Chapter 927:【Your Speed Is Pretty Fast】
There are more refugees in Jinyang City, but there are more guests in Heiling City.
This group of guests is a bit strange.
Out of the ordinary.
In front was a scouting horse riding a galloping lizard with sharp eyes. Dozens of mercenaries in the middle escorted a dozen or so criminals who had been tortured, their flesh and teeth shrunk, and their bodies were almost skeletons tied in a prison car, slowly entering the city. At the end, there is also a huge sub-dragon, the big-footed earth dragon. Along the road full of bones, the big-footed dragon came slowly, with an extremely luxurious golden seat on its back.
On the golden throne, besides two silver armored warriors in similar costumes, there was also a slave girl and a girl holding a baby.
Unlike ordinary caravans, this team is more like a slave team.
But it is rare to see a slave hunting team that can be so luxurious. They will have a quasi-heaven-level "Bigfoot Walking Dragon" that is usually only eligible to ride if they are above the city lord, and they will also have a golden throne that is so cool...
The most surprising thing is that there is no particularly noble person on the golden seat, only two warriors, and even a slave girl with a low status and a girl who looks like a hungry person. Even if they were sitting at the feet of the two silver armored warriors, sitting on that incomparably luxurious golden throne, looking down at the surroundings, the timidity and anxiety in their eyes could still be clearly seen. Anyone with a little foresight can tell at a glance that they are definitely not descendants of nobles. On the contrary, these should be untouchables, the hungry people among the untouchables!
What qualifications do untouchables have to sit on the golden throne?
The captain of the guard who was in charge of collecting taxes at the gate of the city was very surprised by this.
"The rich wine and meat stinks, and there are frozen bones on the road..." He vaguely heard the silver armored warrior on the left on the golden seat say this to the silver armored warrior on the right.
"Don't lose the book bag, now is not the time to be deeply moved, hurry up and get down to business, we don't have much time in the first place, and we have to cross the Zhifeng Swamp" quickly take down the outer ones. "The captain of the guard at the gate of the city heard the silver armored warrior on the right again. Although the distance was a bit far and the surroundings were a bit noisy, I couldn't hear it very clearly, but listening to the accent," the silver armored warrior on the right should be a woman.
"What are you doing?" The guard stepped forward to stop the road-finding thieves who were walking in the front, and asked loudly, no matter what your status is when you come to Hei Ling City, you have to pay taxes. This is the rule set by the lord.
The master lord in Hei Ling City is the younger brother of the lord of the country.
Don't be Hei Lingling" means in the whole Zhifeng country,
No one dared to disobey the will of the lord.
Here, the lord is the sky, the earth, and the only ruler who controls the fate of all people in Hei Ling Territory!
The pathfinder with bright eyes rolled down his long legs and ran towards the back of the lizard, with a smile on his face, he greeted the guard as if he hadn’t seen him for a long time, and skillfully stuffed a money bag into the guard’s ear. This is what caravans or slave catchers do.
Bribing guards is the most common action for every pathfinder, and "paying taxes" is also in line with the laws of each region.
This originally bland procedure made the captain at the gate of the city frown secretly.
I don't know what it feels like.
The captain of the guard always felt that the laugh of this pathfinder was not flattery, but a kind of sarcasm.
It seems that the guards who collect the money will be disadvantaged soon... But the gold coins are completely fine. When the captain of the guard watched the guards open the money bag to register the tax, the cash coins were real and there was no deception.
Well, do these people have so much money that they have no place to squander it?
Look at the fugitive slaves they captured, all of them were tortured so hard that they couldn't live any longer. They were worthless at all. For these fugitive slaves, is it really worth paying a tax of nearly a thousand gold coins? Besides, for counting like this, others would have complained too much if they had to pay a hundred gold, but this pathfinder paid nearly a thousand gold, and his face was still full of smiles.
It's so weird!
When this troop enters the city, the captain of the guard still can't figure out why he feels uneasy in his heart?
Why do you still feel uncomfortable when you have received more tax and you should be happy? What went wrong?
"Greyhound, what did he do just now?" The captain of the guard summoned his subordinates to ask.
"Head, that is a slave hunting team that hunts down escaped slaves. It has traveled between Zhifeng Country and Hurricane Country for a long time. This time, they only walked. According to reports, they are mainly responsible for smuggling, and slave hunting is only a part-time job. I guess they bought a lot of goods this time, and they sold it very generously. They paid more than 800 gold in taxes. Head, we are going to get rich this time, that is, we have paid the highest limit of 200 gold, and the rest can be divided into more than 600 gold. Now brothers can finally celebrate in this poor and rotten place! It’s been a long time since I’ve had such an income, half a month, no, half a year, I haven’t seen such a fat sheep come to the door!” The guard danced with excitement, and told the good news to the captain with a smile on his face.
The captain of the guard nodded, implying that he knew.
Although he had the opportunity to enrich himself, he was not happy, and even faintly feared.
Impossible... This slave hunting team actually pays 800 gold as tax? No matter how easy it is to smuggle, it is impossible to pay such taxes when entering the city. This is simply a fool's behavior. Who would spend money for no reason?
If this band of slave catchers did it on purpose, what was it for?
Why did they use huge sums of money to gamble into the city?
Why did that pathfinder show a mocking smile in the depths of his eyes? How can those lowly slave girls and starving girls be qualified to sit on the golden seat? The most puzzling thing is that those two silver armored warriors with exactly the same costumes are obviously very weak, but how could they give themselves a feeling of incomparable fear?
The captain of the guard who was in charge of collecting taxes at the entrance of the city couldn't understand what he thought.
I don't know how long it has been.
