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Chapter 978 The Battle of Quota
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Game time PM18:23
The Realm of Innocence, Hongyun Terrace, Northwest Continent, outside Artisan Town
"Um……"

Mo Tan, who had regained consciousness, yawned, and sat up on Wang Badan's solid back, which was fairly wide but a bit awkward. Just as he was about to say something to the friends next to him, he saw the man on the other side not far away. The sunset glow exploded.

Evening glow exploded...

Evening glow exploded! ?
No, is it plausible that Sunset blows it up? !

Mo Tan, who was still a little tired at first, became energetic at that time, and then suddenly flipped over and jumped off Wang Badan's shell. Ji Xiaoge, who looked excited, asked, "Hey! What's going on!?"

Boom—boom boom boom boom! ! !
At the same time, a series of deafening explosions exploded from a distance, directly covering Mo Tan's voice.

"Ah! Mo you come up?"

Ji Xiaoge turned his head to look at Mo Tan as if feeling something, and asked with a loud voice against the background of the roaring explosion in the distance: "What did you just say?"

"I say--"

Mo Tan raised his hand to block a few gravels that fell from nowhere, raised his voice and repeated: "What's going on?"

"I don't know wow."

Ji Xiaoge, who had been blocking the gravel with his wings before, saw that Mo Tan was blocking him, so he simply shrank behind the latter, grabbed Mo Tan's shoulder and said: "Not long after we arrived, the sound of explosions in the town It hasn't stopped since a quarter of an hour ago! A few of us planned to wait and see first, but the bombing over there has been going on until now, and there is no intention of stopping at all."

Mo Tan's eyes widened, and he suddenly turned his head to look in the direction where roars still erupted: "The town?"

"Yes, Artisan Town is in front of it, but the smoke and dust over there is relatively large now, so it's not easy to see."

Jadka came out from behind Wang Badan in disgrace. He originally wanted to put a magic shield to protect everyone from the sand, but one of them failed to operate well and blew himself up. If it weren't for Yaya, who is particularly sensitive to sound Keeping back behind Wang Badan, holding his head and squatting in defense, the appearance of the old sorcerer may be even worse.

"This……"

Mo Tan frowned, and while holding up his shield to brush away the fine flying sand that kept coming, he said in a deep voice: "If it's just an ordinary blasting experiment or accident, it's impossible to continue from a quarter of an hour ago until now. , something must have happened over there, let's go and have a look."

Because everyone has stayed in Artisan Town for a while, they are not surprised that "big explosions occasionally occur in the town". The main reason for rushing into town to check the situation.

After all, there are countless great artisans living here. Except for civil servants or ordinary businessmen of neutral organizations such as the Mining Association, Adventurers Guild, and Tavern Owners, most of the residents are engineers in the objective sense, or it can be said that they are artisans. , and among these people, the proportion of bigwigs with the title of 'Great Craftsman' is as high as [-]%. If it is converted into a regular occupation under the world view of the world of innocence, they are epic-level powerhouses!
Of course, even though this is the case, great artisans, great alchemists, and great pharmacists whose professional titles are equal to the epic rank may not be very strong in terms of personal combat effectiveness. After all, they are not people who specialize in the field of combat.

Just like breaking the Guinness Book of Records, one is a senior technical nerd who can build a Gundam in five seconds, and the other is a senior Russian who can hammer a bear to death within five seconds, even though they both won They won honors with the same gold content, but if the two of them were put together to fight... well, it would be a proper criminal case.

Of course, as the saying goes, all roads lead to Romaum. Although it is not a combat profession in the conventional sense, a great engineer or alchemist who is a fortress must not be underestimated. Take that Lu Wei from Tianzhu Mountain. For Fistleban, that is a standard technical talent, but he can still throw a detonator capable of creating a small-scale space collapse, and develop a weapon of mass destruction that can directly complete the book of "Reign of the Sun" .

Another example is Ji Xiaoge, who is obviously a cook, but... well, I know everything, so I won't go into details here.

