Chapter 18 Firefox Chamber of Commerce

Walking on the street, Sunan was surprised to find that there were obviously more people in the city, and it was much more lively than before.

Many of them wore leather armor and carried weapons with them, looking tough.

Noticing Sunan's gaze, Keyi smiled and explained: "After the Black Stone Mine was restarted, many caravans heard the news and rushed over. Many of these people were caravan members and accompanying mercenaries."

Sunan suddenly realized.

The prosperity of a city often starts with the prosperity of business.

As long as the Black Stone Mine continues to develop, it will take a few years for Black Stone City to become one of the top cities in Jinyan Province.

Walking, Sunan saw a simple shed area built with wooden sheds.

More than a dozen people were busy inside, some cooking porridge, and some distributing porridge.

A group of ragged, sallow and thin people lined up in front of the shed area, staring at the porridge shed, their throats kept moving, and their faces were impatient.

But under the warning eyes of the surrounding soldiers, they could only wait in line obediently.

"Who are those people?" Sunan looked at Keyi.

"They are refugees from Jinghua Principality in the west. There is a war going on there, and many civilians are displaced. I sent people to meet them and prepare to absorb these people into the city."

Sunan was thoughtful after hearing this.

In addition to income, population is also a very important factor for the prosperity of a city.

Black Stone City is located on the border, and the population is not large. Even the army has only more than 500 people.

This is a congenital deficiency.

If this problem is not solved, Black Stone City will never grow, and the cavalry regiment will not be formed.

And absorbing refugees is undoubtedly an excellent measure to solve the problem.

Especially the refugees who can survive the long journey are mostly young men and women with good physical fitness.

After joining the territory, they can immediately become labor force after a few days of recuperation.

Young and middle-aged people can directly join the army to strengthen the military strength of Black Stone City.

"Before the arrival of this winter, I plan to take the initiative to attack the Black Scaled Lizard Tribe in the Red Horn Wilderness."

Keyi continued with a bright look.

"Moving the battlefield to the Red Horn Wilderness will save Black Stone City from the flames of war."

Sunan nodded in understanding.

Although Key didn't say it, both of them knew the more important reason.

By getting more blood from the Black Scaled Lizardmen, Black Stone City can train more knights.

The two then talked about what happened in the Golden Rock Province recently.

Sunan couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard that the Storm Earl was attacked and seriously injured and unconscious.

The Storm Earl himself is a great knight and a powerful lord, and the guards around him must be very strict.

Under such circumstances, the assassin was able to severely injure the Storm Earl.

What is the origin of the Spark Cult?

Seeing Sunan's doubts, Key explained: "The Spark Cult is a mysterious sect that appeared more than ten years ago. It has developed very quickly. In just three or four years, it has grown into a sect with power all over the principality. They act very secretly and their sect's purpose is unclear. It is said that they have colluded with many nobles in private, but they have done a lot of assassinations of nobles. It is very strange."

The more Sunan listened, the more he felt something was wrong.

Could it be that there is a wizard (apprentice) behind the Spark Church with this kind of development trajectory?

Sunan recalled, but he didn't have much impression of the Spark Church in his memory.

After all, when he came into contact with the game in his previous life, it was already version 2.0.

He basically didn't understand version 1.0 unless it was something very important related to wizards.

While thinking, there was a sudden noise in front of him.

It turned out that the two of them turned the corner and had come to the vicinity of the tavern.

The door of the tavern was open, and there was a noisy and lively sound from inside, as if many people were shouting loudly.

When he walked in, he found that someone was competing in drinking.

Two burly men sat on both sides of the round table, desperately pouring wine into their mouths.

While pouring, they cast provocative eyes at their opponents.

There were more than a dozen tall and strong men around, cheering happily, and bursting into cheers from time to time.

Sunan's eyes swept across the crowd and fell on one of the men who was competing in drinking.

The man was about 25 or 26 years old, with a rough face and lush body hair. His exposed arms, open chest and most of his face were covered with hair. His eyes were amber in color, not like human eyes, but like the pupils of wild beasts.

"Beastman."

Su Nan's expression moved, and he blurted out subconsciously.

Beastmen were originally the product of wizard experiments.

Most of them are bloodthirsty and cruel, and extremely aggressive.

Once they are stimulated by some external factors, it is easy to lose control of their bloodthirsty instincts, transform into beasts and attack all living creatures they can see like crazy.

In ancient times, the earliest beastmen had caused the [Beast Disaster], causing a large number of casualties, and were not suppressed until later by wizards.

However, after many years of reproduction and weakening of blood, the later beastmen have improved a lot, and can basically control their beast abilities.

Beastmen cannot practice breathing methods, but their physical fitness is far superior to that of ordinary people.

Adult beastmen have the strength of trainee knights.

Some beastmen with the blood of wild beasts can even have the strength comparable to that of knights after hard training.

However, compared with their strong physique, the life span and reproductive ability of beastmen are much worse than those of normal humans.

Today, it is rare to see beastmen on the continent.

Even if there are, most of them live in the territory of the Cangjin Empire.

Sunan didn't expect to see a descendant of a beastman here.

"Few people can tell Ota's origins at a glance. You are really knowledgeable."

A voice suddenly came from his ear.

Sunan turned his head and saw a tall man in his forties walking towards him with a smile.

He was wearing a red fox fur coat that looked very expensive.

"Lord, long time no see."

Walking closer, the man first saluted to Keyi, and then looked at Sunan.

"What's your name?"

"Sunan."

Sunan nodded slightly at the other party. He had guessed his identity.

"This is my younger brother." Keyi introduced, and then introduced the man's identity to Sunan, "This is Muzhuo Ismail, the owner of the Firefox Chamber of Commerce."

"Sir Sunan, nice to meet you."

Muzhuo shook hands with Sunan with a smile on his face, but he was secretly confused in his heart.

According to the information obtained, the second young master of the Shining Family is a loner. His favorite thing to do is to lock himself in the room and tinker with strange things. He rarely goes out. Such a person should not have seen much. It is reasonable that he should not be able to tell the identity of Ota Beastman at a glance.

Moreover, the information also said that Su Nan did not have the qualifications of a knight, and he had not yet mastered the breathing method. His physique was weaker than that of ordinary people.

But looking at Su Nan in front of him, he had an upright posture, bright eyes, and a full spirit. How could he look thin and weak at all?

What do those people who are responsible for collecting intelligence do for a living?

They can't even do a small thing well!

Mu Zhuo frowned secretly and made up his mind to scold those people when he returned.

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