Chapter 571: Not My Race
There was another annoying commotion outside. Shen Yun frowned, opened his eyes, and slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air to suppress the boredom in his heart.
Five days ago, he rescued a father and son surnamed Yan on an official road outside the city.
They weren't from Baili City. Because the family went to Baili City to visit his seriously ill uncle a few months ago, he caught up with the catastrophe in Baili City.
According to them, Baili City is not the same as elsewhere. It was originally a private castle. More than two hundred years ago, the city lord led the city of 100 miles to return to the Immortal Court. As a way of appeasement, the Immortal Court rewarded Baili City to the city lord as a fief. Therefore, in Baili City, although the Lord of Xianfu is also in charge of all affairs here, as elsewhere, the title of the City Lord is still hereditary.
When the Luosang people invaded, the lord of Xianfu abandoned the city and fled. Only the lord of the city led the family soldiers and a part of the immortal rune soldiers to resist bravely.
However, the Rossang people are too strong. They can transform into all kinds of beasts. Fortified cities are not much like tofu blocks under their claws.
After a day and a night, the soldiers defending the city, including the lord of the castle, were killed. Hundred miles of city, fallen.
Angry Rosan people went on a killing spree in the outer city. The Yan family, located close to the outer city, also suffered. Only the father and son surnamed Yan escaped death.
It was precisely because the little boy saw his grandparents die in the belly of the beast that he hated the Luosang people at a young age.
Fortunately, after a day, the slaughter finally stopped.
After that, the Losan drove the people of the inner city out to clean up the mess. Under the cover of a group of well-wishers, the father and son surnamed Yan successfully infiltrated the inner city.
Since the fall, Baili City has been blockaded by the Luosang people, and it was not allowed to enter or leave until three days ago. However, those who leave the city must go to the Luosang people to apply for a permit to leave the city.
These days, people are frightened by the Luosang people, thinking that there is fraud, and two days ago, they have not dared to apply for this exit permit.
The father and son surnamed Yan were exhausted at this time, and they really couldn't survive in the city. To remain in the city is also a death. So, the two of them were so heart-struck that they simply let go out and got a city exit permit.
Like them, there are hundreds of people.
The Rosan people didn't bother them too much. After a strict check, they were issued a permit to leave the city, and they were really allowed to leave the city.
Along the way, they passed seven more levels one after another. At every checkpoint, you have to stop and be checked. In this way, the official road of less than fifty miles walked for three days.
They were tossed to the point of collapse. If it weren't for the strong belief in going home, they would really be unable to bear it.
Unexpectedly, when I arrived at the border of Baili City, I still encountered a big change.
"Fortunately, I met Eun Gong. Although he had reached a safe place, as long as the man surnamed Yan remembered the situation at that time, he still had palpitations and couldn't help but tremble.
Shen Yun couldn't help his pleading, so he had to leave his name. Then, bidding farewell to the father and son, he returned alone, and quietly sneaked into Baili City by night.
Sure enough, as the man surnamed Yan said, the Luosang people guarded Baili City like an iron bucket.
However, they couldn't stop Shen Yun.
After Shen Yun came into the city, according to the address provided by the man surnamed Yan, he stayed in this time-honored inn in the inner city called "Xin Chengfu" that night. Before, it was the big shopkeeper of this inn who rescued and took in the father and son surnamed Yan.
The man surnamed Yan is a junior martial artist. Knowing that Shen Yun was going to Baili City, he couldn't persuade him, so he wrote a letter of recommendation to Shen Yun: "Those Luosang people have been searching for the families of the soldiers guarding the city. Xin Chengfu's proprietor had some prestige in the inner city, and the Luosang people were much more restrained in the inns under his name than elsewhere. Engong is a foreigner, and other inns are afraid that they will not dare to take it in. It's better to go to Xinchengfu to settle down. ”
And after Xin Chengfu's big shopkeeper saw the recommendation, he really didn't say a word and ordered the guy to arrange a small courtyard with a separate courtyard.
As a result, Shen Yun, who had just arrived in Baili City, became a regular customer who had lived in the inn for nearly a year in the register book of their house.
In a flash, he had been in Baili City for five days.
During the day, he disguised himself as a rattle bell and walked the streets and alleys to find out the real situation in the city and the details of the Luosan people, and at night, when the city imposed a curfew, he stayed in the small courtyard to examine his body, his own body, which he knew best. Since recovering from his injury, he has been full of doubts about Mo Ming's drastic dantian. Even, he once wondered if he was in the dark. At the checkpoint that day, the little boy's words made alarm bells ring in his heart. Children don't lie. So, at that time, he must have turned into a vertical pupil and red eyes. And these two are the most prominent facial features of the demons. He can't help but take it very seriously.
These five days were not wasted. He witnessed with his own eyes that the Luosang people began to govern the city of Baili after the catastrophe.
The man surnamed Yan did not exaggerate. The Luosang people did massacre in the outer city at the beginning of their entry into the city. The massacre lasted for a day and a night, and the inhabitants of the outer city barely survived. After the massacre, the Losan drove the civilians of the inner city to the outer city to clear the field. Then, the entire outer city became a barracks for the Lossan. Except for a few main roads in and out, the rest of the places were all sealed, and people in Baili City were not allowed to enter or leave.
If it is said that the Luosang people practiced a policy of iron-blooded forcible occupation in the outer city, then in the inner city, their method was to appease Huairou.
They divided the inhabitants of the inner city into three, six, nine, and so on.
For the famous and large households, they are invited to participate in the governance of Baili City. For example, the owner of Xinchengfu Inn is the object of their wooing.
For the ordinary good people and wealthy households, it was promised that as long as they obeyed the rule of the Lopsan people, they would maintain the old practice and not pay any taxes for a year, as a sign of appeasement.
And the vast majority of the residents who were recorded as "untouchables" by the Xianting Court did not have such good treatment. They are like fish on the chopping block of the Luosang: the people and belongings of the family are registered, the Luosan people have no excuse and will enter their homes at any time to search, and if there is hard labor, they will be immediately driven to the stock service. A man in the prime of life toiled for a day's work, and in exchange for a small bowl of sorghum rice, he could not even feed himself, and a young woman with a little color was even more miserable. They can be humiliated at any time......
There are also people who have had the idea of moving their families. However, after registering their belongings, a new policy was announced, that is, only those who had obtained a certificate of good citizenship could enter and exit the city gates freely. To apply for a certificate of good citizenship, you need to pay a deposit of 100 taels of silver. Yes, how many ordinary people who have been robbed can get a hundred taels of silver?
Besides, they had just experienced a massacre, and the outer city was still the scene of these people's clearance...... They could only endure in silence, becoming more numb than before.
Therefore, on the surface, the four major city gates were opened, and the shops in the inner city were reopened one after another...... Baili City is in the midst of a rapid recovery.
Shen Yun walked all over the inner city, knowing that all this was just an illusion. The former Hundred Mile City was dying rapidly before his eyes.
In the past, he thought that for ordinary people, no matter who was the big man, as long as there was a mouthful of food to eat, life would be the same. However, witnessing everything in the city of Hundred Miles, he realized that he was wrong.
It's really wrong. Obviously, the Luosang people did not think of giving the vast majority of the residents of Baili City a mouthful of food to eat.
What is the meaning of "those who are not of my race, but their hearts must be different"? Now he has deeply tasted all kinds of tastes in it.