Chapter 1181 Professor Moriarty's Successor

Coincidentally, the Parthians could just barely understand how a city-state of this size operated - because it was not a "pure slave society", nor was it the embryonic human society that developed from primitive society.

The ancient Parthian Empire was a man-made deformed society, an isolated crystal ball.

But even so, the wise men among the Parthians knew how the outside society had developed.

Therefore, “the new good master came from outside” is enough to explain “why he did this”.

——Because foreigners’ cultural traditions are different from ours.

Paradise City was advertised so well and so perfectly that people became skeptical.

Apart from the fanatics, only the homeless would try to go to Paradise City. Essentially, they don't believe it's real.

But Aiwass is different.

The Moriarty family really does own a multinational corporation.

Although Aiwass and Yulia had never managed it, and had never even visited the company, only the eldest brother and the old butler were responsible for maintaining its operation, it did exist. And with Yulia's enthronement, the scale of this enterprise naturally continued to expand.

In addition, Rock Cellar City is the westernmost city, so it is very easy to transport supplies from Star Antimony and Iris.

Precious food, medicine, cloth, building materials, luxury goods...that benefactors spent a lot of money to transport... Aiwass can get high-quality goods at a very low price.

In Parthia, there’s a saying that “fish sauce is more expensive than gold.” Yet, whether it’s Avalon, Star Antimony, or Iris, almost every fishing village makes fish sauce.

The price of vegetables in Anxi is at least three times more expensive than meat.

Some hard-to-obtain fresh vegetables can be worth more than a hundred times as much as meat - but if they are shipped from Xingti using preservation techniques, they are not that expensive even after taking into account the shipping costs.

After calculations, Aiwass discovered a horrifying fact—they didn't even need a good master.

It’s no problem for them to transport water directly from Xingbi!

The impact of the cursed desert is that it is impossible to directly divert rivers in, not that all bottled water brought in from outside will evaporate.

The manifestation of this curse is that the depths of the desert here absorb water infinitely, so water cannot be stored on the ground. Water can only be stored in confined spaces...such as waterways, fountains, and pools within the city.

Other city-states did the same.

However, the benevolent master of Rock Cellar City developed a new technology - they bought alchemical slabs from Star Antimony and found that the strength of this high-quality slab was enough to isolate the "curse".

If you build a completely sealed underground city with stone slabs and run waterways onto the slabs, the water won't be sucked up by the desert.

Residents can pay to draw water from designated "wells", and the water in different areas is separate.

This prevented free citizens or important figures around the lord from being poisoned by slaves, and also provided the slaves with some water, unlike other city-states that "prevented the water from being contaminated by slaves." He could also go out for a while after storing enough water without having to worry about the city residents running away due to lack of water.

This is why the Rock Cellar City is called "Rock Cellar City". This rock slab cellar well is its unique feature.

But perhaps due to lack of vision or funds, "Honest Afshin" did not continue to develop this technology. Instead, he stopped after building the partition waterway.

But Aiwass realized one thing - isn't this an underground water pipe?

Although the Rock Cellar City has an underground water system that connects the city... it is only less than 20 kilometers away from the Star Antimony border, right?

It's just a mere twenty kilometers. Even if a waterway needs to be built from the border to the water station, it will only be that much in total.

It seems, probably, it seems...it’s not difficult to do?

After Aiwass asked Sherlock, who was knowledgeable in this area, to calculate it, he immediately became alert.

——Isn’t this just a random thing to do?

It turns out that the total length of the underground waterways of Glass Island alone exceeds 10,000 kilometers!

If the Goblin Chamber of Commerce were to start the work, it would be completed in a week at most, and the price would be less than a third of what it would cost to build a single track in Avalon.

Then, based on this idea, if they were connected to each other using underground waterways like this, would they still have water to use even if the curse was not lifted?

In this way, Aiwass no longer had to worry about Sherlock being tied up and killed here because of this fragment of Geometry Celestial Being.

He immediately contacted the Goblin Chamber of Commerce, and the goblins responded quickly - they said they would send a president to Dawn City for talks within three days.

So Aiwass waited here for a few days.

——It turned out that Aiwas’ previous strategy of advertising with Desert Voice was correct.

The organization Desert Voice seems to have some connection with the Resistance Army, so they are particularly concerned about helping to promote Dawn City.

Only on the third day of Aiwass's advertising campaign, people came one after another, trembling and hesitant, wanting to sign "that" contract with Aiwass.

Naturally, it was not Aiwass's turn to handle such matters personally - Ligeia's unique and sacred appearance was perfect for this kind of face-saving project.

The features of the elves come from the winged ones, and the features of men come from the elves.

This is why people feel a natural sense of closeness when they see winged people.

Furthermore, Ligeia herself was a fifth-level transcendent of the Path of Authority, and she could be responsible for signing the contract. This contract, guaranteed by the power of the Silver Crown Dragon, was actually a great comfort to these slaves—they didn't fear a harsh contract, but they feared their benefactor's reneging on his promise.

This kind of contract, which is difficult to sever once signed, is actually a protection for the weaker party.

The first group to sign a contract with Aiwas was the private army of the previous generation of good lord "Honest Afshin".

According to the original rules, unless the inheritance was from father to son, most of them would not be able to survive - after all, the new master would not allow these people who were capable of fighting and had served the previous master to run around, and he would be worried.

Next came his wives and concubines.

Although they were wives and concubines, their status was basically no different from that of slaves.

Although the status of these people who serve the benevolent master is higher than that of slaves or even free people, they have become slaves in front of the benevolent master.

If Aiwass did not arrange a way out for them, they would have no choice but to become slaves of others. Because as free people, they did not have the working ability of free people and could not support themselves at all.

However, Aiwass gave them the most suitable job - that is, tour guide.

They only need to hold meetings or tell the new immigrants in public about the many sins of Rock Cellar in the past and how good life is in Dawn City now.

No training, lines or performances are required.

Because what they said was all true.

At this moment, Aiwass understands his adoptive father James more and more——

"The ultimate goal of all lies is to convince others and use them for their own benefit... Therefore, the greatest and most advantageous lie is the truth itself. A lie is called a lie simply because what it says is not true. Therefore, there is a huge flaw - everything is false. Only the truth is different - the truth is self-evident."

That's what James once said.

——That is why no lie can be more powerful than the truth.

No matter how many sweet words are used to deceive people, no matter how many sophistry and prudery are used to make people confused and perplexed, no matter how much deception or incitement is used, it is better to tell the truth directly.

As precise as a sword, he spoke out the truth that the other person had already known in his heart but refused to admit.

At this point, the lie is no longer a lie.

It will be called "Truth".

Aiwass simply spoke for them what they had long known but hadn't said. He spoke for them the "answer" that they dared not speak because they were bound by fear, rules, betrayal, death, poverty, and family ties.

Just like Professor Moriarty in the past, he used the evil in people's hearts to deceive them.

Aiwass now also uses the kindness in people's hearts to guide others.

Perhaps they will awaken in the future, perhaps they will help others and realize the mistakes of the old society... and Aiwass only brought forward the time of that moment, allowing those who are still hesitant to become firm.

The wisdom that points out sin, and the violence that can transform sin.

——This is hope itself.

Update completed meow!

Cat, resurrection!

(End of this chapter)