As Neo expected, the townsfolk of Tulip Town arrived at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and most of them were exhausted.
Tulip Town is less than 10 kilometers away from here. It can be said that the journey is smooth. People normally walk 3-5 kilometers per hour. The townspeople actually walked for more than 6 hours. This speed can really be described as a snail's crawl.
"Come on, come on! Guys, line up and get food. There is soup, hot water and bread here. If you don't see those bonfires, sit around to keep warm and eat. Don't mess around..." The woman who shouted to greet everyone was the woman from Cropp.
The leader was Mirien. When the townspeople saw Mirien, who was dressed in smart clothes, they all took off their hats and saluted. Mirien didn't say anything, and smiled and nodded in return. She also had work in her hands, and many townspeople and women saw her.
Then they spontaneously joined the work, while the men were whispering, where are the men in Cropp? Why are there a bunch of women left busy socializing?
Cropp's men were quickly found. Most of them were working near the woods to the west, logging, and expanding the size of the village's blacksmith shop.
Although time is tight, it is relatively easy to add some low-temperature furnaces and heating furnaces. In addition, almost all of Cropp's iron materials are concentrated here, and even the iron parts in some households have been dismantled and melted to be used to build several buildings.
These iron parts are the samples drawn by Neo. Woodrow, the blacksmith in Cropp, has average skills. He is currently responsible for rough machining and making embryonic shapes.
"Hey? Why didn't you see Neo?" When McCann saw Ebt, he asked the militiamen in the town. He was familiar with the guards of the Mammeris family, and he didn't talk to anyone outside.
"I'm going to Team Gale, and I'll make some traps and other arrangements with Tulip Town by the way."
"Team Hayate?"
Ebut smiled slightly, "Rest, rest, Neo is not here, you are our master blacksmith!"
"Yeah, no problem, I will follow Lord Mamores wholeheartedly!" McCann said, patting his chest.
Abbot nodded and corrected: "Master Difu is now the leader"...
at the same time
Neo is in Tulip Town. One of the main items he collects are iron tools, arrow clusters, spears, swords, armor, and vehicle locking fasteners, all of which are made of iron. He launches a plan for the entire Tulip Town.
Search, with his strength, there is no problem in breaking beams and taking out pillars. Of course, in fact, there is no need to do that. The townspeople are not luxurious enough to use iron to make beams and pillars, even if Erdrit is known as the "Hometown of Black Iron"
After searching the entire town, we found a lot, including two large carts, mostly made of black iron, which can be used as the base material for snake oil after being smelted. As for destroying houses in order to collect materials, Neo didn't care at all. If it wasn't
Time didn't allow him, he wished he could bring down this town, it would be better than falling into the hands of barbaric aliens.
Neo didn't even want to let go of the small square mine, let alone let him see some iron tools. Neo decided to dismantle it from the inside upside down to avoid the danger of collapse of the mine tunnel.
The lighting in the mine tunnel has long been removed, but the darkness is not a big obstacle to Neo. Dark vision of more than 10 meters is basically enough in the narrow mine tunnel.
"Huh?" A very thin white light attracted Neo's attention. This is the innermost layer of the underground excavation site. However, the white light did not come from somewhere in the excavation site, but from Neo himself.
Neo took out a small bag from his waist. The white light came from here and was still clear through the bag.
Before coming to Tulip Town, Neo first went to the Hidden Soldier Valley, where he dropped off some small odds and ends looted from the minions of darkness. Neo's plan was short of money, so he could pick out some valuable items from those small odds and ends.
object, so Neo didn’t hesitate to make this trip
The glowing thing is a round metal projectile, with a hole slightly larger than the nose of the needle at one end, and the light comes from there.
"Why is it glowing? Is it always glowing or is it glowing now?" Neo felt strange. Then, Neo discovered that the light was projected directly on the wall, and it turned out to be a string of characters.
"Source numbers?!" Although Neo dare not say that he is well-read, he has also learned a lot of miscellaneous knowledge. The characters in front of him are part of the divine characters. They are very difficult to pronounce. What are they called Arabic numerals? It is said that the modern number system
They were born from it, but Neo didn't know what they represented. That was the exclusive domain of those veterans of the Holy See who specialized in inheriting the divine culture.
Beep beep!
If it hadn't been quiet enough here and Neo's ears were good enough, he wouldn't have heard the sound at all
"What noise?" Neo was confused. The sound rang for a moment and then disappeared. He didn't think about it again after a long time, but he was very sure that he really heard it.
