Astral Apostle

Seeing that Rut didn’t speak, goatee repeated what he said to Zhou Jing, trembling with fear:

"...I didn’t tell the truth. Tell the strange beast hunter and make him believe that this is just a matter of reselling the potion inventory, thinking it is just a matter of money, and taking everything to me. I use this reason to bet that he will take me to you, so I am now Only to come back alive and inform you of the situation."

"You react faster."

Rut indifferent expression.

The goat hurriedly said: "I have preconceived and thought about the reasons...I have stabilized the hunter."

hearing this, Rut coldly snorted: "Do you still want to claim credit with me? You have been caught, and you have already made a mistake."

"Dare not." The goatee hurriedly lowered his head.

Rut said solemnly: "You were not only caught by someone, but you also got involved in the hunter's potion business without telling me... I said, don't touch the hunter's potion. For me to make a profit, did the blood relatives of the other tribes who have been inserted do it?"

"I, I don't know." The goatee trembles.

Rut slapped his face with a slap, shouted:

"Don’t forget, why did the tribe and I ask you to do this kind of thing? You really moved. The idea of ​​making money, your mind is not clear? Every year secretly transported back to the tribe's supplies, do you also deduct it?"

"no! I don't! I dare not!" Goatee defended in horror: " I have no shortage of supplies that should be handed over to the tribe. I just replaced a little of the hunter’s potion inventory in the pharmacy privately, and I didn’t dare to move the others!"

"It's best to be like this."

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Rut squinted at the goatee.

He straightened up, paced in the dungeon, and slowly said:

"Speaking of which, the hunter named Jason, I checked the details and suddenly appeared in The surrounding area of ​​Frostwood Village, no record before, is very mysterious and suspicious...but, he discovered your behavior."

"What do you mean?" The goatee shook.

Rut frowned: "This person is unknown, much like an imperial secret whistle. If the imperial spotted something and sent someone to investigate, it would be bad."

There are people who supervise and check accounts in every city, and even if they can be bought, they are still the handle.

Let the "glove" of goatee do things, even if it is found out, it can be disguised as a personal behavior, which has nothing to do with the lord and White Essence City itself.

After one floor, it is not so easy to find him.

Rut closed his eyes slightly, and various thoughts flowed in his mind.

Although lords can monopolize many things and have a high degree of autonomy, the Terra Empire always wants to control them.

The empire has more than one city. Playing too much on the surface, others can change cities, so many things can only be done privately.

For example, the cooperation Potion Master of a pharmacy, he is a lord who only collects taxes, and he is not counted as his thing if he enters the inventory. The profit of the cooperation with the Potion Master must be guaranteed, otherwise they will not come, so they have to Insider operation of using replacement inventory.

However, hunter potions are not among them. Hunters are an important force in protecting the town. Rut does not want the hunter potions to be a problem, but also counts on more hunters who are filled with honor to be willing to dedicate themselves.

But the person below stretched out his hand secretly, unsatisfied, and with more selfishness, he couldn't find it immediately.

The thing in the pharmacy is just the tip of the iceberg. The blacksmith's shop, the armor shop, the grain shop and other facilities all have inside stories of different situations.

As a lord, he controls the tax collection power of the city, of course not for money, he is not short of money.

Is the lord of White Essence City and the current patriarch of the tribe. The dual identity brought about is a consideration of light and dark interests.

The goal of all is to transport all kinds of materials for the tribe, hoard them, and accumulate the power of the tribe.

The price of inferior goods will be borne by urban residents and passers-by. Anyway, the quality is just a little bit worse and will not kill people.

White Essence City was once a tribal settlement. It was later converted into a city to accept foreign residents, but the tribal members quietly moved out and established a secret settlement in a new place.

So for him, urban residents are just productivity that produces profit.

White Essence City is business.

The tribe is the foundation.

For the historical reasons of White Essence City, the Terra Empire still allows the tribe to lead the city and let the tribe be the lord...Because of the existence of the tribe, the position of the lord is his.

But it is still not insured. What if the empire withdraws its appointment one day, as in some new cities, appoints empire officials to airborne the lord? Will you listen or not?

His plan is to use towns to feed back the tribe.

