Liu Yu was surprised. There are only two kinds of natural materials that contain magic power in this world, one is the magic core bred in the body of the demonic beast, and the other is the naturally generated mineral magic crystal. The core of Warcraft is relatively pure, and it can generally be used directly. Natural magic crystals, on the other hand, vary in quality and mostly contain impurities.

However, Warcraft's Cores are more difficult to obtain, and their prices are generally higher. But the magic crystal is different, although the purity of the magic power is not enough, but it generally appears in clusters, and the collection only needs ordinary people, and the cost is very low. Therefore, the magic crystal mine is generally used as an important strategic resource by various powerful city lords and even royal families.

After getting this news, Liu Yu, who could use the magic crystal as ordinary glass, was not as ecstatic as Sivana expected, but asked lightly: "Where is the magic crystal mine?" How did you find out about this? ”

Although she was puzzled by Liu Yu's attitude, Sivana didn't dare to question Liu Yu, and said without resistance: "The Magic Crystal Mine is in the Roaring Ridge south of Freljord......

"Lockefar!" Liu Yu was taken aback, he immediately remembered a document he had just corrected, and immediately rummaged through the table, then found the document and read it again. Putting down the documents, Liu Yu frowned and looked at Shivana and said, "I got the news this morning that the town of Lockfa under Roaring Ridge was ransacked by robbers. ”

Shivana perked up and gave the most reliable guess: "As far as I know, I learned this news by accident from the high-ranking members of the Shurima Chamber of Commerce, and they seem to have some private agreement with the rulers of Freljord...... Now Freljord is your fiefdom, and logically speaking, the mining rights of this magic crystal mine are yours! I think that the death of the Interior Officer and the Lockefa matter may have been done by the Shurima Chamber of Commerce, and they are killing people! ”

Liu Yu clearly knew that half of the possibilities did not exist, but the matter of Lockefa was uncertain, and he could send an order to Naruto to investigate it carefully. After thinking for a while, Liu Yu raised his head and looked at Shivana very seriously: "Shivana, what level of warrior are you?"

"I haven't tested it in the Warriors' Union." Shivana is very direct, she only pursues strength, and the levels identified by various guilds are equivalent to floating clouds to her.

Liu Yu was very dissatisfied with her perfunctory answer, and glared at her fiercely: "Estimate it yourself, don't tell me that you don't even know what level of your own force is." ”

Shivana thought for a moment and said, "It's probably around the ninth level. ”

Liu Yu nodded, according to her age, this woman from the half-dragon clan can be regarded as a genius. "Then in the near future, you will be my personal bodyguard! Prepare, let's go to Lockefa secretly. By the way, don't have any bad intentions, I know everything you do. ”

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The City Lord's Mansion is all his own family, and the possibility of leaking secrets is small, and after carefully explaining to Serelda, Liu Yu left with Shivana. Shivana also reluctantly accepted her fate at the moment, and she didn't think about escaping or countering Liu Yu on the way, but Liu Yu's alertness and strength surprised her, and even began to suspect that her behavior of restraining the city lord at the beginning was just in her own fantasy......

After four or five hours, Locke arrived, and outside the town, Liu Yu could see some barren land that had been harvested, but had not yet been planted. At the entrance of the town, there is a simple tombstone. Liu Yu knew that this was the tombstone of the dead townspeople, and that their deaths had been reported to the officials who distributed the seeds to Lockfa, and that they had returned to Freljord after burying them, and that they had erected this tombstone.

"It's a strong smell of death." Sivana, on horseback, looked at the quiet town in front of her, which had a cold smell and the smell of old blood in the dirt.

Liu Yu opened his mouth and said: "The reported death toll is one hundred and seventy-eight, I suspect that there is still a hidden population in the mining area, if those people are not willing to give up the magic crystal mine, then there should still be people in there, it may be trapped miners, or it may be corpses...... Hopefully there will be survivors. ”

"I can't see you're so kind." Shivana said with a slight sarcasm, she still had the scars on her body that Liu Yu had made.

