Chapter 4: The Chicken Thief
It was like the feeling of sleeping for a long time, and the feeling of powerlessness filled his whole body, until the cold water splashed on Hua Luo, and the unfamiliar environment filled his vision.
"Is this heaven?" Star Voyage is atheistic, but the faith is still there, so Warlot will also see the devout faith and prayers of others, and they will say Heaven and Hell.
But this is clearly not paradise, there is a circle of people standing around, some of them are making angry faces and pointing at his nose: "Shameless chicken thief!"
What?
No, I could understand them, and I could hear my native language twice on the same day, which was not as surprising as the first time.
Looking at his spacesuit, it was already in tatters, and it was a miracle that he could survive in that energy that distorted time and space, and the portable simultaneous interpretation equipment was nowhere to be found, which proved that they were indeed speaking the same language as their native language, or at least the same language family.
Where is I, my head is dizzy, and I can't think of a lot of things.
At this moment, someone in the distance shouted: "Everyone let go, the official is here, let the official catch him, and then torture where his accomplices are." ”
The crowd dispersed slightly, and Hua Luo could see the general things around him, about twenty farmers in sackcloth shirts, this style was still seen in the interest history class of the Earth Federation Elementary School.
Most of the men, bare-thighed, had two or three children in oversized patched clothes. Behind them was a field of green wheat, and Warlot looked at ...... Out of my mind.
"Click!" the crisp and loud sound of iron disrupted his thoughts, and suddenly three men in gray burlap clothes appeared in front of him, and the iron tools were the shackles that were about to be worn on his wrists.
There were two men armed with black and red spears, and the collar was slightly different, with a wide knife with a wooden handle and a wooden sheath at his waist.
This is somewhat similar to the character model in the history interest class. It's just that these people are too thin, and the sackcloth farmers present don't have the strong physique of Hua Luo. Thanks to the manual work of carrying the crew for several years, the wandering never stopped exercising. It's not robust, but at least it's bumpy and shapely.
"What do you see, believe it or not, Lao Tzu chopped you with a knife?" The leading officer and soldier looked at Hua Luo staring at him blankly, and the clothes he was wearing were not the clothes of the surrounding country farmers, and asked:
"Who are you, where do you live, and why do you steal chickens?"
This series of questions pulled Hua Luo back from his trance to reality, and the tangible touch of soil beneath him told him that all this was real.
Could it be that he opened the space-time tunnel at a time of crisis, and descended on an uncivilized planet?
The sudden scene in front of him had surpassed his own cognition, and where his patrol ship and two crew members were now, and how he came here, all the unknowns haunted him.
But the top priority is how to resolve the crisis ahead, and these three people in uniform are obviously officials with some convincing power, and they may be connected to the local governing body, so it is better to explain it to them.
"Official, misunderstanding!" Hua Luo did the same.
"I'm not the chicken thief they say, my name is Hua Xiaoluo, I'm from heaven, ah no! I'm from other places, I was robbed by robbers, and I ended up here. ”
After speaking, he looked at the surrounding farmers with innocent and sad eyes.
He didn't believe it, if there was really a so-called chicken thief, he could still lie in the rice field like him and wait to die.
For a creature like chicken, he had only seen propaganda advertisements in some human gathering places in interstellar metropolises, and the huge reproduction and expansion of human beings had long since replaced the regular diet with replica cultured meat and energy hunger pills. I can't imagine that this branch of the human race, which I don't know what kind of vein, still retains animal husbandry such as raising chickens.
Hua Luo's words are true and false, the surrounding villagers and peasants look at each other, and the low level of education makes their ability to discern insufficient. And as he said, it is really incomprehensible that the chicken thief can not make a sound in the middle of the night, and finally sleep on the edge of this wheat field.
"Stop talking nonsense. The officers and soldiers were a little impatient: "If you have anything to say, talk to your grandfather Huang in the court and prison slowly, I see that you are dressed strangely and your expression is evasive, maybe you are a spy sent by the enemy country to explore the border defense of your country." ”
I thought it was just a chicken thief, and it should make sense to explain it a little, but now that he was suddenly suspected of being a spy, Hua Luo couldn't laugh or cry.
If he waits for a fight, these three thin officers and soldiers are definitely not his opponents, but if he offends the local political leaders, it is estimated that it will rise to an interstellar incident, and the inexplicable incident involved is enough for him to worry about, and the current situation is like a trivial matter.
"Don't worry, sir, I'll go with you. ”
Hualuo stood up and patted the dirt on his back. It didn't matter if he was lying on the ground, and after standing up straight, he found that Hua Luo was half a head taller than them as a whole, and some of the older farmers were still a little rickety, and Hua Luo looked like he stood out from the crowd. Being in outer space all year round, even if there is an artificial gravity system on board, the average height of human beings has been increased by more than ten centimeters.
"I'm tired of the official leading the way. ”
In Hua Luo's opinion, as long as he finds the leader of this power group and explains it, he will definitely be able to make sense, and when the time comes, he will find a high mountain, activate his own rescue beacon, and wait for rescue with peace of mind.
