Astral Apostle

"It turned out to be the grain collection team, is it time for this year."

Baron suddenly.

Villages under White Essence City must pay agricultural taxes. The grain collection team visits various villages every year and removes a portion of the grain as tax revenue. The village is sheltered by the town, and the lord is obliged to resolve the village. Possible strange beast harassment.

Zhou Jing turned to look at Baron.

"Do we need to help?"

"No need, the village chief will summon the villagers to carry food, we don't need us." Baron shook his head.

"Let's do it."

Zhou Jing rolled her eyes and responded like this, but she still wanted to take a look to see the situation.

Baron didn’t take the grain collection team seriously, paused, and said:

"By the way, you can go to town in two days. Weiss will share the money for selling the game to us. , You go get it."

"Aren't you going?"

"I'm too lazy to move, you already know the way anyway." Baron waved his hand.

He only enters the city when he needs to work, and stays in the village all the time.

Some strange beast hunters wander on the line of life and death all year round and need to vent. Many hunters like to go to the hotel maid. Baron doesn’t know if Zhou Jing has any hobbies in this area. Anyway, he is not interested. Like to iron.

So Baron doesn't plan to follow this time, lest "Jason" sorry have fun.

"Well, I'll wait until tomorrow. Weiss should have received the money by then."

Zhou Jing nodded responded.

In the past three months, he has been to White Essence City several times. He is already familiar with the road, and it’s okay to be alone.

Baron's visit this time was mainly to express his support for Zhou Jing's attitude to go out and make trouble. When the matter was over, he also left.

Watching Baron leave, Zhou Jing thought for a while and walked to the entrance of the village.

At this time, the entrance of the village was very lively. A bunch of beasts pulled a pallet and parked at the entrance of the village. A dozen White Essence City soldiers were guarding by the side. Negotiate with the villagers of Frostwood Village.

The atmosphere is fairly peaceful, and many villagers seem to have little resistance.

The negotiation between the two parties was over soon. The village chief organized the villagers to take out bags of grain from the mill to the village entrance, and the staff brought by the tax collector was responsible for counting and loading the truck.

Zhou Jing looked for a while and found that there was no village riots or the like.

When he inquired about the Medieval data of the main world countries, he saw many records of grain collectors being stabbed to death by pitchforks, but the villagers of Strange Beast World paid taxes quite cooperatively.

'It seems that it is also because of the threat of strange beast. The village cannot do without the shelter of the town, so it is willing to pay taxes. '

Zhou Jing nodded, confirming that there is nothing wrong, I am not going to stay here anymore.

Just as he was about to leave, he glanced over one of the people in the grain collection team and suddenly stopped.

Among the crowd, a goatee man is holding a list and counting the food, which makes Zhou Jing a little familiar, as if he has seen it somewhere.

"This person..."

Zhou Jing thought for a while, and remembered this person.

When I went to White Essence City for the first time, I almost bumped into a person in a pharmacy. It was this goatee man.

If I remember correctly, this man seems to be a pharmacy guy, but now he doesn’t wear the coarse cloth uniform of the pharmacy.

But the familiarity is the familiarity, it's just one side, there is no need to come forward to talk.

Zhou Jing took a second look, then walked away, went to the training ground to start a day of exercise, sweating away.

……

The time soon arrived in the afternoon.

The grain harvesting team has finished counting the grain, and does not want to hurry up at night. They plan to stay in the village for one night and leave early in the morning tomorrow.

Although Frostwood Village is small, it also has a simple tavern. A few villagers were temporarily hired to help in the back kitchen, and they barely received the staff from the grain collection team. Ten tables were arranged in the open air to collect grain. The team serves meals.

The people in the grain harvesting team were talking about the mountains while eating and drinking, and they talked about the villagers of Frostwood Village in a daze.

Liner and a group of village children, leaning by their side, listening to the stories outside, as if drunk and stupefied.

When Zhou Jing returned from the setting sun with sweat all over, what she saw was a noisy scene.

I glanced at dozens of people from the grain harvesting team who were eating and drinking. Zhou Jing didn’t respond. She thought about it and went straight to the meal, and went straight to the tavern. The meal is something similar to a potato, steaming hot and gasping in vain.

The tavern chef saw Zhou Jing, and he didn't stop him. The strange beast hunter must have this privilege.

Zhou Jing returned to the house with the food, and dealt with Ross at will. Then he stopped in the house and instructed Ross to practice breathing techniques.

This is what he must do every night when he personally arrives. It is as painful as tutoring children with homework.

The red glow fades, and the moonlight falls.

The grain harvesting team who came to visit had enough food and drink and rested on their own.

The night is getting darker, the noise outside the house is no longer noisy, it becomes quieter as usual.

After finishing a tiring night of tutoring, Zhou Jing was so angry that he asked Ross to make the bed, and walked to the window by herself, preparing to close the curtains and turn off the lights to sleep.

