PS: Exams are coming up on Friday...... I'm still ...... death.

Never in the history of the empire has there been a place as chaotic and disorderly as the Wenning district of White Rose City. Every day, countless cases of robbery, rapport, and murder are repeated in the corners of this huge slum.

Standing on the third floor of Nolan Queen's VIP room, looking out, in addition to the buildings near the King's Road are not bad, and beyond the distance are large areas of low, shabby, soaked in stagnant water.

After the earthquake, there was no shortage of discarded stone and wood for building houses, but there was nothing else.

Hunger spreads, death and plague go hand in hand, the defeated soldiers who retreat from the battlefield, the villains hidden in the shadows in peacetime, and the ordinary people who improvise are turned into flames by the ** ignited by despair and burn everything to the ground. The catastrophe was like an avalanche that rolled down from the top of the mountain, shattering the hopes of all survivors.

However, before that avalanche rolled to the bottom of the mountain and engulfed everyone, a group of people stepped forward.

Their name is "The Golden Lock of the Raven......

Cromwell held the goblet full of red wine in his hand, but did not move: "The area of the entire Wenning District accounts for one-sixth of the current area of the White Rose City (the White Rose City has expanded slightly in the past 70 years). However, the Wenning District Public Security Office, with all the registered sheriffs combined, is only an establishment of 120 people in a neighborhood security office. And if you want to completely solve the problem of Wenning District, even if you gather a total of 1,000 people in the three urban security teams, it is only barely enough. Therefore, with the little manpower in my hands, if I want to do something for the Wenning District, I can only turn to the people of the Golden Lock of the Raven for help. ”

Su Zuo held the red wine taken out of the wine cabinet, stood on the side of the sofa, and saw that the wine glass in someone's hand was almost empty, so he took the initiative to add a little.

In this way, the conversation between the three of them can almost be said to be unreserved for him.

Su Zuo saw that in the face of Cromwell's statement, Gart just sneered, and said lightly: "This shows that Your Excellency Sheriff is asking for trouble, since Ferdinand only gave you one hundred and twenty men, then you only need to do what a neighborhood security office should do - it is enough to protect the 'passage', protect the church, and protect the newly built 'new district' in front of the church." ”

"It's Archduke Feldnan, Lord Garter. Vigille frowned, interjecting between Garth's words.

“...... Silver Rose Male. The crow-like man glanced at Vijie'er lightly, "Although he is our lord and city lord, perhaps the other residents of White Rose City have received some favors because of his existence, his birth, his ceremony, his marriage, and the birth of his heir, but this favor has nothing to do with Wenning District. ”

"The existence of Wenning District exists because of the existence of the Golden Lock of the Crow. If it weren't for the fact that the golden locks of the previous generations gathered, they cleaned up the routs, villains, and robbers street by street, and negotiated and united with the small and medium-sized forces that were guarding the streets. Wenning District was destroyed in fire and fighting 70 years ago!"

"In Wenning District, no one will forget who caused the earthquake and who abandoned the victims for 68 years. Gart's tone was calm, just shaking his head slowly but firmly, "The Imperial people are invaders?Duke Silver Rose slaughtered tens of millions of Nanling people?Sorry, these are too far away for the inhabitants of Wenning District, we only know that on a calm and bright morning, the sky shone with a brilliant and changing earthquake light, and then after a burst of heaven and earth, all the peace and tranquility of the past were over. ”

"It's all over, my lovely Miss Sheriff. And the descendants of the culprit of all this are called Feldenand......"

"My dear Sheriff, do you think we will have any good feelings about you Federnand lackeys?"

The crow-like man sat up straight and slowly opened his hands, as if he was spreading his hands, and as if he had spread a huge black wing, shrouding the two people in front of him who were bowing their heads in contemplation.

"This ......" Wei Jie'er stammered, of course she knew the war between the empire and Nanling 70 years ago, and she also understood the pain of being a war victim, it can be said that the entire Wenning District is a huge wound, since that tragic war, it has been constantly suppurating and has never been cured, until now, the residents here are still struggling in the shadow of that war, wailing in pain.

