Something's wrong with my undead

Chapter 510: Hidden Darkness

The Basque Chamber of Commerce and the Cummings family's team set out on the fourth day after the Feast of Grace and made headlines in major newspapers that day.

It can be said that this news is full of explosive points.

First of all, this was the first large-scale expedition launched by the Veritas people after the restoration of the magic network.

Secondly, the two parties in the cooperation are two completely unrelated groups of people - the Basque Chamber of Commerce represents the emerging forces that have emerged in recent years, especially during the disaster, while Ms. Melvin Cummings represents the local powerful people in Veritas.

What's more, in order to make its own political status independent enough, the Basque Chamber of Commerce specifically withdrew from the Lion King.

"New money" and "old money" differ in many aspects such as concepts and styles of doing things, so the combination of this team seems very strange.

Last but not least, their method of transportation is relying on pilots to pull the airship.

Although there have been similar incidents before, they were all auxiliary flights with a small number of people, and they mainly relied on charging stones.

This time, it was a luxurious fleet, with nearly three thousand workers, technicians, researchers and guards, plus five hundred pilots to solicit passengers.

Apart from some necessary purchases, they hardly used the Charge Stones.

So most people are waiting and watching——

If this journey goes smoothly, it will set an example for getting rid of the charging stone on future long-distance flights.

Although in order to purchase this special lightweight airship, one also needs to hire a pilot to pull the car, and also prepare several void capsules to store a month's worth of daily necessities.

However, all these losses combined are not as much as the cost of the charging stone.

"They won't be able to succeed. Ms. Melvin might need us to rescue her by then."

Pavel Fedorov of Keywest Security said sarcastically.

He stockpiled a batch of energy stones when the price soared tenfold, so he hoped more than anyone else that the Basque Chamber of Commerce's voyage would fail.

By then, the prices of these stones will inevitably soar again.

...

Five days later, this luxurious fleet arrived at the city of Urun in the south of Deathclaw Mountain.

Few locals know what this city was called before, but this was the first stop for the sixteen colossi of Urune when they "walked" back to the Sky City.

At that time, the city of Urun was still a small settlement, but soon it became famous. Everyone said that the gift from Mother Earth was buried under the mountain.

So explorers flocked to the area, exploring every inch of the ground, analyzing and examining every stone and every rock layer with strange patterns. Eventually, they discovered more than a dozen mineral veins for the locals, making this place a real large city and increasing the economy dozens of times.

In a way, this is indeed a "gift from the Mother Goddess".

But resource dependence eventually came to an end, and the city eventually returned to its previous half-dead state.

The arrival of the Basque caravan surprised the locals. After all, even before the magic network was paralyzed, they had never seen such a big scene.

In the most luxurious hotel in the city, Red and William sat in a secluded place.

Originally, William had no intention of participating in this operation, but after a few days of contact, he found that he could no longer see through this young Cornu man.

Not only can I not see clearly, but I can always feel some inexplicable attraction from the other person——

Listening, tolerance, understanding, recognition, and... tacit understanding.

Terrible tacit understanding.

This often made him feel like he was looking in a mirror.

What he saw in the mirror was a sensitive soul who was born in a single-parent family like himself. Because of the environment he was in, he saw through the interpersonal relationships created by money too early, which gave birth to precocious wisdom.

He built a high wall and hid his most vulnerable side behind a heart wall that seemed friendly but was actually arrogant.

He originally thought that no one would understand him, but when the two of them were together, he felt extremely comfortable more than once, even a little creepy...

Before going out, he would always warn himself:
——How can this be comfortable!?
——I should be unable to eat just by looking at that face!
But once you talk to the other person, you will quickly fall.

——He really understands me.

——He is so smart, he is just like another me in the world!

Very confused.

But now he is not so conflicted, he has reasons to convince himself.

——It was my mother who asked me to keep the other person away so as not to expose her whereabouts tonight.

"Did you read what Pavel said?"

William quipped, taking a sip of the local corn wine.

The Magic Network delivered the newspaper to the receivers they carried with them every morning, and Pavel gave several more interviews after his initial remarks, with similar content.

"He's anxious."

