520.Chapter 518 517 As the old saying goes, this is called the wine strong and goatish

Chapter 518 517.As the old saying goes, this one is called the wine that strengthens the courage of the people

The combat professionals have formed a rope in the Holy Blood Festival, vowing to complete the “Murphy Challenge”, even if they lose, they still have to export their style, not to be underestimated by the NPCs and the bad-eyed development team, which they regarded as the “main mission of the Holy Blood Festival”.

Administrative and manufacturing players, however, were not so inclined.

These players who are not keen on fighting and prefer to enjoy a different kind of gameplay are very enthusiastic about the Holy Blood Festival, as long as they are not on duty, they all run to the Scarlet Castle to “enjoy with the people”.

Especially manufacturing players, perhaps inspired by the hot business of “Dongshanju”, they even took this opportunity to start a discount promotion in their own stores.

For example, the “Hammer of War” blacksmith store operated by the two brothers, the Broken Sword Master and the Hundred Forged Horse, set up a 70% discount booth in these days.

However, they did not sell weapons on this stall, but placed a variety of agricultural tools and daily necessities, fully grasping the Transylvanian people’s current need for a hundred years, and through the wisdom of the otherworldly improvement of the agricultural tools have also been praised by the farmers.

The turnover from the first four days of the Holy Blood Festival alone made the two blacksmiths laugh, but apart from sending the apprentices holiday red envelopes, the two blacksmiths didn’t spend any money.

Instead, they took the money they had saved from the previous days and added the profits from the promotions, and paid a visit to Professor Malcolm on the fourth night of the festival.

“Here’s the list of purchases we made, Professor.”

In the small courtyard where Professor Malcolm’s family lived, Master Broken Knife rubbed his hands together and said with a smile on his face to the history scholar in front of him, who was about to take his wife and children to the square to enjoy the “medieval nightlife”:

“We know that the official merchant caravan chaired by you will soon head to Chardonnay to purchase all kinds of urgently needed supplies for Transylvania, and our blacksmith store is also planning to become bigger and stronger, and we know that semi-automatic forging equipment has already appeared in the halflings, as well as high-grade goods such as rolling mills and machine tools.

Therefore, we would like to purchase a number of them for reproduction.

I won’t lie to you, the blacksmith store’s production capacity is almost all eaten up by the army’s orders right now.

That’s not bad, but we’re having trouble coping with the current demand with our purely handmade production, and once the Black Plague is in full swing, we won’t be able to get the remaining production to aid the front lines and support the construction of the territory.

We need these machines, and Transylvania can’t maintain its primitive handicrafts all the time.

Our application has already been approved by the Administration Division, this money should be enough to pick up a batch of supplies.”

Facing Master Broken Knife’s request, Professor Malcolm didn’t shirk or refuse, accepting the purchase order and the purchase money brought by the blacksmiths, he said:
“My old house in Chardonnay Harbor is next to the commercial district, and I’ve dealt with some of the blacksmiths there, so I should be able to procure the equipment of your choice by going through their connections, but if you’re going to buy a lot of them, I’d suggest procuring a second-hand facility instead?
After all, the price of ordering these new machines directly from a halfling’s factory is a bit high, and time is a big issue, which is what we’re lacking the most right now.”

“No problem, just see to it, the guys trust you.”

Next to him, Hundred Forge Dama waved his hand and said:

“As long as it’s just enough to get by, after we get it back we can still dismantle and maintain it to learn the inner workings of these machines in the meantime, and of course, if you can, can you help us recruit a group of apprentices in Chardonnay Harbor or hire a few professional blacksmiths to come over?
Our current skills are considered very good within Transylvania, but the locals have never mastered the truly awesome art of forging, and we wouldn’t have the time much less the opportunity to learn it if we wanted to at this point in the Black Plague.”

“This is difficult.”

Professor Malcolm’s wife, Lady Fna, came over and served two cups of tea to her guest, she heard the request of the Hundred Forge Dama and shook her head:

“That part of Chardonnay Harbor has borne peace for a long time, as the mountains of the Genoese peninsula surround it to form a natural barrier, and the only pass that could be breached still has a Brass Dwarf fortress stationed there, and the fact that four Black Plagues have failed to threaten the civilization of the Halflings has kept those noisy little men alive in their world.

To put it nicely it’s called a lot of idealism, to put it badly it’s isolationism.

The way halflings see the world can occasionally seem rather naive, and the restless part of their personality causes them to avoid being in danger as much as possible, even if you’d have a hard time trying to invite a halfling to leave their home town during times of usual stability.

