Noble Emblem

Liang Lidong drove the internal affairs system and walked around the most prosperous places in the city, and then sat in a quite luxurious tavern.

Because it is an important commercial town, Sicily not only has a lot of businessmen coming and going, but also nobles from other cities come here to sightsee, play, and even buy some valuables they need. Because there were so many dignitaries coming, luxury taverns were born.

Different from the noisy bustle of ordinary pubs, it is very quiet here. Each box has a large space. The tables and chairs are made of high-quality cold wood. After this wood is dried in the sun, it will naturally emit a peculiar scent. Fragrance, and this kind of wood is light golden with a hint of white texture. It does not require any processing at all and is an excellent luxury product.

Furniture made of cold wood, any low chair can cost several lives, and all the wood in this hotel, including the beams, are made of cold wood. At a glance from the outside, you can see that the entire tavern has a light golden color, and then there are white curved lines embellished in it. It looks tall and tall no matter how you look at it.

Not to mention civilians, even wealthy businessmen would not dare to set foot in such a hotel. Without an invitation from a noble, they could only wander outside this large tavern.

This is more of a manor than a tavern. Liang Lidong sat in front of the window on the third floor, looking at the nobles mingling in the garden below.

Although the two sides were far apart, he could still hear the voices of the nobles talking, and then these words were collected, filtered, and screened by the internal affairs system. By evening, the internal affairs system had already listed some numerical values ​​of Xixiali City, and also given several internal affairs policies that were being implemented, one of which aroused Liang Lidong's interest.

The city of Sicily is planning to build a new large-scale Temple of Light in the city center. Construction will start within a month, but not many people know the news yet.

Liang Lidong twitched his brows and felt a little moved. Building a large temple would definitely require a large amount of stone materials, and the terrain around Sicily City was mainly plains. There are few quarries, and even if there are, they are only on small hills and cannot produce much stone. If you want to build a large temple, you must purchase stones from other cities, and the heavy stones must be transported from other cities, and the price must be extremely high.

Therefore, the price of stones produced in the quarries around Sicily City will definitely increase when the stones from these small quarries are finished. Only the person in charge of the construction of the Temple of Light would consider purchasing construction stones from other cities.

I don’t know if anyone has thought of this and bought those small quarries in advance. Liang Lidong planned to ask. If no one bought them and the price was reasonable, he planned to buy one or two as soon as the temple construction started. You can make a lot of money.

After paying the fee of two gold coins, Liang Lidong left the tavern. When he returned to the hotel where he was staying, Kyle and three other people were already waiting for him in the room.

"Teacher, we have established our own mercenary team." Kyle happily took out his mercenary crest, which is the symbol of the twin goddesses with shields: "Our team is called the Knights of the Round Table. According to the registration information, Teacher, you It’s the captain.”

Mercenaries... Liang Lidong received a coat of arms. He showed a nostalgic look. When the game was launched, he was a newbie, following his cousin, and gradually grew into a well-known person on the server. And now, it's his turn to lead a few rookie mercenaries to 'conquer the world', what a turn of events!

The position of captain is usually given to the strongest person. Logically speaking, Emma's apparent strength is much higher than that of Lidong Lidong. The position of captain should be attached to her. After all, she is level 12. Although the saint's offensive power is insufficient, with her basic offensive magic and a large amount of auxiliary magic, she is able to move sideways in the human world.

But in the mercenary union, when Kyle was asked by the staff what the captain's name was, the name he came up with was Liang Lidong. Neither he, nor Alice, nor even Emma, ​​had anything to say about it. doubt.

"You go to the mercenary union to accept the task tomorrow. Emma, ​​although you are the youngest, your 'experience' is much richer than the two of them. You should know very well what level of tasks they can accept, so tomorrow you Directly responsible for leading them.”

Emma thought for a while and nodded in agreement.

Kyle seemed very excited. Becoming a mercenary has always been his dream, and now his dream has begun to take off. For him, this is almost as happy as a dream.

