Please abide by the Basic Law

Chapter 161

Cecil immediately looked at the figures of the two Langdons. His Langdon was a little taller, with more obvious muscular lines, while Bryan was relatively thinner. Of course, he was still quite strong compared to ordinary people. After all, in this In the age without thermal power, it is inevitable for a person to travel alone outside without relying on physical strength.

It's a pity that the wide mage's robe concealed his good figure, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

Cecil then went to check his height. Bryan was a little shorter than Langdon, and he didn't know if one was standing on tiptoe or the other was kneeling. No matter how he saw them, they were about the same height, and even had similar expressions.

A little provocation, a little expectation, a little doubt, just staring at it like this...

"The one on the right is Langdon." Cecil blurted out with little hesitation, "100 percent."

"Langdon" on the left snorted coldly: "Lang, you have to test yourself..."

"Langdon would never speak like that." Cecil held back a smile and thanked the interpreter magic for its trustworthiness. When a person changes his accent or language, the interpreter magic will translate the new language into a dialect in due course. Ryan was definitely not using Langdon's language at first, but now he changed it in order to unify with Langdon, and this change showed his flaws, "You are Bryan."

The real Langdon's cold face suddenly melted like a spring breeze, and a provocative smile climbed from the corner of his mouth to his eyebrows: "Teacher, as I said, he can recognize me."

Brian seemed very angry. He waved the wide sleeve of the mage's robe at Cecil and shouted, "Don't touch me! Climb for me!"

Brian walked away angrily, and Cecil turned to look at Langdon, grinning a murderous smile: "Honey."

Langdon raised his hands in a gesture of surrender: "The teacher wants to persuade me to leave you, saying that you just fancy my face, or the teacher's face..."

It was only then that Cecil realized that he had been flirting with "Brian" all this time, and he couldn't help but feel a little awkward. Soon, he calmed down, and the more he recalled carefully, the overlap between Brian and Langdon faded away. Different voices, tones, and movements create two completely different images.

"How did you recognize me?" Langdon asked.

"Smell." Cecil replied reflexively, "I am more familiar with the smell on your body."

"Smell?" Langdon seemed a little puzzled. He lowered his head and sniffed for a while, then approached Cecil and buried his head on his shoulder. "It's really a little bit, but humans shouldn't be able to smell the difference."

Cecil glared at Langdon: "Because I love you!" After saying that, he turned around and left. It's not easy to have nothing to do every day, and it's not good to be immersed in the love of children all the time.

This confession "nailed" Langdon in place. He looked at Cecil's back, and after a while he smiled with a bit of self-deprecation.

The merchant brigade has done a lot of business in Brinhe, and the demand for paper by the Green Bank elves is astonishing. After that unexpected sale, many elves sneaked up to ask for paper that night. , Easy to use is easy to use, there is no way to erase the fact.

Cecil was surprised when he heard that the businessman actually sold the paper at the price of copper coins. Let's talk about the price with magic coins.

"Green Bank elves are good people, and if you give them preferential treatment, you will be rewarded." A team leader who was questioned said, "Businessmen really love money, but they are not stupid. What a rare opportunity to make friends with an expert in life magic What are some papers? Besides, after the tunnel is opened, the goods will be delivered in a steady stream. By then, the green bank elves will know everything if they don't compare them. It's so stupid to cut off the way out for the little profit in front of you. It is impossible for a person to be willing to pay money to participate in a magic fair."

This is the handsome team leader who was beaten up by the female captain Tuhai when discussing the construction of the toilet, and his face was still bruised. Now it seems that he has some skills to be a team leader.

The man was chosen by Langdon, and Cecil was satisfied.

"What about alien civilizations?" Cecil asked.

"The old method has been dealt with." Another team leader said confidently.

Regarding the barriers of alien civilizations and sales promotion, Cecil has really studied it in the past few years. He thinks that this thing will be finished sooner or later. Originally, even with the existence and influence of the God of Civilization, the thing of alien civilizations is still very ambiguous. The idea of ​​"this should not be counted" often appears. In the final analysis, rejecting any "foreign civilization" is contrary to the essence of human beings who "love leisure and hate work".

As long as they are intelligent creatures, excluding the dedication to ideals, they basically like to live a comfortable life. It is really difficult for ordinary people to refuse something that can greatly improve people's living standards, or they must have higher Only the interests can be rejected.