The Terra Empire has been building new cities and moving people. There is no historical reason for the new cities, so the lords can be airborne without hindrance, so batches of "emerging nobles" who created new surnames were created, and The blood relatives of these tribes contend.

So Rut could see that the Terra Empire wanted to consolidate its royal power and gradually disintegrate the entrenched forces of the tribe... In fact, this process has been promoted since the establishment of the empire.

With the living environment maintained by the tribe, a group of people can live in a group, continue to merge, annex, and accept outsiders, and let the world recognize themselves as members of the tribe. And the living environment maintained by the empire can also make people recognize themselves as citizens of the empire.

The changes in the living environment and identity have brought about the shaking of the foundation of the tribe.

In the foreseeable future, as the trend develops, the situation will become more and more unfavorable for the tribe.

The times are changing, what should we do at that time?

Someone once said these things to him, gave him a vision, and invited him to participate in a very wide-ranging plan...

Rut agreed.

Everything we do today is largely based on this plan.

Gather your strength and wait for the day when the man screams.

All kinds of thoughts flashed, Rut did not show on his face, and slowly said:

"Except for this hunter named Jason, only that Baron knows?"

"Yes, I only talked to the two of them...but I don't know if they told others."

"Although you lied to them for your reasons, they have already If we noticed the situation in the pharmacy, we will be at a loss in the future...especially Jason, who is suspected of being the secret whistle of the empire."

Rut's tone was paused, said solemnly:

"You intervene I'll care about the hunter's potion later. I will first think about how to deal with the problem at hand."

After speaking, he turned his head and glanced at Gama.

Gama leaned against the corner, shiver coldly, desperate.

From just now, he wanted to shout "Stop talking, I don't want to listen"!

I know so much, can I still have life?

However, the two of them did not shy away from him, and they were obviously ready to silence him.

"Don't, don't kill me, I didn't hear anything, I..."

Before Gama finished speaking, Rut gestured behind him.

Shoo!

A pebble shot through the air and pierced Gama's forehead.

The blood hole appeared, Gama's eyes widened, and he fell to the ground, dying of anger.

In the shadow of the dungeon, the flat head man walked out slowly, rubbed his fingers, and wiped off the lime debris on it.

It was just that he snapped a stone out of his finger and killed Gama in one fell swoop.

Rut glanced at him and couldn't help but said: "How did you do it with this hand? I asked other guards to play stones like you, and the stones were crushed in one fell swoop."

"strength emission skill." The flat head man was expressionless and didn't want to say much.

Rut shook his head without entanglement. He quickly found the jailer who was asked to evade and dealt with the affairs here. He left the dungeon and returned to the longhouse.

As soon as he walked in, the attendants reported.

"fief lord, Maggie Captain is looking for you, he seems to be hurt."

"Oh? I'll go and see."

Rut came all the way to the reception room. Maggie was already waiting here, bandaging his neck.

"What's wrong with you?" Rut was surprised.

Magji suddenly stood up and said indignantly: "fief lord, you hired me before, saying that I also have the qualifications to use the hunter's workshop, but a strange beast hunter just robbed me of my things. Cut me..."

He crackled and explained that Rut understood.

It turns out that this person came to complain, and he actually had a conflict with Jason.

Rut suddenly narrowed his eyes, thought about it, looked at the angry Maggie, opened the mouth and said:

"This matter is indeed a bit overbearing, I The promise to you is still valid...Let’s take my other guards, and when Jason leaves the city, you will find a place where no one is there to stop him and take the medicine you want back."

Mageji startedled and was overjoyed.

He just came to complain. He didn't dare to expect what the lord would do to the strange beast hunters of tyrannize, but he didn't expect Rut to support him.

Good luck, the lord has gotten his head today!

Or does the lord feel that his authority is offended?

Maggie had a fantasy.

At this time, Rut touched his chin, and said: "By the way, please bring him back too. I want to talk to him in person."

"Why please come back?" Ma Georgi asked.

"You weigh yourself, don't kill anyone, just teach him a little lesson. By the way, you remember to avoid the eyes and ears of other hunters and bring Jason to me."

"Okay! Then I'm going to convene people."

