A strange world

Chapter 1397 31. Protecting Liberty City Property

But Lady Winter is not from Liberty City after all, so Annan feels a little guilty about asking her to do something...

When Annan usually calculated the strength of Liberty City, he would exclude her and her men.

"What are you worried about?"

Lady Winter has a delicate heart beneath her beautiful appearance like a frost flower.

Annan expressed his concerns, and Lady Winter smiled nonchalantly: "You don't need to be so detailed."

"Don't you need it?"

"You rescued Princess Serles, resurrected Vitalig, helped the kingdom eliminate the rebels, and even failed to seize the Montreal family's foundation... Adding all these things together, how can I repay you?" Lady Winter's icy eyes reflected Annan's outline.

"I just...well, my bad."

Annan and Lady Winter smiled at each other, and felt that they were being too formal.

"Then I'll leave the Lake of Ten Thousand Lakes to you."

Lady Winter went back to prepare. Annan, who had found the right person by accident, relaxed and looked at Ilimoras who had stayed behind.

She looked unhappy.

"Who has offended you?"

Ilimoyas said nothing, but continued to stare at Annan with her dragon eyes.

"I?"

Annan examined himself, but he didn't touch her treasure mountain when he went to the Crystal Nest this time...

"Luoxi, what happened?" Annan had no choice but to ask the legion commander who was sneaking outside the door.

"Well……"

Luo Xi hesitated to speak

"What's wrong?"

Luo Xi glanced at the blue dragon girl and had to tell her that he saw Ilimayas coming out of the magic shop and seemed to have sold something.

"What did you sell?"

"It seems to be... dragon dung or something..."

"You go out first."

"oh……"

Luo Xi's legs moved very quickly.

Annan looked at Ilimayas, who looked away guiltily, and understood that she felt ashamed.

"Who asked you to do this?" he said helplessly.

Annan had long known that the dragon was greedy for money, but selling his own feces...

He was about to say something when he saw Cathy, Ivana and Grasti coming back outside the window.

“Your schoolbags are so beautiful.”

Luo Xi screamed at the top of her lungs when she returned downstairs.

"Hey, isn't it beautiful? This is new."

Annan, who was watching this scene in surprise from the upstairs window, retracted his gaze and looked at Ilimayas apologetically: "I'm sorry, I misunderstood you..."

It turns out that the Blue Dragon Princess wanted to buy things for her family...

He couldn't help but blame himself, wondering if he valued money too much, to the point that Elimayas had to sell her own feces to raise money.

Elimoas said nothing, but quietly reached her hand into Annan's pocket.

There were a few souvenirs that Annan had "taken back" from an earlier trip to the vault.

At this time, the conversation between the three children also came up.

"That's right. We saved our pocket money for a long time and worked for the store owner for a long time before he agreed to sell it to us at a low price!"

Annan's smile froze on his face. When he turned around, Ilimayas had disappeared.

…

Meanwhile, in the Liberty City vault.

The finance officials in the vault were anxiously counting the money, which they had already counted dozens of times.

No matter how I counted, the money in the vault was 5 gold nars less than the amount on the books...

The official gathered everyone together, with the Guardian Golem standing beside him, and said coldly: "Whoever took the money, it's not too late to admit it now."

No one responded.

"Are you sure you want to pay a heavy price for a mere five gold nars and bring shame to your family?"

Those who are selected to work in the most confidential vaults are almost all family members of Hellfire or Guards Legion soldiers.

The officials were unwilling to believe that it was done by their own people, but the account book could not be wrong, it could only be taken away by someone...

At this time, Ingrid, who received the news, also rushed over.

"Minister, we still haven't found it." The official breathed a sigh of relief and asked her what to do.

"Give me the visitor list."

The official handed over the list and said, "We have investigated all the people on the list, but none of them had access to the vault where the Kinnar was stored, and it is impossible for them to hide it from Lady Lilith..."

Ingrid's eyes suddenly stopped on a name: Annan Reeves

"Master Annan has been here?"

"Lord Annan came here earlier to withdraw money and visited the vault..."

"That's fine. Change the bill back to the actual amount." Ingrid closed the list, looked up and said to the nervous crowd, "Thank you for your hard work. It's all right now."

The official from the Ministry of Finance took the list in a daze, not daring to say anything or ask anything.

…

At this time, the instigator who had caused the entire vault to turmoil for half a day was discussing with Olmedo and Lady Winter what to do after reaching the Lake of Ten Thousand Lakes.

Lady Winter is more than capable of taking charge of the commercial street, but the problem is that the forces where the commercial street is located have also been dragged into the war.

If you want to stabilize the commercial street, you must first stabilize the local area. If you want to stabilize the local area, you must intervene in the chaos of the Lake of Ten Thousand Lakes.

Unless they build another commercial street - or commercial area.

"Whose territory is our commercial street located in?" Annan asked.

"The Perkins family's territory."

Annan had no impression of this family.

Olmedo said, "They approached us after you won the title of Champion Warlock in the Empire. The Perkins family was also one of the first to establish the commercial street."

"Then they are old friends. Since they are old friends, they are good people. Is it okay for us to help them?"

"There is really no problem. The Perkins family was also forced into the war."

Annan said, "Then you contact them. We can promise to protect the commercial street and take care of them, but we require them to cooperate with us to protect the property of Liberty City and remain neutral in this war."

"I'll be there in a minute."

As for whether Lady Winter could gain a foothold there, Annan was not worried at all - Lady Winter had two epic guards, as well as her own legion and forces. In the Lake of Ten Thousand Lakes, she was considered a not-so-small force, and no one would be so blind as to provoke her.

The most important thing is that Lady Winter has the blood of the Montreal Golden Family.

In addition, there is the refugee issue - there will definitely be refugees coming to the commercial street.

"Just accept it."

After a whole year of digestion, large areas of housing have been built outside the Liberty City. There is no longer the chaos at the beginning of the year, and it can easily accommodate tens of thousands of people.

Annan's only worry was that he had just taken over the Broken Mountains and was immediately reaching out to the Lake of Ten Thousand Lakes. Would he be suspected of having ulterior motives?

"Then we can use the power of the Empire to make the locals think that the Empire stands with us."

Since even Lady Winter said so, Annan felt even more at ease.

He asked Olmedo: "How long will it take for the Imperial delegation to arrive?"

"They have arrived at Seltovis and are planning to take the magic train over here after the railway opens in a few days."

Annan was surprised and asked, "The railway is going to be built? How come I didn't know about it?"

"Don't you know that it's normal?" Olmedo asked back.