From a purely scenic point of view, Sunset Town is indeed a very beautiful place, but in addition to the scenery, there are many unbeautiful places here, for example, the civilian life here is mostly poor. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Relying on the Sunset Mountains, the production is abundant, but the merchants are very profit-oriented, and the simple sale of raw materials cannot bring much income to the civilians of Sunset Town.

And once you go into the mountains, you are always prone to danger.

This is a place where the people seem to be simple and harmonious inside and outside, but in fact it is a place where the merchants are profit-seeking, the people are everywhere, and the mercenaries also make cameos from time to time to make a robber appearance.

The real sunset town is much more unbearable than the town you see at first sight.

Maier learned about the situation for a few days, and then followed a group of herb pickers into the mountain.

This is a group of civilians who specialize in collecting medicinal herbs, going into the mountain once every two or three days, one or two days at a time, and after the medicinal herbs are collected, they are sold to the merchants who buy them, and the merchants sell these things to the temple, or to the nobles.

Occasionally, these civilians would make cameo appearances as hunters to get some animal fur and increase their income.

Faced with a teenager like Maier and a cat with him, they charged a lot of money to lead the way, because they felt that Maier's presence would get in the way and reduce their income from medicinal herbs.

Maier didn't have a problem with that, after all, he didn't know the place well, and it was always good to have someone to lead the way.

Two middle-aged herb pickers talked carefully away from the crowd.

"Pigisso. Alido looked vaguely in the direction of Mel, then turned to the man next to him, and said, "You say, if we take this kid, how much will we gain?"

Pigisot exclaimed, "You're crazy! That kid is probably a nobleman, and if he is discovered, our whole family will go to the gallows." ”

Alido's eyes narrowed slightly: "It's not a nobleman, I have inquired, where there will be a nobleman who goes out without an entourage, it should just be the son of a merchant who runs away from home." ”

"Pigisso, I really don't want to endure this kind of life, most of the profits from the medicinal herbs have been taken by those damn merchants, we have worked hard, and even survival is a luxury. ”

Biguisso still hesitated: "However, we can't kill anyone." ”

Alido instigated: "Pigisso, aren't those merchants killing us by squeezing our hard-earned money? And we are not trying to kill this boy, but only to rob him of his money. ”

"But in that case, we will have to throw him into the mountains, and in that case he will surely die, and what difference is there between us killing him with our own hands?"

Biggiso is still sticking to his moral bottom line.

"Well, Pigisot, if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about Sally, if you don't raise enough money to go to the temple and ask the priest for treatment within this month, you will never see Sally again. ”

"Do you want to see Sally die like this? Sally is no match for the weight of a merchant's son in your heart?

Bigiso hesitated for a long time, and finally made up his mind about his daughter's serious illness, and then he raised his head and looked at Alido seriously, and his eyebrows suddenly became cloudy.

"Alido, I still want to live in Sunset Town again, so, if I do it, I hope to be able to witness the death of this kid with my own eyes, only the dead will not leak secrets. ”

"Also, what about these other herb pickers?"

Alido was a little surprised by Biguiso's performance, as if he didn't expect that an honest person on a normal day would be more determined than himself to do bad things, which made him feel a little jealous of Biguiso.

But soon Alido came to his senses and said, "I have planned, I know there is a bear den around here, and tomorrow we will bring people to the neighborhood, and then I will lure the bears out in the evening." ”

"When the time comes, it will be a big chaos, each running for his life, and who will remember this boy from the city, even if he finds out that this boy is dead, he will only think that he is the killer of the bear. ”

Bi Jisuo thought for a moment and said, "Good plan, but wouldn't it be too big a fuss to attract a giant bear, and what if that giant bear attacked us?"

"I brought the medicine, and if I sprinkled it on that kid, the bear would only attack him. ”

"Since that's the case, then it's decided. ”

Maier didn't hear the whispers of the two herb pickers, but when he heard the bear's voice, he didn't panic like the other herb pickers, because a giant bear couldn't hurt him.

However, it is still unrealistic to deal with the giant bear without revealing its magic, so Mel chooses to run away like the others.

But the giant bear behind him was in hot pursuit, and Mel gradually smelled a hint of conspiracy, and the tip of his nose moved slightly, and Mel noticed a trace of something not quite right in himself.

This smell seems to have come from a previous herb picker who accidentally touched him.

Mel frowned, blaming himself for his carelessness.

But it's okay, it's just a giant bear, calculate the time, if your guess is not wrong, then the person behind the giant bear incident should also come out.

Mel chooses a cave, and the bear follows.

The two herb pickers emerged from the nearby woods, looked at each other, and then walked to the cave.

"What should we do, do we have to wait? The bear is expected to leave for a while, shall we wait for the bear to leave, or shall we go in and drive the black bear out now?"

"Drive it away now, or the bear will destroy everything of value on that kid's body." As he spoke, the man escaped from his waist with two straight tubes.

"Light this and smoke the bear out. ”

Inside the cave, the giant bear chasing Mel is shivering, Mel is holding a small ball of fire in his hand, and a flower cat is walking in front of the black bear.

A puff of smoke poured in.

Mel gave the bear a look, and the bear panicked as if he had been pardoned, and crashed into the stone wall several times, and it took him a long time to run out of the cave and flee.

The two herb pickers looked at each other with a smile in their eyes.

Suddenly, one of the herb pickers took a half-step back.

"Poof!"

The sound of a knife stabbing through the body.

"Why, Pigisso?" Arido looked at his best friend in the town in disbelief, wondering why the other party would suddenly attack him.

"Alido, I'm sorry, this kind of thing, the fewer people who know about it, the better, you drink a lot, I can't let this matter have the slightest chance to leak out, and besides, I need this money. ”

"I need all the money this boy has, because I want to not only cure Sally, but also live a better life, Alido, please fulfill my humble dream. ”

"We're friends...... "Alido lay straight on the ground, dead and blinding.

Pigisso walked towards the cave.