But when she was about to put down the curtains, Zhou Jing suddenly found a few sneaky figures behind the window. They were moving in the village. They just turned around a corner and disappeared from her sight. middle.

At a glance, he recognized one of them, the goatee man he found in the morning.

"en? What are you wandering around in the village without sleeping these nights?"

Zhou Jing moved in her heart.

He thought for a while and asked Ross to follow him, and the two came out the window, quietly following these people.

Zhou Jing is amazingly agile, and ordinary person is hard to find. And Ross has stealth features such as [night camouflage] and [light pace], and is better at tracking. Zhou Jing sometimes does not notice his existence, let alone a problem.

The two people adorned behind the goatee and others, followed all the way, and soon discovered that these people were moving towards the village.

The direction ahead is the Potion Master cabin where Witch Doctor lives outside the village.

"Oh, there is a situation!"

Zhou Jing's eyes lit up, and she suddenly became energetic.

After staying in Frostwood Village for half a year, Witch Doctor Gama has been very low-key. There is nothing wrong with him. He is not easy to find trouble with others. Didn't expect a clue today.

Out of the village, it is a rolling field, which is not easy to hide. Zhou Jing and Ross stopped and went. After a few people walked into the sparse woods surrounding the Potion Master’s cabin, they followed behind them.

Zhou Jing was hiding behind the tree and saw the scene of the Potion Master’s cabin.

Seeing the goatee man knocking gently on the door, Gama quickly opened the door and greeted several people in.

The door closed again.

Zhou Jing rolled her eyes, and hid under the window, hid in the blind corner of the field of vision, raised her ears, and listened carefully to the movement from the room.

Hetero-blood enhancement slightly enhanced his perception, and the conversation in the room was captured by hearing.

"Gama, where's the goods this time?" This seemed to be the voice of a goatee man.

"Here."

Gama spoke, her voice no longer senile as usual, but rather full of breath.

There was a sound of overturning cabinets and cabinets in the room, followed by the sliding sound of some kind of mechanism, and then the sound of a few boxes banging on the ground, mixed with the clear clanging of bottles and cans colliding.

After a while, the goatee man dissatisfied and said, "How come it is so small, it is far from the previous amount."

Gama said helplessly: "Is the village hunter broken? Less, during this time I was busy training newcomers. There were fewer opportunities to bring me medicinal herb. I didn’t have enough materials. I can only do so much."

Goatee man: "Forget it, every bottle The price is still the same."

Dinglidingdong...

There was a sound of coin collision.

Gama chuckled twice, and then whispered: "When you came here, you weren’t spotted, right?"

The goatee man didn’t care: "Don’t worry, the whole village I’m asleep, no one can see it."

Gama was unhappy: "You should be more cautious. There are outsiders in the village. A guy named Jason Wood came to live in the village half a year ago and became strange. Beast hunter, he is an unstable factor..."

The goatee man laughed: "Looking at how timid and fearful you look, what about outsiders? Will people definitely notice you? "

"I..." Gama has a hard time saying.

The goatee man shook his head: "You have to be so scared, then we don't have to do business, anyway, I have other Potion Masters available."

"Don't!" Gama Hurriedly said: "I can do it."

Zhou Jing listened to the corner for a while, although she didn't see the scene, she almost understood the situation.

If you are not mistaken, Gama is reselling potions to the goatee man, and this transaction may have been going on for many years.

'Frostwood Village supports Gama, and Gama provides pharmacy and medical services. The two sides cooperated, but he hid some of the medicaments, falsely claiming that the production of medicaments is easy to fail, and actually left a lot of inventory. To make extra money? '

Zhou Jing probably guessed it.

If you switch to Interstellar Era, similar things may be common, and it may even turn a blind eye.

But in the simple concept of the strange beast world villagers-for you to eat and drink, you also sloppy-work and fill your pockets, it is simply not a human being.

The villagers will definitely not accept it. As long as the incident occurs, even if Gama is a rare Potion Master who is willing to stay in the village, he will probably be driven away.

All kinds of thoughts flashed by, but Zhou Jing did not immediately jump out.

He gestured to greet Ross who was hiding not far away, and motioned for Ross to show up and make some movement.

Ross stood up in silence, went to the door of the Potion Master cabin, and slammed his head against the wall.

Boom!

Very loud.

The sound in the room disappeared, and the needle fell silent for an instant.

hua!

The door slammed open. The goatee man didn’t see anyone at first glance. He moved his gaze down and saw Ross, who was squatting at the door, holding his head. .

"Catch him!"

The goatee man's tone is surprised and angry.

There are three followers beside him immediately rushing forward and grabbing Ross.

Ross raised his eyes and looked down the window sill, but Zhou Jing, who was originally here, has disappeared and hid quietly.

Seeing this, Ross was silently pressed to the ground without resisting.

Seeing that the uninvited guest is restrained, the goatee man sighed in relief, frowning and looking at Ross:

"Who is this person?"

