(Xia Chen was just trying to get some information about the area. When he heard the strong man's invitation, he couldn't help but feel something in his heart: "Thank you, brother. We are worried that we have no place to stay, so it would be disrespectful."
The strong human-demon man nodded: "My name is Lieda. Going north from here across the desert, there is a human-demon village with tens of thousands of people. I am the village chief."
Xia Chen said: "Hello, Village Chief Lieda, my name is Chen Xia, these are my friends Cheng Dayan and Warcraft Pegasus."
Lieda glanced at Pegasus in surprise. He didn't expect that this monster was not a mount. What's surprising is that most monsters have violent tempers and are difficult to communicate with. Unless they are tamed, only a few can become friends with the monsters.
Pegasus snorted: "Why, you've never seen a horse as handsome as me?"
Lieda laughed dumbly and said nothing, but simply said: "Then let's go."
"Lieda, the origin of these human demons is unknown. We cannot take them back to the village." Suddenly, a tall and thin middle-aged human demon stood up and pointed at Xia Chen and others.
His face is as slender as his body, with a hooked nose and sharp eyes like a falcon, giving people an unruly feeling.
Lieda frowned: "Wang Mie, didn't they just introduce the past? Why is the origin unknown?"
Wang Miandao: "This is just their one-sided statement. It may not be true, and members of the same clan may not be reliable. Haven't there been tragedies in the past where people of the same clan were taken in but the entire clan was destroyed? We must learn lessons."
"Village Chief Lieda, what Deputy Village Chief Wang Mie said makes sense." A human-demon man who looked somewhat similar to Wang Mie answered, "Of course, we are not doubting these friends of the same race, but it is always better to be cautious.
Wrong”
"If we take them back, we will have three more heads. But who will bear the tax? Is it up to us?" A human-demon young man also hugged his arms and said coldly.
Lieda frowned a little deeper and did not answer. Instead, he looked at the team behind him and said, "Who else doesn't agree to take them back to the village?"
The others exchanged glances with each other, but after the exchange, most of them remained silent. Xia Chen noticed that the eyes they secretly looked at Wang Mie were very subtle, and they seemed to be a little afraid.
Finally, an old human demon considered his tone and said: "I think it's better to take these friends back. Although what Deputy Village Chief Wang Mie said makes sense, after all, these three friends are of the same race as us. If we just give them up,
In the desert, it would hurt the harmony of the same clan. Although one more person will increase the tax, the tax for three people is very small and we can't afford it. Besides, they are all possessed by demons, and the head of Lieda Village also said that we can do something within our ability.
things, we can also give them things to do.”
The others still did not speak, but their expressions clearly did not reject Xia Chen and the others.
Wang Mie glanced at the old man-demon calmly, and suddenly softened his tone: "Since even Uncle Xingmang has spoken, we can't be harsh on him, right? But what Wang Lun and Yin Tong said makes sense.
Dilemma..."
It was obviously his clear objection, but now it became the idea of the man who looked somewhat similar to him and the human-demon young man.
While he was talking, he also looked at Xia Chen and the others, his eyes seemed to indicate something.
Xia Chen still doesn't understand what Wang Mie means. He is openly opposed but secretly wants benefits.
He smiled slightly and didn't care. Anyway, after fusing with countless masters, the resources captured were countless, including a lot of materials from the demon world stored in them.
So he casually took out a small bag of magic beads from the storage bag and threw it towards Lieda: "We are going to enter your village. There will be many troubles in the future. Let me give you a small gift first, and also invite the village chief Lieda and Wang
The deputy village chief will be happy to accept it."
Lieda hesitated for a moment, then took it, opened it, and his face suddenly changed: "One thousand middle-grade magic beads!"
All the demons couldn't help but be surprised. They thought that Xia Chen and the other three were in trouble and would have little luck, but they didn't expect that they were quite wealthy.
The eyes of Wang Mie, Wang Lun and the human-demon young man Yin Tong suddenly lit up.
Magic beads are equivalent to fairy stones, and mid-grade magic beads are equivalent to mid-grade fairy stones.
Although in the fairy world, it is common for the Master to have a thousand middle-grade fairy stones, the situation in the devil world is different. There are thousands of races. Most of the races are unable to collect magic beads, so they can only get them by killing and robbing them. This creates
Magic beads are rare and rare
In the eyes of Xia Chen and the others, these magic beads are nothing, but in the eyes of Lieda and others, they are quite a big deal.
Xia Chen smiled: "I don't know if these magic beads are enough to pay our taxes."
"Too many," Lieda shook his head and said, "We are of the same race, and you came to us in trouble. As long as you explain to the demon leader, you will not be taxed for the time being. You should take it back."
"How can we take it back? If they want to invade our village, this is what they should do."
When Wang Mie heard this, he gave up and grabbed the storage bag from Cong Lieda: "Besides, they will have to pay taxes sooner or later, not to mention we have to arrange their residence, register and manage everything, and there is no place where magic is not needed.
Beads"
He was rude in his words and actions, and did not take Li Da, the village chief, seriously at all.
Lieda's face darkened: "Wang Mie, if you treat your friends of the same clan like this, I will definitely tell Elder Yuxie when you return to the village."
