The Survival Rules of NPCs

Chapter 12: The Prosecutor's Scheme!

"I can't read the contents of the letter..." Dog Egg looked regretful as he held the letter when he came back to life.

Bright, meanwhile, was wondering how to explain Dog Egg's next appearance before the Minister of the Interior: triplets?

"The right to seal the border means that opening it will be immediately detected. The privileges of the nobility are really useful." Gou Dan sighed, "I wish I could become a nobleman."

"You want to become a nobleman?" Bright asked, picking up the envelope with some curiosity.

"Who wouldn't want that?" Gou Dan crossed his legs casually. Even a baron from the countryside could have his own castle, and the seal of authority in his hand could decide the lives of thousands of people. His children and descendants could at least be arranged, right?

"You want to have children and descendants?" Brett was somewhat stunned.

"Can't I have children?" Gou Dan immediately looked offended. "I'm not bad-looking, am I? Why can't I have children?"

Bright: "........"

Isn't your appearance just a character creation? Aren't all players roughly the same age? And players can even have children and offspring? Is this game really that humane?

Wait a minute... Now that I think about it, were there any games this intelligent on the market when I was just a wage earner in my previous life?

Are these players from the future... or...?

Bright suddenly had a thought: could these players also be from another time?

"The price with the Minister of the Interior has already been finalized and can't be changed, but how should I ask the Lady of the City for a price?"

"You can be as bold as you want," Bright hinted. "The city lord's family should all be infected. You'll be saving more than one person, but be careful. Latest intelligence indicates that the doctor in Holy Stone City has been taken into custody. The Heart of the Forest will take control of all the nobles next. We don't have much time left."

Dog Egg was taken aback. Mr. Bright's intelligence was still as explosive as ever, but he couldn't help but ask curiously, "Sir, why don't you report the cult? The Rhine Empire offers very high rewards for this kind of thing."

"You can give it a try..." Bright laughed.

Labor and management don't have a second life, so how could they dare to get deeply involved in an event of this magnitude?

After thinking for a moment, Gou Dan finally said, "I originally wanted to ask the city lord's wife for a recommendation, but now it seems I can only ask for some money."

"Recommendations? What kind of recommendations do you want?" Bright asked, somewhat curious.

"Of course, it's a recommendation from an imperial civil servant."

Bright: "........"

"What kind of civil servant do you, an assassin, want to be?"

"Isn't this occupational discrimination, Mr. Bright?" Dog Egg said with a dissatisfied look: "Why can't an assassin be a civil servant? Doesn't the Empire have an intelligence agency? Whether it's being a spy or an intelligence team member, I'm quite suitable."

Intelligence agency?

Brett straightened up immediately. As someone from the bottom of society, this was the first time he had ever heard of such a thing, but it sounded perfect for him.

What could be more suitable for someone with such a golden touch than this organization?

"Wow... you can get in just by a recommendation?"

"Of course, that's not all." Gou Dan shook his head. "However, with a noble's recommendation, one can participate in the Imperial System training and have a chance to enter. Mr. Bright, aren't you aware of that?"

"Ah...cough...I know a little bit," Bright chuckled. "You mean, if the city lord's family gets controlled by a cult later, it might implicate you, who was recommended?"

"Sigh..." Gou Dan shrugged. "I didn't expect it to be so hard to become a civil servant in this world. I'll just have to take it one step at a time."

Bright lowered his head. As he headed to a new place, his profession as a corpse collector might disappear. After all, his profession came from the city's sovereign seal. He hadn't cared before; who would do something like burning corpses if they had money?

But now that he has the opportunity to become an extraordinary being, he is still reluctant to leave. After all, he is going to a new place where he is unfamiliar with the people and the land. As a refugee without any identity, he may not be able to buy a good job with money. Without the protection of identity, he may not be able to keep all that money he has on him.

But staying is too risky...

"You can give it a try. The fate of this city is still uncertain. Wait until you come back before deciding whether to go all out!"

"Oh, oh!" Dog Egg immediately became excited. That's more like it, Mr. Bright!

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"Uncle...I've disgraced you." Will lay on the bed, his face covered in bandages.

That infiltrator was ruthless; not only did he completely break his nose, but he also lost half of his teeth. What's worse, he was an assassin. What a disgrace!

"It's not shameful..." Lady sat down beside him, her tone unusually gentle: "That assassin was quite skilled. Without extraordinary power, neither I nor the Knight Commander would have been a match for her at the entire banquet."

"That's amazing? How old is she?" Will was somewhat shocked.

That female assassin looks... no more than sixteen years old, right?

"She has excellent talent, but so what?" Lady sneered. "In this world, there is no noble bloodline. No matter how good your talent is, you're just a tool for the nobility. Why is she just an assassin, while I'm the prosecutor in Holy Stone City who can supervise the city lord? And why is Orland, with mediocre talent, able to become a city's knight commander before the age of thirty?"

"The ranks of nobility are not so easily broken. No matter how good her talent was, she could only become a expendable resource and die. But you and my child, you have the noble blood of the Claire family in your veins. Soon you will possess an extraordinary ability and embark on the path of nobility. In ten years at most, you will become a knight commander in a region. Do you understand?"

