The Riddler Get Out of Terra

"I have lived for almost 60 years, and have spent 30 years in this wilderness. I have been to a mobile city. The mobile city looks easy to enter, but in fact it does not welcome people like us who cannot read a single word in the wilderness. I am there Carrying big bags, carrying bricks, and squeezing into a big street, your life is worse than foraging for food in the wilderness - at least you can build a big house here, and you can grow crops that you can eat enough and not starve to death, right?"

"But no poor person can live well in this world. A moment of contentment cannot bring a lifetime of happiness, girl," the old man sighed as if he was out of breath:

"Now the city clearly has its own food, but they still come to the wilderness to snatch our things. They also give us a literate name, saying it is land tax and agricultural tax. Seventy percent of what is grown in a year is The remaining [-]% of theirs belongs to us. Those grains are sold at high prices in the city, but they don’t pay a penny when they collect taxes. Do you think this is right?"

"..."

Jingzhe said nothing. From Jingzhe's point of view, she should share the same hatred with the old man and feel indignant for everything that happened to the old man. But from the perspective of Yutai, she should reprimand the old man for his greed and stupidity: the purpose of collecting food is to fight in the north. If the front line is breached by evil spirits, you won’t even be able to farm!

What's more, the whole world is not the king's land, and the shores of the land are not the king's ministers. The land of the Yan Kingdom belongs to the Emperor Yan. It is precisely because the real dragon led the people of the Yan Kingdom to drive away the giant beasts and tear apart the years. You mediocre people can Living on this land, do the descendants of those who sacrificed and made contributions have any problem eating something good? !

You're such a treacherous citizen, you're planting the land that the real dragons and nobles sacrificed themselves to conquer, but you're not grateful at all!

But she herself felt that such words were too stupid and couldn't say it out loud, so she could only ask dryly:

"But doesn't collecting taxes also provide good seeds and fertilizers? Those are good seeds improved by the Yanguo Tianshi Mansion. If you get them to plant on the land, even if [-]% is left, there will be much more than before, and there are also Farm tools help with harvesting..."

The old man twisted his face and smiled at her, with an expression that couldn't even be described as bitter. He had no tears, but his tears seemed to have flowed down and soaked into the soil.

"Girl, look at the soil in front of you, look around here. This is not a mobile city farm, and I am not an educated person farming in the city. The cars they gave me have low chassis, high consumption, and can only be used on flat land. It needs an Origin Stone to activate it. Girl, what do you think... Where can I get the Origin Stone, and where can I find a piece of connected land that is as valuable as a piece of Origin Stone when harvesting crops? Where is the land?”

Jingzhe bit her tongue tightly. The tip of her tongue was so sharp that it hurt from the pressure of her teeth. Of course she knew where to find it. In the fields circled by the nobles, in the fields around Mobile City that were under the jurisdiction of Mobile City, in the northern territory of Yan Kingdom. In large farms, all the land the old man mentioned can be found.

There were Origin Stone machinery, artificial intelligence, and various nutrient solutions, but these had nothing to do with the old man. All he had was the barren, dry and broken soil in front of him under the scorching sun. He needed to work hard day after day to grow from it. Produce subsistence crops.

"As for the seeds and fertilizers you mentioned..."

The old man's hoarse voice was full of weakness and confusion: "In the first few years, the price was a tax increase. There was a lot of food grown at that time, too much. Even [-]% of it could feed our family, so I signed the contract and took the seeds. , but later, later..."

He coughed painfully several times, as if he was about to cough out his lungs. When he raised his head again, there was no expression on his face, only a hollow space. He raised his rough palms and slapped his weather-beaten face. On the dark cheeks:

"I really want to go back to that time and give myself a slap in the face. I'll make you blind and blinded and sign without caring about anything. I'll have your brain kicked by a donkey for agreeing with those nonsense bastards. Nonsense, let you, a heartless idiot with a brain full of cotton, agree, they, they don’t mean what they say!!!”

