Ride and Cut

In the afternoon, Bernard and Vera quietly approached Li Cha, the lord of Alpine Fort.

"My lord." Vera and Berna looked at Richard across a long table, "You must already know that Stuart, our motherland, not long ago declared the Church of the Holy Light to be illegal and established the Church of the Goddess of Ice and Snow as the state religion."

"I heard." Li Cha nodded noncommittally, leaning on the back of the chair, "This is hard for you to accept."

"Yes." Bernard nodded.

"We all have many relatives and friends who firmly believe in the Holy Light. Now their fate is like a boat under the wind and rain, facing the risk of capsizing at any time." Vera closed her eyes and sighed long, "So we hope that we can bid farewell to you, go back to our hometown, and see how they are doing now."

"Yes." Bernard still nodded patronizingly.

"Oh, is there anything else?" Li Cha looked down at the wood texture of the tabletop with relish.

"About the space rift and the new world, if you don't want others to know, I swear in the name of the God of Light that I will keep the secret in my stomach forever until death comes." Vera raised three fingers, her face full of solemnity.

"Me too." Bernard hurriedly followed.

"No, no, no." Li Cha waved his hand, signaling them not to get too excited, "It's not as troublesome as you two imagined."

"That's a whole new world! Don't you plan to keep it a secret?" Vera was suddenly very surprised, looking at the face of the lord of the Alpine Fort, as if getting to know him again.

"Perhaps Richard believes that the new world is the blessing of all intelligent life, and he doesn't want to take it all by himself." Bernard held his chin rather optimistically.

"I mean you don't need to go back, just stay in the Alpine Castle." The lord finally stopped observing the wood grain, raised his head and his face was full of innocence, "Both, don't blame me. You said it yourself, it's a new world, and it can't be overstated. Why do you look at me like that? It's enough for me not to raise a knife, okay?"

"It makes sense." Bernard nodded his head twice, and suddenly noticed that Vera's eyes on him were getting colder and colder, so he quickly changed his words, "Dear Sir Richard, please think again. We are really worried about the situation of our relatives and friends."

"If you have anyone you want to inquire about, just make a list. I can help you inquire. For the sake of our friendship, the fee is free." Li Cha waved his hand generously, but he refused to let go.

Vera was almost choked and couldn't recover, and she still asked unwillingly: "But General Seedorf knows we are here, and he will find out that we are missing one day."

"Don't worry, if Seedorf asks, I'll tell you that you two are already dead, buried in the back mountain with bitter thorn flowers and mountain wind as companions." Li Cha warmly comforted them, "After all, life and death are impermanent, so the old man will definitely not think too much about it."

The air suddenly became very silent, and Li Cha continued to lower his head to observe the texture of the tabletop, and the atmosphere was almost stagnant.

"Sounds okay." Bernard accepted it quite quickly, and he didn't forget to continue to tell Richard, "Then remember to tell the general that I died a heroic death, and I didn't embarrass him."

"Small problem!" The lord snapped his fingers, looked at each other and laughed with Berna, and immediately reached a consensus by high-fiving.

"Bernard!" Vera gritted her silver teeth.

She thought that one more person was one more helper, but she never expected that sometimes it might be an extra oil bottle or an extra 25-year-old.

"Well, if it were me, I would do the same." Bernard had a wide heart, and his role transition was very smooth. In turn, he became a traitor and comforted Vera, "Besides, I am an orphan adopted by the general, and you are a holy nun who serves the gods. You are like a bystander in this chaotic world. How many relatives and friends do we have that we cannot part with?"

Vera rolled her eyes lying on the table, and sighed while resting her forehead. The hair was hanging down between the fingers, looking very melancholy, "Oh, okay."

She regretted it, regretted why she had to bring a person who was stupider than a pig as a partner.

"The celebration banquet tonight must be very festive, remember to come and participate." Li Cha said and left first.

Outside the door, Annie was taking a slow walk not far away, probably because she felt the fact that she was gaining weight recently, and the half-elf chick has been exercising very hard recently.

The lord gave a small laugh, and quietly touched behind her, and suddenly let out an "ah" without any warning, scaring Annie so much that she almost jumped up on the spot.

Before she could get angry, Li Cha hurriedly continued, "Do you know that Bernard and Vera just came to ask me to say goodbye."

Annie was really fooled. After a moment of surprise, she quickly grabbed his sleeve and asked, "You agreed?"

"Do I look mentally handicapped?" Li Cha rolled his eyes.

"It's not like, it is." Annie let go of his sleeve and pushed it hard.

"I warn you, don't give me too much." The lord patted the wrinkles on his sleeves.

Can he understand Vera and Berna's demands? Very capable! It is normal to care about relatives and friends when the current situation is turbulent. Even if the lord is not a good old man who always smiles, at least he is far from being hard-hearted. This can be seen from his relatively gentle attitude towards vassals and slaves.

But at this juncture, it is absolutely impossible to let these two people go back, unless the solar energy comes out from the west. The lord doesn't even mind saying it more bluntly: Wake up, stop fucking daydreaming!

This has nothing to do with understanding or not, or even whether you believe in the character of Berna and Vera, but the interests involved are too huge and astonishing.

The new world is there, and the space-time rift cannot be moved. Anyone who finds the location can go in and find out-of course, whether they can come back is another matter.

Alpine Fort, as the only insider so far, has become the only trade partner in the New World, which is the legendary monopoly. And iron, an ordinary material in this world, is an absolute necessity that cannot be produced by itself but is related to life and death for the creatures in the Twilight Forest.

Anyone who has a little knowledge of the history of colonial trade knows that the potential benefits that can be obtained by occupying such a naturally favorable position and relying on the difference of scissors are definitely astronomical figures that are enough to scare people's guts, and it is impossible to be overly optimistic!

The Iron King is a descendant of the Titans, no matter how embarrassing he is now, at least his ancestors were once rich. Li Cha doesn't think that those high-ranking giants will have a thin family now, at least they will certainly not be as shabby as they seem.

This is undoubtedly a treasure mountain, but this treasure mountain is all built on the basis of exclusive intelligence. Once the news leaks, endless variables will be added. No matter how arrogant the lord is, he would not think that the small alpine castle has the ability to keep the space crack under the gaze of countless greedy eyes, and even the fact that Qiqiu is a titan will be exposed.

Everything has turned into a moon in a well of flowers in the water-you can only see it but not touch it.

Placing hope on illusory morality is a very stupid approach in itself, it is better to not let the other party have the opportunity to do evil, it is better for everyone.

If anyone were to sit in Li Cha's position, it would be absolutely impossible for him to tolerate the slightest increase in risk. We must be cautious and cautious to minimize uncontrollable factors.

Under such circumstances, how could it be possible for them to leave.