Chapter 35: The Horror of Horse Thieves
Snowy City, City Lord's Mansion (arrow).
Tomorrow will be the day the armaments arrive.
Shen Lu fought at the dock all day, and when he came home at night, he almost collapsed from exhaustion.
I just wanted to find Bai Xin'er to massage myself, but I didn't expect that as soon as I got home, Fang Yourong was already waiting for me.
Seeing Shen Lu's half-dead appearance, Fang Yourong couldn't bear to say, "I've worked hard for you." β
Although Fang Yourong admired Shen Lu's identity as a five-star priest, he knew that he couldn't be treated by ordinary people's standards. But Shen Lu was only a sixteen or seventeen-year-old kid after all.
Fang Lan and Shen Lu were about the same age, and they should have lived carefree lives. Now one of these two children can't enter the city, and the other is gambling with his life in order to compete for his identity as the city lord who belongs to him.
Seeing that Fang Yourong was silent, Shen Lu seemed to guess his thoughts, and asked, "Have you seen Fang Lan in the past few days, how is she? Baili Sect was not harassed, right?"
Fang Yourong nodded and said, "I secretly visited them today, they are all very good, and let me report to you that you are safe, so that you don't have to worry about the future and concentrate on dealing with the affairs in the city." And what you tell you, they will definitely do it, so you don't have to worry. β
Shen Lu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good." As long as there are no accidents tomorrow, all this chaos will be over, and then it will be easy. β
Seeing that Shen Lu said so easily, Fang Yourong poured cold water and said, "But there is bad news, which seems to have exceeded our expectations. Near Snow City, there are traces of horse thieves. β
Shen Lu had no idea about the brutality of the horse thief, and asked with some puzzlement: "Hasn't the horse thief been completely exterminated, why is there a trace again?"
Fang Yourong sighed and said: "How can there be anything completely annihilated, it is just a comforting word to reassure the people of Yong'an Country." The horse thief, though he was repeatedly defeated, was never completely eliminated, and it is unlikely that he will be completely eliminated. β
"It can't be completely wiped out, why?"
Fang Yourong sorted out his thoughts, and then began to tell Shen Lu about the horse thief's style.
The reason why horse thieves have been resurrecting for many years is because there has always been fresh blood joining the group of horse thieves, and each of them is ruthless and has no bottom line.
Where did this new blood come from? It all starts with the brutal method of raising offspring by horse thieves.
Every time they burned and looted the village, they would rob the women and children of the village. In fact, everyone can imagine the suffering of women. Most of the horse thieves' bloodlines come from this.
The most brutal thing is what happened to these children.
After they are born or snatched away, they will be branded with a sun tattoo that will not fade for the rest of their lives.
After having a tattoo, horse thieves will raise them for a few years. Over the years, the horse thieves would love them very much, and everyone would treat them as if they were their own flesh and blood. In fact, more than half of these children are indeed the flesh and blood of horse thieves.
When they are about six or seven years old, the horse thieves will let them go and let them freely choose what they want to do, go where they want to go, and return to the world of normal people.
But because of the sun tattoo, everyone knows that they were raised by horse thieves. Even if these children return to their original hometowns, they will be discriminated against, abused, and even killed.
No matter how hard they try to become normal people and integrate into the life of normal people, they will fail in the end.
After such an experience, most people's choice is to return to the arms of horse thieves.
Although the root cause of their discrimination is because the horse thieves have given them sun tattoos. But in their worldview, horse thieves are a group of kind uncles and uncles, and it is precisely those "good people" who claim to be kind and simple who really insult and beat them.
Who are these kids going to hate more?
And once such a person becomes a horse thief, what will he do to the person who has bullied him?
That's why, horse thieves are never exterminated.
As long as this terrible sun tattoo exists, batches of horse thieves will be born. And what prompted the birth of these horse thieves happened to be those ordinary people who hated horse thieves the most.
Hearing this, Shen Lu couldn't say a word for a long time.
Several times he wanted to say: why don't you get rid of discrimination and treat these children well? A tattoo doesn't mean anything.
Or: Why do these children go back to them when they know that they have been used and that their suffering is caused by horse thieves?
But it's just a thought, because it's all naΓ―ve thoughts of 'why not eat minced meat'.
Thinking of the end, Shen Lu finally gave up and sighed: "What a terrible practice. No wonder the horse thieves are all ruthless, because they have been subjected to the greatest malice in the world. And the more ruthless they are, the worse the impression of horse thieves will be, and the stronger the malice will be towards all those who have sun tattoos. It's a vicious circle that can't be unraveled. β
Fang Yourong nodded and said, "So we can only continue to eliminate the horse thieves, keep them in the minority as much as possible, and let them not cause harm to normal people's lives as much as possible." Other than that, we can't do anything. β
Shen Lu also figured out some things and said, "Yes, if I encounter a horse thief in the future, I should also kill it." But I won't kill in the name of greatness and integrity, I don't deserve it. I kill them just to survive. β
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Before going to bed, Shen Lu sat at the head of the bed and thought a lot.
The sudden appearance of the horse thief's trail coincided with the imminent arrival of armaments, which is definitely not a coincidence. Maybe what will happen tomorrow will be much more complicated than I imagined.
Can you handle it yourself?
In the ring match, Shen Lu has won 27 consecutive victories, and he is only three games away from getting the final reward of the achievement mission.
