After Wang said this, he pointed at Rosalie: "You can take good care of them - I mean entertain them well. We are going to discuss who should go to Qianshui City."
Rosalie: "Leave it to me. But... you're not going to Shallow Water City, are you? What if you go to the center of the Floating City and cause chaos?"
Wang: "Don't worry."
Wang glanced at the "guest" and did not continue, but made a follow-me gesture to the team members.
**
As soon as he arrived at the underground command center, Wang asked Marika: "Do you know the clone technique?"
Marika: "Do you mean the mirror shadow technique?"
"No, it's just that... uh..."
"I know what you mean, I'm joking." Marika said, "You are going to Shallow Water City and you need a powerful rogue to be your intelligence expert. At the same time, you want a powerful rogue to stay here to protect Luo Sally and the others, right?”
Wang nodded: "Yes, I want to break you in half and use it. I originally thought that one rogue would be enough, but now it seems that it is not enough. After all, the team always needs to split up."
Flint: "Bards generally have the skills of rogues, and their rich experience can also counter espionage."
Wang was stunned: "It makes sense. Now that we are doing such a big job, the bards are probably coming to us. The problem is how to identify whether these bards are coming with other purposes. I can't identify them anyway, so I'll leave it to you. ”
Elizabeth shook her head: "No, I think it might be just right for you to identify them, because no matter how cunning a guy is, they have never seen someone like you. Maybe you can just restrain them."
Xiaobai: "It makes sense. This is the legendary fool who defeats the wise, and nature defeats the arrogant."
Wang: "If you feel relieved, I can come."
Marika held her forehead: "No, it's better if everyone is present. After all, it is a big event to add a team member."
Rosalie: "Let's get down to business, who is going to Qianshui City?"
Wang: "Flint, are you familiar with Shallow Water City?"
Flint shook his head: "It's too humid there. During the late winter and early spring, there's a layer of water on the walls. This is not an exaggeration. It's really a layer of water on the walls. If it's a stone wall with holes, you can It looked like the entire wall had been peed on by a naughty child at all times.”
Xiaobai: "Maybe this scene is not very disgusting, but your description makes me disgusted."
Flint: "The actual situation is so disgusting, no, it's even worse than this. Most people smell bad during this period because their clothes can't be dried at all, even in the sun.
“During this period, the temperature has been hovering around 7 or 8 degrees Celsius, and mold will grow on everything.
"Rich people will use a special oven like an oven to dry their clothes. Ordinary people can't afford to buy firewood and charcoal, so they can only wear wet clothes... huh?"
Wang: "What's wrong?"
Flint scratched his head: "I remembered that there was a mage living in Shallow Water City who could use tricks to dry people's clothes, and then he got the title of Master Dryer."
Wang: "Is this related to our purpose of going to Qianshui City?"
"No. Speaking of which, what is the purpose of our going to Qianshui City?"
Rosalie sighed: "Have you even forgotten this?"
Wang: "Go to the craftsmen to build the ground buildings of the floating city."
At this time Elizabeth raised her hand: "Let me ask a question, what about the Order? Where about Salvation?"
Wang was silent.
After a moment, he touched his nose in embarrassment: "If you think about it carefully, none of this seems to have anything to do with salvation... No! It does! We are going to bring the lizardman army to fight against the Order! The Order has an army, so we must also have one. Army! It has something to do with it!
"So we want to build the floating island to fight against the cult. It makes sense for us to go to the craftsmen!"
Xiaobai: "You obviously just remembered this. You wanted to build a house on the floating island before."
Wang forced the discussion forward: "Since Flint is so familiar with Shallow Water City, he will be the guide, so we don't need Marika's experience."
Marika: "Actually, I'm not familiar with Qianshui City, because the climate there is too uncomfortable for drow, so I passed by it a few times and left immediately."
Wang: "Very good. Then you stay. Elizabeth will stay too."
