97. Gambling with yourself
For the next few days, Fisher had little to do, as the academic conference was almost over.
According to the original plan, this morning the Golden Palace sent someone to send an invitation to Prince Schwali, inviting them to visit the Golden Palace.
The man who came was not in a light position, it was Prince Rencis, the second son of Godlin IX.
Fisher met from afar, the prince's appearance inherited Godlin's excellent blood, so he was quite handsome, but his face was a little pale, which was similar to Trandle's face, I don't know if it was because he was not in good health or his kidneys were overdrawn, anyway, standing with the red-faced Lausanne looked a little weak.
He put on a dress and handed the invitation to Prince Schwali, and the Prince of Lausanne also agreed to the invitation of the Golden Palace in public, and then the two princes shook hands, and the media took pictures of Balabala...
Fisher was familiar with the process, but he didn't care about it.
What really caught Fisher's attention was that since the Prince of Lausanne had been invited to the Golden Palace, it also meant that Princess Elisabeth, who was patrolling the army outside, was about to return, and it was estimated that she would arrive at Saint-Nari tonight.
During the day, Fisher went to the city to meet Trendel and asked him to help with two things.
The first thing he did was to ask him to use the power of the New Party to help investigate the details of the [Healing Room], Fisher had only heard this name from Milica before, and at that time he thought that it was only a beauty place for the noblewomen of St. Nari, but since Jasmine's aunt sent the box back, it means that it is not simple.
According to Jasmine, this box originally contained some human candy for Jasmine to eat, and now of course all those candies have entered Jasmine's little belly, and the content is not special.
But since it has something to do with Mu Xi, it is better for Fisher to find someone inside the New Party in advance to understand the situation.
There is also a second thing that needs Trondel's help, he gave all the gold that Shiraki gave him last night, and they have a special sale of stolen goods within their new party... Oh no, the digestive channel, you can get more Nario than the usual market price, and the trinkets Fisher stayed.
Some of those designs are not to human taste, and probably they don't sell for much, so it is better to leave them all for Renee as a gift.
The benefits you can gain from the new party far outweigh your pure and strong will, and often those who enter the new party with pure faith will be completely corrupted within a few months. It's not that the bottom line is not strong, but there are too many things to get, and there is always one that can easily defeat you.
So most of the New Party members are now sanctimonious hypocrites... The exception is Trandle, because this guy has almost become corrupt before he entered the New Party, and even after entering the New Party, he has improved a lot, and at least he will add the phrase "the well-being of the people of Nari" to the goal of being a member of parliament, which is really gratifying.
As for the previous time when he helped Jasmine sell gold, he didn't ask Trandel to help, because now the New Party needs its own help, so it has to respond to its needs, otherwise the internal channels are not so simple and open to free people like Fisher.
After telling Trandall about the two things, Fisher rested in the rental house for a while, and by the way, he also took out the manual of the sub-human mother and flipped through it, which he didn't know, and found that his biological research progress on the whale human species had exceeded 20%.
The illusory text emerged, only to see that it was written,
[Whale Race Biology Research Progress: 21%]
[Progress of social research on cetake race: 19%]
[Unlocked Rewards: Constitution +2, Deep Diving Constitution, Fairy Poetry in the Lake]
The physique bonus is not much, so Fisher didn't pay much attention, but the next two rewards made him study it carefully, the first is the literal [Deep Diving Physique],
[Deep diving physique: The strengthened lungs can make you resist the lack of oxygen and pressure in the water, and it can also allow you to kiss the sea people wantonly in the water, which is very useful~]
Fisher's face was full of black lines, and he was not surprised that Yaren Niang had made up any surprising words after completing the manual. If you don't guess wrong, the author of Yarenniang's handbook must be a guy full of bad taste, and I don't know what kind of bad luck I poured to get this kind of treasure...
However, compared to other manuals, at least there is no dangerous knowledge recorded on them.
Fisher glanced at the Soul Completion Manual lying quietly next to him, before he realized how deadly the knowledge recorded on it was, and now Fisher planned to seal the manual indefinitely, without continuing to study or destroy it.
After all, Philon said that as long as this kind of manual is torn, it will instantly appear in another part of the world, and as long as the manual is too far away from him, it will automatically return to his owner, and he can't shake it off, so Fisher can only carry them with him all the time.
As for the last reward...
