The blue and white dawn and the faint morning mist blended together, dyeing the mountains and rivers, waking up the sleeping fields and awakening the people who were sleeping.

Gu Xuan slowly opened his eyes, there was still a kind of sequelae of weakness all over his body, and the whole person was like lying in a warm quilt in winter, and he didn't want to move at all.

Suddenly, he remembered his identity as a teacher, and when he got up and got out of bed, he remembered everything from yesterday. He seemed to be using a fever to prevaricate his weak state, so he was sick and retired?

This feeling of emptiness with nothing to do is still a little uncomfortable for a while. Sighing, Gu Xuan put the Hunter Medal on his clothes. Then I learned about the population of the three-eyed lion.

When you get out of the house and onto the road, it's almost impossible to see people walking, and most of the farmers have gone to work in the fields.

At this time, the sound of horses' hooves came from behind Gu Xuan. Turning around, he saw the father of a student in a school, with a horse that seemed to be ready to sell a cart of wheat.

"Teacher Gu, why didn't you go to the school today?" Under the control of Uncle Farmer, the carriage stopped in front of Gu Xuan and asked with respect and curiosity.

"I'm sick, so take a break." Gu Xuan greeted and responded with a smile.

"Ah, Teacher Gu, you have to take care of your body." Uncle Farmer was surprised and worried about Gu Xuan from the bottom of his heart, as if he was sick himself.

"Don't worry, it's just a minor illness, and it will be fine in two days."

Hearing Gu Xuan's answer, Uncle Farmer breathed a sigh of relief. Most of the folk customs of slashing the red pupils are still kind. It's just that the imperial capital is too dark, especially those nobles are really a group of beasts of desire in human skin!

"That kid in my family recently learned an algorithm called multiplication, and he shows off in front of me all day long!" Uncle Farmer said honestly.

Gu Xuan was not averse to this kind of greeting exchange, which could make him feel different from the warm humanity hidden under the too darkness in the Crimson Pupil comics.

"By the way, are you going to a nearby town?" After a few words of greeting, Gu Xuan changed the topic purposefully.

"Yes."

"Can you give me a ride, I just want to go to town and buy something."

"Okay." Uncle Farmer agreed without hesitation.

So Gu Xuan took a carriage to the town west of Ruyao. Wheat is not really valuable in the local towns of Ruyao, but it can be sold for a good price in other places where there is a shortage of food. In the north, because of the war between the empire and the alien peoples in the north, there are too many dangerous factors. So Uncle Farmer's purpose is to the towns in the West, although there are also thieves, but the path is an official road, so there is no need to worry about whether there will be thieves to rob, just pay "some" tolls.

Although it is not clear whether the blacksmith of the dungeon world will be able to solve the problem of weapon durability. However, it is necessary to try it anyway, and the items obtained by killing the dangerous species of wild boar must also be sold in exchange for future funds.

Along the way, Gu Xuan and the farmer uncle talked about some family things, although he said some trivial things about farmers, but Gu Xuan was very happy and listened to them quite well.

After about an hour's journey, the destination "town" gradually came into view. The large yellow-colored rocks are built into a five-meter-high wall similar to the ancient time, and the town where the inhabitants live is surrounded and protected.

This can be called a town, which really makes Gu Xuan dare not compliment. It is full of poverty and backwardness, and it is far inferior to most villages in Ruyao. It is no wonder that the female Taishou who governs Ruyao is very famous. The territory of Ruyao that she governs, compared to most areas of the empire, can be described as pure land.

The carriage stopped when it reached the city gate, and lined up in turn. More than a dozen armor-clad guards were inspecting the passing goods and people, and collecting entrance fees.

"Khooth!" Two sharp spears lay in front of the carriage, and two soldiers of five large and three thick men stopped the carriage from proceeding, and these soldiers were covered with stubble and looked quite fierce.

"You need to pay 1 gold coin to enter the town as a pass!" The guards guarding the gates threatened viciously, this kind of thing was already a routine for them to do on a daily basis.

"How is it 1 gold coin? Didn't it always be 1 silver coin in the past? Uncle Farmer asked in disbelief.

