Chapter 17: The Mysterious Trio
Jing Ling's eyes were full of gratitude when he looked at the scar man, and when he put on the clothes that the scar man handed him, he put his right hand on his heart, and bowed slightly and said, "Thank you for allowing me to continue my life, and Heavenly Father is with you." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"Although I am an atheist, I accept your gratitude." After the scar man finished speaking, he also put his right hand on his heart and bowed slightly.
Jing Ling thought to himself: This guy looks very personal, should I tell him that he doesn't believe in any Heavenly Father? ...... Forget it, since the original owner of this body believed in Lancelot, I don't need to explain my beliefs, everything is as it is.
After Jing Ling figured it out, he said to Scar Man, "This brother, may I ask what your name is?" ”
The scar man ruffled his hair, put on a cynical look, and said, "Everyone in the village calls me a little devil, so you can call me that." ”
Little devil? It seems that he didn't want me to know about his past. Jing Ling paused, and then said to him, "I have a request, I wonder if you can grant it?" ”
The little devil tilted his head towards Jing Ling and asked, "What request?" ”
Jing Ling just wanted to say that he was very hungry, but his shriveled stomach was the first to let out a grunt in protest, and the little devil stretched his brows and laughed: "This is it?" ”
Jing Ling clutched his stomach and said embarrassedly, "This is it." ”
"Let's go, there's a hearty breakfast waiting for you." After the little devil finished speaking, he took the lead in leaving the cabin.
Jing Ling followed closely and walked out of the wooden house, and the moment he stepped on the green grass, a verdant pastoral scenery suddenly came into his mind.
"It's beautiful!" Jing Ling couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
The morning sun pours over the golden wheat fields from the sky, and the hillsides on both sides stand a patchwork of stone houses. Jing Ling was on a small undulating hillside, and the stone house next to him was not gorgeous, but it looked hard and practical.
The hut he had just been in was a deserted thatched hut, with a small river at the bottom of the hillside, and the water flowing made the waterwheels on the banks of the river turn incessantly, carrying precious water to the wheat fields.
Villagers in unpretentious clothes sweating on the wheat fields with pitchforks and hoes, peasant women washing clothes and vegetables on the riverbank, and children chasing and playing on the mud floor, this is a peaceful pastoral scene!
Jing Ling followed the little devil to a double-storey duplex stone house, where Sophie and the old man with the broken arm were sitting at the table fiddling with the utensils, and Jing Ling found that the tool they used to eat turned out to be chopsticks!
Scanning the decorations in the house, Jing Ling found that everything in the house had the shadow of Eastern and Western civilizations.
It seems that this is really an era of great cultural integration, when Alexander conquered the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, which are now known as the boundless continents, the world's civilizations kicked off at that moment.
It is a sad and lamentablement fact that European philosophy, West Asian mathematics, and East Asian Confucianism have all reached a new development situation in the fusion, but a strong civilization always has to conquer another civilization, and when mankind is suffering from war, civilization has also been integrated and developed because of war.
Seeing Jing Ling looking at a pair of chopsticks in a daze, the little devil gently patted him on the head and said, "What kind of emotion can a pair of chopsticks make our hero feel?" ”
Jing Ling looked at the little devil with a blank expression, "You call me a hero?" ”
The little devil looked at Jing Ling with a smirk, "Yes, hero. You know how much I wished I was the one who was kneeling in front of Bais. ”
After swallowing the omelette in his mouth, the old man with the broken arm said angrily, "I'm afraid that neither the Son of Time nor the Heavenly Father will open the door to welcome you, an atheist, into their kingdom of heaven." ”
The little devil suddenly glared at the old man with the broken arm, as if to signal the latter not to talk nonsense.
But the thoughtful Jing Ling still roughly guessed the meaning of the old man with the broken arm, and he was afraid that the little devil wanted to do something bad to Bais. But Jing Ling didn't go to break the secret of the little devil, but tore a piece of bread and said while eating: "I am Jing Ling, what should I call the old man?" ”
The old man with the broken arm thought for a while, "It's okay if you call me Uncle Yan." ”
Asu, Little Devil, Uncle Yan...... For some reason, Jing Ling always felt that although the three people at the table were eating breakfast casually, the corner of their eyes was often aimed at him, as if he had been on guard against himself.
And looking at the appearance of these three people, there is no similarity, from which it can also be concluded that they are not related by blood. But this has to make Jing Ji wonder, what is the background of these three people?
As if feeling Jing Ling's gaze, Uncle Yan and Ah Su deliberately accelerated their eating, and the little devil asked Jing Ling, "I see that you look hungry, why do you eat so slowly?" ”
"If you are hungry for a long time, if you suddenly overeat, it is easy to die violently." After Jing Ling finished speaking, he tore off a small piece of bread, chewed it carefully, swallowed his stomach, and said, "You also watched the athletic meeting at that time?" ”
"Of course I want to watch such a grand show, but I said Jing Ling, what you said at that time ignited the blood in my heart." The little devil suddenly stood up, pointed to the pastoral outside the window and shouted: "No one has the right to ask us to abandon our humanity, no one!" ”
Asu and Uncle Yan suddenly shook their bodies, and their eyes looked at Jing Ling in unison, with heartfelt respect in their eyes.
