Chapter 414: The Situation in the City
When Fan Ping'an first came to Stone Town, the ordinary people he saw were hollow, numb, and living just to live, and the ground was dirty, the air was even more smelly, and when the wind blew, the sky was full of dust, after all, people couldn't live anymore, who still had time to care about hygiene?
But now, the faces of the people around are alive, the same as before the end of the world, a kind of hope for the future, and at the same time, although the streets are not spotless, but they are also clean, there are sanitation workers cleaning around, everything is in order, and there are many shops in the surrounding streets, as if they were before the end of the world - if you don't look at what everyone is wearing, if you don't look at what is sold in the shops, if you don't look at what the surrounding streets are walking.
Unlike before the end of the world, many of the clothes that everyone wears now are made of animal skins, because of the loss of many modern crafts, it seems a little primitive and backward, and many people carry swords and other weapons, which is a common thing.
In addition, the current shops are selling armor, weapons, as well as hidden weapons, pills, etc., on this street, Fan Ping'an did not see the shops of the six major families, but the shops opened by others, which made Fan Ping'an very satisfied.
A long time ago, Fan Ping'an said to Liu Ru that he would let the six major families make some of their skills public and train all the people to join the auxiliary profession, it seems that Liu Ru has indeed done it, only in this way can these auxiliary things flourish, and then in turn make the strength of the martial arts greatly increased.
As for the street, it is also a little different from the original, it was originally divided into sidewalks, roadways, but now it is sidewalks, bestials, yes, it is a bestiality, various warriors ride all kinds of monsters to come and go, and the traffic police are directing, except for replacing the vehicles with monsters, there is not much difference, and even there are many carriages waiting for guests on the side of the street.
Although it is not as prosperous as before the end of the world, and everyone is in a hurry, very busy, obviously life is not so easy, but everything is thriving, orderly, full of the most important vitality, to say that the fly in the ointment is that there are still too few people.
There is no way, there are nearly 10 million people in Stone Town before the end of the world, and less than one million after the end of the world, scattered in Stone City, and it is normal for there to be few people.
"Different from the end of the world, there is no shortage of food in this end of the world now, a small piece of meat of a second-order monster can make an ordinary person not hungry for a day, as long as the monster is killed, food is not a problem, and now it should be re-sown, the six major families have the seeds of the martial world, the yield is extremely high, and there are even special foods that can enhance the physique."
Fan Ping'an nodded as he walked and watched, very satisfied: "So, as long as the upper level does a good job, the lower level can live and work in peace and contentment, and don't worry about not being able to feed everyone because of insufficient resources, in that case, no matter how wise the people above are, for the sake of resources, it must be extremely bloody and cruel - if I don't eat me, I will starve to death, no matter how nice you say above, it's about Lao Tzu's." ”
What made Fan Ping'an even happier was that he saw two girls in short skirts walking forward arm in arm on the street, which made him very happy, don't get me wrong, he is not that kind of person - two girls who are good-looking and are not engaged in special professions can go out shopping in short skirts, which is enough to show a very important thing - good security.
If the security is not good, let alone dressed like this, even if you don't dare to go out, just someone in the corner will drag you in, before Fan Ping'an came to Stone Town, those beauties didn't dare to go out, because the people of the Ximen family really dared to snatch the beauties directly on the street and sell them in their hotel, which is why Fan Ping'an must destroy the Ximen family at that time.
Now these two are not martial artists, but just ordinary girls who dare to come out like before the end of the world, which means that there is no danger, so they dare to show their beauty like this, so it seems that the six major families are bullying people, and even other high-level martial artists should be gone, at least not in Stone City.
When Fan Ping'an and Liu Ru discussed, he deliberately mentioned this matter, in the martial arts world, the status of martial artists is extremely high, generally speaking, even if the children of those families kill civilians, they are just losing some gold coins, for this, Fan Ping'an can't bear it, so he decided from the beginning that martial artists must also abide by the rules.
Fan Ping'an can allow martial artists to have many privileges, such as being able to marry a lot of wives, enjoying all kinds of good treatment, etc., but he will never allow martial artists to oppress civilians at will, because he Fan Ping'an came out of the bottom, and he doesn't want the earth to really become another martial world!
