Chapter 181 Peaceful prosperity before the storm (3)
When the player lords began to discuss how to unite to seize Chen Kai's territory under the organization of the old fox Li Xiangrong, or directly force Chen Kai to give up the benefits of the Gem Abyss, they would never have thought that less than half an hour had passed. The content of their discussion and the final covenant they had formulated appeared on Chen Kai's desk, and Chen Kai only paid 500,000 gold coins for this.
Although the price sounds a little higher, if you consider the secret of this information and the timeliness of the message, it is worth it. Of course, all this is not what the player brings to Chen Kai, but the information provided by the thief guild in the game.
When Chen Kai received the news, he was not only glad that he had spent a huge price to get the news channels, but also feared the way these indigenous thieves guilds were acting. He did not think that Li Xiangrong and Qi Shaohuang would discuss these things in the open air in the blue sky and the sun. If it were Chen Kai, he would definitely place the discussion of things in a safe enough place, and the places where the player lords held the discussions provided by the thieves guild were enough to be secret.
Even if Chen Kai thought about it, these players would put the meeting place in the hotel in the territory of Baron Kemal Dal. If it was a spy sent by Chen Kai in this hotel, it would be difficult to sneak into Baron Kemal Dal's territory first. These player lords discussed how to attack Chen Kai in the territory of this lord. Obviously, in Chen Kai's view, they might have colluded with the baron. Although this conclusion is Chen Kai's inference, it is very close to the facts. Because in Hugodi territory, the relationship between the player lord and the indigenous lord is definitely not good. Baron Kemal's disgust towards the player lord is the highest among all the indigenous nobles, but in order to deal with Chen Kai, he even began to win over other player lords.
Unfortunately, there is no evidence of the collusion between the player lord and Baron Kemal Dal in the information provided by the Thieves Guild, or rather, it is not that there is no evidence, but that the price offered by Chen Kai is not enough to make these indigenous thieves excited, thus providing these news and evidence. However, based on the information that Chen Kai has at hand, it is enough to infer the information that makes him anxious.
"Thank you for me, respected President Dark!" After Chen Kai paid nearly fifty white magic crystal coins, he said to the indigenous thief in front of him. The latter gently weighed the purse in his hand, and the corner of his mouth exposed under half a mask slowly pulled out a very dangerous smile.
"Thank you, the respected Baron Berkner! I think you and our president are very satisfied with this business! If there is such a relaxed guy, please let me know directly! Then if there is nothing wrong, I will take it back first!" The thief did not give Chen Kai any time to speak, and in fact, Chen Kai had no idea to keep him. When Chen Kai raised his head, the thief's figure slowly faded away with the wind, and in the end only a trace of shadow was captured in Chen Kai's vision. This was a thief at least at the ninth level.
If the other party wants to assassinate Chen Kai, then Chen Kai has almost no ability to resist. But it is estimated that no thief would be stupid enough to assassinate a lord, because doing so would cause a disaster to the entire thief profession. Although thieves can accept the task of assassinating a certain noble, they will never accept the task of assassinating a lord in a certain territory. Because lords with territories are real-world nobles directly controlled by the Hansting Empire, unless these thieves want to offend the entire empire and make the thief guild completely erased from the territory of the Hansting Empire.
You should know that the industry of thieves itself is a contradictory profession between darkness and light. If they were to carry out dark activities, no one could escape their assassination. In the dark age before the establishment of the Hansting Empire, even kings would have records of thieves assassination. As for the assassination activities that were not thieves, they were more frequent. In the last year and the nearly 100-year dark and chaotic period when the year was over, it was the most turbulent time in the entire continent, and almost no records were retained. It was at that time that time.
The skeleton structure and rules of the current thief guild were slowly established. When this period began, as several great empires gradually formed, all guild organizations were subject to unified restrictions among various empires. In particular, the thief guilds with criminal records were restricted even more. However, thanks to the thief guild rules set by the thief guild in the dark age, the thief guilds would not have been able to move on the open, but became a dark organization that could only survive underground.
However, Chen Kai received enough shocking news at this moment. Of course, for Chen Kai, these news is not enough to give him a headache. After all, the strength of those player lords is simply incomparable to the strength that Chen Kai has mastered now. Although the number of soldiers on Chen Kai's face has not changed, both cavalry and infantry are still only the original number, which is 3,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry, in fact, if the militia that have been armed will be included, then Chen Kai's actual military strength exceeds nearly 10,000.
