Chapter 192: The Coming Era
Alvin looked at the four big words "mission failure" on the character panel, how to look at it and feel awkward. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoSince entering this game, Alvin doesn't seem to have encountered a mission failure, let alone a legendary large-scale mission.
But there are some things that are really helpless.
"Uncle Tom, are you here to buy noodles too?" In the market of Zephyr County, a young man's voice sounded, and Alvin glanced slightly to see that it was an NPC in coarse cloth clothes who spoke.
"Isn't this little Jack? Buying rations for the family? A grown man's voice replied.
"Yes, for a family of five, I always feel unsteady when I have no food at home." The cloth-clothed boy sighed.
"Alas!" Uncle Tom sighed, "Indeed, food is getting more and more expensive now, and if you don't buy it, I'm afraid it will go up." ”
"Ugh." The young man also sighed, "I thought that after the cultists of the evil gods were eliminated, life would be a little better, but now that I have eaten the last meal and the next meal, I still can't see the way to live!" Uncle Tom, did you say that our Winter Empire has really reached this point? There are four of us working outside the home, so why can't we support our family? ”
"Little Jack, there are some things I have told you, you don't want to go out." Uncle Tom seemed to have been suppressed for a long time, and when he heard this question, he finally couldn't help but want to talk, "We are living so hard now, all because of one person." ”
"Who?"
Uncle Tom looked around, then lowered his voice and whispered five words in the boy's ear.
"What? Mi ......" the teenager was shocked, "Is this true?" ”
"How could I have lied to you about such a thing?" Uncle Tom said, "I have long heard the people of the city guard say when they were drunk that the four cities, including our Xifeng County, have now been officially taken over by that person, and all the items, including food, have increased in price just to raise more military spending." ”
"How so? It is difficult for the common people to live, who would want to go to war with him? "Jack is young, but he understands a lot of truth.
"There's an Inhuman!" Uncle Tom sighed for a while, although he was not a warrior or a mage, but Tom still felt a sense of sadness when he saw that the heroes who had once been surrounded by flowers and cheers, and admired by all people, were now abandoned and dusty like cheats. Is this world really different? Inhumans, whether it is an enviable magical talent or a terrifying trait that is not afraid of death, are not possessed by ordinary warriors. The fate of the latter being eliminated may be predestined! Like the advent of a new era, there is always something old that gets obsolete.
The two NPCs continued to move forward along the long line, moving forward little by little, and finally distanced themselves from Alvin, who was still buying some necessary supplies on the player's trading panel, and at the same time, hanging up some equipment that they and others could not use. These equipment are all superb golden weapons, and if you shoot in time, you can still sell them for a lot of money.
"Yo, isn't this Captain Alvin?" A shrill voice rang out behind him, and the man who was following Alvin turned around to find that it was a player he didn't recognize, but it seemed that the player knew Alvin.
"How do you buy something in such a small market?" The man made a fuss, as if he was afraid that others would not know what was going on here, "Look at you, such a great person, what you want is not just a matter of words?" actually came to brush the trading board in person, how faceless it is! ”
"You!" The people around Alvin wanted to teach this guy a lesson, but they were stopped by Alvin. A small person on the other side, since he dares to find everyone's stubble, most of them have already put life and death out of the way, at this time, even if he kills him, he will not save any face, but will make himself and others look embarrassed. If these people want to be arrogant, let them be arrogant, anyway, the villain will not be able to jump for long.
Alvin quickly finished shopping, distributed the supplies to the backpacks of the two people next to him, and then led the people out, but at this time, a commotion came, and Alvin looked out and found that it was the boy who had just spoken.
"It's too much, you can't eat this flour at all, if it's just bran, it's just that, even the moldy wheat is ground in it, people will definitely get sick if they eat it!" The young man said that for poor families, illness is a very fatal thing, if they can't afford to hire a priest or a druid, then they can only spend money to buy the alchemy guild's potion, but if they can afford the potion, why bother eating moldy flour?
"Less nonsense, love to buy or not! Don't delay those behind! ”
Of course, the boy will not stop there, this is the hope of their family's life, of course, they will continue to fight, Uncle Tom wants to admonish, but the boy is completely unable to listen at this time.
"......" Alvin shook his head, if it goes on like this, it is estimated that something will happen. A good Prince Mikael, cronyism, in this kind of crisis, he is engaged in "those who follow me prosper and those who disobey me die". Tighten the bellies of the people and go to war? If it's just like this, it's understandable, but it's a pity that the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, if the upper beam is good, it may be able to become grain mixed with bran in the hands of the people, but what if the grain transported above is mixed with chaff?
"Boy, I think you're getting impatient!" A guard raised his weapon and was about to stab the young man, a few words of youthful blood, the sin would not be to death, but if he was not killed, how could he kill the chickens and monkeys, and how could other people obediently pay for moldy food?
"Jack!" Uncle Tom next to him tried to save him, but he thought that he also had a family to support, so he stopped taking steps.
"Alas......" Tom closed his eyes in pain, even if Jack died, their family still had two children, and life could go on, although it was a bit cruel to their family, but Tom could only comfort himself like this at this time.
While! The tip of the steel spear was blocked by a layer of golden light, and the guards looked at the man who shot it in horror, and for a moment, they didn't know what to do.
"Young people are not sensible, so why bother with him?" Alvin withdrew his shield and opened his mouth to admonish, the guard carefully withdrew his weapon, and nodded again and again, the other party was only saving people, and did not even mention that they were selling moldy and inferior flour, he really did not know what to refuse.
Although the guard didn't speak, the player from before couldn't hold his breath, "Alvin, is your hand too long?" Don't forget that you've been removed from the coalition forces, and what happened here has nothing to do with you! ”
"So what?" Alvin looked up at the other man, "What can you do to me?" ”
"What can you do to me?" There was no pride or anger in Alvin's tone, as if he was just stating a fact lightly. But it was such a sentence that made the other party fall into a speech.
Indeed, how? Send a great army to surround them? Not to mention that he is just a pawn and does not have the right to mobilize a large army, even if he has, can he defeat the other party with the 20,000 people in his guild alone? If they had a way to deal with Alvin, why did they use that provocative way to discredit each other before?
"Let's go." Alvin said to the two beside him. But after a few steps, Alvin was stopped by another man - it was the boy named Jack from before.
"You're Alvin?"
"yes, do you have anything to say?" Alvin glanced at the boy and said, the game is done too carefully, it's not good, every NPC has a mind, even if it's something that he doesn't pay attention to, maybe it will be remembered by which NPC.
"Can you tell me......" the boy searched his mind desperately for words, "can you tell me when we'll be able to live like we used to?" ”
"Once upon a time......," Alvin mused, "the old days will not come back, but at least we have a future, and the days to come may be better or worse, and although everything is still unknown, at least we still have hope." ”
"Hope?" The boy stood still, pondering the meaning of the word, perhaps in many years, he would understand what Alvin had said, or perhaps he would never understand, but that was another story. (To be continued.) )