Chapter 1954 The Forgotten Land

After executing these guys, Li Cong was unwilling to stay in this place for a minute, so why did he find out about a lightning gate? The intelligence agencies under Cao's House of Commerce have been fully operational these days, and they are all looking for a The place called Thunder Gate, they don't know some of the characteristics of this place, anyway, everything related to this place has been collected, but a few days have passed, a lot of money has been spent, and people can't trust it. Few, but there is no news about this organization.

Gu Hongye also used his rights to search for a long time in the imperial court's database, but he did not find this so-called Thunder Gate. Some forces in the world also began to look for this thing because of the face of Cao's firm. The natural result was Similarly, there was a clue, but this clue was cut off because of him, and there was no news about this thing.

"Grandpa, we're just wandering around like that mindless fly. If we go on like this, there will be no good results. I think we have to change the way. We have basically done what we should do recently, but Still no news." After two consecutive days of not sleeping, 002 felt a little tired, but it was not time to rest, so he had to give Li Cong an explanation, otherwise what would happen? .

"Well, I feel it too. Tell our people to go underground and take this as a long-term task. I personally wrote letters to the elders of the Cao Gang in the Western Empire, Prince Zheng, and Mr. Sharu in the Southern Empire. Do they have some news about this Thunder Gate? It seems that it is impossible to find this news from the society." Li Cong nodded and said. He knew that his opponent this time should have a strong background, but he didn't expect that it would be so big in the end. With the current scale of Cao's Commercial Bank's intelligence department, he didn't have any clue after so many days of investigation. Either he was stupid, or They are very powerful. Compared with these two points, Li Cong is more willing to believe that it is the latter. Their people are indeed very powerful.

"Yes, Lord, then I'll go down first." Because there was no news about this matter, 002 also felt that he had no face in front of Li Cong. Usually, I always say that the intelligence department has grown very well after this period of time. But when it was really useful, it was found that this thing was useless at all.

Sitting in a chair, Li Cong slowly thought about the Thunderbolt Gate. He believed that they should have restrained a lot recently. Since he came here, the guards under his banner have not encountered large-scale conflicts. It seems that their sphere of influence should be right around here. It should not be on the entire continent. Otherwise, if I get here by myself, there should be troubles in other i places one after another, but now I look at it. Nowhere else is there any trouble at all.

The Frozen Forest is a large forest in the northern part of the Northern Empire. It is about 4,000 kilometers away from the border of the Northern Empire. Between the border of the Northern Empire and the Frozen Forest are some permafrost areas. The people expelled from the empire are all criminals or descendants of criminals. They were very weak at the beginning, but after tens of thousands of years of development, the people here have become very powerful. part of it,

It has already caused headaches for the Northern Empire, and now the prisoners of the Northern Empire will no longer be deported here. For those criminals, if they can be deported here, it is not a punishment for them. A kind of forgiveness, most of the problematic criminals will use half of their life savings in exchange for being sent here. In the past, the officials who tried to get money would really get them here, but now with the central Strict order, absolutely no one can come here.

This is called a forgotten place by some mercenaries, which means that this place is simply a forgotten place, no one would think of this place, and most people don't know what it looks like, that is because of their The government will only attract attention when the strength is strong, but there are no other measures other than trimming some defensive walls. They are also very conscious, knowing that even if the government throws themselves here, they cannot attack. For the government, if the Northern Emperor's party really doesn't like it, the army will come directly, and they can only be broken into pieces. Because Fang Zhengshi, the Northern Emperor's party, has seen this, he has not stepped on it directly for so many years. They sent troops to attack, because in their view, it was a waste.

Most people think of wasting their own soldiers. In fact, there is another meaning besides this. The bribes of tens of millions of silver each year in this Forgotten Land are also very important. No one will feel that there is a lot of money. Some people will take out part of the money they earn and give it to a few people in power here to let them engage in activities with the Northern Empire, so that this place can continue to exist. Until now, it has grown into a There is a gathering area of ​​three billion people. Even if the Northern Empire wants to destroy this place, it has to think about it. That is, because their scale has become larger, the people in power here have also adapted their plans for the Imperial Army. Attitude, not only did not increase the intensity of bribery, but also reduced some. Although the imperial army was not satisfied, seeing their current strength, they still did not have the courage to do anything to them.

