Chapter 257: Gotta Add Money
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"The southeastern coastal city of the Kingdom of Rune, and the empty sea where there is not even a single island."
The True Creator asked, "What are you going to do there?" You say these things could happen within this month, but at the moment, it seems that you have no reason to go there at all. β
"yes, why did I go there? I'm looking for the reason now. β
Edward spread his hands out, and from his words and actions he showed that he knew nothing about the development of fate. This is the authority of the other half of her body, and she can only look at the general situation, and sometimes even needs the blood of the target to get a more accurate answer, let alone the obvious interference now.
If she wanted to know all the details, she should see if the "withered master" who still had half of the essentia in the starry sky was awake, and then find a quiet and safe time to pray to herself, borrow her own strength, look at herself, and see what kind of strange future these intricate threads of possibility weave.
"But there's no need to worry about it now, maybe I'll find out what's going on when I walk around there."
Edward grabbed a piece of butter cookie and speculated very objectively and a little fancifully: "Judging from the fact that neither of us can appear in the important city now, although I don't know what I am going to do there, but eighty percent of the seven gods came down and beat me immediately after I went, and then we naturally began to fight, and the coastal cities were shattered, and these people naturally 'died because of the demons'." β
"Do you care about that, though?"
The True Creator muttered: "I don't care, but I'm still curious about why you suddenly start killing people, and if I can, I will stop you and prevent the disaster from expanding." I just want to know if what you're doing will affect my plans. β
"Let the 'Nightingale of Despair' announce the plan for the cooperation between the Augustan royal family and the witch cult, and the plan to make the Northern Continent a mess? Maybe not, after all, I don't think the area of the city in this area is very large. β
Edward shrugged his shoulders and pushed the biscuit plate and soda drink in front of the true Creator, and made it clear with a sincere look that the allies should hurry up and taste itβ"Come on, it's free"β"The Steam, Night, and Storm churches have also investigated this before, but after George III promised to 'allow the church to send personnel into the military', and directly implement atmospheric control, and relax the conditions for house elections and knighthoods, the three churches immediately died down. Oh, give an explanation to the people who died in the haze, it is better to say than to sing. β
"Half a year ago, George III threw out a piece of meat and fed three dogs, and now, as long as you expose the truth, the credibility of the dog and the royal family will immediately collapse, and take this opportunity to expand your community of believers a little."
Edward threw another hot butter cookie into his mouth, and chuckled sarcastically as he chewed it:
"When I first started researching the social system of the Fifth Age, I really couldn't understand why the gods would abandon the obviously more efficient 'unity of politics and church' and choose to introduce a so-called royal family to rule, but at the same time set up the existence of the church. The royal family does not directly obey God, its existence will inevitably take away part of the power of the church, not to mention that they also choose to let the extraordinary hide, the power of the royal family is sometimes even higher than that of the church - doesn't this add a resistance to themselves out of thin air? β
"After writing a few drafts of papers and doing hundreds of years of social practice, I realized that the main advantage of the act of 'extraordinary concealment' is not to protect ordinary people, but to reduce competitiveness in the extraordinary world. As long as no one knows the recipe and no one knows the ingredients, then you can avoid those one-in-a-million geniuses. And the domestication of the church layer by layer also allowed genius to be used by God in the end. β
ββ¦β¦ When I think you're plotting against me, you use your authority to make me a true god directly from Sequence 3, and then receive the reward for becoming a god. When I thought you should be thinking about how to prevent the birth of a new god, how to make trouble inside the barrier, you were actually studying the social system. The real creator complained, and she looked somewhat speechless.
"Are the outer gods like you, so good at camouflaging with a harmless side?"
"How can you say I'm pretending, ally?"
The outer god said awe-inspiringly: "I'm just schizophrenic, how can it be a disguise?" If you look at the results of everything, isn't it true that you have made a profit? Our covenant is unbreakable, and I will harm you? β
The True Creator didn't speak, and opened a black-and-white eye in the shadows, then rolled his eyes.
"It's impossible to be a god, but if you want to be an emperor...... The feasibility seems to have suddenly become much higher. She nodded reluctantly, but didn't quite want to continue the topic, "Okay, what you said makes sense, where the paper was posted, go back and show me too." β
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On Thursday afternoon, Crane routinely left 160 Berlund Street for a nap and teleported to the Aurora Society's factory.
"You're here."
After entering the hidden office, the Dark Sage reached out and pointed to a door on the side, "She's already waiting for you." β
There used to be only one bookshelf on the wall over there, but now a door has eerily appeared. Crane nodded in acknowledgement, then walked over to the door that had suddenly appeared, reaching out and pushing it open.
