Chapter 897: Polarization
At first, Lu Sheng thought he was wrong, because there was no such thing as concrete in this era. But after witnessing how the astrological city was stacked into pyramids, Lu Sheng was convinced. That's concrete!
"The corpses were cast into square blocks of stone and then piled on top of the pyramid as part of the pyramid. This magical burial method has been in use since 700 years ago. Childe, miss, do you know why this is happening?"
"Because there's not enough land?"
"Childe is really smart, the astrological city is twenty miles from east to west, and seventeen miles from north to south. Even the general county town is larger than the astrological city, but the astrological city has a population of tens of thousands. Like the general county seat, after people die, they are buried outside the city, but the astrology city is an independent city and can only be buried inside the city.
Seven hundred years ago, two hundred years after the establishment of the Astrology City, it was discovered that the cemetery actually surrounded the Astrology City. It was only then that the lord of the castle decided to start this burial method that saved both money and land.
After 700 years of construction, the cemetery has become a feature of the astrological city. Even in the surrounding area, many people regard the pyramids as sacred places, and many dignitaries can be proud to be buried in the astrological city. ”
As she spoke, Fuyuko suddenly paused and looked at a little girl selling flowers in the distance. The little girl who sold flowers seemed to be only twelve or thirteen years old, wearing a thin linen dress and carrying a basket of flowers to sell flowers to passers-by.
Dongzi's eyes only flickered, but he pretended to be casual and continued to introduce Lu Sheng.
"Do you know her?" Lu Sheng asked suddenly interrupting Dongzi's words.
"Well, she's my sister. ”
"It's strange to me that the people in Astrology City all look rich. You took me for a morning shopping, and I didn't see any poor people except you brother and sister. ”
"This ......" Fuyuko was about to speak, when suddenly, Fuyuko's face changed suddenly, "Qiuqiu, run-"
The girl heard the call, and quickly turned around, and her eyes suddenly lit up when she saw Dongzi. She didn't seem to comprehend the anxiety on Dongzi's face at the same time, and two strong men in black suddenly appeared behind her, and suddenly struck out and grabbed her little daughter's arm.
Like a chicken, he carried the little girl away and turned away.
"Qiuqiu......" Dongzi paused, looking at the figure that was gradually moving away in despair.
"What's going on?" Lu Sheng asked with a calm face.
"Childe, please, please save the ball...... If they take you away, you'll be killed......"
"How can I save it?" Lu Sheng didn't care about asking what was going on, and hurriedly asked.
"All you have to do is stop them and say Qiuqiu is your guide......"
Before Lu Sheng moved, Bu Feiyan's figure flashed, and the person had appeared in front of the two black-clothed people.
Seeing that Bu Fei was ghostly, the two strong men hurriedly paused.
"This young lady, you ...... Is there anything you need to do?"
"Why did you capture my guide?"
"She?" the man in black looked at the little girl struggling in his hand, hesitated for a moment and quickly let go of his hand, "I'm sorry Miss...... We thought he was illegally trespassing in the restricted area, not knowing that she was your guide.
I've released her now, and I hope you have a good time. If you need help, you can find anyone with a star embroidery on their chest. Your satisfaction is our pleasure, farewell!"
The man in black said polite and considerate words, and he said that he had no reason to be angry.
Bu Feiyan stretched out his hand and walked over holding the little girl's hand.
"It is not that there are no poor people in the astrological city, but that the poor cannot appear in front of people. We, the abscesses of the city, can only be concealed under the glamour. Once the poor people broke into the forbidden area, they were caught by Xingchenwei, and the light was beaten severely, and the worst were sent into slavery.
And the entire Astrology City, all the places shrouded by the starry sky are all forbidden areas for us. In fact, if I hadn't been with you, I would have been captured by them.
If it weren't for the fact that my mother was really sick and she and Qiuqiu hadn't eaten for two days, I wouldn't have ventured out. It's just that I didn't expect that Qiuqiu would be ......."
In a restaurant, Fuyuko explained to Lu Sheng in a low voice. And Qiuqiu, at the moment, is dripping tears while desperately stuffing things into his stomach.
"Where there is sunshine, there must be darkness. Every city has a bright side as well as a dirty side. It's just that I didn't expect that the gap between the rich and the poor in Astrology City has reached this point. ”
The glamorous can live on the ground and enjoy the sun, while the poor can only live in the sewers. Because on the ground, all the places in Astrology City are tourist attractions, so all places are forbidden areas for them.
"Why don't you leave Astrology City?" Bu Feiyan looked at his little daughter with some distress and asked lightly.
"We are registered in Astrology City, and if we leave Astrology City, we will still be sent back as fugitives. To handle the transfer of household registration, you need to pay three taels of silver. We don't have any money. ”
Three taels of silver, not much for many people. But even a penny is a luxury for some people.
"It seems that it is time to talk to the city lord of Astrology City. Lu Sheng said lightly.
"Husband, Astrology City is an independent city. ”
"But he is still Dayu's city, and they are still the emperor's people. ”
It's not now to talk to the Night City Lord, at least you have to wait for Lu Sheng to figure out the Astrology City. In the past few days, Lu Sheng has traveled all over the astrology city under the leadership of the Dongzi brothers and sisters. From east to west, from south to north.
