"It's snowing......"

Dick twisted his nose to shake off the coolness of the snowflakes, and looked up at the sky, where the snowflakes were changing from small to large, from sparse to dense.

To the northwest of the Fallen Plateau, the mountains were shrouded in snowflakes, and a two-headed turtle convoy turned out of the mountain road and headed for a river valley ahead. The thick legs of the turtle leave deep footprints in the snow, which are then filled with snowflakes.

, who was sitting at the front of the car, complained: "Didn't the legion retire a lot of demon turtle cars? Why didn't you have a few here?

A middle-aged man with a gloomy face huddled with him, seeing that he was dressed as a magician, and said disdainfully: "What do you know? Those demon turtle carts were hastily made during the War of the Dead, and the joint magic circle or something was seriously damaged, and they were almost scrapped. And now they all use slime magic oil, who is so extravagant to use the hedron directly? If you are too slow, you can go back by yourself, what's the use of just complaining here?"

was speechless, and after a while, he said angrily: "We are not capable, why are you, a magician, huddled with us again, slowly rubbing back to drink ice water and eat cold bread?"

The magician Sandru said leisurely: "Because the time is just right, when we go back, the support center of the service station should also be opened." ”

Dick was stunned again, and the team members in the back carriage heard it, and excitedly leaned over and asked this and that.

"Is there really bread that you can eat for free?"

"I heard that there are still clothes, could it be that the magician invented the art of weaving clothes?"

"What about that vending machine? I really want that set of multi-functional adventure knives, it's just a contribution point! I just don't have a chance to go back to Beta City to buy it!"

Magician Sandru patiently answered one by one, and it felt good to be the core of the team, and a satisfied smile bloomed on his face.

sighed in frustration: "There's still a month." ”

Sandru's smile froze, and then he let out the same sigh as.

was thinking, "I can't be self-righteous anymore, and when I get renaturalized, I'll follow everyone to find a place to settle down, start from scratch, and figure out what I can do." ”

Sandru was thinking, "I can't make black money anymore, I can't do things honestly, do whatever I want, even if it's to be a calculating magician, it's much better than earning that little gold bushels." ”

One is in the probationary period, the other is in the labor reform period, and all of their labor except for the necessary living allowance does not earn contribution points, and this embarrassing period will not end until January 1, 1228. It was December 1, 1227, and a whole month to go, and the two were lamenting the unbearable time.

The two-headed turtle convoy slowly moved forward in the heavy snow, and the town in the center of the valley was already looming out. Because there are five valleys here, it is blown by the mountain winds from all over the world, so it is named "Five Wind Valley".

The small villages and towns are covered by a layer of ripples, the snowflakes are not blocked, the buildings are covered in silver, and the fog rises again, and the noisy voices of people can be vaguely heard, which seems to be vibrant.

By the time Dekker and Sandru's frontier expedition returned to town, it was already getting dark. After unloading the goods at the depot outside the town and taking care of the two-headed turtle, the team members rushed eagerly into the square filled with laughter.

The square is very wide, and in the center is a pillar more than ten meters thick and of the same height, with many doors open. A number of low metal buildings on the periphery form a circle, and outside the buildings are lotus leaf-like metal plates, spread out diagonally, with large and small round holes in them.

This is actually a modified teleportation fortress, now called the General Service Station, with a portal in the center, a magic well, and a protective barrier transformed from the Military Unity Realm. When the lotus leaves are closed, it becomes a circular fortress with a diameter of sixty or seventy meters, and only half of the upper part is exposed to the ground.

The square centered on the fortress stretches out several roads, and hundreds of buildings are scattered between them. These buildings are tall and short, large and small, and have different shapes, but if you look closely, you can see that they all have a very clear skeleton, and the pillars form a frame of the same size, and the building units stuffed into the frame are all about the same size.

On a huge lotus leaf, people were forming a long line to receive something, Sandru looked at the front of the line with a magical vision, nodded and said, "Sure enough, it is loaded, there are bread machines, water dispensers, looms and vending machines." ”

said, "These citizens can eat in the cafeteria every day, and what are they doing when they go to get bread!?"

Sandru shrugged: "Join in the fun, I want to see the miracles of magic, if you are hungry, go to the cafeteria to eat." ”

exclaimed, "We're not citizens yet, and we have to pay a lot of money to eat in the cafeteria!

A group of red-clothed legionnaires stationed at the comprehensive service station, plus the gray-clothed public security officers were maintaining order, and the two and other team members obediently lined up at the back of the line, but fortunately they were very fast, and they were lined up after a while.

