Sue Hall.

If the Shepherd's River is the waterway connecting the north and south of Ruhe Giant Island, then the Serpent Road is the main land route between Suinhor and the Ten Thousand Snake King's Court.

Kurmis passed through the Alpens Fortress, left the border of the Ten Thousand Snake King's Court, and entered this famous commercial road.

There are many villages and towns along the way, and there is an endless stream of passing caravans, so there are hotels for rest and residence along the way.

certainly.

Occasionally, groups of robbers would rush out of the dense jungle.

Especially in these years, the number of robbers on the Serpent Road has increased day by day, and the early robbers even established very hidden gray towns on the Serpent Road.

These bandit gangs and gray forces, large and small, are notorious in Suinhor and the Court of Ten Thousand Snakes.

As these forces grew stronger, they also accepted a large number of powerful people.

Up to now, this place has completely become an extrajudicial area; their power is even so strong that the towns on the border between the two countries are being influenced and controlled by these people walking on the fringe.

Caravans who wanted to pass this trade route not only had to be inextricably linked with these forces, but also had to cultivate their own guards or hire mercenaries for protection, which also made the mercenary unions on the border extremely prosperous.

Kurmis walked this road alone.

No need to fly, no magic spells, just walk like ordinary snake people.

Although Su Kebu also taught him the method of transforming the form of God, Kurmis never thought of changing his form after he became an apostle; He just looked at the eyes of ordinary people.

Kurmis especially likes to pay attention to and collect various plants along the way, collecting the seeds of gymnosperms or seed ferns.

"There are plants like this."

"What kind of plant is this? How can it survive in the sand and in the crevices of stones with such tenacious vitality?"

"Why do some have seeds and some don't?"

Kurmis was carrying a pannier, which contained a lot of things.

It looks like a farmer in the mountains.

After becoming an apostle and reincarnation, Kurmis began to gradually discover the true mystery of spiritual power; he no longer needed to contact other people as before, but could observe the world and other life from a special perspective through spiritual power Secrets of the body.

The powerful and special spiritual power even allowed him to perceive the terrifying aura of the giant Ruhe monster that enveloped the giant Ruhe island.

Although.

The moment he observed the phantom formed by the condensed breath, he was so frightened that he couldn't breathe.

I dare not look again.

He observed that there is spiritual power in the body of every intelligent life, and the spiritual power can affect the life form of intelligent species, and even partially affect the health and lifespan of intelligent species.

When an intelligent species is on the verge of death, its spiritual power must fall into decay.

Not exhaustion, but an inexplicable decay, as if rotten.

This kind of decay is difficult to reverse, even if Kurmis repairs it through spiritual power, it can only be alleviated.

It is impossible to greatly prolong the life of a certain intelligent species, including himself.

There are only two ways to get rid of the shackles of life, break the boundaries of mortals and become an apostle, and then master the secret of reincarnation.

Therefore, after mastering the power of spirituality, whether it is a sky angel or a feathered snake, it is more used for healing.

But now.

Kurmis had a novel idea.

What would happen if spiritual power were injected into these plants?

Along the way, Kurmis has been experimenting with this power.

But unfortunately, nothing was gained in the end.

"Plants are not intelligent species, and cannot carry the power of spirituality."

"Perhaps it is possible, but I have not found such a way."

Although Kurmis failed, he continued to search and try.

Walking alone on this road full of bandits, even if Kurmis was lucky, he still encountered bandits in the end.

Kurmis was walking on the path, and several figures who had been lying on the sides for an unknown amount of time suddenly rushed out.

"Stop for me."

"Hand over everything of value."

A group of bandits dressed in rags and holding a few sticks chased Kurmis ferociously.

"Stop!"

It was a group of unprofessional robbers who stopped Kurmis, but this is normal. Kurmis' current appearance and situation don't really look like a rich man; robbing him feels more like a waste of effort , and only such poor and dizzy robbers would choose to rob him.

Moreover, this place is already very close to the city. Generally, large gangs of robbers would not choose this kind of place, because if there are too many people, they will be easily discovered, and then they will be wiped out by the security officers in the city.

These people attacked Kurmis as soon as they came up, and they didn't have a clear division of labor like skilled robbers.

