Daxuan Dynasty.

Southern Province, Qingshui Village.

On a small hillside, He Yue looked at the small village not far away, and asked with a smile:

"Brother Ming, there is a small village in front, shall we go in and take a look?"

"Go in and take a look, walk all the way to the wilderness, and finally see people."

Li Ming nodded and walked down the hill first.

The old man of Donggong was seriously injured, and although he could still barely fly, the speed of the road was inevitably dragged down a lot.

Looking at the surrounding environment, Li Ming was a little puzzled.

How could this Great Xuan Dynasty also be the number one force in the Middle Continent, and how could its territory be so desolate.

Along the way, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is thousands of miles of red land.

Thinking so, he looked at Donggong Jiwu and asked

, "Old man, isn't your Great Xuan Dynasty very strong?" How did you get out of the city and see no people for thousands of miles? Donggong

Jiwu held the sleeping little Qingjing in his arms, and was silent for a long time when he heard Li Ming's question.

Sighing and saying: "My Great Xuan Dynasty is enemies on all sides, the northern territory has been at war with the Blood Demon Sect for a hundred years, the demon beasts in the southern sea are in chaos, and there is no peace, and the eastern border where I am stationed, in the past fifty years, hundreds of thousands of good men have died in battle, and the western border is a little better, and the truce just three years ago."

"Such a situation is indeed dangerous." Li Ming echoed and said suspiciously: "Judging from the city we just left, it is actually quite prosperous, why is it so desolate as soon as we leave the city?"

Li Ming clearly remembered that no matter who entered the city, he needed to pay the entry tax.

The tax for entering the city is calculated according to spirit stones, how can ordinary people take it.

The singing and dancing in the city are level, the flowers are like flowers, and the red land outside the city is thousands of miles, and there are no people.

Where did the people who could not enter the city go?

Donggong Jiwu hesitated and said, "Does Gu Xiaoyou know how Daxuan collects taxes?" "

I don't know."

"Collect taxes inside the city, send troops outside the city."

Donggong Jiwu said with an ugly face.

"The rich pay for food, and any poor people who have nothing go to play with their lives?"

Li Ming was shocked, which was also ridiculous.

"That's right."

"What if anyone doesn't want to?"

"...,"

Donggong Jiwu's face became more and more ugly

, and said, "In the land of thousands of miles under the jurisdiction of each city, anyone who disrespects the order will be sent by the defenders in the city, demolishing their houses, arresting their people, and their wives will be used as conscripts."

Li Ming was speechless for a long time, and he held out a sentence: "It really deserves to be a feudal dynasty." "

Just like that, can it still be called strong?

If it were himself, he would have rebelled long ago!

But when you think about it, a Qi Drawing Realm cultivator can torture dozens of ordinary people, and the poor people who can't even pay the so-called entry tax to the city, what can they fight with the Central Dynasty?

High-level cultivators were like weapons of mass destruction in their previous lives, with their suppression, even if all the ordinary people in the Daxuan Territory were united, they would only be slaughtered.

And most frighteningly, they left a way out of the situation.

Entry tax.

No matter if you steal or rob, as long as you make up enough taxes to enter the city, you can become a city person.

Maybe there is no place to live, you can only live on the street, and you can do miscellaneous work all your life, but it is better than being forcibly caught on the battlefield and losing your life.

A small tax on entering the city, separating the two worlds....

Saying that, several people had already arrived at the entrance of the village.

Strangely, at a glance, not a single wisp of cooking smoke rose in the village.

Looking around, He Yue frowned and said

, "Brother Ming, something is wrong."

"Let's go ahead and see what's going on."

No hesitation.

A few people strode into the village, and the houses made of various loess rammed clay were covered with simple thatch, and the roads were full of potholes, and blood stains solidified into dark black lumps could be seen everywhere.

"This is... Beast claws?

Donggong Jiwu stopped, approached a wall riddled with holes, groped with his hands, and affirmed:

"Here, it has been swept away by a small-scale beast tide."

Hearing this, He Yue's face instantly became gloomy, and an irrepressible killing intent enveloped the surroundings.

The hometown was destroyed by the beast tide....

On that day, more than a thousand people in the village, except for himself and Brother Ming, died.

"Let's go inside first and see if there are any living people."

Li Ming's face is also not very good-looking, he and his predecessor are not reborn, but fuse with each other.

Now.

In my mind, those fragmented images kept coming to mind.

Little boy covered in blood, dirty little girl crying almost fainting, and broken corpses all over the place.

In the chest, anger is rampant.

After a few people searched around, they stopped in the center of the village.

"There are no more living people."

He Yue's face was expressionless, and his tone was extremely cold.

Li Ming looked at Donggong Jiwu, "Does this kind of thing happen often?" "

“...... Many.

"My son and husband died in battle, and my wife and children at home were unprotected?"

Donggong

Jiwu was speechless, his old cheeks full of loneliness, as if he had aged dozens of years in an instant.

Guard the frontier yourself and fight for a hundred years.

What's the point?

Are they guarding the dignitaries who are drunk and dreaming of death in the city, or these people who are dead without bones?

Li Ming sneered: "You dynasty, it's really funny." "

Squeak~"

A very subtle sound came.

Not far away, the lid of the humble well opened a gap.

A pair of timid eyes looked out.

"Ding, uneasiness +5 from the little wood."

The system prompt tone sounded abruptly.

"And someone!"

Li Ming instantly disappeared in place.

In an instant, it was already at the mouth of the well.

Aura gushes, and the thin stone manhole cover floats up on its own.

Floating up with the manhole cover, there was also a little boy who was sour and smelly, so dirty that he couldn't see it.

Li Ming hurriedly put it down, squeezed out a gentle smile, and said softly: "Don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person." The

little boy looked like he was about five or six years old, blinking his black and white eyes and staring timidly at Li Ming.

Take a few steps back and crouch close to the wall.

The dirty palm grabbed the stone slab in front of him, hiding his small body behind.

"Brother Ming, I'll come."

He Yue stepped forward and slowly squatted down in front of the little boy.

Softly:

"Can you speak?" Will just nod, will not shake the head.

The little boy hesitated for a long time and nodded.

He Yue smiled and touched his sticky hair, without the slightest disgust in his eyes, and continued: "Don't you speak because you are afraid? The

little boy nodded.

"Is there anyone else? Tell your sister, it's okay if your sister takes you away. Hearing

this, the little boy glanced at the wellhead slightly, and then immediately withdrew it.

Gritting his teeth, his body trembled slightly:

"No... There is no one else, if you want to eat, eat the little wood.

"Brother Wood, you are not allowed to eat Brother Wood, woo-woo, bad guy!"

At the mouth of the well, a small figure climbed out of the thick hemp rope with great difficulty.

Staggering and running to the little boy's side.

Hold him tight.

......

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