Chapter 6: The Town of Ves
Li Jun pushed aside a dense branch and looked at it, and not far below, there was a small town-sized human habitat.
After a long journey of more than two months, Li Jun felt like a world away, and when he saw the same kind again, the joy in his heart was indescribable.
Along the way, Li Jun has already subdued sixty yellow scale bees, unless he encounters a swordsman like Birren, there should be no problem in self-preservation.
The size of the town is small, the houses are low and old, and white smoke rises from the chimneys, just like the style of the ancient Western Continent.
The grandest building is a three-storey church.
The bricks and tiles of the outer walls are made of thick reinforced concrete, and the bricks are sprayed with glittering gold paint, and a huge statue of the goddess of light is placed in the center of the church.
The doors of the church are not closed all day, even late at night. Because, day and night, there will be many devout believers who enter the church to pray.
Walking on the wet and hard brick road, Li Jun looked curiously at the shops around him, a group of people with high noses and big eyes, looking at Li Jun from time to time, as if they were a little curious about his arrival.
"Look, it's a black-haired, black-eyed man! It's not very common, at least I haven't seen a black-eyed man for at least five years. A drunk man chewed fried beans and shouted at Li Jun loudly.
"Black-eyed people?" the other drunken man shouted, then leaned back in his chair, burped, and muttered, "That's really a human-shaped gold coin, black-eyed people have always been the favorite pets of nobles, after all, rare things are expensive, they are much less than elves, in a big city, a thousand black-eyed people is already a lot." ”
After several mercenaries heard the drunkard's words, they suddenly had a different thought, and they couldn't help but laugh a few times strangely when they looked at Li Jun's back.
Through the continuous domestication of yellow bees and the contact with Billon and Jesse, Li Jun has learned seven or eight tenths of the language of the other world.
"Hey, friend, I see a notice posted outside your door to sell your house?"
A middle-aged man in his forties, with a red face and a bottle of rum in his arms, glanced at Li Jun in a daze, and burped: "That's right, friend, although my house is old, it is very solid and durable...... Five gold coins! No bargaining. ”
Li Jun nodded, without hesitation, took out five gold coins from his backpack and put them in the drunkard's hand.
The drunk man bit the five gold coins one by one, and then smiled at Li Jun and said, "Generous friend, from now on, this house is yours, good luck!"
The drunk handed over the deed to Li Jun, pulled his sleeve, ran to the town office not far away, and after completing the formalities, he waved goodbye to Li Jun and plunged into a casino.
Li Jun shook his head, another poor man who had gambled and had gone bankrupt.
The town here is called Vis Town, and it is a third-class town, hereditary by the family of Baron Sulla of the Koro Empire.
Both small towns and cities are divided into three classes, with the highest being the first class and the lowest being the third class.
Vis Town is not a wealthy town, and if it weren't for the fact that it is backed by the Warcraft Forest, which attracts mercenaries and adventurers all year round, it wouldn't even be a town.
The population of the small town of Vis is not large, only about a few tens of thousands, there is no place to farm, and they all rely on earning money from mercenaries and adventurers.
Among them, brothels, casinos and liquor shops are all high-income and high-value returns.
It can be said that this place is a mixed land of fish and eyes, and there are many poor and vicious people.
Li Jun spent half a day cleaning the house inside and out, and broke it up with clean water, otherwise, it really can't live here, it's like a pigsty, and it smells stinky.
The house is not big, plus the yard, it is only forty square meters, but for Li Jun, it is enough to live.
I bought a bunch of clothes from another world and a wooden rocking chair and mat.
Spread the mat on the wooden rocking chair, Li Jun can finally have a good rest.
Closing his eyes and recalling all the things in the past few months, Li Jun felt as if he was in a dream, and his heart was unsettled.
He now has a certain amount of savings, and the hundred or so gold coins that he dug out of Jesse's backpack, as well as the big toad's magic core, should not have much of a problem supporting his expenses for four or five years.
Judging from the currency price standards of another world, the current Li Jun can be regarded as a millionaire.
As night fell, Li Jun, who had worked hard all day, could finally lie down on the rocking chair mat, blown by the breeze, smelling the pure natural breath between heaven and earth, and his tense will instantly relaxed.
Since coming to this different world, this is the first day that Li Jun has integrated into the human town.
For this reason, Li Jun also bought a bottle of rum in a wine shop, slowly poured it into a goblet, and tasted it carefully.
The silvery rum is sweet and fragrant, with a sweet aroma of sugar cane juice, and when you smell it, you will feel like you are in a sea of flowers.
"Squeak and crunch" swayed the chairs back and forth, and more than 30 yellow scale bees were all over the courtyard, and the slightest movement would transmit the information to Li Jun's brain.
Gradually, it was already four o'clock in the morning, Li Jun dozed off and fell asleep in the rocking chair.
At five o'clock in the morning, several ghostly figures poured in from the empty alley, and the target was the house where Li Jun lived.
If there are drunks who have been staying in the taverns for many years, they will recognize the identities of these ghostly figures at a glance.
