The year-end banquet at the City Lord's Mansion has ended, and it's already dark. In addition, there is no moon in the night sky tonight, and there are not many stars in sight. So as soon as you leave the City Lord's Mansion and get out of the light, you will be plunged into darkness.
Xu Yi quickly walked into the darkness at the corner of the street. When he saw that no one was chasing him, he took a long breath and relaxed.
When he just walked out of the gate of the city lord's palace, several noble ladies chased him, and once again invited Xu Yi to spend the night with him.
Among them, there was even an aristocratic lady who took Xu Yi's hand and reached through her neckline very boldly, and directly pressed Xu Yi's hand on the plump mass on her chest. Xu Yi was so frightened that Xu Yi immediately pulled out his hand. Flee in despair.
Looking down at the plump right hand that he was touching just now, Xu Yi shook his head mockingly, thinking that if he hadn't been thinking about Steele all the time, he would have lost control and been eaten alive by these noble ladies.
After calming down, Xu Yi confirmed the direction and walked towards his home in the city.
Every time after attending a banquet at the City Lord's Mansion, he used to walk directly there.
One is because the journey is not far, and the other is to think about the various problems encountered at the banquet while walking.
What he was thinking about now was the escort that President Cruz mentioned just now.
As President Cruz said, the continent of Sainz is not as peaceful as the heaven on earth. Because of the inconvenience of transportation and communication, coupled with the backwardness of society, bandits still exist in many places.
Therefore, generally larger chambers of commerce will have their own escorts. Even small chambers of commerce will most likely hire some guards to protect the safety of the goods when transporting goods.
Otherwise, even if a batch of goods is randomly robbed, it may be a disaster for some small chambers of commerce.
The society of Lampali Kingdom is currently stable. There is not much need to worry about this issue, but seeing that the New Flying Chamber of Commerce is about to cooperate with the Kingdom of Luersun and the Principality of Standing, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no problems.
What's more, the most realistic problem at the moment is the orc tribe in the Black Rice Wasteland.
If a factory corresponding to the mine near the Worrall Werewolf Tribe is built, since the mine is a cooperation between three companies, the Amri Chamber of Commerce and the Renekton Chamber of Commerce can also be responsible for the security work. At worst, Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will give away part of the profits.
However, the non-ferrous metal smelting factory was solely owned by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and when President Cruz and President Relsa proposed cooperation, Xu Yi rejected it. Of course, he can no longer ask them to help take care of it.
Therefore, President Cruz is right, the escort team of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce must be established.
As for the advantages of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce over other chambers of commerce that Xu Yi mentioned, of course he means that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce not only has cooperative relationships with many dwarf and elf tribes, but also even employs a large number of dwarf and elf workers.
With this relationship. If Xu Yi made a request to them, hoping that the dwarves and elves would join the Chamber of Commerce's escort team, it shouldn't be a difficult task.
On the continent of Sainz, there are some generally recognized evaluations of each race, such as human creativity and learning ability, and the talent of dwarves in forging. The elves' special attainments in aesthetics, etc... It should be said that each has its own strengths.
However, in terms of combat effectiveness, human beings' individual combat effectiveness has always been recognized as the lowest.
Except for powerful magicians among humans, there are only a handful of warriors who can compare with other races in terms of individual combat effectiveness.
The reason why humans were able to seize the dominance of this continent from the elves and overwhelm all other races was due to their strong discipline and teamwork, and of course, more importantly, their fertility rate...
However, even though humans have ruled this continent for thousands of years, they still have to admit this gap in individual combat effectiveness.
According to public opinion. The combat power of an adult warrior from the Elf tribe can even exceed that of at least five ordinary human warriors. And if fighting in the jungle or at night, an environment where elves are good at, an elf warrior can even kill an entire team of human soldiers alone.
Although the dwarves are not as elusive and difficult to deal with as the elves, but because the dwarves are born with amazing physical strength, great strength, and are naturally proficient in weapons, any adult dwarf can handle three to five human warriors if he picks up a weapon.
And if it is a trained dwarf warrior, it is no problem to deal with ten human warriors alone.
Moreover, the discipline and teamwork ability of the dwarves are the strongest among other races except humans, if a team of dwarf warriors is combined together. So with their strong personal fighting power, even the same number of elves can only give in temporarily.
Of course, the disadvantage of the dwarves is that they cannot learn magic anyway.
The Creator's compensation for them is that they have extremely high natural magic resistance, and it is impossible for ordinary low-level magic to harm them at all.
