[Stormwind, his greatest work, it is resplendent and majestic, it is the most advanced and prosperous city ever. The pedestrians on the street were full of happiness on their faces, they sat on stone benches admiring the beautiful fountains, and walked down the cobblestone streets looking up at the magnificent cathedral; But I never thought about who completed the heavy construction work of every brick and tile, every step and rivet.

…… Around him, former workers were poor, tired, hungry, and homeless. The authorities did not want to pay a son, and accused the workers of plotting a rebellion, and drove them all to the remote wilderness on the borders of the kingdom.

When the other person slanders you for doing something, the best thing to do is not to justify, but to actually do it.

Now everyone was furious, waiting for him to give an order. They all have gear tattoos on their bodies, and Stormwind is a machine dictated by nobles and wealthy people, but the machine can't function without gears.

However, he disagreed. He always believed that peaceful means could solve the problem. They are not warriors, they are craftsmen, and it is their duty to bring happiness to this kingdom and its people. He did his best to suppress the wrath of his companions, and if it weren't for him, those gears would have turned into blades of vengeance, and slashed across the necks of nobles and clergy.

Under his leadership, the workers who were driven out of Stormwind City did not choose to fight violence with violence, but took the initiative to join the team of western pioneering. With their help and hands-on participation in using the knowledge and skills of craftsmen to help residents draw drawings, design mine roads, build houses, and build harvesting robots, towns, farms, and mines were built in just a few years, and the west became more and more prosperous.

This group of knowledgeable, powerful, and highly disciplined craftsmen was embraced and loved by the residents from the bottom of their hearts. They became the de facto rulers of the west, and the decrees and bureaucracy of the kingdom did not work in this vast land, and the people only recognized the plans and dictates of those with cogs tattooed on them.

On this day, when the kingdom suddenly expressed its willingness to settle the arrears of the project and issued an invitation to negotiate, he thought that the opportunity he had been waiting for had finally come.

His companions advised him that this was an obvious trap. It is impossible for the rich people, who are as greedy as dragons to protect every penny of treasure, suddenly change their temperament and discover their conscience. This is just a pretense to trick the leader of the Brotherhood into catching turtles in the urn. If he is fooled, it will be a point of no return.

But in the end, he went, not naively believing it, but because he wanted to convey the hearts of the craftsmen to the people of Stormwind and to all those who enjoyed the well-being of their work:

Despite all the injustices, the artisans still love the country and its people. They have always been law-abiding and have not committed the slightest mistake. As long as those in power make even the slightest concession and let them be paid a minimum to live, they are willing to continue to contribute to the building of the country.

Then, he failed.

……

He underestimated the greed and arrogance, short-sightedness and stupidity of those with vested interests. They don't think about anything longer than tomorrow at all, they just cling to what little interests are in front of them. Even if they will be stoned to death together after the house collapses, they must first remove the main beam of the house in exchange for money to fill their pockets;

He also overestimated the compassion and enthusiasm of the people of Stormwind. The people who live in this city are not selfish or indifferent, but the help they give to the builders is limited at best to sympathy and solidarity. The royal family and the church hold the power and the mouthpiece of public opinion, and most people are so busy with their lives that it is easy to fall under the power and be deceived and divided. In the midst of all kinds of confusing news, it is difficult for people to empathize with a group of people who are not related to each other and take risks to help each other.

In short, not only did he get nothing, he was defeated, but he also couldn't make it back - the kingdom wouldn't let the hooked fish return to the sea so easily.

Because the history of the leader of the craftsmen was never flawed, he was eventually imprisoned on charges of offending the queen.

Ironically, the offence refers to the fact that the Queen, when meeting with the leaders of the craftsmen on behalf of the Crown, secretly made a condition: that as long as he agreed not to pursue the payment of the works, and secretly handed over to the Kingdom the contracts and IOUs bearing the seals of the Kingdom and the Church of Light, he would be granted a large sum of money and titles to him; When he heard this, he was furious, flatly refused, and walked away.

- Exactly who is shameless and who is offended, what a big joke.

He was held in a heavily guarded, incomparably strong underwater prison for the days to go, month by month; He never gave in.

