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Chapter 632 Unfinished Commission (Combined Chapter)
Sad mining town.

It used to be the imperial capital and the top mining city, but now it is a thousand miles of ruins and a place where bones are buried... Even though it has collapsed and been abandoned now, it does not change the fact that it was once one of the largest city-states in the Southern United City, and its status was even higher than that of Kaiton City.

With the death of Emperor Anxi and the flight of local nobles, Aikuang Town has become ownerless and is nominally under the trusteeship of General Tianxin Lizheng - it is not even subordinate to Kaidun City, but belongs to this patron saint who guards the southern border of the empire.

Of course, in reality, Tian Xinli was just about to decide how to deal with Ai Mine Town, and the benefits gained would definitely go to Kaidun City.

Depression Lagoon was forced to take over the task due to the opponent's power, but at the same time, it did not want to bear it alone with the strength of the branch, so it sent people to the Black Scratch headquarters to seek support.

The attitude is quite contradictory.

Everyone knows what happened next.

but……

"You, you...you want to take over the Ai Mine Town?" In astonishment, one tech hunter even forgot to use the honorific and blurted out.

No wonder they were surprised.

Not to mention why the other party made such a sudden decision... Even when the Lowland Lagoon Town was promoting the acquisition of the Sorrowful Mine Town, it had to ask for help from the headquarters of the Tech Hunters. As for the emerging Flash Land, although it has potential, it has only just started to develop...

You're welcome to say that.

Do you have this ability?
What's more, even if the South United City, which is in charge, is obsessed with money, it is impossible for it to hand over the Ai Mine Town to you, the Lord of Blood, right?
However, in addition to being shocked.

When the Mine Hunters heard this, even though they knew there were many unreasonable points, they did not even have the slightest thought of refuting it.

It's like I'm worried that I heard it wrong.

It was also like he couldn't bear to destroy this sudden glimmer of hope with his own mouth.

——Someone is willing to take over their hometown.

"I've already said that this matter itself is not a commission from me to the Tech Hunters, so you don't need to worry about the details." Lu Meng smiled. "All you have to do is pass on the message."

Or to put it less euphemistically.

It's a notification.

Although it is highly likely that Black Scratches will give up supporting the subsequent reconstruction plan of the Mine Town and instead invest resources and energy into the future relay station in Flash, as an outsider, you should not intervene rashly, as it may easily affect your dignity.

His gaze rested on the silver card.

Serial number 10.

This silver card was left behind by the Hive Prince. Although it is not his own, it once belonged to a technology hunter and a watcher who had the hope of entering the inner circle.

He was also Hui's former comrade-in-arms and colleague.

Finally he died in the Bloody Rebellion.

And they all came from the now abandoned city-state - Ai Mine Town.

In the background setting, the major forces not only have factional favorability with the Nameless One, but they also have such a relationship with each other.

Among them, there are not many forces that can gain the favor of anti-slavery fighters...but their attitude towards technology hunters is "respect".

That's the relationship.

However, it is one-sided.

When the Bloody Rebellion was about to be destroyed, the Watcher tried to use his connections to ask the local Tech Hunter Organization to transfer some of the rebels involved in the rebellion, so that at least they could escape pursuit... but was rejected in the end.

The reason is also very simple.

They are neutral.

This is your own war.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the Southern Tech Hunters, seeing that the Empire had already won, were unwilling to be accused of shielding the Empire. It was clear that they had been involved in power struggles due to mission assignments in the past.

But this time it was too intense.

It makes people cherish their feathers.

Facts have proved that from the perspective of the Southern Tech Hunters, their approach was completely correct: even after a series of violent changes such as the Bloody Rebellion and the Decline of the Mine of Sorrow, the activities of Tech Hunters in the South have flourished instead.

Finally, a vast network based on the depression lagoon was formed. Except for the fact that the rapid development resulted in the accumulation of time and the lack of personnel quality, it actually had the momentum to be comparable to the headquarters.

However, the tech hunter whose commission was rejected also rejected the transfer and asylum procedure provided by the organization for him personally, and chose to live and die with the Bloody Rebels, and was buried together in the Sorrowful Mine.

