Otome's Law of Ascension

Chapter 71

Licia was most curious about whether the firearms came from across the Eye of the Dead Sea, or whether they had originally appeared in the Thorn Empire.

"It looks very round, why would you use it to kill people?" Dimitri was puzzled.

Keith shook his head and tossed the bullet into the jar Licia handed over.

Lycia knew what it was, but she dared not say it.

It's useless to say it, this is the first time Licia has come into contact with such things as bullets.

"Bring this thing back to Lantcos City and have someone investigate it." Troy leaned over and picked up an iron chain in his hand. "What is this? It looks like a torture device."

"And this?" Caroline chopped off a piece of charcoal with an ax and drew out an iron rod. "It's like this one too."

Afterwards, many instruments of torture were discovered from under the ruins one after another.

"Your Highness, does the Empire allow lynching?" Licia looked at the piles of instruments of torture.

"It's not allowed on the surface." Dimitri stepped on a high place with one foot.

"No wonder the whole village died, they chose to burn the whole village clean." Fudomi crossed her arms.

"We still have to find the girl from before and ask about it." Licia regretted letting the girl go yesterday afternoon.

"She said she wanted to buy a house, we can go to the housing transaction center to find her." Licia pulled Jisi. "Gith, let's go."

Keith responded immediately, grabbed a handful of pictures from the ground, put them under his nose, took a deep breath, and followed.

Dimitri didn't stop Licia either.

*

"Little girl?" The staff of the housing transaction center ran over enthusiastically after seeing Licia. "It seems that there is indeed one. Go to the third room in the corridor on the left."

Licia and Keith walked over quickly.

"Hey, you are indeed here." Licia showed a friendly smile and waved to the little girl who was picking out a pile of drawings.

"It's you!" The skinny little girl had a paper bag hanging on her waist, the inside of which was soaked in oil. It seemed that she had bought a lot of food.

"What's the matter?" The little girl first showed a big smile, and then took a step back as if thinking of something.

"It's not that they came to ask me for money." Compared with yesterday, the girl is much more energetic.

"No, no, no, we just want to ask you some questions, um, let's consult. If we delay your time, we will compensate you." Licia said hastily. "Of course, if it doesn't take too long for you to choose a house, we can wait for a while."

The girl grinned. "OK, no problem."

She pointed to a drawing. "Boss, this is the building, five gold coins, right?"

Licia watched in amazement as she quickly paid the money, and then got a volume of drawings with numbers and seals and a key. "I can invite you to my new home."

After walking for more than ten minutes, Licia stood in front of a single two-story wooden house.

"I'll live on the second floor. I can raise some livestock on the first floor." The little girl opened the door, and a musty smell came over the surface.

Licia coughed twice, and even Gies couldn't help but tucked up the veil, but the little girl walked in as if she hadn't smelled it, folded three scattered stools, and moved them up.

"Let's go to the upper floor and sit down." She was very thin, but she was very strong.

Lizia looked around the entire first floor, there was no furniture, no floor tiles, it was an uneven dirt floor.

"Are you sure you want to buy this one?" Licia stepped up the creaking stairs.

"Yeah, I also think it's very expensive. The house in the city is the cheapest. I thought it only cost two gold coins yesterday."

Keith wanted to help the little girl move the stool, but she refused.

Licia opened the window on the second floor and looked up at the roof. It was estimated that it would be very hot in summer.

"But I'll fix it myself," she said optimistically. "Please take a seat, you are the first and second guests in my new home."

The little girl was very happy after owning her own house, and kept looking around the house, looking very satisfied.

"By the way, I haven't asked your name yet." Licia sat down and held Geese who almost sat on the ground again.

"Azuo." The little girl shook her legs.

"Hi Zuo, I'm Licia, this is Keith. How old are you?" Licia stretched out her right hand, but the little girl obviously couldn't shake hands, so Licia patted her on the shoulder.

"16 years old, hello, Miss Licia, and Miss Keith." Zuo continued to shake his legs, "Do you want to ask about our village?"

Licia nodded. "Yes, we are in your village, it's called Qi Village, right?"

Ah Zuo nodded.

