goddess of revolution

Chapter 545 The Chief Cardinal is gone again!
"It's snowing..."

Deckard twisted his nose, shook off the cool snowflakes, looked up at the sky, the snowflakes were changing from small to large, from sparse to dense.

In the northwest of the Shenyun Plateau, the mountains were shrouded in snowflakes, and a two-headed tortoise convoy turned out from the mountain road and headed for a river valley ahead.The thick tortoise legs left deep footprints in the snow, which were then filled with snowflakes.

Dyke, who was sitting at the front of the car, complained: "Didn't the Legion decommission a lot of turtle cars? Why didn't they equip a few here? They are still tossing around with these old guys, and they are going to go back, not to mention hot soup and bread." They are all frozen harder than rocks!"

A middle-aged man with a gloomy face squeezed together with him, he looked like a magician in his clothes, and said disdainfully: "What do you know? Those turtle cars were made hastily during the undead war, and the joint magic circle was worn out. It's very serious, almost all of them are scrapped. And now they are all using slime magic oil, who would be so extravagant to use spar directly? If you think it's too late, you can go back on your own, what's the use of complaining here?"

Dyke was speechless, and after a while he said angrily: "We are useless, why are you, a master magician, squeezed together with us again, slowly going back to drink ice water and eat cold bread?"

The magician Sandro said leisurely: "Because the time is right, when we go back, the support center of the service station should also open."

Deke was stunned again, the team members in the rear compartment heard it, and excitedly leaned over to ask this and that.

"Is there really free bread?"

"I heard that there are still clothes. Did the magician invent the weaving technique?"

"What about that kind of vending machine? I really want that set of multi-functional adventure knives, only one contribution point! I just don't have a chance to go back to Beta City to buy them!"

The magician Sandro answered one by one patiently. It feels good to be the core of the team, which made him smile with satisfaction.

Dyke sighed in frustration: "There is still a month."

Sandro's smile froze, and then he sighed like Deckard.

Deckard was thinking: "I can no longer be self-righteous. When I am re-naturalized, I will find a place to settle with everyone, start from scratch, and think about what I can do."

Sandro was thinking: "I can no longer take advantage of loopholes to make black money. Do things honestly, do whatever you want, even being a calculating magician is much better than earning a few golden bushels."

One is in the inspection period, and the other is in the labor reform period. Except for the necessary living allowances, all their labors cannot earn contribution points. This embarrassing day will not end until January 1228, 1.It was December 1, 1227, and there was a full month to go, and the two lamented the unbearably long time.

The double-headed tortoise convoy slowly moved forward in the heavy snow, and the outline of the small town in the center of the valley was already revealed.Because there are five valley entrances here, it is blown by mountain winds from five sides all day long, so it is named "Five Winds Valley".

The small villages and towns are covered by a layer of ripples, the snowflakes are not blocked, the buildings are covered with silver, and the mist rises, and the voices of noisy people can be vaguely heard, which seems to be full of vitality.

When the frontier expedition team of Deckard and Sandro returned to the town, the sky had already begun to darken.After unloading the goods at the parking lot outside the town and taking care of the double-headed turtle, the team members rushed into the square filled with laughter and laughter.

The square is very wide, and in the center is a pillar more than ten meters thick and the same height, with many doors open.A number of low metal buildings on the periphery formed a circle, and outside the buildings were lotus leaf-like metal plates, spread out at an angle, with large and small round holes on them.

This is actually an improved teleportation fortress, which is now called a comprehensive service station. The pillars in the center are the teleportation gate, the magic well, and the protective barrier transformed from the army united world.After the lotus leaves are closed, it becomes a circular fortress with a diameter of 70 meters, and only half of the upper part is exposed to the ground.

Several roads extend out of the square formed by the fortress as the center, and hundreds of buildings are distributed among the roads.These buildings are tall or short, big or small, and have different shapes, but you can see something in common when you look closely. They all have a very clear skeleton. The pillars form a frame of the same size, and the frame is stuffed into the frame. The building units I went to were all about the same size.

