Otherworldly Apprentice Lich and Foot Knight

Huo Jiete is right in saying something, that is, if he does not start work for a day, those prepared manpower and materials will have a certain amount of loss and waste.But to be right, the way he talks is terrible.At first, Xia En thought it was because the proud man of heaven was dissatisfied with transferring him to be a "contractor", but after the second meeting, he had already confirmed that this person was not dissatisfied with his own arrangement and position, he was Dissatisfied with Zhou Lingke, in his aggressive tone, the hostility and contempt towards Zhou Lingke were so obvious that Xia En, who was standing aside, felt his skin tingle.

Because Zhou Lingke did nothing wrong, maybe the 5000 people in this small town are not as important to Mangtan as a magic power tower, but after all, Zhou Lingke has the title of mayor, so he just spent half a day browsing his authority range is necessary.What's more, this half day was the half day he had just arrived in the town. You must know that although Xia En and Zhou Lingke were not idle every night on the way here, they did not delay the journey. They even arrived a day and a half earlier than scheduled.What Zhou Lingke and Xia En did was definitely not in vain.

There may be certain contradictions between magicians and civil servants, which may have been seen by the above, but it does not mean that Zhou Lingke has to bear this kind of insult here-they are not prisoners, and they are not in debt.With Zhou Lingke's ability and what he has done for Mangtan now, especially since he has a war beast, this is almost an irreplaceable national treasure.What's even better is that he is still so young. According to the average lifespan of a magician, he can serve Mang Tan for at least 80 or even [-] years. Even more important than their king.

Xia En thought about the matter very clearly, Xia En could endure it yesterday, but it doesn't mean that the other party expressed everything so clearly today, they still have to endure it.

"What?" Huojiete froze for a moment.

"Change someone else." Zhou Lingke repeated for Xia En, and he added, "This is the first priority at the beginning of the project. Before that, I will find a place to rest."

Xia En didn't speak, Zhou Lingke probably endured it, and obediently went to find a place to work.But Xia En has spoken, and Zhou Lingke's biggest boss and backer, who else can he have besides Xia En?Xia En said, Zhou Lingke always followed him (except occasionally in bed).

Huojiete's face was pale, and the other officials who followed him also looked pale.Seeing that Zhou Lingke turned around and left, Huo Jiete was still standing there, and other officials wanted to chase them, but one of the oldest officials stopped them and even gestured for them to leave.Those people hesitated for a moment, looked at Huo Jiete's face, and finally chose to leave.

"Master Huojiete." After everyone else left, the old man walked over. He didn't call Huojiete an adult, but a young master, which showed that he was a follower of the Huojiete family. "Where should you go?" The magician apologized."

"I reject!"

"Master Hojiete, you should let go of the contradictions of the past and set your sights on a longer-term future."

"What longer-term future can I have?! Just as he wished! Change!" Hojiete obviously couldn't listen to the persuasion, turned around and left angrily.

The old man sighed, but still chased after him, trying his best to comfort the young man.

Huo Jiete's hostility towards Zhou Lingke seemed inexplicable to many people, including the person concerned Zhou Lingke, but the actual reason was that Huo Jiete almost became the first heir to the Mangtan throne.

Hill VI does have only one younger brother, Zoe, and Huojiete's blood relationship with the royal family has indeed exceeded four generations, but... Huojiete's blood relationship with the queen is very close - his mother is the queen's sister, The wife is also from the queen's family.Hill VI did not love his queen enough, but respected him enough.Since Queen Sophia has never had children, it can almost be said that she treats Huojiete, who has been watched since she was a child, as if she were her own son.

When the king was diagnosed with disease X, he was also confirmed to be dead.The queen who was supposed to be the closest to Hill VI escaped the disaster because she seldom shared the bed with the king.The king is still alive, but from that time on, everyone is actually thinking about what happened to the king.Although the younger brother, Prince Zoe, was not very obvious, but since then he has become more and more active in politics, and anyone who knows the inside story can understand what he is thinking.But as a queen... Sophia doesn't want to see Zoe become the next king.

Prince Zoe has his own wife, and the husband and wife are harmonious. They already have two boys and a girl.If he came to power, Sophia would only be able to move out of the palace with the title of queen mother, and then spend the rest of her life in a villa in a suburb, forgotten by everyone.There are two paths Sofia can choose: one is to ascend the throne and become the empress herself, which is not uncommon in many countries in the mainland, but Mangtan, in order to ensure the purity of the royal family blood, expressly stated that the princess can have the right to inherit, and the king or prince's However, the wife has no inheritance rights, so this road is blocked; the second is to find a royal child who is closer in blood and let him become the adopted son of the royal family. If the king's last words are added, the child's inheritance rights will be inferior Prince Yi stepped forward.Who else would be a better candidate than Huojiete?

There was a time when Huojiete was only one step away from Mangtan's highest position of power.But all this came to naught after the king himself revealed the existence of his illegitimate son.

Huojiete's status is not that high, but because of his closeness to the queen, he understands many things at the highest level of power, and he also knows some things that people at the highest level of power don't bother to know.For example, the illegitimate child almost died on the mountain, but was met by a young magician wandering around in the wild most of the night for some reason, and took his life.

Huojiete, who missed the throne, can't complain about the king who realized that he had a seed outside after the fact, nor can he blame those ministers who abide by blood and tradition and would rather find an unmasked child from outside to come to the throne The only one he could complain about and think capable of revenge was the young magician (in his opinion).