Not to mention the current state of affairs in Transylvania with the impending threat of the Black Plague, and I’m guessing the halflings aren’t going to come along for the ride just because of the money.

Still, it shouldn’t be too difficult to recruit apprentices in the shantytowns outside of Port Chardonnay.”

“Huh?”

Master Broken Blade said doubtfully:

“Isn’t it said that Chardonnay Harbor is the most prosperous commercial city on the continent? Why are there miserable-sounding shantytowns outside the city?”

“What city on this continent doesn’t have a similar area? Even in the previous Cadman City, there were more than enough shacks held up by stragglers outside the city.”

Professor Malcolm sighed as he looked at the two foreigners in front of him with a rather subtle look, the doubt and ignorance that these two guys were displaying at this moment made the professor once again realize the difference between the two worlds.

But he still explained patiently:

“Regardless of which country or era, there are more than enough people who are forced to leave their hometowns due to various reasons, in agricultural kingdoms such a situation can be better, if not for natural disasters otherwise it is impossible for large-scale stragglers to appear, however this is not the case in halfling countries.

The Genoa Peninsula is not only inhabited by halflings, but also by many humans.

But the rapid industrialization of the halflings requires more and more land and resources for factories and production, and the local population, without the protection of a strong political entity, has for some time now been at a disadvantage under such pressure.

The Halfling factory owners are brutal, and many of them are profit-seekers who don’t care what happens to the humans whose land they take, but of course the Steam Lords always promise to solve the problem of the growing number of displaced people at every election.

But the fact of the matter is that they are always limited in the number of jobs they can offer in their factories.

Many of the stragglers had no jobs and had to live off of the relief rations distributed by the Steam Council, and over time, shantytowns were established outside of Chardonnay Harbor, and by the time I left that city, the shantytowns had reached half the size of the city, almost forming a ‘ring around the city’ outside of the city.

Without jobs, and rarely allowed into the city, they have developed a complete and brutal social system in their own area, a place where violence speaks for itself, and incidents of all kinds abound.

A lot of kids are born there as children who have basically never seen the world outside of the shantytowns, and I’ve been there to do research, and a lot of people there want to get out of Chardonnay Harbor, but they simply don’t have enough savings or insight to accomplish it.”

With that said, Professor Malcolm sighed and said:
“To be honest, compared to the shantytowns over there, the current Scarlet Fortress is considered a peaceful place to live.”

“Holy shit! Isn’t this Chardonnay Harbor-2077?”

Hundred Forge Dama was so mesmerized by what he heard that he couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise, and Master Broken Blade also nodded repeatedly.

However, he didn’t really care much about these things in his heart.

His experience in the other world had told him that similar conflicts would always arise wherever industrialization was to take place, such as sheep eating people, such as the enclosure movement, such as the destruction of railroads, and so on.

It’s just that the political level and determination of the ruler will directly determine the direction of these things, and now it seems that that Steam Lords Council’s hand is indeed strong, but the level of governance is a bit poorer, and they still hold elections?

Crap, to engage in this kind of hard work in a magic world with a mid-world setting, no wonder both Consul Miriam and Colonel Fraser admitted that a halfling’s kingdom is much more civilized than a human’s kingdom.

Well, you can’t say that the electoral system is more civilized compared to the feudalism of the home world; it’s impossible to tell what the upper limit is, but the lower limit is certainly much higher.

The interesting tidbits about halflings that they had learned from Professor Malcolm and Ms. Furna had made the two Broken Blade Master brothers unable to resist the idea of visiting a city of halflings in the future, but at the moment they obviously couldn’t leave yet.

After chatting with the professor’s family for a few moments, and giving the professor’s eldest son an exquisite protective short sword as a gift, the two of them took the initiative to get up and take their leave.

They had the good sense not to disturb the activities of the professor’s family tonight, and on the way back, without any evidence, they were sure that Professor Malcolm would be “eaten” by Ms. Furna tonight.

Tsk, I can’t imagine that this Professor Malcolm is more than fifty years old, his waist is still so good, this world’s human beings are really in all kinds of physical qualities are much stronger than the otherworldly chicken human beings ah.

The two guys talking about dirty jokes on the road, laughing loudly, but soon they saw a “lost man” in the street, that guy sitting in front of the office of the Brotherhood of Stonemasons, shrinking under the light of the gas lamps, looking rather downcast and miserable.

