After coming out of the Tianyao City Mercenary Guild, Xiang Chen and Gong Yang were walking on the streets of Tianyao City. As for the 30,000 mercenaries who came to register, they were temporarily settled at the local Kunpeng Mercenary Group.
Tianyao City has one season every thirty years, and one hundred and twenty years every four seasons reincarnates.
It is late autumn now, the weather is cold, and winter is about to begin.
I saw many people in rags on the street with numb expressions and eyes wandering aimlessly, as if they were soulless zombies. There were also many beggars squatting and shivering in a corner of the street.
"Don't stay here and affect the appearance of the city, gonggun!"
There are specialized city administrators to expel these beggars who are in front of other people's homes or huddled in some corners, and drive them away.
There are also elderly beggars who fell asleep in the corner and never woke up. When they were discovered, their vitality had been blown away by the autumn wind.
When discovered by the city management personnel, such people will be dragged to the furnaces in the city, burned into ashes, and turned into organic fertilizers for relevant fertilizer industry companies to avoid turning into zombies.
Ordinary people in this world also have a difficult life. Without resources, relying solely on the energy of heaven and earth cannot sustain their lives for a long time. After all, the energy of heaven and earth also has a price!
They cannot afford the housing prices of Dongtian Paradise, which is rich in heaven and earth energy. The excess energy of heaven and earth is absorbed by the spirit gathering formations of different properties.
Xiang Chen raised his eyebrows slightly: "What's going on? Why are there so many beggars in Tianyao City? I remember that beggars were rarely seen in Tianyao City before."
Gongyang Zheng sighed slightly and said: "Your Majesty, these beggars are refugees from other cities. Three hundred years ago, several cities not far to the north of Tianyao City were plagued by demonic insects, and countless people were displaced and fled.
Come to Tianyao City."
"A large number of immigrants come to Tianyao City. They have no place to live or land to cultivate. It is difficult to find a job. Many people have become such homeless beggars."
"That's it." Xiang Chen frowned slightly.
Suddenly he saw a group of people rushing towards a large trash can in the distance and began to rummage through the trash can.
Some people found almost rotten fruit and hurriedly put it into their mouths to chew. Some people found half-eaten discarded food and hurriedly put it into their mouths. They seemed not to be human beings, but a group of wild dogs from another world.
Xiang Chen saw a thin beggar boy with unkempt hair and found a piece of bread that should have been produced in Tianlang City, but the bread was already covered in dirt.
The young man put it into his mouth without any care and took a bite. However, a taller beggar next to him saw it, grabbed it and kicked the young man hard.
The boy was kicked in the stomach and couldn't recover after holding his stomach for a long time.
Soon everything in the trash can that could be accessed was cleared out, and they put the useless garbage back into the trash can. It wasn't because they were highly qualified, but because if they didn't put it in, they wouldn't even have to dig through the trash can in the future.
And those beggars turned into zombies, wandering in the corners of the streets.
Xiang Chen silently watched all this from a distance, watching them rummaging through the trash can before walking over. His eyes fell on the boy who was holding his stomach and standing up with difficulty and trembling.
To be precise, she was a young girl with unkempt hair, her hair cut very short, and she was dressed like a boy.
The girl was sallow and thin, and looked at Xiang Chen who came over with a lackluster look and was about to leave.
"What's your name?" Xiang Chen made his voice as soft and non-malicious as possible.
The beggar girl's eyes were wary and she silently took two steps back.
The light flashed in Xiang Chen's hand, and a piece of intact, freshly baked, fragrant bread appeared.
Suddenly a piece of bread was missing from a bakery a few kilometers away.
Xiang Chen handed the bread to the beggar girl and said: "My name is Mu Chen. I am a story novelist. I recently want to write something about beggars and insect plagues. If you are willing to accept my interview, this piece of bread is yours. In addition,
I can also give you twelve taels of Hongmeng Amethyst."
The beggar girl's eyes became brighter after hearing this, she swallowed, looked at the fragrant bread in his hand, nodded heavily without hesitation, then grabbed the bread and crazily swallowed it in her mouth.
She ate too fast, and she soon choked herself. Fortunately, Xiang Chen had another bottle of Hongmeng Amethyst with a market price of one yuan in his hand. The purple bottled water containing the weak Hongmeng Purple Energy was handed to her.
Speaking of which, most of these products that are very similar to modern products come from his Tianlang City. The people of Hongmeng Tianwu have never thought that even ordinary water with a little energy can be packaged to make money. The profit is several times more. They don't know that there are
You can become the richest man in the world by selling water.
Later, Xiang Chen gave her another piece of cake and a tea egg, but he didn't dare to give her too much. If someone hasn't eaten enough for a long time, suddenly eating too much may cause death.
The beggar girl shed tears as she ate, and there were two more tear marks on her face that was originally covered in dirt. She wiped her face, and her face looked even more stained. I don't know what she thought of.
Xiang Chen pointed to a decent restaurant next to him: "Let's go in and talk."
The beggar girl nodded and followed Xiang Chen into the restaurant. When the restaurant waiter saw the beggar girl, he frowned slightly and then said with a smile: "Your Majesty, it is not convenient for us to bring beggars in here. We are high-end——"
Gongyang was taking out a piece of high-grade Hongmeng Amethyst worth hundreds of taels. When the waiter saw this, he immediately shut up and bowed: "Please come in, three distinguished guests."
Xiang Chen ordered a meal for two, a beef brisket stewed with tomatoes and potatoes, a beggar's chicken, and some stir-fried vegetables. He also ordered a cup of milk tea for the beggar girl.
Milk tea, a drink that became popular all over Hongmeng Tianwu after being exported to the outside world in Tianlang City, was deeply loved by countless young people.
The beggar girl was holding milk tea, and her memory was in a trance. She didn't know how many years she had not had a serious drink.
She drooled looking at the dishes Xiang Chen ordered. Xiang Chen smiled and asked, "Can you still eat it? People who haven't eaten for a long time should not eat too much, otherwise it will easily damage the body."
The beggar girl hesitated for a moment, then shook her head reservedly, and finally spoke: "Thank you, I've already eaten."
Her voice was soft and weak, and she was very reserved. Xiang Chen estimated that she and Zhu Xi were about the same age.
"What's your name? How did you become a beggar?" Xiang Chen asked.
The beggar girl then said: "My name is Tong Yue'er. I originally lived in Yuanfeng City. Yuanfeng City was attacked by demonic insects, so my parents and I fled to Tianyao City - but my parents, my parents were already in the previous one."
When Qiu dies, I become a beggar——"
At this point, the girl fell into memories, and without Xiang Chen asking any questions, she began to tell her own story, talking about the horrific scene when the plague of demonic insects suddenly appeared in the city, and how her neighbors died in it.