Saving people is like fighting fire, and the Night Watchman is running in five columns on Eastwood's central boulevard, and it is inevitable that there will be bumps and bumps with pedestrians.

The ordinary citizens swallowed their anger at the time, and when Aldrich and the others had all passed, they spat in the backs of these 'bandits' night watchmen, and cursed and cursed all kinds of vicious curses, without paying any attention to the plight of these knights who guarded the peace of the night.

When it came to the city gate and crossed the drawbridge, the knights of the city guard, who had already received the relevant documents, deliberately opened a passage that was wide enough to temporarily interrupt the traffic in and out of Eastwood.

The city gate, which was originally full of traffic, suddenly resembled a stuffed sausage tightly tied with thick twine, and the two ends were clogged with ordinary citizens such as complaining coachmen and messengers gathered in a clump. As for the discerning and intelligent people, there were many people, looking at the night watchmen whistling by, and the direction they were heading, they invariably stirred up their already rich brains, and all kinds of outrageous speculations quickly came out of the cage in the midst of all the mouths, and as they brainstormed, they gradually approached the truth of the facts.

From a certain point of view, there are no real fools in the world, but they are limited to differences in knowledge, experience, and education, so they sometimes seem stupid, but in most cases, they are not easy to fool. Just like all the Night Watchmen and the direction they are heading, with these two simple clues alone, many people can guess the general situation of what happened, and foresee a price adjustment in the market in the short term.

Many people who were keenly aware of the business opportunity immediately changed their schedules, brandishing checks from banks or bonds issued by major banks with credit and assets, rushing into shops to buy all kinds of goods, triggering a series of chain reactions.

Unwitting small businessmen and citizens were so caught up in this boom that they couldn't help but speculate, and the city council, which was supposed to come forward to refute the rumors and stop the incident, remained strangely silent, and even many city councilors with a lot of resources and deep connections secretly contributed to the trouble, helping their backers and financiers to gently continue to raise prices and sell the backlog of goods, so as to obtain unimaginable profits.

The night watchman Bergta, who has accumulated a lot of money by hunting criminals to obtain bounties, curses angrily and angrily the person who leaked the news, he is not a professional manager after all, and he is not fast enough, and he did not press down all his net worth as soon as he entered, and as a result, only a batch of iron ingots were credited, and most of the gold oumar was not used.

In the face of a surging crowd of buyers, shrewd shopkeepers who had already used their warehousing inventory and quickly contacted upstream producers in the chain quickly learned the cause of this false prosperity.

Although it is foreseeable that for a long time to come, due to the saturation of the market and the lack of purchasing power, the shops will become deserted, but they can no longer care about so much, and they are hurrying to earn high profits.

As for all the night patrol knights who went to the Snake Mine, before they arrived at their destination, they saw a knight chief leading a hundred city guards to defend the pit around the mine.

"The leader is Baron Langton Morris, a once-hot upstart, because he was jealous of others and challenged a baron with real power, but was defeated head-on by the other party's acting knights, because of his rude behavior and embarrassing defeat, his position in the city guard system has plummeted, and now he has been marginalized, so when he encounters this kind of dirty work and tiring work, let him come forward. ”

Rufer West, who led the team to the front, slowed down with the reins, and lowered his voice to remind Aldrich Triss beside him, hoping that he would have a long memory.

"Understood. The young knight nodded, taking Captain West's kindness to heart.

"But if this kind of work is done well, it is hard to guarantee that it is not a chance for him to rise again. The Snake Mine is the family property of the Earl of Eastwood, and it is said that this rich mine has thirty years to be excavated, and it is still a silver stream that flows with a steady stream of wealth. If he could keep the mines, he would be meritorious, and if he could go one step further and keep the well-qualified hire, he would be able to puff up his chest and speak again, and even get the chance to meet the Earl. You have to be careful, people like him who have fallen once and hope to take the opportunity to get up will do anything to seize the opportunity. ”

Anyway, he's also the Knight Captain of the City Guard, and the Night Watchman is directly under the Town Hall, even if we were originally one, would Baron Maurice be too much?"

"On the contrary, because we belong to two systems, he doesn't have to use it at all. If I am above him, I will not be able to compete head-on with my title and strength. Well, you're from the Tris family, and maybe he'll look at Orton Tris, after all, your father and grandfather worked together for many years. In the pioneer era, there was a tradition of supporting each other, and it is said that the Twelve Knights once signed a secret covenant at the round table, are you an insider?"

Rufer West's careless temptation reminded Aldrich that the 'mediocre' captain of the Night Patrol was not a simple person.

"It's a pity, I don't know about this, after all, we are the third generation of side branches, and we only inherit the sword and shield family crest, and there is no other glory...... Captain, I must warn you that Baron Maurice is looking at the Night Watchman, who is coming towards us. ”

Tris took the opportunity to stagger the subject, and under West's regretful gaze, he turned back and gestured slightly, and the Night Watchmen immediately regrouped and gently rode their horses into five columns.

The knights, Langton Maurice and Rufer West, dismounted one after another, leaving the gravel road, and the surrounding city guards retreated at once, leaving enough space for the two to talk.

