Volume 1 Southern Boys Chapter 120: Undercurrents are surging
Time seems to be as imprisonable as mud and sand in the hand, and it seems to pass abruptly in the snap of a finger. It has been a month since the first transformation of his life began on the night of the funeral, from an ordinary civilian hunter to a soul master with refined strength.
The season in the Southern Regions has also entered the middle and end of May, and after the flood season that sometimes rained at night half a month ago, the sun shone under the clear sky.
A group of people dragged their bodies with varying degrees of injuries after the battle and returned to the mansion of Linfu.
In the north courtyard of Linfu, Fu Ye and the others went straight to the bounty hall and delivered the bounty task this time. As promised, soon, after the woman's review Song Wei handed over her the bounty number, after confirming that it was correct, she exchanged it for a bag of soul coins.
Out of the hall, the seven people divided the cloth bag with 1,000 soul coins, originally Song Wei proposed to divide the funeral night into two hundred soul coins, but the funeral night insisted on taking only one hundred soul coins. In the end, after everyone discussed, each person shared an average of 150 soul coins except for the funeral night. Eventually, the sum was divided.
After getting the soul coin, everyone had a full meal in the cafeteria, and then Wu Qiang said goodbye and everyone returned to the dormitory.
And it was in this process that the number of visitors in the house was significantly reduced on the night of the funeral, and the environment in the entire north courtyard seemed slightly stressed and dull.
In the food and water on the night of the funeral, it has been slightly speculated that it seems that this time the bounty list is not only a setback for his own team, but also an attack. Other doormen have had similar experiences.
Re-open the windows and doors of the dormitory, the breeze blows, the sunset shines near the dormitory from time to time, and the crisp red sunset makes the green leaves of the big trees next to the dormitory particularly sultry.
"His grandmother is really unlucky, we exchange our lives for money, treat our injuries and buy a few items, and we can't save a few dollars after working hard. I only heard Song Wei complain bitterly after changing his clothes, many scars on his body have been crusted, but his dazzling knife wounds are still relatively obvious.
"Yes, you tell me what we are doing as doormen, it's really hard to lick blood from the knife. Aofu said complainingly, and poured a sip of clear pure water, and his mouth suddenly burst into sweetness.
"Sometimes, I really envy the common people in the city, although life is a little harder, but basically carefree. Liao Wen sighed.
"Isn't it, the commoners suffer but live in the city and have the protection of the royal realm, basically except for a few traders who have the dream of making a fortune and need to go out of the city to buy goods, other civilians can live their lives in peace and security all their lives. ”
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"Do you really think so?" and just as everyone was discussing the hardships of life and yearning for the life of the commoners, at this moment the funeral night spoke, "Although the commoners have the comfortable days you say, have you ever thought about the price they need to bear behind them? ”
"Civilians, whether farming or doing business, need to pay a lot of taxes!" Just listening to the words of the funeral night, his expression gradually turned deep, "This tax will not only be handed over to the government of Biluo City, but also to the neutral forces in the territorial management, including the Puppet Master Alliance and the Beast Tamer Alliance, and so on. ”
"With the double financial repression, their actual income can be said to be very small. In addition, you are well aware of the exploitation of the bureaucracy, and they have to take a part of this income to bribe officials for protection. ”
"Although the average life expectancy of the civilians in the city is nearly three times that of ordinary soul people, they have been doing the most basic agricultural and commercial production for decades, and the difference between pay and return is so great. Haven't you thought about it?"
After everyone heard the words of the funeral night, they were stunned for a moment, and then they couldn't help but lower their heads and think about the meaning behind the words of the funeral night, after they were born young and ignorant, they entered the early stage of the psychic realm at the age of about ten years old, which also marks that the civilians who have left the out-of-body realm have subtly divided the class level.
And the funeral night, since he was sixteen years old or in the middle of the psychic realm, although as the predecessor of the hunter, his cultivation is not low, let alone the civilian class, but outside the city there is no environment protected by the royal realm and diplomatic exchanges, the identity of the funeral night has never been defined as a soul by the surrounding people and himself.
The real commoners lived in the city under the protection of the royal realm. This also requires the city government to issue a special proof token. Civilians from outside the city and those who enter the city from outside the city without proof of real estate tokens, they have never been recognized as "real" civilians by the administrators of the royal realm.
As a result, the housing in the city has almost become unsold real estate, and the new housing areas in the city have become sky-high.
In fact, this is also a means for the rulers in the small cities of the Southern Regions to fix the common people. With the passage of time and the continuous replacement of historical evolution, the commoners of the royal realm have formed this fixed concept and alternative 'civilian culture' for generations. At the same time, it was also a means for the secular royal power to consolidate its rule and prevent the commoners from being absorbed by external sect forces.
