above the sky

Chapter 628

The mountain people's rebellion had already been foreshadowed.

It is different from the Sequoia natives who think that the empire is nothing more than a big tribe, and the struggle between the two sides is essentially an inter-tribal conquest.

Because of the large number of mountain people, there was a past when they were united under the belief of the dragon god, so there has always been a call for 'independent founding of the country'.

This part of the mountain people believes that the proud people of the Dragon God should never become vassals of the empire. Even if they cannot be independent, they should build a large mountain people autonomous region similar to the frozen fortress group, with the strongest of the mountain people as the leader.

They refused to pay taxes to the empire, lived scattered among the forests of the Baisen Mountains, followed ancient traditions, and lived an independent life.

Because the area where they live is poor, the empire has never been interested in eradicating them. Even if there are occasional good things, it is nothing more than relying on the channels of the autonomous region and several colonies to use food, salt, iron and various tools to communicate with these rebellious mountain people. trade.

The most important thing is that the empire deprived the mountain people of the inheritance of the third or even the fourth energy level. The rebellious mountain people have always existed, but they have no corresponding power foundation to change anything.

In contrast, although the empire deprived the mountain people of their inheritance of the third and fourth energy levels, it did not discriminate against the mountain people.

In the Cangyun Knights, there is even a mountain knight of the third level as the law enforcement officer, with a very high status.

But the self-identity of this mountain people is "the mountain people under the rule of the empire", not the people of Baisen Dragon God.

This is not surprising.After all, Baisen Dragon God has been away for too long, no matter how strong the ancient beliefs are, they will fade away, and eventually become myths and legends, one story after another.

Many people have already seen this.

Elder Manya is one of them.

Although it sounds a bit strange, Ian can tell from his conversation with Elder Manya that although this old mountain man talks about the belief in the dragon god, he actually pursues power more.

He believes that the empire is a more advanced form of civilization, and it is okay to join the other party. He wants to recover the Book of Silver Glory, in essence, he wants to obtain the true blood inheritance that is not restricted by the empire. Branch tribe, get more benefits from the hands of Dragon Worship.

Of course, Ian also believes that the elder Manya has the idea of ​​"borrowing the book of Yinyao to make the mountain people" in his heart.He wanted to unite the now divided mountain tribes under the light of Dragon God's orthodoxy.

But this is not the same as the purpose of the rebellious mountain people's independent founding of the country.

The purpose of Elder Manya is to gather the mountain people, become one of the important political forces in Nanling, and then influence Nanling's political decision-making.

Therefore, it is definitely not the group of mountain people of Elder Manya who rebelled, Ian can be sure of this.

But in this way, how did the rebellious mountain people who have neither the third energy level nor sufficient resources and organizational strength make the situation in Nanling so corrupt?

"It's Flame Land."

Captain Piman answered Ian's doubts with a determined face: "Flying Flame gave those rebellious mountain people resources and weapons. They even have alchemy cannons and skilled musketeers. The militias in the autonomous region are not opponents at all. Only then can all spirits know how long they have been planning."

This is the same as the way to support the Sequoia natives.

Ian remembered the gun-wielding natives he had killed around Port Harrison. He nodded and said, "The timing of the incident was also ingenious. The general and Captain Cang Yun are both going to the imperial capital. There has never been a reminder of this before. There must be traitors in the Governor's Palace."

"Excellent advice, sir!" Piman said with admiration, "The colonel also said so, so we are chasing various clues!"

The colonel refers to the son of the Marquis of Barton Henriel, Mayova Henriel, the deputy commander of the [-]th Army, who presided over matters related to Nanling after the Marquis of Barton went to the imperial capital.

"Following up the duty to make cakes, the father died at the hands of Fei Yanren's master?" Ian glanced at him, and said calmly: "This is not your job, and don't be too high-level. Other patrol knights Woolen cloth?"

"This..." Piman obviously couldn't answer this question. How could he know the movements of the other patrolling knights?
Ian believes that this has something to do with the fact that the rebellious mountain people dared to rebel - without a fourth energy level, even with the support of Feiyan and the provision of weapons and equipment, those rebellious mountain people would definitely not be able to stop the attack of the Marquis of Barton. The attack of the knights and patrol knights.

Not to mention that the Dragon Worship Cult in Nanling is still an ally of the empire, and the King of the Mountain also hates Feiyan to the bone because of Xiou's incident.

"Take me to the Governor's Mansion."

Thoughts flashed in his heart, Ian raised his head and signaled the guard knights to leave the place: "I have something to report to the colonel."

Since there were instructions from superiors, of course Piman would not insist on pestering the manager of the pastry shop—it was originally the task of the superiors, and they followed the instructions to follow up, and it was just a matter of business.

The manager of the pastry shop looked in shock at the scene where the team of guard knights obediently led the team away under Ian's scolding. He actually knew that his raw material channels were a bit magical, but he never thought that this would be the same as the spies from Feiyandi. Get involved.