On a huge lotus leaf, people were queuing up to get something. Sandro looked at the front of the line with his magic vision, nodded and said, "Sure enough, the bread machine, water dispenser, loom and vending machine Both."

Dyke said, "What are these citizens doing to get bread when they can eat in the cafeteria every day!?"

Sandro shrugged: "Join the fun, everyone wants to see the miracles created by magic, if you are hungry, go to the cafeteria to eat."

Deckard shouted, "We're not citizens yet, and it costs gold bushels to eat in the cafeteria! It's free for everyone!"

A group of red-clothed legionnaires stationed at the comprehensive service station, together with gray-clothed police officers were maintaining order. The two of them lined up obediently with other team members at the back of the line.

"This is the bread machine, and this is the water dispenser. Hold this switch and cast a spell like firing a magic gun, and you can get bread and water. If you don't know how to spell, I will help you."

In front of two metal cabinets that were half the height of a person and thicker than one person, a person wearing a "volunteer" armband explained to Deke: "The bread in the bread machine is cold, if you want to eat hot, heat it in the magic stove next to it. But the maintenance time has changed from one day to half an hour, so you have to eat it right away. The water dispenser has two outlets, the blue one is cold, and the red one is hot."

Maybe I will be a volunteer like this in my future work, how boring it is...

Deck murmured in his heart, put two magic spells on the handle of the bread machine, and got two huge magic bread.Then I used a kettle to get hot water in front of the water dispenser, and then turned to another metal cabinet of the same size.

After stuffing the bread into the compartment and closing the door, a zero-level spell was cast, and the cabinet buzzed and vibrated, making a crisp ding.Opening the door, a hot air mixed with the aroma of cream and wheat rushed towards you.

"In this place, as long as you know zero-level spells, you won't go hungry anymore. As long as someone volunteers, even civilians won't worry about not being full."

Thinking of this, Deck was less resistant to volunteer work.

With the hot water, the warm, soft and fragrant bread was finished in a few mouthfuls, and Deckard walked towards other magic machines.There was a high-pitched yell behind him. It was the halfling complaining that the handle of the machine was too high, and the volunteers were not allowed to cast spells, so they had to find a bench with him.

In front of a metal pavilion as tall as an ogre sentry, a volunteer said: "Do you want to change clothes? There are only plain linen coats and underwear for free. If you want cashmere, green cotton, spider silk or other materials, you have to sell them." Buy it from the cargo plane."

Deckard looked at his adventurer hunting suit, it was full of holes, and nodded.It is enough to wear free clothes. As a pre-naturalization personnel, if you want to buy things, you have to exchange gold bushels for red coins or contribute points.The current exchange ratio is no longer one to ten, but one to five.

Thinking that his more than 2000 gold bushes had been depreciated by half, he wanted to slap himself. Why did he rush to exchange the adventure points at that time!Adventure points can be converted into contribution points on a one-to-one basis!

The volunteer said: "If you want a hunting suit, press the button with a bow and arrow pattern, and if you want a robe, press the button with a book pattern, and then cast a spell on the spell-casting handle. If you don't know how to spell, just tell me and I will help you."

It is as simple as taking bread. It is said that similar magical machines will be installed in every private house in the future, and then there will be no worries about food, drink and clothing. Such a day is really unimaginable.

Deckard stood in the pavilion, pressed the hunting suit button, and cast a spell on the handle.As a fourth-level professional, a zero-level spell is as useless as walking a few steps. Of course, for trainee professionals, it is equivalent to running a long distance.

As soon as the spell was cast, a strange force descended from the top of his head, pierced through his clothes, and fell against his skin to the soles of his feet, making Deckard shudder.

Deke was taken aback by this cool force, and subconsciously backed away. The volunteer said, "Don't be afraid, this is a spider... No, the machine is scanning your body shape."

Deckard took a breath, spider! ?Is there really a spider weaving clothes in here?
"There are no real spiders, but it has something to do with spiders."

