Chapter 927

There are more refugees in Jinyang City, but there are more guests in Heiling City.

This group of guests is a bit strange.

different.

In front was a road-finding thief with sharp eyes riding a galloping lizard. In the middle of the team were dozens of mercenaries, escorting a dozen or so criminals who had been tortured so hard that their flesh and teeth had been shredded. into town. At the end, there is also a huge sub-dragon 'bigfoot walking earth dragon'. Along the road full of bones, the big-footed ground dragon came slowly, with an incomparably luxurious golden seat on its back.

On the golden throne, besides two similarly dressed silver armored warriors, there was also a female slave and a little girl holding a baby.

Unlike ordinary caravans, this team is more like a slave hunting team.

But it is rare to see a slave hunting team that can be so luxurious. They will have a quasi-heaven-level 'Bigfoot Walking Dragon' that is usually only eligible to ride if they are above the city lord. Surprisingly, on the golden seat, there were no particularly distinguished nobles, only two warriors, and even a lowly slave girl and a little girl who looked like a starving person. Even though they were sitting at the feet of the two silver armored warriors, sitting on that incomparably luxurious golden throne, looking down at the surroundings, the timidity and anxiety in their eyes could still be clearly seen. Anyone with a little foresight can tell at a glance that they are definitely not descendants of nobles. On the contrary, these should be untouchables, the hungry people among the untouchables!

What qualifications do untouchables have to sit on the golden throne?

The captain of the guard who was in charge of collecting taxes at the gate of the city felt incredible about this.

"The wine and meat of the Zhumen stinks, and there are frozen bones on the road..." He vaguely heard the silver armored warrior on the left on the golden seat say this to the silver armored warrior on the right.

"Don't drop your book bag. Now is not the time to express your emotions. Hurry up and get down to business. We don't have much time, and we have to cross the Zhifeng Swamp. Hurry up and take down the outer ones." The captain of the guard at the city gate heard silver on the right The armored warrior said this, although the distance is a bit far, the surrounding is a bit noisy, and I can't hear it very clearly, but judging from this accent, the silver armored warrior on the right should be a woman.

"What are you doing?" The guard stepped forward to stop the pathfinding thieves who were walking in the front, and asked loudly, no matter what your status is when you come to Hei Ling City, you have to pay taxes. This is the rule set by the lord.

The lord of Hei Ling City is the younger brother of the lord of the country.

Not to mention the leader of Hei Ling, even in the entire Zhifeng country, no one would dare to disobey the will of the lord.

Here, the lord is the sky, the earth, and the only ruler who controls the fate of all people in Hei Ling Territory!

The pathfinder thief with bright eyes rolled down his long legs and ran towards the back, with a smile on his face, he came forward to say hello as if he hadn't seen him for a long time, and skillfully stuffed a small purse into the guard's ear. , biting his ear and talking for a while. Pointing back to the ground dragon, he said something in a low voice. In the end, the pathfinder thief took out a bigger and more inflated money bag from his pocket, and offered it with a smile as tax money... All this is normal, almost all caravans or slave hunting teams do this.

Bribing the guards is the most common action for every pathfinder thief, and paying taxes is also in line with the laws and regulations of each region.

The captain at the gate of the city frowned secretly at this ordinary procedure.

I don't know what it feels like.

The captain of the guard always felt that the pathfinder's smile was not flattery, but an indescribable mockery.

It seems that the guard who collects the money will be unlucky soon... But there is no problem with the gold coins at all. When the captain of the guard watched the guard open the money bag to register the tax, he found that the gold coins were real, there was no deception, and there were a lot of them, far exceeding ordinary The slave hunting team even exceeds the normal size of the caravan.

Well, do these people have so much money that they have no place to squander it?

Look at the fugitive slaves they captured, all of them were tortured so hard that they couldn't live any longer. They were worthless at all. For these fugitive slaves, is it really worth paying a tax of nearly a thousand gold coins? Besides, for a team like this, others would have complained a lot if they had to pay a hundred gold, but this pathfinder thief paid nearly a thousand gold, and his face was still full of smiles.

It's so weird!

When this team entered the city, the captain of the guard still couldn't figure out why he felt uneasy?

Why do you still feel uncomfortable when you have received more tax and you should be happy? What went wrong?

"Greyhound, what did he say just now?" the captain of the guard summoned his subordinates to ask.

"Boss, that's a slave hunting team that hunts down escaped slaves. They have traveled between Zhifeng Country and Hurricane Country for a long time. This time, they are just passing by. It is said that they are mainly responsible for smuggling, and slave hunting is only a part-time job. I guess they entered this time." A large sum of money, sold very generously, paid a full tax of more than 800 gold, first, we are going to be prosperous this time, that is, we have paid the highest limit of 200 gold, and the rest can be divided into more than 600 gold. Brothers can finally celebrate! In this poor and rotten place, how long has it been without such an income, half a month, no, half a year, I haven’t seen such a fat sheep coming to the door!" The guard danced with excitement, smiling happily Report the good news to the captain.

The captain of the guard nodded, indicating that he knew.

Although he had the opportunity to enrich himself, he was not happy, and even faintly feared.

Impossible... This slave hunting team will pay 800 gold as taxes? Even if smuggling is easy to earn, it is impossible to pay such taxes when entering the city. This is simply the behavior of a fool. Who would spend money for no reason?

If this band of slave catchers did it on purpose, what was it for?

Why did they use heavy bribes to enter the city?

Why did the pathfinder show a mocking smile in the depths of his eyes? How can those lowly slave girls and hungry little girls be qualified to sit on the golden seat? The most puzzling thing is that those two silver armored warriors with exactly the same costumes are obviously very weak, but how could they give themselves a feeling of incomparable fear?

The captain of the guard who was in charge of collecting taxes at the entrance of the city couldn't understand what he thought.

I don't know how long it has been.

From a distant direction, a griffin flew over, carrying a flying courier covered in blood on it. Before it could enter the city in time, the courier fell headlong.

When the captain of the guard rushed forward to rescue the flying messenger, he found that he was already seriously injured and on the verge of death, dying. At the last moment of death, the flying messenger revived his spirits and held the captain's hand tightly: "Quick, quick, quickly report to the lord, Yotei City, Sandstone City, Gobi City, Thorn City, Walnut City, have all been destroyed!" Breakthrough, I just escaped in Buffalo City... I, I, I was the only one who escaped... Hurry up and inform the lord, the enemy... ask the lord for help, ah..."

The messenger seemed to want to say something, but couldn't hold on anymore.

He tilted his head and died out of breath.

"I'll be right away..." The captain of the guard immediately jumped up when he heard the news. The whole Hei Ling territory was broken, so what's the deal? I don't know who, the territory outside the combat zone has also been invaded. Could it be that the flames of war have spread to the rear of the Zhifeng Swamp area?

He was about to use the fastest speed to rush to the lord's mansion and report the bad news to the lord of Hei Ling.

But the bloody scene of the fugitive slave who was tied to the prison cart and tortured until he lost his shape just now flashed through the depths of the guard captain's mind.

Yotei City, Sandstone City, Gobi City, Thorn City, Walnut City, and Buffalo City were all captured by the enemy, so were the city owners and garrison generals of these cities all captured?

Could it be... the captain of the guard suddenly shivered in fear.

I thought of the smiling face of the pathfinder thieves who paid heavy taxes just now, I thought of the pariah who could not sit on the throne, I thought of those runaway slaves who were tied up in prison wagons and tortured until they were out of shape, and I thought of the men and women dressed in the same way The conversation of the samurai... The captain of the guard trembled with fear, and sweat drenched his whole body like rain.