I'm Really Strong

"Old man, may I ask if Le Lang City is in this direction?"

Bai Ziqing stopped an old man who was in a hurry, and the old man saw that Bai Ziqing and Esthers were not like villagers, so he nodded indifferently and pointed to the road without saying a word. then left.

Seeing the back of the old man leaving, Bai Ziqing said: "Let's go."

At this moment, Esdeth asked, "What do you mean by what you said before?"

"Which sentence?"

"Become a monster."

Esdeath's eyes were bright, and he seemed to be recalling the scene when Bai Ziqing turned into a dragon, and also the moment when Bai Ziqing reversed time: "Is there anything wrong with being a monster?"

"...No, I'm not talking about the body turning into a monster, but here."

Bai Ziqing counted the girl's heart, squatted down, and looked at Esdeth with a calm face.

Then, Bai Ziqing spit out another word.

"Heart, spirit, soul...that sort of thing.

"As long as you stick to this place, no matter how indescribable your physical body becomes, you are still a "person".And if this place is depraved, then even if you wear human skin, you will eventually become a sad "monster". "

Estes didn't understand.

There is no reason for a twelve-year-old child to understand such vague truths.

Seeing this, Bai Ziqing didn't intend to make any further remarks.

"Your father taught you that you died only because you were weak" right?What you Baluts have always believed in is "power is truth", right?Then you just think like this, I, Bai Ziqing, am stronger than your father, so what I say is more correct than your father. "

"Ok!"

Estes understood this sentence.

"Then, someone who is stronger than your father said that "even the weak have meaning to live", you may not understand now, because what I said is different from your father, so you have to slowly understand by yourself, go experience.Of course, this takes time. "

Bai Ziqing stood up and stroked the girl's hair.

Just as the two were about to move on, they cast their eyes on the village entrance on the other side of the hill, and an "interesting" scene happened.

Surrounded by a group of soldiers wearing standard armor, a middle-aged man dressed as a civil servant stood solemnly at the entrance of the village, talking with an old man who looked like the village chief.

They heard the dispute at the entrance of the village.

"Didn't you just pay the tax last month! Aiji!" The village chief's hand holding the cane was trembling, and he called the tax collector by name.

"...that's a tax paid to the empire."

The tax collector's voice was low, calm, and resolute, but Bai Ziqing clearly saw the helplessness in the tax collector's eyes.

"Not only last month, we also paid taxes last month! A huge tax! You loaded up the food, the cloth, and the little money you had saved so hard to take away, transported away, taken away They also confiscated everyone’s children to mines, leaving only us old bones and some women and children to farm, weave, and make money for you..."

"...Last month and last month, it was the tax of Lelang City." The tax collector interrupted the village chief in a low voice, "This time, it is the tax of a foreign nation in the north."

"Ha, a foreign nation in the north. A foreign nation... a foreign nation! You all know that it is a foreign nation! Why do you have to pay taxes!"

"If you don't pay taxes, everyone will die!"

The silent tax collector suddenly suppressed it with a voice louder than that of the village head, and immediately lowered his voice as if he knew he was impolite.

"I don't think about it, no one thinks about it, grandpa... now I just pay money, food and supplies, and if I hand it over, I can live. Everyone is safe and sound. If we don't pay it, we will be greeted by the blood of the children..."

Estes was dumbfounded when he heard the call.

The tax collector is the grandson of the village chief.

Estes looked at Bai Ziqing again, but Bai Ziqing shook his head and muttered softly, "Let's go."

"……where to?"

"Le Lang City."

Chapter 10 I brought life and hope [Fifth update]

Le Lang City.

"...Ahhh, is this Lelang City? It's really desperate."

Walking on the street, Bai Ziqing expressed such emotion.

The wooden and stone-based houses are neatly arranged, and the Taishou Pavilion seen from a distance is quite magnificent. There is no doubt that this city has been carefully designed when it was built, but no matter how neat the buildings are , No matter how grand it is, it can't hide the despair here.

Because of the long period of disrepair, these neat and dignified buildings in the past, how prosperous this city was, and now this decay has transformed an equal amount of prosperity into an equal amount of despair.

Despair lingers in people's hearts, which will further transform a few emotions into despair.

"It should be the most prosperous area, including the villages around the city, but people's faces are completely lifeless. The types of goods displayed on the stalls are very incomplete, and few young and middle-aged men can hardly be seen. Others The eyes are also pure emptiness. Even in terms of the number of people, it is pitiful.

Bai Ziqing held Esdeth's hand, and walked on the streets of the city, observing the city while some people had no curiosity at all, and only glanced back at them.

Even the sporadic young and middle-aged people, except for the guards and garrison, are all sitting in a damp corner holding a wooden board with the words "Please give me a job", waiting for the tomorrow that I don't know if it will come the sick or disabled.

Obviously there is a serious shortage of labor force, but they can't find a means of making a living.

"There is almost no logistics at all. In this case, the flow of money is also stagnant. Once the flow of money is stagnant, the money itself will become scrap metal. It is only natural that the entire financial system collapses and is lifeless. And in this case , The triple taxation of the empire, the city, and the foreign nation is like three mountains, and it is a miracle that there is still a breath left.

"Super high school-level despair, this place makes people feel an urge to burn it all down..."