The area of the astrological city is not large, and the fixed residents in the city are only seventy or eighty thousand. There are also those who have shops or industries in the Astrology City, but most of them are not the local population of the Astrology City. They are all high-quality talents brought in from other places for the tourism industry of the astrological city.
There are nearly 100,000 visitors to the astrology city every day, which is why the astrology city is extraordinarily prosperous.
From the perspective of population classification, even if all the people in the Astrology City are soldiers, there are 200,000 soldiers. And whether it is the tens of thousands of poor people living in the sewers, or the merchants who have a legal property in the Astrology City, or the tourists do not have the conditions to become the soldiers and horses of the Astrology City.
Therefore, Lu Sheng came to a conclusion a few days later that it was possible that the Astrology City had those 200,000 sets of armor, but it was absolutely impossible to hide 200,000 soldiers. But...... If the soldiers were not in Astrology City, then the guessed 200,000 rebels would not exist.
In addition to the astrological city, it is impossible for Taiyuan to hide private troops in other places, and it is 200,000. Lu Sheng is sure of this. If this is the case, then the hypothesis that someone wants to hide troops and rebel is not valid.
The mastermind behind the scenes took such a big risk to steal 200,000 soldiers and armor, really for money?
So for the last two days, Lu Sheng stayed in the inn with Bu Feiyan. Lu Sheng couldn't figure out the purpose of the mastermind behind the scenes, and if he couldn't think of the purpose, there was no direction for the investigation of the case.
For Lu Sheng's speculation to be reasonable, there is only one condition, 200,000 private troops are in the Astrology City, but they are not tourists, nor merchants, nor local residents. But their existence is unknown...... It's like ...... There is also an astrological city outside the astrological city.
This assumption is almost impossible to hold, just like the secret realm, with Lu Sheng's strength, even if he can't break the barrier of the secret realm, he can sense the location of the secret realm.
"Quick, block the front and back doors, don't let people run......"
In the dead of night, suddenly Lu Sheng opened his eyes. In the senses, a group of people blocked their collapsed inn.
"Xingchenwei, you ...... What to do?"
"Do you have any slum people here?" came a scolding from afar, and Lu Sheng's brows furrowed.
Lu Sheng was worried about Dongzi, who was sleeping in the stable.
Lu Sheng has the ability to open a room for Dongzi, but everything in heaven and earth has its rules. Dongzi is Lu Sheng's guide, and you break this rule by opening an upper room for the guide.
It's like many entrepreneurs will donate millions of dollars with a wave of their hand, but they will not easily give their employees even a hundred yuan in salary increases.
A guide should be treated like a guide. Moreover, the so-called stables are not really stables, but group bunks. Lu Sheng has seen it, the environment is acceptable, and he doesn't really live with livestock.
Sure enough, the shopkeeper did not help to cover, but took the star guard to the stable in the backyard.
Most of the people living in the stables were guides, and few of them were slum people. They have a formal license, and they can earn more than 1,000 wen a day in collusion with the restaurant inn.
"He, he, he, and him, all taken away. ”
"What are you going to do? We are the guides, we have the ...... of the guests"
"Don't shout, if you resist, rectify the Fa on the spot!"
"Rectify the Fa on the spot, who gave you the right?" Lu Sheng's voice suddenly sounded, the void in front of Xingchenwei suddenly shattered, and Lu Sheng and Bu Feiyan stepped out of the void in white clothes.
"Even if it is a criminal sentence, the Astrology City should be handed over to Taiyuan Mansion, right? I don't remember that Independence City has the power of life and death......
"Who are you?" Although the picture of Lu Sheng's appearance was shocking, their level was too low to understand what kind of existence this kind of person emerged from the void.
After a brief moment of stunnedness, he instantly came back to his senses and shouted.
"Why did you take my guide?"
"The lord of the city has decreed that all the people of the slums must be arrested immediately. This is a matter of the astrological city, and it has nothing to do with you, so please don't interfere with this son. ”
"I should have the right to ask. Lu Sheng took out the token from his arms and held it in front of him, "Give me an explanation, why do you want to arrest people." ”
"Xuantian Mansion...... Do you have an official position in the imperial court?"
Lu Sheng's face stiffened slightly, was this Xingchenwei too calm.
"My lord, this is an astrological city, not under your rule, please don't ask. Take it away!"
"Hmph!" Bu Feiyan snorted coldly, and in an instant, the sky froze, and Xingchenwei, who was ordered to move his steps, was suddenly shocked to find that his steps could no longer move. At some point, my feet were covered with frost, and I was frozen in place.
"This gentleman is the monarch of Dayu Xuantianfu, there is nothing in the world that this monarch can't check or ask. If you can't be the master, you can ask the Lord of Night City face to face. ”
"Bold! The Lord of Night City is the current ruler of the country, how can you ......?"
"It turned out that Lord Lu came to the astrology city, I didn't know, disrespectful and disrespectful......" A voice sounded, wearing a green shirt, two white hairs, and an old couple slowly falling from the sky.
"City Lord!" Xingchenwei hurriedly knelt on the ground and respectfully greeted him.