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Chapter 1629 Chapter 262. The Rider on the Bicycle

"Lilith, are you there?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lilith's projection appeared in front of Annan.

"There are too many users asking questions at the moment. Please try again later."

"Uh……"

It seems that I was too happy too early about Liberty City entering the smart era ahead of time... During the day, especially during working hours, Lilith is always busy and unresponsive.

Although Annan has the authority to ask Lilith to respond to him first, he usually does not need to respond first.

In order for Lilith to be able to respond at any time, the Mage Tower must be built to at least the fifth or sixth floor.

The "bang bang" sound of the construction of the Mage Tower continued day and night. Annan did some calculations: the total cost of building one floor of the Mage Tower was about 70 gold nars - just the Mage Tower itself, not including additional functions such as magic circles.

Expenses are secondary. Without counting the money-sucking behemoth, the fiscal revenue of Liberty City every quarter is more than this amount. The problem is that it takes at least six or seven months to build one floor. If you calculate it this way... it will only take fifty years to build a hundred floors!
Annan had a blank expression on his face. In an ordinary territory, fifty years would be enough to pass down the foundation of several generations.

Just think about it, fifty years later, Olmedo and the others will be old and ugly, with wrinkled faces, just like their ancestors. Cathy will become an old lady, her children will be taller and stronger than her, and she will still look like a little boy... It's so horrible that it's beyond words!

Annan was dejected, and the feeling that time waits for no one emerged again.

When merchant Wilhelm delivered the orichalcum a while ago, he hinted to him that if he was in a hurry, he could shorten the construction period to two months by increasing the price by two or three times.

Expenses were secondary. Annan believed that the Church of Fortune was willing to pay the money, and if they were unwilling, he would help them. The problem was that the Mage Tower was one of the core areas of Liberty City, and his relationship with the merchants was purely financial. If he handed the Mage Tower over to an outsider, he would have to be cautious.

Ding bell——ding bell——

A familiar but extremely distant ringtone suddenly rang from outside the window. Annan was stunned and lowered his head to think about the source of the sound. When he was about to recall the origin of the sound in his memory, Jack walked in carrying an object.

The two wheels, the chain, pedals, handlebars, the bracket at the back for supporting people, and even the bell next to the handlebars are all the same as I remember.

"The bicycle is made?" Annan asked in surprise.

"Not only did I make it, I rode it around Liberty City. It was so fast!"

Jack's hair was blown back by the wind, looking dusty, but it still couldn't hide the excitement on his face.

When he was a child, he worked as a handyman following the groom in a nobleman's house. However, it was simply courting death for a small handyman to dare to ride the nobleman's horse. Unexpectedly, when he grew up, his dream would come true - the feeling of riding a horse is probably similar to this.

As for why the invention of the Mushroom House ended up in the hands of the Rangers, who better to test the bikes than the soldiers running around up North?

“Your idea is brilliant!”

"What does it have to do with me?"

Annan only drew a sketch of the bicycle, and it was all up to Holden and his team to invent it.

"You said before that if we perform well, you will give us the name of Ranger Corps. Now you give us bicycles. Isn't it making us real knights?"

"actually……"

Jack said excitedly, "Did you know that it only takes half a day to ride from Liberty City to Overwatch? The horses need several pounds of grass, but we only need two loaves of bread! Only two loaves of bread for a hundred kilometers!"

"You are mistaken..."

"Lord Annan, we will live up to the name of light cavalry!" Jack carried the cart and left again. Not long after, the sound of "ding-ling-ding-ling" of the cart bell in the distance came from outside the window again.

Annan's nostalgia for the old days completely disappeared, leaving only a lot of things to say.

What kind of light cavalry is it to ride a bicycle!
When he thought about the future, when Liberty City also held a military parade and it was the Rangers' turn to take the stage, with two of them on each bicycle, one pedaling in front and the other sitting in the back with his arms around the waist, he felt like the sky was falling.

Annan tried to comfort himself, riding is faster than running. But if it is faster... why not open the portal?

No, we have to find a way to stop this evil trend... Which decent person would carry a gun and ride a bicycle?
Annan gave the opportunity to rename the Musketeers because the previous "Third Legion" and "Musketeers Legion" were not official names, and "Rangers" represented his ambition - after the Dragon Incubation Center gets on track in the future, Liberty City will have its own dragoons.

What kind of bike should I ride? Isn’t it good to ride a dragon or something?
Annan asked his aide Peterson to tell Ingrid the news about the bicycle, and Liberty City had a new specialty.

Bicycles have many limitations. Because of road conditions, they are only suitable for use between towns. There is also the cost issue. Rich people will not be embarrassed to ride them in public, but poor people cannot afford them. It is best to go the cheap route like Fastbu.

However, the "magic car" that is still under consideration can reap a lot of benefits from these wealthy people.

After the interlude, Annan returned to the most important matter at hand: how to deal with Moshi.

"The best way is to kill her," said Ms. Mora coldly.

Spies have no human rights, no matter where they are. Even if the elves later found out that Moshi died in Liberty City, they could only suffer in silence.

"Wouldn't that be a waste? We can't corrupt her, uh...can't we let her defect to Liberty City?"

Ms. Mora said solemnly: "This elf used secret methods to avoid the mental brainwashing of the transformation ritual, but the torture during the ritual was real. She did not succumb, which means that her will is almost impossible to be shaken."

Annan felt it was a pity. If he was so stubborn and true to himself, wouldn't he have found a place to become the high priest?

"I want to keep her first and try to change her bad habits."

Maura's expression said "Why are you asking me that?", but she was still polite and said nothing.

"I'm just worried that the elves will come to rescue us." Annan smiled embarrassedly.

"The elves don't tend to make a big fuss. As for the prison break... your tower spirit will notice them as soon as they appear in the city."

Back to the Church of the Spider Queen, Mora said that she could make the future Church of the Spider Queen submit to Annan.

"What I need is allies, not slaves," Annan corrected her.

"Is there a difference?"

Mora's answer, which was very much in the style of a dark elf, left Annan silent.

"After all, the dark elves are followers of Spider Queen Rose..."

"I don't think the mistress will blame you. But you treating me as an equal will really make her angry."

Annan was silent again.

Forget it, Mora is a professional, I’d better just look at the snow-capped mountains in the distance.

(End of this chapter)