Quincey's night was silent and depressing.
Probably only a few scattered figures can be found near the tavern, and after entering the tavern, it is another look.
- Life is not easy, and it is customary to get drunk.
The rest of the area is estimated to be only feral cats, looking for food when no one is around.
At this time, this tavern was very different.
The door of the tavern was closed, a suspending sign was hung outside, and the light from the burning kerosene lamp inside was also extinguished.
- It looked dark, as if no one was there.
However, the real situation in the tavern is not the case.
All the people in this tavern had their hands tied, their mouths gagged, and they knelt on the ground.
Among them, it also includes a caravan that secretly went from the St. Airo Empire to Quincesi City to do "trading".
After Mayor Vernon bought the non-commissioned officers stationed at the border checkpoints, some of the secret transactions turned to the surface - officials, robbers, and foreign businessmen in Quincey City colluded.
Just one word "profit" drives most people to participate.
- The mayor secretly arranged everything, and the robber became the "sharp weapon" in the mayor's hands, doing everything that could not be done on the surface.
The foreign merchants became their pocket money.
Xia Zuoyi first entered Quincy and did not act rashly.
After all, the city has almost been completely built into his territory by Mayor Vernon. If you are not careful, the chessboard that is slowly being laid out will be disrupted.
If something goes wrong...
Not only will the fish that slip through the net escape, but the impoverished people who are imprisoned in the village will also be affected...
In order to catch all the "fish" tonight, Xia Zoe deployed and ambushed all over Quincy in advance—outside the city, taverns, villages...
There was also a team of cavalry sent to the frontier to pursue the robbers and caravans that had already sent the oil, and to further explore the situation on the frontier of the St. Airo Empire.
Because of Valk's connection with the tavern's proprietress, Xia Zoe and Taylor were "betrayed".
-Valke embezzled their belongings as a gift of surrender, and they were taken to the village and imprisoned. to be labored.
The village has been investigated and it is likely that it was a stronghold for robbers.
The robbers disguised themselves as ordinary people and lived struttingly in Kunsexili, enslaving the people in the city who had been tortured by them...
Xia Zuoyi can confirm the existence of the robber den without entering the village in person.
But as the lord of Desinia, there is nothing more soothing than his presence in person when people are being rescued from the ravages of so many years of hard labor.
If Quincey is now gradually sinking into darkness.
Then, the appearance of Xia Zoe will shine into the hearts of these people like a bright beam - despair and suffering will eventually pass.
Xia Zoe personally appeared in Quincesi, in the village, to let them know that this place will be rescued and not forgotten.
…
The sash on one side of the tavern was slightly opened.
Valk stood behind, hiding in the darkness, but his eyes were fixed on the dark night outside the window.
In the dimly lit tavern, the soldiers' spears were pointing motionlessly at the man who was tied up and kneeling on the ground.
Not long after, several more soldiers walked in from the back door of the tavern and came to Valck's side to report softly.
"My lord, the minerals that have been mined are all put into log barrels, scattered and hidden in warehouses where wine barrels are stacked..."
"We have completed the statistics, a total of twenty-eight barrels of minerals."
"In addition, after interrogation, the barrels that have been shipped out of Quincy are sixteen..."
The soldier finished the report in a low voice, and then stood aside and waited.
At this time, Valk's eyes caught a white shadow that slowed down the flight speed under the night, and the corner of his mouth twitched: "It's time to start moving."
"… take away the minerals in the barrels with these people."
"Yes, my lord." The soldier took the order.
Afterwards, these terrified people were dragged out of the pub through the back door...
Outside the city, Barna led the soldiers to lay an ambush.
An eagle chirp came as a signal.
He raised his head and saw the familiar shadow under the moon and stars dotted night, raised his hand and waved...
…
Now, the village.
Xia Zoe, Taylor, and the people who were detained in the same room with them were all taken to the vicinity of the mine in the back mountain.
Even the small wave text that is sending a high fever is not immune.
He was woken by the rude shaking of the guards.
If it wasn't for Bunier forcibly struggling to hug his brother, I'm afraid Xiao Bowen would have been thrown to the ground immediately...
Although he hugged him in time, Bunir was beaten with force by the guards because he refused to obey the discipline.
After such a vigorous shaking, the child with a high fever woke up.
He was groggyly embraced by the middle-aged man Todd who had helped them earlier, this night, if Bowen hadn't persevered, I'm afraid...
Think here.
Bunir clenched his fist tightly, something flashed in his eyes, and then he hid all the resentment.
Xia Zuoyi suddenly put his hand on Bunir's shoulder at this moment and whispered, "Just hold on a little longer, it will be over soon..."
If he expected it right, action had already begun outside.
And, in the Riffins Mountains...
The corners of Bunnier's mouth twitched, and his hair fell, blocking his slightly gloomy vision.
After arriving at the mine, Xia Zuoyi found that besides them, there were several other people detained in other rooms.
- They are gathered here together.
And the guards were walking around not far from the mine with some utensils.
