Chapter 196: Painting a Paradise
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"I'm honest, your grandma," Qin Liang was completely angry.
He likes to pretend to be stupid. Sometimes Yan Chen wants to tear his face when he sees his silly smile. When others in the training camp see Qin Liang's smirk, they subconsciously tighten their bodies. Because the more harmless the smile on Qin Liang's face is, the more careful they have to be, otherwise they won't even know how they die.
Qin Liang also likes others to treat him as a fool, because this way the other party will reduce his vigilance and even ignore him directly. But he likes to pretend to be stupid, but Qin Liang is not a fool. He doesn't want to be regarded as a fool by a group of guys who can't turn their minds.
So Qin Liang rushed forward, and in the eyes of the adventurer standing up, he was about to teach Qin Liang a lesson. He put one foot on the other party's abdomen, and originally wanted to take Qin Liang's kick calmly, and then the adventurer's face, who broke one of his legs in amazement, turned into a purple face, and his body flew backwards like a cannonball.
"Damn, if I don't show my power, you really think I'm a sick cat." Qin Liang roared angrily.
This was the first time he pretended to be stupid and was so successful, but he didn't have the slightest sense of accomplishment, but he was extremely depressed. He really didn't know how to evaluate the IQs of these people in front of him. They were all ruthless adventurers on the edge of life and death. But at this moment his mind made him crazy.
"What do you think? Hand over everything on your body and get out of here." Qin Liang shouted to the two adventurers who were staring at him blankly.
The adventurer who was kicked away by Qin Liang fainted after breaking a big tree. He had no idea how many ribs were broken on his body, but it was not in danger of life. Although the training camp allowed Qin Liang to face life and death indifferently, he was not a bloodthirsty person.
Therefore, Qin Liang did not have much murderous intention for these adventurers. However, the transaction currency here seems to be very different from the outside world, and he actually used ancient gold coins. Qin Liang now has no big son. Therefore, his interest in the money and wealth of these adventurers is naturally greater than their lives.
"You..." Feeling the murderous intent emitted from Qin Liang, it was like a human suddenly tearing off his clothes and turning into a fierce werewolf. The two adventurers were a little dazed and couldn't react for a moment.
"You, your grandma." Qin Liang went forward and kicked the two people out. Then he quickly searched the surroundings like a hyena, and even the boots of several dead adventurers were scattered cleanly.
If Qin Liang hadn't had limited space on the backpack behind him, Qin Liang even had the urge to take all these people's clothes back and take them off to see if they could be worth a few big boys. The short man stared blankly at the battlefield where the cleaned was cleaner than the dog licked, and he didn't know what to say for a moment, standing there in a daze.
"What are you going to be so stupid? It's time to leave, otherwise you'll be made into dumplings. I don't want to consume too much here. Where can I take me over in the nearby town?" I was satisfied and put the last silver coin into my pocket, and looked around with some unsatisfactory look. Finally, I looked at the discarded weapons on the ground, and shook my head a little regretfully.
Since he arrived in this world, Qin Liang became a little bit accustomed to money, and in fact, he can't blame him for this. After all, there is no undead mountain in this world for him to ask for, so naturally he needs money everywhere.
Qin Liang asked the dwarf a lot of questions along the way. The first one was naturally what these adventurers were looking for here. And he also asked indirectly if he knew where the army of the dark race was stationed opposite the mud.
The latter dwarf naturally didn't know, because he had been in this area for a while and had not been to the mud. As for the former dwarf, he didn't know very well, and only knew that someone spent a lot of money to offer rewards to the adventurer to find something. He didn't say what the thing was.
The content of the reward is to find clues to suspicious things in this area. Once you find any clues, you can get a bounty immediately. You just need to report the clues without fighting with monsters. Although this errand is a bit strange, the bounty is not low and there is no big danger. These adventurers naturally went there happily.
"Not at all?" Qin Liang couldn't help but frown. The dark race's big fanfare was likely to be related to the spider-man team he encountered. But Qin Liang couldn't guess what the specific reason was.
But Qin Liang was so confused and puzzled.
"No. I just said that any abnormality will be reported." The dwarf shook his head.
"Walk forward in this direction, where is the central area of the Dark Swamp?" Qin Liang hesitated and asked in the direction he was about to move forward.
"A place where a large human army is also the largest city for humans in the dark swamp. If you want to return to it, you need to go to that city to buy a boat ticket before you can go back. Only there is a airship there where the exit is at the rear."
"Back to the top, the ticket, the airship, the exit..." Qin Liang chewed some keywords in the dwarf's words, and his doubtful eyes kept flashing. Obviously, the environment here was still somewhat different from what he imagined. He knew that he could go out here after completing this hunt. But he did not expect to go out in a completely unexpected way.