Fan Ping'an was now looking at the two girls, and there was a 'lewd' smile on his face, which made the two girls glare at him viciously, Fan Ping'an shrugged his shoulders indifferently, and even followed them with a bad taste, and the destination of these two girls was a rather luxurious restaurant, he thought about it and followed in.
The restaurant is popularized after the advent of the end of the world, quite ancient, and quite popular with martial artists, it is a meal at the moment, very lively, although someone has no penny in his pocket (Stone Town now issues a new currency), but this does not prevent him from sitting in the corner and ordering a pot of good tea and a bunch of good dishes made of various monster meat, in the battlefield copy he has been eating his own barbecue, and he is tired of eating.
In terms of culinary skills, the Chinese people have never been inferior to other countries, and now Stone Town is prosperous, and has also developed many special side dishes, such as flaming duck wings, the taste is really good, even the bones can be easily swallowed, and this tea is also quite good, refreshing, obviously not ordinary tea.
When I arrived at this kind of restaurant, I didn't want to practice, it was purely to satisfy my appetite, Fan Ping'an was very satisfied, I finished eating a table, and asked the boss to serve another table, the warrior has a big appetite, so it is not surprising, the boss immediately arranged for someone to serve the food, coincidentally, it was actually the two girls before, they changed into the dress of waiters, and were serving.
Although it can be regarded as living and working in peace and contentment, since it is the end of the world, it is impossible to be as peaceful as before the end of the world, if these two girls were before the end of the world, they must still be in school, but now they have to come out to work to support themselves, in fact, for this point, Fan Ping'an's attitude is very clear - Stone Town will not support you in vain, if you want to live, you have to contribute.
At present, everything is not good to this extent, now is the end of the world, manpower must be developed to the limit, manpower can not be wasted, only in this way can it be obtained - living and working in peace does not mean leisure, in order to survive, everyone has to work hard.
The two girl waiters quickly recognized Fan Ping'an, and thought that he had been coming with him, and they were quite annoyed, but it was not easy to find a job now, so the two girls didn't dare to say anything, and served the food honestly, but the smiling face was not good, Fan Ping'an naturally didn't care much, just thought it was fun.
has already eaten one round, and in the second round, Fan Ping'an is no longer so stormy, but drinks tea and tastes it slowly - he never drinks, only tea, this is not pretending to be anything, but he has always been calm and hates the feeling of losing control after drinking, so a person like him is destined to be a hero, and in the last days, there is no need for a hero.
In addition to eating, Fan Ping'an also began to listen to all kinds of words in the restaurant, it was noon at the moment, and there were many people who came to eat, and Fan Ping'an had a strong ear, basically listened to the surrounding conversations, but had a deeper understanding of Stone Town.
The people at the next table are discussing whether to join the army of Stone City, they will be trained for free, at least they will get the martial arts of the Xuan rank, the qualifications are good, and the prefecture level is possible, but the price is to obey the command of the army within five years, in addition, everyone in the city will know basic martial arts, this is free, but if you want to be better, you have to pay.
In addition to the army, there are other mercenary groups to choose from, most mercenary groups will only recruit warriors who have the strength and can directly participate in the battle, but some large mercenary groups have begun to pay attention to cultivating vitality, so they will recruit new people for training.
And among these large mercenary groups, some of them belong to the six major families, which is unavoidable, after all, the six major families are so powerful, but there are also large mercenary groups created by others, among them, Fan Ping'an also heard about the Raptor's righteous mercenary group, and even heard some gossip about the raptor's wife Jiang Mingyue and a certain city lord, and some people sourly said that the raptor started by his wife.
"That poisonous woman, who dares to touch it."
Fan Ping'an rolled his eyes, at this time, he heard that there were two mercenary groups outside the enemy, secretly doing something outside the city, and even some dark sides of Stone City, Fan Ping'an didn't have much thought about this, a city can't be without darkness, and it can't even be banned before the end of the world, let alone after the end of the world - those warriors are not fuel-efficient lamps, and it is not casual to talk about the ban with martial arts.
However, Fan Ping'an has a bottom line, the existence of darkness is not important, but darkness must not exist in the light, for example, the people of the Ximen family destroyed a mercenary group for a woman, everyone knows this kind of thing, but there is no choice at all, nothing can be done, can only let the Ximen family go free, this is the darkness exists in the light, this is unbearable.
Darkness is darkness, you can only stay in the dark, once the darkness appears in the light, it will be eliminated immediately, to be able to do this, Fan Ping'an thinks it is enough, in fact, even before the end of the world, it may not be able to do this.