It was the turn of the little leader who claimed to be surnamed Huang who was surprised, and he knew very well who the person who stole the chicken was.
In addition to his brother-in-law who has nothing to do, he is idle all day long, he does have a history of stealing, not long ago he also sent a male and a female two chickens to honor himself, no one in the city reported to the official, and he enjoyed it with peace of mind, but he did not expect that in just three days, he heard that a farm at the foot of the city was stolen, and there were dozens of chickens missing, and he didn't want to care, and it was not worth taking care of. Today, when I heard that the chicken thief was caught, I thought of my brother-in-law, and I was so anxious that he came in person.
And then the above scene happened. He didn't care where Hua Luo came from, this city was comfortable, and there were not many strangers, not to mention any enemy spies and the like. He cares more about whether he can use this person to take the blame and throw an unknown person into prison, he is very good at it.
......
In the eyes of the village man, the leader led the chain and escorted Hua Luo, and the two behind him followed silently, and the four of them walked towards the border city.
Hua Luo explained to the officers and soldiers surnamed Huang while thinking about how to get out. Looking at the mountains and dense forests along the way, I also felt that if I was old in the future, this would be a good place to live.
But what he didn't know was that in recent years, there have been frequent wars in neighboring countries, and the reason why this place has not been affected is because it is located on the border, the land area is small, and the resources are scarce, and there is nothing to grab when they are backed by mountains and seas.
Therefore, it was basically ignored, and there was only a little bit of agriculture and fishing to trade with other countries, but because of the small area and the lack of information, some landlords who fled also lived here. However, the government is mediocre and greedy for enjoyment, and every year they will pay tribute to other countries, gold, silver, horses, cloth, etc. to seek refuge, taxes increase but there is no need to levy husbands, the bottom of the fishery and agriculture are constantly squeezed, and the original rich families are getting richer and richer. Ordinary working people, on the other hand, can only make ends meet.
When I came to the gate, the so-called castle tower was nothing more than a wall made of adobe bricks and stones, the wooden doors were extremely dilapidated in disrepair, and the passageways were relatively wide, even if two Hengemo people were side by side, they could pass calmly.
There was a guard standing on the left and right of the door, but these two people were very old, and in Hua Luo's opinion, they were older than their uncles, and they were listless, if it weren't for the appearance of the four people who entered the city, this place would look lifeless.
"It's the Yellow Sect Association that is back!" the two guards stood up a little straighter, "Congratulations to the Yellow Sect Association for handling the case quickly, and capturing this chicken thief as soon as he got out of the horse." ”
The person who was called the Yellow Sect Association was the leader of the officers and soldiers who escorted Hua Luo, and he had long been accustomed to the flattery of these people, so he nodded casually and ordered: "Wait a minute, if you meet Li Changfu who came back from outside the city, let him give Lao Tzu an point these days, and if he doesn't do his job all day, he will tell me to wipe his ass." ”
After speaking, he escorted Hua Luo into the city without looking back. It was only then that Hua Luo realized that he had entered the tiger's mouth. In the gloating expression of the soldier guarding the gate, he had a hunch of his serious inadequacy in the analysis of the situation.
This is obviously trying to make himself a scapegoat, this surnamed Huang knows who stole the chicken, but he wants to pull himself to blame.
It is absolutely unreliable to let him take him to meet the power leaders here, and he must find a way to escape, and at the same time secretly blame himself.
In similar things, I always believe too much in the so-called fairness and justice, and then become fat meat to be slaughtered.
Hua Luo suddenly became alert.
"Oops", Hua Luo took the opportunity to squat down.
"What's the matter, don't play tricks with me!" Huang Jiaoxie tugged at Hua Luo's tattered collar.
"It's okay, it's okay!" Hua Luo patted the dirt and twisted his foot a few times and said, "I walked a little far, and my legs were a little sore." ”
"Tired, wait until you enter the court, let you rest enough"
What kind of ghost did you rest in that court, at first glance, it was the interrogation room of the interstellar prison that took the prisoner out of anger, when he was wrongfully accused of molesting women, he really walked through a low-level prison, and Hua Luo still understands the truth that the world is as black as a crow. I just crouched down to check if the multi-purpose dagger and spare electromagnetic gun that I had hidden under the trouser leg were still there, but fortunately they were tied firmly enough. It's convenient to wait and run away.
Suddenly coming to the ground, Hua Luo's legs were weak at first, but now, as long as he wants to run, no one wants to stop him, and when he finds an open field, he launches a distress beacon, and slowly waits for people to come to the rescue, Hua Luo has regarded this planet as a barbaric first-class civilization.
Entering the city, a new world is revealed, although the city wall is dilapidated, but because there is no invasion of war, the people are thriving, and the roadside vendors are quite complicated. There are inns, post stations, and teahouse stages.
A caravan not far away was getting ready to go, and there was a faint sound of 'clanging' from the blacksmith shop.
Hua Luo was completely stunned, all of this was exactly the same as his classical art performance when he was a child. Even, the art show is not so real.
I can't really travel back in time!