Chapter 409: The Invasion of the Fire Cloud Avenue Divine Realm
The whole city was full of palace spies these days. Wang Ren had been practicing in the house and was too lazy to go out. But two days later, the whole capital suddenly sounded a deafening alarm, and then the civilians and nobles in the city talked about it with panic expressions.
When Wang Ren approached the hall, some diners who were eating were whispering to each other about some trivial matters in and outside the empire.
"Hey, have you heard that the Fire Cloud Avenue Divine Realm has finally revealed its fox tail and is going to invade our Longyun Avenue Divine Realm? Except for our Longyun capital, which is relatively stable, I heard that other cities have already been in chaos, and the city lords of each city are frantically recruiting soldiers. It is said that the air base has sent a message that they are ready to counterattack the invasion of the Fire Cloud Avenue Divine Realm, and they also call on us civilians to donate our warships together, or directly serve with our ships."
"Hey, don't say it, I just heard that my fourth uncle's three nephews, all under 17 years old, are still babies, but unfortunately they were also forcibly conscripted into the army. The heartbroken fourth uncle vomited blood and died."
"How dare you spread rumors in the imperial capital and confuse the people. Come on, catch me."
When the two diners were chatting happily, a team of imperial soldiers suddenly came in from outside the inn and happened to hear their chat. Well, at a time when the whole country was filled with a kind of panic, they dared to talk about such sensitive topics. They deserved to be arrested.
But just when the two diners were caught and begged to be spared, a woman, leading a child, hurried down from upstairs.
"Please spare my life, my husband didn't mean it. You can't arrest him. If you arrest him, how can mother and child live?" The woman grabbed the corner of a guard's clothes and cried while begging for mercy. The child in the woman's arms opened his arms and wanted to throw himself into his father's arms.
Unfortunately, a guard was very disrespectful and blocked the child's way. The child was anxious and grabbed the guard and bit his arm.
Fortunately, the child was still young and lacked strength. In addition, the guard was quite strong. Although he didn't bite through, he hurt the guard.
The guard was instantly angry and kicked the woman who was holding his companion away. He even grabbed the corner of the child's clothes and lifted him up in the air, wanting to cruelly throw him to death.
No,... The woman who was kicked to the ground, and the father of the guest who was caught, let out the most painful cry. One was caught tightly, and the other was beaten to the ground. They could not save their children in time.
And the angry imperial guard soldier, regardless of everything, lifted the child high up, and then threw it out of the door. Looking at the transport ships and old-style light source vehicles that shuttled from time to time outside the door, if the child was really thrown out, he might be killed by a collision if he didn't fall to death.
This is the sadness of the mixture of science and technology and feudalism. If it were a pure science and technology empire, this kind of thing would never happen. The power of science and technology, the selfishness of the feudalists, Wang Ren woke up at this time. It seems that none of the empires, star fields, universes, and divine domains he encountered were pure science and technology empires that benefited mankind, even his own benevolent and dominant divine domain did not seem to be.
The next second after the child was thrown out of the door, a figure flashed by, and the child disappeared. When everyone came back to their senses, they found that a man was sitting aside, picking up a piece of lean meat and feeding a child.
And this child was the one that the imperial guards tried to throw out of the door. More than a dozen imperial guards were dumbfounded. It was so fast that they couldn't react at all.
Seeing that the child was fine, the guest's father actually opened the hands of the soldiers who were marching in, and ran over with the mother who stood up, hugged the child, and then expressed his gratitude to Wang Ren with tears.
"You guys go quickly, remember to keep your mouth shut in the future, I would not save you if it weren't for your child."
"Thank you, benefactor, thank you, benefactor," the guest father knelt on the ground excitedly, kowtowed to Wang Ren three times, then stood up and prepared to leave with his wife and son."
"Stop, who allowed you to leave, come, take me down, the rebels, be executed immediately on the spot, and this man, also take me down, dare to meddle in the affairs of our imperial palace guards, you are looking for death."
"Haha, I wanted to let you go, but you really have no eyesight, you are looking for death, don't blame me," Wang Ren said, and stretched out his hand to grab the air.
In an instant, the head of the captain of the imperial guards who spoke exploded, blood and brains sprayed all over the ground, and the guest father who escaped from the trapped quickly covered his son's eyes, took his wife out of the hall, and fled for his life.
More than a dozen other imperial soldiers saw the person they wanted to catch run away, but they did not dare to take any action, because the man in front of them was too powerful. Their captain was killed instantly, not to mention them.
"I don't object to you enforcing the law, but the law is nothing more than human feelings. Why do you have to embarrass innocent mothers and children? You can be so cruel to a child, and you imperial soldiers, don't you feel ashamed?"
"This sir, it's all because we are blind and don't know the real man. Please forgive us and let us go. We also have parents and children, but the captain's brother is the captain of our imperial army. If we offend him, we will suffer. We can't help it."
"Okay, disperse, I'll wait here, tell your captain, if you want revenge, just come, if I see anyone daring to bully those powerless civilians, the end is only death."
"Thank you for your mercy, brothers, retreat," after saying that, more than a dozen soldiers of the Imperial Guard left in a panic, but the owner of this inn instantly had a bitter face.
Wang Ren laughed, "Boss, don't worry, here are a thousand Hunyuan Holy Stones, enough for you to buy ten inns like this, you can leave and take shelter."
The innkeeper took the space ring thrown by Wang Ren, opened it slightly and took a look. Sure enough, a thousand crystal clear Hunyuan Holy Stones were neatly placed in a corner of the space ring.
"Thank you for your kindness, sir. Here are the land deeds, house deeds, and some bills on credit for the small shop. I know that sir may not look down on them, but this is my principle. Okay, sir, take care of yourself." After the innkeeper finished his polite words, he immediately left. He knew that there would be more soldiers and masters dispatched by the Imperial Guards later, so it would be safer to hide away. These thousand Hunyuan Holy Stones were enough for him to consume in his lifetime.
After putting away a bunch of contracts, Wang Ren walked to the front desk alone. He laughed at the trembling and completely lost waiters and chefs.
"Okay, I'm your new boss now. If you want to work, just keep working. Your salary will be increased fivefold. Don't worry about safety. The key is to ensure the quality of the food. Go and cook a few more dishes for me."
Hearing that the salary would be increased fivefold, the eyes of the three waiters and two chefs were red. They didn't worry at all whether Wang Ren was bragging or not, because he had just made such a big move, so who would care about his salary?
According to Wang Ren's request, everyone started to work again, cooking and serving. Uh... it seemed that there were not many customers. After all, who would dare to eat after what happened just now.