Ta Tianqing
Chapter 52 Winter, the Dragon Spirit Kingdom Merchant!
He entered through a checkpoint.
Although the border between the two countries was very long, it was unknown whether it was intentional or a coincidence.
In any case, along the long border between the two countries, there were either nests of second-tier monsters or insurmountable mountain barriers, and these checkpoints just perfectly occupied every gap.
It seemed that this kind of national border division was premeditated and prepared long ago.
After entering the Dragon Spirit Kingdom, Lin Chen put Ling Xiaoya down.
After all, it wasn't right to keep holding her like that.
Lin Chen asked Ling Xiaoya to release her mount.
And Lin Chen also sat on the Flying Rat, flying at low altitude.
The two planned to rush back all the way.
Zhenhai Province was not very far from the border, and they would definitely be able to get back today anyway.
Lin Chen could also take the opportunity to familiarize himself with the world after the great changes along the way.
He could see that there was a road in the vast world, and there were quite a few pedestrians on the road. For example, Lin Chen and Ling Xiaoya encountered a team just now.
They wore gorgeous clothes and had a uniformed guard team.
In addition, there were many vehicles loaded with goods.
It looked like a merchant caravan.
Their speed was also unhurried.
Lin Chen and Ling Xiaoya followed the caravan freely. The other party naturally noticed the two and looked back from time to time. After a while, a person flew into the air and stopped, saying to the two: "What are the two of you planning to do by following our Chengfa Merchant Guild all the way?"
"This road doesn't belong to your merchant guild, does it? This is an official road. Are you the only ones allowed to walk on it?" Ling Xiaoya responded first.
She actually knew that this road was an official road.
Lin Chen didn't know this, so he showed a look of doubt.
The man in the air immediately changed into a smiling face when he heard this: "Judging from the pure accents of the two of you, you should be Blue Star people, right? This is quite a fate."
After saying that, he cupped his hands at Lin Chen and Ling Xiaoya.
"How should I address you?"
Lin Chen also cupped his hands in return, and then asked about the other party's origin.
In fact, he had never known why the people of the Dragon Spirit Kingdom could tell that he was a Blue Star person. After all, the Dragon Spirit Kingdom was a human kingdom. Although some people had different skin colors and different hair colors, it shouldn't be so easy to distinguish.
Now Lin Chen had some idea in his mind.
They should be using accents and clothing to distinguish their identities.
Moreover, the accent of the Blue Star people was not bad, on the contrary, it was the purest common language of Blue Star: Chinese!
It was also the historical language of the Dragon Kingdom.
"My name is Winter."
The man smiled at Lin Chen and said, "This time we plan to go to Zhenhai Province to do business. I heard that there is a city of Blue Star people there. Our Chengfa Merchant Guild is planning to contact you... Do you two know Tianyue City?"
"I know!" Ling Xiaoya said.
Lin Chen quickly stopped her from continuing and said抢ing, "We are going to join the City Lord of Tianyue City."
"Is it called Lin Chen, right?"
Winter looked very happy and extended an invitation to the two: "Then we can go on the road together. You may not know Tianyue City yet, but I know some things about them, and we can exchange ideas along the way."
Lin Chen did not refuse.
Although this Winter was dressed as a Dragon Spirit Kingdom merchant, his strength didn't look weak either. At least he was a first-tier, because Lin Chen couldn't see through his strength. However, judging from Winter's performance, he didn't seem to have any malice towards Blue Star people.
Originally, Lin Chen was still on guard, after all, one can never be too careful.
However, when he heard Winter say that he planned to do business with Tianyue City, he believed him.
After all, the idea of merchants was to make money.
They shouldn't look down on Blue Star people. As long as there was money to be made, even if you were not human, they would treat you like a grandfather.
Lin Chen agreed to Winter's request and took Ling Xiaoya to his car.
However, before getting in the car, Lin Chen specifically asked Ling Xiaoya to follow him and put the three pets into an attached state together.
In this way, they could respond to emergencies at any time.
Winter's car was very big.
Moreover, it was very luxurious.
There was even a tea table in the car.
Winter invited Lin Chen and Ling Xiaoya to sit down, and then a maid came to make tea.
Such a life was obviously enjoyed by rich people.
While drinking tea, Winter was also chatting with Lin Chen: "Don't worry, you two. I, Winter, am a businessman, and I am not interested in anything other than making money. I am from the imperial capital of the Dragon Spirit Kingdom. The reason why I am going to Tianyue City to do business is because... I heard some rumors from above."
"Oh?"
Lin Chen asked, "From above, could it be referring to the King of the Dragon Spirit Kingdom?"
"Hehe, there's no need to say it so clearly."
Winter didn't say everything. He was quite cautious in this regard. He said happily: "In short, the higher-ups have ordered to accept Tianyue City and recognize its existence. This means that the residents of Tianyue City will also obtain the identity of citizens of the Dragon Spirit Kingdom. Of course, I don't know exactly what administrative power the King will give Tianyue City. But the only thing I know is that such a large city with such a large population must have independent business rights. It's equivalent to a market of hundreds of thousands of people!"
