Suinhall.

If the Shepherd's River is the waterway connecting the north and south of the giant island of Ruh, then the road of the giant snake is the main land route between Suinhor and the Royal Court of Ten Thousand Serpents.

Kulmis crossed the fortress of Alpans and left the borders of the Serpent Court to enter this famous trade route.

There are many villages and towns along the way, and there are endless caravans passing by, so there are hotels to rest and live along the way.

certainly.

Occasionally, gangs 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 power towns in the Serpent Road.

These large and small gangs of robbers and gray forces are notorious in Suinhoor and the Royal Court of Ten Thousand Snakes.

As these forces grew stronger, they also received a large number of powers.

Today, this place has become a completely extra-legal zone; their power and even the towns on the border between the two countries are being influenced and controlled by these people walking on the fringes.

If caravans want to go through this trade route, they not only have to be inextricably linked with these forces, but also have to train their own guards or hire mercenaries to protect them, which also makes the border mercenary trade unions particularly prosperous.

Kurmis walked this road alone.

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

Although Sukob also taught him the method of transforming the form of God, but after Kurmis became an apostle, he never thought of changing his form; He looks like a normal person.

Along the way, Kulmis likes to pay attention to and collect various plants, collecting the seeds of gymnosperms or seed ferns.

"There are plants like this."

"What kind of plant is this? How can its vitality be so tenacious that it can survive in the sand and in the crevices of stones?"

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

Kurmis was carrying a backpack with a lot of stuff in it.

It looks like a farmer in the mountains.

After becoming an apostle and reincarnator, Kurmis began to gradually discover the true mystery of spiritual power; he no longer had to contact other people as before, he could observe the world and other beings 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 Rukh giant shrouded in the sky of the Ruh Giant Island.

Although.

The moment he observed the phantom that the breath condensed into, 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 power of spirituality can affect the life form of the intelligent species, and even partially affect the health and lifespan of the intelligent species.

When the Wisdom Seed is on the verge of death, the spiritual power must fall into decay.

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

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

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

There are only two ways to get rid of the shackles of lifespan. 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 envoy or a feathered snake, it is only used for treatment.

But now.

Kurmis had a novel idea.

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

Along the way, Kurmis was trying this power.

Unfortunately, in the end, nothing could be achieved.

"Plants are not intelligent species, and there is no way to carry the power of spirituality."

"Maybe it could, but I didn't find that way."

Although Kurmis failed, he continued to search and try.

Walking alone on this road full of robbers, even if Kurmis was lucky, he eventually encountered robbers.

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

"Stop for me."

"Hand over everything of value."

A group of robbers dressed in rags and holding a few sticks chased towards Kurmis fiercely.

"Stop for me!"

It was a team of unprofessional robbers who stopped Kurmis, but this was normal. Kurmis’s current dress and condition did not look like a rich man; robbing him felt more like a waste of effort. , and only such a dazed robber would choose to rob him.

Moreover, it is already very close to the city. Generally, large gangs of robbers would not choose this kind of place, because it is easy to be found when there are too many people, and then they are destroyed by the guards in the city.

These people attacked Kurmis when they came up, and they did not have a clear division of labor like skilled robbers.

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

"not good!"

"It's the one with power!"

"That kind of power!"

Kurmis walked towards one of them, who fell to the ground weak but shouted with horror in his eyes.

"Don't kill us, we don't know that you are the Powerful Lord."

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

Kurmis didn't believe in such nonsense, but the other party did not 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 fields."

"Because of arrears of taxes, the land was taken away by the nobles."

Kurmis also knew this situation and had seen a lot before. He sighed: "You can also farm the land for the nobles, and you can barely survive, why do you want to be a robber?"

The other party suddenly said angrily, "Grow the land for them?"

"At the end of the year, there is not even food left. Every winter, I don't know how many people starve to death and freeze to death. They are trying every means to force us to die, and they don't treat us as human beings at all."

Kurmis was puzzled that it was a good idea to replace the nobles in his year.

Because population and slaves are also an asset, most nobles still love them very much.

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

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

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

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

At his time, workshops were also a good job, and many people who didn't have fields would choose this route.

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

"what?"

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

The other party was furious: "The workshop owner is even more black-hearted and 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 as people, they didn't even treat us as livestock."

"When it comes to sending money, every time I try to deduct it, you must know that the money is pitifully small, and it is not even enough to fill the stomach."

"Even a beast has to be fed, but working day and night can't even get enough to eat, and I'm tired and hungry and have no energy to work, so 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 beat me. I was almost killed by the workshop owner's subordinates."

"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 one by one; in the end, they even shouted directly to let Kurmis kill them.

"I can't survive anyway."

"Lord the Powerful, just kill us and let us suffer less."