Kurmis stretched out his hand, and a ball of light spun out of his hand, and the surrounding air flow fell into his palm, and these robbers seemed to be exhausted and fell to the ground.

"not good!"

"It's the one in power!"

"It's that kind of power!"

Kurmis walked towards one of them, and the man fell to the ground and shouted with horror in his eyes.

"Don't kill us, we don't know that you are the powerful one."

"We are also robbers for the first time, please let us go!"

Kurmis didn't really believe this kind of nonsense, but the other party really didn't look like a professional robber, and he didn't even have a weapon.

He asked the other party: "Why do you want to be a robber?"

The other party replied: "I can't live anymore, I have no land."

"Because of tax arrears, the land was confiscated by the nobles."

Kurmis also knows this kind of situation, and has seen a lot of it before. He sighed: "You can also farm land for the nobles, and you can barely survive. Why do you want to be a robber?"

The other party suddenly said angrily: "Plow the land for them?"

"There is not even enough rations left all year round. Every winter, I don't know how many people starve to death and freeze to death. They just try to force us to die, and they don't treat us as human beings at all."

Kurmis was very puzzled, it was good to farm land instead of nobles in his year.

Because population and servants are also assets, most nobles still cherish them very much.

But now Suinhor seems to be completely different, the nobles no longer take the population and servants of the territory seriously.

Kurmis didn't know why, he could only think it was a special case of the border territory.

"Are all the nobles on the border so cruel?"

Kurmis put forward another idea: "You can also enter the workshop, and you can support yourself by working in the workshop!"

At that time, workshops were also a good job, and many people without land would choose this path.

Kurmis did not expect that when he mentioned the workshop, the other party immediately yelled and roared.

"What?"

"Do you think I don't know where to go?"

The other party was furious: "The owner of the workshop is even more black-hearted, more cruel than those nobles; they make us work day and night, and many people are exhausted to death within a few years."

"Not only did they not treat us like human beings, they didn't even treat us like livestock."

"When it's time to distribute the money, I try my best to deduct it every time. You must know that the money is so small that it's not even enough to fill your stomach."

"Even animals have to be fed, but they can't even eat enough after working day and night. They are tired and hungry and have no energy to work. They beat me and said I was lazy."

The other party sat up from the ground and pointed to the scar on his body.

"Look at the scars on my body, they were the ones who beat me. I was almost beaten to death by the workshop owner's men."

"I'd rather be a robber than go to a workshop."

The more they talked, the more uncomfortable they felt, and the robbers wept bitterly; in the end, they even shouted directly, asking Kurmis to kill them.

"I can't survive anyway."

"Master Powerful One, just kill us, and let us suffer less."

"I can't live anymore."

Kurmis suddenly sympathized with these robbers, but he didn't know what to do.

He put down some money and gave it to these people, and left without saying anything high-sounding.

He was going to see what Suinhall had become now.

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He traveled all the way to the Moonlight City of Suinhor.

The guards at the city gate stopped him and asked him to pay to enter the city.

Kurmis was very puzzled: "I am a doctor, and you see, I have nothing on me except my belongings. I am not a businessman who brings things into the city. Why do I have to pay taxes?"

"For a person like me, you shouldn't ask me to pay."

In Meiya City, only merchants who brought goods into the city paid taxes.

But the guard said, "What are you talking about, entering the city without paying taxes?"

"I've never heard of it."

Kurmis: "More than a hundred years ago, you didn't have to pay taxes when you entered the city in Meiya City."

As soon as these words came out, everyone on the other side laughed.

"What?"

"More than a hundred years ago?"

"Return to Miya City?"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

After the other party finished laughing, they immediately surrounded Kurmis in a vicious manner.

"You guys are not here to provoke trouble, are you?"

"This is our general decree, the decree issued by the city lord; everyone who enters the city must pay taxes, or you poor ghosts will all sneak into the city.

"Look at you, you are a farmer, and you still say you are a doctor."

"I also said that I am a powerful person, do you want to kneel down and kowtow to me?"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Kurmis also used to be a guard, and he was the valet who guarded the city lord when he was very young. Now he has seen how powerful his colleagues are.

But he didn't say anything more, and finally chose to pay the money and enter the city.

