Chapter Thirty-Four: The Fury of White Sand

  Lizard Druid Master soon understood Marlon's words and the enormous impact on those two big figures.

  Since noon that day, Baisha City has been in a state of martial law, and then launched a massive search for Hailufa spies.

  That's right, it's an investigation into Helios espionage activities...

  Mr. Kashiwa, the mayor of Hakuba town, gathered almost all reporters from local newspapers and magazines in Hakuba town, and revealed a highly explosive message in a fresh news conference style.

  With the help of Andiriel, the famous forest goddess priestess who mastered the art of resurrection, Gavriel Lirien, the renowned dwarf publisher who was brutally killed by the Durene slave uprising last night, revealed a shocking secret after being resurrected!

  It turns out that the Durene slave uprising that took place last night was not an accidental slave riot, but a suicidal large-scale riot provoked by the Hailiffa spies hiding in Baisha City who were unwilling to accept defeat and disrupt the peaceful life of the citizens of Baisha.

  And there are signs that this great riot, stirred up by the Helios agents, also involved a group of crazed and malevolent demon worshippers who sought to appease their dark deities with bloody slaughter, then perpetrate even more heinous acts!

  Therefore, in order to ensure the safety of 360,000 Baisha citizens, the municipal government decided to launch a week-long curfew and crackdown operation, codenamed "Baisha Fury".

  And soon, the mayor's speech was printed into hundreds of thousands of extra copies by various newspapers at the fastest speed, and these extras were quickly scattered all over every corner of Baisha City.

  It is unknown whether it was intentional or unintentional, but a large part of these extras were sent to the sea ships and civilian airships in the port, and then sent to all parts of the country through these inspected sea ships...

  At the same time, the police who were strictly enforcing the "White Sand Fury" curfew and crackdown operation soon found a devil-worshipping altar in a small alley next to Sfenklar Street!

  What's even more appalling is that around the altar lay dozens of stripped, throat-cut, blood-drained young boys and girls. They were used as sacrifices to some evil demon lord from the depths. Their cold corpses had been subjected to severe abuse and humiliation!

  At the same time, nearly twenty devil worshippers were also captured. After being subjected to severe torture, these devil worshippers confessed that the young men and women who had been offered to the Lord of the Abyssal Devils were indeed those they had captured in the great chaos last night.

  And coincidentally, the leader of those devil worshippers has Halfling blood! This and Mayor's Halfling spy stirring up a big riot seem to be a perfect match!

  Then, the confessions of the devil worshippers were soon published again by the journalists of the big and small newspapers in Baisha City in the form of a second extra edition.

  On these new tombstones, the gentlemen journalists have written with their finest brushes about those innocent boys and girls who died tragically, who had owned a promising youth and happy spring of life.

  Even Ma Long-Liester, the talented young writer who had just received the highest honor of Baisha City - the Gemstone Oak Leaf Medal of Baisha, wrote an article titled "The Orphan of Baisha" on the extra edition of the Baisha Morning Post, based on the tragic death of a young boy who, despite being an orphan, refused to succumb to evil temptations and remained steadfast in his pursuit of light and ideals.

  Alright, the protagonist of this "Oliver Twist" is named... Oliver Twist.

  Now, the good citizens of White Sand City were thoroughly enraged, they launched a massive "spontaneous" campaign, demanding that these damned devil worshippers be executed in the most classical way, by sending them to the stake and burning them into ashes, and then having the priests of the gods of light thoroughly purify their filthy souls with sacred words, sacred light, and sacred water.

  This thing that goes against the spirit of the law, Mayor Mr. Benevolent would certainly not agree to, but the angry good citizens of Baisha City, in a manner of "the law does not blame the masses", stormed the police station holding those devil worshippers.

  The police guarding the police station were mostly citizens of Baisha City, and they obviously couldn't shoot ordinary citizens, so the angry citizens who successfully stormed into the police station took away those devil worshippers who had been beaten to a pulp, including the leader of the Bloodfist gang with Hailar blood.

  Then...the devil worshipers who were bound to the stake were gone, scattered in all directions.

  "Malong, my friend, why are you coming up with those mind-controlling ideas to help that guy who will stop at nothing to keep his mayor position?"

  When the news from the trees reached him that those devil worshippers had been sent to the stake by the enraged citizens, Master Lirien asked Marlon a question.

  "I really didn't have any other ideas, so I told those stories and then wrote an article to go along with them." Ma Long looked completely innocent and wronged, but he continued, "After all, this Mayor of Khaki City promised not only to encourage factory owners to hire a large number of ordinary citizens as workers, but also to recruit some physically fit and unemployed veterans to serve as temporary auxiliary police officers. He even promised that once the situation was completely under control, he would sell me a large piece of land at a low price to build a film city."

  "What's this 'Film City'?"

  Master Rito Deul, promoting the spirit of asking questions.

  "This, well, you'll know when the time comes, Old Kang. Why don't you invest 100,000 to 200,000 gold coins too? I guarantee that within ten years, you can get double your investment back in dividends... how about it? Consider it your original shares!"

  Ma Long bought a Guanzi and then raised his eyebrows and continued to speak, he was obviously trying to seduce Liru Druid Master.

  "Let's put this aside for now. I actually came over to tell you that your Minotaur brother, Auster, has woken up, but he looks rather dull and stupid... not quite normal."

  Although Master Druid Lirien had a lot of money, he wasn't stupid, so he didn't care about high-yield investments at all. He quickly shifted the topic to the Minotaur youth Ayster - under the pastor's treatment, the unconscious Minotaur youth had woken up.

  It's just that, as Master Lizard Drew said, the cow-headed boy who woke up was always dull and stupid, as if he had lost part of his soul.

  "What? Estelle woke up? Where is she now? I'll go take a look at her right away!"

  Lithari's words made Marlon jump up directly, but Marlon automatically ignored the second half of Lithari's speech, because in Marlon's view this situation was too reasonable.

  A young man who was originally full of hope for life suddenly encountered a family-breaking disaster, can he still keep a smiling face and a calm mind?