As announced by the city council, the restraining order began to be lifted on the fourth day after it was promulgated. However, this lifting was not a complete lifting, but a change in the rules, that is, those who left could leave at will, but they wanted to

Those who enter the city need to pass the double review of the city council and the church.

Although the city council of Nice stated that this new policy is only temporary and will be lifted when the situation calms down, many people are still dissatisfied.

Especially those caravans who have been trapped outside the city for many days, because the various procedures and inspections they need to go through before entering the city are three to four times more than before, and the speed of entering the city is naturally much slower. This makes the city of Nice

The same scene appeared at the four city gates. Caravan vehicles blocked the road. As a result, those who were originally planning to leave had to find other ways to leave.

Compared with the limited number of steam trains, taking a cruise ship is the best choice to leave by water. However, because there are so many people leaving, ship tickets are also in short supply. Ticket sellers are naturally keeping an eye on this opportunity to make a fortune.

We had already obtained all the tickets through the internal response of various shipping companies. Unless they purchased the tickets two days in advance like Leo and others, it would be almost impossible to buy tickets directly at the ticket office at the pier.

Although many people are worried about another accident and want to leave Nice as soon as possible, many people still go in the opposite direction after the ban in Nice is lifted, trying every means to enter the city and stay in the city to wait and see the situation.

These people are not ordinary people. They are all well-known chamber of commerce presidents or senior executives in the New and Old Continents. Even the lowest-status people are at the regional director level. The funds that can be used at any time are astronomical in the eyes of ordinary people.

The reason why these wealthy people did not choose to leave the city of Nice at this time, and even those who got the news, couldn't wait to come to the city of Nice in the shortest possible time, was because of the large amount of real estate that was the by-product of this big move in the city of Nice.

, land and materials.

Although this big move in Nice lasted only a few days, the Nice City Council and all the churches jointly attacked, and the action was decisive and shocking. Almost 90% of the people in Nice were related to evil gods and heresies.

The underground forces were uprooted, and even the chambers of commerce and officials involved were not spared.

After a life-and-death attack, the seizures of the city council were naturally astonishingly huge.

For example, the Dubi Group is the largest family-owned chamber of commerce in Nice. This chamber of commerce was established more than a hundred years ago and has always been focused on real estate. When its industry was at its largest, it once controlled half of the real estate industry.

Although the size of the group has declined, and due to industrial transformation and other reasons, the real estate under its control is only half of what it was at its peak, it is still the largest landowner in Nice.

However, for such a huge chamber of commerce, its controlling family, the Douby family, believes in evil gods. Not only does it carry out sacrificial activities in its family's manor, it even secretly buries a large number of blasphemies in the properties it controls.

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Such a huge evil force is naturally the focus of this attack. Even in order to prevent the Douby family from perishing together, several churches participating in the siege also sent their own paladins and archbishop-level senior clergy to carry out the attack.

There were even saint bones and artifacts inside.

Now that the entire Douby family has been killed or captured and is awaiting trial, their property has naturally fallen into the hands of the city council. According to past management, the city council will not directly engage in commercial operations.

Therefore, these properties will inevitably be auctioned after things calm down. This will undoubtedly be a mouth-watering cake for all chambers of commerce.

This is just the Duby Group. There are many other chambers of commerce and nobles who have connections with evil forces. None of them were spared this time, and they were all arrested.

In addition, those underground forces hidden underground in the city will naturally not escape the fate of being purged. Although the nominal industries of these underground forces cannot be compared with that of a large chamber of commerce, the actual wealth they control is no better than that of those large chambers of commerce.

There were few chambers of commerce, and this wealth undoubtedly fell into the hands of the city council.

Someone tried to estimate how many properties, materials and wealth the city council finally confiscated during the clean-up operations in the past few days. The final figure was staggering. Even the most conservative figure is equivalent to more than 20 years in the city of Nice.

of taxes.

For other chambers of commerce, although it is impossible for them to eat meat, it is still very good to drink some soup, and just the soup of real estate is enough for these chambers of commerce, not to mention other products such as products from various countries.

, storing food and other materials, these can definitely make every chamber of commerce involved in this matter make a lot of money.

Therefore, after entering the city of Nice, the owners and managers of various chambers of commerce had just booked temporary rooms in the hotel, and they couldn't wait to search for their connections in the city of Nice, trying to find out the details of the auction.

When the cleanup operation began to enter its final stage, and the city council and the church were satisfied with the operation, some rumors began to spread in Nice that made them a little worried.

In the rumors, it was mentioned that the city council and the church's action to clean up heretics actually had nothing to do with heretics and evil believers. They were just interested in the wealth accumulated by these chambers of commerce, city nobles, and underground forces over the years, so they found

With just one excuse, these wealth were blatantly robbed.

Such rumors are of no use to officials, nobles and wealthy people who know the situation. They can easily see that such rumors are unfounded, because many of the people who were purged were members of the city council and

officials, and they come from different factions, and several of them are famous for their integrity and integrity. If they are really after the wealth of these people as the rumors say, then what will happen to other members and officials in the city council?

Are you worried that you will be the next one to be purged? In that case, these people will definitely not sit still and wait for death, and the entire city of Nice will be in chaos.

However, this kind of rumor that can be easily seen through is widely circulated among the people at the bottom. They all believe that this rumor is not groundless. Although they cannot believe it completely, it is definitely not completely false.

Therefore, when they saw those big shots who were originally aloof being imprisoned one by one, they felt pleasure in their hearts, but also felt a strong sense of worry. They felt that since those big shots were so miserable, what if things happened to them?

What ability do they have to resist?

For a time, the entire city of Nice did not regain its vitality due to the end of the ban. The entire city's bottom layer fell into inexplicable panic, and the trust of city residents in the city council also dropped to an unprecedented 50%.

