When both parties choose to be open and honest, the conversation will naturally become much easier.
Under Gao Wen's initiative request, Melita no longer used the polite attitude of "Mithril Treasury Agent" to talk to him, and no longer used "you" in her words, which is obviously a sign of increasing trust in this situation .
Talking with dragons is a novel and interesting experience, but the real dragons are obviously different from those messy myths and legends. According to legends recorded in difficult and obscure notes, human beings seem to like to use exaggerated and mysterious language to describe this powerful creature. The legendary dragons are powerful and proud, and they are the rulers of the sky. Treasure has an astonishing fanaticism, and in ancient times, it was especially fond of plundering human kingdoms. There are even legends that the ancestors of the Gondor Empire were dragon slayers. They repelled the giant dragons in exchange for human rule over the continent...
Melita Purnia seemed extremely helpless towards these legends.
"We are a highly civilized race, but the descriptions of us in the stories you mentioned are closer to powerful and unrestrained beasts, and dragons love treasures. But when did we loot? Business Isn't it quicker to get money than robbery?"
Gao Wen... admired the calm attitude of the Dragon Clan on this issue.
"The races on this continent always like to make up similar stories. It has been better in the last dozen or so centuries. There was a period of time when your human race was particularly prosperous in killing dragons. It seems that if a young man who came out of the village didn't kill one or two dragons It’s as if they are not qualified to appear in the bard’s story,” Melita said again, “That trend even attracted the attention of the jury, we sent special observers to Loren Continent to investigate, to see if There was a conflict between the dragon clan and the human kingdom who went out to perform missions, and the observer brought back three bards, who cheated and drank all their lives in our country."
"The unknown is disturbing. For a powerful and mysterious race, people will naturally arrange a bunch of sensational legends for him," Gao Wen commented helplessly, and then changed the subject, "But the story of the dragon destroying the kingdom sometimes It’s not entirely fabricated, is it?”
"Why do you say that?" Melita's eyes widened immediately, "We have never done this before..."
Gawain spread his hands: "Old Cecil was destroyed by Long Yan."
The second half of Melita's sentence was choked back immediately, coughing again and again: "Ahem, ahem..."
"Could it be you?" Gawain asked tentatively, looking at Melita's reaction and recalling the morphological characteristics of the giant dragon he had witnessed.
"You were there at the time?" Melita recovered from her cough and looked at Gao Wen in surprise, "Why didn't I notice..."
"Is it really you?" Gawain looked Melita up and down. Although he had confirmed the facts, it was really difficult for him to connect the petite lady in front of him with the shadow of the dragon that covered the sky. "Then it seems that we will meet one more time."
"I had no choice at the time." Melita's voice seemed a little embarrassed, "The land has been infested with magic energy, and the number of aberrations has exceeded the proliferation threshold. Only by burning out the pollution can the situation be prevented from deteriorating. "
"I understand, I have dealt with aberrants before," Gao Wen waved his hand, "I didn't bring this up to ask for guilt, just to satisfy my own curiosity, and I'm also curious about another thing, you dragons. What do you think of me, a man who came back from the dead?"
Melita Purnia looked at Gao Wen carefully, and said with some hesitation: "Actually, at the beginning, your resurrection brought us nothing but chaos."
Gao Wen frowned, his words were puzzled: "Chaos?"
"... It took us more than a month to find out what you kept in the treasure house back then..."
Gao Wen: "..."
This is really reasonable.
Melita wrote later: "Then we mobilized a lot of manpower to investigate all the graves of clients who had signed a custody agreement with the Mithril Treasury and died within the agreement period. There are no bones left, and we have confirmed it in various places."
Gao Wen: "..."
This tm is more reasonable.
He even had some business doubts about Mithril Treasure, the legendary millennium organization for a while: "The agreement I signed with you was an indefinite storage agreement. Would you take the things within the storage period because of the client's death?" go… "
"No, please don't doubt our professional ethics," Melita immediately interrupted Gao Wen, "We will not embezzle the client's custody during the storage period, but... it will be transferred to a large warehouse, then It’s not so easy to find.”
Gao Wen felt that it would be better to end this topic that made people and Long doubt life early.
It seems that all that can be discussed is over.
"Anyway, I'm glad we understand each other better." He stood up and stretched out his hand to Melita, "As you said, the Dragon Clan has no ill will towards the world, I would like to believe that, I also hope that you can believe that I have no resistance to the Dragon Clan."
"It's also a reward for us to find a friend who can communicate frankly in the secular kingdom." Melita and Gao Wen held hands together, "Our openness stemmed from an accident, but fortunately this accident brought good news. result."