This volunteer seems to be from the research department or the engineering staff of the city hall, and knows this thing quite well.

After listening to his explanation, Dyke suddenly realized that secret magic... No, it's actually magical technology.

Strictly speaking, this "magic loom" is actually a spider puppet. The corpse spider nucleus simulates the spider's brain, and the magic circle simulates the spider's eyes and legs.Its "consciousness" only remembers one thing, and that is to execute the weaving procedure of connecting the nucleus crystal.Scan the target body shape and weave underwear and jackets according to the body shape.

Volunteers said: "The weaving precision of plain linen is much lower than other materials, and the puppet structure is not very complicated, so it can be applied on a large scale. Even so, it is much more precise than the bread machine and water dispenser next to it, and It also consumes magic oil, of course, this is also a necessary benefit for everyone."

There was a faint bang bang bang sound in the pavilion, and the rhythm quickly turned into a low hum. A few minutes later, a set of thick linen clothes including underwear and jacket fell into the metal groove on the side of the pavilion.

Next to the "magic loom" is the dressing room. Deckard was about to go in, when he lifted his leg and opened his shoes.

"There are no free shoes, so you can buy them from a vending machine," the volunteer said, pointing to the bales of hay lying on the ground nearby, "or weave them yourself. The materials and weaving boards are free, and a weaving manual is also given."

Is making shoes more troublesome than knitting clothes?

Deke was very puzzled, and the volunteer said: "This is the habit of members of the Fei Gong. Weaving straw sandals can keep people from basic labor. Weaving straw sandals well is the basic condition for joining the Fighting Youth League."

What a weird rule...

Deckard looked at the pile of grass, he didn't have confidence in his handwork, and he didn't think it was meaningful to spend time on it, so he gave up his plan of weaving.

The clothes fit very well, they were woven directly instead of cut, and they were much more comfortable to wear than when they were issued according to size before, and they were thick enough.The hemp silk seems to have been specially treated, and it is much tougher and softer than ordinary hemp cloth that can be torn easily.

Now for the shoes...

Deke came to the vending machine. The upper part was a phantom screen. He pressed the shopping guide button according to the volunteer's prompt, and the machine released a tender and crisp voice: "Hi residents of the Valley of the Five Winds, what do you need?"

He knew it was the little gray elf girl from the small voice, and Deckard replied that he wanted shoes.

Various shoes appeared on the screen, with the codes of the shoes below. Deke chose a pair of leather boots, reported the size, and inserted the red coin forged with blood silver into the coin slot of the machine under the prompt of the "salesperson".

The salesperson seemed to be using some means to remotely check the authenticity of the red coins, which made Deke feel a little inconvenient.

"No problem, please wait a moment, the goods will arrive soon."

The salesperson said sweetly: "Because of technical reasons, the vending machine can only accept red coins now. When the market function of the portable assistant is opened in January next year, you can use the contribution points to pay through the portable assistant. At that time, you can also directly To buy goods on the portable assistant, you only need to go to the automatic mailbox to pick up the goods."

Deke is overjoyed, this is good!

While Dyke was waiting, several people were busy in a warehouse-like building in the eastern part of Beta City.Information about a pair of shoes pops up on the screen in front of a person.The worker in the yellow vest pressed the button on the workbench, and the golem curled up outside the workbench jumped up, stretched out into a mechanical spider, and ran away in a whirl.

The vision of the mechanical spider appeared on the screen, and the yellow vest, like the scout on the spider car, operated the spider to cross a pile of neatly stacked goods and come to a pile of goods.The spider spoke, and it was the voice of the yellow vest, saying the goods to be picked up, and the picker standing between several piles of goods put the packaged shoe box in the basket on the spider's back.

After a while, he took out the shoe box from the basket on his back and wrote the words "Valley of the Five Winds", and the yellow vest put the box into the basket on his back.In the circle formed by him and several yellow vests, an elevator belt was running non-stop, sending the goods inside to the floor under their feet.