But this is actually the norm in Nanling.The elusive spies and insiders of the flying flames have greatly disrupted the normal production and work in the surrounding areas of Nauman City. Although it sounds a little ridiculous, they will really destroy the waterwheel mill, castrate the bull, dig the canal, and destroy the important plantation area. Pour salt on the ground.

As for shaking egg yolks, chopping earthworms vertically, and slapping passing children... of course they would not do such things, but they have basically become standard features in folk stories.

"Why is there no news of the mountain people's rebellion in the imperial capital? I didn't even hear it in the golden field."

Ian asked on the way to the Governor's Mansion. He didn't intend to get an answer. After all, for guard knights like Piman, they don't know if they don't know. Anyway, they only follow the instructions from above.

Who knew that the knight actually had the answer: "Of course it's because of the big meeting. Sir, you are still young and very talented, so you probably don't know these tricks?"

"How could it be possible to report this kind of news to the outside world and above during the meeting in the imperial capital, not to mention that it didn't affect the agate stone plain, so it's not a big deal."

"When the general comes back, these things will stop."

——This is also...too realistic.

Blinking his eyes, Ian felt an overly realistic absurdity in his heart—I didn't expect Terra to have a tradition of doing nothing during the national convention, and the mountain people's rebellion could be concealed?

It is not a big deal if there is no problem around the agate stone plain... Who came up with the idea?

Ian didn't want to know the answer to that question.

Piman and other knights led the way, and the group entered Nauman City without hindrance.

With Ian's identity and reputation, some people in Nauman City knew him.

In particular, the Marquis of Barton would occasionally mention Ian. Everyone knew that there was a promising alchemist of the White People under the Marquis of Barton, who even made him join the Patrol Knights at a young age of less than 20 years old.

Now that the sky is dark, there are more pedestrians on the street. Now that food is more expensive and the price of wine is also rising, the streets of Nauman City have many more seafood stalls, mainly shell fish, occupying the market. It is difficult for Nauman City to be expensive, and it can be regarded as filling the vacancy in today's market.

There are quite a few knights patrolling the streets, and their armors are also extremely elite, using a laminated armor design. Ian even saw two armors at the bridge guard in the upper city, both of which were brand new.

Obviously, the full-scale confrontation with Feiyandi put a lot of pressure on Nanling, and Nauman City almost took out all the equipment at the bottom of the box.

All the way to the Governor's Mansion, Piman and others resigned, and they did not have the authority to enter it.

Ian waited for the gate guard to pass the news to the governor's mansion, and the officer guarding the gate couldn't help showing a look of surprise when he saw that the inspector knight in the summons was such a handsome young man from the Bai people.

"Please wait."

After confirming Ian's Inspector Knight Medal and the Letter of Appointment of Lord Baton and His Royal Highness Mikael, he respectfully said: "I will report now."

A few minutes later, Ian received a reply: "Please come in, the Colonel is waiting for you."

After all, I have been here once, and there is a map in the silver chip, so when Ian was led to the governor's office, Ian still had time to observe some people in the governor's mansion.

Unlike when the Marquis of Barton was there, the Governor's Mansion now does not have more than a dozen people monitoring each area from various angles, and even the number of knights is not many, and the manpower is extremely empty.

Just looking at it like this, Ian saw a bright red target in the office area on the first floor, representing hostility.

"Huh."

Ian thought to himself: "The spy is working in the Governor's Mansion so blatantly? He is really not afraid of death, and without the Marquis of Barton and his group of elite knights, what is left is rotten fish and shrimp, so obvious Can't even find the target?"

This is one of the reasons why he wants to come to the Governor's Mansion.After Ian speculated that there were spies inside the Governor's Mansion, he planned to use his psychic power to see if he could find some clues, but he didn't think about it. He just opened his eyes and found it directly. It was as easy as bending over to pick up money.

That's what I said, but other people don't have a vision horizon, so who can hide from the prophet?But Ian took a closer look and found the clue: "Wait... Isn't this a flesh-and-blood shapeshifter?"

"It turned out that it parasitized an employee? It seems that I misunderstood the governor's mansion. This monster has a very strong ability to disguise and replace. I didn't expect Feiyandi to use it now."

The flesh-and-blood shapeshifter was a monster Ian encountered in the space maze of Avakland. With its extremely powerful parasitic ability, it killed two members of the Huaiguang Rescue Team.

This kind of shapeshifter can read the brain memory of a low-level sublimator, and then simulate it perfectly, without any shortcomings except for the abnormal weight.

Ian made up his mind to tell Colonel Mayova this question when he met with him later.

It seems that Feiyandi has not gained anything in the Avak Territory. Some of the materials may have been sent back before the birth of the Dead King.

With all kinds of thoughts in his heart, Ian came to the office of the Governor's Mansion.

In the office, a thin middle-aged man with brown hair stood up and shook hands with Ian with a smile.

