NOVEL NEXT Chapter 683 - 329: The Current Situation of Qiuyue City_2
Chapter 683: Chapter 329: The Current Situation of Qiuyue City_2
“Here, there’s no need to pay…”
The simple and honest middle-aged man doggedly insisted, his expression very resolute as he spoke.
From that moment on, the conflict between the honest man and a private soldier from the Lu Family in Qiuyue City gradually unfolded.
…
“Are you leaving or not, I’m asking you, are you leaving or not?”
Inside the gates of Qiuyue City.
The Lu Family private soldier, clad in leather armor, was quickly running out of patience.
He promptly drew the longsword hanging from his waist.
His expression turned vicious as he looked at the simple and honest middle-aged man in front of him.
Even more so, he raised the longsword in his hand.
Aimed straight at the person before him.
It seemed as if…
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If you leave, I’ll act as if this never happened.
If you keep causing trouble, the longsword in my hand won’t show any mercy.
“What you’re doing is illegal.”
“The rules set by the Qingshi City Luo Family state…”
The honest middle-aged man stiffened his resolve, seemingly wanting to reason with the private soldier from the Lu Family of Qiuyue City before him.
However, before he could finish,
The Lu Family private soldier wielding the longsword simply chopped off the honest-looking middle-aged man’s head.
“Pah, such bad luck…”
“Why did I have to come across such a blockhead today?”
“I told you, either pay up or leave.”
“Forcing me to take action, aren’t you?”
The leather-armored Lu Family private soldier, holding a blood-stained longsword, walked up to the decapitated body of the honest man.
He spat with a look of disgust.
Afterward, he waved his hand.
He promptly beckoned several subordinates and instructed them to take the corpse away and clean up the scene.
After all, they still needed to continue collecting money.
If the scene were too bloody, wouldn’t it scare away the common folk?
To these Lu Family private soldiers in Qiuyue City, that would be a great loss.
…
Because it all happened so abruptly,
a short time passed before the leather-armored Lu Family private soldiers took action.
Only then did some commotion arise among the commoners queuing up to enter the city.
Of course, it was only a slight disturbance.
In turbulent times, life is as cheap as grass.
Not to mention one person, even if ten, a hundred, a thousand people died,
generally speaking, as long as you have no status or background,
no one would care about incidents like this.
Even those from the Qingshi City Luo Family,
would rarely concern themselves with such matters.
It’s not that the people from the Qingshi City Luo Family didn’t want to intervene.
Mainly, it’s because the emperor is far and the mountains are high.
In the vast Qiuyue City, the Lu Family is the emperor.
The Qingshi City Luo Family can control the general direction of their subordinate cities,
but when it comes to the finer points, such as the death of commoners…
The Qingshi City Luo Family is somewhat helpless.
It is precisely for this reason that the think tank of the Qingshi City Luo Family was sparing no effort in trying to strengthen the Luo Family’s control over local cities.
After all, only when the Luo Family’s power and influence grew larger,
would the rights of those think tanks that depended on the Qingshi City Luo Family become greater.
“So in the end, we still have to pay money?”
In Qiuyue City, at the city gate.
Luo Yao, whose attention was gradually drawn, looked at the Lu Family private soldiers cleaning up the scene before him.
Then, he glanced at the regular city guards of Qiuyue City nearby who seemed indifferent to the scene.
His eyes narrowed slightly.
Within those narrowed eyes, a fleeting chill glinted.
“Can the line remain this calm even after someone has died?”
“It seems that incidents like today’s probably happen every day.”
“Thus, these commoners’ hearts have gradually become numb.”
Reflecting silently in his heart,
Luo Yao continued to walk silently towards the front.
After the honest-looking middle-aged man fell here, the path into the city, which had been somewhat stalled, slowly began moving forward once again.
At this moment, the queue to enter the city had already extended to where Luo Yao was standing.
“You know the rules, right?”
“Either pay the money, donate willingly, or leave quietly.”
“Otherwise…”
“The previous man will be your fate.”
At the city gate, a private guard of the Lu Family from Qiuyue City, dressed in leather armor,
was speaking to Luo Yao with an icy face.
“Pay money?”
“Donate willingly?”
Luo Yao silently looked towards the donation box not far ahead, about the height of a person.
For a moment, he fell silent.
He was not hesitating over whether or not to pay.
At this very moment, he was pondering…
How much money would this so-called voluntary donation collect throughout the day?
If Qiuyue City, even the powers on the territories under the Qingshi City Luo Family, were to honestly pay their taxes…
Then would the Qingshi City Luo Family receive an extremely large and massive amount of tax revenue every month in future?
Thinking about it briefly caused a rush of excitement in Luo Yao’s heart.
“Hey you, what are you daydreaming about?”
“Either pay up or leave.”
The private guard of the Lu Family from Qiuyue City, next to Luo Yao, seemed to be growing impatient.
Even his hand was gradually moving towards the longsword at his waist.
In fact, if he could,
he really did not want to create so much carnage.
But alas, there were always those who courted death; it was unavoidable.
“This is the place, right?”
After snapping back to reality, Luo Yao reached into his chest pocket.
Not until he pulled out a substantially-sized silver fragment from his chest, did he toss it straight into the donation box.
Having made his donation, Luo Yao, followed by Luo Ze behind him, entered Qiuyue City.
However, on entering Qiuyue City for the first time,
Luo Yao had no intention of taking a tour around Qiuyue City or walking near the Lu Family’s territory.
Instead, he turned around,
his eyes slightly narrowed and expression silently observing the private guard from the Lu Family at the gate of Qiuyue City.
After watching for some time,
he then turned back around and quickly walked deeper into Qiuyue City.
…
Those so-called private guards of the Lu Family obviously could not harm Luo Yao in the least.
The Shadow Guard at Luo Yao’s side alone,
could easily eliminate those private guards of the Lu Family.
The main reason Luo Yao chose to pay and enter the city,
was that he did not want the Lu Family of Qiuyue City to become aware of his presence and existence too soon.
Qiuyue City was somewhat different from Dai Mountain City.
The Lu Family of Qiuyue City and the three great families of Dai Mountain City also had significant differences.
If one could be considered the strongest in Dai Mountain City upon reaching the Perfection of Viscera Refinement,
then, in Qiuyue City,
even reaching the Perfection of Viscera Refinement would not allow you to be counted among the top echelon, let alone make it into the top ten.
Therefore, regardless of other reasons,
or for the sake of his own life,
he would not rashly make a big commotion until he was sure he could take action against the Lu Family of Qiuyue City.
Even if he really needed to make a move,
even if he really had something to do against the Lu Family of Qiuyue City,
then at the very least, he would wait until he had a Blood Refinement-level Shadow Guard for protection by his side before he could strike against the Lu Family of Qiuyue City with confidence.
Otherwise, without the protection of a Blood Refinement-level Shadow Guard,
if by some chance the Lu Family of Qiuyue City decided to engage in a do or die struggle…
wouldn’t he be at a complete loss?
What was his status? And what was the status of the Lu Family of Qiuyue City?
There was certainly no comparing the two.