Jingzhe hurriedly grabbed the old man's right hand and slapped it on the face. The old man who had worked all year round was extremely strong. Even if he just slapped him hard a few times, his face had no expression, only sweat shining in the sun. His face was bulged high from the beating, with bright red palm marks.

"Old gentleman, old gentleman, do they keep their words? How can they keep their words?"

Chapter 218: Heart is like a broken branch ([-])

"Is there any need to think about it, girl?"

The old man licked his chapped lips and squeezed out a few unspeakable secrets:

"When the policy of distributing seeds and fertilizers came down, they actually went door-to-door with Yan Yuese to discuss raising taxes and distributing seeds. They advised us that both seeds and fertilizers were good, and we could plant them for a year first, and see the results after one year. Well, come back to us and ask if we should implement the method of raising taxes and distributing seeds."

"I planted it for a year in the beginning. Even if the weather was not very good, there was still a bumper harvest. Everyone was happy. When those man-eating beasts came, they listened to their wishes, signed their names, and agreed to a [-]% increase."

"But, girl, they didn't give us seeds or fertilizer at all, but they had to collect [-]% of the tax!"

"how come!?"

Jingzhe was stunned for a moment, and let go of the hand holding the old man's right arm. He took a step back in shock and opened his eyes wide: "How could it be? Newspapers, reports, and news received in the capital all said that you had received seeds and fertilizers. Is it true that the Yan Kingdom has been sending out hair every year?!"

The old man smiled so much that his missing teeth were exposed, and he asked her as if he were crying:

"Yes, seeds and fertilizers have been distributed, why didn't we receive them?"

"This, this matter is against the laws of the Yan Kingdom! As long as we find the judicial office in Mobile City, we will be able to bring these people to justice..."

"No, girl, although you are no longer young, you still came from a big city, and you have never seen the dirty things in these small towns."

The old man shook his head, revealing the back of his neck that was covered in scars and scabs:

"We didn't receive fertilizers and seeds, but others did. Some of the family members of the former city owner of the county opened a large farm. When we were struggling to grow food in the fields, they had a bumper harvest. We picked up excrement and burned grass ashes, and they could spread fertilizers. , we harvested [-]%, I couldn’t find out how much they gave me, I just know that they build private granaries for stacking rice every year, while many of the granaries in the city that store old rice are abandoned.”

"! This, this is impossible! Yanguo's capital city is inspected every year, and large mobile cities have repeatedly appointed young officials to supervise local affairs. Even the city lord is a young man. How could this be? Don't lie to me, old man..."

Jing Zhe's anxious face was sweating. During his time as a secret agent, he clearly didn't care about life and death. Even if he encountered the enemy in a critical situation, he was still able to plan a counterattack without losing his composure. But at this moment, Qilin was sweating profusely. How could he have experienced the collapse of Mount Tai when he took office as the supreme commander of Yutai? Calm and unchanging?

"Girl, it's not that simple." The old man opened his eyes that had lost their luster and looked at the anxious Jing Zhe and said, "You know

Has the Lord of Daoqian City done anything? "

"He first served as the principal of the county seat. After ten years of service, he gained a reputation and was elected to the Education Department. He worked there for five years. He was smoothly promoted to the official training school and stayed there for another seven years. After that, he went to the county government office to work as a principal. Master, I know a lot of people, and ten years later, he became the city lord. He knows the judicial office, the education department, and the officials, and he has many methods."

"His eldest son didn't study much back then, but he didn't talk so much in the early days. He entered the Judicial Yamen early. He was first a squad leader, then a team leader, then a deputy branch bureau, and finally the director of the general bureau. Altogether, he didn't Five years later, his second son was a capable man. He went to a mobile city outside the county to study at a junior college. After returning, he first served as the village chief for half a year, and then was quickly promoted to village chief, township chief, principal, and finally went to the Department of Education. , became the director of the department, married a daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law’s family is also capable, and for three consecutive generations, they have been the top and second-ranking officials in the county health bureau.”