The yellow vest complained to the worker next to him: "What a boring job..."

"I can't find anything else to do at the moment, let's earn some contribution points first." The worker said, "It is said that in the future, it will gradually be replaced by magic dolls. There are only a few of the hundreds of people in our entire logistics center."

"It's still early," another worker said, "Come here not only to earn contribution points, but also the free hours of magic and magic classes are linked to this kind of working hours. If you want to join the Fighting Youth League or even Fei Gong, you have to have this kind of experience." working hours."

The worker just said: "Yes, it is said that even if you are already a member of the Fei Communist Party, unless you join the Legion, you must earn enough social service hours every year."

"I want to join the Legion..."

The yellow vest sighed: "But people have long been full, even the police. Back then, the law enforcement team even wanted civilians. Now, first-level professionals are also picky and picky. We trainees can only start with this kind of work. "

The yellow vests complained and were busy. Right under their feet, the goods were sorted onto conveyor belts, and then fell into magic circles one by one.The magician standing next to the magic circle cast a spell, and pieces of goods disappeared in the blue light.

"110 two", a magician sent away the shoebox with the words "Valley of the Five Winds", wiped the sweat from his forehead, and muttered: "The city hall spends so many people and so much magic oil on this kind of thing." , I really don’t know what I’m thinking... Forget it, anyway, I’ll just earn my service worker hours, and treat it as basic teleportation training.”

Hundreds of kilometers away to the northwest, Deckard waited for ten minutes, and began to get a little impatient.The vending machine shook and rattled, and a box fell into the groove at the bottom.

Taking out the box from the groove, it turned out to be the buckskin boots he bought. Although it took a long time, the whole process still made him novel and comfortable.

"When you can directly use your personal assistant to buy things, the small traders in the town will be out of luck. Unless they produce things by themselves, if they rely on selling things, there will definitely be no business."

Deke thought so, whether it is convenient or not, the most important thing is that this is Fei Gong selling things, with clearly marked prices, no deceit.

Dyke and his team members experienced all kinds of protective magic machines in the service station. Everyone changed into new clothes, bought some new possessions from the vending machines, and gathered in the tavern in the town to toast. Drink freely.Sandro also followed, as a sent labor prisoner, only with Deckard and the others can they get along with each other on an equal footing.

"Deke, we're used to staying here, and we know the surroundings very well. Why don't we settle here before we become naturalized?"

"Yes, we can build a new adventure group! This is the border, and the officials will give a lot of commissions to the adventure group. If things are too dangerous, the police and even the legion will block the front, so we will do odd jobs, just like our previous life."

"The adventure group can't have more than eight people, we'll be torn apart."

"That's for accounting. At that time, we will be divided into several teams on the account. Aren't we still the same?"

"It's different. There are many bosses, and they can't always be together."

"Yeah, everyone has their own accounts."

"Deck is still our leader..."

The team members were looking forward to the future, and Dyke raised his hand and said, "Farewell, don't take me as the leader anymore, really."

He said sincerely: "Everyone can live according to their own ideas in the future. It's okay to get together if you want to. If you put your private house together, you can see each other every day. Come to the tavern for a few drinks at any time? Can't be a teammate? , you can still be a neighbor."

The team members applauded one after another. Although the Baiyang team still exists, everyone has their own development plans in the future due to their different interests and expertise. It is meaningless to get together for everything.

Even if Dyke's previous mistakes were ignored, his prestige was still there, but he couldn't provide every player with the development space he wanted. Instead of trying to maintain such a team, it is better to let everyone go their own way.As Dyke said, businesses cannot be brought together, but they can also live together as neighbors.

Sandro next to him coughed and wanted to speak, but Deckard hurriedly said, "Some people I refuse to be neighbors with."

"Who wants to be your neighbor!"

Sandro said angrily: "I mean, I still have some ideas on magic technology, we can join forces and do some special business."

The team members all squinted, and Dyke said, "For example... Collective teleportation scrolls?"

