Verse 99: The Plague of Innocence (2)
Whether in Rigal or Crescent, any slightly more formalized and elite army often has a certain degree of restriction on the height and even weight of the selected candidates.
"Only those who are between certain and certain degrees of height and between certain degrees of weight and certain degrees of weight can enlist in the army. Similar terms are often found in the proclamations of the Duke's personal recruitment of Rigal, or in the expansion of the Ashigaru of the Land of Moon, though this is rarely done these days due to the lack of war.
Ordinary people rarely understand why there is such a restriction, and some people who are brushed off and unable to enter may even be resentful.
And when these people, who knew little about it and even harbored hostile prejudices, saw those outstanding elite soldiers with bright armor, similar physique and height, as carved out of a mold, marching with excellent and neat steps for the parade -
"Oh, just to look good. Such conclusions will be made with a hint of contempt.
Man is a very superficial creature, always good at judging people by their appearance, applying their simple knowledge to things they cannot understand: arbitrarily substituting human emotional entanglements for animals to make up stories of life and death, or vulgar opinions that they are far better than real professionals.
A soldier is a class that goes into battle to kill enemies.
Even with the advent of peacetime, it is true that many things have lost their original meaning, but height and weight are limited to one level, and they do not have the meaning of showing off uniformly during military parades.
Those who have experienced the battle will deeply understand the meaning of all this.
"Get moving!" Oiran said impatiently through the alley.
The four of Mira and her party are all women, and the height of Miss Doctor and Lulu is only less than 1.5 meters, and they are very petite.
Although Sakura is tall, she is very slender and not a strong person. The only one who can be regarded as relatively good in physical strength is our Luoan girl, who is about the same size as her but fully exercised.
But she needs to be in charge of the fight.
Yajiro's whole body froze, his body stiffened like a puppet and couldn't move his legs. It's a bit surprising that this usually arrogant little young master has seen blood and become such a wreck, but now is not the time to mock him, they need to get out of danger.
One meter seven tall and often exercised and the young master was born with full nutrition, although Yajiro does not look very tall under wide clothes, but his weight is also more than 60 kilograms.
Such a big living man couldn't walk because his legs were numb, and the petite Miss Doctor and Lulu and the tall and slender Oiran couldn't run much faster with the help of the three of them, and they didn't run far before they became exhausted and out of breath.
Mira looked behind her with some anxiety, and the new ruffians were indeed the accomplices of the man on the ground, because two of them immediately crouched down and began to untie the man. Some of them are young and middle-aged, but all of them are able-bodied adult men.
"Can I handle this number alone?" The answer was obviously no, and the Luo An girl was very uneasy in her heart. If she was holding other types of weapons in her hands, she only had a one-handed knife that was not very long, and the attack distance of this self-defense weapon was too short, one or two people were fine, seven or eight people of this level, she rushed over and estimated that she would be surrounded if she didn't swing a few knives.
That's why Mira is the first to make the decision to run away, if you can fight more than three people by yourself, you have to have an advantage in many ways: such as armor, using heavy main battle weapons that are longer and heavier, riding horses, or having an overwhelming advantage in physique and skill.
The lack of clarity in his perception of his own strength leads to a different situation from the expected situation and then messes up, one of which is enough for Yajiro, and Mira doesn't want to follow in his footsteps.
"What are you running, can you run away, the nearby are all the territories of our Qingshan people, do you understand?"
"Trouble here without understanding the situation?"
Two voices of different heights but equally rude sounded one after another, and the girl finally began to pay attention to her surroundings because of these words-
The houses here are relatively dilapidated and old, and although the houses are basically made of wood and paper, many of the houses here have holes filled in the window paper, which is obviously the so-called slum street.
But more importantly, it was not without people, in fact, when she glanced back, many people looked outside through the cracks in their windows or doors and met Mira's eyes, but the moment they met their eyes, they all hid back.
- No one is going to help them, these people are afraid of the hooligans.
The behavior of the nearby residents confirmed the clamor of the hooligans who called themselves the Qingshan people—this is indeed the territory of these people—but the young lady of the Doctor, who had the keen grasp of the situation like the Luoan Maiden, who had the ability to learn from the sages, was still knocking on doors and trying to find help.
"Help us!" Aya's appearance was not unpleasant, and her tone was very sincere. It's just that even if her doctor's robe can gain the respect of most people, it doesn't seem to have much effect in this kind of place.
The hooligans did not rush up quickly, but stayed near their companions, a show of sparing confidence in their own turf. The group of five turned into the alley at a very slow pace, and although it was only a two-minute sprint, the other three women were already out of breath except for Mira, and Yajiro was still shaking with a sluggish face.
"Help us, is anyone home?" Aya still didn't give up, and after a few breaths, she tried to knock on the door of a house.
"It's useless. Sakura spoke impatiently, but she said it in unison with a voice in the corner.
Aya stopped what she was doing, and several people looked over.