"Sure enough, being famous is not as good as meeting."

Colonel Mayova said in a soft tone: "Mr. Ian, you must know who I am, so you don't need to introduce yourself. I heard that you left the imperial capital two weeks ago, why are you only in Nanling now?"

Because of the Marquis of Barton, Ian was very unimpressed by his smiling and friendly response, and even thought in his heart, 'Is this trying to trick me again? '.

"Reporting, sir." So he replied without leaking anything: "Part of it is related to the mission, and part of it is to observe the current situation in Nanling and prepare for the next management of the territory."

When he said this, one was to block the other party's mouth from continuing to ask, and the other was to bring up the next topic.

But at present, Colonel Mayova's skill is not as deep as his father's. He just nodded slightly, motioned for Ian to sit on the sofa beside him, and sat back behind his desk: "I can understand. You left In the past half a year, the situation in Nanling has been changing, and the situation is very chaotic now, so there is nothing wrong with you wanting to see the situation with your own eyes."

"I guess, you didn't come here to see me, but to contact your father. But from your expression, you seem to have other things to report or ask me?"

Colonel Mayova spoke unexpectedly straightforwardly. It seemed that a father of a Riddler and a Tempter would not necessarily raise the same kind of son, but another completely opposite offspring.

Ian was so happy to talk to this kind of person. He nodded solemnly, and asked, "Yes, sir. My territory, a knightly territory of the former Leian Land, has lost contact because of the mountain people's rebellion. I want to know why the mountain people, who theoretically do not have any high-end force, dare to show their teeth to the empire."

"Even with the support of Flameland, they shouldn't be so bold when the fourth energy level can't make a move."

"Besides, I have a guess about the Flameland spy and I want to report it to you."

"Indeed. You came here to inherit the territory, but you just happened to encounter this kind of thing."

Colonel Mayova was indeed a straightforward person. He knocked on the table with his hand. After thinking about it for a while, he confirmed that Ian did meet the conditions for knowing the information, and then told him everything.

Nearly three months ago, on the northwest side of the Baisen Mountains, which is where it intersects with the Absalom Mountains of the Flying Flames, a dragon chant suddenly came.

That was not the voice of the King of the Mountain, but the voice of another dragon.This matter has aroused the high level of vigilance of the Governor's Mansion, and the Dragon Worshipers are also extremely concerned about it.

After that, the group of beasts in the Baisen Mountains became extremely active, and it was at that time that the large-scale spread of biological viruses occurred. Groups of frenzied monsters attacked the tribes and villages of the mountain people, the empire colonies and the mountain people. Autonomous regions have been hit hard.

Naturally, the King of the Mountain would not allow this kind of thing to happen. He took the initiative to investigate the root of these things, but found the possible ancient dragon ruins deep in the mountains, so he went to investigate, but found that it was an ambush. There was a long delay.

"It's a steel pterosaur."

Colonel Mayova told the truth: "It was the group of steel pterosaurs in the Absalom Mountains who migrated here, causing all the evil consequences that followed."

The steel pterosaur group in the Abassalom Mountains is a powerful group of monsters in the towering mountains between the flying flames and the empire. Among them, the steel pterosaur dragon king is a beast of the fourth energy level. Although its strength is inferior to that of a real dragon, But unlike the real dragons that often walk alone, the steel pterosaur itself is a creature that is used to moving in groups, and they always advance and retreat together.

Feiyandi secretly opened the mountain passage between the empire and itself. Both the empire and other countries believed that Feiyandi should have paid a huge price to eliminate the group of evil beasts entrenched in the mountains.

But the actual situation is that Feiyan made a deal with the dragon group, Feiyan assisted the king of the steel pterosaur to transform into a real dragon, at least he has part of the blood of the real dragon, and the steel pterosaurs should serve Feiyan's allegiance .

Reasonable deal.

The chaos in Nanling is essentially due to the group of steel pterosaurs who suddenly migrated here from a distant mountain range. They carried a large number of biological warfare viruses and pests, and easily defeated the gathering place of mountain people far away from the center of Nanling in the empire. , and with the help of Feiyandi, the Dragon King of the Steel Pterosaur has gone one step further in strength, even comparable to a real dragon.

They migrated to the South Ridge.

This is the truth of the matter - behind the rebellious mountain people in Nanling, there is not nothing, but a group of extremely powerful dragon beasts, a real dragon-level beast of the fourth energy level.

The rebellious mountain people called the other party their true worship object, the new Bison Dragon God in the future.

Basically, the powerful sublimators of Nanling and the sublimators of the military have gone deep into the inner side of the Baisen Mountains to help stabilize the state and order in those autonomous regions that are still resisting and supporting the empire.

This is also the reason why Ian didn't see any patrolling knights and the private guard of the Marquis of Barton along the way.

They all went to the depths of the mountains to fight against the dragons.

(End of this chapter)