After the four of them had dinner, they went back to their rooms to sleep.

The next day, Kyle and the others set off at dawn. In fact, Kyle was so excited that he didn't sleep all night and got up before dawn to prepare his equipment.

After Liang Lidong had a leisurely breakfast, he went to the business club. There are mercenary unions and killer unions in this world, so naturally there are also business clubs.

Of course, the status of the commercial club is far inferior to the first two. After all, businessmen are often not well received by the upper class. Although the street office building of the commercial club is magnificent and there are people coming and going in front of the door, there is not a single aristocrat.

Therefore, Liang Lidong's arrival scared many people.

The director of the business club personally received him. He was a middle-aged man with a smooth appearance. He had fair skin, blond hair and blue eyes. He usually looked like an aristocrat. Liang Lidong estimated that he was a descendant of a declining aristocracy. In order to revive his ancestors, Rongguang had no choice but to become a businessman.

Sure enough, when this middle-aged man spoke, he had an accent unique to the aristocracy. Most nobles like to play with their tone when they speak. Over time, they develop a unique speaking tone. This tone can easily distinguish nobles from commoners.

"May I ask your surname?" The middle-aged man bent down slightly, and then asked Liang Lidong to sit down.

The furniture in the commercial club is all inlaid with gold and carved silver, which would make anyone's eyes dazzle when you look at it. But compared with yesterday's tavern, which was all made of cold wood, it is too cheap. Not only is it far different in value, but also in terms of value In terms of art and connotation, it has been thrown as far away as eight streets.

The luxurious decoration of the business club can scare ordinary people, and it is okay for businessmen with little knowledge, but it is a joke in front of the nobles.

Liang Lidong sat on the chair and replied softly: "You can just call me Beta."

"Sir Beta. I'm glad to see you. I wonder why you came to our business club for something important? If we can help, please feel free to ask and we will handle it for you free of charge."

For a business club, any nobleman is a troublesome customer. Because this group of people not only have high status, but also have strange demands. If things don't go well, the business club will have to give them gifts and apologize. But they can't refuse the nobles' requests, so many times, when the people in the business club see Whenever a servant from a noble family comes to visit, he is extremely depressed.

And nobles like Liang Lidong came to visit in person. It rarely occurs unless there are special business requirements that are difficult to explain to outsiders.

No one doubted that Liang Lidong was not a noble. With his hair color and temperament, and most importantly, he was a spell caster. It would be strange for such a person not to be a noble.

"It doesn't need to be free. Just follow the rules." Liang Lidong knew why the middle-aged president would ask for free. He knew how low the status of businessmen was in the eyes of the nobles: "I need to acquire one or two small quarries. market. Can you contact me to see if any owner is willing to sell."

As the president of a business club, the middle-aged man has a very keen business sense. He naturally knows that the city of Sicily is planning to build a large-scale temple of light recently. The price of stone will definitely increase significantly in a while... No one knows this news. There are many, but those who know are already taking action. So it is almost impossible to find a quarry at the right price.

The middle-aged man explained the reason, and then said apologetically: "Your Excellency Beta, there is really nothing we can do about this matter. The quarry is now controlled by those well-informed nobles."

Liang Lidong nodded. He didn't care. In fact, he had already considered this possibility before coming here, and he just came here with the idea of ​​seeing if there was any chance. He stood up and was about to leave, when the middle-aged president spoke again.

"Your Excellency, please stay. There is actually another part of the quarry that no one has purchased." The middle-aged businessman suddenly remembered something and then said.

Liang Lidong was a little confused: "Oh? The quality of the stone in that quarry is not good?"

“The quality is pretty good.”

“Then the quarry owner’s price is too high?”

"The asking price is very low. The quarry belongs to the owner's land. He plans to sell the manor as well. The quarry and the manor only cost three hundred gold coins."

Three hundred gold coins is a high price, but if you can buy a small quarry and a manor, the price is indeed very cheap.