"I can't live anymore."

Kurmis suddenly felt some sympathy for these robbers, but he didn't know what to do.

He put down some money and gave them to these people, and he left without saying anything grand.

He was going to see what Suinhol had become now.

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He walked all the way to Moonlight City in Suinhore.

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

Kurmis was very puzzled: "I'm a doctor, and you see, I didn't bring anything with me except my belongings. I'm not a businessman who brought things into the city. Why do I have to pay taxes."

"For someone like me, you shouldn't make me pay."

Once in Maya City, only businessmen who brought goods into the city paid taxes.

But the guard said, "What are you talking about, you don't pay taxes when you enter the city?"

"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 Maya."

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

"what?"

"A hundred years ago?"

"Meiya City?"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

After the other party finished laughing, he immediately surrounded Kurmis fiercely.

"You are not here to pick things up, are you?"

"This is our general decree, the decree promulgated by the city master; all people who enter the city must pay taxes, otherwise you poor ghosts will not all mix into the city.

"Looking like you, you're a farmer, and you say you're a doctor."

"I also said that I am the Powerful Lord. Would you like to lie down and kowtow for me?"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Kurmis also used to be a guard. He was the valet guarding the city lord when he was very young. At this moment, he saw the power of his peers.

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

It was only when he entered the city that 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 already been changed, and you can't find anything when 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."

"Has the country changed, or the people?"

"Or... I've changed?"

The urban population of Suinhoor is much larger than that in the north. Many of the cities here can be traced back to hundreds of years ago, even to the era of the Fire Keeper, unlike most of the cities in the King of Ten Thousand Snakes. newly established.

The city stinks everywhere and is full of people.

People on the street are crowded with people, and if you are not careful, you will step on the feces of humans and beasts.

The shacks built by the mass of the poor on the outer layer were squeezed together, piled up and pressed together.

in twilight.

There is a sense of terrifying depression that twists the darkness.

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

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

Kurmis didn't want to see what the life of the nobles was like. He came here mainly to see how the people at the bottom of the city lived.

Is it really the same as what the robber said.

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

Every morning.

Before dawn, he saw groups of workers go to work like dead bodies.

Then they waited until it was completely dark, and 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 took a peek and found something of a new type.

steam lamp.

Also known as the alchemy gas lamp, although it is made with 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 the workshop of Suinhol.

Since the cheap alchemy gas lights from the Sunrise Land, night can no longer stop the workshop owners from earning shiny coins.

The workshop owner made the workers work in two shifts, day and 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 hunched their bodies one by one, and the children were all skinny, and the scene looked terrifying.

As for the food that every household eats, he doesn't know if he can call it food, and it smells hard to swallow.

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

They all ate the first meal but not the next meal.

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

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

At this meeting, he couldn't help but ask a question.

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

"Is it because you can't recruit men?"

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

"Those greedy workshop owners can hire a woman and child for half or even a quarter of the money, or even for no money."

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

Kurmis was stunned: "So it is!"

Someone replied: "We are pretty good here, at least we have a place to live, and we at least have freedom."

"Many children were sold to the workshop owners as slaves at the age of ten, working 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, and I still have the heart to sympathize with others."

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

In the second half of the sentence, the other party didn't say it, and he was worried that his children would be like this in the future.

As soon as the word came out, everyone was silent.

Kurmis asked these people again: "Slaves are wealth, and 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 by just giving a few copper coins."

"People will sell themselves or their children to you even without 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 least they won't starve to death when they become slaves."

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

The other party shook his head: "Why isn't it like this?"

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

"Why did it become like this?"

"It wasn't like this before."

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

"It didn't get better, it got worse?"

Everyone was talking, but no one could say a real reason.

At this time, someone said something: "If only there was food that could never be eaten, so that everyone would not have to go hungry."

This sentence touched Kurmis.

yes!

The most important thing in this world is food.

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In the distance, a strange jungle radiates light.

A special tall plant rises from the ground, and a large ball hangs on each one; the ball emits light, the light is dreamy and cold.

Kurmis looked at the jungle and pronounced its name.

"Moonlight Jungle."

One of the most famous forbidden places for death on the giant island of Ruh.

Although the Moonlight Jungle is not as huge as other forbidden areas, it is extremely dangerous.

Because people who enter other forbidden areas have more or less rumors of returning alive, although the scope is large, the real danger is not large; but people who enter the Moonlight Jungle have never heard of returning alive, so let alone enter In the jungle, no one dared to approach even the surrounding area.

And Kurmis came here for a reason.

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

After that, Rolling Ball Jue was introduced into the Royal Court of Ten Thousand Snakes, into the Land of Sunrise, and into the Kingdom of Lei Ze.

It can be said.