Fisher looked at the quaint parchment scroll that appeared in his hand at this moment, and opened it to see that Fisher still knew the text on it, and it turned out to be in Nari.
It seems to have been written by someone himself, so it seems a little scribbled, and it reads,
"Make a fortune here, sing about victory here, embrace the crown here, and wait for your return here."
And then it's gone...
Fisher looked at the parchment with a frown, flipped it back and forth, and found that it was an ordinary piece of parchment.
There is nothing special at all except the handwriting on it, no magic, no hidden mechanisms, no hidden maps...
This made Fisher feel that this reward was a little incomprehensible, in the past, even if the physical items given by Yaren Niang after completing the manual were different, even if Fisher did not explain it, he could roughly guess a little bit of thought, but this thing made Fisher a little confused, and he didn't know what it meant.
Fairy in the lake... It sounds like a legend, but Fisher has never heard of it.
Fisher first wrote down the only obvious information in the item, the Fairy of the Lake, and then put the item in the drawer of his desk.
After taking care of the matter, Fisher washed his face and tested the [Deep Diving Physique] he had just obtained, he filled the bathtub with water, and then buried his face in the bathtub to try to breathe,
Fisher found that although he could barely breathe in the water, he was particularly unaccustomed to it, and he easily choked on water after one or two breaths, and then his entire nose and throat ached.
It looks like you need to practice a little bit to really breathe underwater unhindered...
When Fisher was about to practice for the third time, he was suddenly pulled out of the bathtub by Ms. Martha, who didn't know when she broke into the bathroom, and when Fisher wiped her face and looked at Ms. Martha, she found that her face was white with fright, and her lips trembled and said,
"Oh dear, what can't be said well, how can you keep soaking your face in the bathtub ... Did Renee write to break up with you? Or is this a unique way of thinking for your scholars? Oh my God, if that's the case, how can anyone in the family want their children to become academics? ”
"I just want to wash my face."
Fisher couldn't laugh or cry, but he couldn't explain it to her, so he had to say that he wanted to punch his face.
He went back to the room and wiped his face and hair with a towel, only to find Lady Martha still standing in the doorway, worried that she wouldn't see the cute baby after he broke up with Renee, so Fisher had to change the subject,
"Shouldn't you play cards or water vegetables with the neighbors at this time, or do you want to take a nap today?"
"Oh... Oh! Yes, I forgot that I was worried that you were crazy or that your head was not very clear, I had made an appointment with Mrs. Sanger to buy some bread and came back, but I met a gentleman at the door who said that it was your friend who wanted to see you, so I ran back to remind you, and I saw you pouting and slamming your head in the bathtub... Flush your face? ”
Fisher's wiping motion paused slightly, looked at Martha and asked,
"Friends?"
"Ah, he's at the door."
I had planned to go to St. Nari University to study the items her aunt had sent back, but now a friend had come to visit me...
Are you a little too busy during this time? It's not all your own business.
After hearing Martha's reminder, Fisher hurriedly walked downstairs, and when he opened the door, he saw a decent gentleman standing at the door, the gentleman was quite young, and this person Fisher knew...
"Mr. Fisher, long time no see!"
"Keken?"
I still remember that when he had just taken Rafael away from the Circus of Cochenin, in order to replenish the supply of a city run by his juniors, he had gone to the city of Keken, the lord of the city.
It's just that Fisher didn't expect that he would see this junior here again, it was not easy to go back and forth between the Western Continent and the Southern Continent once, and I don't know why he came back now.
"Ha, it's me, it's a pleasure to see you again, Mr. Fisher."
"It's been a long time since I've seen it, it's been almost half a year..."
It wasn't until Fisher spoke again that he realized that he had been away from Rafael for almost five months, and that the crimson dragon lady covered in fragrant steam had left his memory as if it were yesterday...
With a little emotion, Fisher led Keken into the living room, and he said hello to Lady Martha, who was about to go out.
Madame Martha was going out to buy bread with her neighbors, and Fisher and Keken returned to their room, which still had the black mamba that Trandel had given her, which was now just right for the guest.
He still had two rings on his fingertips, and Fisher remembered that he had married two sisters from Kado, but he was not in good spirits now, and he looked a little tired, and even the stubble on his face had not been properly repaired, which made Fisher even more puzzled about the reason for his return.