Broken Knife Master was startled, the city now has no street lamps, dark by the light of the gas lamps can not see each other clearly, thought it was a homeless NPC, but he went over to look, surprised to find that this is actually the Chosen to fight the gray man.

Because the masonry fraternity to build houses and repair roads need a variety of tools, so the blacksmith store and their connection is quite close, two blacksmiths and the gray man can not talk about how good relations, but also definitely acquaintances, coupled with the identity of this layer of the player, so that the two brothers have no way to see this when they did not see it.

“Hey, buddy, what’s wrong with you?”

Hundred forged big horse went up and asked:
“What’s the situation here? Why do you stay here alone and look so miserable? I haven’t seen any player in Transylvania who can make such a mess of himself. Come on, come on, tell me, what happened?
Who bullied you?
Let’s shake people to give you revenge.”

“Oooh.”

This does not ask okay, the Hundred Forged Great Horse asked, the beaten gray man’s side deflated his mouth and actually let out a sobbing voice.

This completely put the two old brother scared, they can not help one left and one right carry this guy a smoke ran to the mouth of the alley next to a noodle stall, to the “East Mountain Residence” under the stall owner three bowls of noodles and a bottle of wine. “Don’t cry, come on, drink a little, what’s the matter say out, buddies to help you solve, can’t handle it we shake people! How can you let your own brother suffer this kind of aggression.”

Two social people you a word I a word of guidance, playing gray man tonight’s state is very very bad, originally not drink his two cups of wine under the belly on the king’s move, can not hold back.

With a voice with a weak breath said:

“I went to find the Parian sisters this afternoon, originally wanted to make things clear to ask for forgiveness, the results of people told me, they two have decided to follow the merchant group on the port of Chardonnay to go to school, Mrs. Parian are walking Professor Malcolm’s relationship to the two of them to do the school registration, but also got the letter of recommendation from the consul of Miriam.

They have to go to the administrative college, at least four years to graduate.

Oooooooh, how can I wait for them in the game for four years ah!
After four years this game in not even hard to say, oooh, I finished the plot, I really did not expect this plot in the end so abusive ah, this is not the same as I and others completely separated from the sky, there will be no chance later?

Did I make the wrong choice and create a Bad Ending?
Oooh, why can’t this damn game read the file and come back again.”

“Crap, this plot is really powerful! The real-life version of ‘human and ghost love’ ah.”

Hundred Forge Dama and his oldest brother exchanged eye contact.

The two old men saw the surprise in each other’s eyes and the satisfaction of listening to gossip, in fact, the matter of hitting the gray man had already spread in the secret circle of players, some people envy and some people despise, but more people are angry at it.

But those are also standing and talking without pain in the main.

Really let them come to walk this episode, do not see can be better than beating the gray man, mainly this young student has not been in love before, and then all of a sudden on the double intensity, if he can withstand this situation can only say that this kid is born to the sea king.

At present, the gray man, not to mention the sea king, he is not even a water ghost ah!

As we all know, liking to get involved in other people’s feelings, persuading boys to be brave, persuading girls to be kind, persuading couples to break up, and persuading technicians to go from good to evil are all men’s best character, right now it’s not easy to come across this kind of thing, so how can Broken Knife Master and Hundred Forge Dama miss it?
“Ay, ay, ay, little brother, that’s where you’re wrong.”

Master Broken Knife spoke first.

This guy poured a cup for the gray man, and after clinking the cups, he acted like an “old geezer” and said:
“You have not yet reached the end, how to give up ah? Even if they really want to go, there are still five days left, right? I think this is the development team to give you this ‘love game’ left the last remedy time ah.

I mean, whether it’s a success or not, you have to say it.”

“Right, right.”

Next to the excited Hundred Forge Dama also handed a cup of wine, he asked somewhat manically:
“You first tell us two, did you give your heart to the other sister?”

“I apologized.”

The gray-hitting man weakly returned, only to be slapped on the table by Hundred-Forged Dama, causing all three bowls of noodles to jump, startling the people’s busy stall owners.

“Not asking you to apologize! It’s asking if you’ve been straight with your thoughts, how you feel about them in your heart, and what you’re tangled up in right now. There’s no use for you to hide here all alone and be gloomy! It’s not like people know what you’ve been grieving over all of them.

You’ve got to speak up! Bro.

Isn’t it always the girls who let the guys guess what’s on their mind when they’re dating? How come you’re doing it the other way around, letting the girls guess what you’re thinking?
Hey, that’s a bit much.”

