"Robbery?Kidnapping?"
Aivas frowned slightly: "Is it artificial? Or intentional?"
"That's right."
Ibn nodded and looked at Anar, the uneasy and uneasy guide.
Aivas then glanced at him and suddenly understood something in his heart.
This little girl, who is about fourteen or fifteen years old, has not even been to college in Avalon or Iris. Now, she is already speaking the unfamiliar Xingying language, and is familiar with this kind of life that will be punished. If she doesn't have the courage, it will definitely be impossible.
But since she heard about "petification", she seemed to have become a little anxious. Obviously, she seemed to know part of the truth.
"I guess... someone spread similar rumors in Yanjiao City, saying that the city is unclean and that the people inside have committed serious sins. The sinners in this sin city will be petrified and the like..."
Aivas spoke slowly, "I guessed right?"
This kind of scene is really easy to understand.
For such uneducated people, they cannot understand things that are too complicated. But they can understand things that are "crime" - who is wrong and leads to punishment, and is implicated because the crime is too great, is not abstract and very real for people in this slave society.
The so-called "people teach people how to teach people how to teach things, and things can be taught once. In rest, this is a typical case of "people teach people".
"That's right...well, half."
Ibn nodded: "There is indeed a similar saying among the people, saying that they use rock slabs to block the desert is a taboo. Because they did not offer sacrifices to this desert - that is, water and blood, thus making the desert thirsty.
"People die when they are thirsty, and deserts will die when they are thirsty. In the end, the sandstorm will flood the entire city and turn everyone into waterless stone statues. This is also the version that Anar knows."
Perhaps because of this, Anar was shocked when he heard that the whole city was petrified.
"But in fact, there is actually another saying in the upper level - that is, someone blackmailed the good master of Yanjiao City and asked him for a huge sum of money."
Ibn said slowly: "This is the secret that the priest knows. If he is unwilling to pay, the other party declares that the entire city will be petrified together with the good Lord."
“…City-state war?”
Evas immediately realized the essence of the matter: "How much do you want?"
Ibn looked at Dong Ya, and Dong Ya immediately replied: "Two thousand slaves, eighty knots of gold, three hu of pearls - the card is the weight unit here, and ten knots are about eight kilograms of star antagonist."
Ten calories are equal to eight kilograms - that is, more than sixty kilograms of gold.
“…It doesn’t sound like a lot.”
Aivas subconsciously complained.
Although it is not good to say this, this is Avas' first reaction.
He didn't know much about the concept of two thousand slaves, but at least in terms of this gold, he didn't feel that there were too many.
Even if it is not a good master who almost monopolizes wealth, many nobles and even merchants can afford it when it comes to star antagonist or iris. Not to mention, a good master who can sacrifice everything for himself.
Just because of this little money, did the whole city be ruined with his own life?
Or is it because the good Lord of Yanjiao City does not think that the other party can do this, so he didn't take this matter to heart at all?
After guessing what Aivas was thinking, Ibn directly explained: "The good Lord of Iron Killing City will not regard this as a joke. Because the one who threatened was the good Lord of another larger city. Even if he did not have the power to petroleize the rocket city, only the thirty cavalry sent out would be enough to defeat the rocket city.
"—The real problem is that Yanjiao City cannot give it at all, and it is impossible to give this price."
Hearing this, Aivas understood.
As Anar said before, Yanjiao City is a very small city. If it is not considered a slave, there are only about 800 residents. According to the allocation of two to three slaves per free citizen, plus the inventory of slave merchants and the slaves of the good master himself... the total is probably just enough for two thousand.
——Obviously, this number just happened to be stuck.
If the good master of Yanjiao City agrees, it means that Yanjiao City will no longer be a resting city. The slaves in the whole city are bought... For the resting people, it means that the free people of this city have become slaves of the good master. Then people will naturally do their best to escape, or even escape with their own slaves...
Just sell one or two slaves to buy a new free citizenship in a new city. It is better than suffering here.
So it is obvious that these two thousand slaves cannot be collected no matter what.
In other words, this is a number stuck at the limit of the Lord of the Rock Cellar City. It is like a kidnapper asking for a number, which requires selling all his property, emptying all his deposits, and borrowing as much money as possible to barely make up the number - in fact, this is probably equivalent to not being able to make up.
Because once you hand over everything you have, you can't bet on the kidnappers who won't tear up the tickets. They no longer have the power to stop the other party from tearing up the tickets.
"The other party just hopes that Yanjiao City can't pay this price, so it just sets the price."
Zhu Tang, who was standing beside him, sneered and concluded: "This is looking for trouble. He is... looking for someone to test the knife."
Zhu Tang knew this situation very well - he had seen similar situations in the Taichu Empire.
After someone gets power, he will want to prove his power. This is to satisfy himself and to intimidate others. As a proof of the power of "don't mess with me, I will really do this."
"That's right."
Aivas nodded and commented sharply: "Of course, Yanjiao City cannot give a bid, and the good master of Yanjiao City is hopeful and does not give in. In fact, if he surrenders in person, he may be able to change his goal of establishing his authority. But obviously, he still has a lucky mentality...so he did nothing.
"Neither escape nor surrender. No surrender, nor resist."
This actually illustrates the necessity of such a goal of "establishing authority".
When the other party took out the power that could destroy them, the answer given by the good Lord of Yanjiao City was "I don't believe it."
“——So, the disaster came.”
Ibn described the disaster of that day: "Suddenly, a golden transparent lotus bloomed in the center of the city, and an upward column of light shot out from the center.
"The orange-yellow light spreads rapidly. Most people were swallowed by the light and turned into stone statues in an instant before they realized what was going on.
"Then the light column is slowly spreading outward. Those who witnessed the "petification" with their own eyes will run away desperately. Their escape will initially be faster than the light column, and soon the light column will spread faster and faster.
"The screams suddenly solidified, and they were all swallowed by the glow. Therefore, the more the center of the city, the calmer the expression of the stone statues became. The more outward, the more painful the expression of the stone statues looked. Even those lifeless buildings were covered with stone shells..."
"A power that can destroy cities at a high range and change the terrain."
Even Avas couldn't help but breathe: "Is it interesting... map cannon?"
This is a real map cannon.
However, as a ritualist, he also realized one thing-
"——But it is impossible to do without a ritual that can be positioned out of thin air from such a distance. There must be some kind of ritual medium inside."
Aivas thought seriously in his heart: "From the curse that Dongya endured, this petrification should be continuous. It is similar to a radiation, constantly emitting a curse of strengthening and refreshing the stone statue... so that before this power dissipates, it can be continuously sealed here without being dispelled.
"In fact, just find the curse medium, purify or destroy it... maybe you can lift this petrified curse."
He said this, he was a little vigilant and curiously asked, "What is the name of the good Lord who sent out the blackmail message? Which city is the good Lord?"
For a moment, Aivas wondered if it was Aimaar Noor, the good Lord of Holy Springs City, the person who invited him to come here.
But soon Ibn gave a negative answer: "It is the 'generous Adil', the good Lord of Paradise."
“Generous Adil…”
This name... seems to have some impression.
Aivas fell into deep thought, but couldn't think of it for a moment.
Go to the scene and see it, Aivas frowned and thought.
But before that...
"——Let me try it first, what is the value of this curse?"
Chapter completed!