01.
Now the entire Yulan City mainland has entered a deep winter, and you can see the snow-capped peaks of Yulan City. Those snow-capped mountains seem to be glowing on sunny days. Some northerners believe that the God of Cold lives in the glowing snow-capped mountains.
"White storms from your pupils
Your pride shines like a snow mountain in the clear sky
Your words are the melancholy whispers of the moonlight
you live in the glowing snow mountains
chill our dreams
You are the eternal cold god
…”
So sang in the ballads of those northerners.
Going further north is about to reach Mülheim, where the evergreen forest presents a deep dark green that is close to black. The river in the forest is silver in this season, and some of it is already frozen, and the river bed will dry up in the coming spring. .
For the poor, there are two benefits brought by the cold. One is that food can be stored longer, but unfortunately they have no food; the other is that they can die for a reason, and they have to bear family responsibilities when they are poor. At that time, death became a luxury.
In the Jackson mansion, the fireplace is burning almost all day long, keeping the temperature in the house within a comfortable range. A total of three servants came to do this.
In the shopping complex, Hill had already installed the heater in advance. — Oh yes, heating. The principle of the radiator couldn't be simpler, just pour hot water into the radiator and make it into a water cycle. The general shopping mall generally adopts the modern decoration method of the earth, and Hill has no plans to build a fireplace.
At this moment, the temperature in Jackson's mansion was languid. When Hill came in, he took off the dark green luxurious cloak embroidered with gold patterns and handed it to the servant. The cape looks like a wild knight traveling outside.
Joan Baker, wearing a loose purple robe over a black vest, followed Hill.
Old Jackson looked Hill's attire up and down without being rude: "Good day, Baron Baker, and Your Highness Greenwald, you always give people a refreshing feeling."
"Good day, Duke Jackson," Hill said, "You always wear the same clothes and say the same lines, acting like an NPC."
"In a sense, I can also become an NPC who is only loyal to the empire and doesn't know what other thoughts are." Old Jackson smiled slightly, "The servant has prepared hot tea, please come in."
There were enough pleasantries like this.
After entering the inner room, Hill said directly: "Currently, Olivia's progress in the winter city of Mülheim is going smoothly. I didn't expect such expensive food to be eaten. You humans are really rich."
Old Jackson complained in his heart, isn't that why you set the price so high? But on his surface, of course, that is still the noble expression of the duke, "Money is for spending, and they think it is valuable."
"That's right." Hill nodded, "With this awareness, you are better than most people. For example, Baker."
Baker next to him put down the black teacup, "It's nothing more than a compliment, don't step on me."
"It's powerful to step on people and praise them." Hill said.
Joan and Baker, "... that's fine." Just as long as you're happy.
Then the three discussed the expansion of the Demon World Mall in the Yulan Empire, and Hill talked about his plans for the next movie, "Pirates of the Caribbean".
"What role did the demons play in the movie?" Joan Baker asked.
"No big characters, mostly pirates and, uh, some virtuous nobles," says Hill.
"I feel like I've been offended," Joan Baker said.
"I'm talking about pristine aristocrats," Hill said.
"I am," said Joan Baker.
Hill: "... Well, what you said makes sense. But those nobles mainly want to encircle pirates for their own benefit, so that's why, uh." Hill spread his hands, "In fact, the demons only have a little shadow inside, It’s mainly about pirates, adventures, blood, friendship, etc.”
Old Jackson nodded, "If that's the case, this film is suitable for release in the Ice Empire Muelheim."
"Yes." Hill nodded, "On the other hand, I can use this movie to attract pirates... I think I need to contact the pirates and choose a suitable pirate group to be an actor."
Joan Baker: "Do you want Jacob to contact you?"
"No need for now," Hill said.
Joan Baker sensibly did not ask any more questions, he was very clear about his position.
Hill actually didn't plan to discuss with them about the movie, but just informed them at the moment. After finishing this topic, he said: "Joan, please go to Theodore's, and please take my greetings to him personally."
Joan and Baker raised their eyebrows, "OK."
After he left, Jackson Sr. said, "I know you have something to say to me alone, but what you said about Baker's lie is not level."
"The less level a lie is, the less likely it will be exposed," Hill said.
"That's true," said old Jackson.
"For example, you are so handsome, Duke Jackson." Hill continued.
The old Jackson looked at him with vain eyes: "Your Highness Greenwald, are you talking to us today mainly to test your partner's endurance?"
"No." Hill said sincerely, "Forgive me if I offend you, I don't know why my mouth is itchy today."
