57. Enter the city

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"Is it okay to do this? wouldn't you be attacked as a dangerous person if you did something like this to the soldiers defending the city?"

The girl reached out and touched the two guards wrapped in ice - and you could see the frightened expressions on their faces under the ice. The girl tried to find out the state of the two men, and then she breathed a sigh of relief...... These two people have not lost their life characteristics.

When Lynn froze them up, she seemed to have mercy on her men.

"Well, men, or most of the 'intelligent races,' are in many cases less knowledgeable than the average beast—the beasts will know that they are powerful beings that cannot be provoked, but the eyes of men will grow to the top of their heads. As you can see, they are in front of me, and they have no ability to resist at all, but they still come forward and try to offend me......"

Lin looked around and noticed that although there were guards who tried to come, after seeing the two lumps of ice, they all chose to turn a blind eye.

"These greedy guys, as they know, are not impartial soldiers themselves. These guys, there are not a few people who are usually greedy for money, if they really want to deal with it according to the laws of the empire, I can't count it as a capital crime, but these guys, one by one, have to go to the guillotine and gallows. ”

The girl nodded incomprehensibly.

"In short, the laws of human society are a very embarrassing existence?"

"Pretty much. Although there is a statement, I personally think it is more extreme and one-sided. But it can also illustrate some phenomena - for the powerful, the law is their well-behaved watchdog, and for the powerless. The law is like a vicious wolf that wants to tear a piece of flesh off them. ”

In the world in which Lynn used to live, such a phenomenon. It may not be so strict, but here, there are very few people who have been wronged and will think of using guò "legal means" to protect their interests, because countless ancestors have taught them the painful lessons, and doing so can only lead to a bloody end.

Unless it is a powerful guy who has been prosecuted and has directly harmed the interests of the upper echelons, it is expected that there will be an official who "asks for the people's life". Almost unrealistic. Even if there is an occasional person or two who are "upright", it is usually short-lived...... They won't be able to do it for long.

Because in the whole environment, each other is in such a circle of interests, and there are many "conventional" "rules" in it. Whether it is good or evil, to join this circle, you have to act according to the "rules" here. Otherwise, even if you are doing things with good intentions, you won't be productive.

After all, the ruling class has a relatively backward system, no matter how brilliant a country may be when it was founded. Over time, it will inevitably become decaying. However, in another world, the ancient rulers lacked sufficient binding power to sustain the increasingly crumbling state. In the end, it is often swallowed up by the people. However, in this world, the power of the individual can be magnified almost infinitely. An eerie equilibrium emerges.

There is a pathway that is theoretically open to anyone. It can make poor and backward families have the opportunity to turn over and become phoenixes -- that is. Be a strong man.

It doesn't matter if you're a warrior or a mage or a thief...... As long as it's enough to fight, it's fine. Normally, no one would want to have a grudge with a guy who has the ability to break through many obstacles and take his life, on the contrary, such a single person with high combat effectiveness will have many people willing to befriend him. In this way, even the children of illiterate rural farmers have a certain social status.

Although the probability of success of this road is actually very embarrassing for the people at the bottom -- but there is always a hope, isn't it? Invisibly, it disintegrates the minds of the people at the bottom to resist.

Because, in fact, they have a chance to break away from their own class. This makes it so that in this world, the resentment and hatred of the people at the bottom can often only be confined to a small area and will not be spread on a large scale. For example, in the ancient times of another world, the rebels shouted "Life has passed!", and a group of people would rise up in response to the revelation, which is basically impossible here.

Then again, how could a group of toiling peasants with little "combat effectiveness" rebel in a world with such a harsh environment...... Therefore, the rebels are all powerful here.

"Because you have the power to be above them, can you treat the law as nothing?"

"Theoretically...... Yes. Lin thought about it, and found that if she really wanted to do nonsense, she really wouldn't incur much trouble—on the contrary, I'm afraid that in order to recruit such a strong person, there will be many people vying to give her the aftermath, right?" If I had the power that a country must rely on, I could have trampled on the law openly, but people would still dare to be angry......

No matter how dangerous nuclear weapons are, will any country really not want them?

It's impossible—no matter how difficult it is, it's all about it, isn't it? In case of a war, and someone else has it and you don't, then you can prepare a surrender statement from the beginning.