Duoduo said disdainfully: "It's not right to say that Pavel is a fool, but it's even more wrong to say that he is smart." "Oh?" William's eyes lit up: "What do you mean?"

"He is only a little clever. Just like playing chess, ordinary people can only see one or two steps into the future, but he may be able to see the third or fourth step, and he will be complacent and think he is smarter than others. However, he does not know that the real layout requires more than ten steps to be seen. These people will only remain silent because they know that once they speak out and show off, the results will change.

"Ordinary people can't see these things, so the changes in the situation have nothing to do with them. They come when they come and go when they go. Only when they look back after a long time will they sigh, 'How could things have changed so much?' But people like Pavel often can neither seize opportunities nor see the direction clearly. They are clearer than ordinary people and more confused than wise people. Therefore, they live in anger most of their lives - pathetic and impotent rage."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

William was very excited to hear this and couldn't help clapping and cheering.

He liked the other person's way of speaking more and more.

It's simply his mouthpiece!
"By the way, William." Duoduo suddenly asked, "Did your mother find any anomalies while repairing so many communication stations along the way?"

"Can't you hide this from your eyes?"

William was surprised and said, "She didn't mention it to anyone except me."

"I can tell by the consumption of materials."

Duoduo smiled and said, "The first repair of the southern bay failed, so we used double the materials. It seems that you used double the materials at each subsequent station, so that the prepared materials ran out ahead of time, and you had to borrow from me when you passed the White Mist Trail... I waited until today to ask you this."

"Actually, there's nothing that can't be said."

William curled his lips: "According to her words, the cohesion of the magic circle seems to have decreased, and the magic network is not as obedient as before. It takes twice the restraint force in the past to... call them."

He almost said the "taboo word" of the Veritas.

Slavery.

"Is this also the reason why she left with my 'lifeboat' tonight?" Duoduo asked.

The "Lifeboat" is one of the few small airships in the entire fleet that consumes energy stones and can accommodate up to five people.

Upon hearing this, William's face changed slightly, and then he laughed dryly: "You even discovered this..."

Melvin took his men to Deathclaw Mountain. Renting flying monsters would expose their location, and those monsters did not dare to approach.

If they relied on pilots to take them there, they would have to kill them afterwards - but the Basque Chamber of Commerce regarded these pilots as treasures.

After thinking it over, they drove away Duoduo's "lifeboat", and then used illusion to create another one to deceive the others. It would be back in one night anyway.

"I just wanted to introduce the 'family airship' I designed independently to the locals on a whim, but I didn't expect to get nothing."

Duoduo shrugged and said deliberately.

She was actually just talking nonsense, but she knew that the other party deliberately stayed here overnight for Death Claw Mountain, and she was just working backwards from the answer.

Anyone can be a wise man after the event.

William: "I'm sorry, my friend, I don't know her purpose either, but please rest assured that I will double the compensation for the consumed energy stones."

"You think I'm worried about the money?"

Duoduo shook the red wine glass and sneered deliberately.

"I'm just concerned about Ms. Melvin's safety."

"Safety?" William laughed and said, "She is a level 7 battle mage. Who can threaten her?"

"hope so."

Duoduo smiled and drank the wine in the glass.

The evening breeze blew in from the window, and both of them were silent for a while.

Suddenly, Duoduo looked at William's lavender pupils.

"My friend, you should carefully investigate my past, right?"

William was stunned, and said unnaturally: "My friend, why are you saying this now?"

"Since you investigated, you should know what I've been through... I lost a lot of things and betrayed many people, including myself, to get everything I have today."

Duoduo said calmly.

William actually saw a sense of fragility on that dark face.

Duoduo: “For someone like me who has experienced pain, it is inevitable that some dark thoughts will arise in my mind. They completely go against the nobility of human nature and are so dark that just thinking about them makes me feel sick.

"But I cannot deny that they do exist, in places where the sun doesn't shine... to my employer, Mr. Basque, to my partners, and to all the high-ranking people I meet."

Hearing him say this, William's body trembled instinctively.

But he still maintained his expression, frowned deliberately and asked: "My friend, what do you want to say?"

Duoduo: "What if you have a chance to truly control your life?"

(End of this chapter)