Suddenly there was a light in front of him, and Crane had to squint. When his eyes adjusted to the light, he found himself in an Indisian-style living room, surrounded by ornaments made of gold and ivory, a soft and luxurious carpet underfoot, silver-plated wallpaper smeared with gold powder, and the frames of the paintings on the walls glittering with gold, whether they were gilded or pure gold.
Crane estimated the size of the painting and thought it should be gilded.
He stood in this glittering room, not knowing where to move for a moment, so he had to stand where he was, and continued to play the role of an indifferent man who was not moved by money.
Half a minute later, there was a brisk footstep in the distance in the living room, and a woman in a cascading home-dressed dress appeared from the side front of the hallway, lifting the hem of her skirt and stepping on the smooth marble surface, which made Crane's eyes shine.
It was really a sight to behold, there seemed to be a misty halo around the lady, and the light seemed to illuminate the surrounding gold ornaments, and although the chandelier in the living room was not turned on, Crane once again felt the feeling of being dazzled.
Immediately afterward, Crane felt that the other party seemed familiarβnot by face, but by body movements and contours, as if he had seen them somewhere.
"Hello, Mr. X."
"You can call me Ms. D."
The lady who looked to be in her twenties had her head crossed, and her appearance was bright and magnificent, as if she had the blood of the royal family of Sauron, so her hair color was slightly orange. What is striking is the pair of pure golden eyes, as clear as the bright sun.
The Extraordinary One of the Sun Path, and the spirituality is stronger than the Little Sun...... "Priest of Light" from Sequence 5?
The "Eternal Sun" shared the Creator and gained the authority of the "Sun", and Ms. D can become a middle sequence at such a young age, and she seems to be either rich or expensive, is there many people in the "Eternal Sun Church" who actually praise the "Ancient Sun God"?
Whose handiwork is this, it doesn't look like the real Creator's, and the water in it is a bit deep......
Ms. D stood two meters in front of Crane, and since it was the first time they met, some safety distance was retained.
"Your Excellency the Dark Sage has already outlined your commission, could you please add some details?" "For example, how long do you have to stay there, when you want to go, what exactly are you going to do?" β
Crane had already made up the reasoning:
"In order to be able to obtain a certain status in the noble class of the Rune Kingdom, I accepted the request of some officers and nobles to go to the Southern Continent to help the younger generations of their family."
"If I can, I'd like to go within this week. Travel to the Southern Continent, the whole journey takes two weeks. β
"Two weeks?" Ms. D said politely, "It's been a little too long for me. β
Ms. D seems to be an aristocrat of Intis and must be a regular socializer and dancer, and it is indeed a little strange to suddenly disappear for two weeks. However, Crane was also prepared, and said with a smile: "I have a 'Traveler' seal. β
"As long as I finish my work in the Southern Continent, I can send you back immediately."
I will definitely have to take a boat to go to the Southern Continent, which means that I can skip the time of my return trip, but I will also disappear for more than a week, and go to the Tantric Society to see if there are any "Facelings" and "Secret Puppet Masters" who are willing to accept the commission to play the role of the third lady of the Montemar family...... Ms. D thought for a moment and smiled, "Thank you for your thoughtfulness, Mr. X, I think I can take this commission." β
Mr. Dawn DantΓ¨s, who was accustomed to Rune's conservative style, was a little uncomfortable being bluntly praised by the lady who met for the first time, but he immediately reacted and nodded slightly: "I'm also very happy." β
"So, ma'am, what kind of pay do you want?"
Ms. D didn't look like she was short of money, and not being short of money meant that there would be no shortage of recipes and ingredients, and Crane was a little worried.
"The information of the Sun God Bird, and the clues of the Divine Radiance Stone." Ms. D said with a smile, "It has to be outside of Intis, the farther the better, and the sea first." β
"If you can give me in kind, I'll give you a monetary subsidy, or whatever else you need."
The Sun God Bird and the Divine Radiance Stone? Crane was stunned, isn't this the main ingredient of the formula for Solar Pathway Sequence 4 "The Darkless One"? Ms. D wants to collect demigod materials for herself, not from the family? Doesn't her family support her becoming a demigod?
It's a pity that the original island that he explored with Mr. "The Hangman" has disappeared, otherwise you can try your luck. There is definitely no one in the Eastern Continent, and if there is, it is also seriously polluted and cannot be used. I can ask the "Hermit" lady, the ruins of the god war seem to have frequent changes in the path of the sun...... Ms. D must have asked the Dark Sage before she came to ask me, which means that there may not be one in the Aurora Society, or, if there is, but Ms. D has not accumulated enough credit to redeem it...... Crane's thoughts raced, and he nodded calmly:
"I'll get back to you by Sunday."
"Okay." Ms. D smiled understandingly.