"The younger son became a food merchant. He was the only food merchant in the county. He got relatives to do the food business. One of them started a large farm, and the other made fertilizers and seeds. His sister-in-law's family also had people who managed the county granary and even the county hospital. With his relatives as the dean - girl, even if the mobile city sends people, even if the seeds and grains come down, how can they get into our pockets?"

Jingzhe stopped breathing for a moment and listened to the old man's words as if he was suffocated. He was obviously talking about things around him, and it was so sensational that it made Qilin's heart beat with fear. Not even the slightest bit moved.

Is it numbness or resignation?

"What about your relatives? Didn't they come to help you or take you to live in the mobile city?"

Jingzhe asked in a hoarse voice, his face flushed with embarrassment.

"Children? Relatives?"

The old man looked at Jingzhe, and the tears in his eyes finally couldn't be restrained, and they flowed down in big drops:

"My son went to the North to serve as a soldier. My daughter-in-law received the news of his sacrifice and went to receive three months of field training. She also went to the North. She missed the baby and insisted on going. I didn't let her, so she I left the letter and secretly signed up at night, in exchange for a few months of rice and noodles for this useless old man. Later, I became useless and had to go to the north. This family is There is no one!"

After the old man finished speaking, he felt he had nothing to say, so he bypassed Jingzhe and continued farming. Sweat flowed down the dark ravines and fell into the same dark ravines on the earth.

Qilin staggered away. She walked quickly step by step, occasionally falling down, leaving her neat clothes dusty but not caring. She drank the water she brought when she was thirsty, and ate a few biscuits when she was hungry. In a few days and nights, we walked to another county.

Then, in this county town that had nothing to do with the old man, Qilin heard the aunts walking around the streets telling the same miserable scene as the old man. However, there was no jealousy, disgust, or depression in these words, but only envy and desire. , even if someone in the family went to work in a shop run by a local gangster in the county, other uncles and aunties would catch them and praise them. When the family members went to the north, everyone lamented the misery of that family.

——As the highest officer of Yutai, even if she saw the soldiers who signed up voluntarily, they were all young people who were well-educated and could be regarded as literate people in the Yan Kingdom. How could she see mud-legged people in tattered clothes and unable to read a single word? Where are we?

Jingzhe was no longer willing to say anything. After replenishing some supplies, she fled to the new county town, visited the next one, and continued to inquire about the news.

And then... much the same.

More or less the same, more or less the same, more or less the same, more or less the same, more or less the same...

She spent a few months wandering around the Yan Kingdom, but she saw similarities everywhere, with little similarities.

Qilin's teeth were shattered, but she could only look at these miseries and had no choice. She dragged her tired body and continued walking, finally entering the mobile city.

It’s like this in the suburbs, it’s like this in the county, but what about large mobile cities?

Chapter 219 Heart is like a broken branch ([-])

The big city is full of lights and lights, and at night there are bright neon lights coming to the world. This is paradise in the eyes of country people, the world in the eyes of people from the Yan country, and the country of Yan in the eyes of people from other countries.

When Jingzhe entered a strange city for the first time, she quickly adapted to it. After all, she was born in the capital, and the Lin family was also a wealthy and scholarly family. Naturally, they stood at the highest point that mud-legged people could not reach, so she came to other places. In the city, Qilin is not only not afraid of strangers, but also has some insufficient motivation.

Later, when I took up the post of Yutai, I visited countless mobile cities. I don’t know how many beautiful or spectacular urban wonders I have seen, and how many famous figures in the mobile cities I visited. It would be difficult for ordinary people to meet them. Qian Xin No matter how hard she goes, she can't get an invitation to meet, and as a secret agent, Jingzhe can easily get the big shots in the mobile city to visit her and condescend to her.