"How big is this swamp?" Qin Liang asked temporarily put aside the doubts in his heart.
"The dark swamp traverses about three thousand miles and is at the forefront of the battle between humans and dark races." said the dwarf.
"Dark Swamp?" Qin Liang raised his eyebrows and the light in his eyes flashed violently, because the name was so familiar. There was also a dark swamp in the game of gods and demons, which was the paradise for adventurers. So a dark swamp suddenly appeared here, which made Qin Liang's heart beat wildly, and he suddenly thought of a possibility.
"Yes, the dark swamp." The dwarf looked at Qin Liang in confusion. He still thought that Qin Liang was the young master who came to find excitement. Since he could come here, he should have some understanding of this world, and Qin Liang seemed to be a little unfamiliar with this world.
"I only know that you can take risks here, so I come over and take a look. The specific other things are not clear. Tell me about this world." Qin Liang explained when he saw the doubt in the dwarf's eyes. Although this explanation was a bit crappy, the dwarf who had already had doubts would definitely not believe it.
However, Qin Liang did not intend to let the dwarf believe his words. He only needed to know where the world was. As a prisoner, the dwarf, who was willing to answer his questions, must answer his questions whether he wanted to or not. So if he explained it, it would be awkward.
As a prisoner, he naturally has no right to choose independently, so even if he is confused, he can only suppress the doubts in his heart and talk about the world in front of Qin Liang.
This is the edge of the Dark Continent. There were too many strange passages on the Earth when the War of War. Some of them were dark races and monsters running to the earth continuously, and some passages led to other places. This is the area where one of the passages leads. At the same time, this is an entrance where human races can invade the dark races.
This is a lower continent, because it is the place where dark races survive, and in human impressions, the dark races all come from the abyss. Therefore, this continent is naturally called the lower continent.
This place was originally a place for the dark race. After humans entered here through that passage, after hard struggle, they finally gained a place and occupied a bridgehead for humans to fight against the dark race.
However, for nearly a hundred years, humans have only stood firmly and stopped in the dark swamp and could not continue to move forward. The dark swamp is in the east and is not in the central area of this continent.
Therefore, the area occupied by humans currently is less than one-fifth of the continent, and the dark race still controls the majority of the ownership of this continent. At the same time, humans only have the exit from this world to return to the upper continent. As for the entrance to the abyss, the world still has no idea where it is.
At the same time, the mainland here is also called an abandoned land. Because when the bridgehead was established here, the casualty rate was very high when snatching meat from the mouth of the dark race. After grabbing the territory, humans naturally need to live here, which can also provide better supplies to the army.
Citizens of normal families naturally would not choose to go to this ghost place to live, because even if they want to bask in the sun every day, it is a luxury. It is a miracle to see the sun for two or three days in a week, so no citizen is willing to move here to live.
Therefore, after repeated consultations, humans put a group of prisoners here. As long as the prisoners are willing to come here, they can get their freedom directly. And the garrison here will provide some materials and minimum living guarantees to allow them to build a city here.
In this way, more and more prisoners chose this place, which seemed like a place of exile. Therefore, it was gradually called the abandoned place by those who knew that this place existed. The abandoned place was undoubtedly a chaotic place, and not only were there battles between humans and dark races always taking place.
Among them, these prisoners who settled here are naturally not good men and women. In addition, after entering here, the military encourages children. As long as they are pregnant, they have money to get them. At the same time, the ratio of men and women among the prisoners exiled is moderate, so the prisoners here give birth to offspring is particularly fast.
In less than a hundred years, several big cities with millions of cities have appeared here, and the fathers and mothers of these children are prisoners. Some of the educated children can become pillars, and more than 90% are not honest people.
Fortunately, these people are not responsible but at least insist on the bottom line of being alone. Therefore, the upper-level leaders of the upper continent are constantly recruiting soldiers from the descendants of these prisoners and forming several large army of considerable size. Only here are the humans completely stable.
At the same time, the upper continent has been continuously dispatching some human continents to serve as middle and upper-level officers, and the one who sits here is a king. In addition, the upper-level members of the upper-level society will occasionally transfer some local officers from the army to the upper-level continent by rewards.
So although these armies are composed of descendants of prisoners, the upper class still has a very good control over these armies, otherwise there will be a real problem of being too big to lose.
But although the control of the army is still in the hands of the military, only a small number of people in this world have a sense of identity with the upper class. Because several generations have been bred in a century, and the first generation of prisoners who came here have basically died.
Their descendants all grew up on this land, and the upper continent is just a legendary place for most of them. In addition, there is a lack of materials here, and the transaction is in the primitive stage.
Rich people send their children directly to the upper class, while those without money are not the same type. Therefore, the human army here is more like a mercenary method. That is to say, it is for money and for applying for military merit to return to the upper class to enjoy happiness.
