The City of Hope, located twenty miles northwest of the Great Qin Imperial Capital, is a notoriously chaotic place in the Great Qin Kingdom.

It was originally a temporary residence for displaced people who migrated from the wasteland, because it happened that on the way from the wasteland to the imperial capital, mercenaries and adventurers would choose to rest here first whenever they returned to the imperial capital. First, you can straighten out your outfit so that you won't be too embarrassed, and second, you can find someone here to quietly dispose of some things that are inconvenient to deal with in the imperial capital. So in this way, slowly, this place has evolved into the largest gray area in Daqin. Thieves, Wanted, Killers, Black Market Traders...... It is a paradise for all those who seek a living in the dark world, and it is also the best tool for some big people to accumulate wealth.

Here, everything is about money. All you have to do is take out a gold coin, and someone will send their wife and daughter to you. All you have to do is take out ten gold coins, and someone will be willing to take a knife and slash at each other to amuse you. All you have to do is take out a hundred gold coins and a bunch of people will come together to find a way to tear you to shreds, and trust me, if they have the slightest chance, they will do so, even if in the next moment, your sword can pierce his heart.

In the City of Hope, in a dimly lit basement, a man in coarse cloth clothes fell to his knees, his left sleeve empty, and he actually lost his left arm.

A voice in the darkness said slowly, "How's the preparation?"

The one-armed man buried his head lower, and said with sincere fear: "Everything is being arranged closely, and it is expected that it will take half a year to be ready, please rest assured that the Holy Envoy is there." ”

"Three months!" said the voice in the darkness coldly.

The one-armed man hesitated for a moment, and said in a trembling voice, "Holy Envoy, it's too nervous to give only three months, can you be more lenient?"

The voice in the darkness was unmoved, "You have to make it clear, I'm not talking to you. ”

"But adults ......"

"Smack!" A whip shadow flew out of the darkness and slammed on the one-armed man's back, the man's clothes instantly cracked, revealing his sturdy back, but at this moment, a long blood mark stretched from his left shoulder to his right waist, and the flesh rolled up, so that it was not bloody.

"Woo!" the one-armed man endured the pain, his body curled up in a ball, not daring to make another sound.

"Four years ago, it was because of your mistakes that the Templar's deployment of the Sith Kingdom was disrupted, and I didn't let you bargain with me here when I spared your life. ”

The one-armed man propped himself up with one hand, kept kowtowing to the holy envoy in the dark, and shouted in his mouth: "The holy envoy is angry, his subordinates know his mistakes, and the holy envoys are angry, and his subordinates know their mistakes......"

"That's enough!" the holy envoy stopped the one-armed man, and he was so frightened that he froze there, not burying his head, not burying his head, and the basement seemed extraordinarily quiet and depressing at this moment.

Suddenly, the one-armed man saw a wooden stick thrown out of the darkness, rolled twice on the ground, and finally stopped in front of him. The man with the severed arm looked in the direction where the arm was thrown, and wondered what the Holy Envoy meant by this. Is it an insult? There is no need for this.

Looking at the puzzled eyes of the one-armed man, the holy envoy still said coldly: "This is a machine arm, originally planned to be rewarded to you after the success of this plan, but now in order to make it convenient for you to do things, make an exception and give it to you to use in advance, don't let me down again." Remember, I don't want to see you fail again. ”

The man with the broken arm trembled and picked up the arm on the ground, he understood what the Holy Messenger meant, either succeed or ...... Gone forever. "Thank you, Your Excellency, my subordinates will do their best to ensure that the preparations are completed within three months. ”

"Stand down. ”

The man with the broken arm took the machine arm, bowed down and retreated to the middle of the wall behind him, I don't know what mechanism he opened, I saw the wall he was sticking to flip over, and he arrived at a place similar to an underground warehouse.

"Shhh It seemed that the action just now involved the wound on his back, and the one-armed man gasped, his eyebrows and eyes wrinkled together, and his body trembled for a long time.

I don't know how long it took, but the one-armed man finally opened his eyes, and by this time the sweat on his body had soaked his coarse cloth clothes. Resisting the stinging pain of the wound, he placed his arm in the spatial ring that hung from his chest.

The one-armed man climbed up the stairs of the warehouse and came to an adobe house of about 10 square meters. The furnishings in the room are very simple, one bed, one table, two benches. The man walked out of the room and walked through the small fenced courtyard that he had made of wooden planks to the shop in the front yard.

"Boss Zhao, what's wrong? In the store, a white-faced man with a gay anger was holding a small bronze mirror and looking carefully, and when he saw the man with a broken arm walking out of the backyard with an injury and entering the counter, he couldn't help but ask.

Boss Zhao, the man with a broken arm, did not answer the white-faced man's question, but took off his clothes, simply gave himself some medicine, and took a new piece of clothing of the same color to put on. "Just mind yourself, it's not your turn to ask me. ”

When the white-faced man heard these unkind words, he didn't get angry, and still said with a smile: "Ouch, my boss Zhao, you are so fierce, but no woman likes you." After saying that, I didn't know where to take out a handkerchief and put it in front of my mouth, covering half of my face.

Boss Zhao ignored the white-faced man's ridicule, "The Holy Envoy has already issued an order, and all preparations for this plan must be completed within three months. ”

"What?" the white-faced man exclaimed, but soon realized that this was not a safe place, and hurriedly lowered his voice, "Lord Holy Envoy doesn't know, don't you know, how can it be done in three months?" ”

"I repeat, this is an order from the Holy Envoy, not a consultation. Boss Zhao also suppressed his voice and said hatefully.

"Okay, okay, I know, don't stare at me with such big eyes. The white-faced man was very unhappy. When I heard this, I was going to lift my legs and leave. When he was about to go out, he remembered something, turned to Boss Zhao and said, "There is a situation with the two children you asked me to help you pay attention to." After speaking, he took out a folded piece of paper from the space ring and threw it to Boss Zhao in the air.

Seeing the white-faced man leave, Boss Zhao opened the paper and looked at the contents on it.

There wasn't much written on the paper, and after reading it quickly, Boss Zhao put the paper in the stove and watched it burn out in the flames, but the flames in his eyes were not extinguished for a long time.

"Thunder Mountain...... Thunderstorm!"