Above The Sky (Yin Tianshen Yin) Chapter 57: meeting

Although it is located in the center of the middle section of Central Avenue, the city hall facing Huaiguang Church is the military and political center of Port Harrison in name.

But in fact, the Viscount Grant's Mansion is the real heart of the city.

A middle-aged man with a serious expression came to the Viscount's mansion. After handing over the double swords and a pistol at his waist, he arrived at the conference room on the second floor under the guidance of his servants.

This man with gray hair and wearing a light leather armor has a dignified appearance, but his face has been weathered. There is an inconspicuous scar passing through his right eye and reaching the corner of his mouth.

The city defense officer and sheriff of Harrison Port, Sir Yam was the apprentice of the knights under the old Viscount Grant. During the battle with the aborigines, the teacher was shot to death by the poisonous stinger of the totem spirit in order to protect the old viscount. He grew up practicing martial arts with the current Viscount Grant, and became a sublimator with the support of the Viscount.

The two sides are both master and slave, childhood friends, and life and death comrades who have fought together.

Yam entered the meeting room and found that he was the last one to arrive. Viscount Grant himself, the viscount's staff and financial officer Lamar were already sitting in their seats, and they were talking about how to deal with the disaster relief after the indigenous attack. Gather the details of the people in the surrounding villages.

As for Bai Zhimin's elder Pu De, and Harrison Port Chamber of Commerce Union leader Imur, the two were pointing at the map of Nanling hanging on the wall, not knowing what they were talking about.

The spacious hall is filled with fresh refreshing incense. The biggest effect of this expensive spice is not to make people energetic, but to drive away mosquitoes, suppress plague poison, and effectively dispel all kinds of poisons of the aborigines. Full of spells, and the opponent's curse to drive the spirit body.

Including myself, these five people are the five most powerful people in Port Harrison today.

The real core is the viscount.

"Yam, are you here?"

Seeing the arrival of his right-hand man and his friend, Viscount Grant, who had always been sullen, relaxed a little.

He stood up and greeted the knight to sit down: "What's going on? Tell me."

"Related to a pure sacrifice."

Yam did not sit down, and Viscount Grant may not care, but he will not relax before reporting the information as a ceremonial knight.

He came to the conference table and reported in a serious manner: "Thanks to Elder Pude for capturing the living, the information he said and our informant's information can be verified with each other - this indigenous attack is mainly for looting A large number of women and children were taken away and sent to the redwood forest near the Elephant Bone Mountain.”

"Usually, the pure sacrifice of the natives only needs a dozen people, and only 32 people are needed for a large one. , more than 150 people were taken away, and 110 people from Anpu Village near Brown Yulin, half were killed, half were taken away, and the village has been wiped out.”

"These people can no longer be rescued. When the informant reported, the natives had already killed them all, and their bones were thrown into the inner marsh."

Sir Yam's tone was dry and emotionless, but everyone, including Viscount Grant, changed their expressions slightly, obviously shocked by the news.

"As expected!"

In addition to anger, there is also a trace of shame. Viscount Grant is indeed not a person who loves the people like a son, but at the very least he still has a sense of honor and disgrace. Unbelievable: "But they don't need to kill so many people if they want to wake up the mountain master!"

"Don't they understand, killing so many imperial people, no matter how much I don't want to fight, I have to take revenge!"

"They don't want to fight either."

Sir Yam said, he took out a rather thick brown elm leaf from his arms, and handed it to Viscount Grant: "The twelve tribes who are inclined to us said that before the big shaman issued the summoning order, they would I don’t know anything about it—the natives also feel very sudden and incredible about this action, and even feel very disgusted, because they have adapted to the various commodities, tools and refined salt we sell, and cannot bear the interruption of trade.”

"But the order of the great shaman is absolute."

"Why don't you die when you are old?"

Cursing in a low voice, Viscount Grant took over the native leaf paper letter. He read the content and couldn't help frowning: "All the shamans gathered in Elephant Bone Mountain? The sea of ​​trees is making noise? They want to start a full-scale war ? No, it’s just a gathering of shamans, and the chiefs have not been summoned yet”

"It seems to be a ceremony."