"We found some iron chains and iron rods in the ruins. They seem to be used to hurt people, and they are torture tools." Licia did not expect that Zuo was 16 years old.

Ah Zuo, who seemed very young, stopped shaking his legs, and looked at Lizia with a pair of eyes. "Are you from elsewhere, a stronger sheriff?"

Gisdalecia nodded. "That's right."

"Yes, the rules in the village." Ah Zuo brushed up his sleeves, all the way to his shoulders.

Lycia saw that her entire upper arm was covered with scars. "Is this? Is it because of those things?"

Ah Zuo nodded calmly. "Every week, whoever votes the laziest gets punished."

"I was beaten twice, and I almost died every time. I was almost a fool, almost every time I was beaten by a fool." Zuo lowered his sleeves. "But luckily in the end, he got revenge in the end."

Ah Zuo looked as if his revenge had been avenged.

"Is this normal?" she asked Lycia.

Licia shook her head. "No, the Empire of Thorns prohibits the abuse of lynching."

Ah Zuo nodded. "However, every time I call the sheriff, they always think it's the right thing to do, that lazy people deserve to be beaten."

Licia never thought that there would be such a village. "Voting? Fair?"

The evaluation of whether a person is lazy or not is actually by voting.

Ah Zuo shook his head. "No, the village chief never does anything, but no one voted for him. I wrote his name, but the votes were not read out in the end."

"If everyone hates someone, or thinks someone looks weaker, they will vote for him." Zuo continued. "After I was beaten twice, I learned to be good. I gave something to the village chief and the vote tellers every week, so that I didn't get beaten."

"Actually, I think the village chief just wanted to hit someone. When he burned my arm with a soldering iron, he looked very happy." Zuo rubbed his arm unconsciously.

Licia didn't know what to say, she was silent for a moment, and Gies didn't speak, so Zuo continued to talk.

"The idiot was very miserable. It was him almost every time afterwards, but he was in good health. Sometimes I thought it would be better if he was beaten to death." There was no trace of emotion on Zuo Zuo's face. She herself was already suffering and had no energy. To sympathize with others.

"So, how did he get a fire-breathing stick?" Lycia asked.

Jisi is also looking at Ah Zuo, trying to determine whether she is lying through divination.

"I gave it to him." Ah Zuo opened his palm. "I picked it up."

Jisi gave Licia a thumbs up, indicating that Zuo has been telling the truth.

"I picked it up by the river." Zuo said. "I don't know what it is. The fool was digging the ground, so I gave it to him."

The clue seemed to be broken again, and Licia glanced at Keith. "If it's just picked up by the river, it seems to be nowhere to be found."

Ah Zuo stood up, ran to the window, and measured the size with his hands. "I also need to buy a piece of cloth to cover the window. I have to work at night. I earn more money at night and sleep during the day."

A Zuo seemed to have no guilt at all for the fact that the whole village was indirectly responsible for her being killed. After Licia asked about it, she couldn't wait to start planning her room.

"By the way, the idiot has escaped. Although I don't know that he hasn't escaped for so many years, why did he escape at the end? Maybe he was waiting for this moment?" A Zuo seemed to be afraid that Licia and the others would not give him money. Come back and sit down.

Keith shook his head. "Instead of running away, you hid him."

At this moment, Ah Zuo's complexion changed. "How do you know?"

Lycia handed her a gold coin. "Take us to have a look, it can be regarded as not you hiding criminals."

Ah Zuo took the gold coin and immediately stood up. "Let's go."

Lycia put her hands in the weapon pouch and let Keith walk behind her.

The two of them followed Ah Zuo out of the city and ran to the wilderness.

Then, in the deep reeds, I saw a man lying on the ground eating bread, aged over 30 years old.

"To be honest, this idiot is my father." A Zuo grabbed the man's feet.

Geese is too lazy to do divination, this Zuo obviously lacks a muscle in his brain.

"Are you looking for this stick?" Zuo squatted down and pulled a pistol out of the fool's hand.

Although it looked different from what Licia had seen in her previous life, she was sure that it was indeed a pistol.

