Chapter 563 Preliminary Trust
When both sides choose to be open and honest, the conversation will naturally become much easier.
Under Gao Wen's proactive request, Melita no longer used the polite attitude of "Mestrian Treasure House Agent" to talk to him, and no longer used "you" in his words. In such occasions, it is obviously a sign of increasing trust.
Talking with a dragon is a novel and interesting experience, but the real dragon clan is obviously different from those messy myths and legends Gao Wen knows those legends, those legends circulating among the bards, recorded on ancient stone tablets, and recorded in the difficult and obscure notes of the mystics. Humans seem to like to describe this powerful creature in language with exaggerated and mysterious styles. The legendary dragon clan is powerful and arrogant, and is the ruler of the sky. It is said that they have surprising fanaticism about shining treasures, and in ancient times they particularly like to rob human kingdoms. There is even legend that the ancestors of the Gondor Empire were dragon slayers. They defeated the dragons in exchange for human rule over the continent...
Melita Pernia seemed particularly helpless about these legends.
"We are a highly civilized race, but the descriptions of us in the stories you mentioned are closer to powerful and uncontrollable beasts, and the dragons like treasures, but when do we rob? Isn't it faster to do business than to make money?"
Gao Wen... admires the Dragon Clan's calm attitude on this issue.
"The races on this continent always like to make up similar stories. In recent decades, it's been better. There was a period of time when you humans' dragon-slaying novels were particularly prosperous. It seemed that a young man from the village would not be qualified to appear in the story of the bard if he didn't kill one or two dragons," Melita said again. "That trend even attracted the attention of the review team. We sent special observers to the Loren continent to conduct investigations, wanting to see if there were any dragon clans going out to perform missions and the human kingdom that had conflicts with the human kingdom. The observer took the three bards back and cheated on food and drink in our country for a lifetime."
"The unknown is disturbing. A powerful and mysterious race will naturally arrange a bunch of sensational legends for him," Gao Wen commented helplessly, and then changed the subject, "but the story of the dragon destroying the kingdom is sometimes not completely fabricated out of thin air, right?"
"Why do you say that?" Melita immediately opened her eyes wide, "We haven't done it before..."
Gao Wen spread his hands: "The old Cecil was destroyed by dragon flame."
Melita was choked back in the second half of the sentence and coughed repeatedly: "Cough cough, cough cough..."
"Can't that be you?" Gao Wen looked at Melita's reaction, recalling the morphological characteristics of the dragon he had witnessed, and asked tentatively.
"Are you at the scene?" Melita recovered from her cough and looked at Gao Wen in surprise, "Why didn't I notice..."
"It's really you," Gao Wen looked at Melita up and down. Although the facts had been confirmed, it was really difficult for him to associate the petite lady in front of him with the dragon shadow covering the sky. "It seems that we have to meet again."
"I had no choice at that time," Melita's voice seemed to have a hint of embarrassment. "The land had been infected by magic energy, and the number of distortions exceeded the proliferation threshold. Only a fire burned out the pollution can prevent the situation from deteriorating."
"I understand, I have dealt with the aberrant," Gao Wen waved his hand. "I mentioned this not to be accused of the crime, just to satisfy my curiosity. And I am also very curious about another thing. What do you dragon clan think of me, the person who has come back from the dead?"
Melita Pernia looked at Gao Wen carefully and said hesitantly: "Actually, at the beginning, your resurrection brought us only chaos."
Gao Wen frowned, and said with confusion: "Confusion?"
“…It took us more than a month to find out what you had in the treasure house that year…”
Gao Wen: "…"
This is really reasonable.
Melita also has the following text: "Then we mobilized a large amount of manpower to investigate all the graves of the client who had signed a custody agreement with the Mitsunian Treasure House and inspected every tomb of the client who died during the agreement period. Even if the corpse was not present, we also confirmed it in various places."
Gao Wen: "…"
This tm is more reasonable.
He even had a little business doubt about the legendary Mid-Silver Treasure House, the Mid-Silver Treasure, for a moment: "I signed an indefinite custody agreement with you. Will you take away the things during the custody period because of the death of the client..."
"No, please don't doubt our professional ethics," Melita immediately interrupted Takawan, "We will not misappropriate the client's custody during the storage period, but... it will be transferred to a large warehouse, so it will not be easy to find."
Gao Wen felt that it would be better to end this topic early and make Long doubt his life.
It seems that everything that can be discussed is over.
"Anyway, I'm glad we've got a better understanding of each other," he stood up and reached out to Melita. "As you said, the dragon clan has no malice to the world, I'm willing to believe it, and I hope you can believe it, I have no resistance to the dragon clan."
"It is also our gain to find a friend in the secular kingdom who can communicate with others in a candid way," Melita and Gao Wen held their hands together. "Our openness comes from an accident, and fortunately this accident brought good results."