"I understand, Uncle." Will felt much better immediately. Yes, what good is talent? It still dies like trash. Without noble blood, one can hardly move an inch in this world.

"I just received news that they've succeeded." Lady looked out the window at the exquisite gardens of her villa and smiled. "It seems this suddenly appearing sect has developed very quickly, managing to control the families of hundreds of warriors so quickly."

"Uncle..." Will asked with a worried expression, "Why...why should we cooperate with something like that?"

This was a question that had been weighing on his mind for a long time. The Rhine Empire believed in the Sun Cult, which sought to purify all heretics and was the most extreme of all cults in its opposition to evil. Once their actions were discovered... the Claire family would likely face annihilation!

"You're young..." Lady's tone remained gentle. She wasn't annoyed at Will's sudden question; instead, she patiently replied, "The world isn't as black and white as you think, and Holy Stone City isn't as simple as you believe. Do you know how Holy Stone City was able to rise to prominence in such a short time?"

"I heard... it was Lord Allen who discovered the black tin vein in the forest."

"That forest is worth far more than that," Lady said in a low voice, looking north. "The Imperial high command has long been aware of this, but according to Imperial law, Holy Stone City belongs to Lord Mirandil. That old bastard Allen has been hiding the forest's value, thus giving the Empire an opportunity. As long as we rightfully reclaim the city, the forest's value belongs to the Imperial Central Government, not to be split 30/70 with Lord Mirandil according to the constitution. Understand?"

Will became excited upon hearing this: "So... Uncle has always been loyal to the Empire?"

"Of course I'm loyal to the Empire!" Lady laughed. "Our Claire family is a long-established family of prosecutors, with interests closely tied to the Empire's central leadership. Helping the Empire take this city is out of loyalty, and also for the sake of the family!"

"I understand..." Will struggled to sit up. "So you wanted to find the letter Allen sent out yesterday?"

"Allen is the one who knows the value of that forest best. He seems like a kind old man, but his selfishness is greater than anyone else's. He's always plotted to use his achievements to make the Wood family the ruling family of Holy Stone City. Now, taking advantage of the city lord's assassination, I'm using my prosecutor's authority to supervise everyone and put pressure on him. I want to see who's behind him. If it's just his personal selfishness, then taking advantage of this cult chaos, I will completely eliminate all the nobles of Holy Stone City!"

That's it!

Will suddenly understood. No wonder his uncle would risk cooperating with that cult. As long as the nobles were controlled, his uncle could apply for support. All the nobles of Holy Stone City were on the purification list. As the prosecutor here, his uncle was the best candidate to be the city lord in order to temporarily stabilize the order here. The empire would also appoint such a trustworthy prosecutor as the city lord in order to control the forest!

With such a large cult rebellion occurring within the territory, and all the nobles becoming cult members, the lord of Mirandil is undoubtedly to blame. The empire can not only reclaim the Holy Stone City territory but also hold Mirandil accountable, achieving multiple goals at once!

"The reason I haven't sent you to your post is because you are my most handsome junior member of the family. I need you to stay here and help me. When I become the new city lord, I will make you the youngest knight commander as quickly as possible!"

"Yes!" Will's eyes welled up with tears. In this family, only he had never looked down on him. When his father abandoned him, it was he who picked him up. From childhood to adulthood, his uncle had devoted himself to raising him.

He believed in his uncle's arrangements for him and believed that his uncle would win in the end this time, after all, he had the will of the empire behind him!

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"Madam, everything is packed. Are we... really leaving?" Knight Peter (name changed) asked respectfully.

"Wouldn't it be better to go back? Haven't you always been against me marrying into the Rhine?" Eliza said with a weak smile.

"I have always supported your decision to return, Madam, but I thought you would be reluctant to leave."

"I can't bear to part with it, but there's nothing I can do..." Eliza sighed and glanced at the city lord's manor. She didn't dare to step into it easily now. After all, she had finally obtained the antidote, and she didn't want to face that terrible virus again.

"There is clearly a huge conspiracy behind this. We have no foothold here and no intelligence. We are like lambs to the slaughter. If Martin cannot be saved, we may even be dragged down. Leaving now is the only chance to get out of trouble."

"Alright... I'll get right away..." The knight had just turned around when he saw a small, thin figure standing opposite him. He immediately tensed up and drew his sword: "Who are you?"

The city lord's manor is currently under strict lockdown; anyone approaching requires multiple layers of notification. It's truly terrifying that this unfamiliar face could infiltrate this location so silently. Even more bizarrely, the face seems familiar... isn't this...?

"It's you?" Eliza was also surprised. She had seen him slit his throat and die, and she had also heard that he had been dismembered into a pile of body parts by the corpse collectors!

"Is the city lord's wife trying to run away without paying her debts?" Gou Dan looked at the packed luggage behind her and couldn't help but think to himself: Luckily, I arrived at this family first, otherwise they would have disappeared without a trace.

"Who are you? Who's behind you?" Eliza asked, taking a deep breath.

"My master asked me to ask you a question," Gou Dan said quietly, "Are you... really going to give up the position of the city lord's wife so easily?"