"What's the reason for that?"

The middle-aged president hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "The quarry and the manor originally belonged to the Taote family, but three years ago, for some unknown reason, the Taote family members disappeared one after another. Later, their The corpses were all found near the family quarry. All the blood in the body was sucked out and turned into mummies. Moreover, the remaining people became seriously ill with pus all over their bodies for some unknown reason. Now everyone in the Taut family is almost dead. , there is only one young son left, and a maid whom he has trained since childhood. But they are both dying now."

"Oh, keep talking, I'm very interested." Liang Lidong sat down again.

"When the Taut family discovered that their clan members had died near the quarry, they spent a lot of money to hire people from the Temple of Light to exorcise the evil spirits. Later, no one died from blood-sucking, but they were seriously infected with pus, even though they spent a lot of money every day. They sought treatment from the priests of the Temple of Light, but they could not cure the disease. In this way, the Taote family gradually died, and because the priests of the Temple of Light had too much contact with them, two of them contracted pus. Although later, He was barely cured, but his appearance was ruined. From then on, no one dared to help the Taote family to treat their illnesses."

"The remaining youngest son of the Taote family goes to the mercenary union every day to buy hydrotherapy scrolls to treat himself and his maid. The people from the mercenary union throw the scrolls into the yard of the Taote family from a distance. It is definitely not good for him. Dare to get close. Although they barely survived, the abscess could not be cured. The magic scroll was very expensive. After more than two years, the Taote family was defeated. Now in order to cure it, the youngest son of the Taote family said that he would sell the quarry and the But no one dares to take over the manor. More than a year ago, his original fiancée also broke the engagement and left him. "

"What's the name of the Taote's youngest son?"

"Joshua Taut."

A good name, once you hear it, you will know that you are an extraordinary person. Liang Lidong thanked the president for the information and then left the business club. He came to Dongxiao. According to the middle-aged president, Taote's manor was here.

There were a lot of people in Xixiali City, but no one dared to come here. Liang Lidong noticed that people approaching here had something to do, and there was even a look of fear in their eyes.

Along the somewhat deserted stone path, Liang Lidong quickly arrived in front of a manor. The manor's outfield is surrounded by a white stone wall about four meters high. The stone wall is covered with weeds and must not have been taken care of for a long time.

There is a tall iron gate at the entrance of the manor, but it is rusty and its original color cannot be seen. The door was slightly opened, and Liang Lidong gently pushed it open and walked in.

Weeds grew wildly in the manor garden, almost swallowing up the stone paths in the garden. There were only the sounds of insects, birds and the gentle breeze in this place. There was no human voice at all, and the silence was a bit eerie.

Liang Lidong walked to the door of the manor villa and vaguely heard a woman's voice coming from the room on the second floor: "Master, just drink this bowl of wheat paste. I'm not hungry."

"No, you drink half of it first, and then I drink..." This was the young man's voice, weak.

Liang Lidong knocked gently on the door... The voices upstairs immediately fell silent, and then a figure appeared on the balcony, wearing women's clothes. She lowered her head and asked: "Who... are you...? "

There was fear in this woman's voice, but after Liang Lidong saw her appearance, no matter how good-hearted he was, he couldn't help but be a little surprised.

The woman in front of me has no hair. She is not covered by clothes. The exposed parts of her body are densely covered with pus bubbles as big as thumbs. Some have burst, and yellow-green pus is leaking out. It is very disgusting. .

For such a person to be able to survive, this shows how strong his willpower to survive is.

Liang Lidong looked at this monster-like woman and tried to keep his voice gentle so as not to scare the other person: "I heard that you are going to sell the manor and the quarry. Come here to see the situation of the quarry. I don't know. Do you mind?"

The woman was stunned for a moment, and then her eyes burst with hope. She rushed back to the room like crazy and shouted at the same time: "Master, Master, there are people outside who want to buy our quarry and manor. We don't need it." I’m hungry again!” (To be continued.)