"Trouble?" Sean frowned slightly, "What's the trouble?" ”

Sean opened the door of the carriage and stepped out, he had already seen Alfred and Cecilia getting out of the second carriage, and little Sheena was poking her head out of the door, looking at it with some curiosity. Sean turned his head slightly to look to the right, about thirty meters in front of the convoy, there were ten riders lined up and parked there, they were wearing light leather armor, these leather armor were all uniform black and white, even the traces were exactly the same, and they looked a little like uniforms.

Of the sixteen riders on his side, except for the two riders who came to inform Sean and Alfred and Cecilia respectively, the other fourteen had also gathered together and confronted each other's ten riders. They did not dismount, because the other party did not draw their weapons, because in order to avoid some unnecessary disputes, of course these riders would not draw their weapons, but even if they were so silent confrontation, the killing intent was still enough to make people frightened.

That's why those riders stop thirty meters away, not ten meters away.

As Sean and the others got out of the carriage, the drivers of the first and third carriages also jumped off the seats immediately, but they did not follow Sean and the others, but quickly gathered to the second carriage with iron shields, and firmly guarded the doors on both sides of the carriage to prevent some possible accidents.

The long-term fighting and fighting have made these veterans have an incomparable tacit cooperation and sense of battle. Regardless of whether there is a possibility of war in a while, they will first firmly occupy the formal advantage, it is precisely because of this caution that anyone who wants to attack the convoy of Sean and others must be prepared to fight a tough battle, and without the strength of people above the silver level, Sean and Alfred really don't care much.

When they saw Sean and the others coming, the veterans immediately turned over and dismounted, and then took the reins and stood on both sides, making way for Sean and the others to stand in front.

"What's going on?" Sean looked at the riders on the other side. Shen Sheng asked.

One of the riders tugged at the reins of the horse's harness. After taking a few steps forward, he glanced at Sean and the others, his gaze stayed on Cecilia for a few seconds, and then he said proudly: "We are here to collect city fees, one pan-continent gold coin per person." ”

The rider had already set his sights on Sean's convoy from far away, after all, the three long-distance wagons and five wagons were not very large, but they were much better than the average trader. And the main thing is. The convoy was so weak that in the trade capital, it was like declaring himself to all the bandits that he was a fat sheep, so the rider would immediately lead the team to catch up, ready to take advantage of the fire.

But they had barely driven their horses a hundred meters before he saw the convoy stop moving immediately. And those riders quickly formed a queue, changing direction as they waited for the others to advance. Such a quick reaction obviously showed that the escort of this team was not simple, so the rider also kept an eye on it, and only stayed thirty meters away, not daring to go too far.

And it wasn't until the two sides formed a standoff that the rider realized how wise his decision was. Judging from the killing momentum exuded by the other party's guards, the strength of this team was definitely much stronger than he imagined, and it was obvious that this was a steel plate. With their numbers, if there is a conflict. I'm afraid I'm going to grit my teeth, especially when I see Sean and Alfred appear. He became more and more wise about his decision not to go to war directly.

The big guy was carrying a demonic weapon!

It's just that everyone has already come to the other party, and if he just walks away like this, he feels that his fate after going back will definitely be very miserable, so he can only stubbornly come forward to ask for the entrance fee. This is indeed an unspoken rule in the territory of the trading capital, but under normal circumstances, the fees charged are measured according to the total value of the goods, and it is rare to ask for it directly without reading anything, especially if it is only a pan-continental gold coin per person.

This entrance fee is already too cheap to be cheaper, and it can be said that it is just a symbolic fee.

After all, here in the trading capital, any expenses are traded in Pan-Continental gold coins, and the lowest price is a Pan-Continental gold coin, and there is no such concept as silver coins and copper coins here.