"What did you do just now?" Neo recalled his subconscious actions just now, and pointed the light at a certain part of the wall.
Beep beep!
Now Neo found the source, in the soil
He picked up an iron bar and broke through the soil. He dug many meters deep without seeing anything, but the sound became clearer and clearer. He continued to dig, and after more than two meters, an object appeared. It was a crystalline stone wall, something similar to Neo's last visit.
At that time, I had seen it in the earth hall where the objects were put together, but the texture of the one in front of me was obviously better, smooth, clear, and hard. Just by feeling, Neo knew that even his blue steel sword might not be the same.
Can cause scratches on this thing
"Damn, now at least we know the true purpose of the minions of darkness to come to Tures. They are digging for miracles!" Neo continued to dig at the soil, knowing very well that once these things are obtained by the dark forces,
And research and analysis will definitely make them become more tyrannical and terrifying. This kind of thing is definitely something that the creatures in the Emerald Continent do not want to see.
"Beast! Abandon faith, betray the Lord of God..." In Neo's simple concept, the reason why the minions of darkness were able to find these relics was naturally due to their master, the devil, and the devil's top leaders were once firm believers of the Lord of God.
Including their lives, they were all created by God. It is because they are closest to God that they know many of God’s secrets.
And the object was dug out, rectangular, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, Neo frowned, "This... looks like a coffin used by the vampires, but it is obviously a very old style, with a curved lid instead of a flat lid...
"
Neo saw a flash of light, coming from inside the coffin-like object, with a fixed frequency, which was the source of the beeping sound.
Try to compare the light of the metal marble with the flash point. A side of light flows on the surface of the 'coffin'. After cleaning, the whole picture is presented in front of Neo. Then the front, curved coffin surface disappears and becomes a coffin without a coffin lid.
"The energy healing cabin was activated, the identity verification biometric scan failed, and the self-destruction program was entered..."
Neo stood there in a daze, there was no one here, but he heard a clear and soft female voice with a beautiful bubbling voice, but he didn't know what to say, "What language is this and what does it mean?"
"The self-destruction program counts down for 10 seconds, detects nearby energy sources, and determines, 1, intelligent growth point crystal fragments 2, wind, fire, water and earth crystal third-level product 3, special user Zhang Fang's attribute energy, the content is weak..."
Neo scratched his head. He thought this 'coffin' was telling some story, like the 'magic mouth' left by the wizards, telling those who came after what happened here and what it was, or maybe it was simply a wizard.
The message left to future generations is an ancient saying from which country and era is this? It’s purely a book from heaven.
"...confirmed compliance with the seventh set of existence plans, ingestion of third-level crystals, setting to special user energy imprint activation, combination of intelligent growth point crystal fragments, countdown to folding program, 5, 4, 3,..."
When Neo heard the words appearing word by word, he instinctively thought of the counting of this era, "Hazhu (1), Nugai (2), Tired (3), Sabai (4)..." This
It made him realize that something bad was about to happen, but when he was about to leave, it was already too late. A ray of light shot out from the coffin, melting the leather jacket between his chest and abdomen, and then the
The thin metal box he was carrying, obtained from Demon Transformer Yaheng, lit up in the light with intricate patterns of divine magic patterns. Then it turned into many small squares and began to fold, eventually shrinking into a cross bracket. At the top of the bracket, each
There is a bright crystal the size of the belly of your little finger stuck in it. They are gold, silver, red, and blue. They are all very bright in color and have a liquid flowing feel.
Then, along with the bracket, this treasure was confiscated by the ‘coffin’
"Ah!" Neo felt a stinging pain in his chest and neck. He pulled open his collar and saw that his mother's moonlight pendant had melted, leaving a crescent-like birthmark between his collarbones.
Before Neo could figure out what was going on, he saw a flash of light in front of his eyes, and then his head hurt as if it had been exploded, and he fainted.
When he woke up again, Neo didn't know what time it was. The surroundings were empty, and he didn't know where the 'coffin' had gone. But Neo couldn't care about it now. He first checked his body and found that everything was fine, and then he was worried.
I was unconscious for too long and ran out in a hurry
After leaving the mine tunnel and looking at the sky, I realized that he had only fainted for a short time. He looked at the holes in the chest and abdomen of the leather jacket, then looked at the metal bead in his hand, and touched his neck. The pendant was gone, and I felt annoyed.
, that is the only relic of his mother, and in the past, his transformation was inspired by the energy of the moon, otherwise he could only transform into a werewolf under the moon.
