Chapter 1280 Act Separately

Chen Fang and Lao Suo discussed the plan, and after confirming the details, Lao Suo went to his room to rest with the wine he brought back.

As the night deepened, Chen Fang couldn't sleep, got up and walked out of the house, wandering around the quiet village.

"Are you unable to sleep?"

Tas, who was watching the night, passed by, and came over when he saw Chen Fang walking under the moon.

"Well, there are some things to think about, and I can't sleep." Chen Fang replied.

In fact, his mind was empty, and he didn't have anything to think about. It was purely because he had slept in the open air for a long time, and in a relatively comfortable environment, it made it difficult for him to fall asleep so easily.

"Well, it's true that sometimes it's hard to fall asleep when there are too many things in your mind."

"Since you can't sleep, why don't we talk."

Tess invites.

It's okay anyway, it's good to talk to someone to relax, so Chen Fang agreed.

But it didn't take long for Chen Fang to regret it.

Although Tas initiated the invitation first, it seemed that he was not a talkative person, so the two of them just kept silent, because they were not very familiar with each other, and they didn't know where to start, which made the atmosphere more and more awkward.

In the end, Chen Fang couldn't bear it any longer, and he found something to start with.

"Are you coming back from night patrol, or are you unable to sleep like me and come out for a walk?"

Seeing Chen Fang speak, Tas breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "I'm in charge of patrolling at night recently, and I have to walk around every once in a while to prevent wild animals from intruding into our village."

"There shouldn't be many strange beasts in the wild now, and even if there are, they are small cat-like beasts." Chen Fang said.

Tas nodded and said, "Yes, that's why we dared to move out of the city and settle here."

Chen Fang asked curiously: "Which city were you from before? Why don't you stay in a good city and run out? Even if there are no more wild beasts in the wild now as before, there is still a certain danger. At least the city is more dangerous than the city. It's much safer here."

"The people in our village are mainly from Qinghu City, Mushroom City, and Jiangxiang City. I am from Mushroom City."

After giving an overview of the composition of the village's population, Tass smiled wryly and said, "If it wasn't that we couldn't live in the city, we wouldn't venture out to seek a living."

"Can't live in the city? Not necessarily, I have entered Mushroom City and seen the living conditions inside. Although it is not good, it can still survive." Chen Fang was puzzled.

Tas shook his head and said: "Then you must not have stayed in Mushroom City for long. If you live in Mushroom City for a month, you will find that the poll tax alone, all kinds of miscellaneous taxes temporarily issued by the city lord, and the terrible conscription are all very important. It can make you pissed off."

"During the few days you were in Mushroom City, what you saw was all illusions. On the surface, everyone seemed to be living a prosperous life. Those shops looked like people were coming and going, but they were actually buying from the owner of the shop on credit. It's just something."

"Ah, is that so?"

Chen Fang was very surprised.

Tas nodded with absolute certainty.

"And you certainly don't know that those stores are already under the control of the city lord, and the prices of those commodities are also set by the city lord, which is at least three times higher than before."

"Right now, there are actually two types of people in Mushroom City. One is those who follow the city lord to exploit us city citizens to death, and the other is those who have to live on credit like those shops in order to live."

"So ruthless, but why did the Mushroom City Lord do this?" Chen Fang asked strangely.

Tas sighed: "In order to collect wealth, but also to make all those who can't pay their debts his slaves."

"Slave? What's the point? He's the city lord, and the citizens listen to him. Is it necessary to do this?" Chen Fang wondered.

"In the past, the population of Mushroom City was several times larger than it is now, but after the city owner did that, the population gradually decreased a lot."

Tas continued with a gloomy face: "As far as I know, at least 10,000 people have been sold by the city lord."

"Sold it? No way." Chen Fang was surprised.

"Won't you resist?"

Tas smiled wryly and said, "It's only natural to pay off debts, isn't it, what's more, the city lord didn't arrest many people at once."

The owner of Mushroom City is very scheming. He catches those who owe the store so much that they can’t pay back their debts. The strategy of catching one batch at a time and boiling the frogs in warm water divides people’s hearts and makes sense. Even if you foresee your future It may also end up like this, and it feels sad that the rabbit died and the fox died, but there is no good way except to accept it helplessly.

"Where did he sell people?" Chen Fang asked.

Tas shook his head and said he didn't know.

"My father just thinks that if he stays in Mushroom City, sooner or later he will be arrested and sold because he can't pay the debts, so he took us out to live here."

"It's dangerous outside the city, but at least it's free."

