At this moment, a fat middle-aged man came trotting all the way and stopped in front of Qianye. He bent down and gasped: "Is this the leader? You are a fool, this is Heini Town.
The mayor of the town. Please take care of me, Mr. Qianye, from now on!"
Qianye looked at Hu Wei and was slightly surprised. This fat man was a second-level soldier.
After seeing the situation in Heinii Town, Qianye has discovered that it is completely different from Beacon Town. In terms of importance and danger, it is not comparable to the peaceful town where he once lived. As a result, Hu Wei only has Level 2.
To be able to secure the position of mayor, one must either be stronger than his level or have some background. But if he really has a background, why can't he find a more stable job and come here to seek death?
Qianye pointed at the homeless man lying on the ground and asked: "Mayor Hu, what's going on?"
Hu Wei said with a smile: "This town belongs to you from now on, please don't call me mayor again. Just call me Hu Wei. If you don't mind, you can call me Xiao Hu."
Looking at this fat man who already had a lot of wrinkles on his face, he couldn't tell whether he was over forty or under, Qianye frowned and said, "What's going on with these people?"
Hu Wei glanced at the homeless people everywhere and said: "They are all scavengers, making a living by collecting medicinal materials and resources in the swamp. However, only a few of them are real medicinal collectors, and the rest are just...
A guy who puts his life to chance."
Collecting herbs is a technical job, otherwise there is not only the risk of getting the wrong drugs with similar appearance, but also some plants that are harmless when put together may become highly toxic. But this is also a cost-free and high-profit business.
The scrap metal that can be seen everywhere on the Evernight Continent is much more valuable, so scavengers still flock to it.
Qianye was standing at the entrance of an alley at this time. Looking around, there were at least twenty or thirty people lying in the alley more than ten meters long. When these homeless people who had fallen asleep heard the sound, they sat up one after another and spoke with
Beast-like eyes stared at Qianye and Hu Wei who was pointing at them.
Qianye suddenly saw a dark figure walking towards the other end of the alley!
It was a seemingly ordinary adventurer. His whole body was wrapped in a dark cloak, and his true appearance was completely invisible. However, his gait and posture gave Qianye an indescribable feeling, as if that person
Not walking on flat ground, but floating on the water!
"Wait!" Qianye immediately rushed towards the alley, but the homeless people were lying so densely and crowded that he could hardly find a place to stand.
Seeing Qianye rushing over, most of the homeless people started to move for unknown reasons. Some deliberately raised their legs to create more obstacles, while others directly reached out to catch Qianye. Look at those eyes burning with greed.
, knowing that if Qianye was pulled down by them, everything in his body would be stripped and taken away in the blink of an eye.
How could Qianye be stopped by these ordinary people? He jumped up, took a few quick steps on the wall of the building next to him, jumped onto the roof, and then chased in the direction where the adventurer disappeared.
But after such a delay, Qianye looked down at the rows of rooftops in front of him, and could not find any trace of the figure passing by. The pale light sources were projected on the ground in groups, and the light was no more than a square inch. The homeless man lying in the open air
Most of them were sleeping soundly, and the undisturbed areas of the town were peaceful.
Qianye's heart sank slightly. With such speed and movement, he was no worse than Gu Liyu, and still better than him. Qianye scanned the town again, but still couldn't see anything strange, so he jumped from the roof and landed on Hu Wei
before.
"Master Qian, was that... your friend just now?" Hu Wei asked tentatively.
"No, that's a vampire, a high-level vampire."
Hu Wei's fat face suddenly turned pale with fright. He screamed sharply, then immediately lowered his voice and asked: "High-level Vampire! How tall are you?"
"At least he should be a knight."
This answer almost made Hu Wei faint, and he said with a trembling voice: "Sir, Sir! Why are you here? There is nothing in a small place like ours!"
"One person is enough." An expeditionary force officer next to him interjected.
"Impossible. Although the town has a large population, how could a high-level vampire like this kind of person?" Hu Wei almost screamed again, but he also knew that he shouldn't shout about such things, so he managed to control his volume.
Qianye felt slightly surprised and glanced at Hu Wei again. How did a mayor of a border town know such a thing?
The empire's propaganda against vampires is quite extreme and simple. Just seeing how ordinary civilians are afraid of being infected when approaching blood slaves, you know that the empire has no intention of popularizing and disseminating knowledge. Even Qianye does not have the authority to know this secret in the elite army.
.
It wasn't until he had sucked blood himself that he realized that the attraction of biological blood to Vampires actually lies in the Force contained in it. Especially for high-level Vampires, only blood rich in Force will arouse their appetite.
Like these homeless people with no Force power at all, even if it is washed and placed in front of them, they are not willing to enter it.
Hu Wei glared at the homeless people in the alley, then suddenly rushed up and kicked a homeless man to the ground. While kicking him hard, he shouted: "You dare to block my way! You are really blind."
Dog Eyes! If it weren’t for you, I would have caught that vampire a long time ago! If I didn’t cripple you today, I would really think that this Black Mud Town belongs to you!”
