045 The second half of each volume is a drama of aristocratic conspiracy

When the king had said this, he pointed to Rosalie: "You have done wellโ€”I mean to entertain them." We're going to talk about who's going to Repulse City. โ€

Rosalie: "Leave it to me." But...... You're not going to Repulse City, are you? What should you do if you go to the center of the floating city? โ€

Wang: "Don't worry. โ€

Wang glanced at the "guest" and did not continue, but made a gesture to the team members to follow me.

**

As soon as he arrived at the underground command center, the king asked Marika, "Do you know how to do the doppelganger?" โ€

Marika: "Do you mean mirroring?" โ€

"No, that's the kind of ...... Uh......"

"I know what you mean, I'm kidding." Marika said, "You're going to Repulse City, and you need a powerful wanderer to be your spy expert." At the same time, you want a powerful wanderer to stay here and protect Rosalie, right? โ€

Wang nodded: "Yes, I want to break you in half and use it." I thought it would be enough to have a loiterer, but now it doesn't seem to be enough, after all, there is always a time when the squad will have to split up. โ€

Flint: "Bards generally have the skills of loiters, and they have a lot of experience to counterespionage. โ€

Wang was speechless: "It makes sense. Now that we're doing so much, the bard is probably coming to us. The question is how to identify whether these bards have come for other purposes. I can't identify it anyway, so I'll leave it to everyone. โ€

Elizabeth shook her head: "No, I think it might be right for you to identify it, because no more sophisticated guy has ever seen your style." I don't know if you just restrained them. โ€

Xiaobai: "It makes sense, this is the legendary fool and the wise man, and he is naturally arrogant." โ€

Wang: "If you feel at ease, I'll do it." โ€

Marika held her forehead: "No, it's better for everyone to be there, after all, it's a big deal to add a team member." โ€

Rosalie: "Let's get down to business, who's going to Repulse City?" โ€

Wang: "Flint, are you familiar with Repulse City?" โ€

Flint shook his head: "It's too humid there, in late winter and early spring, there is a layer of water on the walls, this is not an exaggeration, it is a real layer of water on the wall, if it is a stone wall with holes, you can see that the whole wall is like being peed by a naughty child all the time." โ€

Xiaobai: "Maybe this scene is not very disgusting, but your description makes me very disgusting." โ€

Flint: "It's just that disgusting, no, it's more disgusting than that. Ordinary people have a rancid smell on their bodies during this period, because their clothes can't be dried at all, and they can't be dried in the sun.

"During this time, the temperature has been hovering around seven or eight degrees, and mold grows on everything.

"Rich people use an oven like an oven to dry their clothes, and ordinary people can't afford to buy firewood and charcoal, so they have to wear wet ...... Well? โ€

Wang: "What's wrong?" โ€

Flint scratched his head: "I remember, there is a mage living in Repulse City, who can use tricks to dry people's clothes, and then he has earned the title of a master of drying. โ€

Wang: "Does this have anything to do with the purpose of our trip to Repulse City?" โ€

"Nope. Speaking of which, what are we going to Repulse City for? โ€

Rosalie sighed, "You forgot about this? โ€

Wang: "Go to the craftsmen to build the ground buildings of the floating city." โ€

At this time, Elizabeth raised her hand: "I ask a question, what about the Order?" What about salvation? โ€

The king was silent.

After a while, he touched his nose in embarrassment: "If you think about it, none of this seems to have anything to do with salvation...... Wrong! Matter! We're going to take the army of lizardmen against the Order! The Order has an army, so we have to have an army too! It's related!

"That's why we're building floating islands to fight the Order. It makes sense for us to go to the craftsmen! โ€

Xiaobai: "You obviously just remembered this stubble, you just wanted to build a house on the floating island." โ€

Wang forced the discussion forward, "Since Flint is so familiar with Repulse City, then he is the guide, so we don't need Marika's experience." โ€

Marika: "Actually, I'm not familiar with Repulse City, because the climate there is too uncomfortable for Drow, so I passed by a few times and left right away. โ€

Wang: "Very good. Then you stay. Elizabeth also stayed. โ€

Elizabeth: "Why? โ€

Wang: "I don't think there will be a fight......

