Dick looked at the guy and couldn't help muttering to himself.
"Fuck! I really want to take this old guy's gold coins!"
Judging from the current situation, if it is a head-on fight, Dick is indeed confident that he can kill this guy with the advantage in numbers, but he cannot guarantee that there will be no casualties on his side. And if the other party sees that the situation is not good and wants to slip away, they may not be able to stop him.
However, Dick soon discovered that Hammuradi was obviously holding back and had been on the passive defense, with almost no attack. The four of them fought each other, and the wall was the most seriously injured.
The vigorous demolition in the middle of the night naturally alarmed the private army in the city and the residents living near the castle. Dick immediately asked Xia and Ayane, who had retreated with Hongye, to go to the castle gate to block them and prevent their soldiers from getting involved in this fight between gods.
Seeing that the black and white gunner Garita was unable to quickly defeat Hammuradi, Dick was shocked and was thinking about whether to send Lukoya, who was the general reserve, out. However, he didn't expect that Hammuradi flashed first and distanced himself from the three heroes. He looked up at the tower where Dick was, and then Dick heard a strange male voice appear in his ears out of nowhere.
"Tell your people to stop. I mean no harm to you. I want to talk to you."
After Han Muradi finished speaking, he stood with his hands behind his back, waiting for Dick's reply, and Sanying did not rush forward to continue attacking. Only by really fighting can you understand how weird the fighting style of this elf with a dead face is!
It can be said that neither side gained the upper hand in the first confrontation between the two sides. Dick couldn't help but hesitate, because there was no direct conflict of interest between him and the Dead Tree Party. He had no interest in making friends with these arrogant and conceited elf elders, but he was also unwilling to make mortal enemies with them for no reason.
You should know that the elf team that was attacked in the Black Forest was killed by the Deer-Headed Elf. Dick just wanted to rush to rescue people, but was attacked by the ungrateful female elf instead.
If Hammuradi came for that stupid female elf, then he could just do him a favor and return it to him. But Tang Wenquan should forget about it, as he wanted to keep this old technician for himself.
Hamuradi, on his side, was staring at Dick who was dozens of meters away. With his right hand behind his back, he was rubbing a ring on his ring finger. The heat from the ring finger proved his guess.
Soon, Dick came to the city wall, and the three heroes immediately stepped back and stood guard on both sides of their master.
Hamuradi walked forward and stood about seven or eight meters away from Dick. He looked Dick up and down, and then noticed Hongye following behind Dick, glaring at him.
This made Hamuradi a little puzzled. This was the first time he had met this human woman. Why was she so hostile to him? Could it be that he had killed someone in her family before?
However, no matter how puzzled he was, Hanmuradi did not take Hongye seriously. The old men of the Elf Empire had an inherent arrogance towards other races.
I can only say that this is what “Jing Ye” is like!
"You are Dick, the child of Rune Best and the Elf Dancer? A bastard who has almost no inheritance rights, yet you are surrounded by many experts. Where did you find these women? It's impossible that Rune sent them to you? He himself doesn't have such a luxurious lineup."
"Stop talking nonsense. What do you want from me, young master?"
Seeing that Dick was deliberately concealing the truth and was unwilling to say more, Hamuradi's handsome face, which was tinged with bluish-gray, grinned in an awkward and ugly way, and suddenly burst into laughter.
"You are more capable and ambitious than I expected, and you know how to hide yourself... Very good, this is very good!"
Hearing Hamuradi suddenly start to praise himself, Dick felt more and more weird, thinking to himself who the hell do you think you are? You talk like he's my elder.
Then Dick was suddenly startled and a remarkable guess suddenly popped up in his mind.
Hamuradi noticed that Dick's eyes were flickering, as if he could see through his inner thoughts, and he admitted it directly.
"It seems you have guessed it. You and I are related by blood. That's right! I am your grandfather, and you are my grandson, Hamradi. Child, we are a family!"
079. "Searching for Relatives"
Faced with Hamuradi's sudden "recognition of kinship", Dick frowned, his expression showing no joy, but instead an undisguised suspicion.
"Grandpa?"
"I am indeed your grandpa, absolutely!"
"But as far as I know, my mother is just an elf dancer of no status. If she is really your daughter, Han Muradi, how could she fall to such a state?"
Dick didn't want to have anything to do with this elf in front of him who exuded a strange aura, but when he thought about how his biological mother in this life was killed by his brother, his stepfather, when he was just born, Dick wanted to know whether Hammuradi, who claimed to be his grandfather, knew about it?
After Han Muradi pondered for a while, he spoke.
"When your mother Ye Lina was born, I was not with your grandmother. The camp was attacked. When I brought people back, your grandmother had been killed and Ye Lina was also abducted."
"Then how do you know that you and I are related by blood?"
"Depend on this."
Hamuradi said, raising his hand to show the ring that glowed red. He told Dick that this thing was called the Bloodline Mirror, a special magic item made by the elves. When the wearer was close to someone who was related to him by blood, the ring would glow and heat up.
Hamradi defended himself by saying that when his wife was killed, he went crazy looking for his daughter, believing that his child must still be alive. But the attackers were very cunning, and they took a boat out to sea when they retreated, causing the tracking clues to be interrupted at the seaside.