After hearing this, Chen Fang felt emotional, and understood that if he really couldn't survive in the city, who would take the risk to come out to ask for a living.

"But it's also fortunate that you escaped from Mushroom City, otherwise you might be involved in the war with Qinghu City." Chen Fang said.

Tas was extremely surprised, "War? The owner of Mushroom City is very bad, but he is also very timid. How could he mess with Qinghu City?"

"It's not him who provoked it, but Qinghu City wants to occupy Mushroom City." Chen Fang explained.

Tas patted his chest and said happily: "Fortunately, you are right, we escaped, if we didn't escape, when Qinghu City occupied Mushroom City, we probably wouldn't even have the chance to be slaves."

"Why do you say that? Could it be that the city lord of Qinghu City is cruel? Will he directly massacre the city? Impossible."

If the Lord of Qinghu City was cruel, it would be impossible for the Lord of Mushroom City to think about surrendering.

Chen Fang looked at Tas suspiciously.

"He can't massacre cities and kill people, but he can treat people like animals."

What is an animal? They work hard when they are alive, and sell them when they die. When a slave dies, at least there is a pit for burial, but the animal, hehe.

The owner of Qinghu City is a more brutal exploiter than the owner of Mushroom City.

Hearing this, Chen Fang lamented for the people of Mushroom City.

"This bloody cannibal world."

Chen Fang couldn't do anything except sigh.

Maybe he could kill Qinghu City Lord, but what's the use of that.

Work from top to bottom, under the leadership of such a bad wolf, how much better will the people under him be.

If you kill him, another vicious person will come to power, and if you kill him again, one after another, unless Chen Fang wipes out all the upper layers of Qinghu City, it will be possible to stop it.

But is it possible.

Obviously impossible.

So I can only blame the collapse of this world, my bad fate, and just sigh.

Chen Fang calmed down, he is not a savior, there is no need to think too much, so he changed the subject.

"Then how did you get to know old Su... Logan?"

Speaking of Lao Suo, Tas swept away his gloomy emotions and showed respectful eyes.

"I met Lord Logan because he was injured and saved by us."

Lao Suo's injury should have been in the fight with the old Glory Sect, Chen Fang thought to himself.

"I think you seem to admire him very much."

Tas nodded and said: "That is, Lord Logan is the most powerful person I have ever seen, and he is an idol I admire."

"Oh, have you seen his strength?"

"Well, when Lord Logan was recuperating in our village, it happened that a group of storm wolves came out of nowhere and broke into our village. I wiped out all the storm wolves, and I will always remember his majestic appearance at that time." Tas said excitedly while recalling.

I remember that the Storm Wolf was a middle-level and third-level alien beast, with good strength, and lived in groups. Even the awakened ones at the peak of the high level would avoid its edge and not touch its brow.

However, with Lao Suo's strength as an upright person, it is not so unexpected that it will be wiped out.

It's just that Chen Fang didn't believe what Tas said so old that he could kill the whole pack of wolves with one move.

I think Tas should be exaggerating. After all, Lao Suo is his idol, and it is normal to exaggerate his idol.

"After Mr. Logan showed great power and wiped out the wolves, I admired him very much and wanted to learn from him. Unfortunately, I was timid at that time, and I was a little afraid. After I made up my mind, Mr. Logan had recovered from his injuries, and then I went to Mushroom City, and I was very disappointed for a while."

"This time, no matter what, I will seize the opportunity of Lord Logan's return to be a teacher." Tas clenched his fists and said firmly.

It's a pity that I'm going to disappoint you, we're leaving early tomorrow morning, you probably won't be able to worship as a teacher, Chen Fang thought.

But Tas was sad and disappointed that he didn't say that.

"Why did Logan leave your village to go to Mushroom City?" Chen Fang asked casually.

Tass replied: "Master Logan said that he is not used to living in the wild, but we all know that he probably chose to leave because he was afraid that the people who injured him before would find this place and that our village would be hurt."

"Actually, it's not necessary. Our village is so remote, no one will come here at all."

"It's just that Mr. Logan insisted, no matter how much he persuaded him, it was useless, so my father asked him to go to Mushroom City, and gave Mr. Logan a shop and warehouse we owned before as a thank you for saving the village."

Tas chattered on and on.

It turned out that the shop was not owned by Lao Suo.

However, Chen Fang didn't pay much attention to this.

Afterwards, Chen Fang and Tas chatted for a few more words, seeing that the time was almost up, they took their leave.

