Welcome Back To the World Game
Vol 2 Chapter 334: "But my hair is all white"
After Su Mingan returned to the room, he fell asleep.
Due to the night level of the Demon King and the Hero, he is extremely sleep-deprived.
But before he slept for a long time, he was suddenly awakened by the sound outside.
"—In order to ensure the safety of the Eastern District... Wangcheng... Taxation..."
"Please...please...if...we..."
The sound outside became louder and louder, causing Su Mingan to have a headache.
He didn't want to care about this kind of thing, but the voices outside became louder and louder, even mixed with whispers of crying and smashing, and a male voice shouting loudly.
He sat up, rubbed his eyes, and the watch on his left hand suddenly lit up.
"Good afternoon, master! It's 3:12 system time, and I will broadcast a relaxing and soothing wake-up music for you..."
"Shut up." Su Mingan said.
The light of the watch was immediately withdrawn, and there was no sound even with the music that had started.
A timid voice came from the watch: "Master, you haven't given me a name yet."
"You can take it yourself." Su Mingan stood up from the bed and went to listen to the movement outside.
"But master, how can you take a name like this..."
"Then you are called A Du." Su Mingan said casually.
A Du is the name of the goldfish that Su Mingan used to raise.
The watch smart got a name, and it seems to be very happy.
Su Mingan walked to the door and listened to the sound from outside.
"Sir, 30% of the tax has already taken your own life, can you tell Wang Cheng, we are really 40% of the tax..."
Su Mingan pushed open the door.
The incident happened on another street not far from here. The residents' begging for mercy was so loud that it could be heard through the leaking door.
On the bluestone road full of cloth tapes and rubbish, a tall man stood in the middle of the road with a cigarette in his mouth. Behind him were several guards in Wangcheng uniforms.
"You dare to disobey the orders from the king's city?" The man shouted at the crying woman on the ground: "Now the barrier is fragile, the storm is rampant, and the 10% tax has been counted as kindness from the king's city. Those of you who only know how to live. Parasites, there should be limits to selfishness!"
The man stepped forward, snatched the jade ring from the woman's wrist, turned around and left in disregard of her pleas, and left a sentence at the end:
"The day after tomorrow is tax day, you assholes, don't forget to hand over your taxes honestly! Praia doesn't raise waste!"
Behind him, the uniformed guards stopped the woman, and as soon as one pushed, the woman lay beside the room.
"Mom, mom..." The shabby little girl supported the coughing woman.
Behind them is a leaky house.
The residents on the side also helped the woman and patted her on the back to calm her down.
"Kassana, don't be sad, everything will be fine..."
"The child's father just went to sea, how dare they, how dare to **** it like this, we have lived in Praia for generations, how can we become a moth..." The woman choked, crying and coughing, looking sick for a long time.
"Kassana, that's what the people in Wangcheng are like, and there's nothing we can do... Or, if you go to the tavern we introduced earlier, they should give you a sum of money to help you through this difficult time. …”
Under the persuasion of the residents, the woman's expression changed constantly.
Finally, facing her daughter's timid gaze, she nodded with difficulty.
It seems that the "pub" in people's mouth is a very scary place for her.
Su Mingan leaned against the door and watched the scene that happened not far away.
Seemingly enough of the excitement, the residents went their separate ways, and the crying woman also stood up and walked out of the street.
In the room next to Su Ming'an, the old lady was stepping on the sewing machine, the sewing machine creaked, and there was the sound of fine thread rubbing.
The room is not soundproof, so the sound inside can easily come out.
The family appears to be chatting.
"...Mom, leave me alone..."
"...How can you not care, you are my own daughter, don't worry, even if the old man can't take this medicine, you and Lele will be fine."
"…Why bother."
"Don't worry about it, just lie down, I'm thinking about finding someone to help me send this photo of my home..."
Su Ming'an didn't listen to the corner's hobby. He turned around and wanted to go back to the house and sleep again.
By the window, the sound of the sewing machine suddenly stopped.
"Hey, let me see who's standing at the door... Boy, boy, hey, from Su Rin's house!"
As soon as Su Mingan turned around, the old lady's voice came from the window.
Seeing him look over, the old lady stopped her movements.
She folded the cloth in her hand with the clothes next to her, and waved to him through the window.