"This is a bread machine, this is a water dispenser, hold this switch and cast a spell like a magic guide gun, you can get bread and water, if you don't know how to spell, I'll help you." ”

In front of two metal cabinets, which were more than half a person tall and more than one person thick, a man wearing a "volunteer" armband explained to Dyck: "The bread in the bread machine is cold, and if you want to eat it hot, you can heat it in the magic oven next to it, but the time limit has changed from one day to half an hour, and you have to eat it immediately." The water dispenser has two outlets, the blue one is cold and the red one is hot. ”

Maybe the rest of the work will be to be a volunteer like this, how boring it is......

Dekker muttered to himself, placing two spells on the handle of the toaster and getting two large pieces of magic bread. Then the kettle was connected to the hot water dispenser, and then transferred to another metal cabinet of the same size.

Stuffing the bread into the lattice and closing the door, he put a zero-level spell, and the cabinet buzzed and vibrated with a clink. When I opened the door, I was greeted by a hot breath mixed with the scent of cream and wheat.

"In this place, as long as you know level zero spells, you won't starve anymore. As long as someone is a volunteer, even civilians will not worry about not having enough to eat. ”

With this in mind, was less resistant to volunteer work.

With hot water, a few bites of the hot, soft, fragrant bread were eaten, and Deke walked towards the other magic machines. There was a shrill shouting behind him, and it was a halfling who complained that the handle of the machine was too high, and that he would not let the volunteers help cast spells, so he had to go to find a bench with him.

In front of the metal pavilion, which looked like an ogre sentry, the volunteer said, "Do you want to change your clothes? There are only free plain linen coats and underwear, and if you want cashmere, cotton, spider silk or other materials, you have to go to the vending machine and buy them." ”

Dick looked at his adventurer suit, which was full of holes, and nodded. Just wear free clothes, and as a pre-naturalization person, you have to exchange gold bushels for red coins or contribution points to buy things. The current exchange ratio is not one to ten, but one to five.

Thinking that his more than 2,000 gold bushels had depreciated by half, he couldn't wait to slap himself, why was he in a hurry to exchange the adventure points at that time! The adventure points were exchanged for contribution points one to one!

The volunteer said, "You have to press the button with the bow and arrow pattern on the hunting outfit, press the button with the book pattern on the robe, and then cast a spell on the spell casting handle. ”

It is said that in the future, similar magic machines will be installed in the private houses of every family, and there will be no worries about eating, drinking, and wearing at all, which is really unimaginable.

stood in the pavilion, pressed the hunting button, and placed a spell on the grip. As a fourth-level professional, a zero-level spell is as costly as walking a few steps, and of course, for a trainee professional, it is equivalent to running a long way.

As soon as the spell was finished, a strange force descended from the top of his head, piercing through his clothes, clinging to his skin and falling to the soles of his feet, causing to shudder.

was startled by this cool force, and subconsciously retreated, and the volunteer said, "Don't be afraid, this is a spider...... No, the machine is scanning your body type. ”

gasped, spider!? Is there really a spider weaving clothes in there?

"There are real spiders, but they have something to do with spiders. ”

The volunteer seems to be from the research department or the engineering staff at the town hall, and knows a lot about the thing.

After listening to his explanation, it dawned on Dake that the secret magic ...... No, it's actually magical.

Strictly speaking, this "magic loom is actually a spider puppet", with corpse spider nucleus crystals simulating spider brains, and magic circles simulating spider eyes and legs. Its "consciousness" remembers only one thing, and that is to perform the weaving procedure that connects the nuclear crystals. Scan the target body shape and weave the underwear and jacket by body type.

"The weaving accuracy of plain hemp is much lower than that of other materials, and the structure of such puppets is not very complicated, so it can be applied on a large scale." Even so, it is much more sophisticated than the bread machine and water dispenser next to it, and it also consumes magic oil, which is of course a necessary benefit for everyone. ”

There was a faint clanging sound from inside the pavilion, the tempo rapidly increasing into a low hum, and a few minutes later, a thick linen costume including an undergarment and jacket fell into the metal groove on the side of the pavilion.

Next to the "magic loom" was the locker room, and was about to go in, and he opened his mouth as soon as he lifted his legs.

"If you don't have free shoes, you can either go to the vending machine and buy them," the volunteer said, pointing to the bundles of hay thrown on the ground next to him, "or you can weave them yourself, the materials and the braided board are free, and you will be given a knitting manual." ”

Is it more troublesome to make shoes than to knit clothes?