"I suggest we get down to business before I get mad," said old Jackson, "although I feel like you've always been that way."
"I think your suggestion is very reasonable." Hill said, and then he talked about the business: "Currently, Olivia's restaurant is going smoothly, and the sales of goods are still good, but they have not met my expectations."
"It's because the movie wasn't shown." The old Jackson hit the nail on the head, and then he said, "But it's a bit strange to have to get news about my daughter from you every time."
"Because the teleportation array is in the Demon Realm," Hill said, and then he said enthusiastically: "Why don't you come to live in the Demon Realm, so that you can exchange letters with your daughter anytime and anywhere. And you see, the word "Duke of Darkness" is more Cool."
"...don't make such jokes anymore, Your Highness Greenwald." Old Jackson shook his head, he was so helpless.
"I'm not kidding," Hill said.
"There are generally two types of people who can say such things, one is joking, and the other is to show that the other party is a fool." Old Jackson said, "Your Highness, which one do you choose?"
"I choose that I'm not human," Hill said.
"...All right." The old duke smiled helplessly. His Royal Highness Greenwald is really a bit funny.
"The best way for you to keep a secret is to announce it, because no one will believe it." Hill also laughed, "For example, I am a human being, do you believe it?"
The old Jackson looked at him with vain eyes: "Your Highness Greenwald, humans dare not climb up on you."
"Hahaha okay, let's get on with business. When do you think the movie is best?" Hill asked.
"I feel like it's about the same now." Jackson Sr. said, "Can the movie be modified?"
"Uh, yes," Hill said.
"I suggest to play "The Evil King" first and the pirate movie you want to make later." Jackson said, "Then play "The Daughter of the Sea", and in the promotion, it is said that "The Daughter of the Sea" is a traditional story of the demons." .”
Hill nodded. He understood the old Jackson's meaning, and first used the three parts here to grab the hearts of the audience, and the content of these three parts is relatively insensitive.
"The sensitive parts of the other films were cut as much as possible," continued Jackson Sr.
Hill wanted to laugh a little, okay, let’s play the abridged version for the sake of review, this is a bit familiar: "So, is there a way to infiltrate the Mulheim royal family?"
Old Jackson was stunned for a moment, and then said helplessly, "I'm just a duke of another country... Your expectations of me are too high..."
"Because you're such a great person," Hill said, "I have unlimited expectations of you."
Hill's words were quite sincere.
This made old Jackson stunned for a second... A very powerful person? Is that how the prince of the devil world described it
Old Jackson still had a sense of sadness in his heart, he nodded, "Let me think about it, I think there is always a way."
"Yeah." Hill nodded, "Then I've been busy making movies recently, and don't forget about charity."
"Good," said old Jackson.
When Hill left, it was snowing outside. He took the umbrella from Jackson's servant, opened it with a shake, and then walked into the snow-swaying long street with the umbrella alone. Old Jackson looked at his figure on the second floor, and then saw him turn around and raised his hat at Old Jackson. When Old Jackson was about to salute him, he found that his figure had scattered into flying snowflakes .
... have left by magic. Old Jackson thought.
02.
After seeing old Jackson, Hill went to the Dark Vatican, and the towns around the Dark Vatican looked quite poor. How does this spread faith? Hill shook his head, intending to get to work on the Black Cross after the matter at hand came to an end. By the way, you can also gain reputation for Princess Lydia. Old Jackson was very good, but he had the common problem of nobles: he was slow.
Hill took a walk in the township, his clothes were more gorgeous than the people here, the poor looked at him with empty eyes, and a man with good eyesight smiled flatteringly Come over, "Master, where are you from? Can I do anything for you?"
"Give me a brief introduction to the situation here." Hill threw a silver coin over and only answered his last question.
The man suddenly smiled, and talked about the famine here. Somehow the land here could not grow crops. Most of the young and strong men left here, and some were reluctant to leave home.
Hill crouched down to inspect the fields over there, and found that they were tainted with magic. The source of the pollution should be their Dark Holy See, Khan. Hill felt a little guilty, and at the same time became more determined to engage in charity as soon as possible. Relief with work is fine.
At this time, a crazy woman suddenly ran by the river. She cried and cried: "I didn't kill him, how could I kill my child? He really died when he was born. It's a waste, he's really chubby, I didn't kill him!" She talked back and forth like this, crying and laughing for a while.
Hill frowned.
The person next to him smiled obsequiously and said, "This woman has gone crazy because she was hungry and ate her newborn baby some time ago. My lord, I will drive her away."
