Chapter 442 Strange

Walking all the way with Yang Gao, they came to their guild.

This is an old residence in a slum area. Looking up, you can see various dilapidated buildings all around. Some have no windows, some have cracks in their doors, and some have holes in the walls. Block it with bundled thatch.

From time to time in the house, there would be a few cries of children, and a woman's soft humming to coax the children to sleep.

No one walks in the slums during the day, because everyone living here has no time. They are busy in order to survive and have food and clothing.

Yang Jiu came to the door. He did not take the key, but stretched out his hand and pushed the door open.

At the same time as the crunching sound of teeth was heard, a faint musty smell assaulted the nostrils.

"Come in," Yang Ji said, and walked in directly.

I looked at it and then entered.

After closing the door, Yang Jiu skillfully turned on the light. It was a relatively old magic lamp, and the light was very weak, but fortunately, it could barely illuminate the entire room - the total area of ​​the entire room was only two More than ten square meters.

"It's very shabby," Yang Gao said lightly.

I looked around at everything and sighed.

"There's nothing we can do about it. Our money can only buy a house like this here."

"You have been adventurers for a long time, why haven't you saved any money?" I asked.

"I can't save any money," he said. "The money we get from killing monsters is only enough for daily expenses. The money we get from the occasional lucky break has to be donated to a nearby orphanage."

"It's a good thing to donate money to the orphanage, but there's no need to donate all Yulu's money, right?"

"You don't understand," Yang Jiu said: "Orphanages in slums are not supported by the city lord. Every orphanage here relies on crowdfunding to survive."

"So this is it, hey, evil bureaucracy!" I cursed, and then said: "But you are really kind."

Yang Jiu shook his head and said, "It's not that we are kind, but because we are also orphans who grew up in an orphanage."

"Are you also orphans?" I frowned slightly: "Everyone?"

"Yes, everyone," Yang Jiu said, "We all come from the same orphanage. Now that we have grown up, we naturally have to be grateful and give as much of what we get to the orphanage that raised us."

I frowned slightly. For some reason, after learning about the life experiences of Yang Jie and others, I suddenly felt a little heavy.

At the same time, I also understood why Liu Yu was so hostile to me.

She is not hostile to me, but to everyone. This is the result of an extreme insecurity. She must have encountered something desperate in the orphanage.

After all, there are so many children in the orphanage and it is impossible to take care of everyone.

At this time, Yang Jiu continued: "Liu Yu's hostile attitude towards you is also because of some bad memories that happened in the orphanage. However, her character is still very kind. Don't blame her."

"I don't blame her." I waved my hand and said, "On the contrary, I think you are very happy to have such a partner. At least, she values ​​you very much."

Yang Jiaqian laughed twice: "Happiness is very happy, but sometimes it feels very hard."

"You are so full that you don't know the suffering of starving people. How many single men would press you to the ground and force you to sing the song "Chrysanthemums" if they heard what you said!"

"What is Chrysanthemum Residual?" Yang Jiao looked puzzled: "Is it a song? Why haven't I heard it?"

The corner of my mouth twitched, and I forgot that the Internet term "chrysanthemum" is not popular here.

To them, chrysanthemums are just chrysanthemums, a beautiful flower that blooms in autumn.

I didn’t explain to him the other meaning of ‘chrysanthemum’, but asked him: “When will it end when you do this?”

Yang Guo shook his head: "I don't know, until I have no ability to support it."

"This is simply painful gratitude." I sighed: "Have you never thought of trying to convey your views to the city lord? Don't forget, this is the capital, and the city lord is about a mile away from here. Uh, although it is It’s quite far, but it doesn’t take more than three hours to go back and forth.”

"You mean the city lord?" Yang Jiaqie said, "Forget it. It's better not to talk about this kind of thing to a city lord like him who doesn't do anything. At least it won't attract the invasion of tax officials."

After listening to Yang Ji's words, I was speechless. All I had left was this thought: The city lord of Airui City was finished, and the top management of Airui City was almost finished as well.

Although the economic situation of the slums is worrying, and the people in them are no more than pigs and dogs to them, it still occupies one-third of the land of Airey City and is home to nearly half of the residents of the entire capital.

Does anyone know how many residents here are adventurers, and who has statistics on the strength of these adventurers?

If I hadn’t gotten to know Yang Ji, perhaps I still wouldn’t have thought of these issues.

The history of the blue planet has brought me this kind of reflection: once it breaks away from the working people, shakes its position in their hearts, and loses their support, no matter how prosperous the dynasty is, it will eventually be destroyed.

Unless there is a monarch who can help them regain their lost confidence.

In fact, it is very simple to gain the admiration of these hard-working people, as long as they are fed and clothed.

However, those in power who live at the top of Airui City, as well as the few in charge of wealth, have no such awareness at all.

They are like a goldfish that is always hungry. No matter how much food there is, as long as they see it, they will want to possess it and eat it.

In exchange, he would either be bloated to death by food, or die directly.

I sighed, knowing that there was no way to comfort Yang Gao's sorrow. After all, this was not a problem that a civilian like me could solve.

So, I decided to change the subject.

"By the way, has your guild been harassed by external forces recently?"

Yang Jiu thought for a while and said: "There were two or three times, but they were all rogue guilds, and we got rid of them quickly."

"That's good," I said, "However, during this period, Airui City seems to be very restless. It is said that last night, all members of a small guild of sixteen people were killed."

"Well, I heard about it." Yang Jiu nodded: "According to rumors, it's because the members of that guild have always been stealing. It used to be okay, and the people I met were all unwilling to cause trouble, but recently Once, they stole the head of a vengeful guy, and all of them were killed overnight."

After hearing what Yang Ji said, I suddenly asked: "Is it really just stealing?"

"What do you mean?"

"If it's just stealing, if you are caught, you can be beaten and sent to the city guard for punishment." I said with a serious face: "But, according to eyewitnesses, the deaths of those adventurers were miserable, and they could still Smelling the smell of blood coming from the guild, I thought it would be difficult to be punished for just stealing. If I am not wrong, there must be something fishy here."