Chapter 139 Heshan City Short Stop
The windows towards the street were closed tightly, and the thick curtains blocked the sight. There was only one candlestick in the huge room, with seven branches, each of which was carved with different good emblems. There were seven candles inserted on the candlestick, symbolizing the repeated blessings and blessings, but the light of the candlestick is a drop in the bucket for this room.
The office location of the Heshan City Chamber of Commerce Alliance is located here, and the signs of various registered chambers of commerce, including the Golden Dog Chamber of Commerce, are hung on the wall on the side of the office. The head of the alliance who received Jeros and others is an old lady with a kind face. She always smiles slightly, and her hands are constantly exchanging up and down positions, showing the eight large gem rings on her fat fingers.
"It is not easy to find out the news in the city at this time. Everyone is very nervous, afraid that the tax officer will come to the door." The old lady clamped monocle glasses with her eyes, picked up the candlestick, let the candlelight illuminate Lati, looked carefully, and then said: "But with my father's full name and age, finding a woman with the surname Meili should still be able to do it, which is more troublesome."
"There are many mercenaries in the city, maybe I should look for them." Geros stood up and leaned forward to block the candlestick for Lati. "What are you thinking in your mind? I think you can make a fortune from it? I think you don't want your own head anymore!"
"Oh? So I really want to help this child find his family? I thought..." The old lady curled her smile and put the candlestick back on the table, and retracted into the wooden chair with a creaking sound. "Generally, such a commission is five gold coins, but now it is in chaos and requires seven gold coins for service fees. The alliance guarantees that if the child's aunt is still established, she will be able to find her."
"How many days?"
“A maximum of one week.”
Geros glared at her hard, and the time became five days; his eyes kept looking straight, and the time was shortened to three days. Geros snorted and asked Dagon to pay. Originally, Laty wanted to say that she could pay, but Toby, who was already prepared, pinched it hard and only screamed.
Dagon probably understood what he should do, so he pretended to forget when he was paying money from his pocket, letting it fall straight down. With a puff, the axe blade was embedded directly into the floor, which shocked the old lady. She looked closely and saw that the axe blade was not cut along the direction of the wood texture, but was cut vertically.
Geros smiled, walked around the table, leaned over the old lady's shoulder and said, "We met a bandit on the way, and one of them wanted to escape. The dwarf chased after him and chopped towards the man's neck. Guess what?"
He shook his head, but a look of fear appeared in his eyes.
"The man ran three steps before blood came out of a thin slit in his neck and overturned his head. This axe is called the head hunting axe, which is specially hunting for heads, especially those who want to harm the caravan and threaten our credit and reputation."
"That won't, that won't..." the old lady shook her hand and said.
"I can't know anything? Can't I behead my head?"
"I won't cheat you. I'll continue to arrange this, even the guards will help find it."
Although each caravan can temporarily live in the league's office building, Jelos has a hotel that is more familiar and trustworthy, not far from the office building, so everyone goes there.
"I haven't seen this person in charge, but the others in the building are still old people. Toby, go and find out what happened. If the alliance has the ability to do business, we will find mercenaries if it doesn't work." Jeros knew that Dagon didn't understand the truth, so he explained: "The chamber of commerce alliance cannot escape, but the mercenaries may run away with money or cheat people. The biggest danger is that we don't know what Lati's aunt looks like, and we can't take care of her here all the time, so we can't hand her over to the liar."
Lati pursed her lips tightly, looking up at Geros with big eyes, obviously a little scared. Geros comforted her and said, "I do this just in case, just in case. If you see your aunt, don't talk first, let's try it."
Several people stayed in the hotel, and Toby went out to find out the news. After a while, a few suspicious cat moans came from outside. Jeros immediately cheered up, said to Dagon and went out. It seems that in addition to the Chamber of Commerce Alliance, Jeros had other contact channels in Heshan City.
Staying in the hotel, Dagon asked Lati to look at him in socks to test how she was doing with her throwing skills.
The goal of the sock ball is Dagon's nose. There is a reward for every hit, so you can touch the star helmet. The little bear lizard expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that it became a reward, but was not opposed to letting Lati touch it, and even liked it very much.
"Not bad." Dagon praised it without hesitation. Although his strength was still a little less, the accuracy was guaranteed. It was not easy for children of this age. Dagon took off his shoulder straps and gave the four flying knives on it to Lati. "These flying knives are a little heavy, but they are all the craftsmanship of the Jiangu craftsmen, so the quality is definitely fine. There are four empty spaces on the belt, you can find someone to create a flying knive with the right weight and put it in, or insert a dagger as an armed belt. That is, you are losing weight now and your belt is loose."
Lati took the flying knife belt and hugged Dagon hard. She had been full for a long time. She didn't cry, but her eyes were a little wet, because everyone in the Golden Dog Caravan wanted her to be a strong child.