Finally, his silver card was obtained by Hui, who was just an ordinary beeman prince at that time. Either due to negligence or guilt, the technology hunters never thought of recovering the lost silver card, and the card showed no signs of expiration or demagnetization - such situations are actually very common. More than a dozen silver cards have been issued in history, but even if one becomes a Watcher, it is not necessary to keep in touch with the headquarters all the time. At one time, the inner circle members would have five or six people, at most, but the seats of these lost persons would not be cancelled.

For example, Sword Saint Alk. Since he left, the technology hunters have not heard from him for a long time.

There are others that are even older, hundreds or thousands of years old… They may have already decayed and turned into dust, but as long as they have not been confirmed, they are still regarded as watchers.

In theory, this silver card can still be used as long as the technology hunters turn a blind eye. However, after Mr. Gray got it, he never took the initiative to contact the other party. Instead, he relied on his own efforts to develop the current anti-slavers, as if it was just an ordinary relic of an old friend.

As time went by, the Tech Hunters organization went through several major changes. A generation had almost passed, and most people had forgotten about the past... However, as an eyewitness to the incident, Hui would not forget it, and he knew that there were old guys in the inner circle who had not forgotten it either.

Today, the anti-slavers who inherited part of the Bloody Will have become an organization that is no less powerful than the Tech Hunters in status, but Mr. Gray kept the silver card.

Left it to Lu Meng.

In addition to Qianli Yu's assassination of Deng Li in the camp to silence him and even the ronin Diu who frightened Tian Xinli into going out, this silver card of Watch is also one of the remaining gifts.

At the same time, it is also a commission.

Shandi has won the opportunity to get investment from the technology hunters to set up a station... However, the Ai Mine Town, which has been forgotten by the times, also needs to be saved!
This is what the technology hunter, the watcher of the past, has been doing all his life, even at the cost of his life.

An unfinished commission.

And for Lu Meng...

In the future, Depression Lagoon will be qualified to manage the Mining Town...so why can't he do it?

That's a city-state!
In some ways, the present-day town of Mine is very similar to the hub station where he was "born".

The difference is that the hub station used to prosper due to its geographical location and as a transit point for trade. Once it was destroyed in war, it would have been almost impossible for it to rise again if Lu Meng had not guided the Flotsam Ninjas to discover the hidden large copper mine.

Aikuang Town is different. It is an important industrial town in itself.

It's not even like the depression lagoon that declined due to the exhaustion of oil and natural industry, but due to complex factors such as war, politics, invasion of wild monsters, etc., it suddenly collapsed and was abandoned everywhere.

This also means.

Today, Ai Mine Town still retains a large number of abandoned machines that can be reused, a complete set of industrial production equipment, and a group of industrial workers who have received systematic education and are skilled but have been forced to become scavengers... The Ai Mine Hunters, who now occupy half of the southern technology hunters, are only two or three tenths of the latter.

No matter from which perspective you look at it, it is no exaggeration to call it a treasure trove.

And Tian Xinli, who is in charge of the Ai Mine, actually wants to sell it...

Of course, the huge cost of rebuilding the city-state and maintaining order is one of the reasons. It is meaningless to have a treasure chest if the key to open it is more expensive than all the treasure.

But apart from this, there must be something fishy.

It's not as simple as Kaiton City wanting to extort money from the technology hunters and get rid of this burden.

But no matter how many inside stories are behind it.

The current situation is the best time to intervene - the actions of Colonus and Wandering End not only allowed Lu Meng to successfully hide the fact that the intelligent core was stolen and put the blame on Yamudu, but also promoted the establishment of a station in Shandi, and also happened to interrupt the plan of Kaidun City. No matter what little tricks the other party had, they could not display them for a while.

The conflicting interests among different regions, factions, and city-states of the United Empire once again helped him.

Now, the construction of Inner Shan is on the right track, the spread of the sect's beliefs and technology is accelerating, the refugees are gradually settling down, and the tribal herdsmen are even more delighted and worship them as gods.

Deng Li thought he had discovered a loophole, but that was because he had never understood the previous exciting experience between the two sides and didn't know that this was a deliberate exposure of the entrance to the fish basket. Now he spread this wrong information back, and once someone with ulterior motives wanted to take advantage of it, it would only fall into their pocket.