As he said that, Hu Wei seemed to feel that the beating was not enough, so he took out a whip from his arms and whipped it on the homeless people without thinking, making them cry and wail, and in the blink of an eye they were rolling and crawling.
The alley was deserted.
These homeless people seemed to be very afraid of Hu Wei and did not dare to resist at all, so they could only run away.
"These bitches can't survive even a day without being beaten!" Hu Wei said breathlessly. The whipping just now made him jump up and down, which really exerted a lot of strength.
Qianye didn't comment, and after walking around the town and looking at every place, he followed Hu Wei to his home.
The mayor's residence is located in the center of Heini Town. It is a solid three-story stone building. The windows of the building are narrow and small, making the entire building look like a miniature castle.
Walking into the small building, Qianye discovered that Hu Wei's room was on the third floor, the second floor was the guest room, and the first floor was the kitchen and the officers' quarters of the expeditionary force garrison. Therefore, in this small building, the place that really belonged to Hu Wei was not
many.
After walking up and down, Qianye sat down in a pitifully small reception room on the third floor. Standing in the room, it seemed that he could reach both sides of the room with his arms stretched out, and it seemed crowded when three or four people sat there.
"I don't think I saw your family?"
Hu Wei smiled bitterly and said: "Sir, how can you have a family if you stay in such a ghost place? Who knows when those black-blooded bastards will rush out of the swamp. Don't say hold on, they won't be able to escape.
die."
After a pause, Hu Wei lowered his voice and said, "Actually, I have a child, and he is fostering it at his aunt's house in Hongsong City..." His tone became softer, as if with a kind of
The feeling of being a father.
Qianye chatted with Hu Wei for a while, and roughly learned about the environment and history of the Black Mud Swamp. Halfway through the conversation, Hu Wei suddenly remembered something, almost jumped up, and exclaimed: "There is also a high-ranking vampire in the town!"
Qianye said calmly: "What does that have to do with it?"
Hu Wei immediately realized and understood why Qianye did not order a town-wide search at that time, and the officers of the expeditionary force nearby did not move. In such a complex environment as Black Ni Town, a high-ranking vampire with a title could hide his traces or
It is very easy to escape into the swamp. There is no good way to deal with this kind of enemy except to lay a trap and wait for him to jump in.
Qianye's implication is that under normal circumstances, there is nothing in Heini Town worthy of a knight's attention, unless Hu Wei has something to hide.
After Hu Wei figured it out, he suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. He quickly expressed his innocence, then frowned and thought hard, and murmured: "How can I have anything good here that is worthy of a big shot like Sir?"
Qianye saw that Hu Wei didn't look like he was faking it. He didn't expect to find any clues easily, so he just said: "If it's not there, it's fine. It's best that the vampire's appearance is just an accident. My soldiers will come and take over in two days."
Defense, there are about two hundred people. You should make some arrangements in advance."
Hu Wei immediately put aside his uneasy thoughts, rubbed his hands with joy, and said: "Please don't worry, sir, I will take good care of them all!"
Qianye looked at Hu Wei strangely, and asked with a half-smile, "Do you really want my people to come over?"
Qianye's question had something else to say. As we all know, the Imperial Regiment has always had poor military discipline, and the Expeditionary Force is particularly famous in this regard. In the name of hunting down blood slaves, the Expeditionary Force can do whatever they want.
Qianye has seen this more than once and experienced it personally. As for the reason why the mercenary group is slightly reduced, it is because of insufficient strength and authority, not anything else. In the wilderness, the difference between mercenaries and bandits is not the same.
obvious.
As for the elite corps like the Red Scorpions where Qianye belongs, they seldom do anything to disturb the people. This is not because of the strict military discipline, but because they have too many supplies, and what little civilians have in their hands cannot catch the eye of the elite corps. However,
The Elite Legion can be described as notorious in another area, that is the so-called 'casualty index'. In the eyes of local officials and minor nobles, the Elite Legion is as scary as the dark race.
Therefore, as a small bureaucrat at the bottom of the empire, Hu Wei should stay away from the expeditionary force and mercenaries. The most common situation is that the mayor has his own armed forces and is not weak. Only in this way can he share the spoils with the expeditionary force.
qualifications.
Hu Wei smiled bitterly and said: "Even the knights have appeared, which means that the war is not far away. Besides, my place is extremely poor. The elders of the expeditionary force can take whatever they want, as long as the town can be defended."
That’s fine. But even so, fewer and fewer men are willing to come over. But, sir, how did you find out that it was a high-level vampire?"
"Experience." Qianye replied simply.
In fact, the high-ranking vampire was probably too confident that no strong person could find him in a small settlement like this. He did not restrain his aura at all. The rich power of blood caused the induction of gold and purple blood energy in Qianye's body.
, thus being able to see through his whereabouts.
Qianye had no intention of resting. He asked Hu Wei to prepare some dry food, then took his equipment and left the town alone, preparing to enter the Black Mud Swamp overnight.
ps: Well, please give me a red ticket and don’t slip.