Chapter 244: The Greek Storm (3)
The autumn wind gusted through the fertile plains, causing ripples in the countless golden wheat fields of the plains.
Autumn represents a bountiful harvest. Most people attach great importance to this season, because the quality of this season directly affects the living situation of this year, and even whether the family will still be rich in the coming year depends on this season.
"Jack, how is your wheat harvest this year?"
Jack, who was in his early forties, wore sackcloth and had been farmers for generations in his family for as long as he could remember. In the past, although the land was his own, in reality all his year's hard work was spent cultivating the land for the lords, lords, nobles, and churches in the city.
Every year, 10% of the harvest must be scraped away by the city lords, lords and nobles, and the guardian church of the city will also scrape off 20%, and the remaining 20% will not be able to enter their own granaries, because some city administrators will try their best to withhold their grain.
In the event of a natural disaster, most farmers will not only not receive any harvest, but will also be punished by the 'vampires' in the city.
And the wheat fields are full of farmers who work as hard as Jack. Although these farmers are covered with sweat, the smiles on their faces are so lovely.
While wiping the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, Jack replied to the neighbor who was speaking to him: "Mike, you must know that the time of Zeus is gone, and the world of the gods has passed. No one can exploit us at will, and there is no more vampire administration to tax us harshly. Regardless of whether this year's harvest is good or bad, this year is the happiest year for me. ”
Now, there are no more guardians in every city, and most of the nobles who have sucked the blood of the common people have been captured, and even the chief executives who run the city have been replaced. Most importantly, there were no more wars in the Greek world for the faith of the population, and there was no more such thing as the collection of miscellaneous taxes for the sake of war.
In this way, they no longer have to pay excess taxes in addition to the usual urban construction taxes. Whether it is a common person in the market or a farmer in the farmland, everyone has deeply felt the change in their lives, and they no longer have to worry about how to live.
"Yes, isn't this the kind of life we longed for before?thanks to Gaia, the Mother of the Earth, and to Nyx, the Mother of the Night!" a farmer close to Jack praised the two creator gods who brought them a new life on the spot.
In the wheat field, there was a peasant who often had a meal and a meal and said with emotion: "Yes, if Zeus and they were still around, I can't believe how much hunger and cold we would have to endure and how long we would have to live in the dark." ”
"That is, Zeus deserves to die. I heard the eldest of our clan say that in the past, our Greek world was not what it is now, but at that time our Greek world had the land of Kyushu, and at that time, Kyushu could be compared with the area of our continent at that time. ”
"How big is that? How many plains do we have to have? How much grain does we have to harvest every year? Oh my God, I can't believe how vast our world used to be!"
As soon as there were more people, the topic gradually began to deviate, but despite this, these people seemed to be very happy, and each of them had something called happiness on their faces.
At this moment, Mike quietly came to Jack's side and asked, "Hey, Jack." I've finished harvesting all the grain here, do you want me to help you?"
Jack was surprised, "What! Have you already finished harvesting your food? Damn, you're so fast, I've never seen you so efficient before." ”
"Hey, hey, hurry back and take my baby girl to a rugby game. Mike said mysteriously, as if there was some ulterior secret.
As Mike continued to harvest the grain in the wheat field, he asked, "What is that? Why have I never heard of such a thing except athletic games?"
"Oh my God, don't you know that athletic games have been completely outlawed? This wicked, dark game was born to please the noble men, and that's not the rugby game I'm talking about. ”
"Really? Then I should have gone and seen it. ”
At night, Thebes is bustling and lively, and the former arena is once again overcrowded, with the arena as the center, and countless miles around it are brightly lit.
"Dad, why are these people different from us? Why do they have black hair and black eyes? Even their skin is so different from us. ”
In the arena, looking at the people who appeared in the arena one after another, eight-year-old Jason tilted his head and asked Jack, who was sitting on his right.
"yes, Dad, I've never seen any of these people. Are these people from another city?" to Jason's left was a little girl about six years old, who was also asking questions, but not Jack, but her father, Mike, who was sitting next to her.
