Chapter 14 14 Demi-Humans
Chapter 14 14. Subhuman
Lu Yu did not accept all the news from Lulutis. It was not that he did not believe Lulutis, but that her upbringing made her distrust the nobles. All the remarks about the nobles needed to be examined.
Everything must be witnessed with one's own eyes. One is the brain of this trip.
The caravan did not rest at night, but changed shifts and continued to move towards the royal city.
The night sky in the other world is beautiful. Without light pollution, the glittering "fine sand" on the sky is so beautiful that people can't look away.
Lu Yu wanted to appreciate it for a while, but sleepiness had already come.
After a tiring day, he urgently needed to recover his physical strength to deal with various things that might happen after arriving in the royal city.
However, Lu Yu did not sleep well. If he met a group of people who did not like cleanliness when sharing a car with others, it would be torture.
The passengers sitting on the left and right of Lu Yu, one exuded a strong smell of sweat, and the smell was outstanding and refreshing.
The other wound had rotted, squeezing the blood and yellow pus from the wound all night.
The harsh environment also caused Lu Yu to always sleep and wake up.
It was not until the next morning that the two carpoolers got off in a town they passed by, and Lu Yu had a wider space, so he dared to breathe deeply.
Taking advantage of the gap when the merchant stopped to sell goods for a short time, Lu Yu glanced at the bustling crowd on the street.
Sure enough, the closer to the capital of the Yas Dynasty, the greater the population density.
After asking the merchant about the official departure time and finding that there was still time, Lu Yu touched the topaz in his pocket and walked into the shop with a coin sign on the corner of the street.
When he walked out again, he had already got a number.
"Six silver coins."
This was definitely not the real price.
After the merchant arrived at the next city, Lu Yu found two more shops to ask for prices.
This time, in order to ensure that he would not be forced to lower the price due to his accent, Lu Yu specially adopted the handwritten communication method.
This time, one of the two shopkeepers gave seven silver coins, and the other gave nine.
After learning that the Royal City was less than half a day away, Lu Yu returned to the shop that offered nine silver coins.
Lu Lutis asked: "You are going to sell it now, don't you plan to go to the Royal City to have a look?"
The closer to the Royal City, the higher the price of this topaz, which made Lu Lutis plan to hold the topaz in his hands first.
While Lu Yu wrote on the paper provided by the shop owner, he communicated with Lu Lutis in a silent manner.
"We have to start spending money as soon as we enter the Royal City. You don't think I plan to stay in a hotel or bar, do you?"
"You plan to buy a house directly?" Lu Lutis was stunned, "Wouldn't it be better to rent?"
Lu Yu did not answer Lu Lutis's question. His bargaining with the shop owner had become fierce.
Lu Yu, who was determined to give ten silver coins, and the owner who was only willing to give nine silver coins were unwilling to give in.
After a stalemate, Lu Yu realized that there was no room for raising the price, so he chose to make the deal.
The boss did not mention the subsidiary currency when raising the price, and he refused to give in. He probably saw through his urgent need for money at a glance.
He was at a disadvantage in this transaction. After all, Lulutis had no idea about the price of topaz, and he had no access to the price information of this item for the time being.
"To answer your question, I don't plan to rent a house. Even buying a lower-quality house is better than renting."
"Lulutis, think about it carefully. We are outsiders. When renting horses before, we needed to mortgage equivalents before renting."
"Buying a house is like buying a house. It is hard to guarantee that you will be asked to have a middleman guarantee. The middleman guarantee is too complicated. I don't want to rent a house and support an ancestor at the same time."
"At the same time, you must sign an agreement to rent a house. Under normal circumstances, the owner will require the tenant not to damage the internal structure of the house or furniture in the agreement."
"We are outsiders and are in a weak position. If the other party accuses us of damaging the house for various reasons and asks us for compensation when we check out, what will you do?"
Lulutis was a little dizzy.
"We will definitely suffer a loss if we buy a house, but at least it is a short-term pain."
"Renting a house may seem to save money, but there is a high probability of encountering potential troubles. It hurts to cut flesh with a blunt knife."
"At the same time..."
Lu Yu said seriously: "Since entering the royal city, I have been a noble."
"As a noble who is a little arrogant and wants to save face, even if you spend all the money to buy it, you must live in a house that belongs to you."
On the way, Lu Yu thought very clearly.
From here on, he will officially enter the play.
A noble is not what you claim to be.
When others cannot verify your identity, your behavior and words do not match their psychological expectations, then you are a suspicious person.