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"Bang! Syllable! β
Richard flicked his wrist and threw several humanoid dolls dressed as businessmen and soldiers on the ground. The seals carried by these rag dolls, which had also become model toys, flew up and landed in her hands. Richard took the little toys in his palm and looked at them for a moment, then sneered.
The harbor was filled with damp moisture, and a huge freighter was docked not far away.
She took out two demigod puppets of the Rose School from her waist bag, lifted them one by one, and asked:
"How did you do that? Such a big ship, docked in the port of Alther for half a month, dug up the graves of our ancestors and still didn't find it? In addition to brains, the current indulgents don't even have eyes? β
The puppet doll in a white robe with gold thread that Richard was holding in his left hand looked at his nose and nose, his eyes were originally hidden with malice, but now all that was left was a weak heart and suppressed madness, hidden behind the golden curly hair.
The puppet doll on the right hand is a southerner with a thin face and distinctive features. He wears a hooded black robe, and his face is covered with a golden mask with red and black stripes.
The two demigods in robes were dangled in the air by Richard's necks, and their robes covered their feet, like two large sunny dolls. The pitch-black sunny doll didn't dare to speak after hearing the angel's question, but behind the mask, a pair of dark blue eyes tried their best to glance in the direction of the white-robed doll.
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Richard's gaze also followed, and his tone gradually became stern:
"What do you have to say, Mahamos? As the leader of the rebels, is it your responsibility that our ancestors' mummies and even seals were stolen in ordinary goods? β
The golden-threaded white-robed McHams puppet shook from side to side, stretched out his finger and pointed to his mouth, and then waved his hand - only to see a small golden nail sealing his upper and lower lips, and McHams reminded everyone that he was a "silent disciple" and could not speak.
"You're silent, not dumb."
As the former leader of the rebels, although he was young, Richard was certainly qualified to reprimand this elder, and she directly denied the other party's role and did not give him any feedback on digestion. Seeing that the other party refused to speak as if she was escaping from reality, she shifted her gaze to the black sunny day doll:
"I remember your spirituality, you are Tawfik, you were fifteen years old when I first met you."
The black sunny day doll wanted to nod, but couldn't do it because it was lifted on the back of her neck, so she could only wave her hand hard to show her honor. His puppet's mouth opened and closed, and he said in a middle-aged voice:
"Within the rebels, there are ungodly believers who secretly collude with the Northern Continent to lead the way for them and sell our cultural relics!"
"Honorable Angel of Temperance, we have caught these moths of reselling cultural relics, waiting for His Highness Siea and you to dispose of them."
"Oh."
Richard looked back at the huge freighter docked in the harbor thoughtfully: "How much did it sell?" β
The black sunny doll suddenly fell silent.
After a minute of silence under the watchful eye of the angel, Tawfik spoke with difficulty: "Five hundred pounds......"
Hearing this price, he looked at the freighter again, Richard was silent, Tawfik stopped talking, McHams covered his eyes with his hands, and for a while everyone began to play the "Silent Disciple" again or in advance.
For such a large freighter, anything on it would be far more than five hundred pounds, not to mention that it was full of pharaoh's funerary goods, as well as countless seals and extraordinary materials looted by the Rune from the southern continent!
ββ¦β¦ It's still the same as before, it's exactly the same, I can imagine what it looks like. β
Richard sighed, and gave an example very familiarly: "Five hundred pounds, give three hundred pounds to the members who are responsible for the management of the royal burial area, let these disgusting 'explorers' and 'archaeologists' walk around the burial area at will, give the caretaker a hundred pounds, and the caretaker will turn a blind eye to their moving behavior, and the remaining hundred pounds will be used to open the joints." You say, Mehams, I'm going to go on the boat now and see, in addition to the seals, the burial goods, and the mummies of the kings, can I find the frescoes of the royal tombs that were torn off with adhesive tape and taken away? β
McHams covered his face and nodded vigorously.
One or two hundred years ago, when the theft of the royal tomb of Tinicol was most rampant, the real royal tomb keeper had long been killed, and the ordinary people on the top, no matter who came, could go in and buy it for a few dollars as long as they gave a few pounds.
If they weren't allowed in, the archaeologists rewarded them with a few bullets.
The spiritual items for the funeral were to be taken, the seals were to be taken, the gems and gold decorations used in the pyramids were to be pried off, the pottery that could not be taken away was smashed and packed, and then put together after being transported to the Northern Continent, the body of the pharaoh was taken to the exhibition, and the murals were torn off and taken away......
"It's true that there's nothing new under the sun."
It's not that the highland king has a great cause and can rob the northern continent for two hundred years and steal something, but that most of the spirit of the northern continent is robbing the royal family of Bailang and the Church of the Grim Reaper, compared with the royal family of Bairan, which has extremely high gold reserves, the highland kingdom is just a rich man.
