Chapter 782 13. Flying newspapers
Rekaner Kingdom, new royal capital, palace.
The young king woke up from the king's couch with a cold face. Ignoring the servants who came to serve him, he walked barefoot to the terrace.
Overlooking the new royal capital in the night for a long time, until the Minister of the Interior walked into the bedroom.
"Did I do a bad job?" Crowe said without looking back.
"Of course not. We stand firmly under the siege of demons and ratmen. No other monarch can do it!"
"Then why does a little city lord dare to jump around like a clown and point at my nose? Scolding? "
The Home Secretary knows who the king is talking about...
Who else can make the king stay up late at night and enjoy the breeze on the terrace.
“Because they don’t know your forbearance and great plan...”
The interior minister standing on the side saw the corners of the young king's mouth curl up.
“Continue.”
“Nobles and legends are not stupid. And they are still on our side, which is enough to illustrate our future!”
“The future... ”
The young king turned back. Compared with Annan's almost unchanged appearance, two years of traveling has made Crowe lose the laziness he once had when he succeeded to the throne, becoming mature and haggard.
"Do you know? He only relied on a small city to sit behind me in the Holy Parliament!"
The Home Secretary quickly found an excuse: "That is prejudice... If the Holy Eye is really It's so useful, humans have already eliminated the rat people."
"We can issue a newspaper to give the people confidence."
Clo waved his hand.
“You make the arrangements.”
……
New royal capital, seaside restaurant.
It is midsummer now, but the new king is surrounded by rat men and demons, and is not welcomed by the human country. There is a bleak and cold feeling like late autumn everywhere.
The lead-like sea surface stirred up waves, and a storm was coming. Pedestrians walk in a hurry, wrapping themselves up tightly to avoid being targeted by pickpockets and thieves. The noisy sound of seagulls is annoying.
"New issue of "Glory of Ruikan'er"! The King delivers an important speech!"
A newsboy wearing a brown hat and working for a gang ran through the streets waving newspapers.
The middle-aged man behind the window waved his hand, walked out of the restaurant, asked for a newspaper, and tore open a corner of the newspaper.
"We are invincible, our kingdom is strong and just, our people are wise and calm, beware of the lies of the rat spies!"
The strong sea breeze suddenly blew by, and a shadow came from the man and the newsboy.
The seagull clutching the newspaper landed on the eaves under two glances. He lowered his head and pecked a hole in the newspaper. When he found that it was not food, he released his claws.
The newspaper fell slowly, but another sea breeze blew, rolling the newspaper past the chimney, over the gray city walls and the rolling ridges, and floated into the distance...
The shacks on the outskirts of the new royal capital stretch as far as the eye can see, without any. The homeless people who live there wander here, and sewage flows across them, breeding rot and evil.
The city gate opened and several carriages drove out of the new royal capital and went deep into the slums. The surrounding residents couldn't help but follow. They were like rat men, with seemingly insatiable greed, following the carriage, and then after unloading the garbage of the city people, they swarmed up.
The stench blew over a torn newspaper, and the voice of the speech drifted farther and farther away...
"We are invincible, our kingdom is strong and just, and our people …”
The child standing at the foot of the garbage pile raised his head, his broken eyes looking at the paper drifting away under the gray sky. The old newspaper with its changed tone and hoarseness escaped the storm and was carried by the wind across the plains, over the mountains, and passed by a brand new lakeside estate.
The beautiful maid in the window pushed the dining cart through the corridor to the restaurant where the guests were gathered. The chef grabbed the knife, cut open the belly of the lamb, took out the goose eggs and placed them on the guests' plates...
"We are invincible, our kingdom..."
A weak voice floated by, and the breeze that rippled the lake carried the broken newspaper away.
The sky is getting darker and darker, and the storm that heralds the arrival of the rainy season has dropped its first drop of rain.
The newspaper was wet, torn to pieces by the increasingly fierce wind, and pushed to a lifeless land in the distance.
People are wandering here like zombies, violent coughing and shaking figures reveal the breath of death, unattended corpses are scattered everywhere, dead branches and hills are covered with crows. Flies were circling, and rats as big as the palm of your hand were scurrying around on the ground.
The horrific plague is spreading here. The kingdom's attention is on ratmen, demons and the border, and the only scavengers who can deal with the plague were caught and executed by the Kingdom of Rekaner before the war in the name of treason.
The wet newspaper flew lower and lower, and finally covered the face of a corpse with only one eye.
"We are invincible..."
The newspaper was completely silent.
The culprit crow landed next to it, lowered its head and pecked out the other eyeball of the corpse. A crow flew by. The crow with its eyeball in its mouth raised its head warily.
The cloudy, lusterless eyes reflected the dark clouds coming in the distance and the devastated earth like a pustule.
……
Click——
Lightning and thunder flashed across the sky almost simultaneously.
People on the street hurriedly ran to take shelter from the rain. At this time, the people who were still running outside were the people who were eager to collect the clothes hanging in front of the windows and the brainless Bailong.
"Abby, ask the guards to tell Elder that the white dragon ran out again."
Annan said.
Dragons that hover in the sky all day long are most likely to be struck by lightning, and white dragons are too weak...they will be seriously injured if struck by lightning.
The rain began to fall, and the bay in the distance gradually became hazy.
Smelling the fragrance of the earth floating up, Annan decided to give up recruiting any more soldiers.
The one-eighth of the population that Liberty City currently maintains is soldiers, which is barely benign. After all, Liberty City is mostly young people. But converting one-sixth of the total population into soldiers is not only militaristic; It's easy to cause trouble.
Lack of background is the disadvantage of Liberty City. Even if the school is full day and night, it will take at least a month for a thousand people to learn basic knowledge.
Annan turned to his ally, the Archduke Girardi.
To be uneasy, Archduke Girardi, who lacked a sense of security, was even more uneasy than him. If the rat men come from the north, the Montabloch Principality is the only way to go.
Compared to Liberty City, the Principality of Montabourlock has great potential to improve...but the assistance does not come in vain.
They want to exchange resources, minerals and other things.
Francois has already passed with the contract.
Five small arcane energy cores arrived in Wilhelm safely, and Annan fulfilled his promise by the way. When the arcane energy cores were sent there, he would also send three copies of mountain essence, so that the three legion commanders could become professionals.
In addition, Annan asked Olmedo to distribute "The Voice of Freedom" to the hinterland of the Kingdom of Ruican, free of charge. Add some more trouble to Crowe.
"Will this work?"
"If we expose our enemy's people to our culture, sooner or later we can get them to think in the way we want them to think."
(End of this chapter)