Chapter 264: Recognized
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"No, no, you can't do that!" At this time, a middle-aged woman dressed as a noble lady shouted, but she was dragged by a man and a woman beside her.
"Since there is no value, then what are you left for? Cook's fingers curled slightly, and he was about to pull the trigger.
"No, no, no! I promise you!" Duke Lu Dongxi saw Cook's hand curl slightly, and the urine came out in shock, Duke Lu Dongxi had never been so close to death, and his whole body was soaked with sweat, Duke Lu Dongxi screamed loudly, and closed his eyes in despair.
"Bang! "Bang!" Cook heard Duke Lu Dongxi say this, although he was relieved, he still kicked Duke Lu Dongxi angrily and scolded disdainfully.
"Lord Duke, I wonder if you would like to make an introduction?" Cook asked with a smile when he saw Duke Lu Dongxi, who was sitting opposite, playing with the thunder teeth in his hand.
"This is my wife, my son, and my son's wife, who is my chief steward, and the rest are local merchants. Duke Lu Dongxi returned with a pale face, without the slightest aristocratic demeanor.
"Merchant, I like, to be the Duke of Majesty's guest, must be worth a lot of money, 500,000 gold coins each, either to leave or to leave a corpse. Cook smiled sweetly and said with a smile, but the words that came out made several rich businessmen die.
"No, no, you can't ...... that. A wealthy businessman immediately exclaimed, but before he could finish speaking, he saw Cook pointing a magic crossbow at him, and the rich businessman immediately closed his mouth and joked, this guy kills people without blinking.
"Bang, go, you damn bastard, you know you didn't know that the magic you just released almost cut off Lao Tzu's head, bang!" But with the sound of dense footsteps, Cook saw Norwen directly pointing at the wind mage with a magic heavy crossbow, and gave a punch from time to time, and the other fire mage was much better, but was held by the chief with a spear.
Seeing the dark eyes of the wind magician, Cook couldn't help but laugh, and said loudly: "I told you a long time ago, don't think that magicians are invincible in the world." ”
"You're going to be wanted by the Wizards' Guild, you're showing contempt for the Wizards' Guild. Horry said loudly.
"Norwen, find a place to throw this bastard into the river, remember to keep this guy's mouth shut and tie his hands behind his back, or we'll be hunted down by the Wizards' Guild. Cook commanded with a wave of his hand.
"Yes!" Noven was very excited to carry out Cook's order.
"No, no, tell me your terms, you demon!" the other fire mage immediately roared loudly.
"What conditions, for me, you are a waste? Magicians? Great magicians like you, Lao Tzu has seen a lot, you are a treasure here, and you are a scum in the magic city. Cook sarcastically said.
"Then we can pay the ransom. Horry had no choice but to swallow his anger for an unreasonable guy like Cook.
"Okay, 30,000 yuan per person, take the money and leave. "Cook has no interest in these two magicians, the level is too low, and he has many ways to deal with these two arrogant magicians.
"Okay, deal!" Horry replied loudly, 30,000 gold coins was just a small amount, and one of his staff was more than that.
"I mean 30,000 purple gold coins, do you think it's 30,000 copper coins?" said Cook with a roll of his eyelids.
The two magicians directly widened their eyes, three million gold coins is an astronomical amount for the two magicians, don't look at the magician's money, but cultivation is even more costly, the magic material is not food, calculated by copper coins, but calculated by gold coins, let's just say that the white bread that magicians eat costs five silver coins, and ordinary bread is only a few copper coins, and water is also, magicians generally drink extremely pure water, not just any water can be drunk.
"No, we don't have that much ....... Horry hurriedly argued.
"Norwen, take these two noble magicians to the next room to sober up, I still have something to discuss with Duke Lu Dongxi. Cook commanded, waving his hand.
"Understood!" replied Norwen excitedly, excited to make the two magicians bow their noble heads in front of him.
Norwen took the two magicians and the chief steward into the next room, and Cook said to Duke Lu Dongxi with a smile: "Lord Duke Lu Dongxi, for the sake of safety, I must use the necessary means, click!"
Ka Ka suddenly jumped from Cook to the table, waving his little feet at Duke Lu Dongxi, Cook looked at Duke Lu Dongxi, whose face was pale, and said with a smile: "Ka Ka, give Duke Lu Dongxi a performance, just break this table!"