But when he entered the city, he suddenly remembered what Long had said to him.

"Kurmis!"

"It was more than a hundred years ago when you left, so you can go back."

"Everything has changed, and you won't find anything after you go back."

Kurmis has just stepped into this country, and he feels as if he has entered another country, and he can't find the slightest breath of the past.

After more than a hundred years, he once again looked at all this from a human perspective.

"It seems that a hundred years have passed, and everything is indeed different."

"Did the country change, or did the people change?"

"Or... have I changed?"

The urban population of Suinhall is much larger than that of the north. Many of the cities here can be traced back to hundreds of years ago, even to the era of the fire guardians. Unlike the cities of the King of Snakes, most of them are newly established. of.

There is a stench everywhere in the city, and there are crowds of people everywhere.

The streets are crowded with people, and if you don't pay attention, you will step on the feces of humans and animals.

On the outer layer, a large number of shacks built by the poor at the bottom are squeezed together, piled up and pressed together.

In the twilight.

There is a sense of horror and depression that is twisted and dark.

Kurmis came to this slum, not far from a fresh market.

The stench is enough to make people faint, but the people who live here seem to be used to the smell.

Kurmis didn't want to see what the life of those nobles was like. He came here mainly to see how the lower class people in this city lived.

Is it really the same as what the robber said?

Because he came from such a place, his parents were workers in a workshop, so he grew up in the city, and finally became a guard of the city lord's mansion.

every morning.

Before dawn, he saw groups of workers going to work like walking dead.

Then waited until it was completely dark, none of these people came back.

"It's getting dark, why haven't you come back yet?"

"How do you work when it's so dark?"

Kurmis sneaked a look, and found a new style of things.

Gas lamp.

Also known as the alchemy gas lamp, although it is made by alchemy, it does not possess extraordinary power, adding the word alchemy is more like a gimmick.

But this kind of thing completely changed the night of the city, and also changed Suinhor's workshop.

Since the arrival of cheap alchemy gas lamps in the Land of the Rising Sun, night can no longer stop workshop owners from earning shiny coins.

The workshop owner ordered the workers to work in two shifts, no matter whether it was day or night.

When Kurmis went to observe these workshops, he found that there were not only a large number of women in the workshops, but also many children.

The women were hunched over one by one, and the children were all skinny. The scene looked terrifying.

And the food eaten by the observing households was a kind of paste that he didn't know if it could be called food, and it smelled so bad that it was hard to swallow.

And even for this kind of thing, they can't guarantee it.

They all ate the last meal without the next meal.

Sometimes, people in the slums would gather together to chat, and Kurmis would join in as a doctor.

He has recently treated many people in the slums, and he is quite popular in this area.

During this gathering, he couldn't help asking a question.

"Why aren't adult men used in the workshop? Most of them are women and children?"

"Is it because you can't find a man?"

Someone in the crowd sneered: "How is it possible, it's because the wages of women and children are cheaper."

"Those greedy workshop owners can hire a woman and child with half or even a quarter of the money, and some don't even need money."

"Why do they spend money to hire men? Women don't necessarily do less work than men. Although children may work slower, the price is also lower!"

Kurmis was stunned: "So it is like this!"

Someone replied: "Our place is not bad, at least we have a place to live, and at least we still have freedom."

"Many children were sold to those workshop owners as slaves at the age of ten, and worked in the workshop like livestock."

Speaking of which, the man kept shaking his head.

"You haven't seen it, it's really miserable."

"I don't know how many people die in the workshop every year. When they die, they are dragged out. They don't look like individuals at all."

The people on the side laughed at him and said: "I have lived like this, and I am not much better than others. I still have the heart to sympathize with others."

Another said: "He is worried about his children."

The other party didn't say the second half of the sentence, he was worried whether his child would be like this in the future.

When a word came out, everyone fell silent immediately.

Kurmis asked these people again: "Slaves are wealth. It stands to reason that workshop owners should cherish them. If they die in a few years, wouldn't they lose money?"

The other party said: "Slaves are worthless. Sometimes you can buy a small slave with a few copper coins."

"Someone will sell you or your child for no money, as long as you give him a meal."

Kurmis: "How could this be?"

The other party replied: "Because many people can't support themselves and their children at all. Being a slave at least won't starve to death."