Marika: "But your right eyelid jumped before." โ€

Wang: "Yes, I thought the right eyelid jumped because of the Cyclops Golem on the elevator, but it only followed the rules and only came down six at a time. There must be something bad going to happen.

"If the right eyelid doesn't jump, it doesn't mean that the wind and rain are smooth, but it must be a good thing to jump, and my little uncle still has to use a device like an engram to help remember things.

"We have to be careful, so we can't divide our forces, it's better to stay together at all times. But I'm worried that if we all go to Repulse City, something will happen to the floating island.

"After all, no one can speak cyclops, the island can't fly on the ground, maybe someone will take the opportunity to attack."

At this time, Liguang said: "In this case, you should not leave the Marika donor, you should leave the poor monk to lead the lizardmen to guard the island." โ€

Wang looked at Liguang: "I can trust you...... Are you? โ€

Liguang: "The donor's words are wrong, you are our dragon god messenger, and you have a life-saving grace for each of us." โ€

Wang: "I don't have this for you, do I?" You're a transcendent warrior monk, and I'm just a mage who has just arrived at the Fourth Ring. โ€

Liguang: "Without you, I don't even know where the enemy is, and I don't know who exactly has done the black hand on my village. You are gracious to me. I and all the survivors in our village don't recognize anyone but you. โ€

Flint: "If it weren't for the lizardmen's lack of music, I'd have given you a whole ode to the Dragon's Emissary or something." โ€

Wang: "In that case, then we'll take Marika, and you stay behind and lead the lizardmen to protect Rosalie and Oscar." โ€

Liguang folded his hands.

Wang looked at the others: "Once again, only one of us is a team to act, this time my right eyelid has skipped, I am afraid that something big will happen in Repulse City, combined with the fact that the Order has been operating here for many years, it may be a very dangerous situation."

"I want to quit...... I mean to say this, but we've been adventuring together for so long, and I know you're not going to quit, no matter what happens, we're all in this together. That's it, check the fireball scrolls, healing potions, and antidote potions in their respective dimensional bags, and we'll set off when they're ready! โ€

Marika: "The motivational speech as a captain was not very contagious. โ€

Wang: "I'm not known for my infectious energy, why don't Elizabeth come here?" โ€

Elizabeth: "Huh? Me? โ€

"You must have learned how to speak in front of the people, right?"

"I've studied it, but I'm just responsible for reading the kind of speech that requires ten clerical officers to scrutinize the draft of the speech repeatedly." Elizabeth shrugged, "I'm stupid, how can I finish the speech myself." โ€

Wang: "That's right. โ€

"Don't answer like that! You should be complaining about me here! โ€

Xiaobai: "There's nothing to complain about, it's a fact after all." โ€

"You two!"

**

Just as the Salvation Squad boarded the captured dwarf airship and headed for Repulse City, the news had already spread in Repulse City.

After all, it was yesterday that Floating City took off, and then it took a day for Floating City to float above the river under the gaze of so many sailors on the river.

The Grand Duke of the Duchy of Frank and a group of nobles were discussing the matter in the Grand Duke's study at this time.

"Fuck these plague gods," said the Grand Duke's chief of intelligence, scolding, "where they go, where the nobles are bleeding!" The key is not that the order kills, it is all aristocratic infighting. In Langdon, Bruce the Kingkiller launched a blood dinner, and in Monrovia, the Emperor personally exchanged the blood of the upper-middle-class aristocracy โ€“ literally. โ€

The head of diplomacy nodded: "We all know that he exists, and we have a lot of dealings with them, and we have gained a lot of benefits. โ€

The treasurer hurriedly chimed in: "Yes, the Order has a way to quickly deal with the thorns in the people below and erase the evil thoughts that have been passed down from Sissel. โ€

The Grand Duke, the wife of the Grand Duke, who was present at the meeting, said quietly: "I don't know if the Order has used their methods against the thorns against all of you here. Whether you are loyal to the Principality or the Order now, I think there is a question mark. โ€

Several of the main pipes looked at each other.

