Volume 2: Empire Chapter 15 Live Every Day Well
Luke returned home and drank the sobering tea that the greedy goblin made for him, and looked at the mouse on the table in front of him in silence.
She was wearing a hastily made double-breasted old-fashioned shirt, with a leather cylinder hanging from her leather belt, with a few large sewing needles stuck in it, and a boat-shaped hat on her head with a bird feather wrapped in the folded brim.
At this time, the mouse named Dark Night was saluting Luke in a standard knight-like manner.
After a while, Luke couldn't help but ask Dale who was sitting next to him: "You just gave the title of knight to a mouse?"
Dale was holding a plate and eating the dessert made by the greedy goblin. She answered Luke's question: "I gave her a name and signed a loyalty agreement, so she naturally obtained the title of knight. I'm curious, your first question was this. Shouldn't you be more concerned about what's inside her soul?"
Luke pouted and said, "Don't you know...I haven't even received the title of knight yet?"
"No way!" Dai'er seemed to have found something extremely funny: "You, you have added so much wealth to the empire in Raging Waves City, but you are not even a knight. But don't be discouraged. As a princess of the empire, I can now fulfill your wish to become a knight."
Dale turned the fork in her hand and was about to put it on Luke's shoulder.
Luke dodged the cheese-stained fork and said, "No need to bother you, Your Highness. I am not interested in the titles of knight and nobility. Let's talk about this shadow parasite meta-iteration. Are you sure you want to take her in?"
"Of course... Don't worry, I will hide her and won't let Melken find her."
"I'm not afraid of being discovered by Melken." Luke looked at Dark Night, and Taotie jumped out from the back of his hand, and with a dive, he pressed Dark Night under his feet. The cat-sized Taotie sniffed the food under his feet, and fireworks spewed out of his nostrils. After Luke saw Taotie controlling the iteration of the Shadow Parasite, he said to Dale: "You don't understand the habits of the Shadow Parasite. Your noble bloodline has a fatal temptation to her. The spiritual contract made her your servant, and also let her imprint her spirit in your spirit.
From now on, your spiritual power will become her nourishment. She will become stronger and stronger until she can parasitize in your soul. "
Dai Er was stunned: "Will it be like this?"
Dark Night immediately explained: "Your Highness! Although I can indeed gain nourishment from your spirit, under the constraints of the contract, I will never invade your soul without your consent. Moreover, I am an iterative body of the Shadow Parasite, and it is impossible for me to replace you.
I... I just fancy your noble bloodline, and I'll be satisfied if I can have a little bit of it."
"You deceived me." Dai'er said viciously.
Dark Night defended himself, "I just concealed a little bit. Mr. Luke, since you know about Shadow Parasite, you should know that I can't harm Her Royal Highness the Princess."
Luke said to Dale: "The Shadow Tribe are all assassins walking in the dark. Disguise and deception are their instincts. But what Dark Night said is right. As long as you don't allow her to parasitize in your soul, she can't actively invade, and an incomplete Shadow Parasite can't replace you.
But in order to prevent unexpected situations, necessary measures must be taken.”
Luke stared into the dark night and chanted a spell, and the golden edges of the Taotie's red scales became brighter. Golden threads were pulled out from the Taotie's body and combined into a spell in the air.
As the spell was chanted, it floated into the dark night, wrapping around her like a rope.
An Ye exclaimed loudly: "Shuo Jinyu, you...you are the Shuo Jin person!"
Although the Dark Night Parasite discovered by the Empire had lost most of its abilities due to its damage, the war still left a very deep mark on its spirit.
As an iterative body, Dark Night instinctively has a deep fear and hostility towards the Shining Gold People who invade his civilization.
Dark Night struggled hard, but the Taotie dragon claws hooked into her and held her down tightly. The spells bound her in circles, and finally, after a flash, they all sank into Dark Night's body.
A dragon roar came from the mouth of Taotie.
Dark Night cursed: "You are a dragon, but you have become a slave of the Shining Gold Man."
Taotie ignored An Ye. It loosened its claws, flew into the air, and slammed into the back of Luke's hand.