When Duke Lu Dongxi heard Cook's words, his eyes couldn't help but widen, and he looked at Kaka in disbelief, you must know that this is made of blue locust wood, which is not only extremely tough, but also very hard, just such a small thing can actually break this solid wood table that is a few centimeters thick.
Ka Ka quickly circled around the table, and then waved his little feet in the middle of the table, and with a click sound, the solid wood blue locust table was constantly waving and the little feet were cut like tofu.
"Okay, Kaka, from today onwards, I will follow Duke Lu Dongxi, Duke Lu Dongxi, you have to cooperate well, this Kaka is a second-level demonic beast, and unfortunately I smeared it with poison on its small claws. Cook clapped his hands and said, clicked directly into Duke Lu Dongxi's sleeve, and then crawled on the cuff, those who don't know don't know that there is a second-level demonic beast here.
Cook got up and patted the clothes on his body, and ordered with a smile: "Lord Duke Lu Dongxi, I hope to rush to the imperial capital as much as possible, and I hope to have a big carriage, after all, the carriage is more comfortable to sit in, and I don't want to hear this matter spread, because I have to make some bad decisions at that time." ”
Cook never revealed his identity to Duke Lu Dongxi, let alone said anything to Duke Lu Dongxi, but after Duke Lu Dongxi heard Cook's words, he was a lot more relaxed, because Duke Lu Dongxi didn't want to spread such a scandal, as for the few wealthy businessmen present, Duke Lu Dongxi's eyes flashed a cold light.
Early the next morning, Cook got up, Cook hadn't slept at all recently, either running a fighting spirit or meditating to restore his magic, Cook walked out of the door and saw an extremely luxurious carriage, and the commander of Hanqi on the side of the carriage stared at Cook deadly, but Cook found that the guards around Hanqi seemed to have changed, and Cook didn't care at all.
"Norwen, let's go!" This time it was Norwen driving the carriage, which was driven by a second-level demonic beast, of course, Norwen was just accompanying the coachman to sit in the seat of driving the carriage.
"This is from those merchants!" Duke Lu Dongxi said coldly, handing Cook a magic crystal card.
"Hehe, thank you, Lord Duke. Of course, Cook knew the fate of those merchants, but Cook couldn't stop it, and he didn't think about stopping it, Cook still vaguely understood that the money was given by Duke Lu Dongxi.
Duke Lu Dongxi's face was stunned, but seeing that Cook did not continue to say anything, he was silent for a while, Cook looked at the hundreds of heavily armed guards outside, and the two magicians were in the carriage behind, I don't know what method Nuowen used to control the two people, of course, the head of the Karui Chamber of Commerce was also in that carriage.
"How much does the Duke know about Prince Red Maple?" Cook asked abruptly.
Duke Lu Dongxi's brain couldn't react at once, Prince Red Maple Leaf, but he still replied: "That's a real king!"
"King?" Cook wondered, such an evaluation was extremely rare.
"Yes, that family has always deserved our admiration. Duke Lu Dongxi said this with a look of admiration on his face.
"Can you elaborate on that?" asked Cook, with a deep sigh.
"The Red Maple Leaf Prince family has been guarding the northwest for countless years, and it can be said that it is the greatest hero of the empire, maybe you will think that the northwest province is just relatively poor.
No, it's not like that, the Moragan Desert is not as desolate as people think, there are not only sand thieves who come and go without a trace, but also a large group of demonic beasts, if it weren't for the Red Maple Leaf Prince family, maybe the empire would have been broken by these sand thieves and demonic beasts.
But the emperor only saw the elite soldiers under the Prince of Red Maple Leaf, and saw the threat to the imperial power, and did not see that those soldiers survived the battle between the sand thieves and the demonic beasts, I once had the privilege of seeing an attack of the demonic beasts, which was a first-class demonic beast, only the size of a fist, but there were hundreds of thousands of them in a group, and they had no special ability, that is, they spit acid, a fifty-meter-high, fifteen-meter-thick city wall, but it was corroded after half an hour.
In that battle, the Red Maple Leaf Prince paid 8,000 elite soldiers, including five family members, to block the attack of this magical beast with a kind of fire oil abundant in the desert, and every few years, a large number of magical beasts will rush out of the Moragan Desert, constantly attacking food, livestock, and people everywhere.
