Shipwreck City.
The raven wore a hooded suit and slowly patrolled the East and West Second City.
The market of a city or even a country is always the place that most sensitively reflects the economic and political status.
The market is separated by sunken ships and is divided into nine small markets according to the different items sold, each of which is 1,024 steps away.
The sounds of hawking in various markets are endless, and people are coming and going, connected like smoke and clouds.
Those who specialize in selling wine are for the sake of wine, and you can often see Poseidon priests going to the wine market to eat and drink at public funds in the name of worshiping Poseidon;
Next door to the wine market is the incense market. The fishy smell of the sea is strong, and people are in great demand for spices. Xiangui from the Southern Islands and magic incense from the Western Hell Kingdoms are extremely popular.
There are also food markets selling various types of food, including dog butchers, pig butchers, and the cheapest fish butchers...
Raven was most concerned about the fish butchering business. He stood silently next to the fish butcher stall, observing the people coming and going.
"Selling fresh fish, selling fresh fish, one silver knight and two pounds of fish!"
"Deep-sea hairtail fish, eat it to strengthen your body, and you will be immune to all diseases. All you need is one Inar!"
An old lady Zheng, who has lived in the slums of the city all year round, slowly walked into the East Market with a basket. When she heard the price of fresh fish, she was shocked and exclaimed:
"Why has the price of fresh fish tripled? How can I afford it?"
Li Yitu was busy scraping fish scales for his guests. When he heard what Mrs. Zheng said, he immediately explained:
"Those evil outsiders dropped evil corpses into our Kingdom of Ansu, and fishing activities in tens of thousands of miles of sea were affected. Our shipwreck city is only more than a thousand miles away from the outsider sea. In the days to come, The price of fresh fish is only going to get higher and higher.”
Mrs. Zheng collapsed to the ground, burst into tears on the spot, and repeatedly cursed foreigners with the slang of the shipwreck city:
"These damn foreigners, garbage, mudbloods, go to hell and go to hell... My five children, two sons, died at the hands of foreigners again. If we can't even afford fresh fish, how will we live in the future?" oh."
"I don't want to live, I'll forget about death~"
Mrs. Zheng's unpleasant cry attracted many passers-by to watch.
Li Yitu frowned, quickly pulled Mrs. Zheng to his side, and whispered:
"Stop crying, I also have cheap fish here, one silver knight and ten pounds of fish, do you want it?"
Mrs. Zheng was overjoyed when she heard this. Her crying face suddenly turned into a smile, and she shouted anxiously:
"If you want it, I'll buy ten pounds. Thank you so much. You are the savior of our family."
After saying that, Mrs. Zheng took out a red cloth bag from the sole of her shoe, and then took out a slightly old silver knight from it. She was about to give it to Li Yutu, but found that he had secretly handed her a "big bag" from his sleeve. Fish," he said angrily:
"Li, do you want to kill our whole family? You cut off the tentacles under this fish, so you think I can't see it? Although I am old, my eyesight is still good!"
Li Yutu said angrily:
"I decided to sell it to you because I felt sorry for you."
"Based on your family's situation, you only earn seven or eight silver knights a month. If you don't eat this kind of fish, how will you feed your family?"
The raven standing aside covered his face with his hood, wanting to observe which path Old Mrs. Zheng would choose? Should I risk becoming evil and eat "fish", or should I go hungry and buy expensive fish?
Mrs. Zheng is caught in a dilemma. Once she makes the wrong choice, she and her whole family may face a life-or-death crisis.
The expression on the raven's face hidden under the hood became increasingly happy, and he was very curious about Mrs. Zheng's final decision.
"I'll buy."
Mrs. Zheng looked sad, looked at the fish butcher with pity, and bought a "fish" with a silver knight.
Then, she carried the basket and carefully left the food market.
Raven was curious and followed her secretly, only to find that Mrs. Zheng did not leave the East and West Second Market. Instead, she walked around in a circle, then turned back and returned to the food market.
She went to Jiujunsi.
Raven had a vague guess in her mind.
Jiujunsi is the market management agency of the Shipwreck City, responsible for collecting taxes, monitoring and maintaining market security.
Mrs. Zheng felt a little guilty on her face, but for the sake of the children who were waiting to be fed at home, she walked in resolutely and said loudly:
"Sir, I'll report it. I'll report it to the fifth fish butcher on the west side of the food market. His surname is Li. He sold me a fish!"
Chief Jiujun was stunned when he heard this and said doubtfully:
"The fish butcher sold you a fish, what's the problem?"
Mrs. Zheng paused, and then took out a "fish" from the wrapped vegetable basket. Chief Jiujun suddenly changed his color and said angrily:
"Did he really sell it to you?"
Mrs. Zheng said seriously:
"Just now, just now, Li Yutu took out a fish from the box under his feet and sold it to me. If you go check it now, you will definitely get something."
Chief Jiujun immediately dispatched with several soldiers and surrounded Li Yubutu's stall.
