At four o'clock in the morning, the sky was dark, and the moon and stars were hidden in the clouds. Faintly shone on the mud and snow streets, and a middle-aged man with a wide body and a fat body was panting and walking in a stealthy step.

A few minutes later, he walked into a clearing in the center of town and came to the walls of a stone tower. Looking up, this stone tower is about thirty or forty meters high, with a diameter of about 20 meters, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, made of all gray stone, and looks cold and mysterious under the night. This is the iconic building of Grey Tower Town, the Grey Tower of Babel.

The perimeter of the Grey Tower was surrounded by a stone wall, and at this moment, the blackened iron fence gate was closed, and Uncle Nuo swept a small clean place on the stairs beside the door, sat down, and then looked ahead in a daze, and fell into a stupor.

Time passed quietly, and a touch of fish white gradually appeared on the horizon, and then the sun rose in the east, and the sun woke up the earth. The town ahead is gradually becoming lively, with chefs selling toast, vendors selling pancakes, and aunts selling milk and jam......

In the southern cemetery, the small amount of land north of the sewage river can barely grow some crops, providing the residents with a little wilted vegetables and fruit. Most of the grain here is flown in from the western continent. The World Council and the Templars have worked together to drive the Worms to this barren land, using them to control the number of mutated creatures in the Heavy Radiation Zone, and using them to collect the energy crystals of the mutated creatures, and refine the precious "Radium-2315" for them to craft high-end potions. The main ingredient of the famous fire of life is radium-2315.

North of the Sewage River, controlled by aristocratic exiles and insects close to the forces of Silver City, they are minions of the World Conference and the Temple. The resources brought from the western continent are basically managed and distributed by them. Although they are brutal and selfish, they also bring a certain order to this chaotic place, giving honest and hard-working people a chance to live. However, it is just a life without dignity, just like the serfs in ancient times, who have nothing to do with happiness and have nothing to do with happiness.

To the south of the sewage river, there is a moderately radiated area. In the ruins of that city, the concentration of radiation in people's bodies will gradually increase, and only the insects will be able to survive there for a long time. It was a chaotic land of various colonies, including raider colonies, hunter-gatherer tribes, and large insect colonies controlled by one party.

There, the fist is the law of everything, blood and violence are staged at every moment, and the weak can only become the property of the strong. However, it is also relatively free, and many insects prefer to throw themselves into dangerous environments in order to breathe free air, and there are many good leaders. They usually form their own strongholds, establish their own rules, the strong protect the weak, and the weak serve the strong.

Further south of the medium-radiation zone is the high-radiation zone, where black moss is everywhere, and fungi are overgrown, and the spores with radiation fill the air. In that kind of place, even the powerful insects will not be able to stay for long. However, there are some locations in the high-radiation zone that have low radiation levels and can be used as human gathering places, such as the Blackwater Lake stronghold, which is one of them.

In the middle of my thoughts, the sun gradually rose into the sky. At ten o'clock in the morning, the exiled nobles who lived in the Gray Tower woke up one after another, washed up, had breakfast, and began their day's work.

At ten fifty o'clock, Uncle Nuo finally waited for the guard's notice: "Baron Joel has gone out on business, let's come back again." ”

"I ...... I'm here to ......," Uncle Nuo stammered, pinching the corners of his clothes.

"Don't you understand! I said Baron Joel is not here, let you come back! The guard said impatiently.

"I'm ......" "Go away!"

Amid the shouts and curses of the guards, Uncle Noe left the Grey Tower dejectedly, and sat at the foot of a stone house not far away, staring intently at the gate to find Brown Joel.

However, hours passed, and in the evening, when the sun went down, there was still no sign of each other. Uncle Nuo did not dare to leave, but asked the owner of the house for some water, and then bought a piece of dry bread, and squatted in the corner to eat it while staring at the gate of the gray tower.

A day and a night passed......

By ten o'clock the next morning, he still hadn't seen the nobleman, so he had to go up again to consult the guards. Unexpectedly, the guard opened the door and told him that Baron Joel had returned, and asked him to meet him in the office on the third floor.

Suddenly, an inexplicable sense of crisis arose. He hadn't closed his eyes for a day and a night, and he could be sure that Mr. Brown hadn't walked past the door. This means that the other party has never left the Gray Tower, and yesterday he just deliberately made excuses and did not want to see him. And the other party's purpose in doing this is obvious, that is, to delay the repayment date.

Unsurprisingly, when he met Brown Joel, he was accused of breaking the agreement.