Wang Mie chuckled and didn't seem to care: "Lieda, I did this for the sake of the village. You know, as long as I communicate more with Master Feng Mo, maybe the village's taxes will be reduced a lot, and you won't have to pay this year's taxes.
The taxes are probably heavier than in previous years.”
Lieda's eyes showed anger, but unexpectedly he became silent.
He said nothing more and said slightly apologetically to Xia Chen: "Sorry, three friends, I made you laugh. Please come with me and I will settle you down."
Xia Chen had a clear view of their contradictory relationship, secretly guessing in his heart, but just nodded calmly.
"Welcome three friends to our Puhua Village. Puhua Village will be your new home from now on, and we will be your family." After receiving the magic beads, Wang Mie immediately put on a warm smile.
Xia Chen just smiled and noticed that both Wang Lun and Yin Tong looked at the storage bag on his waist, their eyes implying greed, and even a hint of murderous intention that was not easy to detect.
The group of people turned into escaping light again and continued flying towards the north.
"Boy Xia, what are you planning to do? Even if it's just to get intelligence information, there's no need to go with these pitifully weak guys. Give them the magic beads. Although it's useless to us, Uncle Ma won't be happy with being ripped off by a group of weaklings.
"
Tianma secretly transmits his spiritual thoughts, and only he and Cheng Dayan can hear them.
"It's Master Ai, and the eyes of those named Wang Lun and Yintong seem to be wrong when they look at us. They may have other thoughts," Cheng Dayan also sneered.
He had been following Xia Chen for a long time, and even though Wang Lun and Yintong's murderous intentions were not obvious, they still sensitively sensed that something was wrong.
"I have other considerations," Xia Chen explained, and then told him what he had just seen seven meteors passing under the silver moon, and what he felt in the Beacon Fire Seven Stars Chart.
Moreover, when Lieda and others landed, the Seven Stars of Beacon Chart produced the same stronger feeling, which made Xia Chen intuitively want to follow Lieda and others back to Puhua Village.
Both Tianma and Cheng Dayan knew that he had trapped Zhan Yun with the Seven Stars of Beacon Fire, so they secretly nodded and no longer had any objections.
After flying north for more than ten days, the group finally left the Black Demon Desert.
After leaving the Black Demon Desert, there are endless hills and plains, and signs of life activity begin to appear.
However, the demons who appeared were very weak, at most equivalent to the strength of magical monks. After sensing Lieda and the others passing by, they quickly restrained their auras and hid themselves in fear of causing unprovoked disasters.
After another three days, they arrived at Puhua Village
There were people and demons standing in front of the village, old, middle-aged and young, with eager expectations on their faces to welcome the strong men who had returned in triumph.
Along the way, Xia Chen had heard Lieda introduce the details. There were about 50,000 demons in Puhua Village, but there were only more than a thousand strong people above the real demons, and there were only more than 60 upper demons, and most of them were
It’s the early and middle stages of becoming a demon. The strong ones in the later stages are rare.
The geographical location of Puhua Village is not very good. The surrounding large areas of land are barren in resources, making it difficult to supply the needs of the human and demon clan. Moreover, more than a dozen nearby villages are occupied by other demon clans. Their attitude towards the human and demon clan is either hostile or indifferent.
It is difficult to develop in the first place, and it has to be wary of the eyes of powerful neighbors. Puhua Village is in a difficult situation, and its development has been very slow over the years.
In addition, Puhua Village and hundreds of other villages in this land are all under the rule of Muyuan Town
The ruler of Muyuan Town is a powerful demon race, the Wind Demon Clan.
Muyuan Town and hundreds of surrounding Demon Realm towns are all under the rule of Lieyang City. Dominating Lieyang City is a more powerful Demon Realm race called the Night Demon Clan!
It is said that above Lieyang City, there are hundreds of other large cities in the demon world, which are ruled by the demon dragon clan.
There are no weaklings in the demon dragon family. The weakest demon dragon is equivalent to becoming a demon in one turn, and the most powerful demon dragon is the demon king.
Of course, this information is far away from Puhua Village, and Lieda doesn’t know very much about it.
The ruling demons are not responsible for anything in their subordinate towns and villages, nor do they manage them. They only do one thing, which is to collect taxes and resources.
If you don't pay taxes, there will be only one outcome, destruction.
If you resist, the only outcome will be destruction. The methods used to rule the demons are mostly bloody and cruel, and there is no mercy. They are even more merciless towards the lower-level demons, and will wipe out the entire clan at every turn.
Because if you give the opponent a chance, as long as one of the demons gets the opportunity or grows up with unparalleled talent, it will be their turn to be unlucky. Such examples are not uncommon.
However, the ruling demons will occasionally release favors, such as reducing taxes, granting preferential policies, and opening demon schools or markets to provide opportunities for lower-level demons to advance and trade.
This is not for the sake of the lower-level demons, but to balance the distribution of their strength so that the lower-level demons will not be destroyed due to internal friction or excessive taxes, and lose longer-term opportunities for exploitation.
Just like if you want to eat pork, you have to raise the pig to make it fatter before slaughtering it.
Of course, we must also be careful to prevent the pig from getting too fat and accidentally humiliating its owner (to be continued)