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You must know that before the incident, the Nice City Council's trust among the people was still 87%. Although it was not the highest, it was still among the top ten. It lost 3% in just four days.

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This also made the city council wonder whether these rumors were deliberately spread by the few remaining Acropolis Hero Families, whose purpose was to get the Acropolis Hero Families to get rid of their false reputation and gain real power in the city.

Their suspicions are not unfounded, because these heroic families of the Acropolis have always been unwilling to have only a false name and cannot interfere with the real power of the city, so they have been trying to enter the management departments of the city council at all levels, and even recently

In recent years, there have been demands for the establishment of an honorary seat on the city council to allow them to supervise the parliamentary order of the city council.

The reason why the city council carried out such a large-scale purge of heretics this time was because of the Moxi Troupe incident related to the Acropolis Heroes. Other Acropolis Hero families jointly put pressure on the city council and used their relationships to get the church involved.

As a result, the entire investigation and arrest work was completely out of the control of the city council, resulting in an infinite expansion of the targets of the attack, and finally became what it is now.

Although the city council also benefited a lot from the purge operation, at least there will be no worries about funding gaps for urban development in the next few years, but most of its reputation was lost because of this operation.

Now in the city of Nice, there is talk of letting the heroic families of the Acropolis come forward to form a new city council, and this idea seems to have been recognized by a large number of citizens.

Although the members of the city council do not need to pay attention to the demands of the people at the bottom of the city of Nice most of the time, when it comes to the parliamentary election year, these people at the bottom who have the right to vote will be different. If the Heroic Family of the Acropolis allows them to control

If people who are qualified to run for the City Council run for office, then these members of the City Council may be in danger.

As a result, a monster called infighting began to gradually form within the city of Nice, which has always been known for its unity. No matter what the final result was, a crack was created in the solid wall of Nice by this monster, and it was an irreparable crack.

, this may also become a fatal blow to the city of Nice.

However, Leo, who caused all this chaos, has now boarded their cruise ship with Sylvia and Pennistan. He will leave Nice again soon, and may not come back again in the future.

Regarding the situation in the city of Nice, Leo, whose spiritual network once penetrated every place in the city, is naturally familiar with it. He even knows that the city councils launched purge operations for the sake of other people's wealth, and that the heroic family of the Acropolis wanted to take the opportunity to gain real power.

Who created and spread such rumors, but he was not even as concerned about these things as the so-called cruise ship he was currently on.

In Leo's opinion, since the Holy Cruise Ship can be called the most luxurious and largest cruise ship, it should be like a ship like Velen World, but actually seeing it is completely different.

This cruise ship is called the most luxurious, and it is true that it is the largest, because it is the only cruise ship on the pier with a five-story height, extremely luxurious interior and exterior decoration, and the passengers are all wealthy people, but this ship is just an extremely backward flat-bottomed ship.

A side-wheel river ferry, you can tell at a glance that it is a modified vessel.

The Lister River is an inland river with an extremely wide channel, but the water is very shallow and is not suitable for navigation by deep-bottomed boats. On the contrary, flat-bottomed boats, which have long been eliminated in other places, are very suitable for navigation on this kind of river.

So on the List River, there are basically flat-bottomed boats.

Most of these flat-bottomed boats are made of wood. People here are used to finding relatively well-preserved wood in the hull after the boat breaks down, dismantling it and replacing it with new boats. This is called the inheritance of the soul of the boat.

, but the consequence of this is that the new ships are mixed with old wood. As a result, after the ship has been used for a long time, the new and old wood will corrode differently, causing unpredictable hidden damage.

The Holy Ship that Leo is currently traveling on is such a flat-panel ship that is a combination of old and new. After scanning through the mental network, Leo discovered at least fifty hidden dangers, including more than a dozen hidden damage to key parts such as the keel.

This also made him doubt that the ship would eventually reach the port of Santa Pelia.

However, even so, Leo and the others did not change ships. It was not that they did not want to change, but that all the other ships were full of tourists leaving the city of Nice, and not a single ship was empty.

For this reason, Leo had to go through every hidden injury before the ship left the dock, and buried a wizard rune array for reinforcement, so that this powerful but capable luxury cruise ship could safely reach its final destination.

As for whether the ship would fall apart during the voyage later, it was none of his business.

"Do you think that crazy knight will come again?" When Leo reinforced the ship and returned to his cabin, Sylvia, who was sitting by the window admiring the view of the dock, suddenly asked.

"I don't know." Leo shook his head and replied.

There is a place in the city of Nice that his spiritual network cannot penetrate. That place is the church of the Church of False Heart. In that church with a weird architectural shape, there is an extremely powerful twisted force. This force

The power will directly twist the power in the spiritual network into another kind of power when it is close to it. The most intuitive manifestation is that some rainbow-like light appears above the temple of False Heart. That light is the power in Leo's spiritual network.

The scene that appears after being distorted.

From that night on, apart from cooperating with the other church knights on the first day with the city council to eliminate heretics in the city, Joan stayed in the church of False Heart for the next few days, so Leo doesn't know his situation now.

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However, for Leo, it doesn't matter whether Qiao An comes with him or not. If he comes, it will only give him one more test subject and several more test subjects, and there will be no big losses.

As time passed, the Holy Ship had completed its supplies and all the passengers had boarded. With the sound of two whistles, the ship's hull gradually moved away from the dock driven by the crew's poles.

At this time, a man wearing a church knight's armor suddenly ran out from the crowd and rushed to the edge of the pier at an extremely fast speed. Then he jumped up and hit the fragile stern deck of the Holy Ship like a falling rock.

on, causing a series of exclamations.
Chapter completed!