Of course, Chen Kai also ruled out the unstable combat power of the players. You should know that the number of players in Berkner Town now exceeds 30,000, most of them are for the Gem Abyss. However, because the threshold of the Gem Abyss is too high, some people did not stay in Berkner Town, but ran to other places. Now the number of players in the entire Berkner Town is almost unstable, and the number of people reached nearly 50,000 at the highest. Such a large number of players could have been organized to attack the trade route to Altinis, but unfortunately, because no one organized or had their own battles, they could not open up the trade route to the south.
Although the trade route to the south will be connected for a few days at some point, for example, the food transported by Chen Kai from Altinis was the result of his organization of nearly 30,000 players to attack and finally barely opened up. Unfortunately, this trade route was cut off again after only three days of completion. The number of monsters that were so terrifying that they were like nightmares and the wingless demons mixed with it made the players run wild and run back to the castle.
If it weren't for relying on the various defensive facilities recently installed by Chen Kai in the Southern Castle, including the support of two magic crystal cannons he secretly bought, it was estimated that the southern portal of Chen Kai's territory would have been destroyed under the attack of tens of thousands of monsters and nearly seven hundred wingless demons waving fireballs. But even so, tens of thousands of monsters had caused extremely serious damage to Chen Kai's southern castle. If it weren't for the good luck, the garrison officer of Chen Kai's southern castle would have been replaced again. But in that battle, the Southern Castle died in battle.
The number of civilian soldiers exceeded 1,000 for the first time, and nearly 500 veterans died under the fireballs of monsters and demons. Even if the number of monsters and little demons killed afterwards exceeded 10,000, Chen Kai still felt that it was not worth it. You should know that as a southern castle with very complete city defense equipment, in Chen Kai's opinion, even tens of thousands of regular troops could easily defend it. If it weren't for the aggressive advance of some players, Chen Kai would probably not have much loss, but after the incident happened, Chen Kai would have no choice but to deal with those players.
For mobile players, if Chen Kai wants to target them, there is really no way. They are wandering around with the intention of not having to do this. Some players even have a wanted order in some aboriginal aristocrats' territories. Although it is all trivial, if they return to those territories, they will definitely be arrested and imprisoned. Even in Chen Kai's Berkner Town, hundreds of players were caught by patrol soldiers in this month, and hundreds of players were wanted by Chen Kai. They either disturbed the public or teased the Aboriginal girl on the street, or simply engaged in some unsubstantiated business. Chen Kai even encountered three robbery acts against him. Of course, those players with inaccurate ideas were sent directly by Chen Kai to drink the tea from Pluto Antolo.
These players have caused the security situation in Berkner Town to plummet. So sometimes Chen Kai also has a headache for the newly added players in Berkner Town. Although they have brought a lot of taxes to Berkner Town, it also makes the city that looks a little empty even more lively, but unfortunately, Chen Kai's soldiers are exhausted. Even in the middle of the night, there are many players wandering on the streets, and their noisy makes the original residents unable to rest well. Fortunately, as the freshness of the players passes, they begin to gradually calm down, and when the gem collection industry gradually gets on track, the number of players gradually decreases.
This is not because Chen Kai deliberately monopolized the gem mining industry, but because the environment under the abyss is too harsh. The player named Wang Lei, the explorer of the gem abyss, has been missing for nearly a month, or it cannot be said to be missing. At least he can receive news from him occasionally. But he himself can't figure out where he touched, and the things that exist in the underground world make him more afraid, besides being shocked.
At the same time, the most important reason for letting Chen Kai ban more players from mining in the abyss is to control the price of gems. When a large number of gems begin to flood the market, the price of gems in Hansting will begin to fall. It cannot be said to be a crazy decline. But at least the price fell by at least one level than before the gem abyss mining. If Chen Kai opens up more players to enter the abyss mining, then more gems will inevitably flow into the market, and the final result is that the price of gems will fall again, which threatens the interests of other gem merchants.
Whether for the safety of the territory or for his own life, Chen Kai must prevent more gems from flowing into the market. The so-called cutting off people's wealth is like killing parents. When the gems in Chen Kai's territory began to flow into the market in large quantities, he actually threatened the vested interests of some gem merchants in the Hansting Empire. Because the price of gems did not fall very seriously, these vested interests, that is, the original indigenous merchants in the game, would not cause trouble for Chen Kai. But if the price of gems continues to fall, then Chen Kai can be sure that those big merchants who have cut off their wealth will directly wave their butcher knife to destroy Chen Kai, the player noble.
So although Chen Kai knew that opening more gem mining areas would attract more players to stay, it would also put him in a more dangerous situation. This danger is that Chen Kai could not fill the profits from mining in the gem mining area. Even if Chen Kai obtained more gold coins because of the newly added gem mining area, if he was killed, no matter how much money he would turn into other people's money. At least Chen Kai now knows that several player lords have planned to kill Chen Kai, a bastard who eats alone in their eyes, thereby occupying Chen Kai's gem abyss.