For example, the practice of binding feet in the past is so anti-human. Under the oppression and brainwashing of the whole society, the people at the bottom are still not bound. There is no other reason. If women are bound, they cannot work, and if women cannot work, they cannot survive with only men. .It can be seen from this that the survival of human beings is a basic need, and everything that goes against it cannot exist for a long time. Regardless of whether you are the emperor's royal family or the torii pass on the monument, after you rise up, you will all "rather have a kind".

Cecil has been subtly instilling this point of view to the merchants who come and go to and from Moon City: any commodity has nothing to do with civilization, but only with survival. Survival is definitely not for enjoyment, just for living!

One side has intentions, and the other has intentions. During the past four years, Cecil has messed up the theory of alien civilizations in Luoye Bay in the east. Now, he brought the merchants to the west.

The green bank elves obviously like this set very much. They buy a lot of cheap and practical goods from the merchants, and some merchants even sold out the goods they brought. never mind.

"How could it be sold out?" Cecil asked curiously, "What did you bring, man?"

"I brought all the paper and soap." Langdon said jokingly, "I don't have any left at the moment."

Cecil couldn't laugh or cry and said: "Why does this person only carry two kinds of goods? What do you think?"

"It's not because these two things are easy to transport." Langdon shrugged his shoulders. "Paper can be compressed and bundled, and soap is also very strong. These two things are the best things to transport. Others, such as food, basically can't be helped, cheese, Cheese, air-dried bacon and the like can still be considered, but fresh food can’t be helped, and fruit is even more out of the question.”

"Hey, these people still have too narrow a product category!" Cecil said proudly.

As the largest "businessman", Cecil certainly brought a large number of products, and half of the huge fleet belonged to him. Compared with businessmen with simple products, he had a lot of them, and many of them were the first time available.

"I always feel that there is no need to sell here in Green Bank." Cecil said, "It's a bit unbearable to earn money from the Green Bank elves. I would definitely not hesitate to buy those scumbags in Highgarden, and besides acid-resistant steel Other than that, it’s really useless, it’s all for enjoyment, let’s go to the magic fair to make some money.”

Langdon agreed with this point of view, and he had more ideas: "I think you can consider a way to enter Maibeigu."

Maibei is the capital of St. Panier, and this time it will be the venue of the magic fair.

Cecil asked puzzledly, "Is there anything special about it?"

"It stands to reason that everyone should enter and leave normally." Langdon's face turned serious, "However, we went with the Green Bank elves, and the Elf King Alanster will not go. In fact, I think he should be in Brinker is waiting for the news, and if there is any trouble, he will lead the army to fight to the death, and you can deduce how dangerous it is for the Green Bank elves to go to the fair."

Cecil glanced at Langdon, hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help but said, "I still don't approve of Green Bank elves participating in the fair. Isn't this the meat delivered to your door? If you are prepared, it's one thing to go directly to make trouble , but the green bank elves are so desperate that they insist on going, and that's not how they give away their heads!"

"You're not the Green Bank elves, so you don't understand their turbulent psychology." Langdon said, "They always feel that they are the hunted, the victims, and they are always on the verge of death, and their personalities have been distorted for a long time. In short, It will be a test to bring such a group of green bank elves into Maibei Valley."

Cecil thought for a while and asked, "It's impossible for St. Panier to publicly arrest people who participated in the magic fair, right?"

"Of course." Langdon said, "I still have to give the Magic Expo Committee this bit of face."

"Then, if everyone confirms who we are going to the city and knows that we are all here to participate in the expo, is that considered a guarantee?" Cecil asked.

Langdon squinted his eyes: "It depends on how many people have confirmed our identity."

"How many people will go to this magic expo?" Cecil still remembered the magic expo in Tambunita. At that time, almost the whole city of Yarji went there, and the carriage food stalls he brought were scattered all over the city. Really earning a fortune in magic coins with cheap BBQ.

"Every city where the magic fair is held is dispatched throughout the city, and everyone will go and have a look." Langdon said, "Maibei Valley has a population of more than 30."

"Oh!" Cecil said in surprise, "So many?"

Langdon smiled: "Sixty thousand are people, and the remaining 20 are not people."

Cecil: "...then will these slaves go to the fair?"

"Yes." Langdon gave an unexpected answer, "Slaves in Maibei Valley still have certain human rights, and most of them are equivalent to inferior people. Many slaves in cities outside Maibei Valley are treated like livestock."

Cecil frowned: "Then how do you tell the difference between a slave and a master?"

"There is a magic mark on the slave's face." Langdon added after finishing speaking, "Of course, you will be targeted, and soon there will be a magic mark on your face."

"Will people from other countries go there by then?" Cecil said with some trembling in his heart.