Dyck was puzzled, and the volunteer said: "This is the habit of the members of the Fei Communist Party, weaving straw shoes can keep people from departing from basic labor, and weaving straw shoes well is the basic condition for joining the Combat Youth League." ”

What a quirky rule......

looked at the pile of grass, having no confidence in his craft, and did not think it was meaningful to spend his time on it, and gave up on making it himself.

The clothes fit well, they are directly woven rather than cut, and they are much more comfortable to wear than they used to be according to size, and they are thick enough. The linen silk seems to have been specially treated, and it is much tougher and softer than ordinary linen cloth that can be torn at will.

Now it's just a matter of shoes......

came to the vending machine, the upper part was a mirage screen, and when he pressed the shopping guide button according to the tips of the volunteers, a tender and crunchy voice came from the machine: "Hello residents of Five Wind Valley, what do you need?"

Hearing this little voice, you know that it is the little gray elf girl, and Dekker replies that he asks for shoes.

Various shoes appear on the screen, with the code name of the shoe underneath, and chooses a pair of leather boots, then reports the size, and at the prompt of the "salesman", he stuffs the red coin forged from blood silver into the coin slot of the machine.

The salesperson seems to be using some means to remotely check the authenticity of the red coin, which makes feel a little inconvenient.

"No problem, please wait a while, the goods will arrive soon. ”

The salesman said sweetly: "Due to technical reasons, the vending machine can only receive red coins now, and when the market function of the portable assistant is opened in January next year, you can pay with contribution points through the portable assistant." At that time, you can also buy goods directly on the companion by picking up them in the automatic mailbox. ”

Dake is overjoyed, this is good!

While was waiting, several people were busy in a storeroom-like building somewhere east of Beta. The screen in front of a person pops up with a message about a pair of shoes. The staff member in the yellow vest pressed the button on the workbench, and the puppet curled up outside the workbench jumped up, stretched out into a mechanical spider, and ran into the distance.

The vision of a mechanical spider appears on the screen, and the yellow vest acts like a scout on a spider cart to operate the spider over a pile of neatly stacked goods to a pile of goods. The spider spoke, and it was the voice of the yellow vest that said the goods to be taken, and the pick-up clerk standing between the piles of goods placed the packed shoebox in the basket on the spider's back.

After a while, he took out the shoebox from the back basket and wrote the words "Five Winds Valley", and the yellow vest put the box into the basket behind him. In the circle he formed with several yellow vests, a lifting belt kept moving, carrying the goods inside to the floor beneath their feet.

Huang Vest complained to the worker next to him: "What a boring job......"

"I can't find anything else to do for the time being, so let's earn some contribution points first," said the worker: "It is said that it will slowly change to puppets in the future, and there will only be a few people left in our entire logistics center." ”

"That's still early," said another worker, "not only to earn contribution points here, but also to have free hours in magic classes and magic classes, and to join the Combat Youth League or even to pay for it, you must have such working hours." ”

The worker just now said: "Yes, it is said that even if you are already a member of the Fei Communist Party, unless you join the legion, you have to earn enough social service hours every year." ”

"I want to join the Legion ......"

Huang Vest sighed: "But the people have long been full, even the public security." At the beginning, the law enforcement team even wanted civilians, but now, first-level professionals are also picky, and our apprenticeships can only start with this kind of work. ”

The yellow vests complained and busied, and at their feet, the goods were sorted onto conveyor belts and then into circles. The magician standing next to the circle cast a spell, and the goods disappeared in the blue light.

"One hundred and twelve", a magician teleported away the shoebox with the words "Valley of the Five Winds" written on it, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and muttered, "I really don't know what the city hall is thinking when it spends so many people and so many magic oil on this kind of thing...... Forget it, anyway, I'll just earn my service hours, and it's just basic teleportation training. ”

Hundreds of kilometers to the northwest, waited for about ten minutes and began to get a little impatient. The vending machine shook and clanged, and a box fell into the groove at the bottom.

Taking out the box from the groove, sure enough, it was the buckskin boots he bought, although it took a little time, but the whole process still made him both novel and comfortable.

"When you can buy things directly with your assistant, the small vendors in the town will be out of luck. Unless they produce their own things, they will certainly not have much business if they rely on trafficking in things. ”

thinks so, is it convenient or secondary, the most important thing is that this is Fei Gong selling things, clearly marked the price, and there is no deception.

Dekker and his team all got a taste of the various security magic machines in the service station, everyone got new clothes, got some new possessions from the vending machines, and gathered at the town tavern to have a drink. Sandru also followed, as a labor prisoner who was assigned, and only with Dake could they get along equally and naturally.

", we're used to staying here, and we know the situation around us. Why don't we wait for our naturalization, shall we settle here?"

