Yuanshin: The duty of the inspector is to eat melons

Chapter 166 Those intolerable things

Things have to start more than 120 years ago.

At that time, after the great cold wave in the Northwest, people realized that the fragile farming economy had no power to resist natural disasters.

Under the impetus of the Queen of Ice, Zhidong began to prepare for the reform of large and small cold disasters. She first proposed the concept of indoor crops, supported the construction of state-owned planting bases, and manpower-free farming machines came out one after another, solving the problems caused by random disasters. The influence of the future - it is much easier for the gods to protect an area in a concentrated way.

In addition, indoor crops have become less demanding on the climate. Even those places that the Ice Queen can't take care of, as long as they are not too close to the northwest, most extreme weather will no longer affect the agriculture in the winter.

Coupled with the popularization of advanced production tools, the farm no longer needs so many people, and the redundant labor quickly found its own way out.

manufacturing.

Zhidong's manufacturing industry has been barely self-sufficient for a long time in the past, and sometimes even imported from abroad.

With the emergence of this change, labor-intensive factories emerged rapidly at a speed exceeding the historical process, and it took less than half a year.

The corresponding legislation was introduced at the same time.

The two cooperated seamlessly, as if they had been planning for a long time, and caught the nobles who were still drunk and dreaming by surprise.

The biggest change brought about by this change is that the price of food has become very close to the people, and clothing and heating to keep out the cold have followed closely.

There will no longer be people who sell themselves into the manors of nobles in order to eat enough and resist extreme weather. Even if they change their attitudes towards serfs accordingly, people prefer to work in state-owned underground farms and guarantee their freedom.

Such changes were insignificant to the nobles at first, and they drank and feasted as usual.

Even if their serfs are self-breeding, it is enough for them to use.

Except for some families with a keen sense of smell, and enough courage and insight, they felt the wind of the storm at the very beginning, and joined the wave of development one after another.

In the beginning, these families were dubbed "speculators who lost their grace", and their existence was often excluded and ignored in the banquets held by each other, thinking that they were depraved people who were eager for money and lowered their stature to compete with foolish people.

The conservative aristocrats are still sinking in their self-made dreams.

Until the enactment of the Serf Reform Act.

The majestic and noble queen gave the nobles only five years.

After five years, all those who did not choose to move forward were regarded as voluntarily giving up.

Whether it's begging, protesting, or profaning, it's all meaningless under the Queen's cold iron fist.

In this world, the mighty power of the gods is an insurmountable gap.

In their eyes, the so-called solidarity of mortals is like a baby's powerless fist, which has no deterrent effect at all, and can even be called "cute".

When you are weak enough, even anger is so cute.

Of course, it is unknown what was going on in the mind of the empress on the throne, but one thing is certain.

A new era has arrived.

At least for most common folks, that's a good thing.

However, those who lost Her Majesty's favor were not reconciled.

It is unacceptable for them that the extravagant life in the past is gone forever.

Some people still kept their old habits and couldn't get rid of the banquet. However, supporting the banquet with the current income would only make ends meet, and the nobles went bankrupt soon.

The fear of losing everything swept over them.

In this void, the Lord of Dreams appears.

It first finds the ancestors of the Alexis family.

Show great power, show miracles.

As long as they serve this new master, the Lord of Dreamland promises to give them a future as before, and an eternal dreamland after death.

The ancestors of the Alexis family, who were in the midst of losing the favor of the gods, could not resist such temptations.

The lord of the Dreamland gave them a gift from the gods, endowing them with power beyond ordinary people.

If the God's Eye is the approval of the gods and endows the holder with elemental power, then the Lord of Dreamland will only give more.

Instead of monotonous elemental power, there are also various strange spells and regeneration of flesh and blood. How is this different from miracles?

"Stupid." Tavenal sat on a chair that Yamon had moved from somewhere, and commented coldly.

Zoya showed a smile that was helpless or self-deprecating, "Yeah, stupid and short-sighted, only seeing the magic bestowed, but ignoring the price."