After a moment of silence, the funeral night saw that everyone had stopped their previous grumbling words, and he continued to say in a deep voice: "The world we live in is the reality of incomparably cruel exploitation. Everyone just needs the income of soul coins, and the internal forces that join the mansion to find a backer to settle down. ”
"This is also the only entry and exit for ordinary soul people in the Southern Regions. ”
"In our Soul Continent, the law of the jungle is not only human beings in the Southern Regions, but also soul beasts. ”
"Under the constraints of warmth, like-mindedness, morality and other feelings, unveiling this fragile veil is the reality of strength, and what we can do is to continuously improve our own cultivation in this torrent and live well. After the continuous words of the funeral night, he finally added in a low voice, "The weak can't even choose the way to die." ”
After He Yan listened carefully to the words of the funeral night, his heart was still full of confusion, but it suddenly disappeared, he stood up and walked to the window, looked at the moon and quietly hung up and said, "Brother Ye, that's right. We need to get stronger!"
He was deeply touched that He Yan was originally born in the middle-class puppet master family on the edge of the city, but because of the weakening of the family's strength, the middle way declined. I have a deep understanding of the words of the funeral night.
"Brother Bury is right, we can't lose faith in our hearts because of the danger of losing this bounty. One person's words, the atmosphere in the '79' dormitory suddenly changed, "We have been guests for so many years, how can we lose our hearts because of this!"
All the echoes suddenly rang out, and the day had turned into darkness, and the soul power of the funeral night moved, and the soul energy transmission lit the candles in the dormitory. Candle lamps are carried by something called "wax", which is burned through the scorching temperature of the soul source energy, which is also a universal thing for home lighting at night, and the same is true for the burning carrier of lanterns on the street.
After lighting the candles on the night of the funeral, he sat back in his place and continued to talk to Song Wei and the others, "In the afternoon, you told me what you thought about the words of those two people..."
"Yes. Song Wei nodded hurriedly, the implicit meaning in Xu Feng and Huzi's words, he desperately wanted to hear the opinions of the funeral night. But there was no answer at the funeral night, and it was indeed inconvenient at that time.
"I think the content of their words, we really need to pay more attention to. Funeral Night replied.
"Brother Ye is right, there is a lot of strange things in this. Tao Chao, who had a high IQ and EQ in the dormitory, immediately said, "Didn't you notice, when we came back, a large number of people were lost in the house, and when the bounty single task was completed on weekdays, Wang Long's group would take the opportunity to collect protection money, but I didn't see them today." And almost all of the doormen who also received the bounty and returned had a low momentum. ”
"Yes, that's right. It seems that we were lucky this time, there were no fatalities. Tomorrow I'll check out the other dormitories. Liao Wen said.
Sitting on the bench on the funeral night, the tips of his slender fingers lightly tapped on the tabletop and said lightly, "I think there are three possibilities. ”
"First, the bandits, sects and other forces outside the city have suppressed our disciple class. ”
"Second, the forces of the royal power in the city colluded with the disciples of our mansion and the forces outside the city to destroy us. ”
"Thirdly, within the power of the mansion... Carry out a plan to exterminate our doormen!"
The three words that were thunderous and slow on the night of the funeral undoubtedly shook the hearts of the other five people in the dormitory. After Tao Chao heard this, he subconsciously seemed to think of something, and after thinking about it, he was extremely afraid that his heart would suddenly surge like turbulent waves.
As an animal trainer, in addition to the daily work of the doorman, he will naturally come into contact with other animal trainers. Naturally, many people in the Beast Tamer Alliance infiltrated the political system in the city, and Tao Chao also found out a lot of incidents related to changes in the situation.
Once, it was when he went in and out of the alliance every day to study and cultivate, and inadvertently, he heard an elder in the spirit realm of the alliance mention that the Heaven Dou Sect and the Lingshan Sect had broken out several small-scale conflicts, and one of them seemed to mention the use of thieves, royal power, mansions, and doorman forces to fill the war...
What the funeral night said obviously did not make sense, and the hardship of this reward was very likely due to the fact that the royal power had not been satisfied with the influence of the mansion power, and indirectly eliminated the power of the doormen of their mansion. At the same time, it is also to dissipate the number of these casual cultivators so as not to enter the affiliated sect. Of course, what the actual inside story is, everyone does not know.
Nearly two hours had passed since the conversation, and after discussion, everyone came to concrete conclusions, sharing their own information and their own inferences.
"It's getting late, take a shower and get a good night's sleep!" I have been talking about it for two hours on the funeral night, and I have also got the answer I want, and all that remains is to communicate with the elder tomorrow.
This old man, since he forcibly used the enchantment to resist Cao Li's attack last time, it seems that he is still a little reluctant to use the power of the enchantment in an instant, and he has been asleep for more than a day.
And before leaving the dormitory to take a bath on the night of the funeral, he turned around and warned Song Weidao, "You have a good communication with that little fat man named Wu Qiang tomorrow, so that he will not go to receive the bounty list recently." And my secret is to emphasize to him that he must not spread it out, so that his mouth is tighter. ”
After that, Funeral Night walked towards the public bath behind the entire dormitory...