The cold water season is coming as scheduled, and the town of Blackcastle is full of people and is very lively. Ten days ago, the ant colony was finally cleared, and the reconstruction of the Centaur Hills was about to begin, and the Yorks and their vassal families were recruiting lords in Blackcastle, and those freedmen who had not yet settled flocked to the recruitment office, desperately recommending themselves to the steward of the nobleman. The House of York is powerful, the House of York owns the entire land of the hills, the House of York recruits lords, and the news of truth or falsehood ignites the enthusiasm of the people, and everyone wants to seek a place in the new order.

The monkey walked dejectedly towards his shack, which he had just been rejected again. This was the seventh time that the monkey had been rejected by the steward in charge of recruiting the people, who was too thin to do much work. The ant plague changed the fate of many people, some laughed, some cried, the monkey was the kind of person who should cry bitterly, his power disappeared, his property was confiscated, his house was bulldozed, his mistress left him, and he became a free man with nothing.

The monkey has always been a free man, and he once thought that there was nothing wrong with being a free man, and when he was in good times, he had a better life than most of the people, with his subordinates, wealth, women, private homes, status, everything. After losing everything, the monkey realized the importance of identity, without identity there is no security, and the ability of free people to resist risks in the face of disasters is the weakest. The monkey saw that the fat boss of Amber Street, Welch, was being pressed to the ground and beaten by his men. Before the disaster broke out, Fat Wech was also the number one person, with industry, backstage, and wealth, and these guys were not less harshly criticized by him. The House of York issued a war order, and all Fat Wech's goods and property were expropriated, leaving him only as a freeman. So, Fat Wech is being retaliated against fiercely.

The monkey shuddered, pulled down the hood on his head, hid his face in the shadows, and quickened his pace, not far from the shack where his young sister was waiting for him. The monkey began to think about whether to leave the town of Blackcastle as soon as possible, the war order of the York family had been lifted, and it was the time for revenge and revenge, and his enemies were many times more than Fat Wech.

As soon as he approached the shack, the monkey's heart sank to the bottom, and several strong men surrounded him, led by his old acquaintance, Lord Balor's number one thug, Sasha. After the fall of Balor, Sasha moved to a free camp outside the city with a few henchmen, and the monkey did not send anyone to hunt them down, but he did not expect to cause a catastrophe.

"Sasha is you, and what about my sister?" the monkey asked Sasha with a cold face.

"Master Monkey, Miss Elsa is safe. Sasha playfully bowed to the monkey and slapped him hard, "When you betrayed Lord Balor, did you think of today?

"Brother!" A delicate figure threw herself into the monkey's arms, and the monkey hugged his only relative tightly and comforted: "Elsa is fine, brother will protect you." ”

"Sasha, for the sake of our past friendships, let Elsa go. Please. The monkey pleaded with Sasha.

Sasha showed a sneer, and said coldly: "I can't be the master of the life or death of your brothers and sisters. Let's go together before it's dark. ”

Out of the town of Blackcastle, the monkey brothers and sisters walked south under the hostage of several strong men, and when it was getting dark, they saw a carriage with a bonfire on the side of the carriage, and more than a dozen figures were surrounding the bonfire.

"Hi monkey. You're here too. A vague figure, a familiar voice, greeted the approaching monkey.

"Fermi, is that you?Red Wolf, Mia, Spider, you're there?" the monkey was surprised to find that there were many acquaintances in the crowd, all of whom had been Barrol's right-hand men like himself, and all of whom had their families with them.

Turning his gaze to a figure covered by a cloak by the campfire, the monkey said bitterly, "Lord Balor, I didn't expect you to be alive. ”

"Very surprised, wasn't it? I was also surprised, I didn't expect that it was not Fermi who took my place, but you. Balor lifted his cloak, and by this time he had changed back to his old man's appearance.

Fermi said smugly, "He was just lucky enough to hug Baron Wimbledon's thigh, oh no, now Viscount Randall." ”

I just called to hug the thigh of the Randall family, and the monkey can't even count as a finger! Barol complained silently in his heart, and when he saw the monkey's obviously relaxed face, he couldn't help but feel a little depressed, and shouted: "Beat him!"

Sasha smiled and raised her big fist to beckon to the monkey's face, and the monkey curled up on the ground, hugged his head and face, and let out a miserable scream very cooperatively, causing everyone to sneer again and again, only the little girl Elsa covered her mouth, and her tearful appearance was very pitiful.

"Stop. ”

Sasha stopped and stood behind Balor, the monkey lying on the ground moaning in pain, and his sister Elsa hugging the monkey and crying.

"Alright, you brothers and sisters don't pretend anymore. ”

Barol sneered, and the monkey immediately stopped humming, and Elsa put away her tears and smiled flatteringly at everyone. When the monkey steals something and is beaten, Elsa pretends to be pitiful, and it is this housekeeping skill that makes the brother and sister wander from the eastern provinces to the Centaur hills.

I remember Elsa was only 11 years old, and she was about to catch up with me at this level. The coquettish and beautiful Mia was amazed.