"Yes, many people from Loschere, Crandall, and countries farther away will go to play." Langdon said, "The distance between countries is very close here, and the gate of magic is everywhere. For mages, visiting between countries is as simple as visiting neighbors, and your highway may not be able to eat well here."

Cecil said disdainfully: "I don't believe that the merchants in the west don't take advantage of it!"

Langdon laughed: "After talking for a long time, what solution did you think of?"

"Well, there are no restrictions on the way to the fair, right? I mean, there is no requirement not to talk, to be quiet, etc.?" Cecil said a little embarrassedly.

"No." Langdon said.

"I thought of an interesting idea." Cecil smiled, "Do you know something called a float parade?"

After listening to Cecil's explanation, Langdon asked, "Isn't this a sacrifice?"

"It's not a priest, what nonsense!" Cecil glared, "We're just on our way to the meeting place, and then... people from the country, it's okay to dress up and stand in the car to enjoy the scenery, right?"

Langdon pondered for a moment, and said: "It's a little dangerous but theoretically sound. However, if St. Panier is determined to capture you as a slave, he can do the same thing. So, just do it if you want. It’s better than nothing.”

Cecil immediately became interested when he heard it, and he took Langdon to talk for a long time about how to design the carriage, how to stand people, etc. When they reported this matter to Alanster, they got an unexpected answer.

Alanster's unparalleled handsome face was a little hazy: "Absolutely not!"

Cecil didn't expect the Elf King's refusal to be so decisive, he asked doubtfully, "May I ask the reason?"

"Let the elves stand on the carriage dressed up and then show up in public, isn't it equivalent to telling others that we are slaves?" Alanster seemed to be suppressing his anger, "We must not let others think that we are slaves Lenovo!"

Cecil understood now, but he didn't take it seriously: "You seem to have made a mistake. I didn't ask you to dress up, but we did."

Alanster and Serena who accompanied him were taken aback.

"You?" Alanster asked.

"Dress up? Floats? Fashion?" Serena asked three sentences in a row.

Cecil grinned: "Yes."

The four days of rest passed quickly, and the spies released by the merchants also returned to the team one after another, bringing back a piece of good news.

"Those people don't even know what paper is!"

"My goodness, they're still eating sawdust! I traded a stick of smoked beef for a Philosopher's Stone!"

"Hey, it's just a worthless interpreter's Philosopher's Stone!"

"But it's the Philosopher's Stone. Where can you exchange beef jerky for the Philosopher's Stone in the east?"

"Paper, soap, ink, carriages, seasonings, tea, tanned leather, wine, potatoes, oil lamps, I think there is really nothing in this ghostly place to the west. It's like the life of primitive people!"

"Others have magic!"

"Is magic affordable for ordinary people?! Can ordinary mages live as comfortably as we do? Not to mention anything else, can ordinary mages afford a magic carriage?"

"I heard that the headquarters of the magic four-wheeled carriage is in Luoxie. Shouldn't Luoxie be full of magic four-wheeled carriages?"

"Don't mention it, let me tell you, there are no ordinary carriages in other countries, but Luoxie has them. After all, it has a branch country in the east!"

"Luoxie is really treacherous, he doesn't bring other countries along to buy a carriage!"

"It is said that there are royal cavalry in the royal court of Luoxie."

"Isn't that the same as our king?"

"I heard that our king was originally a gay knight..."

"Shh - don't talk nonsense!"

"What are you afraid of? The central king has a good temper and never punishes him for such gossip."

"Hey, let's go east..."

"It should be the Central King."

Cecil must have eyes and ears to collect these information, and the people Langdon arranged are very suitable, and he is satisfied with this kind of feedback.When he called the merchants together to release the news about "floats", the first answer he got was: "What is a float?"

The distance from Bollinger to Maibei Valley is very short, and it only takes six days to walk an ordinary gravel road. Compared with the one-month journey between cities in the east, it is heaven—of course, this is the previous one. It’s all right. After the popularization of expressways, the journey between cities has been greatly shortened. What’s more, there are also fires on the expressway. Along the two sides of the highway, large and small villages and towns have “grown”, and the wild people have almost disappeared.

Maibei Valley is a real valley, but it is not a crater, but a narrow and steep mountain wall. The entrance is very narrow, almost only allowing two carriages to pass side by side. After more than ten meters, it suddenly opens up. Looking down from the air, it looks like a thin neck. like a bottle.

Looking at the carriages queuing up ahead, and looking at the hundreds of meters high cliffs on both sides, Cecil couldn't help but sigh that this is really a natural barrier, and the slaves have nowhere to escape if they want to escape.

