Chapter 784: A Story of Splitting into Two (Ask for a Recommendation Ticket!Ask for a Monthly Pass!)
"I don't have any choice?" Namen said helplessly after hearing the identities of the two people in front of him confide.
This is the normal behavior of a seasoned adventurer. Because according to reasonable reasoning, if someone who deliberately concealed their identity before suddenly reveals the truth to you, then they will either want to kill you later, or they will want to pull you into the gang.
"Wise answer," the electric monk and mercenary captain smiled, and the hammer peeking out of his cuff was retracted. His buddy in charge of roast beef put his finger to his mouth and whistled.
With a crisp roar, a few mercenaries with crossbows appeared on the sandbank. They had previously covered themselves with glue-covered cushions and glued gravel, hiding in pre-dug sand pits.
Namen thrust his axe into the sand, walked to the campfire, reached out and tore off a large piece of beef shank and put it in his mouth, then picked up another skewer of grilled pork chops and began to feast on the beer he had just received.
"I can tell," said Abrost, sitting beside him, munching on a skewer of roasted quail, and the dwarf said to Namen without raising his head, "you are a man with a story, so you may as well share your story, and we may decide what to do next." ”
Taking a large sour beer, Namen wiped the foam from his lips. "Do you really want to hear it?" he opened up after receiving an affirmative reply, "The story begins eleven years ago, in what is now called 'the year of the monsters'......"
Next, he uses a mediocre narrative to tell a story that is not completely fictional:
A group of Joms pirates who had been roaming the northern seas encountered the legendary Leviathan ship of the Eternal Order Scale Chamber of Commerce before the Emperor could be awakened.
A surviving son of a pirate rows back to shore on a life raft and embarks on an even more difficult journey to make a living.
Because he only had two physical skills, boat handling and axe wielding, there were few job opportunities for him to choose from.
In addition, Ramsay, when the monster army was ravaged later, almost no merchant ships dared to continue sailing along the coast, and without merchant ships, those pirates naturally disappeared.
Eventually, he joined a group of wealthy businessmen who had fled south, relying on his axe-wielding skills to get a meager salary from his employer. Later, he moved between the city-states in the south and west, half as a caravan guard and the other half as a horse grazing for the big ranchers in western Ramsay.
"Today is my third visit to King's Landing," he said at the end, looking at the electric monk who had finished eating roast beef and began to recuperate with his eyes closed, "I just bought a ranch and want to come here to buy a batch of six-legged foals bred by the desert elves......"
“...... It seems that the Namen brothers are still a little restrained," the bald-headed electric monk and mercenary captain suddenly opened his eyes, interrupting Namen's words to describe the goal of this trip, "or let me go on for you...... You daring grave robber!"
It turned out that he was not closing his eyes just now, but using the skills of the electric monk to connect with other companions. Every time Namen uttered a word, he would pass it on to some of his fellow Electro Monks in the south and west of Ramsay, asking them to verify the information. Almost as soon as Namen finished his story, the mercenary captain found out all the details of him.
This story is true and false. According to the information received by his companions, Namen was indeed the son of Captain Joms, and he did land to earn a living in the "Year of the Monsters", and he did buy a new ranch.
However, in the process of begging for a living, he is engaged in a profession that is by no means a caravan guard or a professional wrangler. Ironically, he was engaged in a profession that was in direct opposition to those two professions: a trade robber and a horse thief.
However, in recent years, the Scales of the Eternal Order Chamber of Commerce has expanded too quickly, and has declared that the main road from King's Landing is under the protection of the Chamber of Commerce, and any bandits who dare to eat in the vicinity will be severely punished.
So, Namen changed careers. From robbing the living to robbing the dead, he became a notorious grave robber. The reason why he is now in King's Landing is actually because he has been hired by certain forces.
And the reason why the electric monk called it "bold" is because that force is suspected to be the remnants of the monster. They hired Namen for King's Landing to excavate the legendary Soul Suppression Tomb.
The so-called Soul Suppression Tomb is actually a seal that stores the remnants of the Bone Eater, Leopard Man, Foolishness, Soul Seeker, and Dog Trainer after they are killed. It is said that these tombs are located in King's Landing and are heavily guarded.
When the electric monk found out the news, he was shocked. As a human who had lived through the years of fighting monsters, it was hard for him to imagine that someone would steal the bones of those monsters in order to try to resurrect them again.
He had thought to take care of the scourge himself, but when he summoned him to Abrost, the gnome investigator stopped it. The gnome replied, "The actions of this tomb robber may help our plans. ”
The electric monk fell into deep thought for a while. Although he didn't want to admit it, reason told him that the answer given by the dwarf investigator was indeed doable.
The purpose of their trip was to steal King's Landing's money-printing technology. Only by obtaining this technology will they be able to choke the lifeblood of King's Landing, just as the gnomes used to control the Ramsay city-states with "gem coins".
There is no doubt that the difficulty of this task is very high. One of the biggest challenges is not only getting the technology, but also how to ship the equipment that implements it.
Compared to the current stable situation in King's Landing, their plans will be easier to handle in the turbulent King's Landing.
"We also want a piece of the pie," Abrostet said calmly, looking at Namen, whose face changed suddenly after the showdown and whose fingers had already grasped the handle of the single-edged giant axe beside him, "Of course, we will also provide cover for your tomb robbery, as well as some help." ”
"What can you do for me? I'm ......."
“...... You've got to know that those comrades are lurking in King's Landing right now," the Electric Monk had no intention of haggling with him again, "but those people probably haven't determined the exact location of the Soul Suppression Tomb yet, otherwise you'd have done it a long time ago." We can find out about this matter, and there is no reason why the Scales of Eternal Order can't find it. One more day of delay, and the more risk your plan will be exposed. ”