The Green Emerald area is located in the north of the Middle Kingdom, at the end of the Norwegian Mountains. It is called this because it grows the most perfect green huquoia flora in the world. This plant is the greenest plant in the world. , the word "emerald" in any language is derived from this plant, so "green jade" became the name of this area.

Because the green emerald area is divided by the green cedar forest as the regional boundary, the green emerald area does not have a unified territorial boundary. It will change with the expansion and shrinking of the green cedar forest. At the maximum, the green emerald area The Emerald Region covers almost half of the northern mountainous area of ​​the Middle Kingdom, and at its smallest it only occupied a tributary valley.

The current green jade area is far from being comparable to the largest area, only about half of that time, but it occupies a very good location, with four river valleys and seven large and small rivers passing through it. The land is extremely Fertile, much better than other areas in the Middle Kingdom.

There are now three forces occupying this area, all of which are earldoms. These three earldoms all come from the same family, which was the original Green Jade Duke. However, due to the subsequent civil strife in the family and the division of the heirs, different Earldoms were eventually formed. Lords, and then through constant wars and annexations, the large and small lords gradually disappeared. It was not until now that it stabilized into three counts, and the power finally stabilized, and the Green Jade region also ushered in a rare period of peace.

Although the three counties in the Green Emerald area no longer attack each other, the people in charge of the counties are not willing to just maintain the status quo with nothing to do. They feel that since they cannot annex other counties inward, they might as well attack the green countries outwards. The reason for the land outside the Emerald Area is also very simple, because when the Green Emerald Area expanded its largest area, the land that is not part of the Green Emerald Area now belonged to the Green Emerald Area. Therefore, as the descendants of the Green Emerald Duke, they have the right to control it. these lands.

In recent years, the Middle Kingdom has generally been in a state of peace under the influence of Barbarisar's reputation. Only the area around the Green Emerald area is still prone to frequent wars. The number of wars that occurred here almost accounts for the number of wars in the entire Middle Kingdom. More than half of the total.

In more than half of the wars, the war between the Lolo Hill people and the West Green Jade Counties accounted for more than half. The reason why there were so many war conflicts was entirely because the Lolo Hill people and the Green Jade County could say It's a feud, and it's an irreconcilable kind.

The word Lorothyr means people in chains in the northern languages ​​of the Middle Kingdom. This means that the people of Lorothyr were originally slaves, slaves of the Green Jade Nobility.

The Green Jade area is rich in products, but it lacks iron ore. However, a long time ago, the Green Jade nobles sent people to find several hidden iron ore mines in the northern mountainous area. So every time the Green Jade nobles went out to fight, they would The captives were brought back and then sent to the northern mountains to work as slave miners. This is the origin of the Lorohill people.

Later, there was a civil strife among the Green Jade Nobles. Their power was greatly reduced and they lost control of the mines in the northern mountains. The slave miners in the mines rebelled and killed the owners and guards of the mines. Then they built walls and castles on the mountain roads leading in and out. , gradually formed the current city of Lolo Hill.

The Green Jade Nobles naturally do not want to lose such an important resource area, so they have always sent people to attack the Lolo Hill people, or block roads in the outside world to cut off the contact between the Lolo Hill people and the outside world, and the Lolo Hill people

People will also use their knowledge of the mountainous area from time to time to go out of the mountain from other hidden mountain roads and attack the villages and towns in the green jade area. As you come and go, the hatred between the two parties gradually deepens, and eventually it becomes the absolutely irreconcilable death now.

hatred.

After Barbarissa was canonized by the True God Church, he once hoped to use his reputation to quell this deadly feud. But in the end, before he had time to do so, he learned that a village of the Rollo Hill people was led by the Earl of West Green Emerald.

They were massacred, and the method of massacre was extremely cruel. This made him, a Loro Hill man, feel extremely angry, and he naturally gave up the idea of ​​settling the feud. He even secretly used some of his privileges to help

The Lorohills, this is why the conflicts between the Lorohills and the Green Jade Nobles have always gained the upper hand in recent years.

