Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland.

"Pufferfish...shoe brushing...pufferfish..." Rudai recited as he lowered his head and walked into the laboratory. When he looked up, he saw Wolfe, "Teacher, what is 'pufferfish'?"

The young mechanic was scratching his hair with one hand and holding a piece of paper with the other, flipping it over and over. When he heard his disciple's words, he answered casually, "It's an extinct creature that is only recorded in ancient books. It is said that its blood is highly poisonous, but its meat is delicious and countless people flock to it... Anyway, I have never seen a fossil, so who knows if it really exists."

"'Delicious meat'... me?" Lu Dai muttered, even more confused, "Then teacher, can it be used to clean shoes?"

"Why are you brushing your shoes? Is it because I gave you too little homework that your brain has become rusty?" Wolfe scolded, and waved his hand: "Come and see."

"Oh." The apprentice was scolded and lowered his head to move to the teacher's side. When he raised his eyes, he saw the letter paper and the opened envelope in his hand, and said in surprise: "Isn't this..."

It was the letter I had just sent.

In fact, Wolfe did not ignore all messages from his visitors, but he would tell whether most letters were valuable or not after just one glance. If they were "waste paper", he would just throw them into the trash can and not reply.

It is indeed rare to find someone like the teacher who would spend half a day looking carefully.

"What's written on it...I can't understand it?" Lu Dai took a glance and saw only a few short lines of words on the letter paper, but it was not a common language.

"See, don't you, understand?" Wolfe's tone suddenly became stern.

"No, no, I understand it, I understand it..." Lu Dai took it seriously, took a closer look, then relaxed and used laughter to cover up his embarrassment: "Oh, it looks like the ancient common language, but it doesn't seem to be written in a very grammatical way..."

"Because it is even earlier, according to the research of linguists at the end of the world, this kind of writing is very likely one of the most important prototypes for creating the ancient common language." Wolfe snorted, "I won't say anything more about you since you can still recognize it a little bit... But as my disciple, you didn't recognize it at first sight. Did you fall behind in the ancient language course? I'll give you a week, and I'll check your recitation and dictation after that."

"Yes..." Lu Dai was instantly frustrated. Among the mechanic courses, the ancient language course was the most difficult to understand, but it was also necessary for interpreting ancient books.

As she looked at the letter paper and read it, her curiosity was piqued: being able to write in ancient language is already quite difficult, but the teacher actually said that the characters written on it are the prototypes of ancient language... Isn't this track too niche?

Isn't this just a show of skill?

There were dozens of pictographic Chinese characters neatly arranged on the letter paper.

……

……

On the other side, after listening to the two people's words, Nan Ding was silent at first, and finally shook his head: "It's not like that... We are not just trying to make friends."

They had left the mechanic's dome, and the rain was pouring down on everyone.

Although Shi Cha was wearing a raincoat, the weather was cold and the water seeped in, and the young nobleman couldn't help but shiver.

He looked around, trying to find a shop in the city to take shelter from the rain, but he saw that the people who followed Nan Ding were all standing as firm as steel, and ignored the wind and rain. He was too embarrassed to speak.

Shi Cha had heard from Su Cheng before that the other side's men were all warriors who should not be underestimated... Anyway, all the wandering warriors he had hired before were wiped out in front of them.

What puzzled him was that this time when Nan Ding came to find the mechanic, he brought all the members of the caravan with him... What? If they were not allowed to enter, did they have to attack forcefully?
At this time, he heard Nan Ding and Su Cheng discussing: "Have you noticed that the atmosphere in the Lagoon City has become more tense recently?"

The warrior nodded. "That's right. The frequency of the law enforcement team's deployment has increased noticeably."

Recently, apart from them, there have been no new caravans or people coming in and out. However, before the storm, there were still many merchants from other forces stranded in the depression lagoon.

The upper city area of ​​the depression lagoon has complete infrastructure and a full range of consumer and living areas, so they did not have any difficulties at the beginning.

However, in the past few days, as the law enforcement team's searches became more severe, even the ordinary hunters in Lake Town themselves were reluctant to go out, and most of the merchants and vagrants hid in their own inns and residences.

Don't want to cause this trouble.

In comparison, their movement was rather ostentatious and attracted a lot of attention.

Su Cheng had sensed that there were sometimes prying eyes in the corners of the streets, but he was afraid of scaring the host, so he had not reported it yet and was just on guard alone. "The reason why the law enforcement team didn't find us is probably because we were taken away by Miss Ludai on the first day." Nan Ding said, "The other party is a mechanic's apprentice. They don't know the specific content of our conversation and have no way to find out - Mr. Wolfe's equal treatment is very useful now."

The law enforcement team couldn't figure out how deep their relationship with the chief mechanic went.

Naturally, I didn't dare to do it.

But as time goes by, it’s hard to say.

"So, visiting the mechanic at this time is equivalent to adding a new buff." Nan Ding once again used a word used by a great leader. Although he had never heard of it before, everyone could understand it in the context, "Let the law enforcement team think that we are honored guests valued by the mechanic."

In contrast, although Nan Ding himself was very interested in the knowledge of mechanical prostheses, this was an idea that came to him outside of his plan.

It would be best if you could go with the flow and kill two birds with one stone.

Don't interfere with the overall situation.

"Wait..." Shi Cha sensed something was wrong, "Why do you assume we are committing a crime? I am an honest businessman and a certified good citizen!"

Unexpectedly, Nan Ding and Su Cheng looked at him with pity at the same time.

The young noble was stunned.

Suddenly I thought of their actual identities——

"Secondary Charter of Merchant Guilds".

The Watchers of the Depression Lagoon have connections with the South United City, especially the City of Kaiton, and they even jointly promoted the project cooperation of handing over the entire city-state of Ai Mine Town, which is enough to show that the exchanges are close.

Shi Cha himself was a third-level merchant and could explain that he had no political stance.

But the second-level merchants who are under the president's tentacles...can't get rid of the connection no matter what.

Now that the confrontation between the North and the South is becoming more and more serious and the contradiction between the merchants in robes and the dignitaries with swords is becoming more and more exposed, a political drama like Mission Impossible is instantly played out in Shi Cha's mind.

"But aren't we being turned away?" The little nobleman thought of something and said anxiously.

——Doesn’t this mean that they, like other ordinary people, have no acquaintance or relationship with Mechanic Wolfe that is worth paying attention to?

"That's right." Nan Ding nodded.

Su Cheng thought of the swordsman and asked, "What did you ask that apprentice lady to deliver the letter to you? "

"I don't know the specific content." Nan Ding said, "But it's written by the Grand Master himself - so there must be no problem."

"No problem at all!" Shi Cha slowly retreated into the crowd, "It would be useless even if Long En came in person..."

"Ah."

Su Cheng pressed the knife and closed his eyes.

They stood in the rain.

However, in addition to the sound of washing rain, footsteps were heard from a distance at some point.

Surround them and gradually surround them.

(End of this chapter)