"Yes, the little girl is very talented. The spider responded to the road.

The ordinary-looking red wolf interjected sullenly, "Her hands are very steady and flexible." ”

Barol smiled and asked a little boy next to him, "Paul, what do you see?"

"Teacher, they're diverting your attention from you, saying that they're afraid of you and think they know you. The dark, thin Paul whispered.

Barol laughed heartily at the ugly faces of the crowd, these people were all helpers he had cultivated in his idle and boring years, and each of them had learned some secret agent skills, but they didn't know it. Barol didn't expect that it would really be useful for these people in the day.

"This is Fermi, if you look at his chubby and very likable appearance, you should know that what he is best at is to have relationships with others, and he is close, whether it is a man or a woman, young or old, few people hate him at first sight. No one could have imagined that he was the most effective killer I had. ”

Fermi nodded at Paul and smiled, his cute appearance was indeed very joyful.

"Mia, Spider, sister and brother, good at deception and makeup, originally only able to deceive lowly freemen, after learning some aristocratic etiquette from my hands, I have deceived many small family caravans. ”

The spider saluted gracefully to Paul, and Mia gave a flying kiss.

"The red wolf, with an ordinary appearance, will never be found if thrown into the crowd. He's the best thief I've ever had, and if he didn't die or die, he might surpass the best thief I've ever seen, and he had a damn problem of not being able to control his hands. Get your stuff out!"

The red wolf raised his hands and said with a wry smile: "Master, I didn't steal anything! The guy behind you is so scary, I feel that as long as I attack you, I will be discovered by him." ”

Balor looked at the monkey militia and said to Paul, "That's why he's still alive, the red wolf has a very keen sense and always knows the danger in advance." ”

"If he doesn't get rid of his dependence, he'll die one day. Little Paul said coldly.

Barol nodded, pointed to the monkey with a blue nose and swollen face, and said, "Monkey." The smartest and stupidest of them all, if someone else inherits my place, the rest of them should be buried in the ground. ”

"Lord Balor, if I inherit your place, there will be at least one left. Mia yelled dissatisfied, and Spider nodded in agreement with his sister.

Ignoring the gags of the siblings, Barol continued: "These five men are very smart, but they don't have the slightest loyalty, but they all have one thing in common, they value their families very much, which is why I chose them in the first place. Now, they are your men, and their families are in my care. ”

Little Paul stepped forward and glanced at the pale crowd, they were killers, thieves, liars, wanderings, villains, and now they had to become the secret agents of the family, just like Lord Victor said: if you can't choose fate, embrace it.

"From now on, you will be a member of the mercury. Little Paul said loudly.

There is no such metal as mercury in this world, and Victor uses the words "water" and "silver" to form "mercury", which is the name that Victor gave to his secret spy organization, which means pervasive.

At this point, Victor had no idea that Mercury had a new member, and he was observing an experiment in the hill camp.

Long before the ant plague ended, the hill camp was cleared, and the collapsed bricks and tiles became part of the mountain brick kiln. The hill camp has now been transformed, with 20 metres of special brick walls replacing iron oak fences. From the outside, these special bricks are no different from ordinary green bricks, but even the powerful ogre leader can't try to shake this special brick wall.

Many workshops and warehouses were built in the camp, where ploughshares, arrows, crossbows, chain mail, spears, short swords, long knives, round shields, jaggery, snow sugar, coffee, and purple cane wine were produced and stored. However, these are not the things that Victor focuses on, and a large pond has been dug in the middle of the camp, and the dozens of fish in the pond are the protagonists of today.

Victor is the first time to observe the fish-people up close, if you don't consider the fish-men's sharp teeth and cold eyes, this species is still quite cute, whenever the alchemy militia throws the pig entrails mixed with pig blood into the pool, these short-handed and short-legged fishmen will squeak and squeak and grab and eat, and when the alchemy militia whips the fishmen with spears, these low-intelligence orcs roar and scream, and secrete slimy liquid. At this time, a long stick lasso will pull the fish-man up, and several alchemy militia will rush up, use a brush to brush the slime on the fish-man's body into a large wooden barrel, and then throw it back into the pool when the fish-man is dying.

"With this fish-man slime, you can build a 100-meter-high fortress?" asked Victor, pointing to the barrel.

Renaud nodded, "Yes, sir." ”

The limit height of this world fortress is 60 meters, which is limited by the weight of the rock on the one hand, and the adhesive on the other. The mortar blended by the alchemy auxiliaries with fish-man slime can greatly improve the stability of the special brick fortress, and the weight of the special bricks is much lower than that of rock, even a mound like a hill camp can withstand an 80-meter-high giant special brick fortress. For the safety of the Alchemy Tower, Victor had to build a fortress in the hill camp, but he didn't need the kind of eye-catching giant fortress either.

What Victor remembered was that Master Edwin had introduced him that the silver-white tower in the capital of the El King was a remnant of the wizarding era, and it was 100 meters high!

"Wouldn't the Silver Tower be an alchemy tower too!?" Victor muttered as he touched his chin.