Sandro snorted coldly: "Do you want me to tell you what stupid things you have done?"

Deke choked, and the magician continued: "Now we also understand that Fei Gong wants to take the big business into his own hands, and shops, workshops, and adventure groups can't exceed eight people. But many small gadgets and small things are They don’t have the energy and don’t want to catch things, such as developing something convenient and easy to use on the portable assistant. I have the technology and ideas, and you can organize several business associations and workshops to do various things. We cooperate with each other, and the future is boundless! "

Some team members asked curiously, such as?

"For example... Isn't the official launch of the market function on the portable assistant soon? When we bought things just now, did you feel troublesome? We can definitely be a market assistant on the portable assistant to help everyone faster and more convenient Looking for something."

As Sandro talked, his eyes became brighter and brighter: "At that time, I will register a workshop here for development, and you will register several workshops for production and sales, so that we can still work with many people. Is there a business?"

"How much to sell, and how much we can earn, are you the one who has the final say?"

Dyke laughed and said, "It's okay to do it. If others make the same thing, we can also produce it and sell it. What do you want to do?"

The other team members also laughed. This magician is still full of deceitful ideas, but his ideas seem a little too naive.

"Uh……"

The light in Sandro's eyes dimmed, and he cheered up and smiled again: "Didn't I think that everyone gets along well and trusts each other, so I made such a suggestion?"

Deckard said contemptuously: "It sounds like you're still thinking about Gold Poultry and living a life of hiding in a tall magic tower doing bad things. Then why stay here? It's much more free to go to the Empire. "

Sandro retorted: "Who says you can't make money here and live in the Magic Tower? Fei Gong didn't make such a decree, as long as money... no, the points are earned honestly, and the flowers are not illegal. Why can't I live by myself? What about the day you want? Of course, I will definitely not do bad things."

"As for the empire..."

Sandro lowered his voice: "You know that when I was arrested, the Public Security Bureau gave me two choices, one was to be deported, and the other was to accept labor reform. Why did I choose to stay?"

Dyke and the others looked at each other, thinking that this guy was finally going to confide in his heart.They had been thinking about this issue before, and felt that this evil magician could leave if he wanted to. The reason why he stayed to suffer with them was because he had more evil plans.

Sandro said in a deep tone: "Because I have stayed in a world like the Empire for long enough, and I have experienced too many things like robbery, fraud, and deception. That kind of world is indeed very free, but It means that you are alone, everyone has calculations in their hearts, and you have to face everything alone. If you want to avoid it, you must either become the same person, or go to the strong and become a slave."

"I'm not a good person, but I don't want to be calculating others all the time. At the same time, I don't want to be someone's slave. Living here, I feel very relaxed. During the days of the law enforcement team, every night I slept soundly... Well, I wanted to get some money from you, but I missed it."

Sandro coughed and said again: "To be honest, it's really not free here. I feel like I'm bound and I can't stretch my hands and feet. But it's really easy. You don't have to cheat or be afraid. As long as you don't do bad things, your mind will be relaxed. ..."

He smiled again: "Of course I can earn more money and live a better life, isn't it better? Save the world, free slaves, I'm not a good person willing to do those things."

Although he still despised the other party's character, Deke saw this guy much more pleasing to his eyes at this time. Generally speaking, their thoughts were the same.

"Who knows if it can always be like this here?"

Some team members sighed: "After all, this is only the territory of the Duke of Prior. No matter how strong the Fei Gong is, can it be stronger than the empire? How dare the Duke of Prior fight against the Queen?"

"I hope it lasts for a long time..."

As soon as Deckard said that, the tavern owner suddenly said furtively: "Big news!"

He inserted a chip into the mirage machine, and a luxuriously dressed young man trying to put on a serious expression appeared on the screen.

"Lord Mordwin of the Royal News Agency, Marquess of the Empire, has just been appointed spokesman for the Empire."

The drinkers at the next table muttered, and the tablemate scolded: "You are the only one who can read? The subtitles are so big that anyone can read them!"