The place where the war between Lolo Hill and West Green Emerald takes place is called Weinan. It is named after the Weinan River that flows through this place. Logically speaking, as a battlefield between the two forces, this place should be sparsely populated and inaccessible.

However, in fact, it is home to the Red Earth City, the most prosperous city in the northern part of the Middle Kingdom.

The land stained red by blood is the origin of the city's name. However, compared to the official name of Red Earth City, other people familiar with the city prefer the city to be Putah City. The word Putah is used locally.

means wild dogs, which means that people living in the city are like wild dogs who eat anything and are as ferocious and cruel as wild dogs.

The vast majority of people living in this city are desperadoes and wanted criminals from other Central Kingdom areas. Even some foreign fugitives will come here to live in seclusion. They are no longer tolerated by the outside world and can only choose to hide here.

It is a place outside the law, so even though they often fight among themselves, they are very unified in protecting Red Earth City, a place of refuge. Anyone who tries to destroy this city will become their mortal enemy, and they will give up all their grudges.

, kill the mortal enemy first and then talk.

It is precisely because the Red Earth City is very united, and there are many desperadoes hiding in the city, many of whom are extraordinary people with special abilities. Therefore, whether it is Lolo Hill or Green Jade, no matter how you look at this city, it is an eyesore.

No one is willing to take the initiative to attack it, and at some point, they even need to rely on the city's special channels to obtain some items for themselves.

The apparent livelihood of the residents of Red Earth City is to collect the corpses of those who died on the battlefield for Rolohill and Green Jade. Every time the two sides fight, a large number of corpses will be left behind. They will retreat back to their respective territories before they have time to collect them. And these corpses

Most of them are mutilated, and there are also corpses of nobles among them.

Red Earth City will close the city when the two sides start a war, and will not come out to clean up the battlefield until the end of the war. In addition to collecting the corpses, they will also recycle the weapons and equipment on the corpses. The collected corpses will be notified to both sides to claim them. If they have not claimed them,

, they will be bought by them to some underground churches. Those churches need a large number of corpses for each ceremony, so their goods are in short supply.

However, these are just livelihoods on the surface. In fact, Red Earth City is the smuggling center of the entire Old Continent, and nearly 30% of the smuggling transactions in various countries in the entire Old Continent are negotiated here.

The reason why this is so is not only because the location of Red Earth City is right in the center of the Old World, but also because it is an unowned land. Any legal or illegal business can be done here, and because the people living here have many problems.

Most of them are wanted criminals and desperadoes from all over the world. They have more or less mastered some resources and channels. After coming here, they did not abandon these resources and channels but made use of them. They cooperated with others to use these resources.

Scattered channels and resources were integrated, eventually forming a smuggling and selling network centered on Red Earth City and covering the entire Old Continent.

Although countless forces have tried to control this mainland smuggling network in the past, they all ended in failure, because if they wanted to control this smuggling network, the most critical step was to get rid of the five dark masters who controlled Red Earth City, and

The identities of these five secret masters are very secret, and even the secret masters’ subordinates don’t know about it. This makes these forces unable to find targets even if they want to take action, and they are often dead before they can take action.

In his heavily protected home.

Therefore, the dark master of Red Earth City also has a good reputation even outside the Middle Kingdom.

On the third day after Leo left Barbarissa's castle, he had already arrived at Red Earth City. After paying an entry fee and temporary residence fee like everyone else, he entered the city smoothly.

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The city is surrounded by a high wall for defense. There are two more high walls like this. It can be seen that after the city was built, it was expanded twice, and the buildings inside the high wall were neatly divided into

There are eight urban districts, each of which is divided into several residential areas. Standing on the city wall and looking down, you can feel that the entire city is extremely orderly. It does not look like an ownerless city that has been in the hinterland of war all year round and is full of all kinds of criminals.

City.

I don't know why after seeing this city, Leo couldn't help but think of Ceylon City in the Black Forest. Although it is far from being comparable in size to Ceylon City, the overall city layout is slightly similar to Ceylon City.

place, which made him wonder whether the people who originally planned the city had ever been to Ceylon.