Gao Wen looked at Melita's lavender eyes outside the veil, and his expression became a little serious: "I am a person who has experienced many incredible things. Please believe that everything I have truly experienced is much more than you know about "Gaven Cecil". I can accept all the incredible truths, including the magic tide and the black trap. If you find the opportunity to tell me or find the way to tell me, please feel free to come, I am ready at any time."
"I will pass your words to the review team without saying a word."
Melita said calmly, and she used the word "you" again, not to show distantness, but to show solemnity.
Gao Wen nodded and said, "In addition, about the Misin Treasure Store in Cecil..."
Melita blinked: "Do you want to shut them down?"
"Stay on," Gao Wen laughed, his answer surprised Melita, "As long as I operate legally and pay taxes according to law, I have no reason to evict them."
He could not expel the Mitsunian Treasure House, or he could not expel the Dragon Clan's agents.
Even if he had a great time with Melita at this moment, he could not change the gap between the Dragon Clan and the current Principality of Cecil. The other party was a high-ranking civilization that had been through countless years. Their historical span could even cross the demon tide. Their power to operate on the mainland was more than any human kingdom. If they wanted to "observe", then Gao Wen would not be able to expel them now.
Without the Misilan Treasure House, maybe they can form a Black Iron Treasure House and a Treasure House of Essence of Gold the next day and it will be completely secret.
At least, the Mitsunian Treasure House is still registered in the Department of Government Affairs, which is equivalent to a third-party intelligence organization that has been exposed. For a ruler, if he cannot clean up all hidden dangers, he must at least ensure that these factors are within a controllable range.
"The Dragon Clan will remember this trust," After a moment of silence, Melita lowered her head slightly, "Please rest assured, maybe it won't take long to get a deeper trust between each other."
"I'll wait for that day."
Gao Wen said with a smile and watched Melita walk to the door of the study, but he suddenly remembered something and quickly stopped him: "Wait a minute, do you want this box?"
He picked up the box full of Misilian Ring and shook it at the agent lady.
Based on his experience in watching novels and TV in his previous life, he felt that the other party should wave his hand freely and easily, indicating that these things are no longer important. After all, these Misilan rings now seem to be just an introduction to the other party and himself to open the topic, and they should not be much precious.
But in fact, Melita walked back quickly the next second, holding the box in her hand: "Ah, I forgot this..."
Gao Wen: "…my little pony, is this very important?"
"It's very important. And why did your accent change back?"
Gao Wen waved his hand: "It's still more accustomed to calling you that."
Melita glanced at Gao Wen and shook her head: "Humans, it's really hard to understand."
Then the elegant and mysterious agent lady grabbed her box and limped away.
Gao Wen stood quietly behind the desk for a while, then turned his head and looked at the corner beside the window.
There was empty and no breath.
Amber slipped early.
He shook his head helplessly, stepped forward and opened the window, shouted into the yard, "Come back, everyone is gone!"
The next second, a quick black shadow cut through the air and rushed into the study, and the figure of a half-elf lady condensed in the middle of the room.
Amber patted his chest with an exaggerated expression of fear: "My God!! My God!! That Melita is actually a dragon?! You and a human-shaped dragon are in the same room for two hours?!"
When Melita first entered the study, the shame of the elf was still in the room, but she kept hiding as always. But Gao Wen felt it real. The moment Melita revealed the identity of the dragon, the guy rushed out.
Melita must have noticed this, but she obviously didn't care about this little half-elf.
"Compared with this, as the lord guard, you ran away at the first time. Is this appropriate?" Gao Wen glanced at Amber, "I thought you would at least run to call people, but in the end, you caught ants in the yard for two hours?"
Amber looked shameless: "I want to call someone, but I observed it first, but I found that you two were chatting well, so I didn't ask you to say anything. This is called "I can't alarm the snake..."
It seems that this guy didn't run far, but observed the situation nearby, which somewhat comforted Gao Wen.
"I can't teach you those words normally. If you find an opportunity, you will use them randomly," Gao Wen shook his head, then pondered for a moment, and ordered, "Do some serious business and include all the Misin Treasure Stores and agents in the territory in the key monitoring, and pay more attention to it in normal times."
"Is it a secret surveillance?"
"Just secret surveillance."
Gao Wen couldn't expel the dragon's agent, and he didn't want to break the relationship with the dragon when possible. He hoped to have a good relationship with this ancient and powerful foreign civilization, but this did not mean that he did nothing.
He retained the Misin treasure house and its agents in the territory, but monitored them appropriately. This normal behavior would not stimulate the Dragon Clan, and would also allow the Government Affairs Department to maintain the minimum control ability of those low-level agents.
Chapter completed!