Chapter 649 Barnett’s Letter
“Damn! Do you know which adult is behind us?”
A man dressed as a businessman yelled at the soldiers.
"Sir, according to regulations, everything that passes the checkpoint must be inspected."
"Soldier, you just arrived, right? I ask you to look at it again, I have this batch License for grain.”
"I see your license clearly, sir. But our inspection is to see if there are any contraband in the goods."
Soldier Jeffrey was also angry, but did not dare to vent it. The other party seems not to be trifled with.
This is the Watcher's Fortress, and he is the soldier stationed here.
When I was on duty at the passage on weekdays, the business travelers passing by were all respectful to them, and sometimes they even gave them a small amount of money.
But today I suddenly encountered an arrogant man who refused the soldiers’ request to inspect the goods.
Although Aldo allows domestic merchants to do business with many forces outside the fortress, including orcs.
But there are many goods that are prohibited from being sold outside.
Such as sophisticated weapons and armor.
There are also many goods that are sold in limited quantities.
For example, salt, grain, cloth, etc. are often restricted by issuing one-time or limited-term licenses.
The reason why there are many restrictions on internal and external trade is mainly to prevent the orcs on the grassland.
The orcs live a nomadic life on the grasslands, but are extremely short of daily necessities, which also limits the reproduction of their population.
If daily supplies are supplied to the grassland without limit, they are likely to grow like a snowball and pose a major threat to human civilization.
There are still many businessmen who like to do business on the grasslands. The cattle and sheep raised by the orcs, as well as all kinds of furs, are also very popular goods for humans.
With the high profits, many people will ignore the kingdom's ban and smuggle the goods that the orcs desperately need into the grassland.
Therefore, it is very necessary to inspect passing business travelers on traffic arteries such as Watcher's Fortress.
But Jeffrey ran into trouble.
The businessman leading the team was gorgeously dressed and looked to be of high origin.
The attitude was arrogant, refusing to let him inspect the goods in his car, and not taking his soldier seriously at all.
While there was a stalemate, the captain's voice came from behind Jeffrey.
"Let me go."
"Huh?"
Jeffrey came back to his senses in surprise and looked at the captain who had just returned from urination.
“This is the caravan of the Bradley family, you can go directly there.”
The captain said calmly, as if he was used to it.
No wonder, Jeffrey thought, Bradley is a noble from the northeastern part of the kingdom and has the title of Duke.
“Hmph!” The leader of the caravan glanced at Jeffrey arrogantly, as if to say, “I remember you.”
Jeffrey stepped aside silently and let The convoy passes.
After a while, the convoy left away from the Watcher's Fortress.
I thought this incident would just go away, but I quickly remembered the sound of rapid horse hooves from inside the fortress gate.
A group of knights rushed to Jeffrey and others like a whirlwind.
"Hello, Knight Arthur!"
The captain took Jeffrey and others to the leader's luggage.
Arthur asked: "Did the Bradley family's caravan pass through just now?"
"Yes, sir." The captain replied.
"In the future, we must also inspect the Bradley family's caravan!" Knight Arthur ordered with a stern expression.
"Uh...yes! Sir."
The captain felt uneasy. Has there been any change at the top?
Other knights asked: "Should we catch up?"
Arthur looked at the flying dust in the distance, shook his head and said: "Let them go this time."
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"It's interesting, my mentor. Look at me What did you find? "
Desen held up a wooden box and said to the instructor very happily.
O'Donnell smiled.
"Barnett's clue?"
"Yes, Mr. O'Donnell, this is what Master Barnett left behind."
Desen said with excitement: " During this period of time, I visited almost all the hotels in this port city, and finally my trip was not in vain."
O'Dennell and Dessen arrived in the Northwest Bay a month ago.
With them came Mariana and Andy.
After the four people met up with Nathan and Edward, who had arrived here long ago, they began to search for clues about Barnett.
“I came to the last hotel I had never visited, and described Barnett’s appearance to the boss with the mentality of giving it a try. In fact, after visiting so many hotels, I had basically I gave up. But I didn’t expect to find a clue in the last hotel.”
“The boss is quite old and said that his family has had such a hotel in Fulangang for a long time. A man once stayed in his hotel and left such a wooden box, saying that if any companions came to see him, he would ask the hotel owner to hand it over to him. "
O'Dennell frowned, "Ba. That bastard Nate, why don’t you follow the rules?”
The secret method will have a contact number in a strange place and leave a message at the third hotel in the area sorted by hotel name.
Of course, this is time-sensitive. After all, hotels may open or close, so we will search forward and backward as appropriate.
This method is only used to leave some less important and auxiliary information, such as leaving your own traces for your companions to find.
“I do know the reason for this.”
Desen said: “At that time, Port Fulan was just a poor place with only two hotels. Master Barnett probably didn’t expect what would happen next. This port city will develop rapidly in the next year, and a large number of hotels will appear like bamboo shoots after the rain."
"In fact, the boss planned to take Barnett's things away if no one came to him in another year. When the garbage is thrown away, we are so lucky that we came in time."
"Okay, let's see if Barnett said what he was going to do."
O'Donnell couldn't wait.
Desen carefully opened the wooden box and revealed the contents, which was a piece of paper.
"He must have written this letter very early, and he still used parchment. Aldo paper was not popular at that time."
Desen said, unfolding it carefully paper.
O'Donnell took out a bottle of potion and spilled the liquid on the paper.
A large piece of text was revealed.
Together they read the message left by Barnett.
"Paul Greyman? Isn't he a local lord? It was he who defeated Barnet's agent, the Earl of Kent."
"So, he went to find this The count went to settle the score?”
The two figured out what Barnett was planning to do.
The Secret Order knew Barnett's plan in the northwest bay, supported the Kent family, and indirectly controlled the land northwest of Aldo.
After all, Buddy, who came with him this time, also participated in Barnett's operation and used brainworms to control the previous Duke of the Northwest.
But after Barnet lost news, the Secret Order paid less attention to this place.
"Is this Master Barnett's last action?"
Dessen said: "Perhaps, we should investigate this Earl Grayman."
(End of this chapter)