Elizabeth: "Why?"
Wang: "I guess there won't be a fight..."
Marika: "But your right eyelid twitched before."
Wang: "Yes, I originally thought that the twitching of my right eyelid was because of the Cyclops Golem on the elevator, but it turned out that the thing strictly abided by the rules and only six came down at a time. There must be something bad happening."
"If the right eyelid doesn't twitch, it doesn't mean things are going well, but if it twitches, it's definitely not good. My junior uncle still uses devices like memory crystals to help me remember things.
"We have to be careful, so we can't divide our forces. It's best to stay together at all times. But I'm worried that if we all go to Qianshui City, something will happen to the floating island.
"After all, no one can speak Cyclops. The island cannot fly on the ground. Maybe someone will take the opportunity to attack."
Li Guang said at this time: "In this case, you should not leave Marika as the benefactor. You should leave the poor monk to lead the lizardmen to guard the island."
Wang looked at Li Guang: "Can I trust you...you?"
Li Guang: "Donor, what you said is wrong. You are our Dragon God's messenger. You have been a life-saving grace to each of us."
Wang: "I don't know this about you, do I? You are an extraordinary monk, and I am just a mage who has just reached the fourth ring."
Li Guang: "Without you, I don't even know where the enemy is, and I don't know who actually attacked my village. You are kind to me. I and all the survivors in our village don't recognize anyone except you." ."
Flint: "If it weren't for the lizard people not being good at music, I would have given you a whole hymn of the Dragon God Messenger or something like that."
Wang: "In that case, let's take Marika away, and you stay and lead the lizard people to protect Rosalie and Oscar."
Li Guang clasped his hands together.
Wang looked at the others: "Once again, we are the only team in action. This time, I skipped my right eyelid. I am afraid that something big will happen in Qianshui City. Considering that the cult has been operating here for many years, it may be a very dangerous situation. .
"I want to quit... I want to say this, but we have been taking risks together for so long. I know you will not quit. No matter what happens, we will face it together. That's it. I decided to check the bags in our respective dimensions. The fireball scroll, healing potion, and antidote potion, we will set off when they are ready!"
Marika: “As a captain’s pep talk, it’s not very contagious.”
Wang: "I'm not good at contagiousness. How about Elizabeth?"
Elizabeth: "Eh? Me?"
"You should have learned how to speak in front of the people, right?"
"I have learned it, but that kind of speech requires ten clerks to draft the speech over and over again. I am only responsible for reading it." Elizabeth shrugged, "I am stupid, how can I finish the speech by myself."
Wang: "That's right."
"Don't answer like that! You should be complaining about me here!"
Xiaobai: "There's nothing to complain about. After all, it's the truth."
"You two!"
**
Just as the rescue team boarded the captured dwarf airship and headed towards Qianshui City, the news had already spread in Qianshui City.
After all, it was yesterday that the floating city took off, and it took the floating city a day to float above the river under the watchful eyes of so many sailors on the river.
The Grand Duke of the Frank Principality and a group of nobles were discussing this matter in the Grand Duke's study.
"These damn plague gods," the archduke's intelligence chief cursed. "Wherever they go, rivers of blood flow from the nobles! The key point is that they are not killed by any religious group, but are all caused by internal fighting among the nobles. In Langdon, killing King Bruce launched the Bloody Dinner, and in Monrovia, the emperor personally exchanged blood for the middle and upper-class nobles—a blood exchange in the literal sense.”
The head of diplomacy nodded: "We all know about the cult's existence, and we have frequent contacts with them and have gained a lot of benefits."
The financial controller hurriedly agreed: "Yes, the cult has a way to quickly deal with the thorns among the people below and eliminate the evil thoughts spread from Sissel."
The Archduchess who was attending the meeting, that is, the Archduke's wife said quietly: "I just don't know if the Order has used their method to deal with the thorns on everyone here. I think you are loyal to the Principality or to the Order now. Put a question mark.”