To say that the monsters are terrible, but the sand thieves are even more terrible, those guys are all wanted criminals on the mainland, they fled into the depths of the desert, and then through guò continue to loot to feed themselves, and the northwest province is two places that can be plundered, although the Yalan Empire also borders the Moragan Desert, but there is also a Ural swamp between the Yalan Empire and the Moragan Desert, so only a small part of our Ceylon Empire and Daya Empire is the plundering place of these sand bandits.
The Red Maple Leaf Prince family has been holding on to this situation for countless years, and each Red Maple Leaf Prince has stood out from dozens of direct family members in this battle, so every Red Maple Leaf Prince is amazingly talented, but without exception, these people do not have a long lifespan, but they died of overwork at the age of more than a hundred years. Duke Lu Dongxi said in a suppressed voice.
Cook was silent, Cook didn't know that the Red Maple Leaf Prince had such a secret thing, but to Cook's happiness, there were still people in the Moragan Desert, you must know that it was his own territory, and his lord didn't know it, Cook asked excitedly: "So how many sand thieves are there?"
"I don't know, but there must be tens of thousands of people, among them are wanted by the church, and there are those wanted by the major empires, and there are those who can't survive, anyway, there is no specific number. Duke Lu Dongxi was surprised by Cook's attitude, but still replied.
"And what is the reason for this engagement?" asked Cook flatly.
"It's not for money, Prince Red Maple's territory needs a large number of soldiers and weapons, these all cost money, and the Northwest Province is a barren place, so the empire will allocate a military budget every year, but after the Muni War, the emperor used the financial deficit as an excuse to pay for half a year's military expenses, and it strictly restricted trade with the Northwest Province, so Prince Red Maple had to agree to the conditions of the royal family. Duke Lu Dongxi explained that Duke Lu Dongxi, as a duke, must know more things than Norwen.
"Half a year's military spending, how much?" asked Cook curiously.
"One and a half million gold coins. Duke Lu Dongxi replied.
"Cut, it's just such a small thing, it's not enough for my family to have a week's rations. Cook said dismissively.
Duke Lu Dongxi looked disbelieving, and looked at Cook very contemptuously, Cook was angry, and directly took out a magic crystal coin and shook it twice, and suddenly flew out of Duke Lu Dongxi's sleeve, and suddenly grabbed the magic crystal coin and jumped back into Duke Lu Dongxi's sleeve.
"You ....... "Duke Lu Dongxi was really stunned, it was a magic crystal coin, more than a million gold coins.
"Hmph, my Kaka is an attributeless demonic beast, what do you think!" Before Cook could finish his words, the crystal window of the carriage was directly shattered, and a big mouth flew in, and then a pair of small eyes stared at Cook.
"Damn, you're too embarrassed to come back!" Cook jumped up at once, and since that night when he caught the dove, the big mouth guy has just wandered around and never come back.
"You know how to eat! Seeing Big Mouth's dissatisfied expression, Cook immediately threw another magic crystal coin over, Big Mouth caught it with one mouth, and then slipped away again.
"You, you, you are the murderer of the third prince!" At this time, Duke Lu Dongxi reacted, and pointed at Cook in a trembling and exclaimed.
Cook glanced at Duke Lu Dongxi, and Duke Lu Dongxi sat down tremblingly, but with a bit of eagerness, Cook asked curiously, "How did you recognize me?"
"You must be here for the daughter of Prince Red Maple Leaf, the imperial capital has long been spread, but the royal family must cover up such a scandal, how can you survive until now?" What made Cook depressed was that Duke Lu Dongxi's gossip fire was obviously extremely strong, and he didn't answer Cook's question at all.
"Alright, alright, I'll ask you!" Cook shouted displeasedly, feeling disdainful in his heart, you still have to have the consciousness of being a prisoner, don't always let me remind you.
"It's your toucan, that's a unique sign, although it is said that the imperial intelligence department is only loyal to the royal family, but as a duke, I still have some way, Lord Cook, are you going to kill the Seven Princes this time, that Seventh Prince is not a good person...... Duke Lu Dongxi chattered endlessly, you hurry up and kill the Seventh Prince, I raised my hands in approval.
"Shut up!" shouted Cook, unable to hold back his patience.
"Your Excellency Cook, we have a basis for cooperation, but I heard that your territory is all dwarves, do you have fine iron weapons, I know several grand dukes, earls, how many good things do we want forged by dwarves?" However, Duke Lu Dongxi obviously thought that Cook was in the same camp as himself, and immediately whispered.
Cook rolled his eyes helplessly and asked, "How many?"