Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1397 1369. Gang Aedirn

Listening to Lincoln's uncertain statement, Lan En did not blame him.

As mentioned before, although Dudu in Novigrad has reached cooperation with several idle mages and can be used for magic communication.

But now the situation in the whole world is like a pot of boiling water on the verge of boiling. Every magical message that is transmitted quickly in the air is secretly intercepted and eavesdropped by unknown people and forces.

As a result, now, although there are means of magical communication, we have to rely more on traditional means such as messengers and pigeons.

Before the confidentiality and stable transmission of magical communication technology are further developed, this situation is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future.

It takes a long time for the news from Novigrad to reach Gaoqiu Castle.

What's more, the information is transmitted in a roundabout way, encrypted and obfuscated.

The low communication efficiency caused by the distance in space is the biggest problem faced by humans, even in the human empire that has already stepped into the starry sea.

Lincoln's words did not cause much psychological fluctuation in Lan En.

The organization form of the Dark Alley Gang is just a gang after all. Its organizational form is doomed, and most of the people in it are a bunch of scum.

Two-faced, greedy for money, and forgetful of the pain after the wound heals. These are the group characteristics of gang members.

"I have talked to Francis since the days when I reached a cooperation agreement. In the end, the Dark Alley Gang will still be reorganized into an independent company, or a department in the company."

"What is the future of gangs? They will be blinded by the money they earn. In the end, there are too many stupid gangsters in the Dark Alley Gang who can only act tough on the streets. Francis is too slow in educating and reforming them. A dog can't change its eating habits."

Compared to being angry, Lan En was more like speaking speechlessly.

Pinch the funding channels and personnel appointments of the Dark Alley Gang, and finally reorganize it into a company department.

Lan En has said this to Dudu and Francis. They are also smart people and can fully understand this development trend.

What made Lan En helpless was that after he came back this time, the report still mentioned the "Dark Alley Gang", which seemed to be two parallel lines with his other industries in Novigrad. There was no cooperation, but they were still clearly separated.

Although he also knew that it would be a slow process to reorganize a gang with internal chaos and most of its members of low quality into a more orderly form, he had only been away for half a year, and the work would definitely not be completed.

But this matter should not have no signs of starting at all, right?

"Pa pa", Geralt, who was sitting on a chair against the wall, clapped and teased with a paralyzed face as usual.

He tilted his head to talk to Berengar next to him, but his voice was deliberately amplified so that everyone could hear it.

"Look! He opened his mouth and said, "Gangs are all dogs who can't change their eating shit". In the past, we had to speak politely to the gang leaders when we met them."

Berengar nodded in agreement.

Lan En was even more speechless now. He raised his eyebrows and looked at the two weird old demon hunters in the seat.

"You are polite to the gang leader because you don't want to cause trouble, and you want to get information and money from him. Don't pretend that you can't beat them, White Wolf. As for you, Berengar. Tsk, tsk, tsk, you may really need to be polite to him."

Berengar, who just nodded sarcastically, froze, and at the same time pulled the chair under his butt and moved away from Geralt.

With just one sentence, the two old witchers who had just teamed up to tease him had internal conflicts.

"Okay, there is no need to waste too much time on unimportant things." After joking with his friends, Lan seemed much more relaxed, and he looked up at Lincoln.

"Now, we can talk about the really important things, you know what I mean, Lincoln."

The young clerk nodded, and he reached out and pulled out a key from the spine of the large notebook hanging like a crossbody bag.

When handing the key to Lan, the roaring bear head pendant on the witcher's neck shook slightly.

This is a magic key, used to open a magic lock.

From the bottom of the safe in the office, Lincoln pulled out a small box, which was the thing that matched the magic key.

"A magic safe made by Aretuza." Lincoln pushed the small box in front of Lan En, and when he took his hand back, he pointed at the small lunch box-like thing. "It's so small, but it cost 3,300 orens."

"Since it's for confidentiality, don't worry so much." Lan En said indifferently as he inserted the key.

In the small box was a stack of documents that were not very thick.