Maggie left happily.

Rut's eyes flashed upon seeing this.

He was still thinking about how to deal with Zhou Jing, the insider. If he let his guard go out, it would be hard to find a reason. The lord could not explain the motives of the strange beast hunter, and it would easily make other hunters angry.

I was thinking about what reason to make, but Maggie sent it to the door...Well, the reason for the personal revenge behavior is there all of a sudden.

Rut intends to catch "Jason" back to interrogate the origin, to see if it is the secret whistle of the empire, and then think about the matter of silence.

However, this group of people may not be able to hold it back when they move their hands. Maybe they played True Fire and killed "Jason" on the spot.

In short, I finally stated that this was Maggie's personal revenge. He falsely ordered to mobilize the guards privately. It was not his own intention. The execution of this person was used to calm the hunter's anger.

Although it's a pity to lose a guard of different blood, this kind of guy who talks about "I am the guard of the lord" everywhere and provokes trouble to confuse himself will kill him if he is killed.

Anyway, as long as there is a xenoblood potion, a new xenoblood warrior can always be born.

And another insider, Baron, Rut didn't plan to let it go.

Although Baron seems to believe the reasons he made up, but now that he knows about the pharmacy, it might be spread everywhere. The more people pay attention, the greater the risk.

As for the Frostwood Village where the incident occurred, it’s a long-term plan. As long as Baron doesn’t leak, don’t worry about it. Rut is not willing to harm the village under the rule. This is all labor... But this Gama is the village. The Witch Doctor is gone now, and Baron should have to explain it, which is very troublesome.

If you want to do it, it is impossible to send soldiers, and soldiers are untrustworthy. It is best to find a way to let strange beast do it for you...

Rut thinks about plans one by one.

……

After Zhou Jing left the workshop, she went straight to the Hunter's Tavern, and unexpectedly found Weiss here.

At this time, there were many hunters in the tavern. Seeing Zhou Jing opening the door and entering, they raised their glasses to say hello.

"Yo, Jason is here."

"Someday let's go hunting together."

"Why didn't you see Baron, you ran by yourself Are you coming out for fun?"

Zhou Jing smiled in response to the crowd, and then came to sit down across from Weiss.

"Are you here so soon?"

Weiss smiled, took a drink, took out a purse and put it on the table, and pushed it towards Zhou Jing.

"This is the money from the last sale of the game, the share of you and Baron."

Zhou Jing opened the purse and counted it. There was only one hundred and fifty Silver Coins in it.

"It's a bit less."

"Only three low-risk strange beasts, where can the selling price go?" Weiss rolled the eyes.

Zhou Jing Forget it, she is now carrying a huge sum of 1,400 Silver Coins.

The bulging purse puts Ross on his back, looking like a thief who slips through the door and picks the lock.

Weiss also noticed, and screamed: "You made a fortune? Where did you get so much money?"

"It's just a windfall."

Zhou Jing shook his head.

Seeing this, Weiss did not ask.

In the tavern, we chatted with Weiss and other hunters for a while, and then looked at the latest strange beast whereabouts report, Zhou Jing took Ross to leave.

There is not much time to invest. He plans to quickly bring the money back to Frostwood Village, and then use the newly acquired Howling Wind Tiger potion depending on the situation to try to complete the second enhancement.

Although it has been only three months since the last strengthening, with the help of accelerated practice, the results of my physical exercise are the same as those of ordinary people after several years of cultivation.

Farewell to Weiss and other hunters, Zhou Jing did not delay, and immediately left the city and embarked on the way back to Frostwood Village.

...

The road gradually changed from wide to narrow, and gradually became a dirt road.

Just as she was walking through a forest on the road, Zhou Jing suddenly stepped one stopped and noticed the secret movement all around the forest.

"Who?"

Zhou Jing glanced all around.

The voice fell, and the seven silhouettes turned out from behind the trees in all directions.

He recognized it at a glance. Most of the seven people were familiar with each other and seemed to be Rut's personal guards.

The first person is Maggi, with a face full of harboring malicious intentions.

"Tsk."

Zhou Jing slapped her lips and gently pressed the handle of the knife with her hands.