"You're not much better." Luke said with a smile, "As a descendant of the Shadow Civilization, you actually became a servant of humans. In your era, human tribes didn't even qualify to become vassals of the Shadow Civilization."
At this time, Dale finally recovered from her shock and asked Luke: "Are you the Sparkling Gold Man?"
Luke denied it: "No."
Dark Night jumped up and pulled out Needle, posing an attacking stance towards Luke: "You are the Golden Man! It is impossible for a non-Gold Man to use the Golden Language so skillfully. You can't fool me. The sealing spell you cast on me must have been released by the Golden Twins at the same time."
Luke's right eye emitted sparks, and pushed An Ye to the ground a few times on the table: "Whatever you say, I am not a Glowing Gold Man! I have used the Glowing Gold Language to seal you in the soul of this mouse. You can continue to obtain nutrients and energy from Dale's spirit through the spiritual contract, but without me to unseal you, you can't change the host.
From now on, serve your master honestly. I will evaluate your loyalty, so don't try to deceive her stupid brain again."
After getting up, An Ye put the sewing needle back into the sheath: "Of course I will serve Your Highness loyally. From the beginning, I have no ill will towards Your Highness... except for the moment we first met."
At this moment, Dai'er didn't know what to say.
Luke drank all the tea in the cup, stood up and said, "Just consider it as me being a bad guy for once. I'm going to rest now. I still have a lot of things to do tomorrow."
Luke put down his teacup and walked up the stairs.
When he was halfway there, Dai'er called him and said, "Thank you!"
"You're welcome. Theoretically, she has no way to harm you. I'm just adding another layer of insurance. Good night!"
"Good night!"
The money-grubbing goblin called out, "Good night, Master."
While Luke was sleeping, Alice spent the entire night selling the information she had throughout the downtown area.
Mr. Luke immediately gave Melken a check for 10 million Reichsmarks.
Another 500 million yuan of investment will be invested here in the future!
Everyone was extremely excited, and was eager to get more of the investment money into their own hands.
The manpower around Luke's residence was strengthened again, and all those who were doing illegal things in the lower city were repeatedly warned by the bosses of all parties not to endanger the safety of Mr. Luke and his wife, and not to hinder Mr. Luke's inspection of the lower city.
Cooperate, everyone must cooperate!
If you dare not obey, prepare to sink into the sewage reservoir!
The Lower Town is preparing for a bright and golden tomorrow.
At the same time, the Imperial Secret Service conducted a comprehensive raid on all industries related to the Tedega Hills. Although this would widen the rift between the Empire and the Duke of Celtic, since the rift already existed, Agatha didn't care much.
As long as he could find evidence that the Tedega Hills and the Abyss Temple were close, he would be in a much better position. If he could stimulate the Duke of Celtic to take some action, his pressure would be much less.
Agatha's big move tonight also made all parties in Saint Lun City react passively. While everyone was on guard against Agatha finding someone to take the blame, they also linked together the proposal to impeach the eldest princess.
On the contrary, no instructions came out from the palace except to strengthen the garrison.
Emperor Augustine wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the fight between the two tigers.
In addition... there are more people monitoring the Copper Mulberry Avenue. But since Princess Dale disappeared, Chief Inspector of Meteorite strictly forbade people to go out, and all those who came from Raging Waves City stayed in the yard honestly.
The oppressive feeling of court struggle made everyone breathless.
In one night, there were two different atmospheres: inside and outside the wall.
The long night passed and a new day came.
Luke, Dale, and Kuaitui were enjoying the breakfast made by the greedy fairy. Dark Night also got a special small dining table on the table and ate the food on the plate with small cutlery.
The fast-legged man who returned to the upper city last night looked at Dark Night curiously, but did not ask much. Instead, he said to Luke: "Sir, everything is normal on Copper Mulberry Avenue, but the Imperial spies were very active all night. The Blade Brotherhood and the Secret Service had many conflicts, and the casualties are not yet known.
Her Royal Highness the Princess seems a little anxious."
"She is not in a hurry and will just sit there and wait for death. It is better to stir up the situation even more and force everyone to follow suit. Although it increases the danger for herself, it is much better than facing a group of turtles and not knowing how to attack them."
Dai'er said worriedly, "Will Sister Agatha really be in danger?"
