Let's chirp, chirp...... Let's chirp, chirp......

In a common dining room outside the pastoral area, Bishop Ike was munching on a plate of potato salad with his face stained with food residues, and he wanted to bury his head in the plate.

On the other side, Yalei was fiddling with mashed potatoes with a spoon, completely unappetizing. The two of them eat in the middle of each other, and it doesn't matter how ugly the other party's food is. But the knight is a staunch carnivore, and a vegetarian diet is not at all acceptable when eaten as an ingredient, but as a staple food.

Indifferent to the staple food, Yalei aimed at the foie gras in the upper right corner of the plate, looked like it was hard, and tasted it...... A fishy smell unique to inferior foie gras fills the mouth. In the spirit of not wasting food, he swallowed it after all, but never wanted to taste it again.

In order to dilute the bitter taste in his mouth, the knight had to swallow the mashed potatoes in large gulps.

"Whew!" After eating the food on his plate, Ike let out a breath of satisfaction and leaned back in his chair to change his comfortable position. It's like an ancient serf who has not had a hungry stomach for a long time and suddenly has a full meal.

The knight quickly finished eating, put down the dishes, and asked as he untied the napkin on his chest, "It stands to reason that you should have a lot of income, why do the poor rely on a can of oats for the winter?"

The bishop gently put down the napkin and said in a deep and distant voice: "For the ideal." ”

"Ideals, what ideals?" he was intrigued.

"Save the world!" said someone with a resolute and decisive face.

Yalei immediately got up and left, such a big person, his IQ is still on the same level as Irion, it's too stupid. I wasted half a day with this kind of person, and I was stupid enough.

"Oh, don't go, I'm telling the truth!" Ike paid the bill and hurriedly caught up with the knight's back.

"I'm sorry, but I don't think the world is so fragile that it needs a clergyman to go hungry to save it. Yare strode forward without looking back.

"This is a subtle disaster! it may never be born, it may be born immediately!" said the young bishop, who kept up with him, with an anxious and quick expression.

"Even if the Heavenly Pillar collapses, there are emperors and fairy lords to support it. ”

"The crux of the matter is the elf lords!, do you think they are really our friends?" Behind him, the voice of the other party lowered his voice and was slightly flustered.

"......!" the knight stopped, and turned to him with a look of surprise.

"Follow me!" Ike looked around warily, grabbed Arley's arm and galloped all the way. This clergyman was so amazing that he actually pulled the knight and ran all the way back to the ruins of the Hagia Sophia.

The young bishop gasped, stopped at the wooden bridge in the verandah of the church, leaned back against the handrail, and squeezed out a smile: "You are the person who Alex has a crush, sooner or later you will know about these things, and it doesn't hurt to sue you now." ”

"What exactly do you want to say?" Areh had a vague premonition, but he couldn't grasp the point.

"The four fairy lords, although they have always guarded this world, are not human beings after all. To put it simply, what they are guarding is this world, and humans are just a fluke that is included. ”

"But the emperor ......"

"It is precisely because of the birth of Agaric the Great, who subdued all things and all spirits with the power of the vast gods, that he was able to avoid conflict and reluctantly conclude a covenant with them. The elves are very different from the material needs of humans, giving this covenant the possibility to survive, and because of this, they can never become truly us. You should be able to understand what I mean. ”

"You mean, Elf Lords...... Will it rebel?" asked the knight in disbelief, his life's worldview on the verge of collapse at this moment.

"Sooner or later, the moment when humans replace goblins with power and become the guardians of this world, one qiē is already doomed. When we are too weak to shoulder such a heavy responsibility, it is only natural that we will be abandoned by them with an infinite lifespan. ”

Ike looked at the sky in the distance, and his tone was heavy and terrifying:

"Goblins are the darlings of this world, and compared to them, human life is short and fragile. Even if it is crossed once, there is time and patience to wait for the opportunity. I even suspect that they are deliberately trying to throw the burden of the Guardians on the Humans. ”

Yalei closed his eyes and calmly pondered for a while, staring at him with a blade-like gaze: "These bold speculations are indeed possible. But what does that have to do with you being hungry?"

"Aha!" a certain bishop did not dare to look at each other, but looked around with a loud dry laugh, and only after feeling that the knight's eyes were getting colder and colder, he gritted his teeth and stamped his foot:

"Okay, now, I'll let you see the treasure I painstakingly developed!"

Ike led Are, and the two of them walked through the ruins of the cathedral, first breaking into a forest, where the birds and beasts scattered and fled.

Across the woods, a messy clearing appeared, and on the old stone floor, all kinds of ancient monster pieces were placed. Among them, the large object facing the two people and wrapped in a tarpaulin is the most conspicuous.

"See!" the bishop ripped off the first tarpaulin on his left.

