"Yes!"
The old butler said, "But I'm at the same level as the main city guards, so please think carefully before beating me up …"
Wang Yu: "…"
Damn it, this old man is a pure troublemaker, unmoved by force or persuasion. I don't know what the game developers went through to actually design this old man to be so shameless.
Just as Wang Yu and the old butler were chatting, Wuji suddenly asked, "The pirates have occupied Harbor City for so many years. Harbor City also has taxes, right?"
"Huh?" Hearing Wuji's words, the old butler raised his eyebrows slightly, and his eyes suddenly became dignified. He then stared at Wuji and said, "That's right!"
"Hehe!" Wuji smiled faintly, took out a bag of gold coins, and said, "Then can you tell me who collected this tax?"
"Haha!"
The old butler laughed and took the money bag from Wuji's hand, and said, "What a smart child."
After saying that, he did not forget to despise Wang Yu and said, "Unlike you, you still want to fight with me."
"Uh …" Wang Yu's face turned red from being despised.
At this moment, the old butler said slowly, "Yes, Harbor City has always had taxes all these years."
"A group of pirates still pay taxes?"
Hearing the old butler say this, everyone in Quanzhen was dumbfounded.
It would be reasonable for the city to pay taxes according to the law. These pirates were just robbers, so why did they have to be so legit?
"Of course, pirates are unwilling to pay taxes!" The old butler said, "But they only occupy Harbor City, and the Harbor City Lord is not them. According to the rules, they naturally have to pay taxes."
"Oh … I see!"
When the old butler said this, Wang Yu suddenly realized, "According to what you said, the seal of the Harbor City Lord is on the tax collector?"
Taxation was a right that the city lord should enjoy, and only those with the city lord's seal were qualified to enjoy this right.
The old butler just said that there was no seal, but he didn't say that anyone didn't … It was difficult to deceive Wuji with this kind of word game. After all, Wuji was also an expert in this field.
"Not bad!"
Sure enough, the old butler nodded and said, "Three hundred years ago, Harbor City was attacked by pirates. The former mayor of Harbor City, Karl, abandoned the people of the city and fled alone with the mayor's seal. His whereabouts are still unknown."
"Missing?" Mingdu laughed at the side. "Missing and you still have to pay taxes? I'm afraid that it was swallowed up by you, old man. "
"If only that was the case!"
The old butler complained, "According to the system settings, taxes will be forcibly transferred to the account of the owner of the city's seal every month. The civil servants of our Harbor City all rely on taxes to live. Poor me, I'm old and have been owed hundreds of years of wages."
"Tsk tsk tsk!"
When he heard the old butler's words, Wang Yu couldn't help but sigh.
The system god's settings were the rules, and the NPCs, as the natives of the game, had to abide by the rules. He didn't expect things like delayed wages to happen in the game, and it had been delayed for hundreds of years.
Hundreds of years, meow, this old thing really lived.
However, since ancient times, those who owed wages did not have a good ending. Back then, Headmaster Jiang owed Taizu's wages, and in the end, even the world was taken by Taizu. This was a live example.
It was no wonder that the people of Harbor City did not resist when the pirates had been here for so many years …
"Young City Lord." The old butler pleaded, "Can you help me seek justice?"
System Notification: You have triggered the hidden main city quest "Dangerous Wall", the third stage "Lost City Lord's Seal." Quest level A, do you accept?
"This …"
Most of the quests in the early stages of "Rebirth" were combat oriented, but the later stages, the quests became more and more bizarre, especially the search quests. To be honest, Wang Yu personally hated these kinds of quests.
With Wang Yu's level, the combat quests were not a problem no matter how difficult they were, but to find something … This was a bit of a pain in the ass.
That damned former City Lord had been missing for three hundred years. Not to mention how big the world was, it was extremely difficult to find a person who had disappeared for three hundred years in the vast sea of people. Even if he was found, he would most likely be dead for a long time.
However, Wang Yu also knew what the first two parts of this quest were like. He had to accept this lousy quest, or else he wouldn't know what would happen.
"Sigh!"
Wang Yu let out a sigh and casually clicked accept.
System Notification: You have accepted the hidden main city quest "Dangerous Wall", the third stage "Lost City Lord's Seal." Quest level A.
Quest Requirement: Find the mayor's seal and retroactively pay the salary of the mayor's butler.
Quest Hint: This quest is relatively difficult. Please gather your companions and proceed together. The team is limited to 15 people.
Looking at the quest content, Wang Yu speechlessly asked the old butler, "This world is so big. Don't tell me you intend to make me search through it? Tell me if you have any clues. This isn't just about me, it's also about your salary."
"Hehe!" The old butler smiled faintly and said, "I heard from the pirates a month ago that they seemed to have seen City Lord Karl on Immortal Abode Island. You can go there to take a look first."
"Immortal Abode Island?" Wang Yu frowned and asked, "Where is that?"
"It's the 17th District of the Brave Continent!" Wuji said, "It's also the legendary Japanese server!"
"Japanese server?"
Wang Yu was a little surprised. "We have to cross servers to do a quest?"
"Yes!" Wuji said with certainty, "If I'm not wrong, this chain of quests is the one that opens the route between the local server and the Japanese server."
Wuji was an old gamer and knew the game designers' tricks like the back of his hand.
The official announcement of data interoperability roughly meant that the servers that had nothing to do with each other before were now in the same world, but the players had to explore and complete quests to open up the routes between the servers.
The Sea Route that Wang Yu had obtained in the previous quest was the route between the local server and the Japanese server. However, in the background storyline, the Sea Route had been idle for 300 years. Now, this quest was most likely set to open up the Sea Route.
To Place One's Pride came over and asked, "Then, how should we go to Immortal Abode Island now?"
The old butler said, "There's a cargo ship at the port that was intercepted by the pirates back then. You might be able to take that ship out to sea."
Great, even the ship was ready. The nature of this quest was indeed as Wuji had said. Finding the former mayor was secondary, and the main purpose was to reopen the Sea Route.
After leaving the City Lord's Mansion, Quanzhen and the others followed the old butler's instructions and found the cargo ship at the port.
The cargo ship was still very big for the pirates to keep it as a treasure. However, it did not look too optimistic after being stranded for 300 years.
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