Coming to the location of Murong Qing's stone house in his memory, Qi An saw from a distance that an ironclad sergeant was kicking Murong Qing's door very impolitely, and then a young man opened the stone door and walked out, it was Murong Qing.

The sergeant shouted at Murong Qing a little arrogantly: "I don't realize it when I pay it, and I still want Lao Tzu to urge it?"

Murong Qing lowered his head and didn't speak, silently took out a bunch of Yuan Zhu and handed it to the other party, who knew that the other party took the Yuan Zhu and glanced at it, and then spread out his palm and posed as a request: "From this month onwards, the protection fee will rise to eighty Yuan Zhu, if you dare to pay one less, you will break your legs!"

Murong Qing suddenly raised his head and stared at the other party angrily, but was glared back even more fiercely by the ironclad sergeant.

Murong Qing had to lower his head again, and reluctantly took out some more yuan beads and handed them to the other party, and the ironclad sergeant turned around and left with a smug face, walked a few steps, and turned around and scolded "waste".

Qi An frowned, and coldly watched the ironclad sergeant pass by before he walked towards Murong Qing and greeted, "Senior Brother Murong." ”

Murong Qing didn't notice Qi An's arrival, and was about to return to the stone house, when he heard the voice, he turned his head, and when he saw Qi An's face clearly, he was stunned and said, "Senior Brother Qi An, why are you here?"

Qi An smiled slightly, took a few steps forward, and explained to Murong Qing: "I have been in the Backing Mountain Branch for three years, and I was promoted to the Condensation Realm, so I was transferred here to serve as a member of the Divine Sword Guard Reserve Battalion, but I didn't expect Senior Brother Murong to be here. ”

Murong Qing laughed: "Senior Brother Qi An, it seems that I haven't looked away, you are a real genius, but you were recruited into the Divine Sword Guard Reserve Camp in the early stage of Qi Condensation, with your talent, practice hard for a few years, maybe you can become a real Divine Sword Guard." ”

Qi An smiled and said, "Didn't Senior Brother Murong also enter the Divine Sword Guard Reserve Camp in the early stage of Qi Condensation, why did he praise me?"

Murong Qing shook his head self-deprecatingly: "I'm different from you, I was reluctantly added through my father's relationship, if I rely on strength, I'm far from qualified!"

Judging from Murong Qing's expression and tone, it is obvious that he is not mixing well here, and he has long since lost the vigor he had when he was in the backer branch, showing the loneliness of a hero.

Qi An and Murong Qing exchanged a few casual words, and then asked, "What is the origin of that person just now, why did he ask you for Yuanzhu?"

Murong Qing smiled bitterly and said: "Senior Brother Qi'an, since you have come to the Divine Sword Guard Reserve Camp, then I won't hide it from you, in fact, it is not easy to mix here, the strong oppress the weak, like us, the early stage realm of condensation, is at the bottom, and we have to be exploited by those veteran oils layer by layer......"

Afterwards, Murong Qing told Qi An eloquently, not only introducing the basic situation of the Divine Sword Guard Reserve Camp, but also explaining the current situation.

There is only one commander in the entire Divine Sword Guard Reserve Battalion, that is, the battalion commander Zhou Yinglong, who is a great cultivator of the Divine Refining Realm, and he is high; followed by Lord Yan of the Quartermaster Department, it is said that he is also in the Divine Refining Realm, but he has no real power, is indifferent by nature, and does not participate in any management affairs.

Under the battalion leader, all the members of the reserve battalion should be at the same level, and there is no distinction between respect and inferiority, but because the strength of each person is uneven, from the early stage of condensation to the peak of condensation, so there is also a distinction between superior and inferior, and the phenomenon of the strong bullying the weak abounds, and the weak always can't raise their heads in front of the strong.

Because each new member of the reserve camp has a chance to choose to comprehend the four great sword codex, according to their choice, the reserve camp is divided into four camps, each occupying a position in the barracks area, and each has the strongest person as the leader. Over time, under the battalion commander, four nameless but solid captain-level figures appeared to assist the battalion commander in managing the entire reserve battalion.

These four camps are naturally the Heavenly Sword Camp, the Overlord Sword Camp, the Magic Sword Camp and the Ghost Sword Camp, which occupy the southeast, southwest, northeast and northwest positions of the barracks area respectively.

And the leaders of the four camps are also the top powerhouses in the entire reserve camp, namely Rong Sheng of the Heavenly Sword Camp, Kui Hong of the Overlord Sword Camp, Xia Hou Yan of the Demon Sword Camp, and Xia Manying of the Ghost Sword Camp.

The strong rule the weak, and the weak obey the strong, this is a convention and a matter of course, and the strong naturally get more than the weak.

However, those members of the reserve battalion in the early, middle, and late stages of Qi Condensation were receiving the same amount of military salary as the peak of Qi Condensation, which aroused the dissatisfaction of many people, why could they get the same cultivation resources as the strong even though they were weak? This is unreasonable!