"Then what's the price?" Tavernal, who finally had a chance to say this line, evoked a smile that didn't make sense.

Zoya was silent for a while, looking at Ivan lying unconscious on the ground, with pity and a little nostalgia in her eyes.

"The god body of the Lord of Dreamland carries its spiritual pollution, allowing the god body to fuse with himself and become a part of himself, thinking that he has obtained supreme power, but it is also the same for that evil god."

"The ancestors thought that the god body became a part of themselves, but they didn't know that it was connected with the consciousness of the evil god, and it would only be themselves that would be corroded."

"It is us who have become a part of the Lord of Dreamland and his external extension."

Zoya rubbed the ring unconsciously with her fingers, her tone became low, "After losing self-knowledge and self, all the people I see are just empty shells."

"It's ridiculous, my family, the parents and elders I used to rely on and hope to be recognized are no longer my parents and elders, and I don't even know when I lost them."

What responded to her was Ivan's slowly opening eyes.

There was no brilliance of humanity in those eyes that were very similar to Zoya, and they were staring at the ceiling rigidly.

There is no human being "Ivan" in it, nor is there any mental fragment of the Lord of Dreamland.

The body is really just a shell.

After inheriting her parents, her last blood relative also left her.

Yet their bodies are alive, occupied by monsters, or empty.

What you see is still the same, but the person in front of you is no longer the old man.

And she didn't even have time to say goodbye.

The great loneliness seemed to hollow out Zoya's chest, her throat was choked, and she couldn't even say a word. .

Zoya's eyes could no longer bear the heat that was about to surge out, but the roads that she had walked alone for many years, either familiar or unfamiliar, made her raise her head, with her forearm in front of her eyes.

"Do you want revenge? To the Lord of Dreamland."

A voice brought back Zoya's mind, her arms brushed her eyes naturally, and when she lowered her head again, her eyes were only a little red.

But those eyes washed by tears were bright and determined.

"what should I do."

It doesn't matter whether it is used or conspired, even if it asks for help from another existence that doesn't seem normal, it doesn't matter if you sacrifice your life.

Zoya looked at the speaker and Tavernar with almost paranoid eyes.

"I'm yours now, everything is fine, I just want that evil god to pay the price."

Chapter 167 Intertwined Clues

"I will arrange your affairs later, please continue with what you just said."

Tavernar spoke calmly, while Yamon was already wandering around the room by himself. After Tavernaar came back, she voluntarily gave up thinking and became happy.

Zoya took a deep breath and continued the previous topic.

"Aleksey's family has served that evil god for a hundred years, and almost all of them have been infiltrated from top to bottom. Except for those young people who are not yet old enough to be baptized and the descendants who do not meet the conditions for baptism, most of them have become part of the Lord of Dreamland. Keep some of the old habits so that you won't be discovered soon..."

Zoya discovered this after Ivan approached her and confessed the cause and effect of the baptism ceremony.

At that time, she was quite angry, thinking that Ivan was jealous of her talent and didn't want her to be the future heir of the family.

But as time went by, Zoya finally understood what Ivan meant at that time.

She found that the emerald would really change over time, sometimes stained with black dirt, which could not be scrubbed off, but after a while, the black dirt would recede to the edge of the gem.

After observation, Zoya determined that the change of the gem was related to Ivan.

Whenever Ivan uses the power of the Lord of Dreamland, the black area on the gemstone will increase, until the original emerald green will slowly be revealed as time goes by, or after taking the medicine that stabilizes the mind.

And Ivan's behavior will be very different from usual when the gem is dyed black.Very cruel and cold-blooded, it seems that the darkest side of people's hearts has been infinitely magnified.

Zoya began to observe all the baptized members of the family.

The first is the older generation.Their performance is the most stable, and it seems that there is not much change in daily life, even after presiding over the ceremony and using the power bestowed by the Lord of Dreamland.

They seem to be unaffected, but this is actually the most influential group of people, and they may not be them long ago.

Then there are the parents.