According to the news Li Cong got from them, the Lightning Gate is in this place. After many searches and no news, Li Cong decided to go to this place to take a look. It is said that Li Cong should not be worried about the sects appearing in such a place. The local fish and dragons are mixed, and it is absolutely impossible that there will be any large-scale forces. With the ability of Cao's house, as long as Li Cong spends a lot of money, it should be no problem to destroy a school in this place, but Li Cong still doesn't know what the other party's purpose is, so he has to personally find out what's going on, so as to save himself from making any mistakes.

Before Li Lai came here, a large number of brothers from the investigation department had already thrown this place into a frenzy, but there was still no news. Li Cong couldn't drive his airship to such a place. There are many experts here, and they don't have any rules at all. If any losses are caused by then, it will be Li Cong's fault. So Li Cong asked the airship to send himself to a county town in the northernmost part of the Northern Empire, and was going to ride there to have a look.

Going in with great fanfare is not looking for news, it is an enemy of the big brothers inside, so Li Cong will never do such a thing, so Li Cong took thirty guards and one cargo or something The law of the Northern Empire prohibits any trade with such places. But this prohibition order has not been implemented since the day it was issued. So after Li Cong only paid a certain amount of money, these things were brought out smoothly.

Li Cong brought a lot of ironware, salt, and some grain. Although the soil here is pretty good, most of the people who come here are desperadoes. Let them grow food? This seems to be a bit of a joke. They would never do such a thing. In their view, they are not here to do this job, they can only do some things they think are right, such as eating, drinking and having fun. They seem to be born into this world to do this. Of course, it takes money to do these things, but what they care about the most is money. A hundred taels of silver is a lot of money for others. But to them, as long as they can risk their lives, this little money is really nothing.

After riding a fast horse for less than an hour, you can see the small town in front of you, and the distance is very close.

"Master, the front is the first checkpoint of the Forgotten Land. This Forgotten Land is also occupied by divisions. They have done a very good job at this checkpoint. There are three largest forces in the Forgotten Land. They occupy the Forgotten Land. The few checkpoints with the most fertile land, they are already rich just by collecting some past fees. Don’t look at it, young master, this is a small checkpoint. The money he collects every year is more than that of a provincial city in the Northern Empire. I don't know how many times I went out." 002 said from the side.

"Hehe, this is the only way to contact the Northern Empire. Of course they know the value of this place. Our goods are only 200,000 silver at most, but when we left the city just now, we paid nearly 20,000 silver in taxes. , It still depends on the face of our Cao's house, if it is not like this, I estimate that the tax revenue will be doubled, is there any other checkpoints after passing the checkpoint in front?" Li Cong said with a smile, he is very concerned about these checkpoints. Understandably, 002 said this because he was afraid of Li Cong because they wanted more money, and if they were impulsive, it would be bad.

"Their management here is very good. There is no phenomenon of arbitrary charges. These guys pay attention to this one by one. They also know that if they charge repeatedly, the economy of this place will not be good, but they This place is also very ruthless in collecting money, each of the three forces charges for a week, no matter whether it is good or bad, it is up to them." 002 said, his words made Li Cong laugh again, these criminals one by one Now I know how to develop the economy. At least the people here are much better than those local officials in ancient China. They don't know what it means to develop the local economy. If there are more businessmen, they may have to know I sighed twice and said that the world is going downhill.

The two of them reached the front checkpoint as they talked. Compared with some checkpoints in the Northern Empire, this place is much simpler, but Li Cong knows that the armed forces here are much stronger than all the checkpoints in the Northern Empire. Yes, except for some important checkpoints with hundreds of people in the Northern Empire, there are only a dozen people at most, but there are thousands of people defending here, and there are two seventh-level fighters here. From this armed force It can be seen from the above that the people here attach great importance to this checkpoint. After all, there are no other sources of income here, so they should pay attention to this.

