In the cold wind, Caronte City still looks cold, most of the people are hiding at home, the poor cuddle up to each other for warmth, while the rich gather around the warm fireplace, talking casually and giving advice. country. The servants were behind them, delivering ice-cold fruit wine, because the flames of the fireplace were so hot that the room they were in even felt like summer.
Beta was walking on the street, and when he saw on both sides of the road, from time to time there would be a curled up emaciated corpse covered in frost, he sighed slightly in his heart, and then pretended to ignore it.
This world is too dangerous, especially for ordinary people. Not to mention that the monsters in the suburbs can kill them, and hunger and cold will accompany them... Whether the people in a region live well depends largely on the benevolence of the lord.
It is now obvious that the lord of Caronte City is not such a benevolent person.
When Beta was the lord in the game, because of the extremely low agricultural tax and the good welfare of the citizens, in his territory, almost no one died of hunger and cold every winter. If there were, it would be an accident , not a vagabond, or a beggar.
Shirley and Emma followed him. These two women were not surprised by the beggars on both sides of the street or the corpses of homeless people.
Shirley is a divine creature, she is born high and high, and she is not interested in mundane things at all. Except for Beta, she doesn't care whether everyone else is alive or dead. And Emma is a native of this world. Although she is only fifteen years old, she has long been used to seeing people die in winter. In her common sense, it is quite normal for people to die in winter.
Beta came to the slave market again... because the place smelled so bad and dirty, Shirley and Emma waited outside.
When Beta walked into the market, before he officially started buying slaves, a fat official walked towards him with a few subordinates.
"I haven't seen you for a while, Your Excellency the Red Priest is still in style."
Looking at the cheerful fat nobleman in front of him, Beta remembered his name and said with a smile: "It is true that I have not seen you for a while, Your Excellency Frances. I am here to buy slaves again. Take a look, what can you do?" introduction?"
Francis' fat face froze for a moment, then smiled and said, "I don't know how much you need..."
"The more the better." Beta looked at the entire slave market: "You have about 2,000 people here, how about giving them all to me?"
Francis took a deep breath: "Your Excellency has a good appetite."
"My city is short of labor." Beta said calmly.
Francis closed his eyes and thought for a while: "I can only allow you 1,500 people, and I have to keep the other 500 people, otherwise I will be short of manpower."
"Okay. No problem." Beta nodded: "I will leave the specific matters to you, and give me an exact number,"
"Two hundred and fifty gold coins." The fat man thought for a while, and then continued: "But I need time to mobilize so many slaves at one time, at least five days... If you are kind, you can come to my manor for a few days. God, let me do my best with hospitality."
"You're too polite." Although Beta didn't have much affection for the slave owners, after all he had to rely on these slave owners to attract residents to his own city: "But I have other things to deal with. I will come back in five days. Don't bother me for now."
"You are so polite." Francis shook his head with regret.
Beta smiled, turned and left.
Francis looked at the back of Beta leaving, and after a while, he said to himself: "Help me find out, what did the red priest do during this time, why did he suddenly want so many slaves, plus Some time ago, there were more than 700 slaves, even if they were used to build the city, the number of slaves is too many."
Two servants took the order and left.
Beta didn't know that someone was investigating him, so he went outside and took Shirley and Emma to the street.
Because of the severe winter, Caronte City has nothing to do, and there is no place to go shopping.
But even so, Emma and Beta still felt quite happy walking together. I haven't seen him for more than a year. During this time, she missed the man beside her all the time, even to the point where she couldn't sleep.
Many times, a woman can be content with the person she likes, just staying together.
Beta took the two women on the street. Although there were not many pedestrians on the road, almost everyone looked at Emma and Shirley more.
The three of them have long been accustomed to the existence of this kind of sight, but sometimes, there is a kind of sight that cannot be ignored.
malicious.
The full of malice was fleeting... Although it was only a short moment, all three of them felt it.
The three Betas are all master-level powerhouses, and they are quite sensitive to such things as evil thoughts and killing intent. Generally speaking, if you want to hide your killing intent or evil thoughts, only assassins can do it. The opponent's evil thoughts are so powerful, but they are fleeting, which shows that the opponent's concealment skills are not very strong. , but it won't be much worse.
