Chapter 017: Brother, Brother, Where Are You Going?
First, the world is dangerous, both in the wild and in the city.
Second, there are many gods in this world, and they seem to really exist.
Third, although steam technology seems to have begun to enter people's lives, the order of swords and magic, nobles and commoners, still has a strong vitality.
Fourth, and most importantly, this Citizen is not a place to stay for a long time, and it is right to leave the Fa as soon as possible.
Perhaps, it would be a good idea to find a place and wait and see what happens.
After all, I went to other places, and I still didn't know the same place.
Lu Bai thought silently, and his gaze finally stayed on the small box of gold coins left by Lu Thern, side by side with the wooden box of human heads.
We'll have to find a way to convince Trisis to go with them.
With this thought, Lu Bai first endured his irrepressible nausea, threw the wooden box with the human head through the back window, and then also went downstairs to the front desk of the hotel.
Guarding the front desk were the two young female receptionists from last night.
had witnessed Lu Bai use magic before, so in the face of Lu Bai's series of inquiries, the two receptionists, who were just ordinary civilians, chose to know everything and say everything.
This made Lu Bai's heart soon have a rough map of Citizen and its surrounding area with a small amount of statistical data-
Not to mention the City of a Thousand Furnaces, Citizen, a large city built on huge iron mines, with explosively high PM2.5 levels, but with a population of over 600,000 and no walls.
The city is really large, and it is not like the earthworld with hundreds of skyscrapers, and the houses for people to live in are only five stories high.
Because of the city-wide search of the Niendet Mining Alliance, it was tossed until noon to search the urban-rural junction, which was really very efficient.
Of course, what Lu Bai cares about more is the three major towns and eleven towns around Citizen.
The fourteen towns, large and small, were originally founded by lumberjacks and charcoal burnersβlarge-scale smelting of steel, and a constant supply of charcoal, a lot of charcoal.
Citizen is blessed with abundant sunshine and rain, and was once surrounded by vast forests.
It's just that the speed at which trees grow can't keep up with Citizen's massive demand for charcoal.
Of the fourteen towns, the farthest three are about a hundred kilometers from Citizen.
Had it not been for the fact that Sir Menjerov stumbled upon high-quality coal suitable for smelting in Blackstone, one of the Fourteen Towns, twenty years ago, the lumberjacks and charcoal burners of Citizen would have continued to descend into the few remaining primeval forests.
Now, except for the three towns on the very edge, and the town of Blackstone, which is digging for coal, the other nine towns have been transformed into peaceful and peaceful agricultural towns.
Well, it doesn't matter if it's an agricultural town or not, the important thing is that these towns don't have a population of more than 5,000 at most, and the guards in the town are not more than a few steam gunners except for the militia.
So Lu Bai has decided that he is going to the largest agricultural town, Famor, and will leave early tomorrow morning.
......
When it was almost dark, Trixie hurried back to the inn with all the members of the Steam Spirit Dragon.
Tricy brings back the latest news.
Another big man died.
But this time, the unlucky ghost no longer belongs to the Niendet Mining Alliance, but to the first vice president of the Tesla Steel Alliance, Adonis Trisim Joe.
A blast furnace belonging to the Tesla Steel Alliance suddenly broke, and the red molten iron pouring out of the breach melted the unlucky first vice president who was inspecting, as well as dozens of small people whose names had not even been circulated outside.
"It looks like an accident. β
Lu Bai thought so, he was very sure that it was definitely not Amanda who did it this time.
It's a pity that those big guys don't seem to think so. β
Trithys spreads her hands.
Without three or five enemies of life and death, who is embarrassed to say that he is a big man?
The unnatural deaths of two high-ranking figures in a row made the top meat-eaters in Citizen extremely nervous, for fear that they would become the next unlucky ones if they were not careful, and they speculated with the greatest malice that it was the people who wanted to harm me, and hesitated to preemptively strike at me.
And the danger doesn't just come from the top, the bottom is also going wrong-
"The bastards on the street who only bully the weak have started to take advantage of the chaos and robbery in the city, and I have even seen traces of evil deeds of the demon cultists, tonight...... There will be even more chaos in the city. β
Erwen, who had the largest range of activities, described everything she saw succinctly.
"The city is no longer safe, it's time to leave. β
Tricyse made a final conclusion.
"Leave, now?"
Lu Bai didn't mean to object at all, he just wanted to say that it was going to be dark this day, and if he left the city and went to the wilderness, the danger factor would not be too high.
"Of course!" Trixie moved her shoulders: "We have already investigated the things that should be investigated, and some bastards have paid enough price, so in line with the principle of peace and mercy, the sooner the better, temporary disengagement is our best choice at the moment." β
Trixie was right.
Lu Bai listened, and the sky was thundering in his heart.
Hold a big grass, do you want to put "hurry up and run", so tactful?
"By the way, I'll have good news for you, Kaspersky - according to your strong request, we added your name to the public information of our mercenary group before we did this, so ...... Well, there's no time to explain, let's go pack our things!"
Trixie patted Lu Bai's shoulder intimately.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, when did I ask for it?!Obviously, from the beginning, I was coerced by you, okay!!
Lu Bai expressed strong protest.
"Well, don't be too impressed, and don't thank me. Tricy seemed to be very satisfied with Lu Bai's reaction, and she pressed Lu Bai in place with a hand that seemed to weigh more than a thousand catties: "This is the duty of me, the head of the regiment." β
Lu Bai: "Heh, heh-"
Well, you've won again, Captain Tricy, who is not crazy.
Who made you my savior? Who made me only have two magic now? Who made me ...... Are you planning to leave?
"Where are you going?"
Lu Bai sighed.
"I strongly recommend that you go to the town of Famor, so that I, and my farmer father, can help you in any way we can. The same choice as Lu Bai was made by the hostess of the hotel, Erex, who walked into the room with Amanda: "I'm very sorry, I didn't mean to eavesdrop on your conversation. β
"Why help. β
Scaly turned her head and stared at Erex with her snake-like pupils.
"His Majesty, who lights a bonfire in the wilderness to dispel wild beasts and hunger, and provides the most solid protection for travelers, is the final destination of my faith and soul. Erex seemed to be serious, but the object of her gaze was not Gyalba, but Lu Bai: "I am willing to do anything to glorify my lord." β
"Anything. β
Erex emphasized.