Thinking about it now, the so-called private interviews at that time were not so much private investigations without regard for favors, but rather political pulls under a tacit understanding between both parties - the secret agents did not hide their intentions at all, and the secret forces of the city lord defaulted to watching. The secret agent has arrived, but the big shots who need to meet are all ready. Anyone who fails to do so will be thrown out as a scapegoat for the secret agent's political achievements.

Why couldn't she see it before?

The simple dress with white on top and rice on the bottom wipes away the nobility, and the fluffy chestnut hair and chestnut tail after disguise weaken the heroic spirit. After months of wandering, it is no longer possible to tell that Jingzhe is a young lady from the capital.

The guard looked at her several times, his weathered face unable to take away his natural beauty. In the blink of an eye, several stalkers were ambushing behind Qilin.

The city lord's secret guards guarding the entrance to the mobile city couldn't recognize her, and no one could recognize that the pitiful traveler in front of him with blown-out hair would be the famous Jingzhe Commander-in-Chief. The next round of recruitment in the Yan Kingdom has begun again. Well, in everyone's perception, this important minister who has won the favor of Emperor Yan should be in the capital talking about serving the country and protecting the country with well-born warriors, instead of running to the capital, which is thousands of miles away. Let’s take a look at how an ordinary mobile city works.

Recruiting troops is Jingzhe's most critical political achievement. If something goes wrong, will she still be a Holy Family or be promoted? !Now, how many people have been injured by His Majesty Yanhuang with Jingzhe's knife? When this knife is blunt, how many people will come over to crush the bones and scatter the ashes with this knife!

Of course the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty knew that Jingzhe was just a knife, and of course they knew that the one who really attacked them was His Majesty Yanhuang, but would anyone dare to trouble Yanhuang?Risking your life? !The incarnation of Sui Xiang is like facing a formidable enemy. The Tianshi Mansion has carefully targeted thousands of years of freaks who dare not prick the Emperor Yan. How dare they disobey the Emperor Yan?

This is not a benevolent Lord!

So who else can they take revenge on?Naturally, there is only one knife that has been blunted and has no other use!

Whatever the spy chief of Yutai is involved in, the spies below will naturally also pay attention to it. There is no way, everyone must have good grades and be promoted. Even the spies in various places in the bureau have begun to pay attention to the recruitment, and It's not about monitoring who is doing some unscrupulous good deeds somewhere.

Therefore, when Jingzhe truly entered the mobile city as the most ordinary and ordinary wanderer, she was almost suffocated by the disregard and strangeness that hit her face.

This is the story of Qilin discovering for the first time how difficult it is to work in a city as a stranger. She only had a piece of identification stamped with a bright red stamp in her hand, which she secretly stamped for herself on the rain terrace as a secret for a private visit. I have only a few banknotes in my bag, and I don’t have anything valuable on me. I want to find a place to stay, but I don’t even know where to find a good and cheap hotel. I want to find a place to eat, but I find that I may not even know where to go. I can't even afford a meal.

When she goes to the county town, she can live for a while with just a few banknotes and eat some homemade side dishes. But in a big city where land is at a premium and people come and go, an inexperienced spy can't even find a suitable place to buy groceries. market.

How do you usually get this kind of treatment as a secret agent?Even if she has some problems with her boss due to her personal political leanings, Miss Jingzhe, who was born in Yutai, can use the public funds of Yutai to enter the mobile city with peace of mind, find any brightly lit hotel, and check in without any pressure - but Now enter the most famous hotel in Mobile City?

She looked at the crumpled banknotes she took out of her pocket, and sadly chose to refuse.

It looks like we need to build a pavement in the park.

Qilin thought this, and then felt a tingling pain in his head. He was surprised by this unfamiliar thought and was a little stunned.

When will I...have the idea of ​​finding a place to lay a floor?

She stuffed the banknotes into the pocket of her sturdy denim trousers and touched the rough edges of her trousers with her fingers, thinking absentmindedly.

Is it during the Sisuitai training?

