"In 2150, the first expeditions sent by the coalition government brought back news of the 'outside world'."

After the bartender said that "the criminals will soon have no market here", the man on the other end of the bar suddenly intervened in the conversation between the two.

Obviously close to ten meters away, he still heard what the bartender said, which was enough to see that the man's hearing was amazing.

"The news that the survivors of the 'outside' had gathered to establish settlements after the war and that small states had begun to take shape in various regions, and that expeditions had brought back a large number of scarce resources from different regions, quickly sparked a nationwide gold rush, and the crowds frantically flocking to the border cities were dubbed gold diggers."

"This guest, please let me apologize if I offended you with my previous remarks."

Ivan said.

What he expressed just now was just a personal opinion, and he knew that his opinion was easy to cause controversy, so he lowered his voice, but he didn't expect it to be heard by others.

Fortunately, this man is a fresh face, not like a cadre of the four major crime groups.

"Your words just happen to bring back some memories of me."

The man waved his hand, rejecting Ivan's offer of liquor, and he said to himself, "To some extent, the coalition government encouraged the gold rush and gave the gold diggers legal status in the name of 'adventurers', and one of the laws that had the most profound impact on the future was that the goods brought back from the outside world, regardless of the origin, as long as they were transported to the territory, were treated as legal goods, this law greatly promoted the boom of going to the 'outside world', but at the same time it also turned the border cities into what they are now." ”

The implicit message of this law is that even goods obtained by burning and looting "from the outside" are legal as long as they can be transported within the territory of the coalition government.

Some of the gold prospectors set their sights on villages that lacked the ability to protect themselves, while others simply occupied the transportation arteries and plundered supplies directly from other gold prospectors, until 2155, when the coalition government changed the law and defined some of the adventurers as illegal criminals and wanted them.

"Therefore, this city, the criminals and you have a long history, and the shadows brewed in those five years have spread like blood vessels in every corner of the city, and the power of law enforcers alone is not enough to clean the imprint left by the times."

As he spoke, the man's gaze crossed the bartender and fell on Song Lan.

The drunkard didn't mean to drink, and these words were said to Song Lan from the beginning.

Ivan couldn't help but get nervous, the situation that worried him the most still happened, what this man said just now was tantamount to a provocation for the law enforcers.

Although the law enforcers are very popular among the "wanderers", since the new supervisor took office, the relationship between the law enforcers and the criminals has become more and more tense.

Ivan is now very worried that Song Lan will shoot the case directly, and a glass cup will be buckled on the man's head.

Song Lan looks very young, and she is at the age of vigor.

"I've gained knowledge."

However, to Ivan's surprise, Song Lan held back for a long time before she said such a sentence, and there was no anger on her face.

In fact, for Song Lan, what she said just now was like listening to a story.

When he first arrived, he also tried to gather some history about this world, although he still couldn't be sure if it belonged to the same time and space as the year 2020 he was familiar with, but in the year 2030 of this world, a war broke out that affected the whole world.

The war lasted for nearly a hundred years, destroying most of the region to the point of nuclear bombing, and at the end of the war, the leaders of the survivors signed an armistice, pooling together what little resources and means of production were left, and finally forming the prototype of a coalition government.

In the areas beyond the borders of the coalition government, collectively referred to as the "outside world", without the emergence of the gold rush, many people would probably not have contact with the "outside world" for the rest of their lives, and until now, the "outside world" in the eyes of the vast majority of people is still a ruin after being leveled.

As for the expedition team mentioned by the man, Song Lan had indeed found relevant records on the Internet before.

However, what made him feel rather bizarre was that it was not the Middle Ages of Discovery, but the year 2166, when science and technology were highly developed, and in this case, there were no pictures of "outside" countries or settlements on the Internet, so many people questioned the reliability of this news, believing that these were lies made up by the coalition government.

On this issue, Song Lan has always belonged to the melon-eating masses who ride the wall, and he has always had a question mark in his heart about whether there is a country in the "outside world".

Seeing Song Lan's peaceful appearance, the man frowned, and in the end he just snorted coldly and stopped talking to the two.

About two or three minutes later, a woman with noticeable dark circles under her eyes walked out of the booth not far away, holding a folder in her hand, and walked straight to the man they were talking to.

"Captain, the papers are here."

Captain?

Song Lan also showed that her hearing was no less than that of the other party, although the woman's voice was softer than the previous Ivan, but he still heard it.

He originally thought that this man was a member of a certain criminal group, and he was born to deal with law enforcers, but criminals should rarely use the word "captain" to address others, right?

The man took the paper and nodded.

Before leaving, he glanced at Song Lan meaningfully, but Song Lan stared at his wine glass and ignored him.

Kidding aside, as a pacifist, one of the rules to avoid fighting in bars is to don't look at people when it's okay.

"Phew, it scared the hell out of me just now."

Seeing the two leaving, Ivan breathed a long sigh of relief, and his face was full of apologies, "I'm sorry, because some of my remarks have caused you to be involved in unnecessary trouble, and in order to apologize, I invite you to a cup of really good things." ”

With that, Ivan unscrewed a rather suspicious bottle.

The liquid in the bottle was clear and transparent, but with the experience of the past, Song Lan was sure that what it contained was definitely not water.

Ivan carefully took the bottle as if it were a treasure, and poured a full glass in front of him.

Only then did Song Lan see the words on the bottle.

This thing is indeed water.

It's nothing more than the water of life.

You don't need to go over to smell the pungent smell.

At this moment, there was only one thought left in Song Lan's heart.

Comrade Ivan,

Are you really here to apologize?