Mike looked at his baby daughter with a doting face, touched her head and said, "Oh, my lovely virgin." First of all, I want to say that this is also the first time I have seen these people with black hair, black eyes, and yellow skin. It is said that these people are not from our Greek world, and they seem to have come from the Great Fortune Direction. ”
Little Jason tilted his head and asked, "What a strange name, is that also a world?"
"No, no. The Great Fortune Dynasty is not a world, it is a Dynasty, and there are many worlds in this Dynasty. Seemingly attracted by the topic of these people, a man in the front row of Jack suddenly turned around and said.
"Oh, you're Jonathan! Sir Jonathan, I really didn't expect to see you here!" Jack exclaimed in disbelief when he saw the man's face.
When the city administrators of the old era were put on trial one by one, there would certainly be another group of administrators on their heels, and this Jonathan was one of the city officials of Thebes.
This is an official with no background, and his background is not different from Jack's, both from the lowest level of the city of Thebes. But Jonathan is indeed a capable person, and people born in Thebes basically know that Jonathan exists, and it is because of this that he can get the attention of Neleus.
Jonathan shook his head and said, "Jack, I'm not a chief, I'm just an assistant to the mayor, and I don't have any official position yet." I heard the mayor say that after the two creation gods opened the dynasty, there will be officials in our Greek world. ”
"Daddy, uncle. You're so noisy, don't you know the game has begun?" said little Jason dissatisfied, pulling his dad Jack's arm.
As if knowing that little Jason was dissatisfied, Jonathan said apologetically: "Oh, I'm sorry little Jason, I didn't know the game started." So Jack, we'll talk about that later. ”
"Mike, did you notice, they were wearing completely different clothes than we were, one group was wearing red, and the other was wearing blue. I love their clothes. Just as Jason and Virgin stared intently at the group, Jack whispered to Mike.
"I can see that this game seems to be completely different from the one I've known before! it looks like one group of people against another..."Jack frowned, equally puzzled.
Wow!
At this moment, the game began, and the forwards of both teams collided directly with each other without warning!
This scene was so exciting, everyone in the arena stood up at this moment, they didn't expect this rugby game to bring everyone a high/tide at the beginning!
"Oh my God. Look at it, they don't have weapons in their hands, and they don't have any armor on their bodies, so they just hit each other straight to the point!"
"No, no, no, don't you notice? The strength of these people is so amazing, their ** is as strong as a dragon, you look at the feet of those six people, the ground under their feet is cracked, as if they have been trampled directly by some powerful force..."
The first wave of ** directly shocked everyone in the arena, and among them, people with a careful heart immediately discovered that these people were unusual.
"What?!What did I see, a whole bunch of people were running after the man with the ball! Are they going to kill the man? It doesn't seem fair at all!" someone who had been to the arena more than once screamed.
In the old arenas, it was either man and man dueling, or man and beast duel. They fight each other to produce a winner, and it is usually a one-on-one duel, and it is rare for a certain group of people to gather all together to chase and kill.
"Oh, he's been caught, is he going to die? what? The men in blue actually pinned down the man? one, two, three... Damn, so many big men were able to crush that poor man to death!"
The second high/tide appeared, but there was no scene of fighting, but it still appeared in the eyes of everyone in the arena in an alternative way.
"This competition is very unusual, these people are certainly not ordinary people! You see, some of them are as strong as oxen, and they seem to have incredible strength in them. And the guy who passes the ball as soon as he receives it is not simple, he seems to have ten pairs of eyes, and he can actually grasp the entire arena, and every ball he passes is so precise and precise!"
"Not only that, but there are people on the pitch who look like they have nothing to do, but you find that no, it's just someone who isn't on your team who grabs the ball, and the group of people is going crazy and going after that guy. And they're so fast, it's incredible, I've never seen anyone compare to them!"
"I said, aren't you, didn't you even read the explanation of the game before you came to see the game? These people are not all ordinary people, it is said that they are all cultivators, people with cultivation qualifications. ”
Halfway through the game, the people in the arena gradually came to their senses, and they began to talk to each other one by one, as if they had discovered something unusual.