A strange vehicle made of wood and iron appeared in front of the two. The car has no horse sleeves and wheels, the front part of the car resembles the structure of a ship turntable, and the rear part carries a fine iron tank, and various pipes under the tank are connected to the car body site.

It looks ugly, but it's a novelty.

"Is this a car?" asked Yare, curious.

"That's right!" Ike replied triumphantly, and swaggered over to the saddle.

"How are you going to make it move without a horse?" the knight glanced up and down at the strange car, which had neither the saddle of a livestock nor the mana fluctuations of alchemy.

"That's why it's a baby!" the bishop grabbed a wooden stick from under the turntable and pressed it down hard.

Bang! There was a muffled thud at the base of the tin can behind the car, and something inside was ignited. Yalei quietly watched Ike maneuver, and a huge curiosity arose about this strange broken car.

"Luckily, it was lit the first time!" the young bishop exclaimed excitedly, rubbing his hands together and looking eager to try.

The two of them waited for a quarter of an hour, and a white gas erupted from the pipe behind the car, and the inside of the tank gurgled and gurgling.

"Hahaha!" Ike let out a long laugh as the strange car stumbled and began to squirm, and after struggling to climb forward about thirty feet, it stopped.

"How's it going?" said someone, puffing up his chest and boasting smugly.

"Awesome!" Areley admired with convincing admiration, and walked over to touch the body of the car.

Ike snapped his fingers and counted the advantages of the strange car and said:

"Hehe, the airship is a bit similar, my baby doesn't need any magic materials!, and it's cheap and easy to use. The airship also needs alchemy props to extract gas, and my car can be built by hand...... It's a bit slow, but there's room for improvement!"

"Oh! it's steam!" the knight touched for a while, and finally realized the mystery of the strange car, which turned out to be burning coal, boiling the water in the tank, and using the power of the steam to propel the car forward.

It's amazing!

After the excitement, Bishop Ike, the master of the steam car, said with a bit of vicissitudes: "I have thrown all the money for these treasures, but it doesn't matter. This qiē is all for the future of mankind. ”

"What do you say?" said Yalei, since the other party is a person with real skills, he should be humble and be a listener.

"Rosevia has a population of 600 million, but less than a billion acres of arable land, but we have enough to fill and have the spare energy to sell to the outside world. This qiē is all thanks to the Flower Fairy and the Miner Goblin, who can fully ripen the rice overnight if they are willing to spend mana. And with enough tribute, the Miner Goblins also have the ability to build roads overnight. ”

"That's a good thing. The knight interjected.

"It's a good thing indeed...... But the fact that the most important agriculture and part of a country's industry are in the hands of goblins makes me shudder just thinking about it. ”

The bishop's words caused an uproar in Are's heart, and it dawned on him that while people enjoyed the convenience given by the goblins, he himself had wasted so much.

If one day, humans and goblins turn against each other, then...... An icy cold current suddenly surged into his heart.

"We must try to get rid of our dependence on them!" the knight blurted out.

"It's not that simple. A bitter smile rose into the corner of Ike's mouth: "Double the profit is enough to make a person break his head, and the goblin brings more than double the profit? Why bother to work hard when you can get something lightly...... A lot of people think so. Even under the majesty of the emperor, if the decree can be carried out, with the current agricultural power of the empire, if you refuse the goblins, I am afraid that half of the citizens will starve to death first. ”

"So, to get rid of the dependence on goblins, we must have agricultural and industrial power that can match it. And no matter how popularized alchemy is, the requirements for qualifications and materials are hard after all, and this road will not work. ”

The young bishop clenched his fists, as if to pull some kind of force into himself:

"This steam car, which I had a spark of inspiration for, gave me hope. As long as we continue to improve it, we will definitely be able to develop a large-scale machine that can be made by ordinary people, and at that time, if we use industry to drive agriculture, we will definitely be able to get rid of the grip of goblins! For this reason, even if I am branded as a heretic and burned to death at the stake, I will not hesitate to do so!"

Ike's gaze was firm and persistent, and the frenzy that permeated in an instant could almost merge with ice. Under the sun, the local tyrant gold in his body is not so dazzling.

Yare couldn't have imagined that under this guy's undisciplined appearance, there was such a fiery and strong heart.

The young bishop's eyebrows suddenly moved, and the familiar smile came back to the corners of his mouth, and he took the knight's hand affectionately and said:

"Let's put this matter aside for a while, let's take a look at my second Ming, Time Machine qì!"

“...... I think it's better to be down-to-earth, because it's easy to get eggs when you take a big step. ”

"In that case, can you sponsor me a sum of money? Not much, 180,000 soles is almost enough. ”

“......”

The tall image that someone had just established collapsed in Yalei's heart.

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