Cromwell humbly bowed his head, his silent gaze hidden deep in his sunken eye sockets. As if thinking, as if reminiscing, the gray-eyed sheriff spoke slowly, "I once heard my father mention what the Golden Crow Lock had done. ”

"If it weren't for the warriors of the Raven Golden Lock who climbed the steep, gravel-strewn cliff with their bare hands and established contact with the chamber of commerce in the lower city, all the victims would have starved to death in the first month after the collapse. ”

"By controlling the distribution of food, the Golden Lock of the Raven forced the victims to dig through their belongings, bury the bodies, clean up the collapsed rubble, dig deep wells and build drainage channels to underground rivers, some people died of the plague while burying the corpses, some people were crushed to death by suddenly collapsed houses while cleaning the rubble, and countless more people were buried alive by the collapsed earthworks. Then my father told me that if I didn't, more people would die. ”

"The establishment of centralized latrines, the establishment of landfills, the establishment of exchanges, the establishment of trade with the upper districts, the opening of routes to the outside of the city, and even the construction of the King's Road, the establishment of 'passages' with the Church, ......"

"Those who can leave are gone, and all those who can leave, who can go to other places to make a living, are all gone after the Golden Lock of the Raven announced its surrender to the Silver Rose Duke on behalf of the Wenning District. ”

"Only the Golden Lock of the Raven remained, because the Golden Lock of the Raven remained, and for the poor who could not go anywhere but stay in Wenning District, hope remained. ”

"Because there is still hope, my father will climb the rope every day, climb more than 50 meters of the road, go to the chamber of commerce in the lower city to find a hard job, every day after exhaustion, and then with sour and weak hands to hold the hot bread that he just bought, climb the rope, slide down more than 50 meters, back to the simple cabin, put the bread on the table, caress my mother's belly, and show a happy smile. ”

"No matter who he is, even if he is sinful and numb, even if he is poor and poor, even if he is ignorant, what they seek is sometimes quite simple. It wasn't pain, anger, hatred, or anything else, Lord Galt. The middle-aged man, who was already close to the old man, stroked his palm, was he recalling the temperature of his father's palm...... I don't know why, Su Zuo, who is a traverser, suddenly feels a little sad.

"I'm glad that we humans can still forget, even if 'forgetting' is a painful and happy thing. For more than 30 years, I have forgotten my father's appearance and voice, but I have also forgotten the unforgettable hatred, the murderer of my father is no longer traceable, even if I live until now, I am close to old age, if it is just hatred, my life has no meaning. ”

The sheriff spoke lightly about his origins, and the other two, except for Suzo, fell into varying degrees of shock.

"Your Excellency, I have been pondering the meaning of the life I have experienced, the swordsmanship I have learned all my life, the countless enemies I have slain on the battlefield with this swordmanship, and the glory and status that I have exchanged for the lives of countless people. ”

"They may not make sense, but if they do, then they don't mean to continue to destroy anything. ”

"Lord Garth, there is no point in hatred. ”

"If Your Excellency Gart is going to be able to understand that instead of continuing to hate the Silver Rose family and the empire in a senseless and blind way, it is more important to tear down this chaotic law that has been ingrained in Wenning District and do something for the residents of Wenning District. My father can't come back, but at least we can watch over the other kids and get their father home safely, can't we?"

Cromwell's tone became more and more gentle, and the gray-eyed sheriff played the role of an old man vividly, especially when he said the last sentence, Suzo noticed that the young sheriff named Vigille couldn't help but cover her mouth.

However, Gart's reaction was unusually cold.

"......" looked at Cromwell in silence, and Gart gently wiped his smooth chin with his middle finger, "Your Excellency the Sheriff, I have to say that this is a very convincing speech, especially since I didn't expect you to be from this rough Wenning district. ”

"Cheers to the indiscriminate Wenning District that there is such a glorious and righteous magistrate who sticks to his duties, but at the same time has the common people in his heart!"

Galt performed a one-man show alone, drinking the wine in his glass.

But ah...... Suzo silently added red wine to Gart.

"But ah......" Gart gently wiped his mouth with a tissue, "what is the significance of your hatred and ideals, the sorrows and happiness of those untouchables, to our golden lock?"

The crow flailed its wings again, not a butterfly, but it re-disturbed the tilting situation.