After Fisher took out the bottle, Korken took the glass and poured some wine for both of them, and Fisher thought of it and said, asking him why he had returned to the Western Continent.
"You weren't fine in the Southern Continent before, why did you suddenly return to the Western Continent now?"
Instead of answering Fisher's words, Keken looked around the room, as if he was looking for something in Fisher's room.
"What are you looking for?"
Hearing Fisher's question, Keken touched his head a little embarrassedly and said,
"Oh... Well, Mr. Fisher, I would like to ask if the red dragon species that was with you at the time is still here? Or did you sell her? ”
Fisher was slightly stunned after hearing this, and responded after taking a sip of wine,
"None of them..."
"And where is she now?"
"I let her go."
"Oh, no wonder, no wonder..."
Keken nodded knowingly, and after a sigh, he seemed to be pondering something.
Fisher seemed to sense a clue, and it seemed that the reason for his return had something to do with Rafael, so he tapped his finger on the table in front of him and asked,
"What's wrong? Now that you've come back from the Southern Continent, could it be that you've been attacked by goblins, dragonmen, or other humans? ”
"Attack? Oh no, no, my city is fine, and there's no danger, at least for now... I directly sold my city in the Southern Continent to someone else, and then came back with my two wives to develop..."
"Sold it directly, because of what?"
As mentioned before, going to the southern continent to open up also requires a special certificate issued by the Nari government, not to mention building a city there, it must be a loss for him to sell the city that he has built with great difficulty, and the money is still given by his family, listening to his statement, it is not like the opinion of his family, so he must have a very special reason for doing this.
"That's right, Mr. Fisher... Last month, many Nari City Lords continued to explore south, you know, there are many mineral deposits buried in the forests to the south that we haven't found, and I'm also a member of the Nari South Continent City Lords Alliance, so I learned about this. ”
Fisher took a sip of his wine and motioned for him to continue,
"Then, when they were pioneering, they had a fierce conflict with many original subhuman tribes, among which the conflict with a dragon tribe that seemed to be called 'Nanzhi' broke out the most intense, and there were about two or three battles back and forth, and our side suffered a lot of losses, but in the last battle, we also succeeded in killing the patriarch of the dragon tribe."
"The city lord of Latalo and Buck, who were digging over there, originally expected the dragon race to retaliate, so they made some preparations in advance to deal with their attack, but they didn't look back to retaliate for a long time..."
Keken gets drunk easily after drinking, and the more he talks, the more excited he becomes.
"When they went to investigate there again, they found that the dragons there had actually moved and fled further south! The two lords of the war, Buck and Rattaru, were very happy at the time, and thought it would be a great thing to drive away the stubborn dragons who had lived here for generations without spending any troops, and I didn't think something was right when I heard it..."
"I inquired about the news, it seems that there was a dragon man who took the initiative to evacuate with them, and the dragon race who left with the clan is definitely not simple. No, not long after evacuating to the south, the dragonmen did something even more unexpected, they actually took the initiative to start a war with the other dragonmen in the east! ”
Fisher raised an eyebrow after hearing this, and then guessed with a smile,
"Let me guess, those city lords are in a hurry to go to the forests in the south to divide the mineral deposits and subhuman slaves, and they also think that it is a good thing to fight between several dragon tribes, so they didn't pay to send troops to get involved?"
Keken nodded vigorously, resenting the stupidity of the city lords, if they were ten times as smart as Fisher, they would not have disobeyed their own advice,
"That's right! I'm just worried about this, those short-sighted bastards who don't bother to send troops over to the east who think there's nothing of value... It doesn't matter if the Taunggyi tribe wins, if the dragonman from the Nagzhi tribe wins, I don't dare to think about what happens! According to my information, she has already co-opted the bats and centaurs who live in the seaside valley, and I suggested that the other city lords send troops, but they said that I should pay for it myself! ”
Fisher already had a rough idea of what was going on, and he looked at Keken, who had drunk a little and started talking loudly again, and concluded,
"That's why you sold the city and left the Southern Continent."
"yes, I just think... I don't think there's something right, although it seems to be quite normal over there now, and a bunch of people have made a lot of money by sharing a lot of minerals and subhuman slaves, which makes me regret selling the city a little now. But I heard that the dragonman who led the people out of the tribe was a rare red female, and I subconsciously thought of the dragonman who was with you at that time."