"Can you catch this idiot later, he seems to have not had a good life for a few days since he was stupid in his life, wait for him to be happy for a few more days." Zuo begged Lizia heartlessly, and put the pistol away. In Lycia's hands. "This is for you, I won't charge any more."

Licia was a little scared, for fear of accidentally bumping into it. "After arresting him, he will not be executed immediately." Touching a gun for the first time in two lifetimes.

Ah Zuo scratched his head in embarrassment. "Will he be beheaded?"

"Yes." Licia said firmly.

The idiot was still looking at the sky, moving his feet up and down.

"He's more comfortable in a cell than out in the wild," said Lycia.

Ah Zuo pulled out a reed and said dejectedly. "Okay, you guys bring someone to catch him, he can't run away like this."

Licia was about to take Jiss to find someone, and she was not afraid of them escaping, as the key things had already been obtained.

On the reed ground, a crocodile was crawling towards Licia and the others at a very slow speed.

"Be careful, Keith!" Licia pulled out Selene from the bag, Selene was Silver Ring's new name.

The crocodile head is easily chopped up.

Ah Zuo rushed over with bright eyes, and his shoes stepped into a pool of blood from the crocodile. "You are so powerful."

Ah Zuo's hand touched the crocodile's body that was not completely stiff. "Can this crocodile meat be given to me?"

Licia wiped the surface of the Selene Ring with a reed leaf, then nodded.

Keith followed Licia and found her a little unhappy.

"You look very unhappy." Keith had already taken off his shoes and hugged him in his arms, walking barefoot in the reed field. "I guess it's because the development of this matter is different from what you imagined."

Licia nodded. "It's not the same. I don't understand why people in that village tolerate the village chief's evil deeds, and I don't understand why the girl named Zuo is like this. I can't tell whether she is good or not." Li Thea paused.

"Before I was called a hated child of God, I would never have imagined that someone would kill just for the fields," Keith said. "Miss Licia, God will not try to understand what everyone is thinking, let alone judge whether everyone is good or bad."

Licia took a look at Geese, and she felt that at least Geese was a very kind and nice person. "Are you teaching me to be a god, hahahahahahaha."

Licia handed the barrel to Dimitri, and told him that it seemed to be a highly lethal weapon that civilians could use proficiently.

This made Dimitri treat the hot weapon that appeared by the river with a very cautious attitude.

Ah Zuo's stupid father was imprisoned in a cell next to the two dereliction of duty magistrates.

"This idiot has been explained to someone, and all the procedures are two weeks late." The warden explained it again.

"What about us!" the two former sheriffs asked loudly.

"You guys, set off tomorrow and send them to exile."

*

The more Licia thought about it on the way back, the more she felt that the sudden appearance of hot weapons in this world was unreasonable and completely inconsistent with the development direction of the entire empire.

In the Empire of Thorns, almost everything is made on the basis of heraldic power.

Licia decided that after returning to Lantcos City this time, she needed to exchange some information with Flindorna.

She thought that maybe the people on the other side had arrived quietly.

And there's a good chance they're in the age of steam, not magic.

Of course, in the scene of the divination before Guise, the flying gunboat.

It is very likely that the Eye of the Dead Sea is already an era where magic and steam coexist.

"Licia, what are you thinking?" Dimitri didn't know when he squeezed into Licia's carriage again.

Dimitri didn't continue his so-called four-person meeting until Licia came to his senses.

"Although I encountered a lot of dangers when I went out this time, I obviously gained more."

Troy couldn't help nodding.

"Your Highness, we will not forget what you arranged."

Licia also nodded quickly. "I'll contact Count Ascha when I get back to school."

"Gith looks like he can help you," Dimitri said. "Do you need me to help her arrange an identity and enter the Academy of Heraldry to study?"

Licia hesitated. "let me consider it."

Going to school can make it easier to get in touch with Geese frequently, but at the same time it means that Geith will be completely exposed to Futespa's vision.

Instead of going to school, Geese can often return to Black Pearl City, and can help Licia complete some distant things.

"Well, forget it, don't bother Your Highness." Licia replied after careful consideration.

"Don't worry about troubling me, I mainly want you to help me better." Dimitri obviously misunderstood something.

(End of this chapter)