"No need." Hill said, "Where is her man?"
"She is a child who was raped by a nearby robber." The other party replied.
"Understood." Hill waved his hand, "You go, I will walk alone."
"Good sir!" said the man.
From the beginning to the end, Hill was not interested in asking his name.
Hill walked alone for a while, and when he was going to turn to the dark church, the man who had led a group of robbers appeared before: "That's him! My lords! He is holding a lot of coins, I heard the sound of coins !"
The leading bandit nodded in satisfaction, "Not bad...it does look like a fat sheep."
The robber next to him said, "Boss, I want his boots!"
"Go away, the boots belong to me!" said another.
The person who betrayed Hill showed the same flattering smile to the bandit leader: "According to the agreement, I will get five silver coins..."
The bandit leader slammed his mouth, "I hate a villain like you the most." After he finished speaking, he actually chopped off the man.
Hill had been watching all this with cold eyes just now, and felt like laughing a little after seeing this scene.
"It seems that you are not very lucky today, sir." The bandit leader looked quite majestic when he said this.
"It seems that you are more unlucky than me today." Hill shook his head.
Among the robbers, the black mist condensed into the figure of the death knight, and Monroe's red eyes radiated a terrifying light.
He drew out his long sword, and the terrifying black mist seemed to wrap around it.
The long sword buzzed like a greeting from death.
The snow is getting bigger.
03.
Hill came to Monro mainly to explain to him that he planned to develop church power overseas, but he did not expect to encounter such a small episode. It is really dangerous for one or two people to walk outside alone these days, even the caravans of nobles are in danger of being robbed. —Sometimes other lords pretend to be robbers to rob. So for nobles, the safest way to travel is by airship, or stay at home and don't go out.
After seeing how miserable the surrounding villages were, Hill asked Monroe to pay more attention to the surrounding situation.
"I hope that the people in these villages will become believers in darkness." Hill said, "We have also started to donate, and I will send the specific supplies from the teleportation array. By the way, the donators need to be divided equally between humans and non-humans." , so that other people can see that we live in harmony."
Monroe nodded, "Excuse me, I have a question."
"Tell me, I can't stop you anyway." Hill said briskly.
Monroe stared at Hill for a while, and it wasn't until Hill felt guilty that Monroe said, "It's not worth the loss."
Hill's first reaction was to gag Monroe's mouth, but it took him a few seconds to understand that Monroe said that it was not worth the harm to support the surrounding villages.
"Look far, my friend." Hill said, "Population is the foundation." On the one hand, he moved his heart for compassion, and on the other hand, he wanted to spread his beliefs, killing two birds with one stone, so why not do it
Monroe thought about it.
"Besides, just looking at the moment, you lost a lot of supplies, but you also gained my heart." Hill continued.
Monroe:? ?
Monroe: "...well."
#The person I am loyal to seems to be a fool how to break#
"And I think, you want to save them too, right?" Hill continued.
Monroe didn't hesitate, and said frankly: "During my time as the Dark Pope, if someone walked into the Holy See for help, I would accept them. I want to save everyone, but compared with them, your thoughts are more important .So I didn't make a claim, but waited for your order."
Hill likes this kind of Monroe, who has his own thoughts and judgment, and is also obedient enough.
"Don't have too many scruples next time. As I said, I will satisfy your various wishes, including the wish of 'being a good person and doing good deeds'. This is your right." Hill said.
"What if I do something bad?"
"There is no clear boundary between good and bad, but I know I'm indulging you." Hill smiled.
"... Got it." Monroe said, his eyes were dark at the moment.
"Okay, now it's time to send money to Emperor Yulan, and then persuade him to change the name of the sea on Josh Kenny's side to the Caribbean Sea. A new movie is about to be made." Hill stretched his waist, Not much figuratively said.
Those previous movies were completely fictional. Hill intends to move the background of "Pirates of the Caribbean" to this world, and most of the place names use the place names of this world to increase the sense of substitution.
04.
The Plague Islands are a paradise for pirates. More than two hundred years ago, this was a rich and beautiful archipelago that had been isolated from the world. Later, people from the Yulan Continent came here, and they were pleasantly surprised to find that there is a wealth of magic spar minerals here, and one can imagine what happened next... Many aborigines here became slaves, not just people from the Yulan Continent The germs they brought infected the aborigines here. They obviously lacked resistance to these germs, so they died one after another. Their bodies were not dealt with in time. In addition, the magicians of the Magnolia Continent wantonly abused magic to mine ore to destroy The environment, coupled with the cross-infection of germs, formed new viruses... Here, a terrible plague began.