"Stop, everything has to be inspected, and then you can only enter after paying money. If there are any prohibited items, I'm sorry, we can only confiscate them for you." A leader came over and said.

"I wonder if this brother can tell us what is a prohibited item?" 002 smiled and handed a silver ingot of twenty taels of silver to this guy. He hadn't heard of anything during the last investigation. Prohibited items.

That guy still had his nostrils upturned just now, but now that he saw the twenty taels of silver, he was no longer the same as before. The reason for being so proud is to be able to have money. If every group of people gives me twenty taels of silver every day, I think I can go back and enjoy it soon. There is no need to worry about it here. These people are from the Northern Empire wanted criminals, but if they leave here, it would be much better to go to the other three empires than in such a sinful city. First of all, there is no safety here at all. Everyone is a vicious person. What will happen to you, but it's really not safe. Sometimes there may be a fuss over a quarrel or something. This is not like breaking the nose or something, it may directly knock off the head, as long as the beating is not someone from the three major forces, they will not care. It can be said that there are no rules.

"Hehe. The prohibited items are constantly changing every day. Even the ones in the last hour are different from the ones in this hour. As long as there is something missing in our place, these things are prohibited items. Of course, this is just a situation. If you give less filial piety, this may also be a prohibited item." The guy said rascally, Li Cong has seen many greedy people, but he has never seen the one in front of him. I can tell.

"We also have some ironware and food here. How much tax do you think would be better?" This time the gift was not twenty taels of silver, but twenty taels of gold. I have inquired here for a long time, no matter what kind of people these people are, as long as their bags are full of money, they will do everything for you.

"Hehe, boy, you are on the road. To be honest, the two things you transported are relatively lacking things here. If you are asked to transport these things in, it may make you rich. Many times we I don’t even know how to deal with these things, and you know it too, but for the sake of being so upright, I will give you two choices, either you keep one-third of the goods, or you pay ten Ten thousand silver." The guy said with a smile, this guy is really a lion, the value of these things from Li Cong is only 200,000 silver, of course it will be sold at a high price outside, but the one he wants The silver is also one-third. Li Cong came over just as 002 was about to say something, so he naturally came to the back.

"One-third of the goods are yours. You take care of this. Next time we will cooperate for a long time, but the goods must be set at one-fifth each time." Li Cong said, that person also felt that Li Cong is a big man , At the beginning, I didn't even realize what Li Cong said, but I soon realized that this kid is talking nonsense here, one fifth, isn't this farting, we have never had this ratio, this If I let the higher-ups know, I will be too hungry to walk around.

"Don't rush to object. You will get 3000 taels of silver every time. If you want, you can let them in the vehicle with the logo of Cao's House next time, and do as I say." Li Cong said with a smile, Now this guy doesn't say anything, damn it, I can mix hundreds of taels of silver here in a month, and now I can get three thousand taels of silver in a single transaction, and what they ship out are all these sought-after goods , The quantity they transported is also quite a lot, so this deal should be good.

"But we have three shifts every three weeks." The guy said awkwardly.

"It doesn't matter, my people will get in touch with you. Whenever you come here to work, my people will come here. How about it?" Li Cong said, this place is also a good place, his own There is no reason for the commercial firm not to come here to do business. Even if the goods of 200,000 silver are paid for in this way, they can still make 200,000 silver in the end. Such a 100% profit business is in Li From the looks of it, it's just a matter of doing a little bit, a long-term business.

This guy happily agreed, and even this time when Li Cong's goods were detained, it was reduced a lot. This guy is just a temporary partner. Li Cong doesn't think that one person only manages a few hundred people. The guy here belongs to his partner, and his people can transport the goods from the Northern Empire. Many merchants can't transport them. Of course, we must discuss it with the government in the future. What is this iron? Those who are not allowed to be transported out, and those who can completely transport grain, must open their own grain trading and trading houses here. With billions of people, this is definitely not a small market.

At this time, the little boss has just jotted down the name of the Cao's firm. He doesn't know what this thing will mean in the future, but now he knows that this firm can give him a lot of money. I want to make more money here. My previous goal was really superficial.

