89. The rules of the city

Will I affect the Sorceress's casting?

While looking at the two sorceresses opposite, Lan En couldn't help but make a guess.

"I don't know if the shadow doesn't affect spellcasting, but I think if you give your head, this Kayla Metz can't wait to unbuckle her belt right now and throw you on the chair."

Mentos, who was still working overtime to build an interception algorithm, took the time to complain.

Then he was pressed to the overtime position by Lan En.

Compared with Kayla, who is greedy for good looks, Triss, who was really affected by Lane's magic disturbance, seems more rational at this time.

Of course, this may have something to do with Kayla Metz's already bold style.

"Anyway, let's calm down, ladies."

Lan sat down in a cashmere-covered chair and stretched comfortably. Sorceresses really enjoy it, there's no denying it.

"I'm the debt collector appointed by Eretusa, and the two of you are Erethusa's network."

"Let's just get to the point. Settle this mess as soon as possible. ”

"Oh! Yes, down to business! ”

Triss covered Kayla's chest tightly without a trace, and nodded repeatedly.

"The slave trade in Temeria, this is absolutely intolerable!"

Lan Enxin said I can't bear it either!

What normal person can endure the slave trade when they see it? Purely treating human beings as goods and animals, transporting and domesticating them, who can't see high blood pressure?

But I'm here to ask for information!

In Lan En's inquiring eyes, the two powerful female spellcasters all ignored the influence of that pretty face at this time.

He frowned and shook his head slightly.

"Honestly...... We didn't find anything. ”

Kayla Metz, the sorceress who was bold and glamorous in her dress and behavior, whispered.

When she spoke, her expression was not only tricky about not completing the instructions of the academy, but also a heavy unwillingness.

In the blink of an eye, Lan En went through the other party's information in his brain.

Sent by Eretusa to Vigema, among the sorceresses who served as advisors to the king's royal family.

Triss and Kayla are both politically enthusiastic.

But unlike Triss, who genuinely cares about the future of the country and worries about the impact of politics on the country.

Kayla's zeal lies in the pleasure that power can bring.

In other words, this person has a very strong desire for power.

Quietly, Lan En spoke calmly.

"It seems that the other party's preparation is beyond imagination...... It's even more than you two could have imagined. ”

What is the situation that makes it difficult for a person who has a strong desire for power and already has a lot of power to be unwilling?

- She has discovered areas where her power is out of reach.

This discomfort even caused Kayla to cinch the handle of the chair next to her in hatred, and the carnal desire for Lann was completely forgotten.

Triss's face also became solemn.

She pressed half of her body's weight on the armrest, leaned forward and said seriously.

"Lane, I don't know your educational background. You witchers are mysterious, and we all thought you were a solitary barbarian. But today, the fluency with which you temporarily insert the [Voice of the Heart] means that even among the Warlocks, you are at least a very smart person. ”

"Please." Lan leaned back, his palms crossed in front of his lower abdomen, and struck as he listened.

"Although I don't have much education, I still understand a little bit of the truth."

The index finger and thumb with studded leather gloves make a "little bit" gesture.

"So, I don't think there's a barrier to understanding what I'm going to say next."

Triss pursed her lips as she spoke, as if to carefully consider what was going to happen next, lowering the bar for understanding.

"There are rules within the city, within the country, Lanne. You spend all year round in the wilderness of Willen, away from the people. So you can see there, people fighting each other, knife to knife, sword to sword. Straightforward and wild, fierce and ruthless. ”

"But that's just in the wild, outside the civilized world. There is no systematic supervision system, no complete infrastructure, and no strong security force. ”

"Therefore, the human beings there will give up part of their civilization and return to the natural state."

As Triss spoke, the palm of one hand was raised and set aside. This represents what she calls the wild environment.

Immediately afterward, she raised her other palm at Lan.

"But in the cities, the state has a complete supervisory and security force. The complexity of the distribution of these forces can be even more complex than professionals can imagine! ”

"In the city, everybody is related to another person, everybody is paying someone else's wages, everybody is receiving what other people are paying for. The official institutions belonging to Temeria will use their huge amount of accounting and accounting to capture information in the process of gold circulation. ”

"Is the main business of the intelligence agencies to release spies? No. It is in the financial statements and material reports that are piled up in the process of city operation, and the hidden information is found! ”

"The city has rules, Lanne."

Triss repeated in an accentuated tone in order to take care of the witcher who was "far from civilized society".

"If someone buys goods and it doesn't show it on the books, it will cause a mismatch of goods. If this happens regularly in a certain city, the city will lose the trust of the merchants and will be depressed. ”

"It's not some big guy who can hold a goblet and say 'get this done' without a trace! If you want to cover up the traces, you need to pay a price! Huge cost! Even the act of paying the cost requires a huge amount of power as a threshold. ”

Lan listened quietly to this medieval-level management course.

The central concept in Trissy's speech was that whatever has been done must leave a mark in the civilized world.

Ledgers, bills, traces of money flows...... Numerous.

As long as it is a business transaction, whether it is illegal or legal, there must be this set of things.

Because even if it is an illegal business done by an illegal organization, these things are needed as proof of account sharing, to reassure people, to prove the leadership of the leader, and to encourage his subordinates to continue to work hard with him.

Without this set of things, don't think about making your business bigger, and even the shelves of the organization itself will be scattered on the spot.

And now, Triss looked earnestly at Lanen's amber cat's eyes, and said word by word.

"But Kayla and I, I can't find any traces!"

The pupils of the cat's eyes shrank slightly, which let Triss know that the other party understood what she meant.

"Kayla checked with me about all the shipping lists and goods bills for land and sea, going back fifteen days...... There is no trace of anything! ”

"This list and the information of the cargo ticket are handled by departments such as terminal management, city gate inspection, tax verification, bank financial docking, etc., and there are at least more than 300 people in charge! This is still only a position that requires verification of information. ”

"But this information has gone through 300 'nets', but there is still no mismatch of goods and money!"

"Can you understand what kind of force this is?"

Kayla didn't care if Lan En's mind could keep up, she sneered hatefully and picked it up.

"A municipal employee has to carry the risk of losing his job to make accounts, and we will follow the benefits he gets...... Less, a month's salary, ten Oren. Three hundred are three thousand Oren! And more importantly......"

"At least three thousand Oren have flowed through the hands of at least three hundred municipal officials, and our financial supervision department has not even noticed it! Hehe......"

Kayla raised the glass on the table to Lane, smiling.

"Thanks to you, handsome witcher. Otherwise, we would have thought we had established ourselves in the city. ”