“Right, right, they are at least big girls, how can you let them speak first? You’re a good kid, but you’re a little too good. Older brother is a man of the past, older brother to say to you, this is something ah, you have to be a little brave.”

Broken Knife Master smiled and added another cup of wine, patting the gray-hitting man’s shoulder and encouraging to:
“If you believe us two brothers, we’ll escort you to Mrs. Parian’s mansion and you’ll rush in and say everything you want to say through the strength of the wine.

If they want to beat you up, we will protect you out even if we have to fight for our lives!
But I think the probability of things will not go that far, you have said that this goodbye may not be able to see each other later, all this! You should at least be an understanding ghost, right?”

“Big man in this kind of thing are not punch a hand, in the face of the people you love to go, you do not even dare to put a fart here to drop small pearls, to be honest, I a little despise you oh.”

Hundred Forged Dama arched his fire from the side.

The two of him and his oldest brother’s words, combined with the wine that kept going down, made the ash beater’s mind firm up.

He felt like there was a fire burning in his heart, of course it could also be the wine burning his heart, in any case, after a burst of god-head lulls, the guy finally made up his mind to charge the tower once.

The two old brothers were instantly excited to see the beating gray man male, and Master Broken Knife slapped the table and shouted to the stall owner:
“Boss! Two more bottles of wine! Strengthen my brothers’ courage! Put the money for the meal on the blacksmith store’s account, and tell your boss to clear the bill in a week.”

“Coming.”

In the side listening to the gossip listening to the eyebrow fluttering small stall owner at this time immediately handed over two bottles of wine, but also three people gave a thumbs up, wish them a safe journey.

Da Ma and Broken Knife two people a left and a right clip hit the gray man towards Mrs. Parian’s courtyard in the middle of the city, just afraid of this guy in the middle of the goat, they quickly reached Mrs. Parian’s mansion, the result was the entrance of the Chamber of Commerce guards stopped.

“How do you talk to your future aunt!”

Master Broken Sword chided the guard:

“My brother is here tonight to make an end with your two young ladies, you are also aware of the situation, I advise you to be kind, brother guard, at least think about your future prospects. In this case, the two of us won’t go in, so let my brother go in, what do you think?”

“Fuck!”

These two people are still here and the guards to talk about it, has been under the effect of alcohol on the head of the gray man roared, flew up a foot kicked in the door, the guards did not react, the guy actually activated a psychic trinket to let him move fast, whoosh a moment disappeared silhouettes.

“F*ck, something’s wrong, stop him!”

The two old brothers were in an uproar, they couldn’t care less about reading gossip at this point.

This player’s impact on a private residence was the first time it had happened in the game, it was a bad idea to be severely punished by the development team, but right now it was too late to run, they could only follow the guards and chase them all the way to the courtyard.

This will hit the gray man has been two female guards pressed to the ground, his behavior alarmed a lot of people, even the Parian sisters are cloaked in outerwear from the room out.

It was the first time they had seen such a downcast and out of sorts ash beater.

In the struggling beaten gray man saw his beloved come out, suddenly quieted down, his drunken eyes looked at the two sisters in front of him, the past few months floated to the surface of his heart, in full view of the public, the guy wowed and cried out.

As he cried, he shouted:
“You two don’t leave, okay? What’s the point of me staying here without you two? I was wrong, I shouldn’t have been so cowardly, I should have said it when you guys first asked me.

I like you guys.

I can’t tell you one from the other, and I can’t give up on one of you.

Oooh, there’s really no way I can give up.”

Screwing around like this in public, if this were in another world, the Gray Beater would have been slapped in the face long ago, but the sentiment did ring true, and the cheeks reddened with a burst of indignation as the Parian sisters, but still assisted the Gray Beater to the inner room.

This scene made Master Broken Blade and Hundred Forge Dama look at each other, the old brothers hemmed and hawed and prepared to leave with their deep pockets, but as a result, just as they reached the doorway, two player magistrates stopped them in their tracks.

“Hey, you two brothers are suspected of trespassing! An NPC has already reported it.”

The player in the lead chided:

“Don’t resist, come with us.”

“Wow, big brother, unjustly accused.”

Master Broken Blade screamed:
“And we’re three people breaking into a private house, why did you only arrest the two of us for tea?”

“Nonsense.”

The sheriff player with the ID name “Black Cat Sheriff” grinned, glanced into the courtyard and said:
“They are a family, even if they kicked the door in, they are still going home, it’s not good for you two to follow them in, go, go, go, go to our side to rest for the night, no big deal, don’t worry.”

(End of chapter)