Chapter 672: Inaba Island Master, Awazu Castle

Late at night on the first day of the New Year, Inaba Island and Awazu Castle, a large dock city located on the seaside, seemed less lively than in previous years.

For Liaozhou people, the New Year is a festival to celebrate reunions, but recently more and more families are grieving because of the inexplicable disappearance of their children.

Even the celebration held by the island owner Inaba family at the assembly square today was not attended by many people.

Throughout last year, the increasing number of monster attacks caused many fields outside the city to be destroyed, and the crop yields were lower than before.

However, the taxes collected by Tianou Group and the island owners are higher than in previous years.

This makes the city streets that used to be extremely lively every night now become much deserted even during the New Year.

Many Liaozhou owners of the shops that were still open stood at the door with sad faces, looking at the soldiers of the Tianou Group who were patrolling the streets and wearing standard white military uniforms, and sighed repeatedly.

Ever since the island owner announced a close cooperation with the Tian'ou Group more than ten years ago, the escort team responsible for maintaining public security in the city has become a force of the Tian'ou Group.

Although these Oran people had been pretty good to them before.

The most obvious thing is that it brings them many novel and convenient tools.

For example, the lighting on the streets at this time, the wires that supplied the buildings in various areas, and the vehicles that could move automatically without using monsters were all brought by the Oran people.

In addition, the large ocean-going ships of Tianou Trading Company also make it more convenient for them to travel or buy specialties from other main islands, making the city more prosperous.

Weapons called guns and cannonballs, as well as metal monsters called mechas, have also allowed adventurers on various islands to make significant progress in conquering the island's core ruins.

Many people in Liaozhou have to admit that their lives are inseparable from Tianou Group.

Especially the Liaozhou people living on Inaba Island, Yuze Island, Zhubian Island and Yanrong Island, which have publicly announced their in-depth cooperation with Tianou Group.

They were even once proud that their island owners had cooperated with Tian'ou Group, because under the construction of Tian'ou Group, their lives were indeed more convenient and comfortable than the residents of other main islands.

But all this was wonderful. Ten years ago, with the appearance of the Siren, which cut off the shipping route from Liaozhou to Oran, earth-shaking changes took place.

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In the center of Awajin City, there is a simple and luxurious mansion surrounded by white walls and guarded by hundreds of people armed with spears.

This is the controller of Awazu Castle, or in other words, the controller of the entire Inaba Island, the thousand-year residence of the Inaba family, the owner of the island.

Except for the new walls and buildings on the outside, the internal buildings in the residence area are old houses that have been scarred by time.

The interiors of these old houses do not use electric lighting like other buildings on Inaba Island. Instead, they use the traditional lighting method of Liaozhou - light element lamps and monster oil lamps.

However, at the door of the most imposing old wooden house, dozens of Tianou soldiers wearing white military uniforms with submachine guns on their chests were standing.

Each of these soldiers looked evil and guarded the door of the old house vigilantly, but their eyes were focused on the owners of the house who had white rabbit ears on their heads surrounding them.

These are adults and children, most of them are wearing Liaozhou fine cloth shirts and have angry faces. They are the tribesmen of the owner of Inaba Island.

The current owner of Inaba Island is undergoing trial from Tianou Group in this old house.

The owner of the red-eyed, white-haired, rabbit-eared island, Ina Yerong, who is over forty years old but still has charm, as if he is in his early thirties, is sitting on his knees on the ground, biting his lower lip, looking pale.

Standing in front of her was an old human man wearing a black suit that was completely different from Liaozhou's clothing style. He had a wrinkled face, a long white beard, and his hair was already pale.

The old man was holding a cane. Although his back was hunched, his eyes were almost obscured by the drooped eyelids due to old age.

But on her body, the invisible pressure of being in the upper position for a long time still made Ina Yerong tremble.

The golden gull badge on the right chest of the old man's suit shows his identity——

Tianou Group's Liaozhou branch, Inaba Island general agent, Jiang Jianmu.