“...... It turns out that human society is essentially no different from the society of wild beasts. ”

Lynn couldn't deny it at all.

The world of swords and sorcery seems to be more "colorful" and "simple" than the earth where Lynn used to live, but in fact, it also means more cruel. I think such a world is beautiful, that is to substitute myself into the perspective of the strong, if a certain traveler comes to this world, but there is no "plug-in", just a template for ordinary people, and then there is a lack of all kinds of adventures...... I'm afraid this is hell, right?

In this cruel world, the greatest favor for ordinary civilians is probably to make their average body stronger. Isn't it as easy as the poor people of another world to be tossed to death?

"Well, probably because of this era. The bureaucratic structure of the empire is still relatively rotten, isn't it?"

When Lin came to this world, she listened to Aisha. The empire happened to have a coup d'état, and the old and rotten bureaucracy was carefully washed from top to bottom. And the administration of the empire that Lin is familiar with is also very different from the tip of the iceberg that she sees now.

"Will it change?"

"Definitely. To this question, Lin's answer was very affirmative, "It's just that it's hard for anyone to say what Cheng dù has changed." After all. Since ancient times, there have been many people who are human beings but are disappointed or even desperate for human beings, and this is still very telling - most people don't want to be bad people, but they don't dare to be good people, and the proportion of evil people is almost always a little more than that of good people...... Alas. ”

The girl nodded thoughtfully.

"It's okay...... Is it just 'don't dare', not 'don't want to', or even 'reject'? I'm a little tempted to pick on my son......"

"What's wrong?"

The girl's whisper did not reach Lynn's ears.

"No, it's nothing~ I was just thinking about the white hair I met before. What kind of ability can help me make a Zuò transformer......"

The girl only muttered in her heart - her "self-talk" just now, but she subconsciously used a sound wave frequency that humans can't hear, how did this human girl hear it?

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"Sir. Something happened again. ”

When the entourage had a helpless face and found his own city lord. To his astonishment, he found that he was quite incompetent. But the greedy man, who had no small temper, was squeezing out a rather ugly smile at the mysterious magician with a flattering face.

To be honest, it is really difficult for people to feel kindness when they smile at that face that is quite fat because they are used to eating big fish and meat--the so-called evil face is basically talking about this kind of person.

"Don't you see I'm busy!"

The city lord yelled impatiently at his entourage, and then, at a speed that made the professional face-changing actors embarrassed, he quickly changed from a cold face scolding his subordinates to a smiling face full of sycophants: "That...... Master Mage, look, are these gems enough?"

The retinue said that his three views had been greatly challenged -- this miser, who valued money as extremely important, would take out so many high-value gems to "honor" the other party, what was wrong with this? Let's talk about this city lord, not in all cases will tighten his pockets, as long as it involves issues related to his life and future, he will still not be stingy with spending.

So, did this magician give him a deal that made him happy?

"But this matter must be reported to you, sir—just now, someone attacked two guards at the city gate......"

"They blackmailed the wrong person for money, and as a result, were they beaten?"

"Uh, sir, how do you know?"

"I don't know what such a group of guys are thinking!?" The city lord's face suddenly rose with a dissatisfied expression, "I'm just too lazy to worry about these people, I really think I don't know, these guys use my name and collect a lot of 'extra money'? ”

The entourage found that every time at this time, he always felt that the IQ of his own city lord was on the line......

"People aren't dead, are they?"

"I don't know, but ...... It was sealed into two lumps of ice, presumably ...... Isn't there a lot of bad luck?"

Not everyone can talk about the state of life of the person in the ice, and in the eyes of most people, being directly sealed in the ice by an ice spell is basically dead - the low temperature will freeze and destroy the cells of the human body, and even if it is "thawed", only a corpse can be obtained. Anyone with a bit of experience knows that frostbite is a rather terrible injury...... The water in the blood will freeze into countless tiny ice spikes, which will puncture the cells that touch it, forming a large area of tissue necrosis. It's just a cold frostbite, and what happens if the whole body is frozen in ice?

Anyway, the corpses of countless people who have died from ice magic throughout the ages. This qiē is already well illustrated.

"Then wait for the thaw and bury them! Anyway, these guys usually loot a lot. The family will not be poor, pension or something. You don't have to give it!"

