Chapter 33: Bloody Mercy

After the mayor-countess had spoken, the crowd reveled again.

It was getting late, and at this time, the school had begun to urge the students to wash up and rest, and Alver was a little worried about his companions, so he discussed it with Carl and decided to at least find Vincent first, after all, "Vincent seems to have happened before entering the town".

"Don't be worried," said Carl, "at least I'm sure he's going to find Sister Milan, as long as the two of them are together." ”

Splitting the layers of the crowd, Al Ver and Carl found everyone near the spot where the members of Milan's team were thrown up.

"It seems that it was only the two of us who went missing. Carl hid the Lea behind him and whispered to Elfer, who tried not to pay attention to the silhouette of the Lea.

"Where have you been!" Teacher Luna may still be angry at that Emerson and spoke to the two children in a very rough tone, but she noticed the narrow wound on Elver's cheek, and casually used the primary healing, but found that it didn't work, "What the hell? Not an ordinary wound? What did you do?"

"Elfer's third bad luck today," Vincent replied directly for Elver, who walked over to take Karl's lyar, looking much better, "Where did you get it?"

"It's almost a stone-to-stone win. Carl patted Vincent's arm and gave Vincent a distinctly encouraging smile.

As Alver expected, Vincent didn't understand why Carl showed that expression, his blue eyes were full of doubt, Lady Milan was nearby, Elph had no way to explain it now, so he could only spread his hands and lip out and talk later.

"We have a mission, and your own lives are at stake, and you two are running to touch the stones?" Luna took a deep breath, crossed her waist with her left hand, waved her right hand into the air and covered her forehead, muttering "Forget it".

"I don't think you can find the village chief in this kind of place, it's obvious," Carl said with a little unceremonious meaning: "If you are really in a hurry, you should leave the village when you see this kind ......of brainwashing carnival" Alfer hurriedly went to cover Carl's mouth, Vincent rubbed Carl's head a few times, and apologized to Teacher Luna with a smile, "Carl is too worried about Elfer, teacher, don't be angry!" and lowered his voice to reprimand Carl: " Why are you reckless when you talk about this, just pound the sky and the ground, and talk nonsense more than I don't know how high or low!"

Teacher Luna listened so earnestly that she didn't bother to apologize to Vincent, laughed angrily, turned her face and asked Milan, "This red-haired little ghost is going to enter the school when he turns around, right?" Ms. Milan can only persuade Teacher Luna not to take it too seriously, and when she looks at Carl, she meets Vincent's gaze, and her face blushes, but she still doesn't avoid it after all.

Alver hurriedly changed the subject, lest Karl make any more fanning the flames, "Lady Milan, there's always something wrong with this town. ”

"No, it's not a common form of slavery in this place. Lady Milan picked up an apple and tossed it around, "Except for the fact that slaves can turn over and become townspeople, I know something new when talking to the townspeople, the count always buys slaves from outside and distributes them to the townspeople, and then draws the taxes, and the deed of sale is all held by the earl, but the slaves eat and drink but the townspeople bear the responsibility, except for the more special institutions, he does not advocate the townspeople to work on their own, nor does he advocate hiring outsiders to work, both of which require the townspeople to fill out their own forms and apply, and the taxes will be charged twice as much as the use of slaves." ”

"What are the townsfolk going to do? How many slaves are there for this?" Alver was a little confused.

"The townspeople don't do anything, they just eat, drink and have fun almost every day, and it's not the freshest," Vinson adds: " The Countess even suggested that the relatives and friends of the slaves or the relatives and friends of the townspeople should come to this town as slaves, and sixty percent of the amount on the deed of sale would be given to the recommender, and the slaves pulled by the recommender could also pull people, so that the referrer and the slaves pulled by the recommender would get some share, and even go up to the next level, and the slaves could save the money by themselves, and save five times as much as they could buy their own deed of sale directly from the earl, such as tonight, none of the three of them worked by themselves and then got out by paying taxes from the townspeople. In order to quickly get rid of the status of slaves, they are frantically pulling more people into the town of Meima to be slaves. ”

"Count and Countess......," Elver furrowed his eyebrows, "isn't that making money for nothing? I thought he was doing charity by allowing slaves to become full-fledged townspeople!

"There are a lot of hungry and cold people who died here after signing the deed of sale, carrying the name of horses, and their bodies were not worthy of burial, and they were chopped up and fed to dogs. In this ghost place, in order to collect money, the earl must also have a main business and a minimum tax payment amount, after all, some people can't pull people to be slaves, the earl will never raise this group of people, if you want to eat, you can't do nothing, and the death of a slave only needs to pay the tax in addition to the amount of the penalty of the deed of sale, and the people here are almost all using the identity of getting rid of slaves to squeeze labor. Luna sighed, "Emerson actually acts as a guard for people in this kind of place. ”

"This is purgatory on earth in the cloak of heaven. Milan concluded.