As for national justice, fighting for humanity and the survival of future generations is nonsense to them. However, because of the continuous battle with the dark race for a hundred years, these people have more or less close people such as relatives, friends and comrades-in-arms who die at the hands of the dark race.
Therefore, although there is no sense of identity with the upper continent, sometimes some people will even secretly trade some contraband with the dark race for the sake of interests. But generally speaking, these people still regard the dark race as enemies, which is also the reason why the upper leaders of the country are at ease to station such a complex army here.
Such a world is still a secret among ordinary people in the upper continent, unless some families cannot survive in the upper continent. Specialized government departments will contact them, and these family reasons will be immigrated here.
A planet is indeed a bit overwhelmed by the population carrying billions of people. Even though the war that year caused heavy losses to humans and nearly one-third of them died, the remaining number of humans is still terrifying to the earth.
In addition, after the establishment of the safety base, humans have a safe living environment, and government departments encourage fertility. Humans reproduction is so fast that it is scary. However, the government has not implemented the basic national policy of family planning again.
Because this era needs so much people, if hundreds of millions of people can be stuffed into the abandoned land, then they will have absolute initiative with humans. They can even completely drive the dark race away from this land to control the entrance to the abyss.
Therefore, in the past, there were too many humans and the earth that were overwhelmed, but now there were too many places that needed to be filled by humans. Because as long as we continue to advance and immigrate, the place occupied was considered the territory of human beings. Otherwise, everything would return to normal after the army left, and this battle would be in vain.
After constantly obtaining information about this abandoned land from the dwarf and becoming a master pharmacist, some historical records about the war that you can see in the library and some historical books that are not open to ordinary people are confirmed one by one. This time gradually began to become clear in front of Qin Liang.
Although the dwarf was sealed with the Yuanli, his speed was still very fast. After all, he was a middle-level master-level physique. It was naturally no problem to rush around quickly, not to mention Qin Liang's storm as an auxiliary. Therefore, two hours later, the outline of a small city appeared in Qin Liang's vision.
From a distance, the small town feels particularly strange. The east side of the city is extremely prosperous and full of exotic style. However, the west side of the city is dilapidated. Except for the city walls, there are low shanty towns, like semi-corrosive corpses sticking to the body of the East City, which makes people feel extremely disgusting.
"There are all nobles living in the East City. I heard that the abolition of the aristocratic system in the upper continent has everyone with human rights and can use the law to protect their rights and interests. But here it is still like a backward feudal society. The nobles are the ruling class that can determine the life and death of ordinary people and slaves." Seeing Da Qin Liang's face strange expression, he explained.
Qin Liang looked at the dwarf in surprise: "You seem to want to go to the upper continent?"
Qin Liang seemed to guess something from the words of the dwarf. He also had some understanding of the communication between this world and the upper continent. People in this world seemed to only know the bright side of the upper continent, and did not see that the darkness below the brightness was more dangerous than here.
The feudal system was indeed abolished, and ordinary people did gain some human rights. However, the privileged class still exists, and this world is still a world where the strong are respected. Otherwise, Hong Liang and others would not bully Qin Liang again and again.
"Of course I want to go, I dream of going. I heard that people from the upper continent can eat fine lamb every day, and the food cooked by monster meat is extremely delicious. I want to even drink water here with the fishy smell of blood and the smell of blood." A dazzling light burst out from the dwarf's eyes.
An adventurer who can do everything to survive actually showed a firm and yearning gaze that only devout believers could show. Qin Liang couldn't help but look at it for a moment. Then he shivered. He suddenly felt chill all over and even his heart was trembling.
"That's indeed a good place." Qin Liang nodded without saying anything.
He had guessed that the upper continent had informed the humans here, which was somewhat similar to religious belief. It was like drawing a paradise of existence for devout believers, and then occasionally attracting some of the most devout believers to enter heaven as an example. In this way, believers who have not entered heaven will become more pious and more believers will be more pious.
The upper continent is undoubtedly the paradise in the eyes of humans in this continent. Here they have birth, old age, sickness and death, and they live a worried life every day. But as long as they enter heaven, they can live the most comfortable life in the world, and they have to open their eyes and be frightened without sleeping.
This kind of control method is a bit ignorant, and it is an indisputable fact that the upper class is more comfortable than this abandoned land. Therefore, such method is only half deception and half true.
"Who is the biggest in this small town?" Qin Liang changed the subject. He suddenly felt an unspeakable heaviness in his heart, and he didn't want to think about the question just now.
"I was the mayor at that time. The mayor was the largest official in the entire small town and was appointed by the generals of the nearby garrison. He had the right to mobilize the army in a crisis." The short mayor in the small town showed a look of fear on his face. This fear was not fearing the mayor's strength, but fearing the rights in his hands.
Chapter completed!