Liu Yu said lightly: "If I am not merciful, you should not be able to open your mouth to contradict me now." ”

According to the conventions of this world, if you catch a person like Sivana, it is probably the most common choice to kill it directly. Shivana remembered this, snorted, then pulled the reins and walked ahead.

The night at the boundary of Roaring Ridge was a little cold, and the terrain made it very windy, and when the wind blew through the Locke, the moving air whistled because of the house. Liu Yu was riding a horse behind Sivana, Sivana suddenly stopped, and Liu Yu quickly tightened the reins.

"What's going on?" Liu Yu asked, he didn't feel any danger, turned his head sideways, and only saw a greedy green light.

"Some wild wolves." Sivana, who was in front of her, said, drawing her two-handed greatsword and killing the wolves roaming the wilderness with three strikes and five divisions. There were a few of them, and when they realized that the two people in front of them were not prey, and if they were your hunters, they fled in a hurry. For this kind of beast with extremely low strength and no intelligence, not only Liu Yu, but even Shivana didn't bother to chase and kill.

"You come down first! We looked for a room and looked inside, hoping to find any clues. Sivana felt uneasy, but this kind of emotion she encountered often did not reach the point of danger, and she would not retreat easily.

There is some starlight at night, Sivana and Liu Yu are both people who can see at night, after riding a horse for a short distance, Shivana found the tallest building in the middle of the town, she first turned over and dismounted, and after feeling that the house was not dangerous, she came to Liu Yu's side.

Liu Yu glanced at her, and also turned over and dismounted. Looking at the house in front of him, Liu Yu said: "This should be the mayor's house, and the financial situation here should be much better than what they reported." "This small building, although it seems ordinary, but the materials are very good, it can be seen that it costs a lot of money, if Lockefar's financial situation is really as reported, it is impossible to build such a small building.

The door of this three-story building was broken, Shivana walked in directly, there were some blood stains on the ground of the house, but there were no corpses, the scene was very damaged, there were traces of rummaging everywhere, it really looked like it had been robbed by robbers.

Liu Yu stared at a crooked oil painting in the middle of the house, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Noticing Liu Yu's movements, Sivana stopped her hand and asked, "What did you find?" ”

"There's a little compartment." Under Shivana's gaze, Liu Yu took down the painting, and then a dagger appeared in his left hand and dug directly into the wall. The wall is hollow with a small tin box inside.

"It's hidden." Sivana noticed that the wall had been built twice, and made a comment on the mayor's care. Seeing that Liu Yu was about to open the iron box, out of the importance of her own life, Shivana reminded Liu Yu, who was currently in her hands, and said, "Pay attention, be careful of what is the mechanism." ”

Liu Yu had already scanned it with his divine thoughts, and knew that there was only some parchment for recording in it, and the iron box had no mechanism, so he didn't care about Shivana's words, and opened the iron box directly. Inside was a stack of sheepskins, densely written with small characters, Liu Yu looked at it at a glance and found that this was an account book, mainly recording the people who excavated the magic crystal mine in Lockfa Town, as well as the monthly salary, as well as the number of deaths and compensation in the mining area.

This ledger is very old, about forty years ago. From these records, it can be seen that the main diggers of the Magic Crystal Mine were the mayor of Lockfar, the family of tax collectors who later took control of the entire Freljord tax. Later, after some time, another part of the profits went to the Interior Officer. As for the Shurima Chamber of Commerce, it is just an underground Chamber of Commerce, and because of its long-term cooperation, it has been acquiring all the magic crystals of Lockefar.

Before coming to Lockefa, Liu Yu had already asked Shivana about the Shurima Chamber of Commerce, and knew that this Chamber of Commerce was originally a small Chamber of Commerce, and later began to develop rapidly in the past forty years.