As a result, there is a protection fee system, according to the cultivation realm, but all the members of the reserve camp who have not reached the peak of condensation must hand over a certain amount of yuan beads as protection fees every month when they are paid, as for how to distribute the protection fees collected, Murong Qing does not know much.

This system quickly received the response and support of the majority of the people, after all, most of the members of the reserve camp were at the peak of condensation, and they would definitely want to claim as much profit as possible, while those with low cultivation dared not speak out.

According to the rules, twenty yuan beads are handed over every month in the later stage of condensation, forty yuan beads are handed over every month in the middle stage of condensation, and half of the military salary directly collected in the condensation realm must be handed over sixty yuan beads every month. Unexpectedly, this month's protection fee began to rise again, becoming 80 yuan beads per month, two-thirds of the military salary received had to be handed over, and only one-third was left in the hand, and the degree of exploitation became more and more intense.

I don't know who first came up with this idea, anyway, it has been going on for decades, although it is called protection money, in fact, even if you pay the fee, no one will stand up to protect you, at most it is just not to come to you for trouble, otherwise even if the military regulations prohibit killing, but it is not forbidden to fight and fight with each other, there will always be someone who will find an excuse to repair you fiercely, so that you have no intention of cultivating, and finally wait until the injury is healed, continue to find excuses, and beat you again, you will not be able to cultivate with peace of mind in your life.

As a result, the rules of protection fees have been passed down from generation to generation until today.

The exploited are the weak, no one dares to resist, and often has no ability to resist, so it sounds as if every member of the reserve battalion receives the same salary, but in fact the strong still get more and the weak get less.

"These people are too much!" Qi An was furious after hearing this, and clenched his fists.

Murong Qing sighed: "This is the reality, the weak will definitely be oppressed by others! This is no better than the Qianqing Academy, there is a comfortable and peaceful cultivation environment, this is the military camp, in the military camp, the strong have always been respected, force is supreme, even the top of the army has acquiesced to this kind of behavior that is almost a bandit, so you don't have to be entangled, for the time being, endure it first, cultivate with peace of mind, with your talent, it won't take a few years to be promoted to the peak of condensation, and then you won't have to suffer from these bird qi." ”

Qi An said angrily: "If you endure and endure, won't these people have to make an inch? For example, you only had to hand in sixty yuan beads before, but suddenly it was raised to eighty, if you don't resist, then it is estimated that it will not take long to increase to one hundred!"

Murong Qing shook his head and said, "That's not true, the amount of protection money is usually decided by the strongest people in the reserve camp after consulting with each other, and it is generally not changed at will." The reason why it will rise this time, I guess is because there are two outliers among the four leaders who are now in charge, one is a genius who is looked down on by anyone, and the other is a madman who doesn't sell his account, and these two people don't treat the members of the reserve team of the low realm as people, so it will cause a temporary increase in the protection fee, once it waits for the next selection competition, after these two people enter the Divine Sword Guard, they will be replaced with a new leader, and the protection fee will return to the original standard. ”

"What genius, what madman?" Qi An didn't quite understand.

Murong Qing replied: "Rong Sheng of the Heavenly Sword Camp is a genius, from the Rong family of Blackwater City, he is not yet thirty years old, he can be called invincible in the Qi Condensation Realm, and he is the strongest in the entire reserve camp now. This person is arrogant and complacent, and does not take other people in the slightest, thinking that the weak are all fools who waste cultivation resources, and the reason why the protection fee rises must be the first to be proposed by this person. ”

Murong Qing paused slightly, and then said: "The madman refers to Xiahou Yan of the Demon Sword camp, this person has a selfish and ruthless personality, is short-tempered and irritable, annoys him, and he is directly immortal, and once his [Demon Knife] is fully used, it will invade the brain with demonic qi and become a battle maniac, so it is easy for no one to provoke him." ”

Qi An suddenly understood, no wonder Xiahou Yan's attitude towards him was so bad, it turned out that it was not aimed at him Qi An, but Xiahou Yan's nature was like this.

Murong Qing said again: "This madman also looks down on the weak, and he doesn't even have a good face for his subordinates in the Demon Sword Camp, and he scolds him at every turn, and many people hate him, so the Demon Sword Camp is the most disheartened among the four camps. The most unfashionable one is often oppressed by the other three camps, not only because the Demon Sword camp has the smallest number of people, but also because Xiahou Yan doesn't care about it, a selfish and ruthless person like him only cares about his own cultivation and doesn't care about the lives of others at all, which can be said to be the most unpopular leader. ”

Qi An nodded secretly after hearing this, not to mention anything else, he only met that Xiahou Yan once, and he had a bad feeling for him, you can imagine how annoying this person is.

After Murong Qing introduced the "genius" and "madman" respectively, he remembered something: "By the way, I forgot to ask you, did you choose to cultivate the [Heavenly Sword] or the [Overlord Sword]?"

Murong Qing felt that according to Qi An's character, most of them either chose [Heavenly Knife] or [Overlord Knife], but Qi An glanced at him with a strange face, and then held back a sentence: "I chose [Magic Knife], which is under the control of Xiahou." ”