Chapter 200 Counting the harvest
"The arrival of the station ahead is [Kins Mine Vein]. Please prepare passengers who get off the bus..."
Hearing the sound from the train radio, Surman packed up his luggage and, under the arrangement of the garrison of the Steam Church, got off the bustling crowd. This was a temporary stop and the best place to resettle this group of refugees.
As refugees on the Cangxue Mountains, they did not have much choice but to follow the arrangements of the Steam Church.
Kings Mining Vein... It's indeed this place. Surman was not surprised. Looking at the Cangxue Mountains, there are only a few nearby places that can meet the "containment" standards - among them, there are the "Kings Mining Vein".
After getting off the bus along the crowd, Surman looked up and saw that against the night, the streets outside the station were slightly dim, with gas lights surrounded by black iron fences trying to release the dimness and dispel the darkness bit by bit.
Fortunately, this place is not the Cangxue Mountains, so there is no need to worry about the impact of the fog.
After leaving the station, Surman came to the street and could see many workers who were off duty. They held their arms and shouted to each other and walked into the tavern, using alcohol to paralyze, and their tired nerves after a day of fatigue.
The Kings Mine is a mine that mines underground rock formations. It cannot be regarded as a civilized city-state, but can only be regarded as a large gathering point.
In the cold soil in the north, there are many large gathering points similar to such, most of which are products in special environments. For example, the Sea of Ashes near the Ryusha Harbor, that is, the Sea of Far East. There are many large gathering points in the areas close to the sea.
When Surman goes to Nusha Port, he will go all the way east to reach the extreme eastern border of the cold soil in the north. The place where he is currently located is still south of the eastern region of the cold soil in the north, and it is still a distance from Nusha Port.
The fastest way to arrive at the Port of Rage Shark is to take the long-distance train of the Steam Church.
However, Surman had to change his face first, and then prepare a reasonable identity...
You should know that as the extreme eastern border of the cold soil in the north, the most important civilized city-state.
Even if it is a simple entry and exit, it requires a certain identity.
At least, the wanderers on the snowfield cannot enter the city-state, and the Rage Shark Port does not accept refugees. This group of people will be accepted into other strongholds around the Rage Shark Port, just like satellite towns.
As the main city, Rage Shark Port is even more stringent. If Surman wants to enter the city, he must have an open identity.
This may be difficult for ordinary people to do.
Surman is different from them. In his previous life, he spent a long time in the cold soil of the north. Gray forces of all sizes had contact with each other and knew several ways to forge "identity certificates". For example, there are two ways in [Kins Mine].
The first is to find the Mining Merchants Association of [Kins Mine Vein], and pay a certain amount of wealth, they can help you forge the identity of a "mining boss" and use it as a commercial donation, and you can also obtain the stamped certificate of the Mining Merchants Association.
However, this also has its disadvantages...... The Mining Association will leave his case. If the Church of the Lord investigates his identity and pursues it all the way, Surman's identity will definitely not be kept secret, and everything will be investigated by the Church of the Lord.
The second method is to find the Steam Church and actively pay huge wealth in exchange for the status of a "steam believer". But this also has one disadvantage, that is, the origin of Surman's wealth is unknown, and it is easy to cause internal investigations of the Steam Church, which is also a huge problem.
How to obtain identity...Surman thought for a few seconds and had a plan in his mind.
After leaving the station, he first went to the public bathroom on the street, and waited outside a single room for more than ten minutes, complaining in his heart that the other party was standing in the pit and not pooping. Then, when the middle-aged man in the single room came out and gave him an apology, Surman watched the other party leave with his pants, and then walked into the single room and re-engaged his face-pinching plan.
Using his connection with the fantasy sea, Surman reselected a replacement object.
However, this time, the target age he chose was younger than "Yasen". His target personality was to inherit the "second generation of mines" in his family's mining industry. He was not old and was relatively frivolous, but he had good educational cultivation and excellent investment gaze cultivated by his family. The reason for going to Nusha Port was to open up new family industries.
Simply put, it means that there is no other problem except that people become a little fickle.
Because of his character background, Surman has been choosing in the fantasy sea for a long time. After all, he has chosen the target not to have the "giant bloodline". After the plot of the Gangdian City, Surman has learned that "Stuart" has the bloodline of the Storm Giant, and the Rage Shark Port was also the territory of the Storm Giant before, which is similar to the situation of the Mist Giant.