Judging from a contract found in the iron box, the Shurima Chamber of Commerce does not occupy a high position in the transaction of the Crystal Mine. It may be that after learning of the death of Integal Leo and Tankos, in order to fully master the magic crystal mine, they planned to destroy the contract and kill all those who knew about it. If Liu Yu hadn't suddenly learned the news of the Demon Crystal Mine from Shivana, he wouldn't have cared about the one or two hundred civilians slaughtered by the "thieves" at all, and if Shurima Shang's methods were more secretive, it would have been impossible for him to secretly control the entire Demon Crystal Mine.

Probably because Liu Yu had been watching for a long time, Shivana asked, "What is it, can you see something?"

"The motive of the Shurima Chamber of Commerce is very large, if the Magic Crystal Mine is not mistaken, it should be in a valley to the west of this town in the remnants of Roaring Ridge, where a herd of goats is grazed, and the mine cave is behind a sheepfold built against the mountain." Liu Yu shook the parchment in his hand and put it into the space.

Shivana nodded and asked, "Let's go to the mine now?" ”

Liu Yu glanced at Shivana and said, "Let's go to the second floor to rest first, eat something and then explore the cave." ”

Sivana had no opinion on Liu Yu's decision, she nodded, went over to deal with the two horses first, and then went up to the second floor with Liu Yu. The second floor was much cleaner than the first floor, and Liu Yu took out bread and cheese from the space, handed it to Shivana, and left some for himself.

Sivana, who has dragon blood, has a great appetite and eats all the food in three strokes and five divided by two. Liu Yu had long passed the stage where he needed to eat to replenish his energy, and when he saw that Shivana had finished eating, he gave her his own food. Liu Yu's movements were natural, and Shivana glanced at him and took the food.

After the meal, Liu Yu said: "You go and take a rest, this time I will keep vigil." ”

Shivana looked at Liu Yu with a little surprise and questioning, and after Liu Yu glared back mercilessly, she used the mercenary's ability to fall asleep anytime and anywhere, and fell asleep. "This nobleman may not be too annoying...... I guess it's crazy to think like that. ”

Shivana soon fell asleep, she lay on the only bed on the second floor, Liu Yu sat on a chair next to Shivana, quietly watching the town from the window of the room. Occasionally, Liu Yu's gaze would shift to Shivana, who was really asleep, but usually only one glance, and he would immediately turn his head.

Shivana didn't rest for long, but these few hours still allowed her to regain her spirits. Liu Yu gave her a jar of water, she raised her head and drank it, then spit it out, reached out to wipe her mouth, and glared at Liu Yu angrily: "What the hell is this?" ”

Liu Yu looked at Shivana with a kind of look at the eyes of a leopard, with a mocking smile on his face, and opened his mouth slightly in a disdainful tone: "Mouthwash, idiot." ”

"The nobility is really a nuisance." Shivana frowned disapprovingly, then took half of her saliva in her mouth, rinsed her mouth, and spit it out again.

Liu Yu gave her the food, and then walked to the window by himself, the time was about three o'clock in the morning, and the moon in the sky was quietly swaying its light.

Shivana quickly finished her "breakfast" and asked, "Do you want to start now?" ”

Liu Yu turned his head and nodded: "Now is the best time, I have already explored the mining area, there are not many guards, more are miners, the real garrison force is only more than thirty warriors, among which there are five seventh-order warriors, and the others are basically between the fourth and fifth orders." The interval between patrols was half an hour, and they were divided into five teams, with a seventh-order warrior leading five middle- and low-rank warriors...... Come and see, here's the sand table I made. ”

While Shivana was sleeping, Liu Yu was using the perception that had evolved into a divine thought to detect, with the strength of his spiritual power, the scanning radius of the divine thought was more than thirty kilometers, not only to detect and understand the number of people on the other side, but also to easily find out the law of action.

Shivana looked at the crude sand table, trying to suppress the shock in her heart, she couldn't understand how this young city lord had gathered this information in such a short period of time? Could it be that he had sent out spies in advance? Or does he have more power than she could have imagined?

So, at this moment, Shivana's jealousy of Liu Yu became heavier, and she no longer dared to show any "dissatisfaction", at least until she was absolutely sure, she felt that she was still staying by the side of this young nobleman, and she would take on the task of a mercenary with a personal guard!