Fighting against a large number of masters in the Ming and Obscure Realm, Shen Lu had an excellent opportunity to brush up on experience. With 70 to 80 years of experience per person, the Brew Fairy Finger has also improved its proficiency a little after Shen Lu's repeated use, making Shen Lu's panel attributes a qualitative leap.
Host: Shen Lu
Credits: 628
Cultivation is: Zhou Yingjing Quadruple
Experience Points: 70/1400
Exercises: Condensation and Qi Refining (100% proficiency) (Breakthrough tasks are required: Cultivation to reach the fifth level of Zhou Ying Realm.) οΌ
Martial Arts: Fuhu 2 Style (30% proficiency)
Brewmaster Finger (6%)
Weapons: Versatile Wood (99% Refinement)
Priesthood: Winemaker 6 stars (32% proficiency)
Armor: None
Ritual Weapon: None
Status: None
Special abilities
Mana attributes: pinnacle attributes, second-order pinnacle attributes
Constitution: Blood Soul Constitution
Originally, looking at his attribute panel, Shen Lu's self-confidence was bursting, but now he was a little frightened.
Hey, it's not good to scare yourself. The so-called soldiers will block, water will come to cover the earth, it is useless to worry blindly, it is better to prepare in advance.
A glance at the inventory shows that there are 3 N cards, 3 R cards, and 1 S card.
Since tomorrow is a big war, there is no need to save any of this, so I opened them all in one go.
The N card is three 1-star waste cards, needless to say.
The R cards are:
Two-Star Equipment Card: Cloud Silk Inner Armor (Mortal Eighth Order)
Two-Star Skill Card: Fire Dragon Claw (Power: Nine Layers of Bright and Obscure Realm)
Samsung Material Card: Unpolished Cold Iron (?Grade)
And the most critical S card, Shen Lu begged his grandfather to pray for his grandmother for a long time, and even hummed a few words of good luck before he dared to open it.
Four-Star Priesthood Card: Earn a four-star rating for any priesthood.
It's actually another priesthood card!
S cards can be drawn with 3 to 5 stars. If you just draw an ordinary 4-star card, it's not too lucky, but this is a priesthood card.
In the local card drawing of the Wanfa Continent, it is absolutely impossible to draw such an anti-heaven thing as the priesthood card.
If a person is extremely talented, like Xu Wenrui, a genius who has been in Zhou Yingjing at a young age, everyone will know that she used the physique card.
But if there was a person like Shen Lu who became a five-star priest at a young age, no matter how calm a person was, he would be frightened, because high-star priests were too rare and too useful.
This is why a person who is simply a person of high force does not necessarily attain a respectable status, while a clergyman is feared by all.
flipped to the points mall, which made Shen Lu even more surprised. This four-star priesthood card can be purchased with points. Although it costs up to 400 points, it's definitely worth it!
The priesthood is not unique, and if a person is capable, he can even learn all of them!
It's just that under normal circumstances, it is extremely rare for a person to be able to study a kind of priesthood well in his life. It is very rare for someone to have dual priesthood status, let alone a full-class hegemony.
Shen Lu didn't believe in this evil.
But Shen Lu didn't use up this priesthood card immediately.
In addition to professional skills, the priesthood is also a status symbol. Shen Lu already has a five-star brand, and one more four-star priesthood has not improved his status.
And if you give this card to someone else, let the other party become a four-star clergyman, and let the other party help you, wouldn't it be like a tiger with wings?
Thinking of this, Shen Lu already had the best candidate in his heart.
......
Early in the morning, the Sanhedrin.
Song Dexing took a sip of tea, looked at the dark sky outside the door, and muttered, "Snow City is about to change." β
On the seat far from this living room sat Xu Wenrui, who was full of anger.
Looking at her appearance, it seemed that she wanted to break Song Dexing's body into pieces, but she didn't dare to make a move.
Because Song Dexing was holding a little orange cat playing with a bell in his arms.
Feeling that the mana was locking onto him, Song Dexing smiled slightly and said, "Miss Xu's strength is above me, I have to admit this." If we fight, I might be killed by you in three moves. But before that, your cute kitten may have been crumpled by me. β
"I have no grievances with you, why should I kidnap Coco!" Xu Wenrui asked through gritted teeth, and because of the rat trap, he had to unlock the mana lock on Song Dexing.
"Because I want to protect Miss Xu's thoughtfulness, I have to make this decision. β
"Don't think that I can easily forgive you after this incident passes!" Xu Wenrui threatened.
Song Dexing smiled and said, "As long as I report everything that happened here to the guild headquarters, they will naturally understand my good intentions." As long as the headquarters supports me, I believe that Miss Xu will not retaliate against me excessively, right?"
"What does the guild headquarters have to do with me?" Xu Wenrui was even more full of question marks.
Song Dexing thought that Xu Wenrui was pretending to be stupid, so he ignored her.
Anyway, as long as he does a good job of the instructions of the headquarters, he will definitely be able to sit back and relax, and he will not be afraid of offending Xu Wenrui.
Seeing that Song Dexing didn't care about himself, Xu Wenrui could only continue to scratch his ears and cheeks and wait.
Although Coco's arrest was something that Shen Lu had already expected, in Shen Lu's imagination, it should be He Jiangyi or He Shanhu who captured Cocoa, Xu Wenrui didn't expect that the Priesthood Guild could suddenly appear and intervene in this foot.
Shen Lu's original seamless plan had been completely disrupted from the beginning!