Chapter 216: Burst Stone Mine
readx;? The original site of the Blaststone is a very inconspicuous small mountain range, located on the edge of the Radiant Kingdom, near the territory of the Orcs. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Since Burst Stone is not very useful for alchemy magic, the amount of mining is very small, and only the people of a small village at the foot of the mountain range occasionally help mine Burst Stone to make a living by farming.
But in recent days, the peasants of the small villages have begun to become richer, and the caravans, which used to come once a month, have become more and more frequent. And it was obvious that the caravan used the first few carriages to transport the caravan, and occasionally there were luxury carriages with nobles.
In the mines in the mountains, more and more people are needed, and since the change of mine owners, they have been paid a lot more, which makes them all satisfied, and their work has become more and more energetic.
Although even the simple farmers could feel that there must be something wrong with the newly appointed mine owner, they still chose to ignore it without hesitation in the face of rich living conditions.
On this day, the villagers, as usual, finished their morning work and began to prepare to work in the mine. At this moment, a motorcade of carriages came from the distant avenue and slowly entered the village.
"Strange, didn't the caravan come last week, why did it come again so soon?" A villager strangely wanted to go up to have a look, but someone immediately stopped him.
"Fool, don't make a fuss, do you see the carriage in the middle? That beautiful carriage must have come to talk to the mine owner about business. ”
The man looked at it, and sure enough, the carriage in the middle was indeed different, it was an elegant and luxurious carriage, and the carriage was covered with a dazzling array of expensive car decorations, showing the identity of the owner to everyone. And a big flag at the front of the car is also fluttering in the wind.
The banner was printed with a conspicuous symbol, which was a family crest only owned by aristocratic families, and it was obvious that the person who came was a nobleman of no low status.
Seeing this flag, the villagers were all shocked, and then scattered away, as if they saw a plague god, for fear of provoking the noble lord in the carriage and thus bringing disaster to the village.
The carriage stopped at the intersection of the mountain, and several strong men came down from several carriages, and after they looked around with great experience, they confirmed that it was safe, and then stepped forward to open the curtain of the gorgeous carriage and let the people in the carriage go down.
"Young Master, we've arrived. The strong man whispered.
A teenager slowly stepped out of the carriage, his gray hoodie obscuring his entire figure. He looked up at the inconspicuous hill through the shadows under his hood and asked, "Is this it?"
The strong man nodded and said, "Yes, the Decepticon Society is in this mountain." ”
When the young man heard this, he stopped talking, waved his hand to signal the strong man to take the lead, and began to walk with them towards the mountain. And on the mountainside not far away, several people were also watching the group of people walking into the mountain vigilantly. After they exchanged words for a while, some of them left and ran deep into the mountains.
The noble young master and his party slowly marched in the mountains and forests, and a group of strong men also looked around very cautiously, surrounding the young man in the middle.
"Bang!" a sudden change occurred, and a bang resounded through the mountains and forests.
An iron pellet flew out of the woods and shot into the ground in front of the group in the blink of an eye, immediately splashing up a puff of dirt. The sudden attack startled several strong men. Hurriedly contracted the formation and tightly surrounded the young man in the middle.
But the young man waved his hand unhurriedly, signaling a few people not to be nervous, and then said in a loud voice: "It turns out that Batian would treat his employer like this?"
But the woods were silent, save for the intermittent chirping of insects and birds, as if the people who had just attacked had gone. But the young man's brow under the hood furrowed, and after a soft sigh, he took out a letter from his bosom and said, "We were introduced by Viscount Kanoa......"
"Boom...... Three or four men emerged from the woods, all dressed as mercenary warriors, but their swords and swords were stuck in their sheaths. Because they all had a strange weapon in their hands, the weapon was made up of three or four iron pipes, and at the end of the iron pipes, a small flame burned on a metal frame.
"Viscount Kanoa, why did he introduce you?" asked one of the leaders, and the few men behind him looked wary at them with their iron pipe-like weapons.