Seeing this, Taylor said softly beside Xia Zoe, "I'm afraid they have found the center of the mine."
The so-called center of the mine is to dig down. After digging to a certain extent, a large amount of minerals will appear.
And liquid minerals like "Devil's Sweat" only need a suitable location to penetrate the deep oil layer, and then you can obtain a steady stream of minerals.
The location of the exploratory well was wrong.
Because the oil is not evenly distributed underneath.
The depth of the oil layer is not the same, the location is wrong, and the amount of oil gushing out is naturally not much.
For drilling an oil well, choosing the location of the well on the ground is the most important part.
For example, the first step of oil exploration.
Sometimes oil seedlings appear on the surface, and the presence of oil seedlings means that there must be oil underground.
Drilling a well near here will definitely have a much higher success rate.
The important part after that is to see
How deep should the well be drilled from the ground.
— Most of the time, getting to an oil well is a matter of luck.
Quincey Mayor Vernon was able to discover the existence of this flammable liquid underground by chance, a "lucky" discovery...
This made him keenly aware of the interests in it.
- The first mine to be excavated was a subsidence that had exposed a little oil.
After that, Vernon ordered to dig deep.
But later, Vernon found that the devil's sweat gushing out of the mine was not too much, and began to order people to slowly explore other places.
There are traces of excavation near and far from this mine.
And now, the group has identified a site to dig down.
At such an important moment of decision, even the leader of this group of robbers came over in person.
Xia Zuoyi was staring at the fierce-looking bandit leader with scars all over his face.
He didn't pay attention to the blinking eyes of Bunir who was standing beside him, and there was a hint of determination on his face.
- Instead of letting everyone suffer here, it is better to drag these wicked people into the abyss and fall into the arms of the devil...
If "the devil's sweat" can come up from the ground and drown this place.
Bunnir thought—he was desperately trying to grab the machete or the great sword from the guards.
At the moment when the irons rub against each other, the sparks that splash out must be able to ignite "the devil's sweat".
However, before Bunir waited for the opportunity to be put into action - they were taken to a determined site and just about to start digging, countless arrows were shot from nowhere.
"Shh".
An arrow shot into the chests of the surrounding guards in an instant right in front of Bunir's eyes.
The fierce robber leader with scars on his face was also shot in the thigh by an arrow...
Panic.
At this very moment, before everyone could react and flee or do something, a wolf howl resounded throughout the village.
The Liffins Mountains in the back section of the village have long been surrounded by robbers.
Under their tight guard, not a single fly could get out... but tonight seemed to be an exception.
A snow-white wolf was standing on a low cliff at some point, and the ice-blue eyes against the bright moonlight made it even more cold and mysterious.
The white wolf ran down and came near the mine in the blink of an eye.
Just as the white wolf ran down, two tigers of opposite colors suddenly jumped out on the other side.
There was an eagle chirping in the sky, a huge snow-white shadow rushed down, and a pair of sharp claws grabbed a guard who was about to escape.
The guard's shoulder was immediately pierced by sharp claws. Immediately, he screamed and was thrown to the ground again. After a few laps, he was restrained by the soldiers who followed.
At this time, the white wolf has come to Xia Zuoyi's side.
Tyler pulled out a thin wire from the corner of his clothes.
He twisted the iron wire and aimed it at the shackles on his wrist, only to hear a "click", and the shackles were opened smoothly.
He immediately opened the chains on his hands and feet for Xia Zuoyi, and then opened the shackles on his own feet.
Taylor dropped the wire.
When he saw that the lord was guarded by a white wolf, and soldiers with machetes began to run around, he rushed into the chaotic crowd...
After a while, Taylor quickly grabbed the man who was guarding them, broke his wrist mercilessly, and found the key to the shackles from his body...
All this happened unexpectedly, and Bunir, who was looking straight at it, opened his mouth blankly, looking like he couldn't come back to God.
He looked at the huge white wolf in a trance, and an incredible thought could not help but arise in his heart.
"You, you, you are..."
Xia Zuoyi blinked at him and said, "I said, it's almost over."
"Bunir, do you want to take revenge yourself?"
Tyler came over to help them undo the shackles from their wrists and ankles.
Xiaobowen couldn't hold back and fainted. At this time, he was being held in his arms by the middle-aged man Todd. Todd was motionless and his expression seemed to freeze.
By the time everyone slowly came to their senses, the battle was over.
This place that made them extremely desperate and hard, these villains who made them unable to resist, were all dealt with.
- The leader of the robbers was caught, some died, others were tied up and fell to their knees...
And they were rescued.
Bunir's secret plan had not yet been implemented, and it died halfway.
However, he laughed and cried.
The night was destined to be turbulent - the whole city of Quincey shook.
At the moment when the dawn rose, with the sound of the bell, everyone almost gathered at the city gate of Quinceys facing the direction of the San Airo Empire.
In front of the city gate is the border line between the Territory of Desinia and the Empire of Saint Air.