"Is there an exit on the other side?" Cecil asked.

"Yes, it's just a cliff hanging ladder made locally." Langdon said, "There is a small village on the top, and there are people on duty. The hanging basket will only be lowered when you say hello."

"Then it's not beating the dog behind closed doors." Cecil muttered.

"This is almost the case in places that are naturally formed." Langdon laughed. "Now it's too late to look back, and we will take it as a loss."

"It's all here." Cecil gritted his teeth, "If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you catch a tiger's cub!"

Of course, the leader of the Green Bank Elf cannot be Serena, but because she was the first to contact Cecil, she also followed the team. When she parted, she hugged her parents and cried, as if she was on the battlefield. Cecil grinned.

Most of these green bank elves have an attitude of "I can't come back, you have to avenge me", they hug each other and cry non-stop, and some couples sing love songs to each other, let alone, it's really nice ...

The leader of the Green Bank Elf is a middle-aged man, said to be more than 300 years old. Of course, his face is still young and handsome. His silver hair is braided and hangs behind him. From the back, there is a slender and fragile temperament.

Cecil had to sigh with emotion, if the Green Bank elves were half as bold and bold as the Highgarden elves, they wouldn't be reduced to the present situation.

The person checking the checkpoint was wearing armor, with an ordinary face, and looked like an ordinary human being. However, it was this kind of person whose eyes lit up immediately after seeing the Green Bank Elf, whistled, and some people touched their crotch and made obscene movements. Extremely arrogant.

On the other hand, the Green Bank elves, although they all gnashed their teeth, avoided their sight, looking fearful.

Cecil sighed, and after the customs inspection, he said something to Guangshu on the carriage seat, and his carriage raised the signal flag, which had been agreed in advance.

Just as the inspector's obscenities reached their peak, suddenly a burst of high-pitched music sounded. Not only the inspector, but also the windows of the carriages waiting to enter the customs all poked their heads out, looking around curiously.

Cecil has been here for all these years, and it’s hard to get everyone to eat and drink. Of course, there must be some entertainment, drama is a must, football, basketball, volleyball, skiing, poker, mahjong, etc., all of which are indispensable , Naturally, musical instruments should also be brought over.

There are local stringed instruments, similar to the ukulele and the violin, and a small harp. The blowing music is a flute, which lacks patterns.Cecil did not hesitate to come up with the suona. He really knows how to play it. He learned it from others when he was working at sea, but he didn't understand the principle, so he dragged the theater troupe to do music research. It took a long time to get it out.

Since then, there has been another thing that disturbs people's dreams in the early morning of Yuecheng...

The man playing the suona was a black-skinned man with a strong body and an amazing lung capacity. First, there was a difficult turning sound, followed by a long sound that lasted for 1 minute. Then, a group of men and women turned out of the carriage, and climbed up without modification. Get on the driver's seat and the roof, it's convenient after modification, just stand on the cargo rail or the exposed flat panel and howl.

"Friends of St. Panier, how are you!"

"I'm Soap Bubbles from Tambunita, Bubbles soap is the most beautiful, Bubbles soap is the most fragrant, and Bubbles soap sticks are great!"

"Everyone come and have a look!" Another rough growl sounded, which overshadowed the suona's voice for a while, "This year's festivals are not given to festivals, but fragrant tea is given as a gift! Fragrant tea, tea is fragrant , I am the most fragrant in Gretley!"

Three times in a row, the magic sound penetrated the brain.

All kinds of languages ​​and howls sounded at the same time, like a group of demons dancing wildly, and all the inspectors were stunned.

Strangers who came to St. Panier, who didn't lower their heads, for fear of being seen by others?How can there be such a thing?And, what is it?Is this a sales pitch?

"Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooans!

No, is this singing?

Not only did they sing, but some men even began to take off their clothes while singing. The women in Tuhai, not to be outdone, began to take off their clothes while dancing.

I have to say that women in Tuhai are really strong. No matter what men do, they will do whatever they want. At the beginning, some men defecated freely, so they defecated everywhere. You women are so shameless." Cecil's "palace" was surrounded by Tuhai women for three days, asking him to come out and fight to decide who has the right to defecate anywhere... In the end, he scolded both men and women, and withdrew. He took over the position of steward and announced that no one has the right to defecate anywhere.

A group of half-naked men and women stood on the carriage and sang songs of howling ghosts and howling wolves passed the checkpoint of Maibei Valley. Such a "magnificent scene" is still talked about many years later.