The boy waved the letter in his hand and said, "We came here to buy the newly excavated blaststone." ”
When the man heard this, he immediately said, "The new blasting stone has been sold out, and it has not yet been produced, so you can go back and wait." ”
Unmoved, the young man handed the letter to a strong man, asked him to hand it to the man at the head, and said, "It's okay, we can go to the mine to drink tea, sit and wait." ”
The man took the letter, opened it, looked at it, and after confirming that it was correct, he suddenly asked, "What if the blaststone is discontinued?"
The boy smiled slightly and said, "It's okay, then we can wait until it is produced again." ”
The man breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the young man's words, waved his hand, and motioned for the person behind him to put down the strange weapon. He hugged his fists at the young man and his party and smiled: "Haha...... Since you are a distinguished guest introduced by Viscount Kanoa, please come with us. ”
The young man nodded, and let the strong men of the guards lift their vigilance, but secretly muttered in his heart: "This tyrant is so cunning, he has to talk about business and have to say a code, fortunately, we have inquired before, otherwise we will be tricked." ”
So under the "escort" of several mercenary warriors with strange weapons, a group of people slowly marched towards the mining area in the mountain.
On the way, the young man also looked curiously at the weapons in the hands of those people and asked, "Your Excellency has your unique special alchemy weapon in your hand?"
After confirming that the young man was a distinguished guest, the leader's attitude was also much better, and he smiled at the young man: "What the young master said is right, this is the capital that our Batian will dare to take over the business, but the young master is also very courageous, and he dares to come and talk to us about business alone." ”
As if remembering some tragic memory, the young man immediately gritted his teeth and said, "Hmph, if I couldn't do it openly, why would I come to you?"
Seeing the young man's appearance, a smug smile flashed in the leader's eyes, and their guests basically came to them as angrily and unwillingly as the young man, asking them to do something shady.
Because of this special weapon, their success rate is very high, so now when they see the children of the nobles angrily begging them to do something, they are very proud in their hearts.
Along the way, the leader also kept stopping and stopping, and sometimes deliberately left the main road and took the boy for a small road. And from time to time whistling to imitate the sound of birds. This strange behavior also made the young man secretly note in his heart, he knew that this person was communicating with the secret sentinel in the shadows, avoiding some defensive traps.
"It's a deep thought, there are at least seven or eight secret sentry traps along the way, if someone doesn't lead the way, it will definitely trigger traps and alarm the attention of the people in the mine. The boy sighed in his heart.
After turning around, the group finally came to the mine. The Blaststone Mine is not as inhospitable as a normal mine, it is like a bunch of abandoned mines, hidden between the dense forest. If it weren't for the fact that there were many peasant-like miners coming in and out, pushing out truckloads of blaststone raw ore that had been collected, the boy would definitely think that this was just a place for the Batian to hide people's eyes.
"This is the Blaststone Mine, and it's one of our long guns. The leader proudly introduced to the young man, and when he said the long gun, he naturally referred to the strange weapon they used.
The young man looked at the mine, but he snorted lightly, and said impatiently: "Why do you want me to see this, I am here to talk to you about business, not to burst stones." ”
The leader sneered, and secretly scolded the young man for being a big nobleman, but he didn't dare to show too much, so he had to continue to lead the young man forward.
After turning a corner along the main road, a flat land finally appeared in this small deep mountain, and simple wooden houses were scattered on the flat ground, and there were wooden walls around the houses, like a cottage.
The white mist rising from the inside of several slightly larger houses is like a factory in full swing. I saw that after a truckload of blaststone ore was sent in, another truckload of bronze gravel was sent out, and those were the blaststones that were really extracted.
With the action at the entrance of the mine, the leader no longer showed off his introduction, but took the young man directly to the door of one of the largest houses in the center, where several large men with weapons composed of more iron pipes stopped them.
"Please wait a moment, young master. The leader spoke, then stepped forward and handed the letter to one of them, and whispered a few words beside him, who nodded and let the leader in.