Kurmis was silent for a long time: "Is it all like this?"

The other party shook his head: "Where is it not like this?"

Kurmis suddenly wondered if it was the same in his hometown.

"Why did it become like this?"

"It wasn't like this before."

"Why does civilization develop more and more, after so many years."

"The situation didn't get better, but got worse?"

Everyone was chattering, but no one could come up with a real reason.

At this time, someone said a word: "It would be great if there is food that can't be eaten, so that everyone doesn't have to go hungry."

This sentence touched Kurmis a bit.

yes!

People live in this world, the most important thing is food.

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In the distance, a strange jungle radiates light.

A special tall plant rises from the ground, each with a big ball hanging on it; the ball emits light, the light is dreamy and cool.

Kurmis looked at the jungle and pronounced its name.

"Moonlight Forest."

One of the famous death forbidden places on Ruhe Giant Island.

Although the Moonlight Forest is not as large as other forbidden areas, it is extremely dangerous.

Because there are more or less rumors of people who entered other forbidden areas returning alive. Although the scope is large, the real dangerous place is not large; but people who entered the Moonlight Forest have never heard of returning alive, so let alone enter In the jungle, no one dared to approach even a large area around it.

And Kurmis came here for a reason.

It is said that at the beginning of the era, Arsine, the ancestor of the city-state people, discovered Juanqiujue here, and finally opened the civilization of the city-state people in the entire south.

Afterwards, Juanqiujue was introduced to Ten Thousand Snake King's Court, to the Land of Sunrise, and to Lei Ze Kingdom.

It can be said.

Snake people cannot have today's civilization without this jungle, and with Juanqiujue.

Kurmis didn't dare to enter this jungle, but he walked around the periphery, and he was not very afraid because he possessed the power of an apostle.

"Why was Juanqiujue born here?"

"Is it because of something special about this place? Or is it because of this jungle?"

Kurmis raised his head and looked at the huge and strange glowing plants in the distance.

He felt that the birth of Juanqiujue might have something to do with the legendary giant **** Luhe.

So Kurmis wanted to look here to see if he could find any special plants.

He even wants to find plants like Juanqiu.

He kept shuttling around the Moonlight Forest, wearing a woven frame on his back, wearing very short short sleeves, and a rattan belt around his waist.

After wandering around for several days, Kurmis did find many novel and never-before-seen plants, but he couldn't find the kind of plant he wanted that could be used as food that could be compared to the curly ball.

this day.

When Kurmis was lying on the ground carefully observing a plant, suddenly there was a slight tremor from the ground.

"Is there a caravan?"

Kurmis looked in the direction of the movement.

He saw a shadow coming from a distance, passing by the road in the blink of an eye, and disappeared into the distance with a reddish afterglow in the setting sun.

Wherever it passes, the image of flowers blooming and fading can be seen faintly under the roller, it is a kind of blood-colored flower cup.

Ordinary people may not feel anything.

However, as an apostle, Kurmis, who still possessed a special sense, saw the characteristics of the passing existence at a glance.

His spirituality felt the overwhelming sea of ​​blood, even to the point where the endless Old One chanted something.

"The Sage of Truth."

"Inheritance of the Temple of Truth...the successor of the will of the saints..."

"The Great Sage of Truth..."

The breath possessed by the other party is huge and vigorous, not as agile and mysterious as wisdom and power, but it is as terrifying as heaven's punishment.

It was similar to the breath of the giant **** Ruhe.

"It's the car of a god!"

It took only a moment for Kurmis to get up from lying on the ground.

But when he caught up, the other party had already faintly disappeared at the end of the sky.

But when the god's car passed by, the existence in the car seemed to take a look at him.

It was a beautiful woman.

The other party stood in front of the window, with red hair like a flame burning under the setting sun, and he glanced at Kurmis lightly as the car passed by the moonlight forest.

Kurmis suddenly trembled all over, and he said with an excited expression.

"The Scarlet Goddess."

He had seen each other before, in the city of Meiya more than a hundred years ago.

Kurmis involuntarily lay down on the ground and kowtowed, shouting the other party's **** name.

"The kingdom of blood in the deep sea rules the Scarlet Witch, the great ancestor of blood, the king of the oldest race."

