Chapter 10: Widsk ornaments
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The Mysterious World Under Steampunk
- Jiu Cheng Jun
- 2512 characters
- 2021-01-30 08:16:16
As Leo analyzed, the negotiations in Rabbit Skin Town about martial law obstructing the town’s business went smoothly, and the militia that enforced the martial law also knew that it was a bit too much to make money from the martial law, and then continued. It will definitely provoke anger.
Although the militiamen here were transferred from other towns in the French empire, once something went wrong, they could be evacuated from the place to avoid the disaster, but they also worried that if these people in Rabbit Skin were really offended Maybe they were transferred to other places and they would be found a chance to get rid of them. At that time, they would have money and no life.
It's just that they let these militias unconditionally give up this great opportunity, and they were unwilling.
In the past, the militia in Rabbit Skin Town was definitely the lowest group of people in the town. The mercenary guards of the caravan and the hunters who walked in the Black Forest all the year round were not easy targets. Those caravans had a big background. There are no permanent residents here, so they have no oil or water at all, only a small amount of military pay.
Now the opportunity is coming. With the martial law issued by the military department as a backer, they can use the military department as an excuse to discuss the conditions with the rabbit skin town council and improve their treatment.
These militia ideas naturally cannot escape the glasses of the cunning members of the town council. Because of the military department, they dare not force the militia too tightly and are willing to spend some money to put an end to this indiscriminate disaster as soon as possible.
The only question is how much it costs.
The members of the town council said that they gave a sum of money directly to understand the matter, but the militia were not stupid, and they were more willing to keep their hands on water, so they requested that a sum of money be drawn from the commercial tax every month for the construction of the militia.
The two sides insisted on this issue for a day, and finally reached a consensus when the sun was about to sink, and the tax officer could charge an extra thousandth of the commercial tax from Rabbit Skin Town, and the thousandth of the commercial tax will be Used for the construction of the militia.
As for martial law orders, although they will not be cancelled on the bright side, they will no longer be enforced. Actually, how to check in the past is still the same.
After reaching a consensus, the captain of the militia opened the wooden door of the town, and the tax officer and the speaker of the parliament came out together to announce the results of the negotiation just now. Because it also involves one thousandth of additional tax, it needs to obtain the largest business in the town. Several large chambers of commerce agreed to share.
For these chambers of commerce, one-thousandth of the extra business tax is nothing compared to their possible daily income from small town businesses. After all, their big business is never a legitimate business that needs to pay commercial taxes. Smuggling of all kinds of contraband is the real big benefit.
The martial law issued by the Ministry of Military Affairs for them, such as chambers of commerce, is the yoke that jams their necks. If they cannot be lifted as soon as possible, their losses will be difficult to estimate, and some offenders may even be offended because some customers' orders cannot be completed.
According to the past conflict between the Kingdom of England and the French Empire, the chambers of commerce felt that the war between the two countries might continue for a long time, so they hoped that the martial law could be cancelled more than anyone else.
For this reason, the directors of several large chambers of commerce finally agreed to this one-thousandth additional tax after discussing for a while.
As the gate of the town was completely opened, the caravans who had been waiting impatiently in the carriage square began to flock in.
The three Leo also mixed into the crowd and entered the rabbit skin town.
I don’t know how the people who built the rabbit skin town thought about it. The houses in the town were built randomly, and there was no such thing as a vertical and horizontal direction. This also made the roads in the town very confusing, giving people a kind of entry. The illusion of a labyrinth, people who come here for the first time without a guide flower will definitely get lost.
Nelson is not the first time to come to Rabbit Skin Town. Although it has been a few years since the last time I came here, some buildings have been added here, but several major places in the town have not changed, such as the high he is going to now. Tower Inn.
Although the tower hotel is called the tower, it is not high, only two floors, the first floor is the taverns and shops, the second floor is the hotel. The shape of the hotel is also an ordinary manor-style hotel, and there is no special place to see, but in fact it is the black market location of Rabbit Skin Town, and all prohibited goods flow out from here.
Nielsen led Leo and Jason to the hotel. He greeted the lobby manager in the hotel skillfully and used his doctor status to grab a room from other booking mercenaries.
came to the hotel room, the three men freshened up, checked the wounds on their bodies, changed the medicine, took a short rest, and left the room after dark, heading to the black market downstairs.
Although is called the black market, it is not really dark, but it is decorated with a lot of electric lights, so that the light here is like the day.
The black market is located in the small garden behind the first floor of the hotel. The transactions of contraband are in the garden. Both parties will not bring money and goods with them. Only after reaching an agreement, they will go to the storage location to see the goods and complete the transaction.
There are dozens of shops around the small garden. Most of the shops here sell some high-end items and some special items.
Nilsen took Leo and Jason to the small garden, then walked directly to a store with a brand of herbal medicine, opened a glass door, and walked into the store.
I saw that although the brand says that it is selling herbal medicine, it is actually more like a grocery store. Except for a medicine cabinet with hundreds of drawers on the right side of the entrance, nothing else is related to medicine.
The owner of this shop is an elderly person, wearing a badge of a medical herbalist, and his clothes are a bit old. It does not look like the kind of person who can open a shop in such a place.
Originally a bit boring boss, when he saw Nelson, as if he had seen an old friend, stood up, stepped forward and hugged him affectionately, and then asked him about his current situation. Nielsen also behaved very respectfully, just like facing the teacher, answering the boss's inquiries one by one without any concealment, and even saying that they were soldiers of the Inge Kingdom.
When Nielsen said their identity, Jason was ready to stop it, but was stopped by Leola. He felt that Nielsen was not the kind of person who did not know the importance of things. For him, the other party was obviously trustworthy. Moreover, Leo is not worried about what the old man will reveal. He is fully confident that he can solve it before the other party does something that is not conducive to him.