No, Si Suitai will not teach this. Although Si Suitai once lived in the open and had to live in the open for Si Yasui Prime Minister, but since the development of the Yan Kingdom, mobile cities have appeared in large numbers, and they have been able to form a direct supply line at any time and anywhere. Agent Si Sui, who was born in Suitai, only needs to show his token in the mobile city to get food, drink and supplies. Even the equipment for outdoor camping is provided by dedicated personnel. The latest outdoor inflatable room produced by Yanguo is not only expensive but also has a shelf life. Extremely short watches have no drawbacks, and spies can carry a variety of these disposable chambers at any cost, with plenty of equipment to track the years.

Therefore, the idea of ​​setting up a tent and paving the ground in the park would not have occurred to someone born in Sisitai.

Could it be the secret agent code of Rain Terrace?Responsible for surveillance disguised as a homeless person?

No, it won't happen. The spies from Yutai are higher in rank than the subordinate unit Si Suitai. If you really want to investigate someone, no matter which mobile city in the Yan Kingdom, you have to cooperate - even in reality, the Prince of Longmen, Wei Yanwu, has to cooperate. To make way for the rain terrace, the current Emperor Yan has no close relationship with Wei Yanwu!

When it is necessary to disguise as a homeless person to track a suspect, some experienced heads of subordinate units will step forward and rush to do it - this is a great opportunity to commit crimes!How could the adults who came to our city to guide us from Yutai be so embarrassed?Hurry up!Bring me the director's equipment and I'll do it myself!

So...the rain terrace doesn't matter either?

It is impossible to teach in Yutai, and it is even more impossible for the Lin family. I am a woman after all. The family raised me at that time, but they did not intend to let me go out and wander around. My father supported me in studying, and my mother taught me the basics of Qi training. The house also prepares medicinal materials for me to take, so I don’t lack anything.

So why do I think this way?

Jingzhe couldn't explain clearly, but decided to go to the park while he was confused. If that didn't work, he would actually set up a tent in the park for the night and continue the investigation tomorrow.

But before that, we have to deal with the people who are following them. There are no good people among them. If you pick out nine out of ten and kill them, some fish will slip through the net. When you catch them, don't kill them in a hurry, but carefully imprison, hurt, and coerce them. , coercion, let them know everything and say nothing

No, this may seem cruel to you, but it is very appropriate.

Because they are the most well-informed eyes and ears in the mobile city. As long as they are interrogated, they can understand the most basic rules on the private level - the sewer rats who come from the dirtiest background and do the dirtiest and most despicable things must be punished. Only those with sharp ears and eyes can survive in the mobile city, but these people are also very cunning. They have seen all the newcomers and have seen too many cries of persecution by them. They can easily smell the smell of weakness. Oh, the word weak may not be accurate enough. , in the area where they live, weakness also refers to kindness.

In short, as long as they get a taste of this, they will not speak out, so after being caught, they must be extremely cruel, break their bones and suck out their marrow, and torture them repeatedly to make them understand that they have fallen into the hands of the same evil people as themselves, so It's best to say something, otherwise you will be like those who were trapped by them, and your life will be worse than death.

Again!

Jingzhe clenched his fists and heard the strange noise in his head again.

Chapter 2: Heart is like a broken branch ([-])

"Woman!!! Heroine doesn't want it!!! I say!!! I will say anything!!!"

Deep in the dark alley, the sound of fierce friction between flesh and the ground was as sweet as the screams. The teeth of the ragged man were twisted together, and the whole person curled up into a ball of cooked shrimps, twisting pitifully into the humblest form. appearance.

Jingzhe's movements paused for a moment, but the guidance in his mind sounded again, with [-]% proficiency and familiarity:

Those people already have a way to deal with tough situations. If they are men, they will hand over all the money they have, and will hand over the information obediently. Finally, they will tell the other party that they are still useful, that they still have money hidden at home, or that they know someone better. The intelligence dealer who understands the information they want, induces the tough ones to go with them - and finally leads them to join the gang's ambush circle, and conducts an ambush. Of course, if they encounter experienced people who are determined to kill, this method It won't work.