Su Mingan hesitated for a moment, then walked over. Who knew that the old lady opened the door directly and let him in.
The house is not large, but it looks very clean, as if it had been carefully cleaned. The dining room and the bedroom inside are only separated by a screen, and the sound of a woman's cough can be heard from time to time on the screen.
When Su Mingan entered the door, the granddaughter Lele of the family came out holding an empty bowl of medicine, frowned slightly when she saw him, and seemed to be very wary of him.
"Lele, I'm talking to this guy," the old lady said.
Lele pouted, turned around and continued to enter the screen.
Sitting by the sewing machine, the old lady carefully sorted out the clothes in her hands.
"Young man." She lowered her head and said, "Are you still going to sign up for Soul Hunting?"
"…"
"You didn't come back last night, I knew you must still be a soul hunter... Don't be nervous, I don't blame you." The old lady smoothed the cloth with her thin skinned hands. She rubbed her fingers in the box next to her, and then took out a fine needle: "I thought that the feast at sea will start soon, so I wanted to ask you a favor."
"It's okay." Su Ming'an said, "You say it."
Communicating with local residents would help him gather some information, and he did not refuse.
The old lady grinned.
She squinted, put down the needle, and found a picture like a painting.
This seems to be a photo made by a special technique. The photo is extremely blurry, and the faces are also blurred. Only a family of four can be vaguely seen standing inside.
She stroked the black and white photo with trembling fingers, and after a while, handed the photo to Su Mingan.
"Young man, you are the child of Su Rin's family. You are a good boy." She said, "I am too old to walk, so I can only live in this small house all day and night..."
Su Mingan took the photo.
"I want to ask you to send this photo to the Central Soul Hunting Department." The old lady said, "After Soul Hunting dies, their photos will be preserved at the Central Soul Hunting Department. I thought, although the old man I can't come back, but I want to fulfill his wish, so that the photo of him and my little Hull can be saved together... This photo is the clearest one I found, I hope I can still see the two of them clearly Face…"
Su Mingan took a look.
The photos are blurry and blurry, and even the faces of the people seem to have been rubbed off.
"I can see clearly." He said, "I will submit it to the Soul Hunting Department."
He took the photo, and the old lady seemed to want to say something.
After putting on the glasses tremblingly, the needle in her hand began to move.
"You probably saw it the past few days after you came back." She said softly, "This Praia is not a sanctuary. It's not a good place where everyone can live well."
Su Mingan remained silent.
"You have seen the scene just now. There is no way for us to increase the tax in Wangcheng. If there are no young adults in the family, living is a moth, and living is a burden..." The old lady said: "I also saw the neighborhood coming last night. With a knight of light, probably the church can't tolerate such a poor neighborhood as us..."
"Bright Knight?" Su Ming'an guessed that Xie Lude came to him for a mission last night, but unfortunately he was still with the Soul Clan in the Southern District last night: "It shouldn't be a church. They don't seem to care about that."
"Really?" The old lady laughed: "In Praia more than 60 years ago, in the most scarce and difficult period of resources, when Su Rin just ascended to Yunzhong City, he has not yet obtained the enchantment. At that point in time when it was established... the first one who advocated giving up residents and saving resources was the church."
As she spoke, her fingers gripping the needle gradually tightened: "At that time, our days were not so difficult... My old man was a cultural man of the older generation. At that time, he would still talk about literature, history, and common sense. Laya's customs. Even if you are a lobbyist for people and write a tabloid, you can barely get by...
"He likes to be brave, and his favorite thing to do is to be the second-line team leader of the Soul Hunting Team at night, helping to search for clues. I persuaded him that it was the same job as the death squad, but he still loved to do it, hiding it from the crowd. We do it, and live like the underground team. We are too stubborn, and we will not let go no matter how persuaded...
"Later, when his daughter Jiajia fell ill, he went up to Yunshangcheng and said he went to find medicine.
"Our family is waiting. Waiting for him to come down, for him to bring the medicine back.
"...When granddaughter Lele was born, and little Hull died, he didn't come back.
"I still remember what he looked like when he left, how glorious he was, and he would send us letters every year, asking us to wait, and we were waiting too.
"Wait until my hair is gray and my eyes can't see clearly, until I can't even sew the needle.
"...He finally has news.
"He said I wouldn't have to wait for him.
"But my hair is all white."