But the entourage thought about it, just such a group of corpses and vegetarian firewood city guards, the best thing is probably not to defend their homes, but to abduct and rob them, right? To put it bluntly, the city guards have basically not done anything in their duties, and there seems to be nothing wrong with not giving pensions......

"So, what do you think you should do with the person who attacked the guards, sir?"

"What else can I do, of course, to apologize to the people in a good voice!" the lord slammed the table in annoyance. "Let's not mention, the hand that freezes the living people into the ice cube is undoubtedly from a powerful magician, and we can't offend people at all; if we take 10,000 steps back, even if we really have this ability, we can't make a mistake at this juncture! Once the matter is made big, and in a few days it reaches the ears of those investigators sent by the imperial capital, I will be miserable!"

The city lord was angry, but it wasn't because the guards were making money privately. It's that they're still making trouble for themselves at this critical time! It's a shame that they're kicking the steel plate and knocking their teeth now, if it's a while, these bastard boys. What should I do if the money is on the head of the "minister of the Qincha" who visited Weifu privately!

"Master, when are you going to ......?"

"Now, of course!"

The city lord turned and looked at the man whose face was shrouded in black robes. The black magician, who couldn't see the expression on his face clearly, said apologetically, "I'm sorry. I have some things to sort out first, so Master Mage, take your time and pick these gems. If there is a need. I can tell this retinue of mine to put on a batch of gems until you find the one you like......"

"Ah, I can understand that you should go first, the promise I made to you before will not be changed because of these two hours. ”

"Thank you, thank you ......"

After the city lord asked his entourage about the current whereabouts of the "attacker", he hurriedly went out - normally, he would not be so flustered and hurried, but who let this sudden earthquake disrupt his mind? Now he is almost a frightened bird.

was left alone, "serving" the entourage of this mysterious magician girl, and suddenly found that such a "two people alone" did not have any ambiguous feeling at all - all the previous imaginations disappeared after experiencing this magician's cold aura like an iceberg.

The other party didn't speak, but silently maintained this silence that made the entourage feel depressed, and looked at the precious gems that were worth a lot of money. At this moment, he finally understood what was going on with those unnatural expressions he had seen on the city lord's face before.

But the problem is that the city lord can find a topic on his own, even if the magician girl basically doesn't like him, it can somewhat dispel the cold and oppressive atmosphere present...... But his current status is just a casual person around the city lord - even if he is promoted to the level of a steward, he does not have that status, and he can speak on an equal footing with the big man who is "on an equal footing" with the city lord......

Fortunately, after a while, the magician girl finally spoke.

"Are there any other gems?"

Suddenly, the attendant felt like an amnesty in his heart: "Of course, I don't know if you, Master Mage, have any other detailed requirements?"

Although I don't know, the city lord and the mage have reached an agreement, so that he is willing to let the other party choose from his own treasure - you know, these valuable gems are the most valuable part of the city lord's collection that he has "looted" over the years. But what does this have to do with him? Anyway, these gems don't belong to him, and if you really feel sorry, it won't be his turn.

"Ruby, sapphire, violet and emerald...... Both. ”

Do you like jewelry?

Seeing this magician girl, she opened her mouth to ask for these gems of different colors, and the entourage couldn't help but wonder in his heart - could it be that these gems have any special effect? If it was an ordinary girl, the entourage probably wondered if the other party was particularly fond of jewelry, but the girl in front of him was a magician. Even in the Heavenly Realm, where he lacked knowledge of magicians, he knew that the temperament of these mysterious professionals in the Nether Realm was different from ordinary people.

Looking at the other party's gaze at these gems, there is no enthusiasm for appreciation and fascination, only the inquisitive look of the researcher, and most of them can guess the reason.

"By the way, there is no need to take those gems that are not pure in color and have an average texture - they are useless to me. ”

The girl magician pointed to the pile of debris in the corner of the table.

After the attendant's gaze fell on those crumbs, his heart jumped - there was no doubt that they were originally a few gems! But now, these valuable treasures had been pounded into crumbs by her, but the city lord did not show any pity, and said that he could choose his own collection with the other party until he was satisfied.

What exactly did they make a deal?

The attendant didn't like the feeling of being able to control the situation in his own hands—almost instantly, he had the idea of using force to force the magician girl to tell her purpose and origin...... However, it's only a little bit of thought.

......

Looking at the back of his entourage leaving, NONO's eyes couldn't help but reveal a look of danger.

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