"Where are there so many problems, thieves have been rampant recently, and they must be investigated." The soldier snorted coldly, the recent incident of the thieves made them take the opportunity to rob a sum of money, and they didn't need to think of any reasonable reasons at all, anyway, you will go in if you pay the money, and if you don't pay the money, you will get away.

You must know that Uncle Farmer's cart of wheat will sell for a maximum of 2 gold coins, but this is their harvest for half a year. If they just need 1 gold coin to enter the city, the remaining 1 gold coin will not be able to support their family until the next autumn harvest!

Money is something outside the body, and Gu Xuan doesn't value the money in the copy world at all. However, for the farmer uncle, it is the foundation of the family's survival. This kind of bad behavior of taking advantage of the opportunity to rob and the rotten system really made Gu Xuan sick to his stomach for a while.

"Take it, get out!" Gu Xuan popped out a silver glittering silver coin and mercilessly catapulted it into the face of the guard soldier and fell.

"You!" The soldier was enraged by Gu Xuan's provocative action, and just when he wanted to open his mouth to scold, Gu Xuan put the Hunter Medal on his clothes.

"Get out!" Gu Xuan didn't talk any more nonsense, and glared at the soldier with a sharp gaze. Through Gu Xuan's gaze, the soldier felt the fear called fear, and cold sweat kept flowing down. As if if he said one more word, he would become a dead man!

"Come quickly, my lord!" The other older soldier quickly changed his rhetoric, pulled his companion aside, and said respectfully.

Gu Xuan snorted coldly again and patted Uncle Farmer on the shoulder, and only then did he recover from his shock and hurriedly set up the carriage and entered the city.

After seeing Gu Xuan leave, the older soldier blamed his companion and said, "I've been working as a guard for so long, why don't I see it at all?" ”

This elderly soldier felt Gu Xuan's murderous aura, especially the medal on his body, which made the well-informed old soldier feel terrified from the bottom of his heart.

In this chaotic world, the strong can do whatever they want! Even many bands of thieves will swagger into the town, people need to "vent", there is no place to vent in the wilderness, these thieves are strong, and the guards are not able to deal with them.

So as long as the thieves don't do anything out of the ordinary to kill people in the town, no one will care about these powerful thieves.

Then the older soldiers continued to let the rest of the people pass, and a poor man behind Gu Xuan and them saw all this happening. He also pretended to only take out 1 silver coin, but the older soldier directly kicked him to the ground without mercy, and seized this silver coin by the way.

"Hmph, I can't help myself." Contrary to his previous respectful appearance, the older soldier showed far more "ferocity" towards the pauper in front of him than his companion had before.

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When he entered the town, the farmer went to sell the wheat, and looked at him with awe and fear as he left. This made Gu Xuan understand that the scene of the two chatting before could not appear again.

Uncle Farmer consciously recognized the gap between Gu Xuan and him, and his tone of voice would be deliberately inferior. Gu Xuan didn't forcibly change anything, this is what the weak people in a world where the strong are respected must learn to survive!

It just made Gu Xuan feel very unhappy.

He walked around town, observing the lives of the inhabitants and finding a blacksmith shop along the way.

The inhabitants of the area are divided into three groups, and about a tenth of them are rugged nomads, dressed in clothes made of animal skins. More than half of the rest of the poor people were dressed in shabby and tattered linen clothes, much worse than the inhabitants of Lan's village. The last very rare part of the crowd was the nobles dressed in gorgeous clothes, looking out through the carriage windows. Like a parade emperor, he looked at the poor people and laughed.

Compared to the nobles in gorgeous clothes, those dark alleys were full of withered corpses and a foul smell. Almost all of the poor people looked famine and malnourished.

Gu Xuan shook his head helplessly, and personally saw the life of the people of the empire. It is no wonder that the voice of the revolutionary army is so high, as Lan said, the pathology of the empire has reached the point where it must be changed. This also made him have an empathetic idea burst out from his heart, that is, not only to join the side of the Imperial Army to stop the revolutionary army, but to change everything from within the Empire!