Lulutis teased, "But we shared a car to enter the royal city... You, a noble who cares about your reputation, have been embarrassed from the beginning."
Lu Yu retorted, "I am a traveler, sleeping in the open air, and I can naturally endure the harsh travel conditions."
"But when entering an active area, I pursue temporary comfort and ease, and save face in front of others. Isn't this contradictory?"
Lulutis choked.
She found that whenever she discussed these things with Lu Yu, she could never win over him.
Depressed, Lulutis wanted to wave her tentacles, but she immediately remembered that she had put...
A dignified seventh-level magician can only hide in his backpack and look at the outside world through a small hole.
It's so frustrating...
The convoy drove on a plain for half a day. Under the warm sunshine of the spring afternoon, Lu Yu saw the outline of the capital of the Kingdom of Yas.
Unlike the cities he had seen before, the walls of the capital were very high and equipped with a moat.
This also made Lu Yu's mind fill in the gaps.
The reason why the previous cities did not have walls was probably not because they were careless, but because the king of the Kingdom of Yas did not allow them to build walls?
The guards did not search the luggage or check the identity, but just stood on both sides of the city gate.
This also made Lu Yu, who originally planned to get off the car to avoid the search, choose to continue to take the merchant's car to enter the city.
"Since they are not doing anything, why are they standing there?" Lu Yu was full of question marks.
Thinking back, Lulutis seemed to have said before that because there are many adventurers and travelers, most countries in this land are very open in non-wartime.
After all, in such a world, exploration, adventure, and searching for possible strange things and unseen miracles are the lives of most people.
Lu Yu felt that this was also what the rulers of this world would like to see.
These adventurers are the lights they put out, illuminating everything around them, and bringing back all kinds of rare materials they need, filling the gaps in commercial goods.
This group of passionate and adventurous people are often unstable elements in the collective.
The more they know about the outside world, the more dissatisfied they are with the numb and muddled life, and the more they cannot integrate into the ordinary people.
When their attributes are stripped away and they completely belong to this world and the earth, the concept of the country is diluted.
They fight, fight, plunder, and adventure for dreams, money, and to live.
They are free and have no sense of belonging.
Let such a group of people travel freely, adventure everywhere, and die in the desolate wilderness, under the flames of dragons, and in the traps of the goblin underground maze.
The skull becomes the ornament of the banshee, the body becomes a puddle of mud under the feet of the giant, and the magic flowing in the slime's body...
How great.
The reason why they would go against themselves is hardly for ideals and changing the status quo, which is too difficult to implement.
Only interests can impress adventurers.
And they do have wealth in their hands, and can weave a huge network that makes adventurers willing to work for them.
The adventurer's union everywhere should also be the result of their tacit approval.
After all, for some political systems under which each party is independent, adventurers have always been a force that can be won over by interests, and this is consistent for all parties.
After understanding this, Lu Yu also understood the guards' slacking off at the door.
As the first prosperous place that Lu Yu came into contact with in this world, Yas King City is undoubtedly qualified.
The sun is about to set, and the vendors selling various foods on both sides of the street are shouting hard, and from time to time they will walk to the middle of the road to hug one or two pedestrians affectionately and give them food for tasting.
In the crowd, Lu Yu saw many creatures of other races.
The cat-eared man mentioned by Lulutis when she was giving an example of the summoning ritual walked by Lu Yu.
This cat-eared boy was not much different from a normal human. The only thing that caught his eye was the cute cat ears on his head that trembled from time to time, and the cat tail that kept shaking behind him.
Lu Yu took a careful peek and asked in confusion: "There are a pair of cat ears on the head and ears on both sides of the cheeks, so which ear is working?"
When Lulutis saw Lu Yu asking questions, she turned on the small classroom mode after being unable to hold back all the way.
"They all work, but the ears that belong to humans are not as good as cat ears."
"The cat-eared tribe is a category of the beast-eared tribe, and is also what we generally call a sub-human."
"All beast-eared tribes have different bloodlines."
"The cat-eared boy you just met has a stronger human bloodline, so as a sub-human, he looks closer to humans."
"I mentioned pure-blooded cat people before, right? If the bloodline of pure-blooded cat people is stronger, then the mixed-blood cat-eared tribe will have more cat-human details."
"For example, they will have cat pads and thick hair."
I understand. The rarer the human bloodline, the closer it is to furry. It's easy to understand.
Looking at the many people around hugging and cuddling with the beast-eared boys and girls, including some furry beast-eared people who are close to pure blood, Lu Yu felt that this place should be a paradise for some people.