All in all, in the town not far away that is full of unstable, flammable and explosive creatures like the Great Artisan, the kind of explosion that would emit terrifying light and shadow effects and terrifying sound waves is actually not uncommon, at least in Motan and other places. During the time when I stayed in Artisan Town, I could witness similar situations once or twice a day. I was quite nervous at first, but it became normal after a long time.

After all, the people who can make big noises are basically the bosses, and the bosses... especially the big bosses who are engaged in scientific research are mostly very disgusted with trouble, so in order not to be entangled in trivial matters such as blowing up other people's houses, everyone still compares them. Restraint and overly dangerous scientific research projects are generally done in the experimental field (large open space) specially designated in the town, and disturbing the people belongs to disturbing the people, but since those people who are disturbed are basically the same, it doesn't matter.

but……

but!

At this moment, the situation in front of Mo Tan and others, which looks like the main battlefield of World War II, is definitely not a common phenomenon!
Even counting from the moment Mo Tan first came online, the explosion in Artisan Town in just a few minutes has already exceeded the usual amount of a month.

To sum up, although Mo Tan immediately made a judgment that there must be something strange about this matter, he was going to find out.

"It's good to approach slowly. I took a look. The explosion mainly happened not far from the town. As long as we don't plunge into the core area, there shouldn't be too much danger."

Mo Tan appeased Yaya who trot next to him in silent mode, took a deep breath, held up his shield and cautiously led the way to Artisan Town, more than ten miles away.

Jadka rushed to the front side by side with Mo Tan in leapfrog mode, followed by Wang Badan who scolded Mo Tan for meddling, Ji Xiaoge and Ya Ya followed at the back, after all, the two girls were of the same body Too weak, one hearing too good, so they all consciously hid themselves behind the bunker.

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ten minutes later
The few people who acted cautiously finally approached the outer edge of the land that has been subjected to heavy bombardment, and saw a familiar face there.

"Bah... bah bah bah bah! Fuck, these crazy people!"

The president of the Miners' Association in Artisan Town, Ji Xiaoge's old acquaintance, and the old dwarf Kag Tiebeard, who used to take care of the Wangwang team, sat on the ground in disgrace, spitting sand in his mouth while rushing towards the explosion not far away. The core area yelled and cursed, looking embarrassed and angry.

"Papa Karg!"

Mo Tan, who was running in the front, was taken aback. In his impression, this generous and kind alcoholic old man had no strength. Simply put, Ji Xiaoge couldn't even handle a broken tea egg that was used against people. The weak chicken hurriedly threw himself in front of the old dwarf with a heroic leap, and carefully raised his shield while pulling it up: "Why are you here? What happened?"

Kag blinked his eyes, and reacted for a long time before he said in shock: "Oh, boy Mo, why are you back?"

"The matter you explained has been completed, and we will send you back the invoice issued over there."

Mo Tan took out some kind of note from the luggage, which was roughly equivalent to a receipt, and handed it to Kag who seemed very angry, but he didn't seem to be very panicked, and asked again: "So what's going on here? Is it? We can see this side of the town from a long way away...uh...it's very lively."

"Hey, it's my fault that I didn't tell you guys. In fact, you can ask the adventurer's guild over there to bring it back to me. There's no need to go there yourself."

Kag first smiled with the corners of his mouth pulled, put the note handed by Motan into his pocket, then huddled behind the shield and let out a long sigh: "As for the town... the ancestors of Teta, you can understand it as the Help the lunatic finally completely go crazy!"

Mo Tan froze for a moment: "Huh?"

Jadka next to him also wondered, "What do you mean?"

"It's a long story."

Mr. Kag patted his knees, and said sadly: "Although I knew that this situation would happen today, I never expected that these grandchildren could play so well..."

Mo Tan looked a little messily at the "spectacle" not far away that still had great sound and light effects, was endless, and overwhelmed with lethality, and fell into a deep daze.

Co-authored to support Papa Kag, this chaos that makes people feel that it is enough to blow up the entire artisan town is premeditated?planned?

The old mage next to him also reacted, and even asked, "Why is it so big?"

"Oh, what else can it be, that's all."

