Chapter 103: The Missing Man
Lin Qingran finally stopped in a small town called Seven Star Town. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
According to the quest, the last time the princess's sweetheart was seen was in this town.
It has been almost a year since he sent his last letter here, and then disappeared without a trace.
According to the ancient custom, a woman is generally engaged at the age of twelve or thirteen, and married at the age of fifteen.
However, Princess Leek Ya has been in her teens for twenty-nine years, but she is still single and has never been out of the cabinet.
In order to find her sweetheart, she deliberately asked for help from people in the rivers and lakes. Hopefully, someone will find out where he is.
Lin Qingran thought that if this was the last stop, then the princess's sweetheart would definitely leave some traces.
No big living person can disappear into thin air. There is always a trail to follow.
Lin Qingran went to the town and found that there was something strange in this town.
Unlike other small towns, most of the people here are young children who have just learned to walk, and some women who have no combat effectiveness. There was not a single strong laborer of the right age in the whole town.
It's obvious, no! In ancient times, labor was all heavy physical work, most of which had to be completed by the men of the family.
However, all you can see as far as the eye can see are old, young, sick and disabled women.
How can such a composition of personnel complete all that arduous farm work!
Lin Qingran asked several local residents in a row, but the answer he got was that everyone went out to work collectively. So you can't see them during the day, but at night they come back.
But this argument obviously does not work, what kind of work does it take the strength of a whole town to do! Moreover, it was not only the strong laborers who disappeared, she did not see a single aboriginal who was an elderly man at all.
If those vigorous laborers in their prime have gone out to work, then where have those who are already old and not as strong as before?
There's an eerie feel to the town.
But all the people in the town, including the children, all said that they had gone out to work. This put pressure on Lin Qingran to understand the truth.
Without the news of these insiders, where to break through?
Lin Qingran knew that probably from the moment she entered this town, she had already entered the plot of the mission, and this was the key point for the mission to continue.
Inside the town...... They are all old and young, women and children......
Lin Qingran thought about it little by little, looking for a breakthrough point in it.
It occurred to her that if all the strong laborers were taken away to carry out a special job, then! Why are there still children? According to custom, the strong labor should be from the age of fourteen to the age of forty or so to be a disease-free and able-bodied man, a period of nearly 26 years.
Even if men in ancient times got married early, fourteen years old was too young, and most people did not have this condition if they wanted to have children. So where did these children come from!
Even if he is forty years old and still has the ability to have children, there is not a single man in this town, more than fourteen years old. This has to be a big flaw.
Who is behind the scenes?
What the hell is he going to do?
Lin Qingran came to the local resident's house again and wanted to inquire about the relevant situation in detail.
But when it came to this issue, all the residents were secretive, their eyes were full of fear, and they were completely unwilling to reveal any news, as if revealing the news would lead to some catastrophe.
Lin Qingran looked at the rejection in their eyes and the fear in their eyes, and didn't dare to ask any more, so he could only leave the homes of the residents, find an inn in the town at random and live in, thinking about the things he saw today.
To be able to make the whole town so afraid, then this person must either have power, wealth, or more. Both!
But this is just an ordinary town on the edge of the kingdom. Even the officials in charge of the nearby main city will basically not come here, so what kind of people will come here to stir up the wind and rain!
Being able to bring so many people to their knees should not be something that simple money can do.
Well, the person should be a person of fairly high status.
The status is quite high...... National Border ...... The Vanishing Strongman...... After this information was synthesized, thinking of the subsequent development of this task, Lin Qingran had to think in the direction of a foreign country.
Could it be that the nobles of other countries did it in private?
There should be nothing wrong with this direction!
Seven Star Town is located on the edge of the country, which can basically be said to be a three-way zone, and even local officials rarely come to inspect here, so if someone wants to do something, the chance of being found is much less than in other places.
Moreover, compared to people in other areas, the residents here have basically not seen much of the world because of their remote location.
If that person is stronger, he can easily suppress everyone's thoughts of resistance and let them follow their own pace. In this way, there is less chance of leakage.
Moreover, for them, this is not their own country, it is a foreign country, so if they do something here, as long as it is not a rebellion or something, their local government will not care too much, and even if it finds out, it will not do anything. They are freer to move.
But in the end, such an act is too risky, and if it is discovered, it will provoke a war between the two countries. What kind of benefits would have prompted them to take such a risk?
What can motivate people to take such a big risk must be a sufficiently large economic interest, even a political interest. And this person must have considerable power to be able to put him under pressure from both countries at the same time after the matter is exposed.
If you put it down in this way, the range of people who can do it will be much narrower.
It's just that which of these people is more likely to do this, Lin Qingran is not sure.
Because she doesn't know much about these people, she has only seen a few words of description on the game-related materials.
Who is behind this?
She still needs to check it step by step. After straightening out the general plot, today's game time was about to end, and Lin Qingran went offline.
Pulling his yoga mat out of the small balcony, Lin Qingran went over and patted the game warehouse of the two who were still in the game.
By the time Mu Yuanyuan and Wang Yuexuan came out, Lin Qingran had already changed into yoga clothes and began to pull ligaments.
The two of them glanced at each other helplessly, resigned themselves to pulling out their yoga mats, and practiced with Lin Qingran.