Durin's Diary

Chapter 748 Work
Farol Military Intelligence agent, Master Robin, is accompanying visitors from the Northern Bureau to investigate the emerging towns of the Austrian-Swiss Union in the southern coastal area.

Because of Lord Dühring's relationship with Farol's Northernism, Müst operates almost semi-openly in various coastal cities - his job is to confirm whether the sailors have been transferred to the Austro-Swiss joint naval forces.

To be honest, Müst didn't think there was anything worth investigating, because the Austrian-Swiss Union had never thought of establishing a navy. Their only naval force was twenty galleys - to be honest, these things could carry a large number of people and had enough speed and turning speed in the big bathtub of the Adriatic Sea. Whether it was chasing pirates or checking smuggling, these twenty galleys were more than enough.

Lord Du Lin is now desperately trying to increase the size of his army. Half of his troops are deployed in the eastern part of the Great Forest. His training camp has never stopped all year round. The old soldiers from Chang Tang are training the young people in various ways. It is said that some colleagues have gone to see it and said that the training is very effective.

But Most's boss didn't seem to think so. In response to his report, a team of supervisors from the Northern Bureau came to conduct an inspection.

But even though the boss didn't think so, the supervisory team that came here still understood Hester. Some of them walked around the town and learned that there was no conscription order for sailors at present. Some of them went to the only local anchorage that could be used as a naval port and confirmed that it was still a wasteland. Lone wolves could be seen eating stranded fish carcasses on the beach in broad daylight.

Finally, the team discussed it, and the captain patted Hester's shoulder helplessly: "I'm sorry, Comrade Hester, the secretaries of the Northern Bureau seem a little anxious recently."

"It's nothing, Comrade Captain. I understand. What I don't understand is the identity of Lord Du Lin. Do the Northern Bureau's clerks need to worry about them?"

"Secretaries Ace and Sola said they were going to investigate the situation in the northern provinces. The secretaries of the Northern Bureau have been conducting inspections day and night to produce solid data." The captain said this, looking at the report handed to him by the team member who had just entered. "Ah, Comrade Mester, I have a small question."

"Please go ahead." Most sat on the sofa. He was very curious - what else in this town was worthy of the captain and his team members' curiosity.

"Many of our team members have seen very strange shrines in town. Some have three exquisitely crafted statues, representing the Twin Mother Goddesses. However, some have an extra stone. What does this mean?" The captain frowned. "Although this is Lord Durin's territory, as comrades, we must help Lord Durin answer this question."

"Well, that stone represents Lord Durin." Mester said this and looked at a frowning team member. "Comrade, I see you have the holy emblem of the Anonymous. You must be able to detect lies, right? Please release me so that I can tell you everything I know without any worries."

The team member nodded, walked to Mester, released Detect Lies, and then stood behind Mester.

He hadn't let his guard down yet, but Mester had no lies to tell: "This stone represents Lord Durin."

"Why?" There were no believers of the Twin Mother Goddesses in the team. The captain looked at the ring under Moster's feet with some confusion - it was certain that Moster did not lie, so the possibility that it was a sacrifice to the evil god had been ruled out.

"You must have seen many shrines of the Twin Mother Goddesses. Sometimes the shrines in the village only have two stones in them, right?" asked Mester.

This time, several comrades nodded. Someone approached the captain and said, "That's right, Comrade Captain. I come from a village near Austria. My village is so poor that the shrine to the Twin Mothers doesn't have statues. We use two stones instead. Even so, the Twin Mothers Church acknowledges our piety when they visit during the busy farming season." The city-born captain nodded. "But our town is not poor, so why don't we use the statue of Lord Durin?"

"Because Lord Durin hasn't ascended to godhood yet, Comrade Captain." This time, the Anonymous Paladin spoke up. He smiled as he walked past Mester and patted him on the shoulder. "You're not lying, Comrade Mester. Indeed, Lord Durin, who hasn't ascended to godhood, is unfit to be placed in a shrine as a statue."

"Indeed, I was too suspicious." The captain stepped forward at this moment. He walked over to Mester with a smile, stretched out his hand and pulled him up. "Thank you for your explanation, comrade."

"It's nothing, just explain it clearly. To be honest, after Lord Durin took over the Austria-Switzerland Union, this land has become much better than before. For example, this town used to be located between two earldoms, so anyone could come and collect taxes. After Lord Durin drove away the nobles, this town now only pays taxes to the provincial government of the Austria-Switzerland Union, which is four-sevenths less than before. Lord Durin also provided a large sum of money to the town. Now the fishermen in the town all work in the fishing team under the town. The three fishing teams that can catch the most fish each month can receive a good bonus. The women work in the town's fish cannery, and everyone has hope for the future."

"That's great." One team member sighed, "My home is south of Sidney. I really want to bring my family here soon."

"Yes, comrade."

After chatting for a while, the supervisor team was about to leave.

Hester personally sent them to the scheduled ship. Until the ship was far away, a figure appeared beside Hester.

"Your people are quite vigilant. We should even question the stone in the shrine. If this really was the base of the evil cult, they'd have been killed several times over." A colleague from the Austro-Swiss Joint Military Intelligence Agency sighed as he handed Müst a cigarette. "By the way, you unlucky fellow, did you offend someone? Why would the Northern Bureau let you keep an eye on the sailors here? If you were going to keep an eye on them, you should have gone to the Army Academy and seen how many lieutenants and majors graduated this year."

His complaints were not without reason. In Mester's opinion, staying here was simply a waste of his life, but as an agent of the Northernist Military Intelligence Bureau, he had to be wherever the organization asked him to be.

So he lit up his cigarette, and then lit up one for his colleague: "Who knows, but considering that my comrades are worried all day long in other places, it's good to have a colleague here to share cigarettes with me."

In this regard, Most has always been very open-minded - as a human being, at least you can't let yourself be suffocated to death.

Finding joy in suffering, isn’t that also joy?

(End of this chapter)