"Damn Duke of Devin! How dare he do it? How dare he do it!" After hearing that the army of Duke Dewen used imine gas, the old man became very angry, clenching his hands, clenching his teeth, and having blue foreheads. All came out as if he were the victim of poison gas.
The extraordinary anger shown by the old man made Leo feel a little puzzled, and Nielsen on the side explained: "The teacher Pierre led the ban on the use of imine gas in war to join the mainland agreement." The voice said, "The teacher's daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter all died of imine gas, so..."
Speaking of this, Nielsen did not continue to speak, quietly waiting for the old man to calm down.
After a while, the old man gradually calmed down, looked at Nielsen, and said in a deep voice: "You just said you would go to the city of Miria to accuse Duke Devin, right?"
"Yes, teacher."
The old man meditated for a while and said, "I can help you. I will write a letter. You should give him to Lord Vizemir of the Continental Congress Tribunal. It should be able to play a role."
After speaking, the old man went to the counter, took out a pen and paper, and quickly wrote on the table.
Leo was a little bored walking around in the store, casually looking at the products on the table and in the display cabinet.
"Discover high-energy items." When Leo walked to a pile of pendants and necklaces that looked like some kind of religious ornaments, the assistant brain system suddenly issued a prompt, causing him to stop.
"Display of high-energy items."
The commanding Leo appeared with a light spot indicator, and the light spot was located exactly in the messy religious ornaments.
Leo reached out and searched through the pile of accessories, and soon found the high-energy item prompted by the vice brain system.
This item is a rough workmanship necklace, the necklace strap is woven from the hair of a beast, the pendant is a wooden sign, the wooden sign is engraved with some chaotic lines that feel disorder. This necklace is so ordinary that even if it is dropped on the ground, no one will pick it up. If it is not prompted by the auxiliary brain system, I'm afraid Leo will not look at this necklace more.
Only after learning that this rough necklace is a high-energy item, Leo not only wanted to find out what is special about this necklace, so he carefully looked at each place of the necklace, and finally his sight fell on that piece. Dissatisfied with the messy lines on the wooden sign.
I don’t know if it’s an illusion. Leo found that when he focused on the wooden sign, the lines on the wooden sign seemed to live and walked on the surface, forming a strange pattern, and these patterns I don't know why he was inexplicably sick, as if someone was holding a stick and stirring it in his brain.
"What's this?" At this moment, Jason saw Leo holding the necklace for a long time and couldn't help but stepped forward and asked curiously.
"An interesting gadget."
Jason’s inquiry sound pulled Leo’s attention away from the changing lines on the wooden sign, and his mind, which was confused by the lines, also recovered.
At this time, if you look at the lines on the wooden sign, there is no longer the magical feeling just now. If it is not that disgusting feeling has not dissipated, if it is not the vice brain system, it still reminds that the wooden sign is a high-energy item. Things as hallucinations.
"Collect the physical activity data three minutes ago!" Leo ordered the accessory brain system, and soon the data was projected on his eyes.
Comparing the data, he found that just now his brain had entered an active period that was as high as thirty times the normal level. Such a strong active period has never been seen before.
And the data also shows that his body was exposed to a very slight radiation just now, but this radiation did not seem to cause any harm to his body. Instead, it had some irritating effects on the cells on his body. Some wounds on him were completely healed.
"How much is this necklace?" Leo asked the old man holding the necklace and walking to the old man.
Seeing the necklace in Leo's hand, the old man froze, stopped the pen in his hand, took the necklace from Leo's hand, looked at it carefully, and asked, "Why did you choose this necklace?"
"I like it, I chose it." Leo naturally couldn't tell the truth, and said a bit perfunctoryly.
The old man also knew that Leo didn’t tell the truth, but he didn’t care. He handed the necklace back to Leo and said,
This necklace is a priest necklace of the Wizque, worth fifteen gold flanges. See in Nelson On your face, relieve you of a gold flange."
"What's the price of fourteen gold flanges?" Nielsen was also curious about what Leo found because of such a high price.
"The deal." Although the price of the fourteen gold flanges is very expensive, Leo found a lot of money from the dead before, and now it is nothing to buy this necklace~EbookFREE.me~ A gold shield equivalent to fourteen gold flanges of the English kingdom was taken out of the pocket and placed on the table, but the hand did not leave, saying, "However, I have a condition, you must tell me where this thing is made from?" "
The old man reached out and lifted Leo’s hand away, then swept it on the table, swept the golden shields into the drawer inside the counter, and then recounted: "This necklace is an ancient ethnic Wizker living on the edge of the Black Forest The main priest made is mainly used to worship the gods and shepherds who worship the Wizk people. It is said that this necklace allows the owner to see the Wizk gods."
He said that he paused, picked up the pen, and continued writing while writing: "Unfortunately, the Wizks refused to submit to the French Empire and were cleared by the Empire. Now the Wizks are almost extinct, Perhaps in the depths of the Black Forest, there are still some Wizk tribes living."
"Wizk ornaments?" Nielsen also came over with interest and wanted to see this ornament.
Leo handed it over naturally, but when Nielsen took the ornament and carefully looked at the wooden sign, he was also observing Nielsen's look. However, he didn't see anything strange in Nelson's look. Obviously Nelson didn't feel the mysterious high energy in the wooden sign pendant.
At this time, Jason took the ornament from Nielsen and looked at it casually, but when his eyes fell on the wooden sign, he suddenly frowned, showing a look of disgust.
"What's the matter?" Leo asked carefully after observing.
"Nothing, just... I just think it's not very good." Jason returned the ornament to Leo. Some didn't know how to describe it, so he could simply say what he thinks now.