For many years after that, Hammuradi never gave up and always wore the Blood Mark on his hand, but he didn't know that his daughter was trained as a slave dancer and sold to the mansion of Duke Best.
During the day, Hammuradi approached Dick, and the Bloodline suddenly reacted to him, so Hammuradi speculated that Dick was Yelena's child, that is, his grandson.
After Hamuradi explained the whole story, Dick was completely shocked. He was about to go forward and hug his grandson, but was forced back by the black and white gunman with his weapon, who was always on guard.
Seeing this, Han Muradi's expression suddenly became a little sad, and Dick said in a serious tone after pondering for a moment.
"I'm sorry, it may take me a while to process..."
"I can understand that, kid. You must have suffered a lot in the Best family."
"We made too much noise today. The guards down there will get suspicious. You should leave first. Let's change the time and place so we can sit down and have a good chat. What do you think?"
"Of course, my boy."
As Hamuradi spoke, he took out a waist badge with magic fluctuations and threw it to Dick, saying that it was an elf communication card (magic phone) that could be used for directional communication by injecting magic power. When Dick calmed down and wanted to meet him, he could use this to notify him at any time.
After saying this, Hamradi seemed to melt and disappeared into the shadows.
After Hamuradi left, Dick signaled to lift the alert and asked Rita to come up with a more normal reason to explain to the guards who were stopped below. It was impossible to hide such a big commotion tonight, but we could make up a false news to hide the truth.
At least for now, people cannot know that Dick's retainers are capable of fighting against the strong ones of the Saint level.
Back in the room, Dick immediately found a lead-sealed box and put the token given by Hamuradi in it, directly blocking the magic power of the thing to prevent it from having eavesdropping function.
The magic of the elves reached the pinnacle. Even if the human race took over the world and developed for a thousand years, it still could not reach the peak of the elves. It was only because they later stole people from the earth, combined magic with the earth's technology, and found a new way to come up with the so-called "magic technology" that they had some confidence in technology.
Therefore, we must not underestimate the "legacy" of the elves and must be extremely cautious.
At this time, Rita came back. She was also present at the previous conversation with Hamuradi. Seeing that Dick looked shocked and accepted the things given by Hamuradi, she couldn't help but feel worried.
"Master, are you really ready to recognize that elf?"
"Recognize each other? How is that possible! That old guy is just pretending to be me. He is not telling the truth at all."
After confirming again and again that there was no magic power leaking out of the box, Dick, who had a serious expression just now, twisted his mouth into a sneer.
"So you just..."
"Just to cooperate with his performance."
Sitting down in his boss chair, Dick called several top thinkers in the team and began to analyze the content of his conversation with Hamuradi.
Honestly speaking, the other party's statement did not seem to have any logical loopholes at first glance. His wife was murdered and his daughter was captured, and Hammuradi searched everywhere for them, but because the imperial capital was guarded by the gods he did not dare to get close easily, so he had not been able to find them all these years. All of this actually made sense.
But the problem is that Hammuradi is an elf, and he is also a remnant of the former Elf Empire who organized the extreme Zionist group, the Dead Tree Party. These old elves left over from the Elf Empire are almost without exception racists who believe in elf supremacy.
However, it is not difficult to infer from Dick's quarter succubus bloodline that his grandmother was definitely a pure-blooded succubus.
Hamradi would marry a succubus? This is very strange.
Another point worth noting is that Hamradi's condition does not look like a living person.
The three heroes who had fought with him all said that there was something very wrong with this elf. When fighting with him, there was always an inexplicable sense of "disharmony", and the attacks would inexplicably shift.
"It should be some kind of magical weapon. I missed it several times. It's too weird."
"It sounds like a conceptual prop."
"Master, do you want to contact Mr. Behemoth?"
After hearing Tia's suggestion, Dick thought for a moment and shook his head. His uncle Behemoth was indeed one of the top magicians in the world, and his rank was comparable to Hammuradi, but he was completely suppressed by the other.
Dick treated the old man as his own and didn't want anything to happen to him.
However, although Dick did not intend to ask Behemoth for help, he still planned to make a special trip to consult the old man about some old news.
After finishing the arrangements, Dick looked out the window and saw that the sky had turned pale before he knew it.
Dick thought that they had been up all night for no reason, so he told everyone to hurry up and get some rest.
Soon, the only people left in the room were Dick and Hongye, who was standing silently in the corner and looked unhappy.
Dick looked at Hongye, and a smile appeared on his lips unconsciously. He stood up and walked in front of her, took her hand and "invited" her.
"Hongye, come take a bath with me, just the two of us...I'll show you something good."
080. Bad news and good bad news
The next morning, many residents of Laguge went out and saw a huge gap in the outer wall of the castle, which reminded them of the loud noise they heard last night.
Almost everyone in the town was awakened by the shock. Some people rushed out to check the situation, while others took their wives, children and dogs to hide in the cellar without hesitation. Fortunately, the shocking noise did not last long, so everyone went back to sleep, showing a good mentality.
