"I looked like you from a distance just now, so I came over to take a look, but I didn't expect it to be you."

The blonde man walked over from the direction of the downtown area on the ground, with a slight smile on his face, "What a coincidence, we met again." ”

Alec Hill.

The red-haired second trader who had just met. However, it stands to reason that just by virtue of the side of the black market last night, he should not be able to put on such a long-known appearance now.

Qiu Xuan still showed a professional smirk, "Hello." ”

"I didn't expect to see you again so soon." Alecshan smiled, looking in a good mood, "Did you come out alone?" You must have only been in Drow City for a short time, so you can tell me if you have any difficulties. You're a red-haired friend, that's my friend, help each other. ”

Qiu Xuan didn't have anything to say to him, except for the point he cared about the most, which was why this person entered the black market without handing in blood yesterday, and what his misty words meant at the end.

And I saw a black horse, and he was on it, with the scales in his hand, and I heard a voice say......

Wait a minute.

She suddenly looked up at Alex Mountain. The other party still looked kind and friendly, and looked quite serious: "What's wrong?" If you really encounter any trouble, you can tell me and see if I have the ability to help, I will help you. ”

"Do you know anything about the knights of the City Law Enforcement Team?"

Qiu Xuan interrupted him and asked. "Especially those guys from the Grade A Beam Enforcement Team, among them is a Knight Captain named Jussi, how much do you know about him?"

Alex seemed stunned for a moment, "Lord Jussi?" What are you doing with this suddenly asking...... Ah, wait, I think I heard some of the townspeople say that they saw Jussi-sama's knights coming, did you have something happening? ”

"No, just curious."

Alecan twisted his fingertips, and for a moment his eyes seemed to have changed, but when Qiu Xuan wanted to take a closer look, the man looked friendly and talkative.

"And I saw a black horse, with the scales in his hand, and I heard a voice saying, "A penny for a measure of wheat, and a penny for three measures of barley, and oil and wine shall not be wasted."

He looked at Qiu Xuan's slightly constricted pupils and whispered such words, and smiled as if he didn't care. "You probably want to ask this, because you just saw Jussi-sama's Dark Horse Knights? Not...... Actually, it's not a big deal, it's just a kind of quote that is similar to a famous saying in the mouths of the citizens of Drow. ”

"The dark horse and the knight in the proverb does not simply refer to Lord Jussi, but the 'City Law Enforcement Team' as a whole. Holding the scales in his hand means that the law enforcement team has always maintained fairness and maintained the balanced development of Drow City. As for the latter sentence......" Alecshan said here, and suddenly sighed deeply. "That's the price standard of normal life before the famine, after all, when this proverb was made, no one would have thought that there would be such a disaster as famine, would it?"

"Now the world has changed," the blond man sighed, and there was a hint of compassion in the corners of his eyes, and he didn't know whether it was against this miserable world or against someone. "But it's normal, after all, the world changes every day, isn't it? We're just hoping that this disaster will end soon......"

Did he really hope that the famine would pass sooner?

Qiu Xuan looked at the other party's face that seemed to be touched, thought for a while, and replied: "But in fact, for some people, this disaster has brought unexpected joy to themselves, isn't it?" I know a fair share of the black marketeers, or the great lords of the earth, who are living better by famine than they were before the disaster. ”

"But this kind of life is squeezed out by these few people by squeezing out the last bit of blood of the majority." Alecshan said this calmly, as if he were not a black marketeer who had also made his fortune on disaster money. "Such 'getting rich' is pathological, you know? If this continues, it will only continue to be a vicious circle, and the essential problem will never be solved. ”

Originally, she just thought that she might be able to get a few words from the other party, but until now, Qiu Xuan began to find it interesting.

"And what do you think?" She asked.

"It's not a high opinion." Alecshan shook his head very humbly, "Actually, I'm just talking nicely now, it's okay for you to let me say a few words, but let me really implement some solutions to solve this disaster, or spare me." ”

"That's what a savior should do." "Many people say that this catastrophe is because the Creator wants to build a new world and divide humanity into three types of 'saved', but I don't think so. ”

Qiu Xuan laughed, "But this is the mainstream of the official opinion, what's the use of you not thinking so?" ”

"You're right." The blonde man sighed, "My idea is too shocking to be accepted by the public." ”

"What's your idea?"

"It's simple, we 'break' the scales. ”

Qiu Xuan was stunned for a moment.

"Apart from the claim that the creator God saved mankind, have you never wondered why the famine occurred?" Alecshan leaned closer, his eyes becoming a little persistent and serious. "Everyone knows that the continent is divided into three parts: Drow City, Otir, and the many beams that connect them."

I don't know if someone is finally willing to listen to his personal "shocking" thoughts or if he has been holding back for too long, Alecshan's gentlemanly and elegant posture has finally changed to a new look, and he didn't even care about any etiquette, so he took Qiu Xuan's arm and hurriedly walked to the side of the official road where no one passed.

Qiu Xuan hesitated for a moment and went with him, and then heard that in the next second, Alec Mountain swallowed his saliva in a very marketable motion and continued.

"Have you not always discovered that the land under our feet, and the extent of the entire continent, is an incomparably large 'scale'?"

