Chapter 82: The same is the end of the world
When he saw Donald's old face with a gentlemanly smile but a sharp-beaked monkey cheek, Su Wen's first reaction was "this person is absolutely poisonous", and the second reaction was "If you don't run at this time, when will you wait"!
Just kidding, when he learned from the system that Donald was a little suspicious of the origin of his identity, how could Su Wen give him a chance to contact him again. It was definitely not a pure accident that the pen and the fun www.biquge.info met him here, he must have found him somehow, and what was there that deserved Nader to chase him personally?
Was it because of Shirley's horrible monster, or was it because of something else?
The more Su Wen thought about it, the more wrong it became, if it was the former, it would be fine, what Su Wen was most afraid of was 'something else'. Although Donald has never shown ill will towards himself, judging from his strength, if he really finds something, unless he owes a huge loan of millions to the system, there is only one result, and that is to finish the game.
"Excuse me, I'm in the wrong place. ”
Su Wen said, and at the same time dodged and flew back, stepping through the dark corridor in three or two steps, but when he returned to the stairs, he found that the door to the basement had been tightly closed at some point.
Finished......
Although he had already guessed that there must be such a play, Su Wen was still disappointed.
In the back room, Donald's voice sounded with a dissatisfied tone: "You ran away without even saying the opening words, is it really so scary to see me?"
Seeing that there was no way to escape, Su Wen no longer covered it up, so he simply turned his heart sideways and turned back.
"Tell me, what's the matter. ”
"Didn't you come to me first, I'm an intelligence merchant here, tell me what you need. Donald glared at Sue and rubbed his bird's nest-like blue hair.
"I want to know the secrets of the great explosion of species 2,000 years ago. ”
"Poof!"
Obviously he didn't drink water, but Donald actually forcibly squirted out a mouthful of water: "This question is probably only the Goddess of Light can answer for you, and you won't change to a more reliable one?"
However, Su Wen was not in the mood to play a game of spit with him.
"If you have something to say, let me go if you have nothing to do, I don't believe you have nothing to do and come to play, if that's the case - as a customer, it's normal to cancel the consultation of an intelligence merchant, right?"
"So, I do have something to ask you. ”
Donald's face suddenly sank, and his small eyes stared straight at Su Wen, projecting a rare seriousness in them: "You accepted 20,000 gold coins from me but didn't get things done, is it better to give me an explanation." ”
Su Wen breathed a sigh of relief, but still frowned and replied, "That kind of thing is really going to kill people!
"I did a bit of ...... on the black card"
"It's such a low-quality way, but I have already replaced that black card, and you should have to follow it to the bank. Su Wen had long expected that Donald might play yin, so as soon as he left Tridis Province, he took out all the gold coins in the card, and divided them into three accounts and deposited them into three different savings cards, so even if Donald had done anything with the things he sent, he should have lost the clue from that time.
"So after returning from the Pandora Ancient Battlefield, I began to ask around about your whereabouts, and finally found the little light magician, and then I knew where you were going. ”
"So you're waiting for me here, there are more than a dozen entrances to the Iron Furnace Province!"
"yes, I've been waiting for every entrance. ”
Su Wen almost wanted to stretch out his middle finger as a condolence.
"Damn, just for those 20,000 gold coins, as for it!"
Donald sighed lightly and shook his head: "It's not because of the gold coins, the main Tridis side can't stay at all, it's better to run around." Before the start of the school year at St. Peter's College, I decided to find something to do here, and whoever cares about that little place will be in charge. ”
"So powerful?!"
Su Wen was so creepy that he could not stay at the point where Donald could think of it with his toes, and there was probably no second possibility other than Shirley. And Su Wen couldn't help but sigh at the same time, this guy really didn't have a good heart at the beginning, and actually planned to throw a terrifying existence to him that he couldn't even stand himself, if he hadn't run away decisively in the Tridis Mercenary Guild that time, he really didn't know what to do with it now.
"Tsk, haven't you seen it with your own eyes, forget it, don't mention it......"
Donald was a little melancholy, but in the end, he didn't mean to reach out to Su Wen to ask for money, but grabbed a bottle with a red liquid and threw it to Su Wen, which looked a bit like blood.
"What is this?"
"The special medicine may help your poison. ”
The corners of Su Wen's mouth twitched, if the system didn't lie to him, the poisoning was nonsense at all, but Donald obviously felt that he was convinced of this, and he didn't want to show it.
"Thank you. ”
Having made the decision to dump this thing when he went back, Su Wen accepted the so-called special medicine and replied through gritted teeth.