In fact, it didn't take three days. The next morning, Lati's aunt had already heard from her. She opened a grocery store with her husband, joined the local Chamber of Commerce in Heshan City, and was also a member of the Chamber of Commerce Alliance. Jeros also bought goods from her, transported a batch of excellent sweet potatoes to the Canine Tooth Fortress, and made a fortune from the dwarves stationed there.
She could correctly and clearly describe Lati's parents, and also told the story of Lati's childhood. "I haven't been to my brother's house for five years, and I didn't expect such a tragedy to happen. Don't worry, Lati is our child, and we will take good care of her."
Lati didn't cry or laugh. She just hugged Geros, Toby and Lagon hard again. At Toby's suggestion, Lati hid most of the money in the treasure chest and took only part of it to her aunt's house. Geros felt that this was a bit superfluous. After all, they were all members of the Chamber of Commerce. Joining the alliance requires guarantees and supervision from each other. As long as he spread this matter in the alliance, whether he could take good care of the orphans would become one of the credibility guarantees of the grocery store.
The saddest thing when saying goodbye to Lati was the star helmet because it could not be hugged. The bear lizard had a bad temper and must buy it some delicious meat. The city is about to usher in the siege of the Manlin monster. Due to priority reserves, prices in the market have begun to rise, and it is very inappropriate to eat. So Dagon bought a skewer of barbecue, hid it under his beard, and took a cake to eat on the road while walking.
Geros and Toby wanted to clear the relationship so that the caravan could come in safely and then go out safely. Since there was no need to cut monsters and kill bad people, Dagon took action on his own and walked around Heshan City to see what the human town looked like. The few towns I passed by did not stop well, and some of them went in and out. Anyway, they made an appointment to go back to the hotel to gather at night, and they would all be holidays during the day.
Wearing a full body of armor, a hunting axe hanging on the belt, and a tail jacking was dragged on the ground. Dagon dressed like the elite mercenaries in the city. Walking on the street, no one came to disturb him, and even the patrol guards who maintained order in the city were not interested in him, and they didn't even ask why he was wandering on the street. However, he was not the only one who was wandering around. Every time he walked a hundred meters on the street, he could always encounter two or three waves of mercenaries in groups of mercenaries. He pricked up his ears and listened, and they talked about where they were delicious, where they made money, and where they were fun, and there was no content to defend the city.
In the afternoon, an unexpected army entered Heshan City, attracting crowds of people to watch. The elves who had always been in their own affairs actually sent a total of fifty mixed troops composed of warriors, rangers and druids to help defend the city and jointly deal with the upcoming Monster Monster. They did not act like this, but as soon as they entered the city, they went straight to the city wall and took over a section of the city wall about fifty meters and the three arrow towers above. Then, a servant support team composed of humans and half-elves followed into the city and brought twelve four-wheeled trucks. Not only were the equipment of this mixed troops, but some were also supplies for Heshan City.
The residents of Heshan City expressed their incomprehension of the behavior of the elves, but none of them did not praise them. Due to the support of the elves, the price of the same meat skewers in the afternoon was much cheaper than that in the morning. So Dagon gave up the big cakes, bought two skewers, gave half of the star helmet, and took the remaining skewers while eating them.
He joined the citizens watching the elves and observed the elves' equipment and combat preparations with the eyes of the weapon master, but after watching for a while, he became less calm. The elves used not to guard the city walls, but heavy crossbows. To be precise, the Jiangu clan knew how to make heavy crossbows. The military servants of humans and half-elves brought them with four-wheeled carriages. The entire six pieces, each of which was larger than the heavy crossbows used to kill Chimera.
From transportation, assembly to test launch, no Jiangu people were present. Dagon carefully observed that these elves did all the operating steps correctly and were obviously very skilled in using heavy crossbows. Not only that, these heavy crossbows were also modified, turning the front and back swinging lever on the bullet into a rotating winch structure, connecting it with the pulleys on the city wall. When heavy objects were hung, the pulleys would be used instead of manpower to launch, and even when they tested, they continued to launch and continuously.
"Start the heavy crossbow in the city?" Dagong heard his father explain this equipment. It was already a field of rune weapons. He used the energy of the gold element to continuously fire heavy crossbow arrows in a short period of time. It has extremely strong lethality for large monsters or groups of monsters. However, these heavy crossbows on the city wall are not rune weapons, but have the same effect with mechanical devices. Magazines equipped with a row of javelin crossbow arrows, and the style of the Jian Gu tribe is completely unaware of in the design process. Is it because someone leaked the secret or did the elves crack the craft?
Some Jiangu tribes can't even assemble heavy crossbows, while other races already have their own heavy crossbows?
Chapter completed!