When I traveled through time and became a player, I just wanted to commit suicide

After being guided by the village blacksmith, Li Shanren found the way back to Fam City. After more than an hour, he finally drove the carriage to the gate of Fam City.

When entering the city gate, the guard at the gate stopped Li Shanren's carriage and questioned him before letting him go.

Because the carriage driven by Li Shanren was really strange. It had a group of dirty children who looked like beggars behind it. The packhorse pulling the carriage in front was different, and there were signs that the reins had been cut off. It was very strange. It’s hard not to doubt the origin of the car.

The guards at the door were not in awe just because Li Shanren was an extraordinary person, because the soldiers who could be on duty here were more or less extraordinary people at the knight retinue level. Without knowing the specific rank of Li Shanren, the guards were There won't be any change in attitude.

In the entire Fam City, only gold-level extraordinary beings can gain a higher level of respect from all other extraordinary beings.

As for the extraordinary beings above the gold level...they are basically all big shots, and very few extraordinary beings of that level come to this remote Farm City.

Li Shanren drove the carriage slowly through the streets of the city. His face had been honed in his wandering career, and he completely ignored the strange looks from passers-by around him.

He drove all the way back to the Iris Hotel.

Mrs. Marley was cleaning the environment at the door with a broom. When she saw Li Shanren driving a carriage back, she was a little surprised for a moment.

"Mr. Leathern, what are you..."

"Oh, here's the thing..."

Li Shanren roughly told what happened. Of course, he omitted the embarrassing experience of visiting the orphanage at night and being caught in a cage due to carelessness. He only left the story of how he bravely fought against the fallen knight and beat him to death. They retreated steadily, and then successfully rescued these children.

"I see, then they are really a bunch of pitiful children."

Mrs. Marley glanced sympathetically at the group of children in the car, with a hint of love in her eyes.

"Mrs. Marley, could you please prepare some food for these children at night? I will pay the extra fee later, and... I want to know if there are any larger rooms in the hotel that can accommodate Are they staying temporarily?" Li Shanren asked.

"No problem, I will prepare a sumptuous dinner for them. As for the rooms, there are two four-person rooms upstairs that should be able to accommodate them. Well... follow me up and have a look, Lisern gentlemen."

"Okay, thank you."

While Mrs. Marley turned around, Li Shanren waved his hand and called Torrett, who had worked tirelessly to pull the carriage for most of the day, back to the guard. Then he motioned to the children behind him to follow them and walked together to the second floor of the hotel.

After some tedious arrangements, nearly two hours passed.

In the room where Mrs. Marley lived in the Iris Hotel, Li Shanren, who was very busy for a while, looked at twelve children in clean clothes sitting in front of a large round table, eating thick and sweet barley porridge. On the plate in front of them were two pieces of bread and butter and a sausage, and on the table were two plates of butternut squash for grab-and-go.

Mrs. Marley was sitting on a wooden chair with a backrest, her head lowered and she was knitting a sweater. Occasionally she looked up at the children who were eating happily. Her eyes were slightly lost in thought, and she had a smile on her lips. She didn't know what she was thinking.

"What should we do with them?" Li Shanren had a headache when he thought about this problem.

Although he rescued these children, Li Shanren had no specific clue as to how to settle them next, whether to send them to a monastery or find several families to adopt them.

With the lessons learned from the Norton Orphanage, Li Shanren is now hesitant to entrust these children to a monastery or to the homes of strangers who do not know their background.

Although Li Shanren has a calm attitude towards himself, he has always been more responsible for other people's affairs. He does not want similar things to happen again, which will add trouble to himself who is running around everywhere.

"So, what to do..."

Li Shanren stared blankly into the void, which was a unique manifestation of his concentrated thinking. If he were handed a pen at this time, he would definitely spin it with his dexterous fingers, as if he was back in time. In the high school examination room, a difficult problem is being solved.

The group of children who had been hungry for a long time treated food like hungry wolves treating fat lambs. Soon, they swept away the food on the table and even licked the plates clean.

Many boys seemed not to be full yet, and when they saw the empty table, they felt a little bit reluctant to leave.

Li Shanren ignored the longing eyes of the children. He thanked Mrs. Marley who was sitting beside him, then walked to the table, took Alice who was closest to him, and greeted the children, asking them to follow. Go out on your own.

People who have been hungry for too long cannot eat too much, otherwise they may devour themselves to death. This is not a joke, but a conclusion drawn after countless tragic cases.