The Snake Man can have today's civilization without this jungle, and without the scroll ball.

Kurmis didn't dare to enter this jungle, but after a turn around, he was not very afraid of having the power of the apostles.

"Why was Chuanjue born here?"

"Is it because of something special about this place? Or 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 the juicy ball could not be related to the legendary giant **** Ruh.

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

He even wanted to find plants like the curly balls.

He shuttled around the Moonlight Jungle non-stop, carrying a braided frame on his back, wearing very short short-sleeved sleeves, and a vine tied around his waist as a belt.

After turning around for several days, Kurmis did find a lot of novel plants that he had never seen before, but he couldn't find the kind of plants he wanted that could be used as food comparable to the curly balls.

this day.

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

"Is there a caravan?"

Kurmis looked in the direction of the movement.

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

Wherever he passed, the image of flowers blooming and falling could be faintly seen under the scroll wheel, which was a kind of blood-colored flower cup.

Ordinary people may not feel anything.

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

His spirituality felt the sea of ​​blood that covered the sky and the earth, even to the point where the inexhaustible oldest person sang something.

"Sage of truth."

"The 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 powerful, not as agile and mysterious as wisdom and power, but it is as terrifying as divine punishment.

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

"It's the car of the gods!"

It took only a moment for Kurmis to go from lying on the ground to getting up immediately.

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

But when the god's car passed by, the existence in the car seemed to give him a glance.

It was a beautiful woman.

The other party stood in front of the window, his red hair was burning like a flame in the setting sun, and his eyes glanced at Kurmis when the car passed in front of the moonlight jungle.

Kurmis suddenly trembled, he said excitedly.

"The Crimson Goddess."

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

Kurmis involuntarily fell on the ground and kowtowed, shouting the name of the other party.

"The kingdom of blood in the deep sea dominates the Crimson Witch, the first ancestor of the great blood, and the king of the oldest race."

"I saw you come to the world again."

He was a follower of this goddess in his youth and youth, and his hometown and relatives were once saved by this goddess.

No matter what he is now, he has once inherited the grace of this goddess.

After getting up, he looked into the distance for a long time.

Kurmis couldn't help but say.

"Why do I always meet the gods?"

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

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

"wrong!"

"It may be that this period of time is not the same. The gods have begun to walk in the world, so I just met them."

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On the road of the serpent.

"I'm coming."

"There is a lot of movement."

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

But as soon as the voice fell, they saw the shadow of a vehicle coming from a distance, and the speed was extremely fast, and they immediately rushed down.

"stop!"

"stop!"

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

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

"what is that?"

If anyone could see it, it was not a vehicle at all, because there was nothing pulling it in front of it.

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

Miracle Item Magic Wheel House.

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

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

Inside the magic wheel house.

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

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

Then he sighed.

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

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

"Master Vivien!"

"We've reached the border."

Vivien looked at Alpans and Smerkel who had been following her: "There is really a big problem."

Although Suinhol looks strong on the surface these years, in fact, very violent contradictions and conflicts have erupted at the bottom.

Between cities, within cities.

There are constant wars and conflicts.

The only thing that didn't show up was that none of these people dared to claim to have rebelled against the king of the God Scroll.

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

A large number of peasants lost their land, and the result was this, plus there were robbers everywhere.

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

They are entrenched on the islands of the sea, plundering the Quartet with their ships, and constantly attacking the border coasts of Suinhol, the Land of the Sunrise.

Now the entire Suinhall looks like a jar full of cracks that is about to burst with water.

It's just that a powerful force firmly pinched this delicate and gorgeous porcelain, so that the water flow inside could not burst out.

That power is noble and powerful.

It is also the will of the gods.

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

Vivien asked Alpans and Smerkel: "Tell you two what is the most fundamental problem."

Alpans 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 mess, there is only despair."

"Ordinary snake people can't even convey their shouts, and they are completely engulfed, making people feel hopeless~lightnovelpub.net~ Smerkel: "The planting of the scorpion has requirements for the land, and the entire Suin The area of ​​arable land suitable for Hall is limited, and it has grown to a certain extent. Many places are either too barren or not suitable for development. "

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

"It ended up like this."

Vivien asked them: "Can you change all this by taking back the power granted by the king's power?"

Smerkel shook his head: "That's not enough, because it doesn't solve the problem at the root."

Alpans: "Dynastic change is nothing more than depleting and reducing the population through war, and redistributing land and wealth. This is an infinite cycle process."

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

"This is meaningful to mortals, but for you, Lord Vivien, this is not enough."

Or, it is meaningless.

The Crimson Goddess nodded: "Yes, a civilization that cannot move forward, a civilization that has been walking in circles, has no hope."

But even gods sometimes can't solve all problems.