Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland

"Pufferfish... shoe brush... pufferfish..." Rudai muttered as he lowered his head and entered the laboratory. When he looked up, he saw Wolfe, "Teacher, what is 'pufferfish'?"

The young mechanic scratched his hair with one hand and held a piece of paper in the other. He turned it around and looked around. Hearing the disciple's words, he replied casually: "An extinct creature that is only recorded in ancient books. It is said that there is a lot of poison in its blood, but it is an extinct creature that is only recorded in ancient books. The meat is delicious and countless people flock to it... Anyway, I haven't seen any fossils, so who knows if there are any."

"'Delicious meat'...are you talking about me?" Lu Dai muttered, becoming even more confused, "Teacher, can it be used to clean shoes?"

"Why are you brushing your shoes? Did I give you too little homework, which made your brain rusty?" Wolf scolded, waving his hand: "Come and take a look."

"Oh." After being scolded, the apprentice lowered his head and moved to the teacher's side. When he looked up, he saw the letter paper and the opened envelope in his hand, and said in surprise: "This is not..."

It was the letter I had just sent.

In fact, Wolff does not ignore all messages from incoming guests, but he can tell whether they are valuable or not after just one glance at most letters. If they are "waste paper", he will just throw them into the trash can and never reply to them again.

It is indeed rare for a teacher to look carefully at something like this for a long time.

"What's written on it...why can't I understand it?" Lu Dai glanced at it and saw that there were only a few lines on the letter paper, but it was not in common language.

"Look, don't you understand?" Wolfe's tone suddenly became stern.

"No, no, I understand, I understand..." Lu Dai became serious, took a closer look, and then relaxed and covered his embarrassment with ridicule: "Oh, it looks like ancient common language, but it doesn't seem to be written very well. It’s grammatical…”

"Because it dates even earlier. According to research by linguists at the end of the world, this writing is most likely one of the most important prototypes for creating ancient common languages." Wolfe snorted, " I won't say anything more to you if you can still tell... It's just that as my disciple, you didn't recognize it at first sight. Did you fall behind in the ancient proverbs course? I'll give you a week and I will check the recitation and Dictate."

"Yes..." Lu Dai was instantly frustrated. Among the mechanics courses, the ancient language course was the most difficult to understand, but it was also necessary for interpreting ancient books.

She looked at the letter paper to identify it, and her curiosity aroused in her heart: it was already quite difficult to write in ancient Chinese, but the teacher actually said that the words written on it were the prototype ancestors of ancient Chinese... Isn't this track too niche?

Isn't this purely a show of skill?

Arranged on the letter paper, there were dozens of pictographic square characters, neat and neat.

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On the other side, after listening to the words of the two people, Nanding was silent at first, and finally shook his head: "That's not the case... We are not all here to make friends."

They had left the mechanic's dome greenhouse, and heavy rain poured down from the sky, drenching everyone.

Although Shi Cha was wearing a poncho, the cold weather and water seeping out made the little nobleman shiver uncontrollably.

He looked around, preparing to find a store in the city to take shelter from the rain, but he saw those people following Nan Ding, each standing as tall as steel, ignoring the wind and rain as if they were nothing, and he was too embarrassed to speak at the moment.

Shi Cha had heard from Su Cheng before that the other party's soldiers were all warriors who should not be underestimated... Anyway, the wandering warriors he had hired before were all wiped out in front of them.

What made him a little confused was that this time when Nanding came to find the mechanic, he actually brought everyone in the caravan with him... Why, if he was not allowed to enter, would he still attack by force?

At this time, he heard Nan Ding and Su Cheng discussing again: "Have you noticed that the atmosphere in the depression lagoon city has become more tense recently?"

The samurai nodded: "That's right. The frequency of dispatches of law enforcement teams has increased visibly."

Apart from them, there have been no new caravans or people coming in and out recently, but before the storm, there were many merchants from other forces staying in the depression lagoon.

The uptown area of ​​Depression Lagoon has complete infrastructure and complete consumer and living areas, so they didn't have any difficulties at first.

But in the past few days, as the law enforcement team's searches have become more stringent, even the ordinary hunters in Lake Town don't like to go out much, and most of the merchants and homeless people are hiding in their hotels and residences.

Don't want to cause this trouble.

In contrast, their group's departure was somewhat grand and eye-catching.

Su Cheng had already sensed that there would sometimes be prying and inquiring eyes in the corners of the streets, but he was worried about scaring the owner, so he didn't report it yet and just kept vigil on his own.

"The reason why the law enforcement team didn't find us is probably because we were taken away by Miss Ludai on the first day." Nanding said, "The other party is a mechanic's apprentice. They don't know the specific content of our conversation. There’s no way to find out—Mr. Wolfe’s equal treatment is of great use now.”

The law enforcement team could not estimate the depth of their relationship with the chief mechanic.

Naturally, I dare not take action.

But as time goes by, it might become impossible.

"So, visiting the mechanic at this time is equivalent to adding a new level of buff." Nanding once again used a vocabulary used by the leader. Although he had never heard it before, everyone could hear it based on the context. Understand, "Let the law enforcement team think that we are VIPs valued by the mechanics."

In contrast, although Nanding himself was very interested in the knowledge of mechanical prosthetics, this was an idea that came out of the plan.

It’s best to be able to follow the trend and kill two birds with one stone.

Don’t interfere with the overall situation.

“Wait…” Shi Cha heard something wrong, “Why do you assume that we are committing a crime? I am a legitimate merchant and a certified good citizen!”

Unexpectedly, Nan Ding and Su Cheng looked at him with pity at the same time.

The little noble was stunned.

Suddenly he thought of their actual identity——

“Second-level franchise of the Merchant Guild”.

The Watchers of the Depression Lagoon have connections with the South United City, especially the Kaiton City, and even jointly promoted the project cooperation of the entire city-state of Ai Mine Town, which is enough to show that they have close contacts.

Shi Cha himself is a third-level merchant, and he can explain that he has no political stance.

But the second-level merchants who are under the tentacles of the president... can’t get rid of the relationship.

Now that the confrontation between the North and the South is getting more and more serious, and the contradiction between the robe-wearing merchants and the sword-wearing dignitaries is increasingly on the table, Shi Cha’s mind instantly staged a political drama of Mission Impossible.

“But aren’t we being turned away!” The little noble thought of something and said anxiously.

——Doesn't this mean that, like other ordinary people, they have no acquaintance with the mechanic Wolfe that is worth considering?

"That's right." Nan Ding nodded.

Su Cheng thought of the swordsman and said, "What exactly is written in the letter you asked the apprentice lady to deliver?"

"I don't know the specific content." Nan Ding said, "But it's written by the Grand Master himself - there must be no problem."

"No problem!" Shi Cha slowly shrank back among the crowd, "Now even if the old man Long En comes in person, it's useless..."

"Yeah."

Su Cheng pressed the knife and closed his eyes.

They stood in the rain.

However, in addition to the sound of washing rain, a sound of footsteps came from a distance at some point.

Surrounding them, they were about to be gradually surrounded.