Compared with the younger generation, the emotional changes are not big, but the pattern is obvious enough, and most of them maintain the image of a strict father and a loving mother. It was only at this time that Zoya discovered how weird their family members were.

These parents seem to have been solidified with certain characteristics. They love their children, and at the same time instilled beliefs about the Lord of Dreamland, playing the image of qualified parents. There was some pain and struggle.

Zoya still remembers that when she was young, when she was sick, her mother used to stand by her bed, stroked her forehead, told her about the outside world, and asked her if she had the opportunity to go out in the future, the outside world was very big and big. Big, so big that Alexis's house is just a small snowflake in a heavy snow compared with it.

That was when she asked her mother in a daze why she didn't live outside. Her mother's eyes were shining under the moonlight coming in from the window, and she touched her head with a smile that Zoya couldn't understand, and said, "Mom can't go anymore. .”

Now that I think about it, the bright eyes in my mother's eyes were tears.

Then when it was dawn, when she brought up the outside again, her mother hugged her with a standard, gentle smile.

"It's dangerous outside, we all need the blessing of the Lord of Dreamland."

At that time, Zoya only felt that her mother was inconsistent.

"Since then, I have never seen her pressing her temples or showing that sad expression from time to time. She was married into Alexei from another family, meeting the standards of the Lord of Dreamland, after I was born I was baptized not long after..."

Tavernall can follow her narration to construct a corresponding picture in her mind, and the "Book of Narratives" faithfully flips pages by her side, recording this oral history.

"Family marriage was Alexei's initial means of expanding outward, or in other words, it was a temptation to push the Lord of Dreamland to other nobles..."

This temptation was very successful, and the Alexis family soon won the support of many minor nobles, and some people began to exchange the Alexis family for the same opportunity to obtain extraordinary power.

This group has continued to grow in the past 50 years. Those nobles who could not obtain the God's Eye, those nobles who were about to lose their territory and become commoners, gathered in Alexei.

Of course, all this is done in secret.

The Alexis family inspected and inspected each of these new allies to ensure that they would not leak themselves, the existence of the Lord of Dreamland.

This took a long time.

But the effect is remarkable.

"Until today, the empress has not been aware of their existence." Zoya smiled wryly.

"Not necessarily." At least now she definitely knew.Tavernall saw a material similar to the doctor's work on the container transporting the "divine body", but Tavernall, the queen who reported it at the time, only got silence.

It has long been confirmed that the Ice Queen can share her vision and even directly descend from a distance.

Then the reason why Her Majesty the Queen not only kept silent, but also allowed her to act is worth pondering.

What does the queen who never reveals her thoughts to the world think, is she really ignorant of all this, or is she acquiescing to this from the very beginning.

Tavernaar couldn't help sitting upright. If the Ice Queen really acquiesced to this, then what exactly is she asking for?

In connection with the recent movement of Solstice Winter, and the move that the Ice Queen supported her to establish the Solstice Winter Propaganda Department, Tavernall suddenly had a guess.

It also……

Tavernar closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his eyes had returned to calm.

"Tell me, how many of Zhidong's conservative nobles are not polluted by the Lord of Dreamland?"

There is no need to think about this question for too long. With the support of Ivan, Zoya has always been responsible for the various transactions of the Alexei family. She can read a long list of names just by snapping her fingers. .

"Probably that's it. If you need, I can make a list for you later. They are all the families who have had a close personal relationship with Alexei over the years."

"And from the past 50 years, how much can you remember?"

Zoya instinctively wants to bite her finger, which is her usual thinking action, but thinking that there are others here, she suppresses this urge, instead bends her index finger against her lips, and thinks for a moment.

"I remember most of them. I looked through the corresponding family histories, and they recorded them quite clearly."

"Okay, send the list together later."

Zoya didn't ask Taverna what she was going to do, she just responded, knowing deeply what she should do as a subordinate now.

In order to keep her status, she had come here during the ten years in Alexei's house, and it didn't make much difference if she changed the boss.