The plague lasted for many years before it stopped because most of the people died. But it's useless here, because the magic spar minerals have been mined, so the empire and the Church of Light abandoned it. Over time, it became a paradise for pirates and outlaws. Few of the aborigines here are still alive, but almost all of them have mutated, and they all have mysterious powers. Their power system is different from that of Yulan Continent, and it is closer to witchcraft. It is rumored that they You can also try the power of the plague, and the pirates are unwilling to provoke them.
Although the Demon Realm Mall is only open in Yulan City and Josh Kenny, those are the two largest cities in the Yulan Empire, so it is only natural that they are distributed. At present, other cities in the Yulan Continent also have some fragments of "Makai Magazine" and the first two volumes of "A Song of Ice and Fire", and some projection stones of "Natsume's Book of Friends" have also leaked out.
The pirates often traded with the aboriginals of the Plague Islands. They would exchange some daily necessities, clothes, etc. with the people there for some herbs and poisons, or scrolls of curses. Later, after the Demon World Shopping Mall appeared, some items in the shopping mall also entered the scope of trading, but not many, because the items in the shopping mall were very expensive.
The evil businessman Jacob came to the Plague Islands on the ship of the female pirate Sarah, and he was accompanied by a few of his "friends", who were actually members of the Dark Church. Jacob once again cursed the horror of sailing life, if it wasn't for the temptation of money, he would not want to set foot on the ship.
The islanders also complained cursingly about the food and the storm, but at least they didn't complain about everything, because they were accompanied by light music and Natsume. Well done Captain Sarah, long live Captain Sarah. they thought. Many pirate ships do not have this kind of benefit, and they know it.
Jacob and Sarah walked on the land of the Plague Island, and Sarah also complained: "After eating the food at the Devil's Restaurant for more than a month, the food here is even more difficult to swallow." In fact, there is another discomfort The thing about it is that she didn't recharge enough demon coins before going to sea, which caused the card plot to get stuck... and there was no signal, and the update information of love and demons was gone.
Jacob sighed: "It's really unbearable."
"But it's good to have something to eat." Regardless of whether the food has been eaten by mice, whether it has been crawled by reptiles, whether it has mold, or whether it has insect eggs... Many times, for pirates, it is good to have something to eat.
No matter how much money there is, there is no way. This humid and warm environment is completely unsuitable for food preservation.
There is a magician in the pirate who has been trying to maintain the ice, but soon runs out of mana.
They know to poke iron nails into apples overnight, then pull out the nails and eat the apples, so that they can replenish iron. But the long-term sailing life will spoil the vegetables. After hearing this, Hill laughed and joked with the pirates he knew: "You can go and lick the fur of the captain's cat, the cat relies on this for calcium supplementation."
Everyone:? ?
"It used to be romantic for me to be a pirate," Jacob said.
"And now?" asked the female pirate Sarah.
"It's hard to say," Jacob said. "I think there are other ways, but many have many problems, such as your terrible food."
"If someone invents food that can be preserved for a long time, he will become the god of pirates." Sarah said sincerely.
"Me too." Jacob nodded.
demon world.
The first batch of canned food was successfully produced with the efforts of the black dwarves and the scientific research department.
The next step is to design and manufacture assembly line machines for mass production.
The Ice Empire Mülheim.
The restaurant in the Demon Realm shopping mall is so full that you need to queue up, and a lot of goods on the first floor are also sold out.
"The Evil Lord of the World" is being promoted and will be released soon.
Magnolia Empire.
Necromancer Leona, the five ambassadors of the Dark Holy See, recommended the Death Bird Pirates to Hill. She said that she had a relationship with the captain of the Death Bird.
So Hill sent Leona to dock with Captain Rhodes to film "Pirates of the Caribbean" together.
Plague Islands.
Jacob recruited some local people and began to build the Demon World Mall.
The people of the Dark Vatican began to build churches in the local area, preparing to spread the faith.
Everything is changing.
Everything is moving forward.
Hill walked out of the Blackrock Tower, and there was heavy snow outside.
He embraced the Demon Realm in the heavy snow with open arms, with an admiring smile, as if this was a magnificent coronation.
Monroe stood beside him, watching him quietly.
"It's beautiful snow, isn't it?" Hill smiled and looked at Monroe.
"Happy New Years, Monroe."
"Happy New Year, Hill."
The new year is coming.
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