Mystery: The Returner of the Stars

Chapter 24 Continuation of the Story, Birth of the Law

Another ten years passed after the village chief handed over his position as village chief to his son.

The village finally found a way to the outside world, and even encountered another village.

That village has abundant products and sufficient food, and every villager can have enough to eat, but this village has a fatal flaw, there are very few of them, less than 200 people.

The new village chief got the news and thought about two possible options. One is to live in peace with this newly discovered village and choose the trading method of barter.

The second is to choose to declare war on this new village and seize their wealth and sufficient food.

After some consideration, he decided to choose the second way, because no matter how peacefully they lived together, the food that the new village had could not be given to them for free, and the food was limited and could only feed a certain number of villagers.

After decades of attrition in their village and pent-up anger, their village needed an outlet.

In this way, under the leadership of the second village head, they relied on their absolute superiority in numbers to defeat the new village and at the same time occupy all the wealth of the new village.

Most of the young and middle-aged people in the new village were killed, leaving only the elderly, children, and women.

The second village head thought about it, and decided to treat these people as captured slaves. At the same time, he promulgated a new village rule: as long as the villagers in their village defeat other enemies, they can be raised as slaves, and these slaves can be used as slaves for themselves. work.

As soon as this village rule came out, the villagers who had no wealth and status of their own and were unbalanced immediately cheered and supported the new village rule.

In the next few decades, they discovered several villages one after another, relying on the wisdom of the second village chief and the blessing of slavery village regulations, they successfully annexed these villages.

At this time, there were already tens of thousands of villagers in the village. The people were mixed, and with the addition of a large number of captured slaves, it became more and more difficult to manage.

The second village chief once again showed his ingenuity, and he announced that he would build a big city to accommodate everyone.

At the same time, he also formulated many new city regulations that were conducive to maintaining the stability of the city and his own rule.

such as:

The city lord can only be succeeded by people from the line of their village chief, and other people cannot overstep, otherwise they will be sentenced to death.

Any villager who owns more than five slaves automatically becomes a slave owner, and they have the power of life and death over these slaves.

Those who were close to the second village head were named city managers, with a status higher than slave owners and lower than city owners.

In this way, there are only five different classes in the new city.

The city owner at the top, the manager who assists the city owner in managing the city, the slave owner who has a large number of slaves, the ordinary villager who does not have enough slaves, and the lowest-ranking slave.

With the new city regulations, the faltering group was united again. The citizens of the new city wanted to fight a few more wars so that they could have enough slaves to become new slave owners.

The slave owners also wanted to plunder enough wealth through wars so that they could become managers of the city.

The lineage of the city lords and managers with the fewest number started wars according to the desires of the majority.

Over the decades, they occupied many cities, and the individual cities joined together to become a city-state.

The son of the lord of the city became the leader of the new city-state, and he formulated many new rules and orders. At the same time, he thought of a method of granting the monarchy by god, showing that he was the chosen son favored by the gods, so as to maintain the rationality and supremacy of his rule. .

The people who followed and got close to the new leader also obtained their position second only to the gods in the false myths and legends.

After the city-state stabilized, they started a new round of conquest, because they didn't want to fight others, and they would come to fight themselves when others were strong.

They were lucky. Hundreds of years of war had passed, and the leaders of the city-states had changed two or three generations. By the time of the fourth generation of city-state leaders, they had already defeated all the city-states that dared to oppose them.

At this time, a kingdom beyond the city-state will appear, and new rules and orders will be brewed accordingly.

They have a new name, laws.

……

Hastur completed the story that Professor Wayne did not tell in his mind, and the potion also digested a large part at this time, leaving only the last part.

He estimated that in another half a month, his lawyer's potion would be completely digested.

At this time, the sky had turned dark, and the number of residents watching nearby not only did not decrease but increased.

Because the workers working at the docks heard what was going on here, and they also came to join in the fun with glasses of cheap beer.

Professor Wayne has suspended his lectures, leaving Lecturer Furren in charge of answering questions and popularizing the new law recently revised by Ruen for the working class.

During the period, some people chose to leave halfway because they didn't understand, some people were full of question marks, some people frowned as if they had gained something, only one or two eyes were shining like stars rising from the night.

"Are you going up to talk?"

Professor Wayne came to Hastur, holding a glass of beer that someone gave him.

"I still have a lot to learn, so I won't make a fool of myself." Hasta rejected the proposal.