In general. If a chamber of commerce's guard team can recruit dwarves and elves as guards, its combat effectiveness will naturally far exceed that of ordinary guards.
It's just that since the race war thousands of years ago, other races have gradually moved away from human life. Naturally, it is impossible for any chamber of commerce to hire guards from other races.
Now that Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has this condition, Xu Yi naturally thought of this first.
As Xu Yi walked, he imagined how the chamber of commerce would be filled with dwarves and elves after it established a escort team, and couldn't help but laugh.
He was so happy that he didn't even notice someone calling him on the roadside.
It wasn't until the man raised his voice to the point of shouting that Xu Yi woke up from his reverie and looked over in astonishment.
"Lutie?" Then the light of the magic lamp came from the house behind him, and Xu Yi saw clearly that the person calling him was Lutie, whom he hadn't seen for a while.
Since the Great Magician Camilla announced the closure of the Great Magician Tower, some of the magicians in the Magician Tower chose to follow the Great Magician Camilla and join the Magic Research Institute of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, but more magicians still Choose to continue pursuing the path of studying magic and find another way out.
Lutte was also one of these people. Later, it was said that she left Bonta City and went to other cities to continue looking for ways to improve her magical power.
Xu Yi didn't pay much attention to this, but he didn't expect that she would suddenly come back today.
Suddenly seeing his former colleagues in the same research laboratory, Xu Yi was unexpectedly surprised. He hurriedly greeted him and said with a smile: "What? Are you coming back to spend the New Year? But I remember your home is not in Kalma City? Why? Will you be here now?"
After speaking, he raised his head and glanced at the small building behind Luti, but then he remembered that he had never been to Luti's house before, so naturally he didn't know if this was her previous residence in Bangta City.
"I went out for a few months and found that I was more accustomed to life in Bangta City, so I came back." Luti replied with a slightly forced smile. "Xu Yi, I heard that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is now stronger than before, and you are now made a baron by His Majesty the King?"
"Where did you hear that?" Xu Yi asked with a smile while looking at Luti.
After not seeing each other for several months, Lutie seemed to be a little thinner and a little more haggard than when she was in the laboratory before, but she still had a bright smile, which was no different from before.
Thinking that Lutie was the only person in the research room who expressed kindness to him when he first entered the research room, Xu Yi felt a warmth in his heart.
"I have been back for a few days. I just had a meal with Wella and Salsa yesterday and listened to what they said." Luti explained. "I couldn't sleep today and I got up and looked around, but I didn't expect to see you passing by from the opposite side. I couldn't help but feel happy and rushed down to call you."
Seeing Luti's excited look, Xu Yi smiled and said, "I'm very happy to see you again. How was it? How have you been going out these past few months?"
The smile on Luti's face suddenly faded, and she shook her head slightly: "It's not good. I'm coming back this time, just..."
Luti suddenly shivered, paused, turned sideways, and made an invitation gesture: "It's so cold outside. Xu Yi, since we happened to meet each other, why not go in and sit down, and let's have a good chat."
Xu Yi looked up at the sky and frowned: "It's so late, it's not convenient."
Luti covered her mouth and smiled: "What? I didn't even say anything, are you still afraid that I will eat you?"
Xu Yi thought of those aristocratic ladies who were overly enthusiastic just now, and thought that this was not impossible.
Seeing that Xu Yi seemed to be refusing, Luti suddenly showed a pleading look and said: "Xu Yi, let's go in and have a chat. I have something to tell you. In addition... I actually want to ask you for something... "
Seeing the expression on Lucy's face, Xu Yi vaguely guessed what she might talk to him about.
"Lutie, we are all old colleagues. As long as I can help you, I will definitely help you. But it is too late today and it is not appropriate. Let's make an appointment to meet at noon tomorrow and have a good talk. Let’s talk about it, okay?” Xu Yi thought for a while.
Luti Xiumei frowned, with heavy disappointment on her face, and shook her head slightly: "I know, you are planning to reject me, right? I have heard this kind of thing many times. Big people like you said this It must be shirk."
"I don't… "
"Then you won't even go in and sit down!" Luti interrupted Xu Yi directly.
Seeing Luti's unwillingness to be disappointed, Xu Yi couldn't help but sigh. Remembering how Luti had taken care of him in the Magician Tower, his heart softened, and he nodded lightly and said, "Okay, let's go up and talk."
Luti suddenly turned from sadness to joy, and quickly smiled and took Xu Yi's arm, pulling him into the door of the small building behind her.
Neither of them noticed that in the shadows across the street, a pair of big eyes were staring intently at their backs.