"As you know, Your Excellency the Sheriff, the first period of concerted efforts and unity in the aftermath of the disaster collapsed only three months later with the lifting of the blockade of the Bunning District by the Silver Rose Princess. ”

"The post-disaster order that the Golden Lock of the Crow had worked so hard to establish fell apart in the context of material scarcity and hardship, and lasted only three short years. ”

"The life of climbing ropes and selling labor lasted only five years, and it was completely sealed off by nets and barbed walls because of the growing number of criminals from Wenning District. ”

"If you can't work, you can't have food, you can't live without food, and if you can't even take care of eating, then how can you talk about ideals and righteousness? ”

"What does other people's lives have to do with us? The current golden lock of the crow is no longer the golden lock of the crow 70 years ago, the reason why we can still stand here now, talking face-to-face with your Excellency the Sheriff, has nothing to do with those nihilistic beliefs and ideals, it is simply because we have enough violence and financial resources!"

"It is precisely because we are the strongest that the rules set by the Golden Lock of the Crow will be listened to, and no one will disobey them. As for happiness?!ha?!ideal?!"

"Your Excellency, do you want to talk to this little guy next to me, what is ideal, what is happiness?"

Gart smiled sarcastically.

Su Zuo nodded sympathetically, yes, His Excellency the Sheriff's words may indeed be very beautiful, very righteous, and very touching, but it is okay to encourage nobles or commoner youths like Wei Jie'er who have lived in greenhouses all their lives, if they speak to the residents of Wenning District, who are extremely realistic, they will definitely be spitting and foaming.

"What? Happiness, bring me the gold coins, don't give me the gold coins, happiness hammer head!"

The inhabitants of Wenning District did not even remember the hatred in the mouth of Garth, let alone the happiness and ideals in Cromwell's mouth?

Even though Wenning District is just a stinky ditch, the residents of this stinky ditch are also a group of rats who will ignore murder and robbery, are accustomed to the existence of bullies and underworld forces, are full of vigilance against the hands of others who are kind to others, and sneer at law and order.

If it was 7 years ago, Suzo would definitely follow Galt like this, spitting Cromwell's face on his face.

But-

Suzo lowered his head and closed his eyes.

"But it's different now, isn't it?"

The calm words were slowly narrated in a slightly childish childish voice.

"Because of the opening of the passage, people can go to work in the lower city again, even if they are exploited badly, even if they are paid less than one-third of their counterparts in the lower city after hard work, even if they can barely make ends meet after hard work, there is still hope in people's eyes. ”

"You don't have to buy and sell your own children, you don't have to swallow the rat's hair, you don't have to spend your days in a trance soaking in the waste water and watching the sun do nothing. ”

"Men can go out to work, women can do some sewing at home, and the elderly and children can make clay figurines out of the ubiquitous clay and dream of selling them to passing travelers. ”

The market in front of the trading area was closed, and the square in front of the church gathered a crowd to go about business under the watchful eyes of the nuns and the patrol officers. ”

"The robbers were sad, the murderers were terrified, and even the prostitutes began to look forward to 'working' in the prostitutes in the lower city. ”

"My insensitive life is over, and even I, an orphan, can feel the hope of those around me for a better life—as the sheriff said, they may be kind, they may be cunning, they may just live their lives quietly, but their lives have begun to change."

"And now, Lord Garth, perhaps it's time for the Raven's Golden Lock to go back to the better Raven's Golden Lock of our ancestors......"

Raising his head, Suzo straightened his chest, intending to face Garth's fury.

That's right, he didn't want to make any changes to the world on his own initiative.

But he wanted to do something for the people around him.

If Wolf Snow can, there is no need to kill anymore.

If only Kira could laugh like an ordinary girl without pain.

If Dorne, the kitchen, the prostitutes and entertainers who took care of themselves, even the managers of the Golden Locks of Ravens like Middel and Garth, could have been more prosaic and normal—yes, laughing as normally as everyone on Earth......

Suzo felt that he had an obligation to convince Garth......

Information that can now be made public:

[White Rose City]: There are seven counties in Nanling, and at the time of the story, two more counties were controlled by the former Nanling royal family (immortals), and among the five counties controlled by the empire, White Rose City was not only a very important military and economic center, but also the location of the castle of the Duke of Silver Rose.

At the same time, the White Rose City is also the county seat of Rose County.