Smooth carriage on board.

Xu Nan opened the curtains to let his eyes adjust to the snow sunshine that he hadn't seen for a long time.

Wildfire City seems to be as peaceful as ever, but in fact there is an unknown turbulence surging in the dark.

People gather in groups to talk about recent interesting events, and the people in the snow field seem to be very interested, as if they are inspired by something; In stark contrast to the human activity, there are hunting dogs and feral cats that look a little nervous.

The pets, who had always gotten along well with the people of the Ice Plains, all looked a little panicked.

They seem to sense some impending danger.

Xu Nan silently closed the curtain and pretended to close his eyes to recuperate.

In fact, he was checking the reward for the [Ten Days of the Brothel] mission.

Since the distortion of shame, his traits have been sealed and he is still in a state of abstinence.

Fortunately, this state does not prevent him from doing tasks and brushing shame points.

As explained before, the brothel was successfully completed in ten days, and Xu Nan was given 100 shame points, which made him quite happy; In addition, the optimization of the agreed random two-ring spell also shocked Xu Nan's spirit.

【Selected Optimization Spell: Bileg's Tremor Palm】

[Optimized successfully! 】

[You have mastered a new spell: Super Tremor Palm!] 】

[Super Tremor Palm: A super optimized version of Bileg's Tremor Palm, which has a powerful tremor effect, and even has an instantaneous lethal effect on ordinary humans; Of course, for some xenomorphs with strong bodies, they can be used for XXX......]

Xu Nan was a little puzzled: "When did the Paradise Lost system also introduce the blocking word mechanism?" ”

"For the strong xenomorphs, what can the Super Tremor Palm be used for?"

But he didn't dwell on that. Bileg's tremor palm was not Xu Nan's most common offensive method, because he hated that this thing was not as simple and rough as mixed doubles or group fighting.

But after the upgrade, there must be a new application space, and in just a few seconds of successful optimization, Xu Nan has already thought of an excellent application place.

Thinking of this, a wicked smile couldn't help but appear on the corner of his mouth:

"For ......, of course It's been demolished! ”

Well, the Super Tremor Palm can not only be used against living organisms, but also has a very significant effect on illegal buildings.

For Xu Nan, who aims to control Wildfire City, he will have a new solution when he encounters nail households in urban planning in the future.

……

The carriage of the Sebalon family quickly sent Xu Nan and Gray to the City Lord's Mansion.

It's just that as soon as he got out of the car, Gray was keenly aware of something.

His nose twitched slightly, and then he frowned and said:

"There was just a fight here......"

"Bloodstained ......"

Xu Nan nodded, indicating that there was no need to worry.

As long as Barnes isn't completely insane by now, he shouldn't pose much of a threat.

After all, he still needs a puppet city lord - in this regard, Xu Nan is still very conscious.

Led by the guards, the two of them walked through the city lord's mansion, which was obviously heavily guarded, until they reached the city lord's bedroom.

This is where Xu Nan came before, and the city lord's treasure chest is hidden here.

When Xu Nan entered, Barnes just sent out a few familiar local faces with a smile.

When those people saw Xu Nan, their expressions were still a little frightened and unsettled, and they actually bowed their heads and saluted Xu Nan one by one, according to the customs of the Ice Plains people, that etiquette was clearly for people with higher status than themselves.

Gray raised his eyebrows and whispered to Xu Nan, "It seems that this Young Master Barnes has already taken care of the rest of the Ice Plains. ”

It's just that his eyes are still full of incomprehension.

Gray was more or less a participant in the turmoil of this wild development, but these days, he always felt that the truth was obscured by a thick layer of fog.

How exactly did Barnes do it?

He was equally curious.

Xu Nan knew very well in his heart that, as Gray said, since Barnes invited him over at this time, it meant that he had already taken care of the rest of the Ice Plains - at least on the surface.

He was also keenly aware that among the leaders who had just left, who represented the local forces of Wildfire City, there were no people from the Blackwater Gang of the Second Force.

Half of the answer seems to be revealed.

The remaining half will have to be asked to Barnes himself.

Under Gray's anxious gaze, Xu Nan Shi Ran walked into the room.

It was evening, the sun was setting, and the fiery clouds on the horizon hung straight from the window, and Barnes seemed to be enjoying the scenery.

Hearing footsteps behind him, he slowly turned around, and a sincere smile appeared on his resolute face:

"Good evening, my lord."

After that, he handed over a heavy bronze order to Xu Nan.

Gray held his breath for a moment.

Xu Nan carefully checked the bronze order, and then gently inserted it into the city lord's treasure chest.

Without any sound, the treasure chest opened automatically, and there were many documents, diaries, and the seal of the city lord, which seemed to be the relics left by Sir Barton.

Barnes smiled quietly and did not speak.

Xu Nan groaned:

"Can you tell me how?"

Like Gray, he didn't figure out the ins and outs of this matter, and he became a puppet city lord with such a confused face, and his heart hurt a little.

Barnes glanced at Gray, who looked a little stiff, but at Xu Nan's signal, he left silently.

It's just that the look in his eyes when he left was clearly warning Xu Nan that he must tell him the ins and outs of this matter.

Xu Nan pretended not to see it.

"It's not too complicated."

Barnes rubbed his temples and gently placed a contract on the table:

"It's just a few more clowns who jump off the beam that makes things seem a little complicated."

Xu Nan glanced at the contract, and the content was roughly a previous agreement between Xu Nan and Barnes: an agreement on the vigorous production and sale of Theron wine in Wildfire City.

His fingers tapped lightly on the contract, pretending to show a hint of displeasure:

"I don't want to be taken advantage of, or poisoned again."

Barnes's expression became slightly colder:

"I promise, there won't be any more poisoning, it was just an accident."

"But if Mr. Su is so interested in the ins and outs of this matter, I don't need to hide it."

"In fact, the focus of all this is on the real Wild Pioneer Order."

Xu Nan's eyes lit up.

Under Barnes's quick narration, this strange turmoil in Wildfire City finally opened up a corner of the truth.

……

In the process of competing for this wild development order, in fact, there has always been the shadow of the royal capital's spies.

But there are only two real sides in the wrestling: Cebaron and the Blackwaters.

As for the others, Xu Nan, Gray and the others are actually just passers-by who appeared unexpectedly and added some variables to this turmoil.

According to Barnes, some time ago, a drunkard strayed into the living corpse swamp and found the remains of the Mage Tower, and somehow brought back the real barbaric development order.

The Blackwater got the first step and bought or snatched the Wild Pioneer Order from the drunk, who Barnes thought was more likely to be, as the drunk was soon found dead in the stinking ditch.

At this point, it seems that Cook, the boss of the Blackwater Gang, has taken the lead in this battle for the city lord.

However, at this time, very coincidentally, the spies of the royal capital began to spread rumors about the Wild Frontier Order, and after initial contact, the people of the Blackwater Gang seemed to have a cognitive misunderstanding, and they mistakenly thought that the Wild Frontier Decree in their hands was fake; It is also possible that they wanted to test the attitude of the Sebalon family, so they used various methods to sell a copy of the Wild Pioneer Order to the second lady in the quicksands.

That bronze order is the one in Xu Nan's hand.

Then, after Xu Nan arrived in Wildfire City, the Blackwater Gang threw out a second fake Wild Exploration Order in order to create a conflict, trying to get Barnes to take the bait - they thought that the young Barnes would be not cautious enough, and after determining that Xu Nan's one was fake, he would mistakenly think that his own one was real, and then get involved in the position of the city lord.

But Barnes held back, and he cautiously tried the authenticity of the token, thus bankrupting the Blackwater scheme.

After that, he conducted a rigorous investigation and bribery, and finally determined that Cook of the Blackwater Gang was the spoiler behind all this, and Wang Du's spies only played a role in fueling the trouble.

Cook was suspicious and cautious, and he was not 100% sure, and he did not dare to stand up and announce to others the wild frontier order in his hand; Especially after the news of the royal capital's spies came out, he basically believed that the bronze order in his hand was actually forged by the people of the royal capital.

The Blackwater Gang is not as powerful as the Sebalon family, and Barnes has been staring at them all these years, Cook does not dare to act rashly, he has been waiting for an opportunity.

Wait for the true Wilderness Frontier Order to come before Cook can step forward, open the City Lord's Chest, and order the rest of the Icefield people to exercise their oath.

But what he didn't know was that the Blackwater had been infiltrated by Barnes, who had seen it all at a speed that Cook couldn't have imagined.

Barnes began to devise a small plan: while Gray was heading to the Living Swamp, he sent his team of adventurers, under the guise of exploring the Mage Tower, and deliberately leaked the secret to the Blackwaters.

As a result, Cook became a little anxious.

For him, if Barnes gets the real Wilderness Pioneer Order, it means that he will never recover. The Blackwater never had a chance to overtake Cebaron again.

If that's all there is, Cook would probably be patient, but Barnes threw a bigger bait.

He has "leaked" a second piece of information, which revealed that Zeborah's team had received the real Savage Frontier Order in the Mage Tower!

He also deliberately told his entourage that once he became the lord of the city, he would definitely kill Cook.

This time, Cook couldn't sit still.

He sent his elite scout, Elliot, to attack Zeborah's team on the way - in fact, the adventurers who appeared to have just returned from the Living Swamp had been instructed by Barnes a day in advance, carrying a fake Savage Frontier Order, which happened to be the one thrown by the Blackwater through the homeless.

Barnes knew that Elliot was good at dropping and stealing, so Zeborah's team's tokens were dropped.

Because of the lag in the transmission of information and the urgency of the situation, Barness concluded that the one that Elliot used to drop the fake token must be the real token in Cook's hand.

As it turned out, it did.

Cook succeeded, and he got his wish to get the token that Zeborah's team "worked so hard to" find from the Mage Tower; Barness also succeeded, and he bloodlessly obtained the real token from Cook.

After that, everything seemed to make sense.

Cornered, Cook decided to take a gamble, believing that the tokens that Zeborah's team had "worked so hard to" bring out from the swamp of living corpses were genuine, and stepped forward to fight for the position of city lord.

Just this afternoon, Cook was holding a token and wanted to open the City Lord's Chest. It's a pity that he failed.

Carefully prepared, Barness staged a not-so-bloody urn to catch a turtle, Cook died, Elliot fled, and the rest of the Blackwater quickly surrendered.

The real Wild Pioneer Order quietly came to Xu Nan's palm.

……

The above is the information that Xu Nan learned from Barnes.

The operation of exchanging the fake for the real looks really good, but there are still many doubts unresolved:

For example, Xu Nan himself knew that the real Miss Su was actually killed by the people of Wildfire City, and the person who killed her was most likely a member of the Blackwater Gang, so now it seems that it means that Miss Su bought the real Wild Pioneer Order at the beginning?

For another example, who poisoned Xu Nan at the banquet when he first came to Wildfire City?

For another example, how did Zebora and the others find the Mage Tower? How can Barnes be sure that the token in Cook's hand must be genuine?

Xu Nan showed a contemplative expression, obviously, Barnes was hiding something very important.

For example, if the poison is not good, he caused it himself.

Barnes looked relaxed:

"Except for a few details, that's pretty much it."

"With this contract, you can be your city lord, and no one will point a finger at you from now on, and in Wildfire City, you can get a life that cannot be satisfied in the quicksands."

"Together, we will recreate the splendor of this ancient city."

Xu Nan smiled, and on the surface, he took out a pen from his pocket and signed it with a brush. Tumer's signature.

Barnes solemnly saluted:

"I've seen the lord of the castle."

Xu Nan's eyes danced with the flames of the setting sun, and he seemed to be shocked by Barnes's flawless resourcefulness:

"I feel like I'm listening to a legend, how did you come up with this kind of ploy? Can I ask a privacy question – what is your intelligence? I'm afraid even the wise men of Stephen Sand are just like that. ”

Barnes was stunned for a moment, and smiled a rare shyly:

"I tested it once many years ago, and my intelligence was around 14 points, which is not particularly outstanding."

Xu Nan exclaimed on the surface: "It's really a high intelligence!" ”

But he silently added in his heart:

"Grass, not even three-quarters of Lao Tzu's arrival."

"You shouldn't have that much intelligence......"

……