That night, a familiar figure came to the bars;

"Don't be stupid, Edwin, accept the title and official position of viscount, take the money, and forget about the Brotherhood. Just like me. ”

In the past few months, the royal family has been sending emissaries to him in an attempt to persuade him to change his mind. These people may be arrogant or earnest, or coercive or induced, or tempted; But they are all equally stupid enough to touch him in the slightest. However, the person who appeared in front of him at this time made a little wave in his heart.

This is his former deputy, one of his most effective cadres, and a playmate from childhood to adulthood. When a few like-minded young people left their hometown on the shore of Shibei Lake with tools and drawings on their backs, no one imagined that the name of the craftsman brotherhood would resound in the sea in the future. Today, most of the original partners are no longer alive, and only the two are left inside and outside the bars.

Looking at the familiar face, he unconsciously hummed a tune deep in his memory;

“…… Do you remember, Barons, this is a folk song from his hometown, "Masonry Brothers". I like these two sentences the most, 'Wherever you go, no matter how glorious and rich, do not forget where you grew up, and do not forget your dear brother; No matter when you encounter stormy seas, no matter if you are in danger or hesitation, your brother will be by your side and be your faithful arm......'"

The man grabbed the bars and said eagerly, "You don't understand! Edwin, your insistence is pointless. They ...... tomorrow," the man looked left and right, and said in a low voice, "Tomorrow...... I'm going to put you to death. ”

He was stunned, "Why, I negotiated peacefully on behalf of the workers, and we didn't commit even the slightest sin." ”

"You still don't understand that upholding justice is the greatest sin. That's all I can say, take care, Edwin. With that, the other party left in a hurry and walked away along the passage.

……

He sat there for a long time, motionless. I don't know how long time has passed, for him, day and night are the same, there is no light.

The underwater prison was so strong that no prisoner had ever escaped from it alive since it was built.

Yet in his eyes, every brick, every mechanism, every screw was so familiar; It was built by him and his brothers with painstaking painstaking efforts and countless days and nights.

No one knows what happened that night, and by the time the guards noticed it, he had disappeared from the cage.

From the unlocked doors, the open manhole covers, and the destroyed dark walls, we can roughly judge the movement trajectory of the craftsman leader;

He easily unlocked the cell door, walked out of the passage along the blind spot of the surveillance hole, removed the rivets and opened the well, and dived underwater to reach an underwater fence.

Weighing a thousand pounds, this heavy cast-iron fence was unshakable, holding back at least five prison escapees, leaving them suffocated to death. However, instead of touching the iron bar, the leader of the craftsmen removed the load-bearing bricks from the side wall, and in a few moments, the water washed away the thin wall on its own. He then surfaced, climbed through the intricate ventilation ducts, and walked out of the sewers he had built with his own hands.

Outside the city, under the waterfall on the shore of Mingjing Lake, he should have taken one last look at his beloved city from a distance, and then left silently.

Since then, the once mild-mannered and fanciful leader of the Brotherhood is gone. In its place was a name that terrified the kingdom and the church, Van Cleef of Defia. 】

Oster was reading a book, and Marissa ran to the bed, staring at him with a hippie smile and not making a sound.

Oster remembered something and asked Marisa what about his own money? The girl pretended to be stupid and said at first that she had forgotten, and later said that it had been used as a beggar gang building;

"Manly man, don't care about that little money! As compensation, let you be one of the alternates for the future husband of the parishioner. ”

Oster couldn't laugh or cry, and how many future husbands did he have on the alternates? When asked, Marisa didn't answer, rolled over and got out of bed, shook a shining thing in her hand and said, "And this, it's a dowry paid in advance." ”

Oster saw that it was the gold coin with the special symbol that the strange mage had given him before. Because it is not legal tender, he can't spend it or collect it from the bank, so he always wears it in his underwear as a talisman;

As a result, Marissa walked away silently, without noticing it at all. This little ghost really has this talent, no wonder he can be the master of the hall.

Marissa triumphantly threw down a sentence, "Thank me, the other husband candidates have all given the whole car treasures." Then he took the gold coin and ran away with a puff of smoke.