And he just happened to be ordered here to be the second-in-command in the construction of the magic tower. Huojiete didn't dare to slack off in his official duties, because he didn't want to pay himself for revenge, but of course the spoiled young man wouldn't either. Give Zhou Lingke a good face, but he doesn't know that he has completely let down the queen who has worked hard to help him win this position.

——Even if there is no magic tower, only relying on war beasts, Zhou Lingke will definitely take over from Cruda or Polivi in ​​the future. If it is not for the king, he is about to die. He couldn't distract too much energy from the last things, and the ribbon of the archmage was already tied on his shoulders.Because Mang Tan's position does not depend on age, but on dedication.You must know that Zhou Lingke is an irreplaceable special talent.

It is impossible for Huo Jiete to become king, but if he can establish a good relationship with Zhou Lingke, it will not be difficult for him to have a place in the civil service after the new king ascends the throne and the queen will secretly help him.But because things were too rushed, in fact, Huo Jiete himself was too rushed, and even asked someone to deliver a letter to him later, so that he didn't even go to the palace on the way to the capital on the way to his post, so he just kept going. Here comes.He didn't consider the queen's painstaking efforts at all, only thinking about her grievance and revenge.Again, this is a spoiled kid who turns out to be not that important. He needs a punching bag, and he has already identified this goal.

Now, he found that this punching bag is not so easy to deal with, but Huojiete has been controlled by hatred, probably only when he hits the wall and bleeds, he can realize his mistake.Now that Huo Jiete asked the old man to report, he actually didn't take it seriously in his heart, and even believed that he would not be transferred, and he could take this opportunity to make Zhou Lingke even more ugly.

Should it be said that some people think highly of themselves, or are they unable to see the situation clearly?

On the other hand, although Zhou Lingke and Xia En didn't know that the situation behind the scenes was so complicated, but regardless of the magic tower, it didn't mean that they also didn't care about the town, because the deep winter was coming.

Although the two predecessors did not make it clear when they left, the vague hint was enough.They don't think it's a good time to change people in the town and start major projects.In fact, the two travelers also had the same opinion as him.

They don't know anyone here, but they have to bear the heating and food for at least 5000 townspeople in the middle of winter. If, as Hodgett said, there are more people coming, it will be even worse. Who knows if there is enough food in the warehouse?As for the construction of the magic power tower, although there is the word magic power in front, in Zhou Lingke's design, the main structure of the tower is made of bricks and stones, but a special magic circle is embedded in it, which means that the whole tower still has thermal expansion. Cold shrinkage happens.In short, winter is definitely not a good time to build a house.This is also the reason why the two of them have no fear in stopping the magic tower. Whether it is intentional or unintentional, this Huojiete is too anxious.

Although the former mayor left in a hurry, he left behind a lot of documents, from which Zhou Lingke could find the practices of previous years, as long as he followed them.

"Keep watching, I'm going to the dungeon."

"Release those two unlucky ones?"

"Release the two unlucky ones." Shane shrugged.

Just like during the war, the transfer of soldiers who entered the battle was prohibited. In addition to the transfer of local officials, the documents must be sealed immediately, and the criminals in the prison must also be sealed, such as the two unlucky guys in the mayor's mansion.They were sentenced to three days in prison for raising dust in the wrong place.But on the third day, the transfer order came, and he has been in prison for more than half a month now.

"But... the laws here are really strict." Zhou Lingke bared his teeth while waving his hands. He was flipping through a part of the file left by his predecessor, but it was obviously not what he wanted to read about the distribution of food in winter. , but the previous criminal record in Sopota Town.

For example, what these two unlucky bastards have committed is actually taking out the garbage. Even this small town has garbage collectors who push their cars along the road to collect garbage every morning and evening.At this time, residents can take out the garbage, but otherwise, it is forbidden to dump garbage on the street.If it is a petty theft, as long as you are caught and convicted of a crime, no matter whether you stole a copper plate or a bag of gold coins, the thief will stamp the character representing the theft on his cheek and cut off a hand at the same time.For more serious crimes, the punishment will of course only be more terrifying. Zhou Lingke has already found ways to hang, crucify, drown and so on.

These criminal laws are not so strict as they are brutal.

Xia En's speed was very fast. When he came back, Zhou Lingke had just turned halfway.

"Find what you want?"

"No." Zhou Lingke shook his head, and at the same time he turned the file he was looking at in the direction of Xia En, "Can you believe that...there is a law here to sting people to death with hornets?"

"Because of fraud?" Xia En took the file, which said that a person mixed broken leather with good leather and sold it to merchants. choose between being locked up in a wooden house full of irascible wasps.It is specially marked on the back that if he can persist for half an hour without dying after being locked in the wooden house, he will be released.This man chose the wasp out of a glimmer of hope for life, but at the end of the file, he was still dead.Xia En's expression was also a little unnatural, "But we have to admit... If China has this law, commercial credit will be much better."

"Then you and I may also have a close contact with the wasp."

"I've always been a law-abiding businessman."

Zhou Lingke shrugged, noncommittal.He didn't forget that someone labeled the high-precision machine tool as scrap iron and shipped it back to China, so his company was exempted from tax for five years.The computer server with a total cost of 5 yuan was sold to Koreans for 50 yuan, and the Koreans thought they were taking advantage.There are many other things that Zhou Ling Technology can't remember clearly.

However, heroes don't mention being brave back then, not to mention that this is already a matter of another world.

"This looks like a ledger?" Zhou Lingke said after opening another box and flipping through the two scrolls.

"It should be, but it's really difficult to understand." Seeing the neat accounting records printed out by modern computers, and looking at this bill, which is not as good as a running account, the two of them suddenly felt a little dizzy.