With this pass, it is very easy for Li Cong and the others to come in. There is still about ten miles to go from this checkpoint to the front. There are all hanging dead people here. According to the people inside, they are these people. It violated the rules set by the three major organizations, but when you want to ask what kind of rules the three major organizations have. Their answers are also very simple. That is, the interests of the three major organizations are the biggest rule. Apart from this, the three major organizations have no interests, not even a standard.

Li made a rough estimate. There are five dead people at a distance of about one meter. Ten miles is 5000 meters. Damn, this is definitely not a small number, there are tens of thousands of dead people on both sides of this road alone. According to what they said, there are more bones in the distance. Thousands of people are publicly executed here almost every day. The rules of the three major organizations are based on these heads. There are still places like this inside. There are quite a few of them. These three major organizations are estimated to kill tens of thousands of people every day. This number can only increase but not decrease. Sometimes it is ruled by benevolent government, but here, it is absolutely controlled by violence. In the area, the average person may really be intimidated by this when they come here.

Li Cong and the others did not come in alone, so there is nothing to be afraid of these things. Besides, Li Cong really didn't see these three organizations in his own eyes, although the people under these three organizations are all hundreds of millions , but it is basically a group of mobs who say they have their own organization, but these people came here because they violated many laws. The rights of the empire are stricter than yours, but is it useful? It's useless at all, these guys won't abide by it one by one, they are in your name just to have a temporary shelter, if it takes a long time, it is impossible/possible to have Well, if this continues, this place will become a place of chaos everywhere. In fact, Li Cong was right. Many of the people killed here were their own people, because they violated the three major organizational rules.

Soon Li Cong saw the gathering point in front of him. This may be the largest gathering point Li Cong has ever seen. The various houses here are dilapidated, but this is the periphery. Look at it from here , about a few kilometers away is a good place. According to 002's news, this forgotten land is divided into three areas. In these three areas, third-class people live, and the outermost layer is also This is what Li Cong saw. This is the largest area. There are about two billion people in the outermost layer. The outermost layer extends thousands of kilometers from the place in front of Li Cong to both sides. Surround the entire Forgotten Land, they are poor people without money, or injured, or incapable, no matter where there will be poor people, in a word, they are the poor people here, their houses They are all dilapidated, of course, it is very nice to have a dilapidated house, and about a third of the people can only use some branches and some old clothes to make temporary tents for themselves. This can be regarded as their home. It is better to live here lingeringly than to be arrested by the people of the court. They are also the most insecure of life. The three major forces have no regulations in this place at all. Food and some other necessities of life, their daily life may be terminated by others.

Inside this level is the middle class level, people here basically have certain assets, no matter how their money comes from, but these people always have a certain status, and there are many rules here To be clear, it is at least not allowed to fight in public here. Of course, if your background is very strong, or you have a lot of money, or you have a godfather who is a powerful figure in the three major organizations, then all The regulations have nothing to do with you. This is the most lively place in the entire Forgotten Land. There is a three-meter-high wall enclosing this place. When the wall was built, nearly 10 million people died Yes, you can imagine how huge this project is.

The innermost part is naturally the most upscale part here. This area has the least number of people, but it is the most luxurious area. Walking in it, you will definitely feel that this area is actually a bustling city in the territory of the Northern Empire. Fighting is absolutely not allowed here. , as long as you find out, no matter what your identity is, you will definitely be killed.

There are two ways for people on the outer two floors to enter the innermost area. If they want to live in it, they must either bring certain benefits to the three major organizations, or have enough money. It is said that they must spend 200,000 now. It takes two gold to get in. Of course the money is still yours. But after you go in, you will definitely spend something, people just see if you have the ability to live in it.

There is naturally a wall between the innermost inner city and the second link, but the height is much higher than the outer one, except for the 5-meter-high wall. There are still many soldiers patrolling back and forth. They catch you if you try to get in without a pass. It is estimated that your corpse may be added to both sides of the road. These are definitely possible things.