But the other party must not be a specialized assassin, otherwise Beta and the others would not feel such evil thoughts at all.
"It seems that you have quite a lot of enemies." Emma looked at the direction where the evil thoughts erupted just now, her eyes lit up slightly. She didn't like Beta to be hurt, but if Beta had enemies, then she would have more reason to treat him. By Beta's side, the excuse is also very simple, as long as it is to help one's friends.
However, Beta felt that such evil thoughts were familiar. While walking, he thought for a while, and suddenly said to Shirley: "I still remember that some time ago, when we brought the York people, we were attacked by a small group and were wiped out to the rear. , Did we kill another vampire?"
Upon hearing this, Shirley came over immediately: "It's really similar."
Emma stared at the side and asked, "Vampire? What's going on, can you tell me?"
Beta then gave a general account of what happened.
After hearing this, Emma walked, her pretty face full of evil spirits: "A vampire... such an evil creature, dare to appear in front of the world, aren't you afraid of another big cleansing?"
Because vampires have the ability to turn human beings into vampires, if not curbed, the human world will become a vampire world in a short time, so it is deeply feared by all countries in the human world. Hundreds of years ago, most The countries united and carried out a big cleansing of vampires. At that time, 99% of vampires were wiped out, and only a small part escaped and hid.
And since then, vampires have rarely appeared in the human world.
This incident was recorded by the major temples, and Emma, as a saint, also studied it.
And all the major temples have issued orders, if you encounter a vampire, you can kill it on the spot, no matter whether its alignment is good or evil.
Emma is a saint. Although she is not as extreme towards evil creatures as the paladins of the Temple of Light, she is quite disgusted with creatures like vampires. Moreover, in the book, it is described how vampires are evil and how to turn young and pure women into slut.
"Beta, let's find a way to kill this vampire." Emma looked expectantly at the man beside her.
But Beta shook his head: "We just suspect, we haven't confirmed that the evil thoughts just now came from vampires."
"Even if it wasn't from the vampire, he has such a killing intent towards you, we have to find out who he is anyway."
Beta nodded: "That's true."
No matter who it is, it will feel uncomfortable to be targeted by someone with such a strong killing intent. Beta has many enemies, and he has no way to determine who is going to deal with him, but no matter what he says, vampires are still the most suspected, so he still uses vampires as the premise to find enemies.
As long as there are intelligent biological activities, there will always be some traces.
Vampires also have many characteristics. For example, they love to suck blood. If the blood slaves are not transformed into their own race, the blood slaves will be sucked into mummy in a short time.
And vampires don't like to come out during the day, they are pale and only like to act at night.
Beta decided to start from these two aspects... The most well-informed people in a city are the gangsters after all, and if you want to order these gangsters, you must find their boss.
Old Bush is the boss of the gangsters in Caronte City. He is over seventy years old. In terms of combat effectiveness, he is definitely not good enough, but the gangsters dare not 'overthrow' his rule. The reason is very simple. Old Bush not only He is ruthless enough, but also knows how to buy people, and knows how to judge people.
His confidantes are all loyal to him, and these confidants are still instigating a lot of people.
The gangsters could only reluctantly accept the orders of Bush Sr.
After beating seven gangsters, Beta finally found the place where Bush Sr. lived.
This is a small wooden house hidden in the woods behind the rich area. When Beta found it, he saw an old man with silver-white hair carving a wooden sculpture of a woman with a knife.
Hearing the voice, he raised his head, glanced at Beta with cloudy and speckled pupils, and then said slowly, "This is not the place for noble gentlemen to come."
"I've come to ask you to do something for me."
Bush Sr. clapped his hands, and about 20 strong-looking men flashed around him. They were slowly approaching with sharp weapons in their hands.
Beta came alone this time. He looked around and said with a smile: "If I were you, I wouldn't let them approach me any more. No matter how ordinary people pretend to be, they can't pretend to be professionals."
Bush Sr. smiled but did not speak.
Holding their weapons, the dozen or so big men rushed towards Beta with a loud shout at the same time.
A ring of fire shook off Beta's body, and when those big men touched the ring of fire, they immediately flew back backwards and fell to the ground, screaming again and again for a while.
Beta looked at Bush Sr. and said, "Now we can talk quietly." (.)