Several managers looked at each other.
Silence just fell.
The intelligence chief broke the silence: "Let's get down to business. We believe that a group of shadow thieves came from Monrovia and have entered the city, but the situation in Qianshui City... we can't locate the stronghold of these shadow thieves anyway."
The emergence of the city of Qianshui City is entirely due to the giant swamp across the Mashunya River.
Such shoals and swamps are dotted throughout the river basin countries, but most of them do not block the Mashunya River. After all, the Maxunya River has such a large flow that any swamp will be washed into a river.
Only this swamp is different. The Duke of Frank organized several explorations of the swamp, and finally concluded that the swamp is the result of some large-scale legendary magic.
The dwarf explorers from the Thorn Islands believe that this may be a man-made swamp created by the human empire in the Second Age to resist invasion and block the invaders' attacks.
Regardless of the specific cause, the existence of this swamp created Qianshui City.
Initially, they were just a group of pilots responsible for guiding ships through the swamp. Later, a group of Cao workers joined the pilots and risked their lives to open and maintain channels in the swamp.
Then the mercenaries joined in.
In this way, Qianshui City grew like a snowball.
It was getting bigger, but the layers of slums had become the symbol of Qianshui City. The nobles who later occupied this place and declared it their territory had never penetrated deep into the shanty towns next to the swamp.
Everyone here knows this very well.
The residents of the shanty town seemed to regard the nobles as their human shields. After all, raising nobles was much cheaper than raising mercenaries.
The nobles only collect taxes, and if the mercenaries betray them, it will be fatal.
However, the nobles are not easily betrayed because they have such a false thing as "territory".
The relationship between the shanty town and the nobles is not so much a relationship between domination and being ruled, but more like a symbiotic relationship that can be seen everywhere in the rain forest.
Because of this, even if the intelligence manager knew the location of the shadow thieves' stronghold in the shanty area, he would not dare to send people to clear it. At most, he would say hello to the local gangsters in the shanty area to see if they were willing to use outsiders. Shadow Thief.
The Grand Duke was speechless: "The Shadow Thief is here, where are the people in the south?"
Intelligence Chief: "The people from Catalonia arrived earlier than the Shadow Thieves. After all, the airship in the report flew from Catalonia. They must have noticed the movement of the cult a long time ago."
Grand Duke: "I have always been confused, what is the relationship between the Catalan royal family and the religious order?"
The intelligence chief shrugged: "Maybe it's a family, maybe it's not. Anyway, we all have to be careful."
At this time, the diplomatic chief said: "Ah, speaking of Catalonia, before I came here, I received an official visit application submitted by their ambassador. They have a princess who wants to come by dwarf airship."
The Grand Duke was speechless: "No need to ask, princess. This is for the 'Princess Collector'."
Princess Collector, this is the nickname of the rescue team. The name "Savior Squad" is only used in public, but privately they are the Princess Collectors.
At this time, the female minister, who had been silent since she just interrupted, spoke up: "You guys! You care about unimportant things. You turn a blind eye to the really important things."
The Grand Duke hurriedly said: "What is really important, Madam, please tell me quickly."
"It's a floating city! This was discovered on our land!"
The Grand Duke frowned: "Does Madam want to rob the floating city? It's not realistic. Whoever finds out takes possession of it is an archaeological rule."
"Idiot! Who said I was going to take possession of it! Think about how you got your position! Whether it's us or the gang in the shanty town, we are all outsiders. As for that floating city, we really need legal experts to take care of it. Make it up, that’s evidence of legitimacy! He might be able to become king here!”
The nobles looked at each other.
The intelligence chief frowned: "According to the intelligence, the captain of the salvation team has no interest in these worldly things. You must know that both Cosania and Monrovia want him to be the prime minister."
The Grand Duchess killed his rebuttal with one sentence: "What if?"
(End of chapter)