"Sir, I came early yesterday morning, but they said you were out." Uncle Nuo explained with his head down.

"I didn't go out yesterday, I've been here all along." Then, Brown frowned, and his voice scolded harshly, "You don't have the money to pay back, I can understand it, but lying to a nobleman is a felony!" ”

"But...... But the guards guarding the gate said that you ...... Say you're out......" Uncle Nuo said resignedly.

"Which guard, you call him over, and we'll confront him face to face." Brown said in a deep voice with a dark face.

"I ......" For a while, Uncle Nuo didn't know how to explain. Not to mention whether he could find the guard, he couldn't even remember the appearance of the other party clearly, and even if he found it, others just said "I didn't say it", and they passed it directly.

Seeing Uncle Nuo's nervous and cramped face, Brown suddenly smiled and said gently: "Actually, it's nothing, letting Miss Su Shan come here to work and study here is helpful to her life......" He opened his hands and said, "You see, how comfortable the environment here is, how decent people come and go, she can still eat fresh vegetables, fruits, and all kinds of delicacies every day, you should be happy for her, she is really a lucky child......"

Brown said seductively, walked up to Uncle Noe, put his arm on his shoulder, led him to the wine cabinet, and opened a bottle of Richie Brown. VSOP, half a glass in a crystal cup, handed it to him.

"Come, try the wine that just came from the west yesterday." Brown said with a smile, like a wolf looking at its prey.

"But......" Uncle Nuo took a careful sip of wine, and was about to speak, but was interrupted by the other party.

"Mr. Arnold, I assure you in the honor of nobility that I will treat Miss Su Shan well, please rest assured." Brown said with a serious attitude.

"Sir, I have ...... You've got enough money...... I want to ......" Uncle Nuo gritted his teeth and took a big sip of wine, the strong liquor suddenly flowed into his throat, he suddenly perked up, plucked up the courage to refuse loudly, "I hope Su Shan can stay by my side, thank you for your kindness!" ”

"Are you sure?" Brown asked, staring.

"Sir, I do ......" Uncle Nuo had just opened his mouth when his eyes went dark. I only heard a muffled sound of "pop", and his fat body flew out sideways, falling heavily on the ground, the money bag in his hand also fell out, and all kinds of coins were scattered on the ground with a clang.

"According to the contract, the liquidated damages are 1,000 gold coins, and if you can't make up this amount within tomorrow, bring your daughter over, or ......" Brown said with a fierce look on his face, "Die!" With that, Brown pulled Uncle Noe up by the collar, patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "Okay, you can get out." ”

A moment later, Uncle No, who was glazed over and depressed, walked out of the Gray Tower. After some time, he returned to the bar like a walking corpse. Along the way, he didn't know how he walked back. He didn't dare to think about what kind of tragic fate Su Shan would have when he greeted him.

Pushing the door in, the daughter was playing with Ethan, just like last time, begging him to tell him adventure stories. Seeing her father come back, Su Shan pushed Ethan with a smile, turned around to meet him, took off his backpack and coat for his father, and hung them on a hanger in the bar.

"What's wrong?" As if to see Uncle No's melancholy, Ethan asked with a concerned gaze.

"I didn't ...... It's nothing ......," Uncle Nuo waved his hand and sat down at the round table. It's not that he doesn't want to say it, but it's useless to say it, except for adding to the other party's troubles, it doesn't make any sense. What's more, they are just friends who meet in Pingshui. Even if the other party was willing, he would not be able to ask Ethan to fight against an exiled nobleman, or even against the entire Grey Tower, and the Silver City world behind the Grey Tower. The only thing he can do now is to accept his fate and pin everything on the benevolence of the noble lord. Perhaps, he just hasn't touched a woman for too long, that's why he's so impatient. I heard that the cultivation of the noble lords is very good, humble and polite, if Su Shan can marry him, or become his lover, it is not necessarily a bad thing.

Perhaps, she can also learn a lot of useful knowledge, and in the future, she will become a petty clerk or even a petty official in Graytower Town, with a decent job, a stable income, and a stable place to live. Even lovers and servants are nothing bad, at least better than most of the girls here.

Living here, if one day she is unlucky and is snatched south by the homeless, she will not survive for a few days. Here, good looks are both an advantage and a source of pain. Those insects in the south have a much higher desire for women than ordinary humans, and if Su Shan falls into their hands, they will soon be eaten and wiped clean, and there will be no bones left.

If she lived in the Gray Tower, she at least didn't have to worry about such a fate.

If you're lucky......

In this way, Uncle Nuo gradually convinced himself to accept this fate.