"The beams are the balance fulcrum connecting the two ends of the scale, and the Drow and Auxer are the pallets hanging at both ends! We, the 'people', are the weights and the things that walk on the pallet! Once the number of 'weights' on Drow exceeds a certain amount, the 'scales' will tilt in this direction, so every month there will be dead or missing citizens in Drow City! That's the sacrifice made to balance the scales at both ends! ”

Alecshan was a native, and he didn't know that the people who "disappeared" in Drow every month were actually executioners who were forcibly sent to Osier, so he made this assumption.

But why is there such a clause in the "rules" for executioners? Is it really a "sacrifice" made by the world to balance the scales, as he said?

Now that there is no longer any need for Alec Mountain to pull her, Qiu Xuan himself grabbed Alecshan's sleeve with his backhand, and unconsciously twisted it tighter and tighter. But now that Alecshan's already somewhat frantic state made him unable to notice the pain in his arm, he looked at Qiu Xuan with excitement in his eyes, and continued.

"For so long, our continent has maintained such a balance. Logically speaking, since our ancestors have lived in such an environment for thousands of years without any accidents, why did a terrible famine come to us in this generation? Is it because the scales are no longer balanced? Not. ”

"There is still a special magnetic field in this land that maintains the balance between the two places, and although the people living on it have been dying and moving, the 'total amount' will not change."

The two of them huddled in the corner next to the main road and whispered, although the people outside could not hear what they were saying, but looking at the neurotic expressions on their faces at the moment, the rest of the crowd walking on the city avenue took a detour.

Qiu Xuan's brain was running wildly, and she began to get nervously excited when she was told by the other party. She unconsciously twisted the sleeve of Alex Mountain, and then said: "So you think that the real cause of the famine is not the tilt of the two ends, but the 'balance' that the 'balance' has maintained for a long time!" ”

"That's right!"

Alecshan patted her on the shoulder with a feverish expression, and his face was full of words, "You can understand my thoughts, what a once-in-a-lifetime confidant!" He said: "Our world has always been standing still, it has always remained the same!" This is what I really mean by the fact that the gods are about to be reborn from the old world and the new world! What we need is change, a 'new world' that is truly born! So we have to break the scales and break the original traditional ideas! What we need to do is to fundamentally solve the 'balance' of the scale, since the traditional method is no longer effective, and the total amount of 'weight' has been controlled, then simply break the balance and let the entire balance disappear! Only in this way can we truly usher in a new, truly new world! ”

"Good!"

Qiu Xuan took the lead in applauding, and Alecshan blushed and panted slightly in the crisp high-fives of this person. This made it even more strange for the indigenous people who occasionally passed by to look at them, and people hurried to pass through the area, fearing that the disease would also be contagious.

"I didn't expect you to understand me!" Alecshan looked at Qiu Xuan with a red face, "Since I discovered the mystery of the scale, I have never dared to tell anyone what I think, I am afraid that they will think that I am abnormal!" But today, I suddenly realized! It turns out that someone understands that it is such an exciting thing, and I will definitely stick to it! ”

"Come on! I knew you could! ”

Qiu Xuan was still there clapping and clapping until the two talked a few words with excitement on their faces, and she watched the blonde man leave with a futile pace of excitement as if he had drunk too much, and put down his palms that were a little red with an expressionless face.

Break the "scales".

Qiu Xuan rubbed her sore hand expressionlessly, stood in place for a while, and walked towards the area of Jima's mansion.

This Alex Mountain, what reason did he have to deliberately guide her?

……

"We're running out of time, tomorrow is party day, and now there are still rehearsals, costumes, and formations...... Who else hasn't arrived! I'll give you another ten minutes, and if you haven't come yet, get out of Jima's house! ”

In the side of the Gemma Mansion, next to the house that had been carved out for the members of the "circus", Miss Kaya, the manager, was speaking to a group of people.

She looked hysterical, wondering if it was the shock of the morning food stealing incident or the stress of the upcoming so-called "party day".

Qiu Xuan stood in the crowd of circus members and listened to her lecture, and when she heard this, she looked up for a moment, and found that the person who had not arrived when Kaya was losing her temper was another late-arriving professional redhead besides herself.

Let's hope she'll be back in ten minutes.

This job is not good at all, no one knows when the little disc in his pocket will light up, and now he can only hope that the redhead is not talking to other people about business at this time.

"Ignore the people who haven't arrived." Kaya breathed a sigh of relief, then pulled out a piece of parchment from her uniform pocket. "Now I'm going to read to you the list of lords who will arrive at the banquet tomorrow, you must remember, don't make your lordship unhappy tomorrow by the same situation as last time!"

Gathering day.

It's also something that the "puppet emperor" Jima, who is now idle and has nothing to do, made it up. It has been said before that Jimma was a nouveau riche who made his fortune after the famine, and because he was very fortunate to start as a food supply, he naturally became an important local lord in this era when everyone was worried about starving to death.

But it is precisely because of this that Jimma has always been in a state of mind where extreme self-confidence and inferiority are intertwined. This very different psychology also caused him to start some excessive ostentatious consumption behaviors, such as the extremely rich dishes on the table every day even if he can't finish them, for example, he has been shouting that he is the only new human in the new world to be saved by "God", such as the "party day" that will be held every month.

He invited the great lords from all over the world to come to his mansion and either wooed or ostentatiously showed them his unique "wealth" in the era of calamity—food.

And tomorrow will be the time for the regular gathering day of the month.

Normally, the circus members can show off as part of Jima's personal property, and they will also routinely go to banquets every month to perform for the big lords from all over the world.

n.