From a distant direction, a griffin flew over, carrying a flying courier covered in blood on it, before entering the city in time, the courier fell headlong. When the captain of the guard rushed forward to rescue the flying messenger, he found that he was already seriously injured and on the verge of death, dying. At the last moment of dying, the computer}} accessed the hand-typed~, the flying messenger revived his spirits, and held the guard captain's hand tightly: "Quick, quick, quickly tell the lord, "Yetfoot City, Sandstone City, Gobi City, Thorn City, Walnut City, have all been breached. I just escaped from Buffalo City... I, I, I am the only one who escaped...... Hurry up and inform the Lord Lord, the enemy... ask the Lord for help..."
The messenger seemed to have something to think about, but couldn't hold on anymore.
He tilted his head and died out of breath.
"I'll immediately..." The captain of the guard immediately jumped up when he heard the news. The whole Hei Ling Territory has been breached, so what's the deal? I don't know who." The territory of the non-combat zone has also been invaded. Could it be that the flames of war have spread to the rear of the Zhifeng Swamp area?
He was about to rush to the lord's mansion at the fastest speed, and tell the bad news to the lord of Hei Ling.
But the bloody horror of the fugitive slave who was tied to the prison cart and tortured until he was out of shape." The captain of the guard flashed through the depths of his mind.
Yotei City, Sandstone City, Gobi City, Thorn City, Walnut City, and Buffalo City were all captured by the enemy, so were the city owners and garrison generals of these cities all captured?
It's difficult...,...
The captain of the guard suddenly shivered with fear.
I remembered the face of the Pathfinder who had paid heavy taxes and was still full of smiles." I remembered the pariah who was impossible to sit on the throne, I remembered the fugitive slaves who were tied up in prison carts and tortured until they were out of shape, and I remembered the conversation between the male and female warriors in the same costume... The captain of the guard trembled with fright, and sweat drenched his whole body like rain.
"What's the matter? Head?" Several guards looked at the captain inexplicably.
"I have something very important to report to the lord. Please stay here carefully. By the way, I don't want the share of the tax." Let's take a few points, remember to have fun at night! "The captain of the guard wiped his sweat, suppressed the fear in his heart, and ordered him to go on.
"Understood" head, go early and return early! "A few guards were so happy when they heard that the captain didn't pay any money and went to the king's side to do missions.
"The Griffin is ready!" The clever Greyhound even quickly led the captain to the mount of the flying messenger and waited for the captain to go out.
"Brothers, goodbye." The captain of the guard rolled over the back of the griffin, and said this intentionally in his words.
Then, he frantically urged the griffin.
Let it go as fast as possible.
two days later.
The overworked Griffin, who was flying high day and night, fell to the ground and was abandoned by the captain of the guard.
The guard captain exhausted all his strength and hurried on his way. What he wanted most in his heart was not to tell the king the news. The king didn't need him to tell the news like this, and he believed that he had already received it. What he had to do was to save his own life, to flee desperately to the capital where the ruler was, because that was the safest place.
In Green Willow City, the capital of Zhifeng Kingdom, the tall spire has appeared at the limit of sight.
Green Willow City, a peaceful place where no wars have ever occurred.
Because of the mighty strength of Lord Zhifeng, and the fact that it is located in the rear of the Tianhua Territory battle zone, here, thousands of miles of fertile land, prosperous and prosperous, no army or mob can ever attack here...
The captain of the guard faintly saw the Green Willow City in sight, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
Well, it's finally safe to escape here.
He took off the captain's clothes and threw them all away, and then put on the deerskin obtained from hunting, pretending to be a hunter who has lived in the forest for a long time. Although he didn't know how the war was going, he had already abandoned his former identity as the captain of the city gate guard, and decided to change his identity, sneak into Green Willow City, and start a new life in this peaceful city. If you have a certain strength, you don't have to be afraid of starving to death. As long as you live in a safe enough place, your identity doesn't matter at all.
Check it up and down, and feel that there is no flaw.
The former captain of the guard flew out from the forest area and landed at the gate of Green Willow City. He handed over the identity certificate and tax money that he had disguised long ago to the guard. With a smile on his face, he hinted that he needed to enter the city to buy some furs.
"Poor guy!" The guard snorted in disgust, and forcibly extorted two more gold coins, then waved: "Get out!"
"Wow, look, look over there, there is a luxurious slave hunting team coming over, my God, this slave hunting team seems to have caught a lot of money, and there is a golden throne on the back of the big-footed dragon, shit, which slave hunting team is this?" Several guards discussed in surprise.
Hearing this, the captain of the former guard of Hei Ling City became stiff all over.
He turned around in disbelief.
Desperately, he found that the slave-catching team he had seen in Hei Ling City before was slowly walking towards Luliu City.
Their team seemed to be a little stronger, with more than a dozen more mercenaries in charge of guarding, and a few more prison cars. The only thing that remained the same was the road-finding horse riding a galloping lizard, his eyes were still bright, and his face was still smiling... And sitting on the golden seat was the same female slave and the girl holding the baby.
The original guard captain was so frightened that his face was pale, and he almost collapsed on the ground.
He knew the distance between Hei Ling City and Green Willow City.
Don't use big feet to walk around, even if you use griffins to fly, it will take ten days of fog.
The reason why he was able to get here in three days was because he discovered an unknown space rift. Through the space rift, he saved at least 70% of the journey to get here.
This team of slave hunters who can slowly catch up with their own from Hei Ling City to Green Willow City with their footsteps,...
The former captain of the guard didn't dare to think about it, and he didn't dare to look at it anymore, because he found a bloody figure in one of the prison cars very familiar... The pathfinder with sharp eyes turned over and jumped off, and stuffed a purse for the guard with a smile on his face, and then smiled at the former captain of the Heiling City guard coldly: "It's so fast, I didn't expect to be ahead of us!"...