lord Woody to lift the lockdown? Sean said coldly. If you dare to lie to me, you know the consequences. ā€

"Yes...... It's Roberts. As soon as Asazi came into contact with Sean's cold eyes, he immediately spoke, "He was the one who mentioned yƬ to me in the first place, and I didn't agree with it, but I couldn't bear to join forces with the others. Moreover, he also promised that as long as our joint pressure plan succeeds, a new chamber of commerce will be established with me as the honor, and we will jointly control the ......" Speaking of this, Asaz also glanced at Woody before gritting his teeth and confiding directly: "...... Together, they control the trade trends and markets of the entire city of Aderoan. ā€

This sentence really made Woody angry.

Nowadays, the adjustment of market price fluctuations in Aderoan City is determined by the Wyl'an family. Because in addition to the Wai'an Chamber of Commerce controlled by Wai'an, there is no second chamber of commerce in the entire Aderoan City, mainly because the entry of these chambers of commerce must be reviewed by the Wai'an family, once there is a threat to the Wai'an Chamber of Commerce, Woody will naturally adopt a policy of suppression as soon as possible.

However, if the six wealthy businessmen of Aderoan join forces to establish a chamber of commerce, then let alone fight, Woody will not be able to suppress it even if he wants to. Because for a long time, the Wai'an Chamber of Commerce has been able to achieve such a large scale, naturally because Woody has adopted divisive means to deal with these six rich businessmen, so that they can't join forces in the Chamber of Commerce, as for the cooperation in other aspects, Woody also turns a blind eye, can't he eat meat and not even give soup to others, right?

As a result, I didn't expect that these guys had already secretly colluded a long time ago, just waiting to solve themselves.

"Is the name of the Chamber of Commerce you formed called the Medusa Chamber of Commerce?" Sean asked.

"No, it's not......," Asaz shook his head, "the name of the Chamber of Commerce is Noire Horn." ā€

"Pointe-Noire?" Christina's eyes froze, and it was obvious that she had realized something.

Sean also let out a sneer: "This demon is really bold enough. …… Mr. Roberts' mansion is also one of our targets this time, right? ā€

"Yes, but it's only a slight suspicion, and according to our plan, it should have been the third to check." Christina nodded.

"Now that we have solid evidence, there is no need to make any more precedences." Sean said lightly, "I believe that Mr. Woody should be happy to assist our Peace Council in destroying this demon together, right?" ā€

"Glad to be!" Woody was stunned for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "I will immediately mobilize the Wy'an Cavalry Corps to set up a defensive position first, completely surround that infidel's mansion, and prevent the other party from escaping." ā€

"Mr. Asaz, although it has been proven that you are not an infidel, you have also been taken advantage of by the infidels, and I think you also want to be ashamed, right?" Sean nodded at Woody, then turned to look at Ashaz, speaking in a calm but unquestioning tone.

"I ...... But I don't have any subordinates. Asaz wept and mourned.

"Isn't there another guard by your side?" Sean's gaze fell on the personal guard of Asaz, "Mr. Woody was a little injured just now, and if he faced that demon's breakthrough regardless of a single qiē, I'm afraid it would be a little overwhelming." …… I don't think you want to see that demon break out, do you? In that case, you'd be happy to have your squires join the fight, right? ā€

Asaz was slightly stunned, and then realized that the eyes of everyone around him were not so friendly, and he immediately understood that he no longer had the right to refuse. (To be continued......) R1292