Aldridge heard only the intermittent quarrels and the cold and ruthless tone of bargaining, and the lives of the hired workers could turn into bloody figures at any time, and finally the two sides reached a compromise, but both felt that they had suffered a great loss.

Before leaving, Baron Maurice glanced at the Night Watchman, and found the figure of Tim Ball, showing a look that he could only understand, bowed slightly, and then turned on his horse and returned to his position, he is now the manager of the overall situation, and there is no time and no need to gossip with relatives.

"It's all about the big picture. "Convince yourself to make up your mind. Victory cannot be achieved without sacrifice, this is the creed of the Boer family, and Baron Morris can only regret it.

"It's all about the big picture. "Rufer Vest ordered the Night Watchman to enter the mine and carry out salvage excavations and emergency treatment of the collapsed pit.

Many team members who have small industries and large-scale businesses outside do not want to risk their lives, so they are willing to stay on the ground to do some logistical assistance. Captain West, who was usually extremely tolerant of these people, suppressed his anger and wanted to exercise his authority strongly, but Aldrich saw the signs of danger and immediately took over the conversation.

"The mine cave is too narrow, too many people go down but can't be used, I personally recommend choosing a few night watchmen with long endurance and great strength to go down, and the rest of the people build hanging baskets, responsible for towing and moving dirt and stones, as long as the division of labor is clear, with tacit understanding, it is better than rushing down to the pit and not being able to perform. ”

Knight Tris's words won the consent of most of the people present, if it weren't for the fact that he had not been in the Night Patrol for a long time and had not held any position on his body, the cheers and the wise praise of the captain would have been out one after another.

"Who wants to go down?" Rufer West's eagle-like sharp gaze scanned left and right at his team members, most of them were deliberately dodging, and some even lowered their heads and simply avoided them.

Only Aldridge was the first to stand up, after all, he was the initiator of the proposal, Captain West nodded expressionlessly, and gave Triss another favor in his heart.

Then the bull Kent walked out of the queue, and surprisingly, the regular knight Perry Prescott also took the initiative to respond to Aldrich's call.

"Three, how's that?" Ruff West asked Aldrich with a sideways gesture, and Tris nodded to indicate that it was enough.

"So be it, I wish you all the best of luck and return home alive. ”

Aldridge grinned, "Captain West, can you say something auspicious?"

As a result, Rufu West shook his head slightly, "There have been several collapses in the Snake Mine, and they were all dealt with by the city guards before, and I heard that many good men were sacrificed. Hydrology, geology, the supporting structure of the cavern, the degree of water seepage at the bottom, the integrity of the drainage system, and so on are all variables that cannot be ignored, and it is not without precedent that a slight carelessness can lead to a secondary collapse. ”

Then he lowered his voice: "Actually, I really don't agree with you going down, it's too dangerous." ”

Tris's relaxed expression slowly gathered: "Don't worry, I have a strong sense of danger, and there is no problem in getting out to protect myself, but Kent and Prescott, I can't boast." ”

"You are a cautious man who never opens your mouth to talk about it, Aldrich, and I trust you. ”

As Tris approached the open-pit Snake Cave, a spiral of spiral and a massive fracture at the bottom, the main entrance was clogged up with tonnage boulders.

Captain Morris came over again, and after understanding the strategy of the Night Watchman, he immediately shook his head, "It's too slow, how much can this manpower do?" In fact, after several collapse events in the Snake Mine, there is a new change, that is, to open up a new passage diagonally down nearby, fortunately, the four mine roads have been preserved, but they have been affected by the aftermath of the large-scale collapse, and the middle part needs to be cleaned again. ”

Rufer West, who thought about it and found no possible traps, asked Triss for advice, a scene that intrigued Ronton Morris, who was suspicious of the identity of Aldridge with his new face.

It wasn't until he saw Tris enter a mine first that Baron Maurice unleashed his curiosity and asked Captain West about Aldrich's identity. When he learned that the newcomer of the Night Watchman was from the Tris family, a slightly surprised look appeared on his face, and he quickly retreated.

Aldrich, who lifted the torch, walked for five minutes on the sloping tunnel, with a large leg-thick beam overhead and supporting load-bearing pillars on both sides, and finally reached the place where the large rock blocked the tunnel.

Reaching out to touch the stone, the cold and hard texture made him frown, he rammed the torch into one side of the cave wall, and the brute Kent just arrived, and raised the torch and placed it on the other side, and Perry Prescott, who arrived later, brought a set of pulleys and ropes, and a soft basket woven of fine rattan.

The loose stones are first removed, placed in a rattan basket, and dragged to the surface by a winch to unload, tied to a rope and put into the mine.

With the unshakable boulder left, Aldrich took a deep breath, adjusted his rhythm, pressed his hands on it, and activated his penetration with eighty percent of his strength.

"Huh...... Hiss!" the dense sound of drizzle falling slantingly, and as Tris's hand left the rock, it had lost its hard texture, becoming crunchy and covered with honeycomb-like fine holes.

Even the finger power of the brute bull can leave deep marks on it. Such an amazing skill that Kent and Prescott were dumbfounded.

And that's not all, Aldrich's crushing excavation has only just begun.