He may be a ruthless person who does not hesitate to kill people, but his characteristics are actually very obvious. The aura on his body is very oppressive. You can see it at a glance. He is already very talented. He has traveled so many years without falling over and has enough experience. I won't provoke those ruthless people who can kill people at every turn.

So even if the tough guy who was deceived by them had the means to injure the entire gang, they would have escaped early. Although it would be miserable for a while afterwards, as long as they found the follow-up orders, they would quickly recover and continue to be his people. Teeth.

If they are heroines, there are many ways to do it. Girls who are just starting out can't hide their soft-heartedness and childishness. As long as they pretend to be pitiful, they are likely to be spared their lives. They can recover from their injuries the next day and continue to the mobile city entrance. Targeting one person after another, continuing to traffic in people, exchanging human lives for big fish and meat.

What's more, if they see that they are weak, it will be terrible. It should be noted that the price of female heroes in the world is high in Renyazi. If these female heroes can come out alone, they must have some skills. Since they have With some ability, he must have learned from a famous family and took advantage of the opportunity to sneak out and see the world - otherwise, how could he be so childish and naive?

If they are just starting out and lose their reputation for a while, they will have no choice but to suffer the consequences. What's worse, they will be seize the opportunity to coerce them, and rarely end well. Therefore, if you want to truly visit incognito and privately, Jingzhe, you must harden your heart.

?Are you tough enough now?

No, no, you are just pedantic now, not tough. If you are really tough, you will ignore those people's pleas and torture them repeatedly, no matter how pitiful and painful their expressions are, no matter how miserable they shout. , What a hopeless life experience, no matter how they explain the reasons for doing this, you will torture them crazily, hurt them, beat them to pieces, let them carve their fear of you in their bones, and make them feel that they reject you Worse than death, these current-minded dogs will tell you everything you want to know.

……

Want to get started?

Jingzhe stared at the wailing Ren Yazi. Until now, she could use the dim light in the alley to observe the general appearance of these people. Because the light was too scarce, she could not clearly see the faces of these people. She could only roughly observe the bodies lying on the ground.

The first impression is that they are surprisingly thin. These people seem to have experienced the torture of life. They are skinny and bones, huddled in tattered clothes, looking miserable and pitiful.

Is it really necessary to torture someone to extract a confession?Jingzhe still hesitated.

"Women!! Heroes!! We are all forced!! All our money is held by those gang members, and we are sick. We have no choice but to do this kind of thing to make a living!! We are all forced They are monitoring us, and if we don’t have enough people after we go back, they will beat us until we vomit blood, and we will die in one night!!”

"Heroine!! Please let us go!! It was us who were blind and bumped into you! We were shameless and blind, but we just wanted to live. Please let us go!!!"

The clever Ren Yazi seized the opportunity in an instant, wailed and threw himself on the ground at Jingzhe's feet, screaming and wiping away tears, his nose bursting with tears, not to mention how pitiful he was.

The remaining Yazi immediately seized the opportunity and rushed to Jingzhe one after another, kowtowed to the ground, and begged the heroine to show their mercy and spare their lives. Some even shouted from behind that they were willing to confess those gangsters. position, pray for Jingzhe to walk the path for heaven, save people to the end, and send Buddha to the West.

, to help them regain their freedom - "We are willing to set up an immortal tablet for you, and we will tie a grass ring in the next life to repay your great kindness!!!"

The man who had just been stung by an electric current to stimulate his nerves, and who had carefully experienced what unlimited electrocution meant, was shouting slogans extremely skillfully, and kept shouting out words of thanks. From begging for mercy to asking for help, the transition was smooth and smooth. Secret agents like Jingzhe, who had never seen such a world, became suspicious.

The guidance that rang in my mind gave me the final word: