February 10.

It's been a few days since Joe returned to Port Tulum.

He fully interpreted the essence of the word 'rice worm', and for several days he ate and slept and slept, and for several days, he was either on the way to the restaurant or on the way to the bedroom.

Freret's visit with a generous gift ended with Tifa seriously injuring one of his henchmen's guards with a hammer.

Freette and Lucien left the house with the people in disgrace, and the gifts he brought with him were donated directly by Tifa to the workhouse of the Silver Laurel Church in Tulun Port.

This time the Vetots offended Frerett very much.

Frerett was still full of some kind of inexplicable fantasy about Tifa, and at this particular point in time, he was not stupid enough to use any extraordinary means to retaliate.

But for several days in a row, day and night, on the top of St. Hilde's Mountain, three thousand feet above the ground, there was an artillery balloon floating, on which squatted two elite lookouts of the navy, holding binoculars and staring at the Wittu family.

In this way, in the courtyard of the Vetu family, everyone's every move was clearly seen, and there was absolutely no privacy at all.

Annoyed, Leah gathers a group of landedwomen from St. Hilde's Hill and runs to Fredet's protest.

Fredet didn't show up, and Lucien received the top ladies of Port Tulum with a full set of naval papers—those documents stated that in light of the recent tensions, the Imperial Marines of Dron had set up a floating observation post on the top of Mount St. Hilde to ensure that Port Tulun would not be attacked by surprise from any direction!

This is a very high-sounding reason.

Moreover, St. Hilde Hill is indeed the commanding height of Tulum Port, and the artillery balloon is suspended directly above the top of the mountain, there are no obstacles around, and the view is extremely open, which is enough to ensure the safety of Tulun Port.

Leah was extremely annoyed by Lucien's official explanation, but there was nothing she could do about it.

People are right, the multinational coalition is about to attack, Tulun Port may become a battlefield at any time, and the surprise team sent by the native fleet of the Ice Sea Kingdom has been completely wiped out before, no matter how careful it is, it is justified.

Therefore, Liya could only stand in the courtyard every day, looking at the artillery balloon floating overhead.

The lookout on the artillery balloon was also undisguised, holding a telescope, looking directly at the Wittu family mansion in the mid-mountainous area, and they would not take a second look in other directions.

What annoys Leah even more is that when Tifa goes to the district court these days, there are often sneaky people near her carriage.

The guards of the Ritu family were ruthless, and they caught a few unlucky ghosts who followed the tip......

But before the guards of the Vetto family could teach this group of guys a hard lesson, they immediately took out the documents of the naval intelligence officer, and kept saying that they were on official duty - to eliminate the spies of various countries in the city of Port Tulum before the outbreak of war!

Another extremely high-sounding and dignified excuse.

This incident even alarmed Duke Ross, who was already too busy to touch the ground. Eventually, it was at the persuasion of Duke Ross that Leah ordered the release of the captured naval intelligence officers.

Then, these guys acted even more unscrupulously. They even rode horses in groups of three or five, stalking and keeping an eye on the people who went out of the Weitu family.

"If it weren't for the recent tension in the market, I would have given them a good look...... Ah, Hesse is not at home, so they have the audacity to bully us old and young women and children? ”

"Ho ho ho, wait until this inexplicable war is over...... I'll be sure to make them look good! ”

"Ah, damn it...... Joe, what are all these messes of roots, turf, and stone bumps that you're asking me to procure? And so much money was spent...... If you don't give me a definite, convincing excuse...... I will make you relive the motherly love with a flowering ass in your childhood! ”

Leah, already a little angry.

And as Lia said, the situation in Tulum Port has become extremely tense.

Outside the border of the valley to the west, leading to the mountains, squads of mercenaries from the mountains have begun to appear. According to the feedback from the reconnaissance detachment of the garrison in the port of Tulun, a large number of tens of thousands of mercenaries have been gathered in several small plains in the mountains to the west, mixed with a small number of regular troops of the United Kingdom of Nice.

To the east of Port Tulum, the hussars of the Duchy of Portland, the heavily armored knights of the Duchy of Odell, and the mountain rangers of the Duchy of Bechel have appeared in droves.

According to the information received by the Duke of Russ from the vassals of the Lucian Empire, more troops of the Lucia vassals are constantly coming......

A prince of the Lucian royal family is on his way to the Duchy of Portland day and night. He would be the commander-in-chief of the war, taking over the combined army of more than two dozen vassal states, which had been identified in excess of six hundred thousand.

The port of Tulum railway station has been overloaded these days.

In just a few days, more than 200 columns of troops arrived from the north. They sent five full-fledged local garrison troops, as well as countless ordnance, ammunition, dry food, medicine, and other baggage.

In particular, 30 newly formed Marine Divisions from 10 boot training camps in the three provinces north of Tulun Port also rushed to Tulun Port one after another.

These newly formed Marine divisions began to dig trenches and lay out defensive lines on the eastern and western fronts of the port of Tulum.

All the ordnance sent by the military train has been distributed.

These laden military trains unloaded their ordnance baggage at the Tulun port railway station, and the empty carriages were quickly filled with people carrying large and small bags, and they returned to the north 'with a sigh'.

In just a few days, the people who 'should leave' in Tulum have basically all left.

The Junkers, who had become nobles by wealth, all families, young and old, men and women, all left on special trains. When they left, except for the real estate and fields that they could not take away, all their gold and silver were packed and taken away.

The shipowners and merchants, who owned huge possessions, also left the port of Tulum with their families.

In war, those who have wealth but no matching power are the most dangerous.

They are the fattest lambs, and in war, both sides can bite at them - war represents chaos, killing, the degradation of humanity and the collapse of morality, anything can happen.

If they only have a few poor Kimmaks on their hands, then they will be safe even in the middle of war.

But when they have millions of gold marks in their hands, but they do not have the power and strength to protect these gold marks, they are the most vulnerable to destruction in war.

The port of Tulum, the women and children of the Teutonic nobles, also left the port of Tulum by train, which was about to become a battlefield.

And the men of these Teutonic nobility, as long as they were adult men, whether they were active soldiers or not, they all took up their weapons and joined the enemy army.

As long as it is an adult man, including those old guys who have gray hair, they all put on the ancestral armor proudly, hang all kinds of medals left by their ancestors, and carry all kinds of weapons, like a drop of water into the river, naturally integrated into the army.

Those ordinary citizens of the port of Tulum, stayed.

They are just ordinary people, they don't have thousands of family wealth, even if they don't make a ***, they can't scrape too much oil and water from them, why should they run away?

The vast majority of them are native to Casica...... Whether it is the Delen Empire or other countries, isn't it the same who rules it?

The city fox society rats in Tulun Harbor happily stayed.

War is dangerous...... But for these heroes, the risk of war is obviously not as good as the opportunity that war may bring them. In war, as long as they see the opportunity to make a vote, maybe a lifetime of wealth is in it.

Even if you don't have such luck, it's easy to get a little sweetness.

For example, the tender and cute little girl in the neighbor's house next door has been itching for a long time. On weekdays, there are police officers staring at them, and they don't dare to do it. But in war...... Right? Everybody knows it.

Except for these various people, none of the seven-member committee families led by the Vetu family who actually controlled the port of Tulum left.

In the past few days, several newspapers in Tulun Harbor have been frantically advocating the 'bravery' and 'fearlessness' of the Committee of Seven family!

The slogan of 'live and die with the port of Tulum and fight to the death against the invaders' has long been spread through the mouth of the Council of Seven family, throughout the port of Tulum, throughout the Southern Special Region, and is spreading at a speed like a storm towards the Delen Empire and the entire Metland continent.

The situation is fermenting, and all parties are intensively preparing.

Another three days passed.

The Rittal Mansion, the huge, bird's-nest-like treehouse.

Hundreds of huge beer kegs were neatly stacked in front of Joe, and Joe carefully poured a little red-colored potion into the beer keg.

In the huge beer barrel, the originally turbid juice tumbled rapidly, a strange smell wafted out, countless fine bubbles tumbled in the juice, and the color of the turbid juice began to change slowly, and finally turned into a viscous liquid as red as blood.

Joe sniffed the liquid inside the keg, dipped his finger in some of the juice, and put it on his tongue to taste it.

'Poof, poof, poof', Joe spat a few hard times, and he muttered, "Laprahi, these are enough for that Henrak, right?" Ah, I took the initiative to ask Ying to hunt this big one, if I sacrificed it......"

"Well, it's just a small-bastard with impure blood...... You should be more ambitious, for example, you sacrificed the Zhenguo Divine Beast of the Ice Sea Kingdom, the true pure-blood descendant of the Deep Sea Giant Monster? ”

Laprahi's laughter grew sharper and sharper.

Joe pursed his lips and snorted softly, "So, let's get started...... Freret's men are following so closely these days that we should give them a little surprise. ”