Professor Wayne took a sip of beer and said, "Since you are determined to study the law, sooner or later you will have to go on stage and explain your point of view in front of a group of people you don't know."

"Then before that day comes, I have to learn more knowledge, so as not to be thrown out of power with stones."

Professor Wayne smiled, looked at the residents of the dock area who were listening carefully, and sighed: "Do you think they understand?"

"You have opened a window for them. As for what kind of scenery you can see from the window, that is no longer yours to interfere."

"Hehe, I can't open a window. At most, I can draw a window frame in the room. If they want to open the window, they need to work hard."

Professor Wayne finished drinking the big glass of beer, breathed out a mouthful of alcohol, and said with a smile: "Do you want a glass too?"

"Thank you for your kindness, but I'm not used to the taste of beer."

Professor Wayne looked a little strange, pursed his lips, and Hastur didn't explain anything.

He just couldn't get used to the taste of beer, even the best South Wales beer in Ruen, he couldn't get used to it.

It wasn't because he was a nobleman that he looked down on the cheap beer that the residents of the docklands drank every day.

He prefers to drink fruit wine, and he likes it more if it is a little sweet.

After a while, Professor Wayne brought a glass of beer and a plate of sausages from nowhere.

"Want some?"

This time, Hastur did not refuse Professor Wayne's kindness.

By the time Lecturer Furren finished his lecture and answered questions, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening.

None of the three of them had dinner yet. The two administrators accompanying the workhouse wanted to invite Hasta and the others to taste the special food in the dock area, but Professor Wayne refused.

Because he has had enough to drink and eat.

Hastur counted a little just now. Professor Wayne drank three glasses of beer back and forth, and also ate four sausages and two slices of toast.

He also ate something with Professor Wayne, and he wasn't very hungry. Only Lecturer Furren was both thirsty and hungry after speaking for two hours.

Seeing that neither Professor Wayne nor Hastur had the intention of having dinner outside, he also felt that the security in places like the dock area would not be very good at night, so he chose to go back to the workhouse before eating something.

Back at the workhouse, Hastur looked at his pocket watch, it was nine-eighteen.

The work and lectures in the workhouse were over, and the children all returned to their dormitories to rest. The adults who worked during the day were queuing up in the washroom, wanting to take a shower before going to sleep.

The three of Hastur returned and did not disturb them, and Dean Dahn did not appear again, but he had already arranged three rooms for them to rest at night.

The rooms of the three people are connected together, in the same area as the managers of the workhouse.

Inside is the rest area for children, and the outermost side is the area where adults live.

The room is not very big, only about one-third of his study, except for a neatly made and clean bed and quilt, and a small table with a kerosene lamp filled with oil on it, lighting it up in the middle of the night Can be used in the bathroom.

Apart from these, there is nothing else.

The walls are made of stone, not smooth to the touch, a bit icy.

If it's raining, the wall should seep water, right?

Wouldn't it be too cold at night?
Hastur walked around the room a few times, and reached out and knocked on the wall.

It is very hard, and it is difficult to make a sound on it with a human fist alone. It is necessary to hit it with a wooden board to make a sound that alarms other people.

It's not that he has persecution paranoia, it's just that Professor Wayne's performance today made him a little concerned.

After confirming that there were no secret doors or basements, Hastur walked to the bed, pulled up the quilt, put it under his nose and smelled it.

There was a smell of soap locust just after washing, and there was a faint smell of rose essence sprayed on the quilt, but there was no moldy or stinky smell.

Put down the quilt, then stack it up like tofu and place it on the right side of the bed.

Hastur lay his head on it, lay flat on his body, and felt better.

Changed to another place, without the big soft and warm bed in his own home, he really couldn't sleep for a while.

After lying down for 10 minutes, Hastur got up from the bed. He wanted to take a shower before falling asleep, but when he went out today, Professor Wayne didn't say in advance that he would stay here tonight, and he didn't prepare a change of clothes.

It's not that you have to take a bath to fall asleep, but because you can't fall asleep, you think about taking a bath before going to sleep.

"Go out, bear with it."

Hastur sighed and lay down on the bed again, closing his eyes and trying to fall asleep again.

About half an hour later, he vaguely heard someone knocking at the door.

This made him wake up from the trance in an instant!
His first reaction was that something had happened!

The second reaction is to want to grab a suitable weapon.

Finally, he clenched his heavy cane tightly and stared at the door vigilantly.

(End of this chapter)