Of course! Everyone is curious, and everyone wants to know what the inexplicable loud noise was last night? What kind of ghost destroyed such a large section of the city wall?
So the people quickly gathered at the notice board in front of the Governor's Mansion. Even though most of the townspeople were still illiterate, there were always some literate and show-off guys who would take the initiative to jump out and read the contents of the notice board to everyone.
Everyone then realized, oh, there was an assassin! That's all right.
Compared with those previous inhuman governors, Dick's reputation is indeed much better, but the people are also realistic. They will not immediately love you just because you do one or two good things.
Although he had Hammuradi's contact information, Dick couldn't let himself appear anxious, so he had to leave the other party alone for a while while secretly collecting information related to Hammuradi.
Dick slept until noon and got up in the afternoon to deal with official documents. As a result, the first document made him feel very upset. The initial estimated cost of repairing the section of the city wall that was destroyed last night was as high as 40,000 gold coins. The main reason was that the special city wall bricks were too expensive. It was said that the firing process of that thing was very complicated, but the hardness was comparable to granite, and it also had a certain degree of magic resistance.
But even such expensive special city wall bricks were still as brittle as cookies when facing the attack of a Saint-level master, and they shattered directly into debris on the ground.
Dick fell into deep thought, why should I fix it?
To be honest, this castle in Lagoge is very old. It is located on a protruding rock. It looks very impressive, but it is not comfortable to live in. Only the upper area is okay. The middle and lower areas are always dark and damp due to insufficient light, and there is an unpleasant musty smell all year round.
So after thinking it over, Dick gave Rita an instruction.
"Just have someone build it with the cheapest mud bricks first."
"Wouldn't it be too ugly?"
"We'll just make do with it for a while, and when the taxes from the autumn harvest come in, we'll just scrape off a layer of white."
Seeing Dick say this, Rita, who was aware of her family's financial situation, did not say much. At present, the remaining financial budget of the Governor's Office has been invested in the new commercial street. They really have no spare money.
After Rita left, Ruby-Eye came next, and she didn't bring any good news either.
"Someone is deliberately destroying corn fields."
“Is the loss great?”
When Dick heard that someone was maliciously destroying the farmland, he immediately thought of those unscrupulous grain merchants. Dick cut off their source of income, which was like killing their non-existent parents! So Dick had every reason to suspect that these guys were taking revenge on him.
Fortunately, the damage is not serious, only a few experimental fields in the villages have been damaged. And now it is the end of June, so there is still time to replant.
At present, the main force in corn planting is labor camp farms, and the villages below only plant a small amount on an experimental basis, waiting for the harvest at the end of the year to impress the farmers with the actual output.
Dick thought about it and decided that since the purpose was to sabotage the cornfield, they should just sit back and wait and send people to secretly wait near the cornfield.
The person who wants to cause trouble cannot be a master, so sending out private troops is enough.
Dick approved a note on the spot and temporarily allocated three teams of 100 people to the Farmers' Association.
The territory has been peaceful in recent times, but Dick still expanded his army again, increasing the number of his private soldiers to 1,200, with the newly trained troops mainly consisting of cavalry.
This group of cavalry was prepared for the horse bandits. The intelligence department "Forget-me-not" led by Tia now has a special task force responsible for collecting intelligence on multiple horse bandits in the north. They have basically grasped their general movements, and currently none of them have any intention of coming to Laguge.
In addition to the horse bandits on land, the pirates in the water are also worthy of special attention.
Since the beginning of spring, Dick has secretly sent people to the northern fjords to set up hidden observation posts, but the pirates are very cunning. They will not approach the coastline in broad daylight. They will usually only sneak into the fjords late at night or in heavy fog. Although it is dangerous, it is hidden.
The observers have been keeping an eye on the area for two months and have only found two pirate hideouts so far, but they are both third-rate pirates. The most powerful Sea Tiger Gang has not shown up yet.
Sometimes Dick couldn't help but think that if he were to form a navy in the future, instead of building ships and training sailors, it might be more cost-effective to save up magic stones and recruit a group of capable and competent ship girls.
Speaking of pirates, Dick couldn't help but think of his cheap grandfather who came to visit him. He had previously speculated that the Dead Tree Gang was secretly colluding with the pirates, so Hamuradi must know where those guys were hiding, but if he went to ask him directly, there was a high probability that he would not say anything.
Dick was chatting with Ruby Eye about agricultural matters when Bai Qiangdai suddenly appeared.
Because he is a heroic spirit, Dick asked the more polite Bai Qiangdai to go out and visit Behemoth in spirit form, so that he can avoid possible surveillance in the dark and not be discovered by Hamuradi.
But when Bai Qiangdai returned, he brought back bad news: Behemoth was not in the cave where he practiced. He left a note in the cave saying that he had to go to the south for something and would probably be back in winter.
Upon learning of this, Dick sighed, thinking that he no longer had to worry about whether or not to ask his uncle to help, but he also couldn't consult him for information.
Then, there was another knock on the office door. This time, it was Befa who came in. He held a red express envelope in his hand and walked quickly to Dick.
Dick took the envelope and suddenly felt overwhelmed.