Since Stuart's descendants have giant bloodlines, and so on, are there similar situations in other families in Rage Shark Harbor? Even Surman felt that the Silver Moon Church, which was stationed in Rage Shark Harbor, also had some secret information about Storm Giant.
Just like the [Sleepless Eye] on the Cangxue Mountains, they inherited the legacy of the fog giant, mastered the dream-entry ceremony, and even ruined the Silver Moon Church in the mountains, which shows the advantage of "home battle".
In view of this, Surman must have to avoid his identity. At least, the open forces in the Ang Shark Port cannot recognize Surman. Instead, he played the role. Because he had giant blood, he set his sights on the Silver Moon Church......... That would be a loss.
After all, the information objects in the Fantasy Sea Space originated from the Second Era, a mixed-race city-state ruled by ancient giants, and it is not surprising that they will win a "special prize".
Just like playing games and pinch numbers in the previous life, after careful consideration, Surman finally pinched his "face".
Slap, Surman pushed open the partition door and found the old gentleman waiting outside the room, whose face was red because of his rush inside.
"Excuse me........"
Surman took off his hat and greeted the other party, but the old gentleman was not angry, but instead patted his shoulder and turned around and walked into the single room with a look of "I understand you, it's not easy."
I'm not that bad......Surman opened his mouth, but finally chose to remain silent. No one knew him anyway. Besides, what does this identity do have to do with "Surman Stuart"?
Turning around, Surman looked at the mirror in the bathroom and looked at his facial features carefully.
The young man in the mirror has red hair, bright and eye-catching, and his facial features are more handsome. Although he is not as good as Surman's original appearance, he is also a rare beautiful boy. It is worth noting that the corners of his mouth slightly tilted, and his whole body is a bit cynical, which will look particularly attractive to the girl in the boudoir who is not very experienced in the world.
He has a good image and a reasonable personality, and will not attract the main forces of Anxia Harbor. They are particularly concerned... but they always feel that going out with this face will cause new trouble? Surman shook his head and put aside the inexplicable thoughts in his mind.
The next moment, he pulled out his hand towel from his pocket. After finishing it, Surman stepped again and headed to the center of the entire gathering place, the magnificent steel building that was all night long.
That is the location of the Mining Association.
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"Tell the 'Black Rat' Toran that if he cannot pay the protection fee for his workers according to the time limit!"
"Then I can't guarantee that they can still ensure the normal operation of mining... No, it should be said that they can absolutely not guarantee!"
After saying this, Cromway suddenly shook hands on the phone. As the local snake of the [Kins Mine Vein] and as the contemporary president of the Mining Merchants Association, Cromway Beren has great confidence to hang up any mine owner.
At the same time, he also believed that after repeated consideration and careful consideration, the other party would still call him again in a humble tone and offer a generous amount to both hands.
After putting down the phone, Cromway leaned comfortably on the chair. His fat body pressed down and made an overwhelmed "click" sound. Hearing the sound, Cromway narrowed his eyes and looked at the metal phone on the table again.
This is a new equipment launched by Steam Church. It uses underground copper tubes to transmit sound and can only talk within three miles. Because the maintenance cost of copper tubes is extremely high, extraordinary means must be arranged every other distance to ensure that the sound will not decay step by step with the space. Therefore, there are very few people who can use "phone" in the north.
This is a symbol of status. The group of piglets who are working under the rock formations are not worthy of touching them in their lives... Cromway retracted his gaze and was about to flip through the copywriting on the table. For some reason, a strong sense of fatigue suddenly surged up.
Very strange......
I was sleepy so early today? Could it be that the new girl who went to Hongmeifang yesterday made me tired? No, I was quite energetic when I came out of the room... Cromway, with great confusion, could no longer resist the inexplicable fatigue in his body, and suddenly fell into a sweet sleep.
I don’t know how long I slept until there was a clear knock on the door, and it sounded rhythmically from outside.
Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong!
The sounds were beating, as if the drum beats into a person's eardrum, making Cromway, who was sleeping happily, break free from his dream. At the same time, an inexplicable resentment surged in his heart, like an insomnia patient who was disturbed by a good dream.
The irritability, anger, and the desire to destroy everything that shredded everything, rushed from the heart and occupied Cromway's mind.
"who!!!"
Cromway couldn't help but roar, and with his scolding, the knock on the door outside paused slightly, and then the brass door handle actually rotated on its own as if it was contrary to common sense.
Seeing this scene, Cromway's pupils suddenly shrank, and he felt aura of getting up on his body, and he disappeared in an instant.
The only chill left behind surged along the spine from behind, causing Cromway's brain to shiver and he couldn't help but feel scared.