"According to the rules, after paying the money, all my actions in the trade capital will be protected by you." Sean asked, "Then I want to ask, what are the forces that are against you?" …… I want a detailed answer, please don't fool me, or you'll regret it. ”

The Trade Capital, as the heart of the Miracle Continent, was also an extremely popular place in the game, not only with the largest number of shops on the entire continent, but also the place with the highest concentration of various forces on the entire continent. Basically, since the fifth expansion entered the era of the wizard, unless you have your own territory or have established a duchy, kingdom and other player gangs, any other casual players or small guild players, family and friend groups are basically concentrated in the trade capital for development.

Because only here can you find more quests and prestige that can be farmed, and even more advanced inheritance classes, skill rewards, and equipment items. However, because the power here in the trade capital is too complicated, most of the people here have to be cautious, maybe you just did an errand task to deliver a letter, and as a result, you directly opened the favor of a certain faction, but this camp force may be in a state of hostility with a dozen other forces, so your relationship with those forces will naturally become hostile.

This doesn't really matter to the player, but if you want to get a piece of equipment or a skill that is in one of the opposing powers, it can get a lot of pain. If you're hell-bent on getting that animosity back, congratulations, you're likely to have a blood feud with another power from now on, and even an alliance with that power will be at odds with you.

And the blood feud relationship...... It is impossible to brush it back, and it is completely to the extent that only one of the two parties can live.

That's why Sean would say such a thing at this moment.

He didn't want to pay the city fee, and as a result, he would open the prestige and favor of the camp to which these people belonged, and he didn't know who the camp behind these people was. If he inexplicably makes a feud with other powerful forces, he may even offend any of the top ten chambers of commerce, which is not the result that Sean wants.

At the beginning, countless players in the game used countless tragic facts to prove that it doesn't matter if all the forces in the trade capital are mortal enemies, but the relationship with the top ten chambers of commerce must not be negative, otherwise there is really no way to survive here in the trade capital. Because the strength of the top ten chambers of commerce is very strong, and the background is deep enough. The entire trading capital is under their control. How to make trouble with the other forces below, but the result still depends on the face of the top ten chambers of commerce, so offending one family is equivalent to offending all the forces attached to this chamber of commerce.

And "Miracle" is an all-AI computing law that uses real-time evolution.

In other words, you are only in a bad relationship with one of the top ten chambers of commerce, but maybe this chamber of commerce has a cooperation plan with another chamber of commerce, so your relationship with the other chamber of commerce will also deteriorate. And if the second and the third are allies...... Congratulations, you are now offending the three top ten chambers of commerce; Suppose that one day, one of these three chambers of commerce is going to marry the fourth chamber of commerce, then your account can basically be cut and retrained.

At this moment, the rider facing Sean had begun to ooze cold sweat from his back. Someone who can ask such a direct question. It was definitely not a first-time visitor to the trading capital, and his background strength was by no means something he could afford to offend. But no matter what he thought, he never came up with which side the person in front of him came from, logically speaking, if a person with such background strength wanted to come to the trade capital, there would definitely be some rumors revealed in advance, and then people like them who were responsible for intercepting the income from the city and eating wild food would naturally receive a list.

The people on this list. It's the object they must not provoke.

"I don't know what to do. Whose great adult's heir is you? "The rider had to ask respectfully. And the more he looked at Cecilia now, the more familiar he felt that the other party was very familiar, and the people who could be responsible for collecting entry fees and taxes here in the trade capital must be some clever and discerning people.

It's not easy to make him feel familiar, but he doesn't have a list in his hand right now.

"You don't have to worry about this, since you have come to the trade capital, of course we will act according to the rules here, you are the first team to intercept us, so you do have the highest priority in the rules." Sean knew more than the rules of the trading capital, it was as familiar as instinct, and as Sean spoke, the rider's face turned even paler, and the other riders around him were naturally even more unbearable, "I pay you protection money...... Sorry, I usually prefer to call this a conservation fee rather than an entry fee. …… But none of that matters, what matters is what are the other forces that are against you, and if there is no force that I have to take into account, and you are strong enough, then I would be more than happy to pay you protection money to avoid some unnecessary trouble. ”

The rider swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and under the pressure of Sean's momentum, he finally did not dare to continue riding on the horse, but turned over and dismounted, and with his movements, the other riders immediately turned over. This scene doesn't look like it's here to collect protection money at all, but more like welcoming Sean and the others.