At this time, Jiang Jianmu just stared silently at the owner of Rabbit Ear Island kneeling on the ground in front of him without saying a word.

But Ina Yerong didn't even dare to take a breath, for fear of offending the general agent.

Even though he was the master of the island and the actual controller of Inaba Island, Inaba Rong did not dare to have the slightest resistance or disobedience in his heart.

This is not only because of the military power of Tianou Group stationed outside Awajin City, but also because of the soul contract in her body.

If that's the case, even if she sacrifices herself, she can allow other tribesmen to resist the Tianou Group.

But the main reason why she was so humble towards Jiang Jianmu in front of her was because Tianou Group had already controlled the energy, transportation, logistics, and even the economic lifeline of every village and town on Inaba Island.

As long as Jiang Jianmu gives an order, the entire Inaba Island will be cut off from power and oil supplies, and return to its original life.

Today's Inaba Island islanders have long been accustomed to trading their crop harvests with Tianou Trading Company to purchase supplies from other islands.

If all of this disappears suddenly, it will definitely fall into huge chaos and collapse.

After all, the technology from Oran has been firmly in the hands of the Tianou Group for so many years and has never been passed on to the outside world.

But what Dao Yerong couldn't figure out was why Jiang Jianmu, the general agent, would come to the door without saying hello on the first day of the new year.

She knew very well that Oran people also had New Year traditions.

What's more, when Jiang Jianmu suddenly came to kill her this time, he looked completely unreasonable and wanted to use her to accuse her.

Ina Yerong believes that she has always obeyed any instructions from the Tianou Group without any conditions over the years.

Even when the Tianou Group formed an expeditionary force against the Sirens, she did her best to provide a large amount of food supplies.

Why is Jiang Jianmu so angry when he comes this time?

Just as Dao Yerong kept thinking about what mistakes she had made over the past year, Jiang Jianmu finally spoke slowly in an old voice:

"Master Inaba, I am... very disappointed in you."

Jiang Jianmu stared calmly at the attractive bunny woman kneeling on the ground in front of him, but there was a hint of anger in his voice.

This also made Dao Yerong raise her head, look at Jiang Jianmu, and said in a low voice:

"General Agent, I don't understand why you say that. The Inaba family has always been loyal to Tianou Group, and you see all of this."

"What did I do that dissatisfied you?"

Jiang Jianmu didn't seem surprised that Ina Yerong would say this, and in fact it was exactly the same.

Compared to the island owners managed by his other two general agents, Inaba Rong can even be said to be half of his daughter.

Since Inaba Island has no other special products except for high-yielding crops, and the Inaba family is a rabbit-eared tribe with low talent and skills, the owner of Inaba Island has always had a low status in the Nine Islands Alliance.

This also made Inaba Rong, a young girl, the most obedient island owner among the four islands after the Tianou Group took over Inaba Island and was controlled by Master Lurk using mysterious means.

Although Jiang Jianmu was furious at this time, he still called Dao Yerong into the house without interrogating him in front of his clan members, which gave the island owner enough face.

But he still didn't expect that even at this time, the island owner was still unrepentant and stubborn.

He only felt extremely disappointed.

"Boom!"

Jiang Jianmu knocked the wooden floor hard with the crutch in his hand, making Dao Yerong tremble all over.

"I think I treat you and Inaba Island well. Now that things have come to this, do you still think that I am so easy to fool?"

Even though he is over seventy years old, Jiang Jianmu's voice is still full of energy and resonant.

After saying this, Jiang Jianmu slowly took out a black metal box from his suit pocket and threw it in front of Ina Yerong.

"I have thoroughly investigated the mecha unit that went missing in Xueying Town last month and found out that it was attacked by the Nine Islands Alliance!"

"You didn't expect that the mecha would have a black box specifically for storing image data, right?"

"Tell me honestly, when did your Inaba family secretly establish a relationship with the Nine Islands Alliance!"