"Alright, then again, what are you doing in the Iron Furnace Province?" Donald didn't care about the bottle of medicine, waved his hand and asked, "This is not a good place, 300 kilometers further north you will know what hell is, the people who die there every year are worth the population of two Trides, although ninety percent of them are alien cannon fodder." ”
"It's just a tour, I'll be gone in a few days. ”
Now that Donald has arrived here, Su Wen understands that he is unlikely to make a big move this time, I am afraid that it will really become a tour, otherwise if more abnormal actions are discovered, I don't know what kind of suspicion and trouble it will cause. Of course, as for how many days "after a few days" is, it is open to debate.
"Oh, so I need to tell you a little bit about the people?"
Su Wen said helplessly: "You are waiting for me here, don't you know what I want to know." ”
"Seems right, no wonder you stopped at the gate of the Iron Furnace Province, hoping to cause a disturbance and lure you over. Donald touched his chin and said, "Scared by the barbed wire fence in the Iron Furnace Province? Actually, everyone was scared when they first came, and this is what happened in recent decades, and there were not so many doorways before. ”
"Yes, I feel like the Iron Furnace Province is like an independent country. ”
"That's right, 70 years ago an ambitious group of goblins banded together to form an army armed with muskets to claim supremacy in this land. ”
"And then?"
"Then it became the Iron Furnace Autonomous Province. ”
"Poof, so it's a success or a failure!"
"Of course it was a failure, the Musket Legion looked powerful, but it couldn't beat the Magister Legion. And there was no need to be head-on, the king just sent a few top assassins to cut off the heads of the goblin kings. Donald smiled, "The ambitious are dead, the unambitious and can be controlled naturally, the creativity of the goblins and the racial talent of the dwarves are very useful, so in order to stabilize the hearts of the people, although they cannot really be allowed to stand independent, but the superficial form must not be less." After this happened, you can't see it in any historical documents because it doesn't sound good, but it's not a secret. ”
"Is that boundary line also because of form? ”
"Not only that, but also to prevent smuggling. You know, the Iron Furnace Province is the largest weapon and industrial province in the country, and this kind of thing is impossible to let go, so the weapons and equipment produced in the Iron Furnace Province can only be sold to the Pan Yin Mountains, and the empire strictly forbids anyone to open export channels to the country, especially new weapons such as muskets. ”
"I see, but I think the commerce industry on the road is quite developed?"
"It's all the import and export of raw materials and other supplies, which merchant group dare to load weapons on the wagon? At least on the surface, if you don't dare on the surface, if you catch it, you will basically be executed. ”
Donald didn't say much, but Su Wen had already basically sorted out the situation in the Iron Furnace Province.
On the social level, it is an obvious fact that human beings and aliens can never get along on an equal footing, at least for the time being in the history of the Glorious Continent. On this basis, giving them a province because of the value of goblins and dwarves is an extremely strange thing for the Duolun Empire, which is a human power, after all, although this province was almost completely destroyed in the race war five hundred years ago, it is also human territory after all.
And although Donald didn't say it explicitly, since he had the ambition to form an army and prepare for independence, then the mass base must be large, which shows that the alien inhabitants of the Iron Furnace Province also have a desire for independence: while being criticized as a cancer of the Duolun Empire, they also have to contribute economic value to the country, and it is estimated that no one will be happy to change it. In this "revolution", the final result seems to be caused by a fortuitous ambition and the compromise of the empire, but in fact it is more inevitable - at least in the entire glorious continent, human beings will always draw a line with the alien race, and control under this premise.
"By the way, if you want to visit the Iron Furnace Province, I have to tell you in advance that there is nothing worth lingering in, and if there were, they were all wiped out in the era of the Race War. Donald said leisurely, "However, because of the goblins, the Iron Furnace Province has been called the Gold Absorbing Cave for a long time, and the tourist value is still very high. So, are you ready to spend a lot of gold coins, if it's not enough, I have it here, I can lend you some, the interest is not high, 1% per day. ”
"Excuse me, close to 40 times the interest rate in a year, even those goblins can't do this kind of thing. ”
"It's hard to say, it's really a fool to be fooled. ”
"Not me anyway"
Su Wen stood up, not intending to stay, "You continue to do your job, now that you understand the situation here, I'll set off." ”
"Wait, you're not going to want to leave, are you?"
Nonsense.
Considering Donald's status as an elder, Su Wen still didn't say the word: "Since my matter is over, if you don't leave, are you still waiting for me to eat?"
"I've come to you on business, and that old fellow Ptolemy has asked me to bring you something. ”
"Huh?!"
"By the way, I paid the consulting fee before this, 10 gold coins, counting the price of your acquaintance. ”