It was an old woman sitting in rags in a garbage heap.
"Antara. She said that this somewhat rude phrase was a folk term for the Land of the Moon, which probably meant "you guys."
"From the north. ”
The old beggar woman continued: "The merchant who has messed up in business, the worker who has injured and cannot work. ”
"This is a place where these people who can't survive, as well as the homeless people from the feudal realm, who are paid half of the work they do. ”
"Many people have given up, so they stay at home and borrow loans from Qingshan people to live. ”
"Those guys are responsible for debt collection, and the woman that the young master of your family thought he had saved just now was lazy and unwilling to sell her body because she had been in debt for several years. ”
"Who will help you, if you help, you will cut off your own source of livelihood, and it is boring to ask for yourself. After a taunt, the old woman got up and walked into the depths of the alley on crutches.
"This. This was obviously a world that Aya had never been exposed to, and she was speechless for a moment. And Mira didn't say anything, the type of situation exists all over the world, and it is natural that the Moon Country with serious class divisions has a deep understanding of how indifferent people are that it is difficult to break through the status quo and thus become passable.
Even if people live in different places and receive different cultural education, they still have many things in common.
After more than a season here, although the number of contacts is still not large, she also has some outsider insights about the country.
The Land of the Moon is a polarized society that lacks flexibility to a certain extent.
On the plus side, they are much better than the chaotic world of Rigal, in terms of their various social infrastructures and institutions, their emphasis on knowledge, and their relatively efficient government.
But on the other hand, the people here are more serious than the people of Rigal when they are cold and conservative.
The history of the Qingtian family is a good example, but the vast majority of Japanese people will not try.
Through the confederation of city-states in the south of Rigal and the Padrossi Empire, where the commercial atmosphere was very developed, Mira realized the cultural differences even more profoundly.
She said that it was better to say that it was better to have a conservative atmosphere of repression and lack of innovation and not daring to try in the Land of the Moon, or to the speculative culture of the Lamanites who once one person succeeded, a large number of people followed the trend and tried to replicate the success of the other.
Don't think too much about questions that can't figure it out, questions that aren't relevant to the moment.
Focus on the current dilemma.
- No one will help them, so they can only find a way to break through on their own.
There are solutions.
"These people probably have the official background here, but even so, they won't tear their faces. Although it is in the Land of the Moon, the unspoken rules of many things are universal, and Mira analyzes it according to Henry's usual pattern:
"It's supposed to be the forces in the town, and if they get on the crowded streets, they'll probably stop. Because the matter has become bigger and attracted the attention of the above, even the government itself will suffer. ”
Her statement has aroused the approval of others, but despite knowing how to break through the current situation, there are still two points that are difficult to solve -
The first one is naturally because of what happened a few minutes ago, and Yajiro, who is still sluggish and panicked that he can't move. These young women, who are not known for their physical strength, can't run far if they drag a big living person like him.
The reason why various armies have the pursuit of height and physique for soldiers, and try to make most people have similar figures. If the gap between physique and fitness is too great, if your teammate falls, you won't even be able to pull him or run away with him on his back.
And the second reason is a problem that has been briefly forgotten under the tension, but it is undoubtedly unresolved to this day -
They're lost.
I met Yajiro because I got lost in the first place.,How could you suddenly not get lost after saving him.。
Escaping to a busy street sounds easy, but where do you actually go?
Anshang is a pretty big place, and a few people are new to it. Although the regular towns of the Land of the Moon are planned by the Land Doctor and are relatively orderly, this is only the beginning of the city's construction, and as time passes, many of the patterns will be different from the original ones - and it is for this reason that Aya has not been able to use her knowledge.
Even if she is not a full-time planning doctor, Aya is also from the academy, and she still understands some basic principles after hearing and seeing.
However, Anshang is a place with a long history that is far better than the knowledge of the youth, and the local government's land bureau managers do not have the level of knowledge at the level of a land doctor, after all, if the per capita doctorate has no value.
People live here, people come and go, and if they have a new family or want to do business, they will have a need for housing. When approving the purchase of land and building houses, they did not necessarily strictly follow the original plan, so the older the city-state, the more complex the internal structure became. The highway that I thought would be accessible according to the plan was not accessible for some reason, and the locals who have lived for a long time may know how to go, but they can't.
Walking blindly may get you lost even more, and if you are blocked, you can only clash head-on.
But the odds are low.
The other party showed so much room, presumably he saw through these points.
What to do?
Mira looked at the panting Sakura, Aya, and Lulu, and then at the sluggish Yajiro.
The speed of thinking is electric, and in a word-
"Smack!"
A loud slap, under the stunned onlookers of the other three, Yajiro's eyes widened, and a bright red handprint gradually appeared on the left side of his face.
"Men!" and not from the country of the moon, the Luo'an girl, who knew nothing about the so-called reserved culture of local women, used the most direct way to sober up this teenager who had fallen into a collapse of self-confidence.