Kag smacked his lips, and said helplessly, "Isn't there an exchange meeting in Academy City this year..."

"Exchange!"

Ji Xiaoge, who had just caught up with Wang Badan and Yaya, jumped up in front of Kag's father with a 'swish', and the pair of wings that had been baked by the sand and dust on his back were raised high, and his pretty face was full of tears. Excited: "What happened to the exchange meeting?"

Mo Tan secretly frowned, and suddenly had an ominous premonition.

"That's right, it's the Academy City's exchange meeting. Our Artisan Town will be invited every time. Of course, it has nothing to do with our Miners' Association. The target group is mainly those lunatics who are engaged in machinery and explosives."

Father Kag pulled out his ears that were filled with humming, and shrugged his shoulders: "Then, although we must go, but because of some problems about the number of places, those lunatics have to wait until now. They haven’t reached an agreement yet, but the time is approaching, and they started to get anxious, and after getting anxious, they started working on this shit like in previous years.”

"Quota..."

Ji Xiaoge pursed her lips and muttered in a low voice, "It really is a big problem."

On the other hand, Mo Tan and Jadka exchanged a somewhat dazed look. You must know that the old mage just said some time ago that as long as you are invited, it doesn't matter if you go to more people.

As a result, in the blink of an eye, the gang of Kung Fu Craftsman Town started working because of the quota!
Optimistically, it is estimated that two floors of the land here have been destroyed!

"Yes, it's a big problem. It's not that I can't understand it, so I didn't stop them...well, it's because I couldn't stop them even if I wanted to."

Daddy Kag smacked his lips and said angrily: "But even if at least three people have to go, it's considered decent, even if this group of lunatics are so troublesome and don't want to move, they won't be able to engage in such a big group fight, right? No, this can no longer be called a fight, this scale is simply a war!"

Mo Tan: "..."

Ji Xiaoge: "..."

Jadka: "..."

Tooth: "???"

Wang Badan: "Oh, it's over."

"What's wrong? What's your reaction?"

Kag looked at Mo Tan and the others with a strange expression, and spread his hands and said, "That's right, according to the frequency of spending money by those lunatics, if you don't want to starve to death, you can only find export channels for the products. Every few years The exchange meeting held once in Academy City is one of the best platforms. There are many big people, rich people, and more people with insight and knowledge, and the cycle of once every few years is also very suitable, just enough for those lunatics to toss Come up with something new."

Mo Tan nodded stiffly.

And Ji Xiaoge, whose eyes are getting brighter and brighter, grabbed Kag's hand and urged: "Then and then!"

"And then? According to the tradition here, everyone will take out the finished products that they think are not bad, and then find a few unlucky people to represent all the great craftsmen in the craftsman town to participate in the exchange meeting, and deal with those who may pay high prices. Talk about the price."

Seeing that the little pigeon was so interested, Kag didn't give a shit, and explained carefully: "You also know that this is a gathering place for lunatics. There are quite a lot of capable people. Those guys must have made more things. If you go to a Two people will definitely be too busy, and at least three people can barely handle it, so... let's fight?"

"So there was a fight?"

Jadka frowned and asked curiously, "You really don't want to go?"

"I really don't want to go!"

Kag nodded vigorously, took a sip from the wine bag on his waist, and said with a sneer, "The bastards are more troublesome than the other. They don't want to move if they want money and sell things. They say they have research. Leaving, the one said that there is still thirty catties of calculations to be done, anyway, they all want to be shopkeepers and let others run errands, but... you also know that these people are not very good-tempered, so they still fought in the end."

Mo Tan twitched the corners of his mouth, and said dryly: "So, everyone is not fighting for a place to go to Academy City, but..."

"It's about fighting for who will not go."

Kag hiccupped, wiped the corner of his mouth and said, "To sum it up, it's going to be a big melee. The first three eliminated hapless ghosts go, and the others don't have to go, understand?"

"understood!"

Ji Xiaoge nodded vigorously, then flapped her wings suddenly, and shot out like an arrow flying off the string——

"I totally get it!!!"

Chapter nine hundred and seventy first: the end

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