"I saw you come to the world again."

He was a believer of this goddess when he was young and young, and his hometown and relatives were once saved by this goddess.

No matter what it is now, he once received the grace of this goddess.

After getting up, I watched it from a distance for a long time.

Kurmis couldn't help but said.

"Why do I always meet gods?"

He seems to have a kind of inherent luck, or rather misfortune.

But Kurmis shook his head again, thinking that this should be a coincidence.

"wrong!"

"It may be that this period of time is different. The gods have begun to walk in the world, so I just met them."

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On the Way of the Serpent.

"I'm coming."

"There is a lot of movement."

A group of robbers lay on the ground listening to the movement, and immediately sensed the movement, and got up and shouted.

But as soon as the words fell, they saw the shadow of a vehicle approaching in the distance. The speed was extremely fast, and they rushed down immediately.

"stop!"

"stop!"

But the comer slid past like a hurricane, and they didn't even see the shadow clearly, and the other party had already disappeared into the distance.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing what had just passed.

"what is that?"

If someone can see clearly, they will find that it is not a vehicle at all, because the other party has nothing in front of it.

It was a house running on the ground, with two large wheels grounded on both sides, and a clockwork-like wheel behind it.

Miracle props · magic wheel house.

It looks a little dreamy, like something out of a fairy tale.

The props of dream power always have the color of a fairy tale.

Inside the magic wheel house.

The red-haired demigod also naturally saw the scene on the road of the giant snake, saw the thieves everywhere, and the gray forces entrenched on this road.

There was a trace of sadness in the eyes of the red-haired demigod.

Then he sighed.

He is not only worried about this chaos, but the root cause behind it.

At this time, someone came out and stood behind the red-haired demigod.

"Master Vivien!"

"The border has been reached."

Vivien looked at Alpens and Smallkel who had been following her all along: "There is really a big problem."

Although Suinhall seems to be still strong on the surface these years, in fact, very violent contradictions and conflicts have erupted at the bottom.

Between cities and within cities.

There are constant wars and conflicts.

The only thing that didn't appear was that none of these people dared to declare rebellion against the king of the gods.

However, the control of the king of the gods is indeed getting weaker and weaker, or there is no way to change this situation.

A large number of farmers lost their land, and this is the result, plus there are robbers everywhere.

Needless to say, not only the pirates on land, but also on the sea.

They are entrenched on various islands in the sea, driving ships to plunder in all directions, and constantly attacking Suinhor and the border coast of the Land of Rising Sun.

Now the entire Suinhall is like a porcelain jar that is full of cracks and is about to be burst by water.

It's just that a powerful force tightly pinched this delicate and gorgeous porcelain, so that the water inside couldn't burst out no matter what.

That power is the nobility, the powerful.

It is also the will of the gods.

It is the authority granted by the gods to the king.

Vivien asked Alpens and Smerkel: "Tell me, both of you, what is the most fundamental problem."

Alpens said: "The population is growing too fast, but the arable land is constantly decreasing, and internal conflicts are constantly intensifying, but they are suppressed by extraordinary forces."

"Behind the chaos, there is only despair."

"Ordinary snake people can't even convey their shouts, and they are completely swallowed up, making people feel hopeless."

Smerkel: "The planting of Juanjue requires land. The suitable arable land area of ​​Suinhall is limited, and it has grown to a certain extent. Many places are either too barren or unsuitable. development."

"There is too little arable land, and the population is gradually increasing."

"It ended up like this."

Vivien asked them: "Would it be possible to change all this by taking back the power granted by the **** of kingship~lightnovelpub.net~?"

Smerkel shook his head: "This is not enough, because it cannot fundamentally solve the problem."

Alpens: "Dynasty change is nothing more than using wars to consume and reduce population, and to redistribute land and wealth. This is an infinite loop process."

"Reduce the population and redistribute; then the next kingdom will be replaced, and the cycle will be repeated."

"This is meaningful to ordinary people, but it is not enough for you, Lord Vivien."

Or rather, it doesn't make sense,

The Scarlet Goddess nodded: "Yes, a civilization that cannot move forward, a civilization that has been walking around in circles, is hopeless."

But even gods can't solve all problems sometimes.

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