Two days later, Earl Lionheart held a trade fair in his own lord's council chamber.
There is no concept of trade fairs in this world. Lu Cheng told Captain Sina about this concept on the radio, and then Captain Sina passed the matter on to Earl Lionheart.
Lord Lionheart had an idea!
The nobles are usually very idle, and their favorite thing to do besides showing off is to compare with others. This Oboi is wrong... Count Lionheart is no exception.
There were two things that the Earl Lionheart wanted to show off. The first was a batch of exotic goods he bought from Captain Sina, and the second was that he survived a group of assassins.
The emperor of the Far South is already investigating the traitors under his command, but the aristocratic class structure of the Far South is too complicated. A great noble has a large number of lesser nobles under his command, so it is impossible to investigate them all at once.
So this time, Earl Lionheart invited all the nobles, big and small, from the Far South to gather at this trade fair, to show off to the masterminds behind the assassination that he was still alive.
As such a famous person as Louis Napoleon was naturally invited to the exhibition...but he became a stand-in.
Count Lionheart still admired Louis Napoleon very much. As soon as he returned to the Earl's Palace, he canonized Louis Napoleon as a knight.
If Napoleon was really a young man from Chalin, becoming a knight under the command of a count was already a great achievement.
But Lu Cheng holds this identity just to tease the cat. Once Lu Cheng feels that teasing the cat, Earl Lionheart, is no longer interesting, he may just run away.
On the other hand, Zhou Hua is much more powerful than Lu Cheng. As soon as Earl Lionheart returned to the territory, he placed Zhou Hua in his guard team. Now Earl Lionheart is taking Zhou Hua to meet the major nobles in the far south.
This was certainly a good opportunity for the investigation team to collect intelligence. Led by Zhou Hua, other members of the investigation team sneaked into the trade fair.
The expedition team's primary goal now is to track down members of an organization called the Eye of Conquest in the Far South Empire. Existing intelligence indicates that this organization is the mastermind behind the breeding of blood crystal beasts.
The most interesting part is that Earl Lionheart happens to be a member of the Eye of Conquest. Lu Cheng will see if he is willing to introduce Zhou Hua to become one of them in the future.
Lu Cheng's task was much easier, which was to find someone worth poaching.
There is only one kind of person in this world that is worth digging for by Rabbit, and that is a spellcaster who is proficient in magic.
The research base clearly informed Lucheng that they planned to apply the magic of this world to modern industry.
Lu Cheng of course agreed with both hands. Not only did he agree, he even wanted to practice it himself. But the problem was that the best spellcaster in the camp at this stage was... Nancy.
Among the two hundred envoys sent by Xiu Enzhe, there are many elderly spellcasters who master magic, but their knowledge is not as much as that of Nancy, who studied in the Gemansis Secret Society.
At most, she is better than Nancy in mastering magic.
This made Lu Cheng regret letting the groundhog run away more and more...
Nancy knew hundreds of inscriptions, but her area of expertise was the casting of magic, not the production areas of enchantment and alchemy.
Maybe it was because Lu Cheng missed the groundhog too much, Lu Cheng saw a special figure at the trade fair.
It was a girl with long light blonde hair tied into two long ponytails and she was wearing a dark grey robe.
This outfit is common among spellcasters, but the problem is that the girl is standing alone in a corner of the trade show, with her head down, constantly pressing a... cell phone.
There was no mobile phone in the cargo that Lu Cheng gave to Captain Xinna. Without mobile phone signal, this thing is just an alarm clock.
Could it be that the groundhog really turned into a spirit
Lu Cheng could confirm that the mobile phone in the girl's hand was the one Lu Cheng gave to Charlotte.
The girl seemed to notice someone was staring at her. She suddenly raised her head and looked around. Her eyes were very fierce and her expression was full of impatience, just like a naughty child who was forced by his parents to go visit relatives.
Lu Cheng glanced around the girl. She was followed by a guard, who was an experienced spellcaster. If Lu Cheng rashly approached her and started a conversation with her, it would probably attract attention.
So Lu Cheng secretly used a portal to teleport a mini signal base station into the exhibition hall. When Charlotte left, Lu Cheng had already installed a SIM card into her mobile phone.
Lu Cheng left the hall of the trade fair, took out his cell phone and sent a text message to Charlotte's cell phone number.
"It's been almost two months, and you haven't used up all the power in your power bank yet?" Lu Cheng sent this message, and the girl who was impatiently pressing her phone in the exhibition hall was obviously startled by the sudden pop-up message.
Lu Cheng was basically certain that the girl was Charlotte.
'?'
Charlotte quickly replied to Lu Cheng with a question mark. When the groundhog left, Lu Cheng had not yet taught him how to type, and maybe she hadn't even learned Chinese.
'Look up and to the left.'
Lu Cheng gave instructions, and the girl in the exhibition hall looked up instantly. She saw Lu Cheng at the edge of the exhibition hall, but Lu Cheng disappeared in the exhibition hall in an instant, and she didn't even have a chance to confirm.
She glanced at the battery level on her phone which was close to the red line, then glanced at the spellcaster who was dozing off beside her. She cast a spell to conceal her presence and easily slipped away from the spellcaster's watch.
She ran out of the exhibition hall and came to the woodshed behind it. When she arrived here, the figure happened to walk towards the corner again.
"Wait a minute!" She immediately followed quickly, accidentally bumping into several servants carrying food along the way.
Lu Cheng controlled his pace, keeping it at a level that the groundhog lady could just catch up with, and led the groundhog lady to a quiet and deserted corner of Lionheart Castle.
"This time... you can't escape." A magic inscription appeared on her hand, and she aimed it at the shadowy corner. As long as Lu Cheng made any rash moves, she would definitely blast him with magic.
"You are the one who can't escape."
Lu Cheng appeared from the shadows behind her and quietly placed a dagger against her neck. Charlotte was aiming at just a phantom formed by the firewood pile.
"You know what you're doing... Stop it! You're Lu Cheng, right? We know each other!"
She felt the cold blade cutting across her neck, and her original momentum disappeared in an instant, and the painful memories of the past flooded into her heart.
At this moment, Lu Cheng could be sure that this girl was definitely the groundhog spirit transformed into a human.
"Shh, speak softly, you only have one chance to answer. What's your name?" Lu Cheng lowered his voice and asked softly in the girl's ear. Lu Cheng could smell a strange scent of incense on her.
"Xia... Charlotte Bayerwock, the most outstanding magic apprentice of the Gemansis Secret Order, the Daughter of Crystal, Ancient..." Even at this dangerous moment, she did not forget to say a series of her titles.
"Too much nonsense."
Lu Cheng's next sentence was equivalent to sentencing her to death. Charlotte closed her eyes in fear, and the next scene surprised Lu Cheng.
A large number of inscriptions appeared on Charlotte's body. After the inscriptions were broken, the girl turned into a groundhog again, and the robe she was wearing fell to the ground.
"Little boy, your skills...are not enough." Lu Cheng half-knelt down and looked at the groundhog that was covering its eyes and shivering, feeling a little amused.