Externally, Lu Meng intimidated the Sand Bandits in the north, making the bandits in the border areas terrified and fleeing at the sight of their flags, and they dared not disturb their trade routes with the Shak Kingdom at all; the mysterious revenge land on the east side was protected by the skyfire and could not be attacked for the time being, but Lu Meng also deliberately misled the lurkers with false memories, making them hesitant and unable to act rashly, thus avoiding a war.

Even the most obviously hostile united nobles in the south were resolved... Shan was obviously located in a place surrounded by wars, and anyone who wanted to occupy it and dominate would be coveted. It was flat and had no strategic locations to defend, but with the arrival of Lu Meng, the situation was torn apart and the fleeting opportunity was seized.

If the overlords who have failed here in history were to comment on this, they would probably only say that it is simply unbelievable.

Now Lu Meng's strength has been further improved and stabilized, and he has the confidence to fight and the guarantee of personal safety. He also prepared a substitute in a flash, and spent a lot of time and energy to let the other party train and adapt - he was originally worried that he would only have the appearance and could only be a fox pretending to be a tiger.

Insufficient deterrence.

But with the addition of the ronin Diu, before the fortress based on the Holy Base was formed, Shan Land had another strong man of the same level to guard it.

should say.

All conditions are in place.

It's time to head south and attack the town of Sorrow Mine.

He led the team himself.

Listening to the young man's simple words and looking at the silver card on the table, a tech hunter couldn't help but reach out and touch the number on the card... This was the sequence that belonged to their Ai Mine Town.

Although the specific inside story has become unclear, as a big figure at the level of the Watcher, his fellow townsmen and younger generations have always heard of the existence of such a person and know his ideals.

Rather, the reason why everyone present chose to join the Tech Hunters was more or less because of this inspiration, hoping to change the current situation of the Mine Town through this method, with the help of the power of a larger organization - even if the reality was not as they imagined.

But it is full of discord.

A fly is like a dog.

But now, Lu Beiyou not only got this lost and hidden silver card from some unknown channel, but was also willing to take on the other party's dying "commission" that had not been completed until now and was even becoming increasingly slim...

A warm current surged through their hearts, stronger and spicier than the fine prairie liquor on the table.

Different from the previous time, when they felt admiration and envy when they saw each other working hard and taking responsibility for the Land of Flash, this time, the hunters who walked out of the Mine of Sorrow truly felt the warmth shining on themselves, rather than an illusion.

This is the first fire.

Suddenly, they were even speechless and could only put the silver card into their chest pocket and nodded heavily, indicating that they would complete the commission given to them by the other party's representative Shandi.

This time it was heartfelt.

Rather than out of duty.

The only one left at the scene, Liu Si, a technology hunter from the Lowland Lagoon and their leader, was slightly moved by the scene even though he could not empathize with them.

He suddenly remembered that as a lost industrial town, Depression Lagoon should have had the same fate as the Mine Town, but in the end it won because of luck. It quickly transformed with the help of technology hunters and did not suffer much, unlike the other party who is still struggling until now and running around for this.

This should have been lucky.

However, thinking of the chaos he had experienced when living in the lagoon, he could not stand it, so he buried himself in ancient books and ignored worldly affairs, willing to be an outlier.

I thought the team I organized was like-minded... and maybe they did have such a time... but in the end, it ended up like this.

In comparison, there was only one Deng Li in a team of Mine Hunters... He was actually more pure than the Lake Town Hunters who were born in comfort, had never actually felt the threat of the United Cities, but were gradually infiltrated.

Even if will exists, it manifests itself in suffering.

I just don’t know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate.

But at the moment, Liu Si was actually more concerned about... The Nameless Man said that he wanted to take over the Ai Mine Town. It was just a light remark, but to really do it, even with the other party's strength, it would be extremely difficult and full of obstacles.

The other party's words were simple, and his tone seemed to be intended not to put pressure on others. He even pretended to be relaxed and a little frivolous.

But the power inside is extremely firm.

Conclusive words.

Liu Si really wanted to ask the other party about his confidence as if they were chatting, but he could also imagine that this was quite confidential and a hidden card.

Can't show it to others easily.

At the same time, after an electric shock, the long neck, with a burnt smell all over its body, slowly went up to the attic again.

time to go.

Three days later, the armed envoys covered in ashes and the technological hunter representatives carrying the furnace flag left the land of Shan, escorted by military formations along the way.

Head to Black Scratch.

(End of this chapter)