This is the magic of information and intelligence. The value of this stack of paper is not as good as an oren even if it is multiplied by dozens of times, but as long as something is written on it, it is worth using a box of more than 3,000 orens to protect it.

The document itself seems to be some kind of standard account book or notebook, but the emblem printed on the cover according to the standard is not the white lily of Temeria commonly seen in the Velen area.

Instead, it is a golden and red mountain pattern on a black background.

This is the emblem of the kingdom of Aedirn.

This should be the notebook used by the government officials of Aedirn, but now it appears in Lan's hands.

"Can't you change to a less conspicuous notebook?" Lan complained as he took out the document and flipped through it quickly as before. "This thing is too obvious to be sent here."

"No way, sir." Lincoln said with reason, "Although the Aedirn army didn't take any advantage, they are still mainly fighting guerrilla warfare, and it's not easy to find a notebook to write things."

The texts sent from Aedirn are still mainly intelligence and account books.

About the Scoia's Party troops formed by Sakia and Iorveth, and the peasant uprising in Aedirn.

Today, the conversation between Lan, Sakia, and Iorveth in the elf ruins where the [Mist Nest Lord] Devil Dragon was killed is being gradually pushed to the point of becoming a reality.

Sakia and Iorveth are trying hard to get rid of the radical anti-human name of the 'Science Party' for the troops they lead.

After all, according to Lann and Iorveth, they must unite most of the humans to make the cause of racial equality a success.

The name of the Scoia'tael only has deterrence, but not unity at all.

But for some reason, when they found the peasant rebels who were surrounded and suppressed in the land of Aedirn, those humans seemed to hope that they were Scoia'tael.

They tried hard to explain that they were not Scoia'tael, but others seemed quite disappointed.

So the scale of the Aedirn army killing the peasant rebels was much larger than the scale of the Scoia'tael's indiscriminate attacks on humans?

As a result, the Scoia'tael came to seek win-win cooperation. Before they started to sell the simple racial equality theory framework established by Lann and Iorveth, the peasant rebels in Aedirn were already welcoming them wholeheartedly because they were good at killing humans!

In this situation that even Lan was stunned, and in the context of Aedirn suppressing the peasant uprising almost every year, the deterrent attribute of the name of the Scoia Party actually magically encompassed the "unity" that Saskia and Iorveth were pursuing.

What can Lan say? It can only be said that after carrying out work on the ground, we can truly understand the complex reality of the local situation.

And - Demawi is indeed a damn bastard.

However, when Saskia and Iorveth and others, because of the suppression of Aedirn, successfully completed the basic mutual trust with the human peasant uprising army beyond imagination, some problems that had been expected for a long time began to emerge.

Some of the non-human races under Iorveth still discriminated against human farmers, and even implicitly inflicted violence under hatred.

The same is true for the human side.

Lan admitted the legitimacy of the peasant uprising, but at the same time, his education also told him the limitations of this movement.

At least from the news from Iorveth, Lan could feel that small groups had begun to split from the rebels.

These leaders who rebelled with passion and fear of hardship, after having some achievements against the Aedirn army, immediately became far-sighted and aimless, and immersed themselves in their current achievements.

According to Iorveth's own investigation, some of them have already contacted some people in the Aedirn court in private.

This is just a big problem in the general direction, such as human farmers also discriminating against non-human races, and the frequency of small frictions between the two groups is increasing at a visible speed, and a big conflict is about to brew.

"I can't suppress this conflict, Lan."

The former commander of the Scoia'tael guerrillas, now the 'friend of the Aedirn human peasant uprising', said in the message.

"I am an elf, and my race will only make things more confusing the more I express my views on this matter. And Sakia is still experiencing and growing, she can't handle these things yet, and this is not the place where she should spend her prestige, that prestige has more important uses."

"We all know that use!"

"So I must ask for your help now, for our common goals and ideals, now is the time to do as we agreed."

"I ask you to send strong external interference and supervision to ensure that in this fragile and small group today, the trend of discrimination is curbed at the early stage."