The viscount raised his head and asked doubtfully: "The old monster has been sleeping for more than forty years, and it is indeed recovering from its injuries, but eight years ago, didn't it wake up briefly to protect the group of natives in the storm? Its injury must have deteriorated again."

"This may be the reason why the number of people required for this pure sacrifice is extremely large."

Yam gave a possibility, and the viscount fell into deep thought: "Could it be that the old man wants to wake up the mountain master and let him go further?"

The Lord of the Mountain, also known as the Spirit of Mountain Tide, together with the Spirit of Rising Tide, the Spirit of Gulang and the Spirit of Tree Sea, is one of the major totem spirits worshiped by the Sequoia natives.

Of course, from the perspective of the people of the empire, these totem spirits are nothing more than some rare intelligent monsters. The weak ones only have the first energy level, and the powerful ones are only the second energy level. Because it has wisdom and can communicate with humans, it is more difficult to deal with.

But it is different from ordinary totem spirits.

Having the title of 'Mountain Lord', the totem master monster worshiped by the natives is far superior to the same level.

They are not only cunning and difficult to deal with, but also have a long lifespan, strong vitality, and even great potential. They can advance to the third energy level and become "monsters with different names" and "monsters with different names" that are difficult to destroy even the army. Lord of the Nest'.

The reason why Viscount Grant was meditating was because he was thinking about this dangerous possibility.

The mountain owner and several other totem spirits were defeated by his father, the old viscount who brought the imperial immigration group here and established Port Harrison, and led a group of knights to defeat them, and even killed them. Killed one of them.

The spirit of the mountain tide was almost beheaded. If the natives hadn't frantically blocked it with their lives, the monster in the swamp would not even have a chance to escape back to the swamp to sleep.

But this does not mean that the opponent is weak—both the old Viscount and Sir Yam’s teacher suffered heavy injuries in that battle. After passing away, the latter was poisoned deeply, and died after returning to the city.

"Want to pile up human lives to reach the third energy level? It's a good idea."

Thinking of his father's old appearance when he entrusted Port Harrison to him, Viscount Grant sneered, raised his head and said to the knight, "Yam, prepare the guards and alchemy cannons tomorrow, so that those cooperative tribes can avoid them." /

"The day after tomorrow, I want to see all the outlying tribes of the aborigines burned to ashes—all the way to the foot of the Elephant Bone Mountain!"

After Yam nodded, Viscount Grant turned back and looked at the financial officer Lamar on the other side: "How about it, can the port's finances support it?"

"The salaries and pensions are all within the budget." The young financial officer with red mid-length hair and a soft face embraced the documents, lowered his head and said softly, as if a little shy: "The consumption gap of the alchemy artillery is a bit large, and the general Because crystal sand and gunpowder dust are strategic materials, the control of the imperial capital is relatively heavy, and they cannot last for a few days before the arrival of the imperial capital's aid."

His pupils were red, giving people a strange warm feeling, and he was quite gentle, but no one underestimated him, but listened carefully to the young man's speech.

"Leave the gap to me."

Imur of the Chamber of Commerce Alliance is a muscular and fat man with a hollow head and a big beard. After hearing what Lamar said, he stood up very skillfully and patted his chest to cover the consumption. Next: "Only by attacking the natives can there be a smooth trade route. They dared to destroy the village this time. I don't even dare to think about what they will do next time!"

"Leave the maintenance to me." Elder Pude also said familiarly: "It is the rainy season, the shells must be kept dry, and a little more combustion accelerant can be added to the ammunition, so that the forest can survive in the rain. It can burn."

The alchemy cannon was modified by Elder Purdue with dwarf technology, and it can exert different effects through different alchemy potions loaded. This is also the real important job of the White People in Port Harrison.

"That's it." Viscount Grant was quite satisfied.

Everyone present, except for Lamar who joined in the last ten years, are all old partners who have cooperated with each other for more than 30 years. Wear a pair of pants.

Next, everyone discussed the specific details for a while. The deployment of materials and the supply line for the next battle need to be determined in advance.

They are not a surprise attack this time, but a strong attack when the natives are prepared. Naturally, they need to be fully prepared.

After the corresponding procedures are determined, the meeting ends, and everyone leaves one by one to prepare for their own work.

However, when Elder Purdue was about to leave, he was stopped by Viscount Grant.