Chapter 149 Thief

Mingyun Town,

The summer sun dispelled the darkness in the town. There are many buildings in the town, but if you look carefully, there are also many abandoned and uninhabited houses. The ancient town is silent, just waiting silently, showing the world its former prosperity.

Chen Tianfeng led the horse and walked through the streets of the ancient town with Ye Lan. Qian San fell behind, trying to reduce his presence.

"What a good town, it's so deserted, isn't it a pity?"

Chen Tianfeng looked at the unknown eaves beasts sitting on the houses on both sides of the street, and couldn't help feeling a little regretful.

There are not many places suitable for living in Teyvat. Although Mingyun Town has no minerals, as long as it can be lived, it should not be given up.

"Brother Chen, you don't know that it's not that Liyue is unwilling to develop Mingyun Town, but that Mingyun Town can only be developed to this extent now."

"Why is that?"

"Mingyun Town is surrounded by mountains, and the northwest side is close to snow-capped mountains. There is not much land suitable for farming. Although there is some output in the mountains, there are monsters wandering in it from time to time, and the hard-earned output cannot support too many people. So when Mingyun Town's minerals are exhausted, it will not be worth it to maintain the scale of its heyday."

Ye Lan said calmly: "Mingyun Town is now in its best state."

"So that's it."

Chen Tianfeng suddenly realized.

When Mingyun Town has mineral output, Liyue will guarantee the supply of materials to Mingyun Town even if the transportation conditions are not good. And when Mingyun Town's minerals are reduced, the investment is far greater than the harvest, and this place will naturally be abandoned.

There are not many places suitable for living in the Teyvat continent. Any country must concentrate its strength and give priority to developing places that are more suitable for development. Only by gaining a firm foothold first can we have the spare energy to think about other things and try to transform other lands into a suitable place for living.

"Speaking of which, what was Brother Chen's original world like?" Ye Lan turned her head to look at him: "Compared with Teyvat, is it better or worse?"

"It's not good, but it's not bad either. My original world also had wars and turmoil, and wars like the Teyvat Demon War that affected the entire world occurred twice in a short period of time."

Chen Tianfeng thought for a while and said: "But my country is very good. Even if it encounters a disaster, it can stand up again with its own strength and revive. At least when I left, everyone there could eat enough, the children had books to read and schools to go to, there were not too many places that were not suitable for living, there were no wandering monsters in the wilderness, and robbers and bandits were rare..."

Ye Lan listened silently, glanced at Chen Tianfeng's expression, and sighed: "What a beautiful world."

No wonder I always felt something was wrong when I first met Chen Tianfeng. Coming from such a stable and happy world to Teyvat, under the strong contrast, he must not have much good impression of Teyvat.

She pursed her lips and suddenly wanted to go to Chen Tianfeng's world to take a look.

In her spare time, she had imagined the future of Liyue with Ningguang more than once, but even the best one could not reach the level of Chen Tianfeng's hometown.

Demons, ley lines, monsters, abyss... Teyvat has too many things that can crush Liyue, so that they are cautious in their dreams, not daring to know that there is such a happy world in the world.

"Every world has its own beauty, of course, there is also inevitable darkness."

Chen Tianfeng smiled and said, "But as long as the world has not been destroyed and we are still alive, we must try our best to reduce that darkness."

Ye Lan looked at him, her eyes moving, her lips moving slightly, and she was about to say something, but there was a commotion in front of her.

She frowned slightly, turned her head, and looked in the direction of the commotion.

It was a chase, a young man with messy hair and dirty clothes was running, and three adult men followed closely behind him, cursing and shouting something.

It seemed that the dirty young man had stolen something from them.

"Bang!"

The boy was not careful for a moment and was tripped by debris, falling hard to the ground. There were scratches on his elbows, forearms and palms, and blood oozed out, wetting the dust.

"Ugh! Ugh!"

The boy tried to get up quickly, but just as he propped himself up, before he stood up, he was kicked by the man chasing him. He rolled on the ground, supporting himself with his palms, staring at the three men chasing him with half fear and half anger, opening his mouth, but only shouting out vague sounds that made no sense.

"Run, why don't you run!"

The leading man stopped to take a breath, looked at the boy, noticed his eyes, and became more and more annoyed: "You dare to stare at me! You little beast!"

He stepped forward quickly and kicked again: "A mute dares to steal my things! Who gave you the courage?!"

"Bang!"

The mute boy raised his hand to block it, and was kicked to the ground again, and subconsciously curled up, protecting his head with both hands.

"You dare to block me!"

The leading man was getting angrier and was about to kick him a few more times, but he noticed the passersby who had gathered around and were pointing and talking in a low voice. He became even angrier and turned around and glared: "What are you looking at! Look again..."

His pupils shrank suddenly, and he noticed three people in the crowd who were wearing adventurer outfits and holding horses - two of them had God's Eyes on their waists!

"Looking again is not a big deal, it's not worth wasting your time, hehe..."

The man glanced at the expressions of the three people, and quickly changed the swear words and threats that were about to come out of his mouth. He bowed to Chen Tianfeng and the other two, and said: "Don't misunderstand, it was this mute who stole my things. I was just angry and was teaching the thief a lesson."

"Oh? What did he steal?"

Chen Tianfeng first glanced at the mute boy who was covered in dust and stained with blood, and then turned his gaze to the man. His eyes were calm, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"This..." The man seemed a little stuck.

"It seems that it's not convenient for brother to say it. It's okay, it's understandable." Chen Tianfeng didn't care and said: "Just get the things back... Have you got them back?"

"I got it back, I got it back, thank you brother for your understanding."

The man sighed to himself, nodded repeatedly, and handed over again.

"That's good."

Chen Tianfeng nodded lightly, then showed regret on his face and said, "To be honest with you, brother, I was also robbed by a thief in Mingyun Town a few days ago, but I'm not as lucky as my brother. I haven't found anything yet."

"Alas, after the decline of Mingyun Town, there have been a lot more petty thieves." The man sighed, then smiled and said politely: "Brother, if you look for more, you might find it. It's a pity that I don't know Mingyun. I’m not familiar with the town, otherwise I have to help my brother look for it.”

"Brother, you are interested." Chen Tianfeng cupped his hand and changed the topic: "But I do have something to ask of brother."

"This..." The man looked embarrassed: "It's not that I don't want to help my brothers, it's just that I still have some..."

"This is a reward for a brother."

Chen Tianfeng stretched out his hand, and Ye Lan at the side naturally took out a black crystal horn produced by the earth's veins. Chen Tianfeng took it, held it up with the wind, and brought it to the man. He immediately looked confused: "What do you want to say, brother?"

The man looked at the black crystal horn, and then vaguely glanced at the Wind God Eye on Chen Tianfeng's waist, with a sincere smile: "I mean, I just have time, and it's an honor for me to be able to help my brother."

Damn it, his God’s Eye is actually real!

Then why was he stolen by thieves? What kind of thief could steal from the owner of the Eye of God?

Lugo cursed in his mind, with a smile on his face.

"Don't worry, brother, it's not difficult."

Chen Tianfeng raised his chin and pointed at the mute boy: "I hope my brother can hand him over to me."