Back at the house, Chen Fang spent a little time attaching all the talisman papers to seal the thunder rune. After finishing, he went to rest and fell asleep after a while. He seemed to hear the faint roar of wolves in the distance. Zheng Nong, Chen Fang didn't care too much.

In the early morning of the next day, Lao Suo knocked on the door, Chen Fang got up, and the two tidied up before leaving the village without saying goodbye.

On the way to a three-way intersection, Chen Fang handed over the map and a stack of lightning-inducing talismans to Lao Suo.

"We are parting here, and I hope the next action will go smoothly." Chen Fang said.

"By the way, if I find your wife and ask her to believe me, do you have any tokens here?"

After Lao Suo took the things, he took out a crystal clear bracelet.

"This is for you, my wife will believe you when she sees it."

Chen Fang took the bracelet and looked at it, and found that it was just an ordinary bracelet that fit into the space.

"Then let's say goodbye here for the time being. Next, you have to be careful. If you can't do anything, you just give up those who are on the way, and don't care if you can destroy the old plan of the Glory Sect, and try to be a savior. Don't forget You still have a wife." Chen Fang warned.

It's not because of the deep relationship with Lao Suo, Chen Fang just doesn't want to lose a Taoist.

As for the millions of people who were under the shadow of the old Glory Sect's death, Chen Fang was not cruel, but really powerless.

It can only be said that this is life.

Lao Suo looked helpless, he was much older than Chen Fang, but he had to be warned by someone younger than him, it was a bit dumbfounding.

"Don't worry, I'm not that impulsive."

"Destroying the sacrifices of the old Glory Sect is only out of kindness, but it doesn't mean that you have to die for this kindness."

"It's best if it can be destroyed, and I don't feel ashamed if I can't."

Very sensible idea.

Chen Fang nodded, and then parted ways with Lao Suo.

Two days after parting from Lao Suo, Chen Fang came to Daji City.

As a medium-sized city, the walls and defenses of Daji City are not comparable to Mushroom City and Qinghu City, and the security is very strict.

The city wall is more than 30 meters high, and the defense on it is almost at the level of five steps per post and ten steps per post. Even if you sneak over the city wall at night, you will probably be found.

So Chen Fang gave up the idea of ​​stealing in, and entered through the city gate.

Fortunately, although the city gate guards will check everyone who enters and exits the city, and will search carefully to salute, but they have no other behavior.

With an adventurer certificate and junior mercenary badge, Chen Fang successfully entered Daji City.

After entering the city, the next thing Chen Fang has to do is to collect information, find the old stronghold of the Glory Sect, and rescue Lao Suo's wife.

Collecting information is naturally nothing more than going to the tavern near the mercenary guild.

It is not difficult to find the mercenary guild in Daji City, just follow the mercenaries on the street.

Chen Fang picked two leisurely-looking mercenaries to follow.

The reason why they are chosen is because this kind of mercenaries who seem to be idle are usually people who have not received the mission or completed the mission. Most of this kind of mercenary will go to the pub to drink and chat with others to brag .

Sure enough, as Chen Fang expected, after following the two mercenaries across two streets, he saw the mercenary guild and the adventurer's tavern on the same street.

Chen Fang of the mercenary guild didn't plan to go, because the tavern was the best place to collect information.

"jingle"

Pushing open the baffle at the door of the tavern, amidst the ringing of the welcome bell, Chen Fang walked into the noisy bar, took a look around, and found a corner to sit down.

Not long after sitting down, a waiter came over.

"Dear guest, what would you like?"

"We have the best wine in town, and the best food."

Chen Fang said lightly, "Is there a menu?"

"some."

The waiter was taken aback, it was the first time he was asked for a menu.

Because the mercenaries who came to the store would only ask directly.

The waiter quickly recovered and handed the menu to Chen Fang.

Flipping through a few pages of the menu, Chen Fang closed it again.

Because there are no pictures, only text, and I can't understand it, so Chen Fang gave up.

"Recommend a few signature dishes, no alcohol." Chen Fang said.

The waiter said something.

After hearing this, Chen Fang said: "Give me a dish that can fill me up."

"..."

The waiter was speechless, cooperating with me to say nothing.

But the customer is the god, what they say is what they say.

The waiter opened his mouth and recommended to Chen Fang a dish that could fill him up, and left after getting a positive answer.

And Chen Fang pricked up his ears to listen to the conversations of the people nearby, and began to observe.

Then he found a long time no see, but very familiar figure.

"Isn't this the old man? Why is he here?"

Chen Fang saw a familiar figure in the tavern, and ran over excitedly.