Gawain looked at Melita's lavender eyes outside the veil, and his expression became slightly serious: "I am a person who has experienced many incredible things, please believe that everything I have really experienced is higher than what you have experienced." Wen? Cecil's understanding is much better. I can accept all unimaginable truths, including the magic tide and the black trap. If you find the time to tell me or find the way to tell me, please Come anytime, I'm ready anytime."
"I will pass on your words to the jury verbatim."
Melita said calmly, she used the word "you" again, not to show alienation, but to show solemnity.
Gao Wen nodded, and said, "In addition, regarding the Mithril Treasure Store in Cecil..."
Melita blinked: "Do you want to shut them down?"
"Keep driving," Gao Wen laughed, and Melita was a little surprised by his answer, "As long as it operates legally and pays taxes according to law, I have no reason to expel them."
He couldn't expel the Mithril Treasury, or in other words, he couldn't expel the agents of the Dragon Clan.
Even if he talks happily with Melita at this moment, it will not change the gap between the Dragon Clan and the current Principality of Cecil. The other party is a high-ranking civilization that has gone through countless years. Their historical span can even cross the magic tide. The forces operating on the continent surpassed any human kingdom. If they wanted to "observe", then the current Gawain would not be able to expel them.
Without the mithril treasury, maybe they will be able to build a black iron treasury the next day, and the fine gold treasury will be completely hidden.
At least, the Mithril Treasure House belongs to the government affairs office, which is equivalent to a third-party intelligence organization that has been put on the surface. For a ruler, if he cannot clean up all hidden dangers, then he will At least to ensure that these factors are within the controllable range.
"The Dragon Clan will remember this trust." After a moment of silence, Melita lowered her head slightly, "Please rest assured, maybe it won't take long for us to have a deeper level of trust in each other."
"I'm waiting for that day."
Gawain said with a smile, and watched Melita walk to the door of the study, but he suddenly remembered something, and quickly stopped the other party: "Wait a minute, do you want this box?"
He picked up the box full of mithril rings and shook it at the deputy.
According to the experience of watching TV in his previous life, he felt that the other party should wave his hand freely, indicating that these things are no longer important. Where is the preciousness going.
But in fact, Melita walked back quickly in the next second, holding the box in her hands: "Ah, I forgot this..."
Gao Wen: "...Miss my little pony, is this important?"
"Very important. And why did your accent change back?"
Gao Wen waved his hand: "It's more used to calling you that."
Melita glanced at Gao Wen and shook her head: "Humans, it's really hard to understand."
Then the elegant and mysterious lady agent limped away clutching her box.
Gao Wen stood quietly behind the desk for a while, then turned his head and looked at the corner by the window.
It was empty and there was no breath.
Amber slipped away early.
He shook his head helplessly, stepped forward to open the window, and shouted into the yard: "Come back, people are gone!"
In the next second, a swift black shadow cut through the air and rushed into the study, and the figure of the half-elf lady gathered in the center of the room.
Amber patted her chest with an exaggerated expression of fear: "My God!! My God!! That Melita is actually a dragon?! You stayed in the same room with a giant humanoid dragon for two hours ?!"
When Melita first entered the study, the Elven Shame was still in the room, but he stayed hidden as always, but Gawain could sense it clearly. The moment Melita revealed his identity as a dragon, this guy immediately Jumped out.
Melita must have noticed this, but she clearly didn't care about the little half-elf.
"Compared to this, is it appropriate for you to run away as the lord's guard at the first time?" Gawain glanced at Amber, "I thought you would at least run to call for someone, but in the end you were arrested in the yard. Ants for two hours?"
Amber has a shameless look on her face: "I wanted to call someone, but I observed it first, and found that the two of you are still chatting quite well, so I didn't ask you to say anything, this is called can't To scare the snake away..."
It seems that this guy didn't run far, but was observing the situation nearby, which made Gao Wen somewhat relieved.
"Usually I can't teach you those words, you just use them indiscriminately when you find an opportunity," Gao Wen shook his head, then pondered for a while, and ordered, "Do something serious and put all Mithril Treasure Stores and agents in the territory into the key monitoring , usually pay more attention."
"Secret surveillance?"
"Secret monitoring is fine."
Gawain has no way to expel the agent of the dragon, and he doesn't want to freeze the relationship with the dragon if possible. He hopes to have a good relationship with this ancient and powerful foreign civilization, but this is not the case. It doesn't mean he doesn't do anything.
He retains the Mithril treasury and its agents in the territory, but monitors them properly. This is a very normal behavior that will not stimulate the Dragon Clan, and it will also allow the Government Affairs Department to maintain the minimum control over those low-level agents. ability.
He has a judgment based on the relationship between the Dragon Clan and the black trap, his concern for the secular country, and their own possible level of civilization, retaining those agents and low-level stores... will come in handy sooner or later.