Li Yutu's face did not change, his heart did not beat, he pretended to be calm and said:
"My lords, I am a good citizen and I never engage in tax evasion."
Chief Jiujun sneered and kicked away Li Yubutu's stall. The evil fish carcass in the box below immediately fell over, making pedestrians around him avoid it.
"Evil thing?"
"No, it's an evil fish. You can't eat it. If we eat it, we will turn into monsters!"
"It's so heartless."
Li Yutu was about to speak when he saw Mrs. Zheng hiding in the crowd. He immediately knew the cause and effect and said angrily:
"Zheng Guifeng, I sold you cheap meat with good intentions, and you came to harm me. You will have to die...well."
A piece of white cloth was stuffed into Li Yutu's mouth by Chief Jiujun, and he was then taken to the detention center.
Mrs. Zheng received the reporting bonus from Jiujunsi - a total of twelve golden inals.
She used these bloody gold coins to buy hundreds of kilograms of salted fish and various kinds of food that were durable, and brought them home.
"Grandma, you're back."
The five young children cheered and gathered around Mrs. Zheng.
Mrs. Zheng touched the youngest Yao'er, tears flowed down unconsciously, and she apologized feebly:
"Brother Li, I know you are a good person, but I really feel sorry for you. It's all for the sake of the child..."
One day later.
Li Yutu, his parents and children were all sent to the "human market" by Jiujunsi, which was the slave market where Raven had been.
The last "kind" businessman in the Shipwreck City became a slave, but the contradiction between the poor's demand for food and the failure of the fisheries in the nearby waters still exists.
As a result, the "fish" was gone, but the evil fish meat was crushed, mixed with a large amount of kelp and seaweed, made into various fish meatballs, and flowed into the slums.
Even some civilians with little savings had to eat a small amount of fish meatballs to alleviate famine due to rising prices.
The accumulated resentment among the people has become increasingly heavy.
In order to ease the conflict, the city government immediately launched a propaganda machine and posted information about foreigners everywhere.
Raven picked up a piece of propaganda paper, looked at the strange portrait on it, and couldn't help but laugh in surprise:
"Do you portray us humans as evil spirits? Do you put all the blame on humans?"
"However, you underestimate contradictions. You make the poor resent foreigners. The lower class will affect the middle class, and the middle class will affect the upper class. Sooner or later, you will be forced to launch a war against mankind! The lower class will also overcome the upper class. of!"
The raven shook his head and no longer cared about the life and death of the poor people in the deep sea. He turned around and walked into a secret residence and said slowly:
"Are you ready?"
An alchemist apprentice held up a scalpel and said tremblingly:
"You are ready, but you may not be able to resist the rejection reaction later. You are only a fourth-level extraordinary species. You must at least be a high-level extraordinary species to..."
Raven had a dotted line drawn on her eyebrows, slowly lying on the operating table, and said with a smile:
"It doesn't matter, I've already prepared it."
The alchemist apprentice brought dozens of strange instruments, moved them all to the operating table, aimed them at the raven's upper skull, and slowly raised the saw blade.
Ba Zhi~ Ba Zhi~ Ba Zhi~
The alchemist apprentice slowly sawed open the raven's skull along the dotted line above the eyebrows with a saw blade.
The raven watched helplessly as the skull moved away from him, feeling that he had turned into a piece of wood and was being slowly sawed into two pieces by an old carpenter.
The endless pain went straight to his brain, making every muscle on Raven's body tense to the extreme. The white cloth of the entire operating table was wet with sweat from his body.
But even in this situation, the raven still did not call out even a single sound. Instead, it sang leisurely:
"Lift your skull..."
ruthless!
The alchemist apprentice thought of this word inexplicably.
The white cloth on the top of the operating table was wet with the brain matter and blood spilled from the raven's head.
The alchemist apprentice took a deep breath and quickly covered a piece of deep-sea human skull, which happened to coincide with the sawed-off part, and asked:
"Mr. Raven, are you okay?"
"continue."
"Yes, Mr. Raven."
The alchemist apprentice held the needle and thread tightly and sewed the new skull and the raven's head bit by bit.
When the suturing was completed, Raven immediately took out the silver-quality potion in his arms and swallowed it in large gulps.
The powerful silver-level potion immediately causes the new skull to begin to heal with the original skull.
"Humph~Humph~"
Raven gasped heavily, straightened up suddenly, and said sternly:
"Bring me my skull!"
The alchemist apprentice shuddered and immediately handed the skull on the instrument table to the raven.
The raven stood up with difficulty, walked slowly to the pool, and gently and carefully cleaned his skull.
The flesh and blood on the inside of the skull was cleaned bit by bit, and a familiar pattern gradually emerged.
A pattern made up of seven stars, like a spoon...
Big Dipper chart!
The raven laughed ferociously and said:
"No wonder hair has a function similar to that of an antenna. It is the offspring of the deep-sea system planted on human beings..."
"It's right under our Tianling Cap!"