It seemed that, in Winter's eyes, Tianyue City was an undeveloped commercial treasure.
No wonder he was going to Tianyue City from the imperial capital.
Moreover, he was going there in person.
"Judging from your tone, you seem to be very much looking forward to this trip to Tianyue City." Lin Chen began to probe.
Winter was so happy, did he think that he, the City Lord of Tianyue City, would definitely agree to do business with him?
At this time, Winter laughed: "Actually, I don't have much confidence in gaining the friendship of the Blue Star people, but in short, I have to give it a try... By the way, aren't you two also going to Tianyue City? Hehe, we will take care of each other along the way, and when we arrive at Tianyue City, I hope you two can say a few good words to your City Lord for me."
"That's easy to say."
Lin Chen agreed.
Winter was overjoyed when he heard this and immediately clapped his palms.
Soon, a maid came in with a plate of gold coins.
"A little something, it's just a token of my appreciation, haha..."
Winter smiled and placed the gold coins in front of Lin Chen and Ling Xiaoya.
"Then thank you, Mr. Winter! To be honest, you are the most generous Dragon Spirit Kingdom person we have ever seen to Blue Star people." Lin Chen smiled. He asked Ling Xiaoya to put the gold away.
Ling Xiaoya whispered in Lin Chen's ear: "Wow, they are all 10,000 gold coins each, there must be millions of gold coins here!"
Lin Chen still had no expression on his face when he heard this.
But his mind became active.
This Winter was very good at dealing with people.
Moreover, it could be seen that he was an extremely pure businessman.
He really wanted to enter the Tianyue City market.
What about Lin Chen's side?
Indeed, he also needed to contact the outside world.
However...
Judging from Winter's performance, Lin Chen felt that he couldn't easily agree to him.
"After going back, I must first fleece him, but I can't be too ruthless..."
Lin Chen thought to himself.
The convoy quickly entered Zhenhai Province.
Along the way, Lin Chen saw many monster nests, but strangely, these monsters rarely approached the official road, which further confirmed Lin Chen's conjecture... He had always suspected that these monsters that ravaged Blue Star were actually beasts raised by these invaders.
These invaders were called demon beasts.
Back then, Jin Qiang almost started a war with the Sea Demon Clan because a Sea Demon Clan trespassed and ate a Dragon Spirit Kingdom demon beast!
Judging from Jin Qiang's reaction at the time, it was as if that demon beast was the property of the Dragon Spirit Kingdom.
The Sea Demon Clan had broken the rules!
That's why Jin Qiang was so angry.
After driving along the official road for thousands of miles, they saw a huge city.
This city was indeed very big!
The city wall alone was hundreds of meters high.
It was two or three times higher than Tianyue City.
Lin Chen recognized it at a glance!
Because, in the *New World* online game, this city was one of the ten main cities of the human race in the game, Falling Leaf City.
Looking from a distance, one could see a huge tree in the city, thousands of meters high, standing in the center of the city. This tree was known as the Evergreen Tree and was said to have existed for more than ten thousand years. Its branches and leaves had spread out to cover the entire Falling Leaf City.
Because the city was often covered with fallen leaves of the Evergreen Tree, and these fallen leaves could also be used to make medicine, the city was named 'Falling Leaf'.
And now, Falling Leaf City, one of the ten main cities of the human race in the game, had become the provincial capital of Zhenhai Province.
This could not help but make Lin Chen suspect that the Dragon Spirit Kingdom was the only human kingdom among all the alien races that invaded Blue Star.
After all, the current world of Blue Star was actually formed from the background of the *New World* online game, with thousands of connections, and there were only ten main cities for the human race in the game.
Now, Zhenhai Province had one of them.
The entire Dragon Spirit Kingdom had more than ten provinces!
Seeing Lin Chen looking at Falling Leaf City, Winter smiled: "Little brother, do you want to go to Falling Leaf City? If little brother is not in a hurry, I am not in a hurry either."
"No, thank you."
Lin Chen shook his head.
He couldn't go to Falling Leaf City yet.
If he went, his identity might be exposed.
"Okay, then we will go directly to Tianyue City."
Winter said, while taking out a map.
This was the first time Lin Chen had seen the entire map of Zhenhai Province.
To Lin Chen's surprise, it was almost exactly the same as the layout around Falling Leaf City in the game!
The only difference was that there was now a Tianyue City, located three thousand miles northeast of Falling Leaf City.
In this way, a map of the entire Dragon Spirit Kingdom was instantly formed in Lin Chen's mind...
Then, going north from Tianyue City was the great river that ran through the entire Dragon Spirit Kingdom.
Then there was Beihai Province.
And Beihai Province was not very deep, only 1,500 miles. Further up was Yinlong Fortress.
Lin Chen remembered that Yinlong Fortress was very close to Icewind City!
So, was there a way to connect Tianyue City and Icewind City into one?
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Chapter 154 Falling Leaf City