"Miss Aaliya, you're welcome." Chen Xing nodded, then picked up the coffee cup, blew on the hot air and took a sip.
"Captain Chen, please take good care of me in the future~" Aaliyah sat down slowly, crossed her long legs and said with a bit of squeamishness, "You also know that I am a girl, living in a foreign land without any friends. .It’s really not easy to be alone.”
"Really?" Chen Xing asked. In just a few seconds, he had already scolded him several times in his mind, "Pretend, I'll let you pretend!" But he still kept a warm spring breeze smile on his face, "How about..." He leaned forward, as if to After a confidential conversation, the other party understood and leaned over, "I'll introduce you to someone."
Aaliyah's face immediately turned cold, she tilted her chin up and squinted at him, looking arrogant and reserved, "I don't need to worry about it."
"It's not easy for you to be alone outside at such a young age. If you start a family early, you'd better have a man to take care of you, don't you think?" Chen Xing advised, his tone sincere and sincere, without the slightest disrespect.
"It's you!" Aaliyah raised her eyebrows, slapped the table, and stood up, with a dangerous light flashing in her eyes.
Chen Xing took it easy to avoid over-stimulation. The other party turned against him directly, then changed his tone and sighed, "But Miss Aaliya is naturally beautiful. How can anyone in this remote country be worthy of her?"
Aaliyah narrowed her eyes, glanced at him, and sat back down, but her previous delicate and charming look was gone, and she now had a cold look, which meant "Say something quickly, and leave as soon as you finish".
"As long as you pay this month's tax, this will be the ammunition supply point for the third team of Lanhua Town from now on. What do you think?" Chen Xing asked.
"Don't forget, you became the squad leader because of me." Aaliyah looked at him with an aggressive look.
"That's why you should support my work even more." Chen Xing said.
"What kind of logic are you talking about?" Aaliyah's eyes widened and she couldn't help but curse, "I helped you, and you still want to suck my blood!" Then she pointed at him and said, "You are the farmer and the snake. 'That snake inside. When someone gives you warmth, you bite them back."
"I don't care anyway." Her fair face was covered with a layer of frost and she said decisively, "No one can make me pay taxes!" She gritted her silver teeth and said word by word, "Even if the mayor comes in person , and the same result!" As she spoke, a golden light flashed in her ruby-like pupils.
In an instant, a powerful and powerful breath filled the air like overflowing sea water. At the same time, a golden vertical pupil seemed to open in Chen Xing's sea of consciousness. Brighter than the sun, cooler than the moon. Standing in the sky, looking down at all living things, exuding huge and unparalleled pressure.
"You...you misunderstood..." Chen Xing was out of breath and broke out in cold sweat. He quickly waved his hands and said with a little difficulty, "You...think about it, I can stand firm, right... It will be of greater help to you.”
"Oh~ tell me." With a cold and indifferent voice, the pressure receded like a tide. Chen Xing felt his chest relax, and his breathing suddenly became much smoother.
Chen Xing took a deep breath, took out a sickle beetle crystal core from his pocket, placed it on the small round table, and said, "This is the souvenir I brought to you when I went to Longshi Town. Please accept it."
"Hmph~" Aaliyah wrinkled her little nose, picked up the red crystal on the table, rubbed it in her hands a few times, threw it up, opened her small mouth to catch it, and started chewing it. It's like eating jelly beans.
Although it was the second time, Chen Xing was still frightened. It has to be said that the Balrog bloodline is really terrifying, as it can directly absorb the crystal core, ignoring the impurities and toxins in it.
This method of absorbing energy alone is beyond the reach of ordinary evolvers. Because during the refining process, 90% of the energy in the crystal core will be lost.
"If even you pay taxes, the mayor will definitely value me more and give me more resources and rights, and we are... and..." Chen Xing thought for a while before he found the right words. "good friend……"
"Good friend?" Aaliyah was slightly startled and murmured.
"Yes, we have taken risks together, so of course we are good friends." Chen Xing said with great certainty.
"Hmph~" Aaliya rolled her eyes at him and said disgustedly, "Who are you good friends with?" Although she said this, the atmosphere relaxed a lot.
After a while, Chen Xing came out of the store, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and walked towards the camp. Seizing food from a tiger's mouth is not an easy task.
In the afternoon, Chen Xing met the community leader of the "Coast Community", Father Ma, in the office of the third team. The name of this community has nothing to do with the actual situation. It was purely a brainchild of the mayor.
Father Ma is the leader of the church in Orchid Town and the leader of the coastal community.
"May the true God bless you." Father Ma bowed to Chen Xing and said.
Chen Xing stood up and returned the gift. The public security in the community is generally better, and the residence tax is easier to collect. Just send three people to manage it permanently.
"Captain Chen Xing, this month's residence tax has been collected. Please check." After saying that, Father Ma passed more than a hundred gold coins with a black watch.
Residence tax varies from person to person but is not high and is only payable by adults. Generally speaking, each family has two to three silver coins per month. More than a hundred gold coins are equivalent to about three to four hundred households.
After chatting with Father Ma for a while and getting a general understanding of the community, the latter stood up and left. Communities are usually relatively stable, and most of the trivial matters can be left to the community leader to handle.
The next two slums are the most troublesome. Refugees are very difficult to manage. If you are too strict with them, they will think you are cruel. If you are too kind to them, they will think you are weak. In most cases, managers adopt high-pressure policies. If anyone is dissatisfied, he will be slaughtered immediately until he is convinced. Wang Bo used this method before, bloody and cruel.
But in fact, this is a sign of lack of management ability.
The next morning, Chen Xing led eight team members and drove two jeeps to the No. 7 slum in the west of the town.
There are twelve slums in Orchid Town, named according to odd numbers. Chen Xing's territory is the slum areas No. 7 and No. 15. Slum No. 7 is exactly where Wang Bo carried out the last massacre.
"Everyone, come here, our boss has something to say!" Aaron stood on the jeep, shouting in a hoarse voice toward the group of tents below the slope.