"Okay! What do you think now?" Sitting on the huge rock chair in the council hall, Chen Kai gently tapped the tabletop of the newly added giant round table in the council hall, and the entire tabletop made a buzzing sound as his fingers hit it.
"What else can I do? Let's take action first and then take action to the disaster! Kill the chicken first to show the monkeys so that they can understand what the consequences will be if we provoke us!" The first speaker was Guan Yu, who was a mummy. The so-called scars are forgotten and the pain is forgotten. Now the scars on Guan Yu's body have forgotten the pain before they healed. As a combat madman, he has already expressed his position completely, but his words have not been approved by everyone, at least Chen Kai does not agree with this in his heart.
Although Chen Kai is just as eager to fight as Guan Yu, he will not raise the combat power of the entire town for no reason. He will attack his nominal allies just because of the things provided by the thief guild. In Chen Kai's opinion, he cannot be the one who tore the first to tear the covenant. Although this looks a bit like being a bitch and having to set up a arch, at least for his reputation, Chen Kai has no intention of being a swearing person. You should know that Chen Kai is also a temple profession. Whether it is a lie or abstaining from the oath, it will damage Chen Kai's reputation and reduce Chen Kai's beliefs, leading to a deviation from Chen Kai's camp.
So even though Chen Kai agreed with Guan Yu's words in his heart, he still chose to reject Guan Yu's proposal after thinking about it.
"Okay! The patient should be well recuperated! Don't interrupt!" Xu Fei gently pointed at Guan Yu. Guan Yu wanted to say something, but his mouth was directly sealed by a thin layer of magic power, and he couldn't say anything. This poor guy can only hide in the corner miserably. There is nothing else to do except curse Xu Fei in his heart.
"Actually, the head's idea is very simple! He can't betray the covenant first. Even if that covenant seems like waste paper to those bastards, because the head is a temple profession. The oath he made in the name of the Lord of Dawn cannot be abandoned first, otherwise the bad guys will not be the bastards but the head himself!" Xu Fei slowly stood up after sealing Guan Yu's mouth. The glowing gem on the Arcane Instructor's robe on his body kept flashing the light of the magic. Although the production of the secret gems can only be completed by Wang Xuewen. However, it does not mean that the secret gems made can only be attached to the secret magic master's spells. Other spellcasters can also attach spells of their own system to the secret gems and become special gems of their own spells. The only thing the secret mage needs to do is to make a base of spells on the gems, and Xu Fei and the others will complete the other things themselves.
"So what we have to do is actually very simple!" Xu Fei picked up the letters recording the words of the players from the table, and then slowly tore them apart.
"Since we cannot be the first to betray the covenant, let these guys turn their oaths first! All we need to do is wait and respond to changes in the same way! Apart from being prepared, don't show any alertness! Do whatever you should do! But once those guys take action, don't blame us for being rude! I hope those bastards' teeth are hard enough and will not break their teeth! This bone in our Berkner Town is very hard and difficult to chew! I
Do you think so? Dear Mr. Thieves, I think the thief Guild wants to continue to survive in Berkner Town!" Xu Fei's words were extremely powerful, but when his last few words rang, both Xu Fei himself and other spellcasters sitting in the Lord's Hall had activated the spell gems they wore, and at the same time they had grabbed the wand and the wand with their hands. A large amount of magic power surged among the gems and wands, and Xu Fei's eyes looked directly at someone in the corner of the wall.
"Haha! I'm just passing by. The brother behind me, can you just eat in the same pot and give me some face to move the dagger away?" As the voice slowly rang out, a masked man in thief's leather armor slowly appeared in the corner of the lord's meeting hall. When he appeared, Fei Yun's figure also appeared, but Fei Yun did not listen to his words and let go of the dagger in his hand.
"Passing by? Do you think we will believe it?" Whether it was Xu Fei, Chen Kai or others, they all had such a look in their eyes when they looked at this thief. Of course, the thief himself understood that no one would believe his words, but he could not understand why he, a ninth-level thief, had failed, and was touched by a junior, behind his butt.
In the end, the thief was given out of the City Lord's Mansion by Chen Kai and the others. Of course, everything on him was searched. Apart from a linen clothes, Fei Yun was not left with the other party. In fact, if it weren't for the thief's guild who claimed to be the president of the Dark Thirteen in Berkner Town, this thief named Rave would not have thought of leaving Chen Kai's lord's mansion intact. At least he would have been locked up by Chen Kai for ten days and half a month before he would be released. (To be continued...)
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