Nightmare Card House

For the Adira Chamber of Commerce, these two days have been extremely busy and anxious days.

After the calm of the previous two days, those skeletal creatures came again, and the desolate land spread outwards again.

Artoli, the director of the Chamber of Commerce, sat on a chair with a gloomy look on his face.

The manager carefully placed several documents on the table and asked cautiously: "Sir, according to the analysis given by the mercenary group, this desolate land not only did not stop after expanding to its original breadth, but people continued to Continuous expansion, but the direction of expansion is towards the other direction of the swamp area. In order to avoid the collective panic of the Chamber of Commerce, we have not announced this matter to the public for the time being. How should we deal with it next? "

Artoli clenched his fists.

After the initial anger, this anger has turned into a fear.

He calmed down and tried to isolate himself and see the whole thing from another perspective.

As one of the largest chambers of commerce in the entire Notting City, they are extremely well-informed. In the past two days, His Highness Bray's men actually snatched away the city defense deployment from Lord Versailles. Now the city is almost completely covered with mines. His Highness's people.

This meant that Lord Versailles had made concessions.

Lord Versailles may have lost the tentative encounter.

Now, the passage of the Chamber of Commerce can still be barely passable, but this can only be done under the protection of throwing in large sums of gold coins every day and hiring a large number of mercenary groups.

As time goes by, the entire desolate land continues to expand, and the speed of the creation of undead creatures is predictably faster and faster. There are more and more undead creatures wandering around...

By then, not to mention that they don't have that much money to continue spending here, even if they do have it, will they really be able to withstand the endless undead creatures by then?

"How about..." The steward thought carefully, took a small step forward, and suggested: "Mr. Artoli, why don't we ask the Holy Cross Church for help?"

"Absolutely not."

Artoli immediately rejected the proposal.

This is the bottom line!

The people from the Holy Cross Church are undoubtedly the most annoying. They want to interfere in everything. In the name of God, they think they are the representatives of God.

And the most troublesome thing is that this group of people is still very strong!

In the entire city of Notting, a big reason why there is development like today is because there is no church. The sky is high and the emperor is far away. There is no one to govern. All kinds of underground darkness coexist in an orderly manner and prosper together.

Now, are you still begging the church to come over? What to do? Turn over the table and stop playing?

It's not that far yet.

Artoli stood up.

The steward knew that Director Artoli must have made a decision.

"Let's go find His Highness Bray."

"You mean..."

The steward raised his head in surprise. Artoli's decision was beyond his expectation.

"We are businessmen, Pro. We are here to make money. There is no need to fight with gold coins. I admit that I underestimated him, and I admit that I lost." Once he let go of this matter, Artoli felt that a burden had been lifted off him. Extraordinarily relaxed, "You go and work out a compensation plan, and I will go to meet His Highness Bray in person."

"But...are you sure that this is all done by His Highness Bray..."

"Isn't this the best proof that all chambers of commerce wearing amulets have not been attacked?"

At this time, in the castle hall, Hobson and Pater were worrying about city funds.

Indeed, Lord Versailles gave up the entire city defense and military training camp as agreed, but when Hobson passed by, there was nothing there.

There are no people or things.

Only an empty shell was left for them to take over.

Hobson could only smile bitterly.

After all, the original city guards were Lord Versailles' personal guards, and they had no right to control those people.

Well, at least there are still empty shells.

The problem is that they have no money to re-operate the training camp, and the current manpower is extremely insufficient, even maintaining the operation of the entire city is in jeopardy.

If this continues, there will soon be trouble.

Hobson was sure of that.

"I knew Lord Versailles was not so kind. They gave up the city defense and various military facilities, but did not give us any soldiers. We currently have insufficient manpower on hand. The security in the city has been getting worse and worse in the past two days. So Going down is not an option." Hobson has been busy these past two days. He just ran back from the prison and sent several people who made trouble to the guards to prison.

The special characteristics of Notting City have resulted in an extremely high crime rate in the city. If he hadn't learned from Arlo that such chaos was the norm in Notting City, Hobson would have even thought that Lord Versailles was deliberately doing it secretly.

"Wait a little longer, let my men work harder for a while, and stabilize people's hearts." Pate sighed in his heart and said, "Mr. Fang Tian said before he left that the money problem will be solved soon."

"You just believe him so much? Will it be solved soon? Just keep dreaming!" Seeing his men obeying Fang Tian's words so much, Bray, who had been sitting next to him silently, felt even more unhappy and snorted disdainfully, " He left such a big mess here and no one knows where he is now, how can you still count on him? "

Hobson's eyes stayed on Bray for a moment, feeling vaguely unhappy.

As they were talking, a hurried sound of footsteps came from outside the door. A Luo hurriedly pushed open the door with an excited look, "Sir! Altoli, the director of the Adila Chamber of Commerce, brought people to personally visit His Highness Bray. They also brought a lot of thank-you gifts, saying that they came to apologize and wanted to pay this month's taxes."

Hobson and Pate were suddenly startled. They looked at each other at the same time, and saw a kind of surprise in each other's eyes.

Bray was also stunned, "Wait, what did you say? The director of the Adila Chamber of Commerce? Are they here to pay taxes?"

"Yes, Your Highness Bray, they are very respectful and are waiting outside."

Bray opened his mouth. He didn't know what kind of magic Fang Tian had that could make these chambers of commerce so easily surrender.

In this way...

For a while, Bray was a little excited. The chamber of commerce surrendered, Notting City had taxes, he had money, and with money he had soldiers. Does this mean that he has completely controlled the entire Notting City? Become a real city lord?

A local overlord?

Before he could even get excited, when he thought of the black bugs in his body that were parasitized by Fang Tian, ​​Bray's excitement immediately disappeared, and his mood dropped to the bottom.

Even if he controlled Notting City, what would happen? Wouldn't he still be a puppet in the hands of others? Controlled at will?