"Yes, my Stone Town is very good."
Fan Ping'an was very satisfied, and sneered in his consciousness: "What's the matter with you, it's not built by Liu Ru and them, you are just shaking your hands as always!" ”
"City Lord Fan Ping'an, it's obviously there, this is my city, do you need to say anything?"
Fan Ping'an smiled disdainfully, because of the prosperity of Stone Town, the dragon qi in his body was naturally stronger, he was able to improve to this strength so quickly, and the help of the dragon qi was also great, but obviously Liu Ru was more conservative and had not yet conquered the city in a big way, so the dragon qi was growing steadily, not increasing like an explosion.
"I think it's because I haven't known whether I've lived or died, so Liu Rucai is steady, and now that I'm back, I can take a bigger step."
Just as Fan Ping'an was thinking this, the conversation of a table of people in the corner attracted Fan Ping'an's attention, and he only heard a tall thin man say with a worried face: "The people from Yanjing have been here for several days, and that monster has been staying outside the city, and I don't know what they are here to do, but I am afraid that the person who comes is not good." ”
"Someone from Yanjing is here?"
Fan Ping'an was taken aback, it stands to reason that the contact between the various cities did not start so soon, you know, there are still many dangers on this road, I remember that Xu Long said that it was after the three tribulations that there were more contacts in the cities of the survivors, and it was also since then that in addition to simply surviving against monsters, human beings have also fought for dominance in the world, because the strength is enough.
Because of this, although Xu Long had been staying on Egret Island in his previous life, he also knew a lot of news from other places, such as the copy of Stone Town, and then Fan Ping'an would come to Stone City a few months ago and become the lord of Stone City.
"It should be related to the Martial God Alliance again, right?"
Fan Ping'an's eyes narrowed slightly, according to the information provided by Xu Long, after the end of the world, there are a total of five major cities in Huaguo, namely Stone City, Yanjing, Mountain City, Yangcheng, and Northwest City, these five cities are five giants, and their strength far exceeds that of other survivor cities, and the monster siege is not worth mentioning in their eyes, and Ludao is just a small city, it is not easy to survive, and it has been sheltered under Stone City.
It can be said that in the previous life, Huaguo was the five major cities competing for the dragon to see who could dominate the world, and according to the information that Fan Ping'an now has, I am afraid that behind the five major cities are the Martial God Alliance, otherwise it is impossible to have such a strong strength.
There are a total of six empires and one ancestral dragon city in the Central Plains of the martial realm, and on the Huaguo side, Stone City is obviously the power of the ancestral dragon empire, as for which empire the other four big cities belong to, Fan Ping'an is not clear, but, in this life, because of Fan Ping'an's appearance, I am afraid that their strength will be stronger than in the previous life, because the Martial God Alliance will definitely cheat on them in order to deal with him.
The one who was talking to the tall and thin man was a bearded general, and he snorted coldly: "What if the person who comes is not good? We have the city lord here, are you afraid that they will not succeed? I see, most of them are here to be in the alliance, hmph, if they are like us as earthlings, then we can also form an alliance, otherwise if they are lackeys in the martial arts world and want to make us earthlings slaves, we will not be afraid of them. ”
Fan Ping'an nodded when he heard this, it seems that Liu Ru has publicized the Martial God Alliance's cause of the end of the world, and defeating the Martial God Alliance and ending the end of the world has become the slogan and belief of the people of Stone City, and Liu Ruoran did not disappoint him.
"The city lord is naturally invincible in the world."
The thin and tall man was still very worried, and he said: "However, the city lord has not appeared for three months, and now many people are saying that the city lord and the beast king are trapped in the secret realm and cannot get out, and even have died, if the city lord is not there, how can we deal with the people of Yanjing, I heard that the monster they put outside the city is a beast king." ”
"Beastmaster?"
The bearded military general was taken aback, but immediately said with confidence: "With the city lord here, what about the beastmaster?" Don't believe those nonsense rumors, the city lord must be fine, he must be in retreat, and when he gets out, he will lead us to sweep around and rescue everyone. ”
"I hope so, without the city lord, who can lead us against the Martial God Alliance?"
The tall and thin man sighed and said expectantly, but they didn't know that their city lord was listening to them, and frowned, this matter was not quite right.
(End of chapter)