Luke said to Dale, "I don't know. She can only rely on herself in this situation. Miss Qingkong has already informed the princess of my attitude. When she can't hold on any longer, Nutao City and I will step in.
Miss Qingkong will also display force appropriately.
When the time comes, you can return to the palace, save the life of the eldest princess, and let her go to Nutao City to be an idle princess. It should be no problem."
Hearing that Agatha's life was not in danger, Dale was relieved: "Sister Agatha is very strong, but she is also devoted to the empire, but father can't see it. He doesn't trust anyone now... Is that chair so good?"
"In your eyes, it's just a seat, of course there's nothing good about it. But in the eyes of others, it's something else, and they would risk their lives to sit on it."
Dai Er suddenly looked at Luke: "What about you? Do you want to sit too?"
Luke didn't expect that such a question would come from Dale's mouth. He was surprised for a moment before he smiled and reminded: "You are the princess of the empire."
"I don't want to be a princess. Tell me, do you want to be an emperor?"
The fast-legged man hurriedly carried his food out of the restaurant: "I'll go prepare the car."
Luke looked at Dale. The purity in her eyes seemed as if it had never been polluted by the world.
"No!" After a while, Luke replied: "My biggest wish is to make enough money to spend, do whatever I want, eat whatever I want, play games, make videos, and be a qualified office worker.
But fate played a joke on me and pushed me into this position.
I don't belong to myself now. Too many people's lives are connected with me. I can only shoulder this responsibility and continue to move forward on this road that I don't like. No matter what seat is waiting for me in front, I will definitely sit down when it's my turn.
That’s life, unpredictable and unsatisfactory.”
Dale's mouth opened in shock: "I really should have asked the Dark Knight to arrest you...but it seems that what you said is not wrong.
I thought running away was my own business, but I didn't expect that the entire palace would be destroyed by me. I don't belong to myself, but I will continue to pursue the life I like... starting from every day.
Where are we going today?"
"The sewage reservoir, there must be a lot of people waiting for me there."
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The sewage reservoir is the basis for the existence of the lower city of Saint-Lun.
There are hundreds of refining factories and workshops surrounding the sewage reservoir. They use dredging pipes to extract sludge from the bottom of the water, and then extract gold from the sludge through a series of processes.
The workload is very large, and there is uncertainty about how much gold mud can be produced every day. Some family-owned refining workshops may go bankrupt due to continuous lack of output and failure to pay mining fees.
Or they might be attacked by monsters in the sewage reservoir, causing damage to their equipment, and eventually go bankrupt due to their inability to pay the mining fees.
Or for other reasons, they may go bankrupt due to failure to pay mining fees.
The mining rights of the sewage reservoir are controlled by five gold mud refineries with refining technology. They rely on irreplaceable gold mud separation technology to monopolize the sewage reservoir. Most of the refining factories around the sewage reservoir are controlled by these five companies. If other family workshops want to mine gold mud, they not only have to accept their exploitation when selling gold mud, but also have to pay high mining fees.
But even so, a family that owns a workshop in the sewage reservoir is an enviable family in the downtown area.
At this time, old Adrian was sitting in the yard of his workshop, smoking quietly. Behind him was a collapsed factory building. His son and employees were struggling to salvage the equipment that could still be repaired and used. Several unrecognizable bodies lay on the ground nearby.
The sewage reservoir contained alchemical materials with energy, and was also a perfect place to store corpses. There were also many unknown things that were discharged into the reservoir along with the sewage. Over time, some mysterious items were naturally generated in it, and the reservoir became a natural combination furnace of mysterious words.
When the water at the bottom of the reservoir is churning in the refining plant, I wonder what kind of secret technique will be released.
Near the sewage reservoir, some people became powerful because of the secret arts, while others became disabled and died because of the secret arts. Sometimes the secret arts would create monsters that attacked the workshop.
Old Adrian's workshop was attacked by a reservoir monster last night. The factory building was destroyed and several workers and workshop guards died.
This was a devastating blow to old Adrian's refining workshop. He invested all his money in purchasing new excavation equipment, and the result was... everything was ruined.
While old Adrian was thinking about how to keep the workshop, a car drove in through the open gate.