These figures are all mercenaries, with crude iron swords hanging from their waists, rusty, and their eyes are blazing, with a trace of ruthlessness.
The fence in the yard is not too high, only one person high, and the fence is made of rattan weaving, which is unusually simple, and there is not even a single brick.
A mercenary looked at Li Jun who was sleeping in the courtyard, laughed in a low voice a few times, deftly climbed over the fence, pulled out a crude iron sword, and slowly approached Li Jun.
All the mercenaries covered their faces, lit a stick of incense, and in an instant, the entire courtyard was shrouded in a white mist.
Bang!
Suddenly, Li Jun opened his eyes, and without saying a word, he smashed directly into the face of a mercenary at the very front.
"Ahh......h
The rest of the people were obviously taken aback by Li Jun's sudden attack, and they all brandished their crude iron swords and slashed towards Li Jun.
Buzzing~~~
A large swarm of yellow bees turned into arrows and flew down, clicking a few times, biting the palms of those mercenaries, and blood flowed.
"Summoner, you're a summoner!" a mercenary shouted in fear, ignoring the pain in his palm, kneeling on the ground, kowtowing desperately to spare his life.
Li Jun accepted the title of "summoner" calmly and did not say anything.
Because, in Li Jun's memory, the terrifying scene of the old man in a strange costume, leading thousands of monsters and fighting a god, is still vivid in his mind.
Most of the people in the Canaan continent believe in the goddess of light, and regard her as their faith and spiritual sustenance. Li Jun didn't know whether the Goddess of Light participated in the battle countless years ago. Once his identity as the heir of the old man in the East is revealed, God knows what kind of misfortune it will cause.
After all, according to the concept of the gods of another world, the old man of the East is an outright invader, turning a catastrophe into a terrifying war that has swept through countless planes.
Since everyone calls themselves summoners, it is good for Li Jun to accept this title naturally.
Seeing that his other companions had been gnawed and no longer human, this thin mercenary was so frightened that his legs weakened, crying and begging for mercy.
"Let me ask you, who sent you?" Li Jun, who had already killed people a few times, became a lot calmer when he saw this scene again, although his face was still slightly pale, but he didn't want to vomit.
"Venerable Summoner, there is no one to direct us, we are obsessed with selling you to the black market and earn some gold. The thin mercenary said with a crying voice.
Li Jun frowned lightly and asked, "Are black-haired and black-eyed people valuable?"
"That's nature! In the huge Canaan continent, there are less than 10,000 black-haired and black-eyed people, and their scarcity is even rarer than that of elves. Since antiquity has been rare and valuable, the powerful often take pride in owning a pet of a man with black hair and black eyes. After all, when the nobles are idle, fighting for wealth and showing off their family background, they can stabilize other magnates. The thin mercenary said.
Li Jun lay on the rocking chair and said with an expressionless indifference: "Could it be that a human race like me can be bought and sold freely like a slave?"
"No, no, no, no, honorable summoner, the yellow race is also a citizen of the mainland, but if they are sold to the black market, branded as slaves, and then sold to the powerful, at that time, not slaves will become slaves. ”
"Is the black market so terrible? Could it be that you can cover the sky with one hand? Say that if you turn a commoner into a slave, you will become a slave? If you don't pass the examination and approval of the government department, you will issue a document and change your civilian status to a slave registration?" Li Jun's expression changed slightly.
"As long as you are driven by profits, everyone has money to earn and spend, who cares if you live or die as a civilian? Besides, people on the black market dare to do this, not relying on the power of the powerful to cater to the tastes and needs of the powerful. After all, in the ruling class of a great empire, under the royal family, there are nobles! Sometimes, the nobles can decide the rise and fall of an empire, and even have the ability to remove the royal family!"
Li Jun nodded slowly, picked up a crude iron sword, and slashed forward, a large cluster of blood splattered out, and the thin mercenary opened his mouth wide and slowly fell, no longer making a sound.
As soon as the mind moved, a large swarm of yellow-scaled bees rushed up, hooked up the corpses that fell to the ground with sharp leg hooks, and flew into a deserted alley, where they were thrown in a disorderly manner.
Early the next morning, the patrolling soldiers found the corpses, which had been gnawed beyond recognition, and hurriedly reported them to the sheriff of the town of Weiss.
The sheriff, who had some cysts, hurried over, and after a few glances, he covered his nose and waved his hand, complaining: "The delicious steak I just ate in the morning will have to be spit out in a while...... Hmm, just deal with it according to the "Warcraft Attack Case", organize a team in a while, enter the Warcraft Forest, hunt back a first-level Warcraft, and close the case. ”
"Yes!" the soldiers promised, feeling nothing wrong with this hasty and hasty decision. With some disgust on his face, he called out to a few idlers, put these corpses on a stretcher, and covered them with a white cloth. Carried directly to the crematorium, poured a handful of oil on the fire and burned the ashes.
When the sun sets and the night is quiet, find a mass grave for these boxes full of ashes, and casually throw a few pits to bury them, and it will be over.