Another situation is that people go in to sell things, but there are some fixed places inside. You can go inside to sell your things, but no matter what you sell, you should pay one-third of the turnover. In addition, you have to pay a transaction fee of 30,000 silver when you enter , This is the harsh place, many small businessmen can't afford the money, so most people can only do business in the middle, they all understand that the profit inside and outside is very different .

Soon Li Cong's convoy reached the outermost place. Before Li Cong had time to react, many people began to surround him. Naturally, Li Cong's guards would not be afraid of these so-called desperadoes. They are gangsters, their threats may be very dangerous to ordinary people, but to these high-level fighters, these guys are no threat at all. I just stand there and ask you to chop. I guess you don’t have the ability to do it. What do you do to us.

"Damn, they have food in their car, it's really food..."

"Yeah, it turned out to be food. Damn, there must be hundreds of cars, bastard, this is the first time I have seen such food." For the people here, food is what they dream of. But there is no food production here at all, and everything is traded. There are basically two sources of food here. One is some transactions between the Northern Empire government and the three major organizations here, such as the Frozen Forest Some things in the food, which require them to risk their lives to get them, as long as you can get them out, we can give you a lot of things, the main thing is this food.

The second is to trade with Li Cong with grain. The price of grain in the northern part of the Northern Empire is about 25 cents a catty, which is not very expensive, but it is also a little more expensive than the south. But now Li Cong’s grain The cost has already reached 50 Wen per catty. If Li Cong sells it here, he can get 70 Wen per catty of grain. If he enters the middle link, he can get 100 Wen per catty. If he can transport it to the innermost circle It is estimated to be 200 Wen per catty. Of course, if you want to sell it in the innermost place, it must be the best kind of grain, and Li Cong's grain is the best grain.

"Damn, there are good things, brothers. After passing this village, there is no such shop. Come on, everyone..." Li Cong knew that there were more and more people on the side of the road, but he never expected that all of these guys This is actually starting to grab it, damn it, I really underestimated this forgotten land, these people are really vicious people, these guys really have nothing to say, but each of these guys also thought wrong , They thought the one in front of them was an ordinary caravan. If it was an ordinary caravan from Cao's House, they would definitely be robbed by these guys, but there is still Li Cong's guard here, and it is impossible for them to come up matter.

Several seventh-level fighters sneered, the tallest of them are two first-level fighters, and the others are just ordinary people. Also, as long as they are capable people, they will not let themselves be in this place, they will definitely Going to the inner city, the two seventh-level fighters used their full strength and roared. The sound contained huge lethality, and the two first-level fighters were directly broken by the shocking meridians. As for other ordinary people, they would naturally lose their lives, if they didn't use strong force in such a place. These people will come to trouble you next time, but this time they can be solved in one go.

Hundreds of people around died in an instant, and the remaining hundreds of people stopped immediately. Damn, they also participated in such things before. In fact, they were not really going to rob, just I hope this merchant is not willing to lose one person and just throw them a bag. I didn't expect this to be so powerful this time. One guy yelled for help and then ran away. The rest of the people are not fools. A man who can kill a hundred people with a single roar. It's definitely not something they can provoke, it's better to leave quickly, if you continue to stay here, you can only die here too.

Many sacks were stained with blood. But that's fine too. It also allows people in front to see clearly. The news began to spread in Li Cong's forgotten land as if his legs had swollen. A powerful caravan came, which seemed to be called Cao's House, and there were seven-level fighters escorting them. Hundreds of people at the entrance wanted to get someone's idea, but they didn't even touch the shadow of the food, and hundreds of people died. Although people die here every day, hundreds of people died in an instant. It's not a small news, the Cao's firm became famous in the first battle.

"Damn, I really don't know how bad the atmosphere is in this place. 002, ask the people below to divide into three teams and sell our things at three levels, and finally look at the profit and then distribute the sales share." Li Cong watched Looking at the guys around him, he said that everyone around him looked at him pitifully, but poor people must have something to hate, and Li Cong would not take pity on them.