Maybe she got someone she could talk to, the old lady's words were a bit rambling.
It seemed that she couldn't see clearly, a faint white circle spread out in her pupils, the needle was pinched at her fingertips, and it didn't go into the thread for a long time.
"You don't have to worry too much." Su Ming'an said, "I have read the regulations from the Soul Hunting Department, that the relatives who sacrificed Soul Hunting should receive financial assistance and care. From your situation, it should be from the Soul Hunting Department. I didn't pay attention. I will go to the Soul Hunting Department tomorrow to respond and ask them to send aid, and your living conditions will be much better."
Listening to his words, the old lady was silent for a while.
She dropped the needle and covered his hand.
The hand she covered was a little cold, much colder than ordinary people, like ice. After a moment of silence, she continued to smile.
"Thank you then." Her voice was very soft: "This way, Jiajia and Lele will be better off."
Then, the old lady took his hand again and talked to him a lot.
She said that the situation in the eastern district is indeed not very good. The tax increase in Wangcheng makes the residents unable to live on. In order to maintain the family, they can only choose to join some taverns that deceive outsiders, abduct slaves, and obtain money to support the entire family.
Some people, just to get some money from outsiders, will deliberately seduce outsiders and exchange their bodies for capital to survive.
There are also people who will take the initiative to clean up the battlefield, tidy up the dirty work of the block, risk the risk of soul clan residues, go deep into that kind of war zone, carry the corpse, and get paid.
Some of them out of desire, some out of involuntary, some out of family considerations. But everyone is there to survive in this **** world.
The chaos just now was like this. The woman who was robbed of the jade bracelet was forced to decide to join that kind of tavern for the sake of her child and to do those unconscionable abductions.
Through the old lady's words, Su Mingan gradually remembered the chaos he encountered when he first arrived in Praia.
Slave taverns that deceive out-of-towners, overly enthusiastic women, clean and tidy neighborhoods, corpses covered in white cloth...
All the unreasonable phenomena gradually became reasonable in the old lady's deep and hoarse voice.
This is a world where we have to hurt each other in order to survive.
Humans and Souls, Souls and Souls, Humans and Humans.
In this morbid way of life, people deviate from their original intentions and gradually coexist with pain.
Contain the dirt and endure the humiliation, and survive.
...is this really just a fictitious copy of the game?
…
The chat between the old lady and him went on for a long time.
She told him that being weak is nothing to be ashamed of. Life does not necessarily have to pursue something, as long as you can reminisce about this life and be worthy of your heart.
She told him that after becoming a soul hunter, don't violate the basic rules, and don't stand out for anyone else. There is naturally a reason for the increase in taxes in the king's city, and people at different levels will see it differently.
She told him that the concern is not to gain pleasure or avoid pain, but to see the meaning of life. People will get answers to their own questions in this life.
She told him to cherish those years that now seem extremely free. UU reading www.uukanshu.com
She told him that wisdom can also represent a kind of power, and that human beings have infinite possibilities.
She told him to live well.
"...In short, don't be afraid, you are still young, and the road ahead is still long. Even if you will see a lot of darkness and injustice in the world along the way, you must give priority to protecting yourself... Soul hunting is not a place to eat people, Wangcheng also has their own considerations, and they can't hide their eyes and rashly fight the injustice... Only when you stand up, stand high, and see far, you can understand that some things are not that simple." The old lady held his hand, His voice was hoarse: "Su Rin, Su Rin's child... You are a good boy, you have become a soul hunter, and you will realize your dream."
Su Mingan nodded.
He grew up in an unhappy native family, and apart from his father, no older generation would tell him these truths.
Now listening to the grumbling words of the old grandmother, he felt inexplicably cordial.
She would tell him about the past, about the shortness of parents and common feelings in the world, about her life experiences and stories, and about her son, Little Hull, and how cute he was when he was young.
Her voice was gentle and soft, like a flowing stream. He listened, the originally tense mood relaxed a lot, and some numb emotions began to soften.
After the start of the world game, for the first time, he felt the feeling of being taken care of by his elders.
He sat here for a long time, about two or three hours, when the setting sun slowly fell on the windowsill like a band of light, the door rang.
The old lady released her hand, got up, and opened the door.
With a handsome face, like a bright knight bathed in the setting sun, he is standing in front of this house.
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