"We are the peripheral mercenaries of the White Wings, and if we want to talk about the hostility of the force, it is probably only the Red Goddeck, but recently, for some reason, we and the Mornes people have also broken out into a few skirmishes, and each other has won and lost." The rider thought about it, sorted out a little bit about them, and told the truth. His thinking is indeed quick, and his language skills are not weak, and he speaks in an orderly manner with a little organization, and by the way, he also introduces a little about the current situation in the trading capital.

"Mones ......" Sean thought about it carefully, and rearranged the forces and characters that could clash with the Ten Great Chambers of Commerce, which was the information that all players in the game who wanted to mix in the trade capital must master and remember, "The commander of the Red Cross Cavalry Regiment of the Kingdom of Dabion? ”

"Yes."

"Here are twenty-three gold coins, you can put them away." Sean counted out twenty-three Pan-Continent gold coins, put them in a small money bag, and tossed them to the rider.

In exchange, the rider also handed Sean a sign and a map.

The base color of the sign is black, and a white feather is painted on it.

The White Wing Mercenary Regiment, a fourth-level army whose strength is not bad in the trade capital, is divided into regular regiments and peripheral reserves, although the people on the periphery call themselves mercenaries, but in fact they act in the way of an army, which can be regarded as a third-level army, but the ten people in front of them can only be regarded as a small team, and they cannot exert real combat effectiveness at all. No more than the nineteen veterans in Sean's hands, they are a real army, although the number is indeed less, but there is no doubt that this is indeed a third-level army, of course, if it is expanded and reorganized in the future, the level of the army will definitely drop back to level zero, which is not to be considered.

However, in Sean's impression, the army of the White Wings seemed to have been annihilated by the Red Crusaders of Mornes. It stands to reason that Sean should not pay money to the people of White Wing, because this is undoubtedly an act that offends Mornes, but Sean feels that sooner or later he will have to fight with the people of the Dabion Kingdom in the future anyway, it is better to turn his face with Mornes now, and there will be an excuse to declare war in the future.

After the Whitewings left, Sean casually tossed the token to a veteran, and then said with a smile, "Everyone, welcome to the Trade Capital. ”

In fact, from the moment you step into the Gobi Desert, you are equivalent to entering the trading capital.

This city, which was jointly formed by the ten major chambers of commerce, was built on this Gobi, with thirteen oases as the core, radiating out to the surrounding areas until all the buildings were connected together, forming a giant city of nearly 100,000 square kilometers.

The city has no walls and does not need walls, because no one has ever dared to attack here.

It has no laws, and it doesn't need laws, but it has rules and order that are more awe-inspiring than laws.

The headquarters of the top ten chambers of commerce is built next to the ten oases in the outermost circle, they are responsible for the direction and field of operation, there is no real conflict of interest between each other, even if there is occasional conflict, it is only the contradiction of the secondary business circle, and it will not affect the core operation of the chamber of commerce, which is the main reason why the top ten chambers of commerce can coexist. Even because of the problem of derivative industries, these ten chambers of commerce even often cooperate with each other and develop projects, which truly confirms the saying "there is no eternal enemy, only eternal interests".

Sean came to buy slaves, so his destination was an oasis on the left side of the map.

Settings Oasis.

An oasis named after the Setins Chamber of Commerce, whose main business is the professional slave trade. The strength of this chamber of commerce ranks third among the top ten chambers of commerce, second only to the Magic Tower Chamber of Commerce, which mainly sells various magic materials, scrolls, and magic accessories, and the legendary fire hammer, which mainly sells various weapons and equipment, but the network power of this chamber of commerce is the strongest among the top ten chambers of commerce. (To be continued.) )

PS: Two more chapters first, I got up at six o'clock in the morning, I didn't sleep very comfortably last night, I'll go sleep for another two hours, and we'll continue after I get up! Today's state is okay, I think it is expected to be five more, what do you think?