Volume 3 Chapter 131 - Xu Yi’s worries (1/2)

Two days later, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce motorcade that had stayed in Basaru City for three days finally headed on the road to Sowell City.

The Magic Car kept bumping across the dirt road outside Basaru City, shaking Xu Yi and the other researchers from the magic machine development center inside the Magic Car.

The researchers were led by Camby to use their time before they reached Sowell City to discuss research, making the atmosphere inside the car lively.

However, Xu Yi was very silent. He didn’t even watch the scenery passing outside the window, rather he had his brows slightly knit as he was in deep thought the entire time.

His eyes fell onto the worn down houses that passed on both sides and Xu Yi’s expression became more serious.

He was currently facing an important choice, but he couldn’t make up his mind since there were many worries.

Camby who had stopped discussing turned to see the strange look on Xu Yi’s face and he couldn’t help asking, “Chairman, what’s wrong? Since you went out with Count Longley the day before yesterday, why have you had this expression? Could it be that Count Longley did something that made it hard for you?”

Xu Yi shook his head with a bitter laugh.

“Although Count Longley didn’t do anything to make it hard on me, it is actually me that’s making it hard on me.”

“What does that mean?” Camby looked confused.

Xu Yi looked at the villages filled with worn down houses in the distance for a while and suddenly asked, “Camby, if doing something could help many people, but you would be in a very dangerous situation, how would you choose?”

Camby knit his brows, “It depends on if these people are worth helping and how dangerous the situation is. What is it? Chairman, did Count Longley say something to you? Does he want to invite you to invest in Basaru City?”

Xu Yi looked at Camby in surprise.

He had always thought that dwarves like Camby reacted slowly, he never thought that he would be able to discern the truth right away.

“Un, Count Longley has indeed invited me and he is very sincere. I have to admit, I’ve been moved by him.” Xu Yi said with a nod.

Thinking of his contact with Count Longley over the past few days, Xu Yi had a strange feeling in his heart.

During these years, as the Frestech Chamber of Commerce quickly developed, Xu Yi had made contact with most of the nobles in the kingdom and he could tell that there were good and bad nobles among them.

The good nobles could peacefully coexist with their citizens, even extending their hand to help the citizens within their territory. The bad nobles would rely on their rights to suppress citizens and satisfy their own greed.

But most of the nobles received the traditions of nobles, being in a different class compared to normal citizens. They were completely unrelated, like they were people from two different worlds.

But no matter what, Xu Yi had never seen a noble like Count Longley, being able to be on the same level as normal citizens. He even put all his efforts into letting his citizens live as good of a life as possible.

Xu Yi wasn’t certain that Count Longley wasn’t acting this way, but based on the people’s evaluation of the old Count Longley, as well as the time he spent with Count Longley, he could see the way the citizens of Basaru City acted and that Count Longley’s attitude should be real.

After all, it was easy for him to fake it alone, but it was hard for all the citizens to fake it.

Even disregarding whether it was fake or not, just based on the attitude Count Longley had and his suggestions towards this matter, Xu Yi had to seriously consider this.

Investing in Basaru City wasn’t considered hard for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce.

Although Basaru City was indeed poor and this city didn’t have any good resources, through his inspections over the past few days, Xu Yi had already found several methods to develop Basaru City. After considering it on the spot, he felt that they were quite feasible.

Basaru City was just lacking in money and this was not something the current Frestech Chamber of Commerce was lacking.

If he agreed to Count Longley’s invitation and the Frestech Chamber of Commerce started investing in Basaru City, there was an even deeper meaning. It meant that Basaru City that openly supported his highness Eric would begin cooperation with the Frestech Chamber of Commerce that supported her highness Seveni.

No one would think that the Frestech Chamber of Commerce changed to his highness Eric’s side, rather people would feel that Count Longley would want to betray his highness.

The reason was that there really was a disparity in terms of power between both sides.

Although Count Longley was a City Lord and a Count, Basaru City was the weakest, smallest, and poorest City in the northeast province. Count Longley didn’t have much as the City Lord.

But the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was different.

As the new company without limits that developed the quickest in the Lampuri Kingdom, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce already held quite a bit of strength and potential. It was far from something a poor City Lord could compare to.