These children have already eaten enough, and the current desire to eat is just a false signal sent by the brain.

"Eh? Lithen, do you live here too?"

As soon as he went out, Li Shanren heard a slightly familiar voice reach his ears. He turned around and saw Eivor, wearing a brown pharmacist's robe, standing by the hotel stairs and looking at him curiously.

"Oh, Eivor, long time no see. How is the injury on your leg?"

Li Shanren showed a kind smile towards the handsome young man.

He had a good impression of this pharmacist who seemed young but was extremely reliable at certain moments. In the previous commission to hunt the Storm Wolf King, without Eivor's assistance, things would have been much more difficult.

"Thank you for your concern. It's almost better now... We haven't seen each other for a long time. In fact, I accidentally saw you passing by outside the night market last night. However, at that time you looked... It was urgent, so I didn’t say hello to you.”

Eivor touched the back of his head and smiled sheepishly.

Uh...last night, you mean when I went to Norton Orphanage?

Li Shanren's face stiffened slightly, but then he relaxed. There was nothing shameful about what he did, and he wasn't afraid of being seen.

Moreover, he planned to go there again tonight, partly to look for the lost stargazing rod, and partly to see if there were any other children locked up there.

"Well, I was indeed in a hurry at that time."

Although he was not afraid of being known, Li Shanren still chose to be vague. He was a little lazy and didn't want to tell the whole story over and over again.

"That's right, by the way, these children around you..."

"Oh, they are all from Norton Orphanage." Li Shanren said calmly.

When they heard the stranger in front of them mentioning themselves, the children who were still wary of the outside world hid behind Li Shanren, except for Alice, who was directly held by him.

"Norton Orphanage..." Eivor murmured and repeated, and then looked at Li Shanren with admiration, "You did go to that place last night...I I thought I was wrong."

"Why do you say that?" Li Shanren was stunned for a moment, then frowned slightly, "Eivor, do you know something?"

"Huh? How dare you go there if you don't know the background of that place?"

"Isn't that place...a hidden slave trader's den?"

After hearing this answer, Eivor's face changed slightly. He turned around and looked around. After finding that no one was paying attention to them, he looked at Li Shanren seriously, "You actually don't know anything? Well... .It’s not very convenient here, let’s talk somewhere else.”

Seeing the solemn expression on Eivor's face, Li Shanren felt slightly uncomfortable. Then he lowered his head and said to Alice: "Take them back to the room first. I will come to see you later."

Alice, who knew how to watch what was happening, glanced at Li Shanren worriedly, but nodded obediently and went upstairs with the other eleven children.

After watching their figures disappear at the end of the stairs, Li Shanren looked at Eivor and said, "Follow me."

Eivor withdrew his gaze from those children. He didn't know what he found, and the expression on his face became more serious.

Li Shanren took Eivor back to his room, moved the chair in front of the desk and placed it in front of Eivor.

"Sit down." He said and sat directly on the bed.

As soon as he sat down, Eivor got straight to the point.

"Actually, when I saw you coming out of Mrs. Marley's house with a group of children at the door, I roughly confirmed where you went last night... and what you might have done. After all, you just came out of captivity. Children who have escaped from trouble have very obvious characteristics...for example, their eyes always dodge when they look at people, their knees are always a little bent, and they are ready to run away at any time..."

He put his hands on his knees, looking a little serious.

"I don't know if you have noticed that there is a dark green symbol printed on the back of those children, probably below the neck. It depicts a sleeping person holding a rope in his hand, and the end of the rope A slave in ragged clothes is tied up, do you know what that is?”

"what is that?"

Li Shanren had a bad premonition in his heart. He had indeed seen a corner of the symbol from those children before, but most of the rest was blocked by clothes. However, he still had a headache at that time. I didn't pay much attention to the specific placement of those children.

"That is a slave mark. Once it is marked, it cannot be removed or erased, and its impact cannot even be reduced by any known means. All people who are marked with a slave mark will remain slaves for life, no matter how noble their previous background. No matter how powerful he is, he can only be controlled by the power of the slave mark until his death."

Eivor spoke unhurriedly, his eyes becoming more serious.

"In the entire continent, there is only one force that can put such a vicious brand on others. It is called the Sloth Religion. The place you went to last night was not an ordinary slave trader's den, but the Sloth Religion's stronghold in Fam City. ..."