"Russell the Great translated our king as 'pharaoh', and our pharaoh happened to be called Tutansis, hell, did he even inherit this history of being plundered and colonized and enslaved?"
Richard sighed again, said something that McHames and Tawfik did not understand, and then asked:
"What about the offender? How many died? β
Mehams and Tawfik looked at each other, and the latter said, "Several accomplices have been sacrificed, and the masterminds are still waiting for the trial." β
Yes, now that you have learned to hold court, it seems that my iron fist of temperance is still having a corrective effect on your personality. As a former leader and angel, the current rebels and the Rose School leaders are either her acquaintances or the juniors she has watched grow up, and she has long heard of the prestige and ability of the Angel of Temperance - "If you don't control it, then beat them with your fists, and O beat them until you don't have the strength to indulge", with the connivance of Seaa, Richard in a very short time made everyone in the Rose School start to try the sound dual play of indulgence and temperance.
Richard nodded with satisfaction: "Let them out, just as if nothing happened." β
"Your Highness, why?"
"For the money, of course." Richard said it as a matter of course.
She jumped lightly onto the freighter, looked at the full load of goods, and stretched out her hand to point to the coffin of the withered gold-lacquered pharaoh: "What is this?" The munification of our great pharaoh Tutansis II, as we all know the great Tutansis II, is the most exalted pharaoh in the history of the Highland Kingdom, the messenger of the gods, the holy king who is beloved by the people, and has to add money. β
"What is this? This is the funerary object of the great Tutansis II, rich in spirituality, and has to be added to the money. β
"What is this? This is the tomb fresco of Tutansis II, which is an important archaeological research material, telling about the farming, law and life of the people of the Highland Kingdom, and is of great significance for the study of the history of the time...... Gotta add money. β
"This is the precious carved zenith of the pharaoh's pyramid...... Why was the ceiling knocked down too?! In short, add money. β
"It's ...... Add money. β
"Add money."
"Add money."
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At Richard's shout, McHams' eyes widened and his mouth almost opened, and he had to cover his mouth with his hands to prevent the nails from falling. Tawfik was already stunned, sweating like rain, and his sleeves hadn't been wiped dry twice. But his eyes were full of admiration for the Angel of Temperance, and he suddenly understood why it was so rare that the Angel of Temperance had managed the rebels in such a desperate situation as he is now.
It was as if he had been baptized, his soul had been sublimated, his understanding of the world had become more thorough, and his whole person had been enlightened.
"Well, not too much, let's add five thousand pounds to the Northern Continent first."
Richard roughly counted the belongings, and confidently said to the two sunny dolls: "The theft of the pyramid of Tutansis II is not a small matter, let's just say that the rebels have been strictly investigated recently, and the school has also sent people down to investigate, my men are all dead, and your people have been accidentally found and captured." If you still want to take this ship away, you have to pay for it. β
Tawfik opened his mouth and said, "The captives also have to be ransomed!" β
"Well said! It has to be a good education for young people, and McHams you learn from others, and you can't make money with your reserve and shelves. "The dignity and reserve of angels are also very expensive, and they have to be paid for! Richard immediately praised Tawfik, "The ransom is three hundred for one person." Could it be that your soldiers are not worth the price of pyramid tickets? β
"Well, that's it, just find a reason to drag it back, and keep asking for money until the Rune people are going to rob it."
"But, but." Tawfik wiped his sleeves soaked, and the black sunny day doll began to drip water, "Five thousand at a time, is it too much?" β
"Not much, which item on this ship is not more than five thousand? I was lucky enough to get a Sequence 5 'Shepherd' glove last year, and I sold it for 20,000 yuan. Moreover, if they want a little more at one time, they will be more convinced by the appearance of being prepared to flee directly and incognito. β
Richard reached a huge iron bucket and stepped on the wooden crates around him, and saw that there was a huge pile of ice inside, and the ice was constantly melting, because there was a hand made of pure gold stuck in the middle!
"Look, isn't it worth five thousand?"
Mai Hams and Tawfik, who were carried in her hands, were just above the ice bucket, and suddenly felt the heat hit, Tawfik's wet sleeves were immediately dried out, and Mahams's blonde hair was curled even more, and the two of them swayed left and right, wanting to quickly stay away from this golden hand.
"If they come and grab it, so much the better."
Richard smiled slightly, as if he had seen countless gold pounds tinkling in front of him:
"No matter how important members of the military and the royal family can they say, they need 10,000 pounds each, right?"
"They also want to thank me, thank me for being willing to leave a life for the sake of money, thank me for using their dirty money to help people who really need help, and accumulate a little invisible merit for them."
tbc
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Richard: TMD, after enduring so long, I can finally grab money openly! Hahaha!
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