"Yes, we can build a new party! This is the border, and the official will give the party a lot of commissions. If the public security or even the army stand in the way of something too dangerous, we will do chores, just like in our previous life. ”

"The party can't be more than eight people, and we're going to be dismantled. ”

"That's for settling accounts, and when the time comes, we'll be divided into several teams on the books, won't we still be the same?"

"It's different, there are a lot of heads, and they can't always be together. ”

"Yes, everyone has their own account. ”

"Dake is still our leader......"

As the players were looking forward to the future, raised his hand and said, "Farewell, don't take me as the leader again, really." ”

He said sincerely: "Everyone will live according to their own ideas in the future, and it's no problem to get together if you want to." If you put your private house together, you can see it every day, and you can come to the tavern for a few drinks at any time? ”

The team members applauded, although the Poplar team still exists, but with the different interests and specialties of everyone, they have their own development plans for the future, and it makes no sense to get everything together.

Even if he doesn't care about's previous mistakes, his prestige is still there, but he can't give every player the development space they want, and instead of barely maintaining such a team, it is better to let everyone go their separate ways. As Dyck said, careers can't be put together, and they can live together as neighbors.

Sandru coughed to speak, and hurriedly said, "There are some people with whom I refuse to be neighbors. ”

"Who's going to be your neighbor!"

Sandru said indignantly: "I mean, I still have some small ideas in magic technology, and we can join forces to do something special." ”

The players squinted, and said, "For example...... Collective teleportation scrolls?"

Sandru snorted: "Do you want me to count down what stupid things you've done?"

choked, and the magician continued, "Now it is clear to us that Fei Gong wants to take the big business into his own hands, and the shops, workshops, and adventure parties cannot exceed eight people. But there are a lot of gadgets and small things that they don't have the energy and don't want to grasp, such as developing something convenient and easy to use on a portable assistant. I have the skills and ideas, you can organize several business workshops to do things in all aspects, we cooperate with each other, and the future is limitless!"

Some team members asked curiously, such as?

"For example...... Isn't the official about to launch the market function on the portable assistant? When we bought things just now, did we feel very troublesome? We can completely make a marketing assistant on the portable assistant to help everyone find things faster and more conveniently. ”

Sandru said, his eyes brightened more and more: "When the time comes, I will register a workshop here for development only, and you will register several workshops for production and sales, so that we can still do a business with many people?"

"How much to sell, how much we can make, you alone have the final say?"

laughed and said, "It's okay to do it, others make the same thing, we can also produce and sell, what are you going to do?"

The rest of the team laughed too, this magician is still full of tricky ideas, but the idea seems to be too naïve.

"Uh......"

The light in Sandru's eyes dimmed, and he smiled again: "Didn't I think that everyone got along well and trusted each other to make such a suggestion?"

said disdainfully, "It sounds like you're still thinking about Jin Buer, living a life of hiding in a high magic tower and doing bad things." So why stay here, it's much freer to go to the Empire. ”

Sandru retorted: "Who said that you can't make money here and can't live in the magic tower......? No, the points are earned above board, and the spending is not illegal, so why can't I live the life I want? Of course, I certainly wouldn't do anything bad. ”

"As for the ...... of the Empire"

Sandru lowered his voice: "You know that when I was arrested, the Public Security Bureau gave me two choices, one was to deport and the other was to accept labor reform, why did I choose to stay?"

and the others looked at each other, and said that this guy was finally going to confide in him. They had been thinking about this problem before, thinking that if this bad-hearted magician wanted to leave, he could leave, and the reason why he stayed and suffered with them was because he had a more evil intention.

Sandru said in a deep tone, "Because I've been in a world like the Empire long enough, and I've been through too many things like robbery, fraud, and deception. It's a free world, but it also means that you're alone, everyone has calculations in mind, and you have to face everything alone. If you want to avoid it, you will either become the same person, or you will go to the strong and become a slave. ”

"I'm not a good person, but I don't want to be calculating others all the time, and at the same time beware of other people's calculations, and I don't want to be anyone's slave. I feel very relaxed living here. During my time in the law enforcement team, I slept soundly every night...... Well, I was going to make a fortune on you, but I missed. ”

Sandru coughed and said, "To be honest, it's really unfree here, and I feel like I'm tied and can't stretch my hands and feet." But it's really easy, you don't have to cheat anymore, you don't have to worry about it, as long as you don't do bad things, your mind is very relaxed......"

He smiled again: "Of course, wouldn't it be better to earn more money and live a better life? Save the world, free the slaves, I'm not a good person who wants to do those things." ”

Although he still despises the other party's character, but at this time, Dekker looks at this guy much more pleasing to the eye, and in general their thoughts are the same.

