industrial lord

Chapter 613 Captured
"Get out of here!"

Frederick sat helplessly in the carriage, looking at the two people in front of him.

The carriage was large, with no chairs, soft cushions on the floor, and a refrigerator in the corner.

Count Ortiz sat at the other end of the car, next to him was a girl who looked similar to her, and they both looked at their prey with pride.

At first, the transaction between the two parties was successful. Wesson's army delivered vehicles and happy water, and Ortiz delivered food and a large amount of intelligence about the Kingdom of Madeira.

Just when Frederick thought the deal was over, he was drugged and knocked unconscious, and when he woke up he was already in this carriage.

Ortiz said proudly, "I think I can get more credit by giving you as a gift to His Majesty Doss."

She pointed to the girl next to her and said, "She is my sister, an excellent pharmacist."

Frederick asked indifferently: "What do you want to do by sending me to the capital?"

Ortiz's poison restricted some of his strength, but they misjudged their own cards and acted with ease.

"It's your Majesty's business to do what you do," Ortiz said with a smile, "I hope you can cooperate well, otherwise you will suffer a lot."

"Okay." Frederick said, "As long as you agree to my conditions, I will cooperate with you. Otherwise, I will commit suicide and you will get nothing. When the nobles in the east suffer the wrath of the Wessen army, they will only blame you."

Ortiz thought about it and said, "No problem."

Frederick pointed to her sister and said, "I want you and her to accompany me on this journey."

The girl's face turned pale and she asked nervously, "What...what do you want to do?"

"Do I need to ask?" Frederick smiled wickedly, "It's just like what you did with your sisters in the monastery."

"You were excited too when you were peeking outside, right?"

Ortiz nodded immediately and said, "Okay, it's settled."

The news of Frederick and Ortiz's departure soon reached Eugene.

Eugene was unsure for a moment whether he was being kidnapped or was going to go deeper behind enemy lines.

One night not long after, Ortiz's convoy stopped in the wild, and everyone was either asleep or unconscious.

Dennis and Dixon appeared on both sides of the carriage and knocked gently on the door.

Frederick pulled Ortiz off of him, lifted the curtain on the small window of the car door, and whispered, "Coming?"

Dennis asked Frederick, "Do you need help?"

Eugene prepared for the worst, so he sent out two sword masters to meet Frederick, and start fighting to rescue people immediately if something went wrong.

Frederick said, "I will go to their capital to have a look, and then I will go back by myself."

"Tell Eugene to be careful. This time their king summoned the nobles, which should be a sign of a large-scale military deployment."

Dennis said, "Understood. I will go back and report to the commander."

Frederick asked again: "How is the prospecting going?"

Dennis replied: "We have found another abandoned mine and three unmined veins within five kilometers of the mine. We are preparing to open a mine to reach the new vein."

Frederick nodded and said, "Well, you did a good job. As agreed, the five points of profit will belong to you."

Dennis and Dixon left quickly, and on the way they were still discussing how much money they could make on this business trip. That was a magic crystal mine, and they only needed to find the place with the most concentrated magic power deep in the mountain, blast out a mine tunnel with a sword, and then they would get a profit of 5 points.

Eugene breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the report. He had been worried that the enemy would launch an attack while he was still unstable. Now it seemed that he had enough time to prepare.

On the other side, not long after Dennis left, Ortiz woke up faintly.

"Why did I faint?" She immediately realized the problem.

Frederick smiled and said, "It's not like you haven't fainted before, so why are you so surprised?"

As he said this, he pulled Ortiz over and said that since he dared to cheat him, he would teach him a lesson.

The convoy continued to move westward. There were fewer and fewer trees on the land, and the rivers they encountered became narrower and narrower.

During this period, the clouds in the sky were very thick and gloomy, drifting southward, but it didn't rain.

In his spare time, Frederick asked Ortiz: "It's been so cloudy these days, why doesn't it rain?"

Ortiz took out a bottle of happy water from the refrigerator, drank half of it in one breath, and then replied: "It will only rain when the clouds move south and north at the same time. It rarely rains when they move south and north all the time."

"Alas, there is never enough rain in the west, but it is better than the constant rain in the east."

Frederick recalled the terrain here, which was basically low-altitude hills. The mountains were not high and could not intercept the water vapor from the sky. It would only rain when the north and south air masses converged.

The Principality of Wessen once conducted an artificial rainfall experiment, releasing large-scale ice magic in the thick clouds instead of dry ice. The effect was remarkable, but it was a bit like Frederick and Dawn.

However, droughts are rare in the Principality of Wessen, and most of the rainfall comes in autumn and winter, so there is no need for artificial rainfall. This experiment was stopped after a few attempts.

Ortiz continued, "His Majesty Dos once offered a reward of five thousand gold coins for a way to make it rain during this season."

Frederick said casually: "When the clouds are low, we can try to light a pile of fire to let the thick smoke go into the clouds, maybe it will rain."

Ortiz frowned and asked, "Can this really make it rain?"

Frederick shrugged and said, "Not sure. It depends on the clouds in the sky. I can only say that it may rain, but I can't guarantee it."

When artificial rainfall was being studied, some people mentioned whether the particles in the thick smoke could condense water droplets in the clouds, and then they tried it. In the end, the results were not very good.

It won't work if the wind is too strong, the clouds are too high, or the clouds are not thick enough. If the clouds are low and thick, it will rain even without smoke. The final conclusion is that it is feasible to a certain extent.

Frederick just said it casually, but Ortiz remembered it in his heart.

When the convoy stopped in the evening, the followers were setting up camp.

Ortiz was worried that his goods might be targeted along the way, so he chose a route that was rarely traveled.

The ground was overgrown with bushes and weeds, so she had people cut the grass and piled it into a haystack more than one meter high. After it was finally lit, thick white smoke came out.

There was not much wind at this time, and the smoke column rushed obliquely towards the seemingly low clouds. At the same time, the smell of smoke also made Frederick and Ortiz's sister in the carriage choked, and they rarely scolded Ortiz together.

An hour later, Ortiz's sister was chewing on cold, hard bread while scolding her sister: "Are you stupid? You can't even make a fire to cook."

Then she turned to Frederick and said, "Baron Porter, you kill her tonight!"

Frederick nodded and said, "No problem, I'll keep her until the rain stops."

(End of this chapter)