Gama at this time He also hurriedly followed out, seeing Ross's face clearly, and he was taken aback:

"This man is a follower of the strange beast hunter Jason, a dumb with a brain problem."

"Dumb?" The goatee man's face was slightly loose, and he immediately asked: "Then why is he here?"

"I, I don't know, this fool usually follows Jason, but occasionally gets messed up. Run... Maybe it happened to come to us?"

Gama's expression was wrong.

He immediately thought of something, complexion changed, muttered: "That Jason has been staring at me, maybe this person will be sent to watch me... No, it doesn’t make sense, this is a dumb, or a fool, Jason Even if you doubt me, it is impossible to send him over."

"Doubt you?" The goatee man was puzzled: "What else did you not tell me? Why did Jason stare at you?"

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"I...I just didn't heal his younger brother,"

Gama hesitated.

"It's that simple? Impossible!" The goatee man looked suspicious: "You want to hide this from me?"

Hearing this, Gama had no choice but to explain it again:

"The hunters picked up a victim in the forest six months ago, named Will, who happened to be seriously injured. Because he was an unknown outsider, I was worried that it would affect the transaction, so I deliberately left him dead and let him die. Oh... didn't expect that he still has a big brother, that is Jason, who came over."

hearing this, the goatee man’s mouth twitched and said angrily:

"You are smaller than a hamster, so afraid of outsiders, why don't you poison Jason to death?"

"What are you talking about! I didn't expect it to be like this!" Gama shook his head quickly.

He dare not deliberately deliberately not treat the severely wounded, as long as the condition deteriorates, it is enough, and there is nothing to do, so he doesn't want to die.

But poisoning is another nature, he doesn't have the guts.

The goatee man took a deep breath and didn’t want to entangle this issue anymore. He pointed to Ross on the ground and solemnly asked:

"How bad is this fool’s brain? Are you sure he doesn’t Will you reveal what's happening here?"

"I, I don't know." Gama swallowed and said with a fluke, "Maybe he didn't hear anything?"

The goatee man's face changed, he hesitated for a few seconds, and suddenly made up his mind.

"You can't risk letting him go and kill him!"

When the voice fell, one of the attendants immediately drew a dagger.

"Don't kill anyone!" Gama startled, and quickly grabbed the goatee man's clothes.

It's just reselling medicines. It's not a big business. Is it necessary to kill? !

The goatee man turned his head and said in a dark voice: "As long as we kill him, find a place to bury him, and make him disappear, nothing will happen."

" But that Jason..." Gama hesitated.

"Anyway, this is a fool. It's normal to run and lose, right? You are too guilty. You always think that Jason will suspect you for everything, but if the entourage is lost, he has no reason to doubt you, right? "

The goatee man kept talking and continued to coldly said:

"And if you want to make it clear, if this fool accidentally reveals something here in some way, you will definitely Driven away by Frostwood Village, the money will not be made. With your poor level of medicine, can you find another village that is willing to support you? Can you still support you?"

Gama has a brain Confused, confused, but involuntarily let go of his hand.

The goatee man snorted, looked towards the follower, and made a throat cut.

This servant nodded, with a grim face, wiped Ross's neck with a dagger.

pa!

At this moment, Ross made an effort to break free, and with a strong force, he shook off the person who restrained him.

He bounced up and squeezed the hand of the attendant holding the dagger.

In the shocked eyes of the other party, Ross twisted his face blankly.

Crack!

"Ah!"

The attendant screamed while clutching his broken wrist.

However, before he screamed for the second time, Ross quickly pulled out the dagger hidden in his waist and stabbed it into the person's abdomen, without the slightest hesitation pulling it up.

crackle...The intestines fell to the ground in an instant.

The ripped body fell to the ground, only convulsions were left, the eyes widened, and the fear was frozen.

The cruel look on the goatee man's face instantly turned into horror, he was shocked, staggered back, and desperately stayed away from Ross, who was covered in blood and expressionless.

Ross face doesn't change and is about to continue killing, Zhou Jing's voice suddenly came out of the woods.

"Okay."

Ross stopped immediately and stood still.

Everyone at the scene looked at Ross in horror, but no one dared to move. They were shocked by the very ruthless Ross.

At this time, Zhou Jing Shi Shiran walked out of the woods.

He didn’t show up at first because the identity of the strange beast hunter was too deterrent. It is estimated that people would be scared when he came out. Most of them were begging for mercy, excuses, prevarication, and finding reasons. truth.

So he simply hid it and let Ross, who had established the image of a "foolish man" as a bait, to seduce these people and catch a fish.

I secretly watched the situation to see the actions and attitudes of these people, and at the same time, he was more careful.

Didn't expect really gained a little bit. As a buyer, this goatee man was even more excited than Gama. He was so decisive to kill... I'm afraid it's not that simple.

"It seems that we have a lot of things to talk about."

Zhou Jing squinted at the goatee man and Gama whose faces changed drastically, meaninglessly.