"Now that's good! Let your little boy be so curious and dare to stand there in a daze when faced with miracles... Leave a souvenir as a warning, otherwise you won't know how you will die next time!" Neo complained!
He told himself a few words, used the metal bead as a pendant, and stuck it into the original pendant card slot...
After such a blow, the work of collecting iron materials was ended ahead of schedule. Neo went straight to the Mammeris family's house. Valuable items were all his targets this time. Moreover, Lord Mamores did have a man.
After confirming the location of the small vault, Miriam and Deev vaguely guessed its approximate location. It was in Xavier's study on ordinary days. Of course it was difficult to find, but Neo was a typical demolition worker today, with no taboos and a violent meal.
After searching, I found the small treasury, along with the gold seal of the Mamores family, as well as noble gold scrolls, genealogy parchment scrolls, bank notes, a large bag of gold coins and some gems, all here.
"Wow!" Neo shrugged his eyebrows. The Mamores family's finances were much richer than he estimated. Obviously, Xavier was at least a successful businessman.
When Neo returned to Cropp with a small convoy, the villagers of Cropp and the townspeople from Tulip Town had just witnessed the bloody scene of Dave Mamores, who had been famous since he was a child.
Heir to the title, he personally slaughtered 6 soldiers, including Zachary, in front of everyone.
The word 'slaughter' is really appropriate, just like slaughtering a pig. Despite the soldiers and bandits begging loudly, even crying with tears, and being frightened to the point of incontinence, Difu still cut his throat and bled, and in the end the dead were burned to ashes.
Blood was spilled in the northeast, where there was the small village where the soldiers and bandits first caused harm. They looted and killed people there.
Even if he was spared from death, he would still be punished with a whip, right on his back, the skin would be ripped open, his clothes would be soaked with blood, and he would be punished in public with howling ghosts and wolves. This time, he punished the enemy in public, which made many people feel scared. Everyone realized that the heir to the title
Although he is young, he is more severe and cruel than Lord Mamores...
"In troubled times, heavy rules are used! My father told me more than once that Turres is the fiefdom of the Mamores family, but it is also our home. Everyone who lives on this land is a family. Anyone who insults our family can
Guy, the Mammeris family has sworn to be incompatible with him. In addition, anyone who obstructs our eastward migration and refuge will be severely punished!"
People listened carefully to what Diff said, and most people heard the implication: if you don't cooperate, you are obstructing and destroying the eastward migration of all of us, and you are likely to be severely punished!
"Neo!"
"Neo! What's going on outside?"
"What are you bringing these things back for?"
Many people greeted Neo when they saw him come back. Some information always circulates among the people very quickly. In addition, with the addition of Diff and Abbot, everyone was aware of the existence of the Windrush Team.
"Team Gale will be ahead of us. Don't worry, we will be notified if there is any situation..." As usual, you can always get reassuring news from Neo. This may be why Neo is so popular.
A reason that even the townspeople themselves are not fully aware of
Not long after Diff's performance ended, Ebut appeared on the stage, summoned the militia, and then assigned work. Tonight, all the current population of 716 people in Tures Territory must live here, and there is a lot of work to be done, including armed
Get up, establishing the Self-Defense Force is the first priority
In the enlarged blacksmith shed, Neo saw Root. This hero was not proficient in the blacksmith's craft, but he was very strong and had good control. With a little guidance, he was a good helper with a sledgehammer, and with his approachable personality
With his good attitude and good eloquence, he gets along very well with everyone. Many people already call him by his first name.
Seeing Neo, Zhagen really wanted to go up and talk. He was not in a hurry to find out the situation of the Gale Team, let alone fan the flames and incite the people at this time. He just wanted to get to know Neo through conversation. Unfortunately, Neo
He just said hello, said a few pleasantries, and left in a hurry
It's not that Neo is arrogant or suspicious of Zagen. He still has a very good impression of Zagen at the moment. He feels that this person can indeed be called a 'hero'. It's just that Neo is too busy and can't spare the time to chat.
Dave was surprised when he saw the money Neo brought back at first, but then he felt sorry for the money. This was the result of the Mammeris family's hard work. It won't be long before most of it will be dispersed!
Neo said in a deep voice: "If you have no money, you can make more money. If you miss this opportunity, even if you think about it, it will be difficult to buy the hearts of the people easily!"
"Will people hate us because of this?"
"I think there will be some people who don't understand it at the beginning, but these are temporary. When comparisons appear, the discordant voices will disappear..."