Jing Ling, on the other hand, suddenly looked up at the little devil, and he suddenly thought that he still had a very important thing to complete, only to see him say anxiously: "Little devil, tell me, is there any way to earn enough gold coins?" ”
The little devil raised an eyebrow and asked, "How much is enough?" ”
"Enough gold to buy two thousand slaves."
As soon as Jing Ling finished speaking, Aso almost choked to death from the milk she swallowed quickly, only to see her say in disbelief: "Do you know how many gold coins you need to buy so many slaves?" ”
"If you are a strong slave, you need one gold coin for one person, and half for a woman or child, and you need about five silver coins." The little demon answered Aso's question for Jing Ling.
"In this way, I need at least a thousand to fifteen hundred gold coins." Jing Ling guessed roughly the number of slaves in the arena, as well as their gender and age, and came up with such a conservative estimate.
But Asu stared at it and said, "More than a thousand gold coins, the entire Brady Village doesn't have so much income throughout the year, how can you earn this money alone?" ”
Aso's words struck a blow at Jing Ling's heart, in this era, although the great fusion of civilizations and various reasons have led to the increasingly vigorous development of science and technology, Jing Ling is still confident that he can use the knowledge in his mind to create a business empire. But if he wants to earn more than a thousand gold coins in a short period of time, this is still a bit.
But the slaves in the cage could not wait so long, and with each passing day, there were slaves who would never see the sun of tomorrow.
Uncle Yan pondered for a moment, then looked directly into Jing Ling's eyes and said, "Your appearance has already told me who you are, and I also heard about your deeds in the arena from the little demon. I have to say that you have the same chivalrous heart as the little devil, but in this chaotic world, the end of a chivalrous warrior is usually death. ”
"But people always have to die, and if you live against your nature, what's the difference between that and death!?" "I know you're not as simple as you seem, but I don't have any ill will towards you. At the moment I just want to help them escape from that horrible hell, and I hope you will help me too. ”
Uncle Yan's deep and bright eyes kept staring at Jing Ling's dark eyes, and finally he sighed slightly and said, "Tell us what happened to you."
A flash of sadness flashed in Jing Ling's eyes, and he told the truth about what happened to this body, including his background and why he was chased into the corpse forest by the cavalry. As for the experience of the previous life, Jing Ling will not reveal it to anyone no matter what, and those experiences that seem shocking to the world in this world will only bring unnecessary trouble to himself.
Uncle Yan put his fist on his forehead and said in a deep voice: "Sword and snake pattern...... Has the organization's hand reached out to the Light Army? ”
Organization? Jing Ling's face was suspicious, and Uncle Yan seemed to know what organization Falow belonged to.
"I see that your brother named Lin Yan will have a bumpy fate next." Aso shook his head and sighed.
"What the hell does that organization do?" Jing Ling said with a worried face.
"About that organization, let's wait until you have the strength to tell you, otherwise it will only cause you unnecessary trouble." Uncle Yan kindly warned Jing Ling, "As for those Nolan cavalry, why are they acting so secretively? ”
"I guess they're plotting something shady again." The little devil interjected.
Uncle Yan turned his gaze to the little devil and said, "I know what you're usually doing, so bring this guy with you." ”
"My lord, please think deeply!" Aso subconsciously waved his hand and said worriedly.
The little devil also said with a look of embarrassment: "He is a pure-bred yellow man, I am afraid that he will attract the attention of the patrol team." ”
My lord? Jing Ling's gaze wandered around Sophie and Uncle Yan's bodies, wondering what kind of background they had?
Feeling Jing Ling's scrutinizing gaze, Uncle Yan's old face turned red, and he coughed, and then said, "Little devil, take him with you when you do business." I'm tired, Aso, help me up. ”
The little devil looked at Uncle Yan's back and said, "Old man, have you really thought about it?" ”
Uncle Yan turned his head to look at Jing Ling, squinted his eyes and smiled, "I saw Luo Tianqi's shadow on him. ”
The little devil's pupils shrank suddenly, and Jing Ling didn't notice the sadness and anger hidden in his eyes.
How did this old man compare me to the founding king of the Blackland Kingdom? Jing Ling was puzzled in his heart.
"Since you've said so, I'll take him with me to pick up the mission." The little devil tried his best to hide his emotions and spread out his hands to make a helpless look. Then he looked at Jing Ling and said with a solemn face: "Follow me, first of all, you have to be prepared for the consciousness of death." ”
Jing Ling heard from the little demon's words that he had a way to raise more than a thousand gold coins in a short period of time, and the thought of being able to rescue those slaves who were in deep prison seemed to flash with fireworks. I saw him hold the little devil's hand tightly and swear: "I believe that life will not end, so I am ready to step into the path of reincarnation." ”
"Good guys!" The little devil lightly hammered Jing Ling's chest, this action reminded Jing Ling that Lin Yan had also hammered himself like this in the beginning.
My brother...... Where the hell are you?
Seeing Jing Ling in a trance, the little devil slapped the table and shouted, "What a hair, go!" ”
Jing Ling was startled by the sound of slapping the table, he looked at the little devil who had already walked out of the stone house and said, "Where are we going?" ”
"Go to Ice City!"