Liang Lidong drove the internal affairs system around the busiest place in the city, and then sat in a rather luxurious tavern. △,
Because it is an important commercial city, Sicily not only has a lot of businessmen coming and going, but also nobles from other cities will come here for sightseeing, playing, and even buying some valuables they need. Because there are more dignitaries and dignitaries, a luxurious tavern was born.
Different from the hustle and bustle of ordinary taverns, this place is very quiet, each box has a large space, and the tables and chairs are made of high-quality cold wood. After this kind of wood is dried, it will naturally exude a strange Fragrance, and this kind of wood is light golden, and there is a trace of white texture, it does not need any processing at all, it is an excellent luxury.
Furniture made of cold wood, just a low chair can change several lives, and all the wood in this hotel, including the beams, are made of cold wood. From the outside, one can see that the whole tavern presents a light golden color, and then there are white curved lines dotted in it, no matter how tall it looks.
Not to mention ordinary people, even wealthy businessmen dare not set foot in such a hotel. If there is no invitation from the nobles, they can only wander outside this big tavern.
It is not so much a tavern, but it is actually a manor. Liang Lidong sat in front of the window on the third floor, looking at the nobles who were socializing in the garden below.
Although the two sides are far apart, he can still hear the voices of those nobles talking, and then these words are collected, filtered, and screened by the internal affairs system. By the evening, the internal affairs system had already listed some values of Sicily City, and at the same time provided several internal policies that were being implemented, and one of them aroused Liang Lidong's interest.
Sicily City is planning to build a brand new large Temple of Light in the city center. Construction will start within a month, but not many people know the news so far.
Liang Lidong frowned, feeling a little moved. The construction of a large temple must require a lot of stone materials, and the terrain around Sicily City is mainly plains. There are very few quarries, and even if there are, it is a small hill that does not produce much stone. If you want to build a large temple, you must purchase stone from other cities, and the heavy stone is 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, after the stones in these small quarries are finished. Only the person in charge of the construction of the Temple of Light would consider going to other cities to purchase building stones.
I don't know if anyone has thought of this and bought those small quarries in advance. Liang Lidong intends to ask. If no one buys them and the price is reasonable, he plans to buy one or two, as long as the construction of the temple starts. You can make a lot of money.
After paying the two gold coins, Liang Lidong left the tavern. Back at the hotel where he stayed, Kyle and the other three were already waiting for him in the room.
"Teacher, we have established our own mercenary team." Kyle happily took out his mercenary coat of arms, which is the symbol of the Gemini Goddess with shield pattern: "Our team is called the Knights of the Round Table. In the registration information, teacher, you It's the captain."
Mercenaries... Liang Lidong took a coat of arms. With a look of nostalgia, when the game server was launched, he followed his cousin as a rookie and gradually grew into a well-known figure on the server. And now, it's his turn to lead a few rookie mercenaries to 'conquer the world'. It's really a turn of events!
The position of captain is usually attached to the strongest person. It stands to reason that Emma's superficial strength is much higher than that of Liang Lidong. The captain should be assigned to her, after all, she is lv12 Although the saintess lacks offensive power, she is already able to walk sideways in the human world with basic offensive magic and a lot of auxiliary magic.
But in the mercenary union, when Kyle was asked by the staff what the name of the captain was, what he came up with was Liang Lidong's name. Neither he, Alice, nor Emma had any idea about it. doubt.
"You go to the mercenary union tomorrow to accept the mission, Emma, although you are the youngest, your 'experience' is much richer than the two of them, you should be very clear about what level of mission they can accept, so tomorrow you directly responsible for leading them."
Emma thought for a while, then nodded and agreed.
Kyle seemed very excited. It had always been his dream to become a mercenary, and now his dream had begun to sail. For him, it was almost like a dream.
After the four of them had dinner, they went back to their rooms to sleep.
The next day, just before dawn, Kyle and the others set off. In fact, Kyle was so excited that he didn't fall asleep all night, and got up before dawn to prepare his equipment.
After Liang Lidong had a leisurely breakfast, he went to the commercial club. There are mercenary unions and killer unions in this world, so naturally there are also commercial clubs.
Of course, the status of the commercial club is far inferior to the former two. After all, businessmen are often not favored by the upper class. Although the street office building of the commercial club is resplendent and resplendent, and there are people coming and going in front of the door, there is not a single nobleman.
Therefore, Liang Lidong's arrival scared many people.
The director of the commercial club received him in person. He was a middle-aged man with fair complexion, blond hair and blue eyes. He was usually aristocratic. Liang Lidong reckoned that he should be a descendant of a fallen nobleman. In order to revive his ancestors Rong Guang had no choice but to become a businessman.
Sure enough, when the middle-aged man opened his mouth, there was an accent unique to nobles. When most nobles speak, they like to control their tone, and over time it has evolved into a relatively unique speaking tone, which can easily distinguish nobles from commoners.
"Excuse me, your honorable name." The middle-aged man slightly bent down, and asked Liang Lidong to sit down.
The furniture in the commercial club is all inlaid with gold and silver carvings, and it will dazzle people's eyes when looking at it, but compared with the tavern that was full of cold wood yesterday, it is too cheap, not only in terms of value. Art, as well as its connotation, have been thrown as far as eight streets away.
The luxurious layout of the commercial 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 softly replied: "You can call me Beta."
"Your Excellency Beta. I am very glad to meet you. I wonder if you have come to our business club. What is the important matter? If we can help, please just ask, we will do it for you for free."