"Who knows if this place will always be like this?"

One of the team members sighed: "After all, this is only the territory of the Duke of Prell, no matter how strong the Fei Gong is, can it be stronger than the empire?

"I hope it lasts a long time......"

As soon as said this, the tavern owner suddenly said sneakily, "Big news!"

He inserted a chip into the mirage machine, and a young man in rich clothes trying to put on a serious expression appeared on the screen.

"Marquis Mordwin of the Royal News Agency, Marquis of the Empire, has just been appointed Spokesman for the Press of the Empire. ”

The drinker at the next table muttered, and the same table scolded: "Can you read words?"

The scene was like a banquet, and it seemed that someone had just asked a question, and Mordwin looked into the camera and said, "I know the same thing about Duke Prell and the Godsfall Plateau as you know. ”

"The revocation of the title of Duke of Prell and the transfer of the domain are internal affairs of the Kingdom of Hadran, and the empire has never and will not interfere with the disposition of the vassals of the monarchs of various countries. ”

"No, this has nothing to do with whether Richie Prell attended Her Majesty's coronation or not, to be precise, this matter has nothing to do with Her Majesty the Empress! Those irresponsible, chasing after the wind and fanning the flames, must harbor some kind of evil intentions!"

"I hereby advise those people not to push themselves into the abyss of no catastrophe! To slander Her Majesty the Empress is to choose to stand with those rebels, and the consequences will be extremely serious!"

"Her Majesty's attitude is not to be commented on, and you ought to ask Rich-Prell ......."

"Where does the Godfall Plateau belong? You should ask the Kingdom of Hadlang. No, not His Excellency the Prime Minister, as the head of the affairs of the Empire, he is not fit and will not say anything about the internal affairs of his kingdom. ”

Mordwin said a lot more afterwards, but he said them over and over again, and the corners of his mouth twitched several times, and anyone could tell that he was reciting very hard.

The tavern suddenly exploded, and the drinkers, who were basically the residents of the town, shouted and cursed endlessly.

Targeted by everyone, including Sandru, Dekker said angrily, "Don't look at me! Who said this just now?"

"It's over, the empire will definitely include us in its direct territory!"

"What's wrong with the Duke and the Empress, didn't you go to Valentine with the legion to help the Empress fight?"

"Could it be that something went wrong with the gift for the Empress that made the Empress angry?"

"Maybe there will be another war, this time it's the Duke and the Empire!"

The team muttered under their breath, and Dakker and Sandru exchanged blank and frightened glances.

Of course, not even a single person believed Mordwin's words, and without the consent or even instruction of the Empress, Hadron dared to deprive the Duke of his title and domain?

There was a commotion, the screen lit up again, and the boss shouted, "Little Red...... No, Fei Gong has made a statement!"

Sure enough, the familiar host of the Crimson News Agency, Lori Xiaohong, appeared on the screen, and she also tried her best to pretend to be serious and serious, reading the manuscript one by one.

"With regard to the recent revocation of Rich-Prell's title and fief as a vassal of Hadran, the Central Committee of the CPF, as well as Rich-Prell himself, issued the following statement. ”

"This matter is purely a private matter of Richie Prell, and has nothing to do with the affairs of the Fei Gong and the Divine Fall Plateau. On the Divine Plateau, Li Qi's identity is only the cardinal of the Central Committee of the Fei Communist Party, not the Duke of Prell. ”

"The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Fei and Li Qi particularly emphasized that all the property on the Shenyuan Plateau belongs to all the people led by the Communist Party of Fei, and this land is built and defended by all of us united as one, sweat and blood, and it does not belong to Li Qi. Therefore, everyone should not have unnecessary worries and make unnecessary speculations about the change of Li Qi's identity. ”

At the same time, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Fei declared that those who added words such as rebellion and war to this matter were either ignorant masses who had been demagogized or saboteurs with ulterior motives. The Phillips and Li Qi themselves still stand under the banner of the Dawn Oath held high by the Empress, and work tirelessly to build a new order of peace, tranquility and happiness. ”

The statement was brief and, like Mordwin, avoided the core issue, but there was one thing that made everyone in the tavern, including Dick and Sandru, feel a rush of excitement.

Yes, the Divine Fall Plateau was built and defended by everyone united, sweating and blood, regardless of the Duke...... No, no matter how much Li Qi's identity changes, it can't change this fact. He is not a lord, but a cardinal of the Phillips who builds and fights with everyone.

Sandru suddenly said leisurely: "Speaking of which, the chief cardinal is not on the Godfall Plateau, just like the last war of the dead." ”