Chapter 442: Time waits for no one
Goblin has a very standard "reckless and cowardly duality".
When the Ceylon Territory first fell into the eternal night disaster, ordinary people fell into fear. Instead of being afraid, the goblins were ecstatic.
Because they discovered business opportunities.
The goblin captains at the airship dock unanimously offered extremely high prices for "escape tickets".
After buying a ticket and boarding the airship, they will take the passengers out of Ceylon as soon as possible and go to a safe place.
As a result, when the airship sailed to the border of Ceylon territory, it found that it was blocked by invisible obstacles and could not sail out.
The goblins immediately became as scared as ordinary people, and even more scared.
I flew back to Ceylon City and landed. I immediately went to the refuge camp and hid in the camp. I beat them to death and did not come out.
At the end of the eternal night, the goblins seamlessly switched to their wild form and started selling "evacuation tickets" in the camp again!
The air routes were quickly restored and it was one of the industries that returned to normal quickly after the disaster.
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When Pate asked for flight information at the airship dock, the person who answered him was not a goblin, but a human.
The other party is responsible for ticket sales on duty.
The little green men all have restless tempers, and keeping them in the same place for a long time doing the same thing is tantamount to torture.
Goblins who are good at outsourcing often transfer these low-skilled jobs to the labor force of other races.
Especially humans.
Smart enough, hardworking and hardworking, there are still many!
The dock employee on duty rolled his eyes when he heard Pat's question:
"Do you still need to ask?"
"Friends, it's October now, and the Harvest Festival is coming!"
"The custom of the dwarves is that they will have a carnival every October and hold a festival called the Wine Festival."
"During this period, the price of grain shipped to the stone castle will skyrocket, and the dwarves will buy large quantities of grain to brew wine for them to drink next year."
"The airships have all gone to the grains west of Reyak In the high-yield area, food is transported and resold back and forth.”
“If you want to go to Stone Castle, don’t even think about the goblin airship.”
"Before the end of the Wine Festival, I can assure you that every airship heading to Stone Castle will be filled with food according to its load limit, and there will be no room left for passengers."
Pei. Very stupid.
He knew that the dwarves had a tradition of celebrating the Brewfest.
Dwarves will drink wine from the cellar during the festival and hold various carnival activities day and night to celebrate and reward themselves for their hard work over the past year.
The whole family worships their ancestors together and proves to their ancestors that their glorious bloodline has not been buried by future generations.
Pray to the gods who gave the dwarves lava, minerals and wine, and thank them for their protection.
But Peter didn’t know that the goblin airships would also be temporarily suspended during this period!
After all, he had never been to a place like Stone Castle by airship before.
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There is no airship flight directly to Stone Castle.
Things get a little troublesome.
Theoretically the fastest solution becomes:
First take the goblin airship to the royal capital of Starosh.
Then buy a ticket for the underground tunnel.
Take the underground train jointly invested and built by goblins and dwarves to go to the stone castle.
However, this plan was rejected by the human airship conductor on duty.
“Listen to my advice, friend.”
“During the entire October Wine Festival, airships and underground trains, the two main channels to the Stone Castle, are basically hard to get a ticket. "
"Not to mention the large amount of cargo, the small number of passenger tickets were all booked by big businessmen when they were put on sale."
"Can't buy them. Tickets arrived.”
"My suggestion is that you just wait here honestly." "If there is nothing particularly urgent, wait until the wine festival is over and passenger routes resume before going to Stone Castle."
< br>Things about the underground train.
Miranda, who also planned to go to Stone Castle to track down clues about the man in black robe, confirmed what the conductor said.
Miranda said first:
"October every year is indeed a popular month for the underground trains in the royal capital."
"It is almost impossible to buy ready-made tickets."
After recalling it, he suddenly said:
< br>“Oh, yes! There are more!”
“No wonder there will be a large number of Royal Capital caravans planning to pass through the Lingyi Wetland from south to north in September, recruiting escorts.”
"They should be businessmen who didn't get the tickets, so they had to take the slower and more dangerous land route in advance."
Brandon next to him was a little irritated.
“Through the Lingwing Wetland... that place is not easy to walk!”
Although he has not experienced it in person, Brandon mentioned it when he heard the bards in the tavern bragging. Pass.
Lingyi Wetland is located outside the border of Reyak Kingdom. In other words, there is no protection from [Past Glory].
In addition to the threat of monsters, there are a large number of swamps, depressions and tidal flats.
Especially those silt swamps that are difficult to distinguish.
If you step on the air and fall into it, you may never be able to climb out again, and you will eventually be swallowed by the swamp.
Every year, someone stays in the swamp of Lingyi Wetland forever.
Even with an experienced guide, it would take at least half a month to cross it.
If we include this half-month period, maybe by the time they arrive at Stone Castle, the Wine Festival will be over and the route will be resumed.
It is better to just wait in Ceylon.
During the waiting period, you can regularly clean the dark crypt [shallow layer], or explore the deeper parts of the dark forest to earn rewards from Noven.
"How about... we wait until November to go?" Gale, who also planned to go to Stone Castle, hesitated and asked.
Pate frowned and made no comment.
He was thinking about something else.
"I'm a little worried."
Leina, wearing a purple-black cloak, leaned over curiously: "What are you worried about?"
Pate motioned to the familiar people around him The companions stayed away from the conductor on duty and found a place where they could not be heard. Then they explained in a low voice:
"Those black-robed men, I have a hunch that if If we don’t hurry up and reach the stone castle as soon as possible, the clues may be lost.”
"Don't forget, those hexagonal gems dedicated to the Lord are related to the people in black robes. They are obviously a large-scale organization."
"Didn't the Countess also mention it? , she has seen different appearances of black-robed dwarves, which shows that the two guys who blew themselves up last time were definitely not the only ones involved in the Ceylon Evernight Incident."
"What about the other black-robed dwarves? ”
Pate asked and answered himself.
“Would they have been hiding in the darkness of the Ceylon Territory, and evacuated as soon as they realized something was wrong and their companions were dead?”
"The Stone Castle is the only clue at present, and the Wine Festival is a very special opportunity."
"It is difficult for us to get to the Stone Castle, so it must be the same for those in black robes."
>"Time waits for no one. What if they arrive at the stone castle first and the clues are destroyed and covered up?"
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