Silence just came.

The Chief of Intelligence broke the silence: "Get down to business. We believe that a gang of shadow thieves has come from Monrovia and has entered the city, but the situation in Repulse City is ...... We can't locate the strongholds of these shadow thieves anyway. โ€

The city of Repulse City was able to appear thanks to the giant swamp that straddled the Masunya River.

The entire river region is dotted with such shallows and swamps, but most of them do not block the Mahunya River. After all, the flow of the Ma Xunya River is so large, any swamp will be washed into a river.

The only thing that was different was this swamp, and the Duchy of Frank organized several expeditions to the swamp, and finally concluded that the swamp was the result of some kind of large-scale legendary magic.

The dwarf explorers from the Thorn Isles concluded that this may have been a swamp created by the Second Human Empire to resist the invasion and to stop the invaders.

Regardless of the specific cause, in short, the existence of this swamp has created the city of Repulse City.

Initially a group of pilots who were responsible for guiding ships through the swamp, a group of Cao Gong joined the pilots, risking their lives to open and maintain the waterway in the swamp.

Then the mercenaries joined in.

Just like that, Repulse City snowballed.

It was bigger, but the slums became the hallmark of Repulse City, and the nobles who later occupied it and declared it a territory never penetrated into the shack area next to the swamp.

Everyone here knows this.

The inhabitants of the shack area seem to regard the nobles as their own meat shields, after all, it is much cheaper to raise nobles than to raise mercenaries.

The nobles will only collect taxes, and if the mercenaries betray, it will be fatal.

And the nobles are tied to such a vain thing as "territory", but it is not easy to betray.

The shack and the aristocracy are more like a symbiotic relationship that can be found everywhere in the rainforest than a relationship between the ruling and the ruled.

Because of this, even if the intelligence director knew the location of the shadow thieves' strongholds in the shack area, he did not dare to send someone to clear them, at most he greeted the local snakes in the shack area to see if they were willing to move the shadow thieves from outside.

The Grand Duke was speechless: "The shadow thief is here, what about the people in the south?" โ€

Chief of Intelligence: "The people from Catala came earlier than the shadow thief, after all, the airship in the report flew from Catalan. They must have been aware of the Order's movements. โ€

Grand Duke: "I've always wondered, what does Catalan have to do with the Order?" โ€

The intelligence chief shrugged: "Maybe it's family, maybe it's not." We all have to watch out anyway. โ€

Then the Diplomat said, "Ah, speaking of Catala, before I came here, I received an application for an official visit from their ambassador, and one of them was going to come in a dwarf airship. โ€

The Grand Duke was speechless: "No need to ask, princess." That's for the 'Princess Collectors'. โ€

Princess Collector, this is the nickname of the Salvation Squad. The name Salvation Squad is also used in public, and in private they are the princess collectors.

At this time, the female who had just interjected and had not spoken since she spoke openly said: "You guys! Net concern for things that are not important. What really matters is ignored. โ€

The Grand Duke hurriedly said, "What is really important, Madame quickly tell me." โ€

"It's a floating city! This is what we found in our land! โ€

The Grand Duke frowned: "Could it be that Madame wants to rob the Floating City?" It's not realistic, whoever finds it and who takes possession is the rule of archaeology. โ€

"Stupid! Who said I was going to possess it! Think about how your position came about! Whether it's us or the people in the shack area, we're all outsiders. And that floating city, really find a legal expert to make it up, that is the evidence of legitimacy! He can't be the king of us! โ€

The aristocrats looked at each other.

The intelligence director frowned: "According to the intelligence, the captain of the salvation team has no interest in these worldly things at all, you must know that Kosania and Monrovia both want him to be the prime minister." โ€

The Grand Duchess killed his retort with a single sentence: "What if? โ€

(End of chapter)