The scene seemed to be at a banquet. It seemed that someone had just asked some questions. Mordwin looked directly at the camera and said, "I know the same as you all about the Duke of Pryor and the Godfall Plateau."

"The title of the Duke of Prell was revoked and the territory was transferred. This is an internal matter of the Kingdom of Hadron. The Empire has never and will not interfere in the disposal of the vassals by the monarchs of various countries."

"No, this has nothing to do with whether or not Li Qi Player attended Her Majesty's coronation ceremony. To be precise, this matter has nothing to do with Her Majesty! Those irresponsible, pretentious, and incendiary remarks must contain something. What a curse!"

"I would like to advise those people not to push themselves into the abyss of invincibility! To slander Her Majesty the Queen is to choose to stand with those rebels, and the consequences will be extremely serious!"

"Her Majesty's attitude? I have no comment on this, you should ask Li Qi Player..."

"Where does the Godfall Plateau belong? You should ask the Hadrang Kingdom. No, not the Prime Minister. As the leader of the empire's government affairs, he is not suitable, and he will not make any remarks on the internal affairs of his own kingdom."

After that, Mordwin said a lot, but he said these words over and over again, and the corners of his mouth twitched several times. Anyone can see that he repeated it very hard.

The tavern exploded immediately, and the drinkers, who were mostly town residents, yelled loudly and cursed endlessly.

Stared at by everyone including Sandro, Deckard said angrily, "Don't look at me! Who said that just now?"

"It's over, the empire will definitely bring us into its direct territory!"

"What's wrong with the Duke and the Queen? Didn't you take the legion to Valentine to help the Queen fight?"

"Could it be that something went wrong with the gift to the queen and made the queen angry?"

"Maybe there will be another war, this time the Duke will fight the Empire!"

The team members muttered in low voices, and Deckard and Sandro also exchanged blank and frightened glances.

Of course, no one believed Mordwin's words, and Hadron dared to deprive the duke of his title and territory without the queen's consent or even the instigation?
There was a commotion, when the screen turned on again, the boss yelled, "Xiaohong...no, Fei Gong has expressed his opinion!"

Sure enough, the familiar host of the Red News Agency, Loli Xiaohong, appeared on the screen. She also tried her best to pretend to be serious, and read the script sternly.

"Regarding the recent revocation of the title and fiefdom of Li Qi Player as a vassal of Hadron, the Central Committee of the FCP and Li Qi Player himself issued the following statement."

"This matter is purely Li Qi-Pryor's private affairs, and has nothing to do with Fei Gong and all affairs on the Godfall Plateau. On the Godfall Plateau, Li Qi's identity is only the chief cardinal of the Fei Communist Party Central Committee, not Prell. Duke."

"The Central Committee of the Fei Communist Party and Li Qi especially emphasized that all properties on the Shenyun Plateau belong to the entire people led by the Fei Communist Party. This land was built and defended by all of us united and sweating together. It is not owned by Li Qi. Therefore, please don’t cause unnecessary worries or make unnecessary guesses about Li Qi’s identity change.”

"At the same time, the CPC Central Committee declares that those who add words such as rebellion and war to this matter are either bewitched ignorant masses or saboteurs with ulterior motives. Fei Gong and Li Qi himself still stand on the dawn oath held high by the Queen Under the flag, we will work tirelessly to build a new order of peace, tranquility and happiness."

The statement was very short, and like Mordwin, he avoided the core issue, but one thing mentioned in it made everyone in the tavern, including Deckard and Sandro, feel their hearts tumbling.

That's right, the Shenyun Plateau is built and defended by everyone working together, sweating and bleeding. No matter how the Duke... no, no matter how Li Qi's status changes, this fact cannot be changed.He is not a lord, but Cardinal Fei Gongzong who builds and fights with everyone.

Sandro suddenly said leisurely: "Speaking of which, the Chief Cardinal is no longer on the Godfall Plateau, just like the last undead war."

　Although there is only one update, it actually combines the two chapters together.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)