He clearly locked the door, how did the other party open it?
Could it be a transcendent.........
As the president of the Mineral Association, he has been in charge of the [Kins Mineral Vein] for many years. Cromway deserves to know the existence of the extraordinary world. Not only that, he also hired two wild extraordinary people to guard his door in shifts.
In other words, there is at least one extraordinary person on duty outside his door at all times, but the other party quietly came outside the door, and the extraordinary person he hired did not issue a warning at all, which is enough to explain everything!
This is a very powerful extraordinary person... Cromway thought of this and saw that the door had been opened.
A middle-aged gentleman with a vicissitudes of life and about thirty years old walked in from outside the door. He carried his suitcase and came to Cromway step by step, and sat down opposite his desk, bang!
The suitcase was thrown on the table between the two, spread out on the front, and gold was exposed in the box. Suddenly, the golden light attracted Cromway's attention, making him almost forget his own situation and want to reach out and touch it.
Bang!
The middle-aged gentleman with a vicissitudes of appearance closed his suitcase and stared at the other person calmly. This action also made Cromway come to his senses. He couldn't help but rub his eyebrows and thought to himself what was wrong with him today? It seemed that all emotions were magnified.
However, this idea was just born in his heart and was interrupted by the middle-aged man sitting opposite him.
"I need to make a deal with you."
"What transaction... no, no! Who are you? How did you get in?" Cromway answered instinctively, and then he realized the key to the problem, hurriedly changed his words and began to question the other party's origin.
"It doesn't matter who I am." The middle-aged gentleman pushed the suitcase and pushed it in front of the other party. Then, the middle-aged gentleman added: "Tell me one thing, the miners' association stores a list of members and the stamp you commissioned to make by the steam craftsmen. Where is it hidden? I know that you change the storage location once a year."
"What do you... do you want to do?" Cromway looked frightened. He instinctively wanted to refuse. However, the middle-aged gentleman did not give him the chance to refuse and said calmly: "Tell me the exact location, the money belongs to you, or you are going to go into the ground with a secret."
"I hid in the Steam Church's office. I have a secret cabinet in that place. This is my key. The secret cabinet number is b-83!" Cromway did not dare to delay. While telling his secret, he took out the key from under the table.
The middle-aged gentleman put away the keys and glanced at him deeply.
"You're smart."
After saying that, the middle-aged gentleman turned around and left. Cromway was paralyzed in the chair and touched the sweat on his forehead. The next moment, he looked at the suitcase on the table, with a smug look on his face, as if the conspiracy had succeeded.
"idiot......."
Cromway snickered. The secret cabinet he arranged was wrong. As long as the other party dared to come to the door with the key, the Steam Church's service point would arrest the other party. This was his agreement with the Steam Church.
After all, Steam Church also needs a local snake to handle local trivial matters for them.
After relaxing, Cromway was about to step forward and open the suitcase full of gold. Suddenly, he felt his vision twisting and he felt dizzy in front of him. Bang, Cromway bounced up from the chair and looked around.
He found himself still in the office, with nothing in front of him.
I...I'm dreaming?
Cromway was a little disbelief. The next moment, he hurriedly opened the secret compartment under the table and found another secret cabinet key, still lying quietly in it. Cromway immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong!
Suddenly, another knock on the door sounded, which scared Cromway to reflex and shouted suddenly: "Who?!"
"Boss, it's me."
A familiar voice came from outside the door, which made Cromway breathe a sigh of relief. This was one of the two extraordinary people he hired. So Cromway put the key back into the secret compartment, locked it quietly, and shouted outside: "Landy, come in."
Randy, who had an ordinary appearance, came in from outside the door and glanced at Cromway strangely, and then said, "Boss, the 'Black Rat' Toran has surrendered, and he is ready to pay the protection fee."
Cromway came back to his senses, and at this moment he accepted the fact that he was dreaming. Then, Cromway nodded and said, "I understand. I have something to do now. I have to go to Steam Church to pray first..."
After saying that, Cromway picked up his coat and put it on, stopping Randy who wanted to keep up with him, and let the other party guard the empty office. If there was anything unusual, he would call Steam Church immediately and report it to him directly.
Cromway hurriedly left and the office returned to peace.
A few minutes later, Randy pushed open the door, her face changed slightly, and she turned into Surman's appearance again. Then, he skillfully opened the dark pavilion under the table and took away the key.
"【Mengling】The bloodline characteristics are really easy to use..."
Chapter completed!