After the allocation, Li Cong was going to take a good stroll in this forgotten place. Who knew that a group of cavalry came over immediately. Looking at their clothes, Li Cong knew that these guys should have come from the inner city. It's okay, but each of them has their own fierce light in their eyes.

"Master, these people are one of the three major forces called the Canaan Regiment. Their boss is a level nine fighter who has dominated this area for decades. He is probably the second in strength among the three major forces." 002 immediately Said to Li Cong, "The sentinels we met just now belonged to them. It must be the guy just now who reported our news. There were more than 100,000 tons of grain all of a sudden. It’s not a small amount, they should come to discuss business with us.” 002 said, Li Cong nodded, he didn’t expect that he might contact these people so early.

"Who is your leader? Our boss wants to invite you." The leader of the dozens of cavalry who came stood up and said, he seemed to be here to invite people, or to give alms. Li Cong It's very unpleasant.

"If your boss has anything to do, just come here, why did you call me there?" Li Cong said with a smile.

"What kind of thing are you, our boss, please think highly of you, don't you know who my boss is? Our boss is the head of the Cavalry Regiment of the Canaan Regiment, and he is considered number one in this Forgotten Land The people around heard that it turned out to be the head of a cavalry regiment. This is an extraordinary person. In the outermost place, let alone the head of the cavalry regiment, even an ordinary member is fine. Terrible guys, they are very capable.

"Hehe, I thought it was the leader of the Canaan regiment. He spoke so loudly. Our master is not an ordinary person. Even the emperor of the Northern Empire would have to make an appointment first if he wanted to talk to our master. Your regiment leader, we I really don’t pay attention to it.” 002 said arrogantly, and everyone around nodded, yes, now Li Cong does have this qualification, the emperor of the Northern Empire has a higher status than Li Cong, But he had to discuss some matters involving Li Cong with Li Cong, otherwise there would be turmoil.

"Bastard, shameless, come here, arrest these bastards for me, and confiscate all their things." The guy ordered dozens of cavalry around him to draw out his knife, and immediately the surrounding area Some of the soldiers also came over, only a hundred or so, but they didn't show any fear on their faces. There were at least a thousand of Li Cong's guards, and they wanted to take Li Cong away. Get caught, isn't this talking in your sleep? They didn't expect anyone to resist them either.

"Hehe, it's the first time I'm in someone else's place. Killing so many people is definitely not a good thing for our future cooperation. One person and one arm are fine." After Li Cong finished speaking, the two seventh-level fighters became two. There are phantoms, of course, mainly those ordinary people can't see clearly, for people like Li Cong, they can still see the movements of the two of them clearly.

In just 39 seconds, these two people chopped off all the hands of the hundred and ten people in front of them, and many people even stepped on their hands when the two returned to their original positions. The hands are no longer on my body, and some guys who were arrogant just now were dumbfounded at this moment, and started screaming, damn, these people are too much, they cut off their hands when they came, We are members of the Cavalry Regiment of the Canaan Regiment, how dare they do that?

Li Cong knew that it would be unwise to move forward after such a thing happened. It is better to wait for someone who can talk here to come to him. Now let his people start to move freely. Of course, the scope should not be too large. Although the people on my side are powerful, but anyway, the surrounding area is also their territory. The time and place are right, people and others stand together. I am a strong dragon, but sometimes I have to consider the local snake capable.

Sure enough, the sound of horseshoes was heard from the inner city in less than ten minutes. There were at least a thousand people who heard the sound. If he was bumped into by those guys, he would have to peel off his skin even if he didn't die. Although he didn't have anything left, there was no benefit in running into them.

Li Cong himself is a space magician, and he can feel that the skills of the people coming from the opposite side are still very good. Each of these guys has the skills of a first-level fighter, and such cavalry regiments are rare in the Mainland. Even in his own cavalry regiment, there are only a few who have such abilities.

.. "Tell the brothers to prepare to fight. Now it's different from before. These guys are a little better." Li said to 002 in a small voice. Since he wants those people to respect him, he must respect himself. You can only show your aura, otherwise these guys really won't take themselves seriously. (To be continued..)