Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1181 Professor Moriarty's Successor

Coincidentally, the Parthians could just barely understand how a city-state of this size operated - because it was not a "pure slave society" or the embryonic human society that developed from primitive society.

The ancient Parthian Empire was a man-made deformed society, an isolated crystal ball.

But even so, the wise men among the Parthians knew how the outside society had developed.

Therefore, “the new good master came from outside” is sufficient to explain “why he did this”.

——Because foreigners’ cultural traditions are different from ours.

The reason why Paradise City was advertised so well and so perfectly is that people are skeptical.

Apart from the fanatics, only homeless people would try to go to Paradise City. In essence, they don't believe it is real.

But Aiwass is different.

The Moriarty family really does own a multinational corporation.

Although Aiwass and Yulia had never managed it, and had never even been to the company, only the eldest brother and the old butler were responsible for maintaining its operation, it did exist. And with Yulia's enthronement, the scale of this enterprise was naturally expanding.

In addition, Rock Cellar City is the westernmost city, so it is very easy to transport supplies from Star Antimony and Iris.

Precious food, medicine, cloth, building materials, luxury goods...all of which were transported here at great cost by benefactors, Aiwass could get high-quality goods at a very low price.

In Parthia, there is a saying that "fish sauce is more expensive than gold." However, whether it is Avalon, Star Antimony or Iris, almost every fishing village can brew fish sauce.

The price of vegetables in Anxi is at least three times more expensive than meat.

Some hard-to-obtain fresh vegetables can be worth more than a hundred times as much as meat - but if they are shipped from Xingti using preservation techniques, they are not that expensive even with shipping costs.

After some calculations, Aiwas discovered a horrifying fact—they didn’t even need a good master.

It’s no problem for them to transport water directly from Xingti!
The impact of the cursed desert is that it is impossible to directly divert rivers in, not that all bottled water brought in from outside will evaporate.

The manifestation of this curse is that the depths of the desert here will absorb water infinitely, so there is no way to store water on the ground. Water can only be stored in confined spaces... such as waterways on the ground within the city, such as fountains, such as pools.

Other city-states did the same.

However, the good lord of Rock Cellar City developed a new technology - they bought alchemical slabs from Xingtan and found that the strength of this high-quality slab was enough to isolate the "curse".

If you build a completely sealed underground city with stone slabs and run waterways onto the slabs, the water won’t be sucked up by the desert.

Residents can pay to draw water from designated "wells", and the water in different areas is separate.

This prevented the free people or the important people around the good master from being poisoned by slaves, and also gave the slaves some water, unlike other city-states that "prevented the water from being polluted by slaves." He himself could also go out for a while after storing enough water, without having to worry about the residents in the city running away due to lack of water.

This is why the Rock Cellar City is called "Rock Cellar City". This rock slab cellar well is its uniqueness.

But perhaps due to lack of vision or funds, "Honest Afshin" did not continue to develop this technology. Instead, he stopped after building the partition waterway.

But Aiwass realized one thing - isn't this an underground water pipe?
Although Rock Cellar City has an underground water system that connects the city... it is only less than 20 kilometers away from the Star Antimony border, right?
It's just twenty kilometers. Even if a waterway needs to be built from the border to the water station, it will only be that much in total.

It seems, probably, it seems...it’s not difficult to do?
After Aiwass asked Sherlock, who knew about this, to calculate it, he immediately became alert.

——Isn’t this just a random thing to do?
It turns out that the total length of the underground waterways of Glass Island alone exceeds 10,000 kilometers!
If the Goblin Chamber of Commerce were to start the work, it would be completed in a week at most, and the price would be less than one-third of what it would cost to build a railway track in Avalon.

Then, following this line of thought, if they were connected to each other using underground waterways like this, would they still have water to use even if the curse was not lifted?

In this way, Aiwass no longer had to worry about Sherlock being tied to death here because of the fragment of Geometry Celestial Master.

He immediately contacted the Goblin Chamber of Commerce, and the goblins responded quickly - they said they would send a president to Dawn City for talks within three days.

So Aiwass waited here for a few days.

——It turns out that Aiwas's previous strategy of finding Desert Voice to place advertisements was also correct. Desert Voice seemed to have some connection with the Resistance Army, so they were particularly interested in helping promote Dawn City.

Only on the third day of Aiwas's advertising campaign, people had already come one after another, trembling and hesitant, wanting to sign "that" contract with Aiwas.

Naturally, it was not Aiwas's turn to deal with this matter personally - Ligeia's unique sacred appearance was perfect for this kind of face-saving project.

The appearance of the elves comes from the winged ones, and the appearance of humans comes from the elves.

This is why people feel a natural sense of closeness when they see winged beings.

Moreover, Ligeia herself was a fifth-level authoritative transcendent, and she could also be responsible for signing the contract. This contract guaranteed by the power of the Silver Crown Dragon was a great comfort to these slaves - they were not afraid of harsh contracts, but they were afraid that the good master would go back on his word.

This kind of contract, which is difficult to sever once signed, is actually a protection for the weaker party.

The first group to sign a contract with Aiwas was the private army of the previous generation of good lord "Honest Afshin".

According to the original rules, unless the inheritance was from father to son, most of them would not be able to survive - after all, the new master would not allow these people who were capable of fighting and had served the previous master to run around, he would be worried.

Next came his wives and concubines.

Although they were wives and concubines, their status was basically no different from that of slaves.

Although the status of these people who serve the benevolent master is higher than that of slaves or even free people, they have become slaves in front of the benevolent master.

If Aiwass did not arrange a way out for them, they would have no choice but to become slaves of others, because as free people, they did not have the ability to work as free people, and they could not support themselves at all.

However, Aiwass gave them the most suitable job - that is, tour guide.

All they had to do was hold meetings or tell the new immigrants in public about the many evils that had happened in Rock Cellar in the past and how good life was in Dawn City now.

No training, lines or performances are required.

Because what they said was all true.

At this moment, Aiwas understands his adoptive father James more and more——

"The ultimate goal of all lies is to convince others and use them for their own benefit... Therefore, the biggest and most advantageous lie is the truth itself. The reason why a lie is called a lie is simply because what it says is not true, so there is a biggest loophole - all of this is false. Only the truth is different - the truth is self-evident."

That's what James once said.

——That is why no lie can be more powerful than the truth.

No matter how many sweet words you use to deceive people, no matter how many sophistry and prudery you use to make people confused and bewildered, no matter how much deception or incitement you use, it is better to tell the truth directly.

As precise as a sword, he spoke out the truth that the other person had already known in his heart but refused to admit.

At this point, the lie is no longer a lie.

It will be called "Truth".

Aiwass simply said for them what they already knew but had not said. He said for them the "answer" that they dared not say because they were bound by fear, rules, traitors, death, poverty, and family affection.

It's just like Professor Moriarty in the past, using the evil in people's hearts to mislead them.

Aiwass now also uses the kindness in people's hearts to guide others.

Perhaps they will wake up in the future, perhaps they will help others and realize the mistakes of the old society... and Aiwass only brought that moment forward, allowing those who are still hesitant to become firm.

The wisdom to point out sin, and the violence that can transform sin.

——This is hope itself.

(End of this chapter)