"I was a little frightened, that dragon man was reorganizing the tribe and expanding faster than I imagined, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to run back after a while, so I quickly sold everything I could sell and returned to the Western Continent."
"But the people in the family are all complaining about my incompetence, selling the city that I spent a lot of money to buy and running away, and I can't raise my head in the family these days, like a coward... I suddenly remembered that you were in Nari, and I forgot to come over to visit and congratulate you on the theory you published earlier..."
Fisher took a sip of his wine, but his thoughts raced.
The little dragon was very smart, and it is estimated that her father, the patriarch, had already been killed by the time she returned to the tribe, otherwise she would not have allowed the tribe to clash head-on with humans.
She threw the entire forest with the treasure to the alliance of Nari City Lords entrenched in the south, and moved south to settle down while they occupied the forest, and marched to attack the dragonman tribes in the east while they divided the forest property, if she didn't guess wrong, she probably wanted to integrate all the four dragonman tribes in the southern continent...
Keken abandoned the city before the situation developed, and of course he would feel angry and puzzled when he abandoned the road they had worked so hard to pave for him at a time when it seemed to his family to be a good situation.
As for whether Rafael can cause a storm in the Southern Continent? She's the crimson dragon queen, so of course she has the ability to do it.
But even if Keken did the right thing, he would only be rehabilitated as a "coward" when the situation over there became more serious.
Fisher thought about Rafael's affairs, and by the way, he drank with Keken to comfort him for the grievances of returning to the Western Continent, drinking and chatting, and the time gradually turned late.
Fisher wasn't drunk at all, but Keken was drunk with tears on his face, fortunately he still had two wives who loved him, otherwise he would have been scolded by his parents and clan to jump into the river, during this time he was really under a lot of pressure, and he was not even happy to go anywhere, and finally he would come to drink with an old senior who was not very familiar with him...
No, by the end of the drink, he was already delirious.
"Mr. Fisher, it's over... We've done so much in the Southern Continent for so many years, and I can't even imagine what would happen if that dragonman had risen... The Southern Continent will be full of slaughter! Everywhere there will be death! ”
“...”
As he spoke, Keken fell headlong on the table in excitement, and nonsense of unknown meaning kept coming out of his mouth, as if to accuse the other lords of stupidity.
Fisher looked at the dark drink, and did not comment for a moment.
Because sometimes the world is like this, it is precisely because human beings themselves are well aware of their own atrocities against others, so they know that once they give others a chance to breathe, they will usher in terrible revenge, and human beings continue to raise the butcher's knife to the victimized subpopulation.
But it is a continent creature, and there will always be a fire that survives with flames, otherwise there would be no prophecy of destruction that Fisher is running for.
My Healing Game
The revenge of hatred, Fisher, as a human, did not kill Rafael, the future destroyer of the world, in the end.
Fisher's thoughts are complex and contradictory, ranging from his affection for Rafael to his foolish attempts to break the cycle...
Well, to put it bluntly, most of them are private affairs.
But at this moment, the trust in Rafael that extended from personal feelings still made Fisher hold out a finger to Keken,
"Let's make a bet."
"Dora... Kiss..."
Keken was so drunk that he couldn't hear Fisher's words clearly, but he was muttering the names of his two wives as if they were aggrieved.
Fisher chuckled, but still stared at his own reflection in the drink in front of him,
"I bet that the dragonman would not commit the crime of extermination and slaughter, and if the bet fails, I will use my life and her life to pay the price of disobeying the prophecy of the end of the world because of my kindness."
Keken slept deeply, without any reply.
So it's probably just Fisher and himself... Or maybe add Rafael's gamble with the other world-destroyers.
Then Fisher shook his head helplessly, drank the wine with his reflection in the glass, and then made a bunk on the floor with the extra bedding and sheets, and dragged him to lie down.
Fisher didn't like people sleeping in his own bed, with Renee and Rafael being two minor exceptions.
He went outside to make a face, and Madam Martha was almost asleep after dinner, and he also went downstairs to make something to eat.
Today, the Prince of Lausanne was invited to the Golden Palace to hold a banquet, thinking that Yin Lizabeth should have arrived in Saint-Narry, and he did not go to Saint-Narry University to find Jasmine to study the letters sent back by her aunt because of the sudden arrival of Keken...
Many things did not make progress, but Fisher was satisfied after learning a little about Rafael.
That's all for tonight.