"There are so many rules. The young man snorted coldly, but in his heart, he secretly valued the tightly guarded small cottage.
Not long after, the leader came out and smiled at Wang Yi: "Young master, it's okay, our boss is waiting for you inside." ”
The young man nodded dissatisfiedly, and then walked inside. But he hadn't taken a few steps when the guards at the door stopped him.
"What do you mean by that?!" the anger in the boy's tone became more and more obvious.
"You can go in, but your guards must wait outside. The leader said with a smile.
"I'm going in alone, what if you do anything inside?" the boy glared at the leader.
"Rest assured, you're here to talk about business, and we're sure you're going to have to keep you safe. The leader still smiled and said: "But you also know that our business is quite special, and we must have more eyes, please forgive me." ”
The boy was furious and was about to attack, but found that the guards had already raised their weapons and aimed them at him. And several strong men behind the young man were very conscientious and immediately blocked in front of the young man, and their hands were neatly placed on the hilt of the knife at his waist.
"Young master, the strong dragon doesn't suppress the head snake, what should we do?" one of the strong men leaned into the young man's ear and asked softly, at this moment they are on other people's land, if they really fight, they will definitely not be able to leave, so he had to ask the young man, for fear that it would be bad if the young man was not happy to mess around.
Although the young man was angry, he was not carried away by the anger, he raised his head proudly, stared at the leader and said coldly: "Do you know my identity? ”
The leader was stunned for a moment, knowing that the young man was a nobleman and had a lot of power behind him, but after thinking about it, with their boss behind him, he immediately became a little bolder, so he said: "I know that you are very noble, young master, but when you came to talk about business, you asked us, and you must follow our rules to reflect your sincerity." If you don't think you can accept this rule, you can leave now and we'll take you down safely. ”
The young man froze, looked at the guards who were gradually approaching this side, gritted his teeth secretly, sighed a little unwillingly, turned his head and said to several strong men: "You guys wait for me outside." ”
Hearing the young man's words, the strong men and the leader all breathed a sigh of relief. They were afraid that this young man would be young and ignorant, and he would break in by virtue of his identity, and the consequences would be difficult to control.
Several of the guards stepped back, and the leader grinned again and led the boy into the big house.
Inside the house, the lights were bright, all kinds of torches were lit around, and in a huge hall, there were several people standing and guarding around them, and they were also full of vigilance when they watched the young man come in. In the middle of the lobby, there is a row of chairs, and on top of the middle chair sits a person, looking at the letter in his hand with a smile.
"Boss, Master Camby has arrived. The leader said to the seated man.
"Haha, it turned out to be Young Master Camby of the Duluth family, disrespectful and disrespectful. The man stood up with a laugh, and walked towards the boy with a seemingly enthusiastic attitude, it was obvious that this person was the owner of this blaststone mine, and he was also a notorious tyrant in the outside world.
Batian, just looking at the name, you know that this person must be an extremely conceited and ambitious person. In the rumors of the outside world, I always thought that he was a muscular, bearded, strong and powerful barbaric man, but I didn't expect to see this person and realize that the appearance of the bully rumored by the outside world was not him at all, or that he deliberately misled others about his perception.
Because the overlord who is walking towards him at this moment, but he is an ordinary-looking mercenary, his clothes are no different from the guards standing around, and his sturdy body is also very common among mercenaries, and the most appropriate appearance is described by the word ordinary, which is really difficult to remember, and the only thing that can make people feel bright is his eyes that flashed with a cunning gaze, which is very inconsistent with his temperament.
"Overlord Gang Leader, you are so magnificent. Dissatisfied, the boy removed his hood, revealing his face hidden under it.
Seeing the young man's appearance, Batian suddenly stopped, but the smile on his face was still not stopped, and he asked with a smile: "Are you really the young master of the Dulus family?"
It's no wonder that he thinks so, because the young man is actually a very rare black-haired and black-eyed haircut on the Gods and Demons Continent, not the golden hairstyle that the nobles of the Radiant Blue Kingdom are proud of.