After entering the city, Leo called a carriage waiting by the city wall, then reported an address, took out the corresponding fee, and sat quietly in the carriage, watching the scenery passing by outside the car.

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Just like all cities, the hired carriages in Red Earth City also watch people deliver food. If Leo did not come up with the corresponding fee after reporting the address just now, then the coachman may end up charging a huge fee.

It may even be possible to send you directly to a certain place and make you one of the missing persons.

People who have just arrived in Red Earth City will subconsciously think that this is a city in a civilized area from the urban planning and clean streets of Red Earth City. They completely forget that the people living in this city are all desperadoes, wanted criminals, and kind-hearted people.

There are only a handful of people in this city. If they cannot adjust their mentality in time, it will be a matter of time before the new arrivals are swallowed up by the city.

Although the coachman tried to understand Leo's situation through some words on the road, Leo never paid attention to the other party's words and did not say a word to the other party. This made the coachman unable to judge Leo's situation for a while.

He could honestly take Leo to where he wanted to go and then let him go. In his heart, he might feel that Leo had escaped a disaster by good luck, but he didn't know that he was the one who escaped the disaster.

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The address Leo gave was a blacksmith shop in the Sequoia District. This blacksmith shop is the largest blacksmith shop in Red Earth City and is also very old. It was already there when Red Earth City was built. Later, after the city expanded,

It was moved outside to better receive customers, and also to make the blacksmith shop larger. Nearly the entire land in the Redwood District now belongs to this blacksmith shop.

The blacksmith shop has many businesses, but its main business is to repair various weapons and equipment found by corpse collectors on the battlefield, and then buy these weapons and equipment as new ones back to their original owners. Although such a business cannot make a lot of money,

But it can keep flowing. As long as the war between Rolohill and Green Jade does not end, there is no possibility of his business being cut off.

After entering the blacksmith shop, Leo directly handed a beautiful badge that Barbarissa gave him to the supervisor responsible for receiving him, and asked him to hand the thing to the owner of the blacksmith shop.

The owner of the blacksmith shop is named Kit, a Loro Hill native. He was sentenced to death for killing his blood relatives. However, he was rescued by his men the night before his death. He fled to Red Earth City and became a blacksmith.

He was the apprentice of the former owner of the blacksmith shop. Later, he gradually improved his status in the blacksmith shop and finally became the heir of the blacksmith shop. After the death of the former owner of the blacksmith shop ten years ago, he became the owner of the blacksmith shop.

On the surface, Kit, the owner of the blacksmith shop, is one of the many forces in Red Earth City, but in fact he is one of the five secret masters of Red Earth City. This is also the secret identity of the former owner of the blacksmith shop. This identity also follows the blacksmith shop.

In addition to being inherited together, he was also the spy leader of Barbarissa buried in the Red Earth City.

The geographical location of Red Earth City and the huge interests hidden behind it not only attracted people from other forces, but even Barbarissa could not ignore it. Although he felt that it was impossible for him to grasp the huge interests behind Red Earth City, he also

He didn't want such huge benefits to fall into the hands of others, so he had secretly sent some spies to sneak into Red Earth City a long time ago. In order to avoid being suspected, the spies he sent were from other places that were not under his control.

Among the cities in the city, none of them had a direct connection with me.

However, what he never expected was that among the spies he sent out, one of them accidentally became one of the secret masters of Red Earth City. This also made him slightly change some of his previous ideas and began to consider taking control of Red Earth City.

possibility.

And this time Leo needs to enter the green emerald forest and go to Lake Narnia deep in the forest, so he must pass through the Red Earth City. Otherwise, he may encounter some unnecessary obstruction and difficulties from other places. Of course, he does not have to.

Enter through normal methods, but doing so may cause Leo to miss some clues, because it is said that some of the Green Jade Nobles have also studied Lake Narnia. From the research data of these people, some useful information may be obtained.
Chapter completed!