For commercial clubs, any noble is a very troublesome customer. Because this group of people not only have high status, but also have strange demands. If things don’t go well, the commercial club will have to apologize to them with blood, but they can’t refuse the request of the nobles, so many times, the people in the commercial club see It is extremely depressing when servants of nobles come to the door.
And nobles like Liang Lidong who came to the door in person. Rarely, unless there are special business requirements that are difficult to explain to outsiders.
No one doubted that Liang Lidong was not an aristocrat, his hair color, his temperament, and the most important thing was that he was a spellcaster. It is strange that such a person is not an aristocrat.
"It doesn't need to be free. Just follow the rules." Liang Lidong knew why the middle-aged president asked for free, and he knew how low the status of businessmen was in the eyes of nobles: "I need to buy one or two small quarries Can you contact me to see if there are any owners who are willing to sell. "
As the president of the commercial club, the middle-aged man has a very keen sense of business. He naturally knows that the city of Sicily is planning to build a large temple of light recently. The price of stone materials will definitely increase after a while... Not many people know about this news , but everyone who knows is already taking action. So it is almost impossible to find a quarry with a suitable price.
The middle-aged man explained the reason, and then said apologetically, "Your Excellency Beta, we really can't do anything about this matter. The quarry has now been controlled by those well-informed nobles."
Liang Lidong nodded. He didn't care, in fact, before coming, he had already considered this possibility, and he just came here with the idea of seeing if there was a chance. He stood up and was about to leave when the middle-aged president spoke again.
"Your Excellency, please stay a little longer. Actually, there is still a part of the quarry that no one has bought." The middle-aged businessman suddenly remembered something, and then said.
Liang Lidong was a little puzzled: "Oh? The quality of the stone in that quarry is not good?"
"The quality is quite good."
"That means the owner of the quarry asked too high a price?"
"The asking price is very low. The owner's land is in the quarry. He plans to sell the manor together. The quarry plus the manor only cost 300 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 Taot family, but three years ago, for some reason, members of the Taot family disappeared one by one. The corpses were all found near the family quarry, all the blood was sucked out of the body, and they became mummies, and for some reason, the remaining people became seriously ill with pus all over their bodies, and now all the people in the Taut family are almost dead , there is only one young son left, and a maid who was raised from childhood. But the two of them are dying now."
"Oh, go on, I'm very interested." Liang Lidong sat down again.
"When the Taut family discovered that their people had died near the quarry, they paid a lot of money to invite people from the Temple of Light to exorcise the evil spirits. It was true that no one died after being sucked blood, but they were seriously ill with pus. Seeking the priests of the Temple of Light for treatment, but they couldn't cure them. In this way, the people of the Taut family died slowly, and because of too much contact with them, two of the priests of the Temple of Light contracted sepsis. It was barely cured, but its appearance was also ruined. Since then, no one dared to treat the illnesses of the Tao family."
"The youngest son of the Taot family went to the mercenary union every day to buy hydrotherapy scrolls to heal himself and the maid. Dare to approach, although they are barely alive, but the sepsis has not healed, and the magic scroll is very expensive. After more than two years, the Taut family was defeated. Now for the treatment, the youngest son of the Tao family said that he would sell the quarry and The manor, but no one dared to take it over. More than a year ago, his original fiancee also tore up the engagement and left him."
"What's the name of the youngest son of the Taut family?"
"Joshua Tauter."
A good name makes you feel like an extraordinary person when you hear it. Liang Lidong thanked the chairman for the information, and then left the business club. He came to Dongxiao, and according to the middle-aged president, Tao Te's manor is in this area.
There were many people in Sicily City, but no one dared to come here. When Liang Lidong found out that something was happening, the people who approached here even had panic in their eyes.
Along the somewhat deserted stone path, Liang Lidong soon came to the front of a manor. The outskirts of the manor are surrounded by a white stone wall about four meters high. The stone wall is covered with weeds. It must have been a long time since no one took care of it.
The gate of the manor is a tall iron gate, but it has rusted and cannot see its original color. The door was slightly closed, Liang Lidong gently pushed it open and walked in.
Weeds grew wildly in the garden of the manor, and almost swallowed up all the stone paths in the garden. There were only insects, birds and the sound of the breeze in this place. There was no human voice at all, and the silence was a little scary.
Liang Lidong walked to the door of the manor villa, and vaguely heard a woman's voice from the room on the second floor: "Master, you can just drink this bowl of wheat cereal, I'm not hungry."
"No, you drink half of it first, and then I drink it..." This is the boy's voice, weak.
Liang Lidong knocked on the door lightly... The voice upstairs immediately fell silent, and then a figure appeared on the back balcony, dressed in women's clothes, she lowered her head and asked, "You... 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 being a little surprised.
The woman in front of her has no hair, and she is not covered by clothes. The exposed parts of her body are densely covered with pustules the size of a thumb, some of which have burst, and yellow-green pus is oozing out, which is very disgusting. .
Such a person can still survive, this is how strong the will to survive is.
Liang Lidong looked at this monster-like woman, and tried his best to put his voice softly so as not to scare the other party: "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 or not?"
The woman froze for a moment, and then her eyes burst out with hope. She rushed back to the room like crazy, and shouted at the same time: "Young master, young axe, someone outside said they want to buy our quarry and manor. We don't need it." I'm hungry again!" (.)