Chapter 476 Desert
At the dinner, the mayor of Kankedal was holding a glass of red wine in one hand and listening to Vanya's suggestions. After hearing all the words, he thought for a while and then nodded slightly.
"Want to bring supplies to help the people of Addis? Well... this is indeed a good idea. It can give the people there a good basic impression. Sister Vanya is really thoughtful."
Robert started talking like this, and after listening to his words, Vanya continued.
"Nothing... These are just some necessary considerations. After all, the people there have been through war and they need help. This is our chance to show our sincerity in negotiations."
"Sister Vanya's words make sense. I understand. Then your departure will be postponed for two days. During this period, our Kankedal City Government will do its utmost to help the special envoys carry out the procurement of supplies."
Robert said this to Vanya. After hearing what Robert said, Vanya responded happily.
"Thank you for your cooperation and understanding. I'll take care of everything."
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Time passed quickly, and soon the welcome banquet of Kankedar was over. The guests and special envoys returned to their residences one after another. After a night's rest, the next day's holiday soon arrived.
Early the next morning, Robert announced that Vanya's special envoys had temporarily changed their itinerary and planned to purchase supplies before setting off for Addis. As soon as the news came out, people from all walks of life in Kankedal came forward to make donations. In addition, the special envoys used their own funds to purchase various food and medical supplies, which had already piled up into a small mountain in the warehouse near the station.
The Desert Arrow is a luxury passenger train specially prepared by the Kankedal Train Company for special envoys. This train is famous in Kankedal and even in the surrounding countries. It is a luxury train specially used to provide travel services for the upper class. It has a small number of carriages, but all aspects such as catering and interior decoration are extremely luxurious. In addition to normal passenger carriages and dining carriages, there are also bar carriages, casino carriages, social carriages and many other functional carriages.
The Desert Arrow is like a cruise ship on land, providing passengers with great comfort. However, because it is equipped with the most powerful locomotive, it has far fewer sections than ordinary trains, so its speed is also extremely fast, nearly twice that of ordinary passenger trains.
However, the situation of Desert Arrow has undergone some other changes during this journey. In order to facilitate the transportation of large amounts of supplies, Kankedal Railway Station had to temporarily reorganize the Desert Arrow train. Many of the luxurious and flashy entertainment carriages were temporarily unloaded from the train, and instead, heavy and black freight carriages were mounted one by one on the back of the Desert Arrow train. This luxury train, which originally served the upper class, now needed to take on more of the functions of a freight train.
It took half a day to reorganize the Desert Arrow train, and almost another half a day to load the cargo. Due to the request of Sister Vanya, the chief envoy of the Special Envoy Group, many freight carriages were added to the Desert Arrow. Therefore, after the donated materials were loaded, many carriages were still empty.
In order not to waste the carrying capacity of these carriages, Vanya decided to make another request to the merchants in Kankedal, inviting them to bring some life-saving first aid supplies that might be helpful to the people in the war, and board the Desert Arrow to Addis together. As long as they were willing to sell the supplies to the suffering people at a reasonable price there, they could all join her on this trip.
Due to the current chaotic situation in Addus, not many merchants want to do business there. Most of those who are willing to take the risk to do business there are merchants who want to raise prices crazily and make a fortune from the war. Naturally, they will not agree to Vanya's suggestion that goods need to be sold at a fair price. Although Vanya's suggestion was made, not many merchants were willing to respond.
In the end, only a few merchants found the special envoys and were willing to accept Vanya's conditions. They requested to be able to travel with the special envoys and their goods on the Desert Arrow to Addis. Vanya quickly agreed to these merchants' request.
Although transporting the supplies needed by the war victims was a very kind act, it still contained certain safety risks. In the following day, the special envoy escort led by Vanya inspected the entire train and all the supplies loaded on the train. After finding nothing unusual, the entire Desert Arrow finally decided to set off the next day. On the morning of the third day, the Desert Arrow, loaded with countless supplies, finally set off.
Inside the Kankedal train station, the crowd that was seeing them off crowded at the edge of the platform, watching the steel behemoth in front of them spewing steam and smoke. Amid a huge humming sound, it slowly left the station and headed towards the vast inland of North Ufeija, leaving the city.
In the compartment of a slowly accelerating passenger carriage, Dorothy, wearing a traditional North Ufrican robe and a headscarf, was sitting in the compartment. She sat in the comfortable seat and looked out the window at the city scene that was rapidly passing by. As the train accelerated, the houses and buildings in the town became fewer and fewer, and were replaced by lush green vegetation.
As merchants, Dorothy and Nephthys boarded the Desert Arrow together and went to Addis with Vanya's special envoys. Dorothy and Nephthys' ship arrived two days earlier than Vanya. During these two days, Dorothy manipulated the corpse puppet to purchase various supplies in Kankedar. Then when Vanya proposed to accept low-priced merchants to go to Addis together, she signed up without hesitation. After bringing about 700 pounds of supplies, she and Nephthys now boarded the car as merchants. During this process, Vanya provided a lot of cover for Dorothy and her friends, and successfully avoided the inspection of most of the envoys' guards. Now they can take the Desert Arrow all the way to Addis. They are well hidden under Vanya's cover.
"It still feels incredible... Sister Vanya has become a big shot now, and is also a special envoy sent by the church to send Adus. When I met her last year, she said that she was just an ordinary nun in a church in the northern part of the city, but now she can even be on the front page of the newspaper..."
Nephonice, who was sitting opposite Dorothy and also wearing a similar robe, sighed and said that she and Vanya had met in Tivian last year. When she was avoiding the pursuit of the Eight-pointed Nest, it was Dorothy who notified Vanya to rescue Nephonice. At that time, Nephonice had a deep impression of the nun who seemed weak but had too strong fighting power.
"You've changed a lot, haven't you? Last year you were just a college kid, but now you're a legendary thief. You've been in the newspapers almost as many times as Vanya."
While drinking tea, Dorothy spoke to Nephthy in a half-joking tone. Nephthy paused for a moment, then spoke in a low voice with a little anxiety.
"Don't say that anymore... Miss Dorothy, this is not good news. I don't want to be famous at all..."
"Okay, okay, let's stop talking..." Dorothy responded with a smile as she looked at Nefernis's anxious expression. Then Nefernis let out a long sigh and turned the topic to Vanya.
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