Hundred-year-old snow-capped mountains lie outside several small towns. This seals off not only opportunities for contact with the outside world, but also the death of the upper and lower classes.
Over the years, the people above have changed one after another, and they are no longer the same group of people, but the families and connections behind them are still the same.
In the countryside, this class becomes even more obvious.
The powerful families in the village always have a fixed group, and the poor people who have no strength can only listen to the capable people and work day and night with their heads down.
Under normal circumstances, if ordinary people do not have the opportunity to pray to the gods, it will be difficult to activate the stars in the sea of consciousness.
What's more, the conditions for the appearance of skill stars are not as simple as they appear.
In a remote mountainous area two days' walk from Haizhen, there was a woman from a poor family who suddenly awakened her first skill without praying to the gods.
This skill is mirror reflection, a life skill with no combat effectiveness. It can only reflect light or be used as a mirror.
At this moment, the girl with animal ears who learned the mirror reflection skill did not change her life because of her awakening skill.
There are no wild monsters in the countryside, and there is no "experience" that can be gained.
She doesn’t know what “experience” means, and she doesn’t have a clear scientific understanding of her skills, and she doesn’t know what she can do.
Therefore, she is still a poor person under the village chief. She continues to work in the farm with no hope of ending her life. She works at sunrise every day and returns at sunset, living for the so-called work.
Early that morning, the dawn came, illuminating the dilapidated thatched house and sweeping away the darkness.
She got up from the bed made of straw, opened the big pot that had been cooked last night, and drank a bowl of porridge in one gulp.
When she wanted to fill another bowl, her mother reached out and knocked her hand away.
She pouted, touched her still-not-full belly, said goodbye, and went into battle lightly.
The weather today is very good, but it has nothing to do with her. No matter whether the weather is good or bad, farm work cannot be left behind every day. The only thing she is glad about is that it is not a rainy day.
After arriving at the village warehouse to collect the relevant alchemy potions, he was ready to go next door to collect farm tools.
Under normal circumstances, she will bring chemicals and farm tools to fixed points to spray chemicals, carry out cropping, and carry water for watering.
Ever since alchemy potions were used in agriculture, the growth of rice has always been better than expected, regardless of the weather.
It stands to reason that every year is a good harvest year, and farmers don't have to worry about their stomachs. The farmers here should have left production and worked in the underground cities long ago.
However, in this kind of rural area where the ideology is backward and the system is more important than anything else, families with some strength but narrow vision are always stuck in the quota of entering the city.
The people at the bottom lose the qualification to go out and see the world. After turning in the rice, their own food reserves are always just between enough to eat but a little hungry.
If you resist, you will be pushed back by extraordinary power. Over time, everyone takes this for granted and doesn't think much about it.
The beast-eared girl who is engaged in farm work has mirror reflection skills, which does not expand her horizons, but makes her unique.
In this village, the family background is not strong, but having skills is too high-profile, which brings a lot of trouble to her who comes from an ordinary family.
The usually amiable villagers began to reject her without reason, were afraid of her, and stayed away from her.
That is the awe of the extraordinary power that one cannot understand.
Coupled with the hostility of the village chief and the ambiguous glances of some people, she felt the crisis from the numb work.
That is the survival instinct of adventurers, and it is also the only thing that makes them different from ordinary people after becoming an adventurer.
Her perception of other people's good intentions and malice became more obvious.
She couldn't do these things before, but in the past month, she has become more and more aware of this.
Especially the village chief's youngest son, who comes to her farmland every day to find fault with her, which is very annoying.
Sometimes, the rice grows well with the help of alchemical potions, but he can catch her problems in inconspicuous places.
Obviously others are doing the same thing, so why are others okay?
No, a familiar and vicious voice sounded in her ears again.
"Yugu, you are such a pig. Yesterday you watered the seedlings and several millet plants died. You must have spread too much pesticide. How can you be responsible? Ah! Tell me!"
While receiving farm tools, the village chief's youngest son, wearing a smooth turtleneck gown and a dark face, stood up and accused Yu Gu of his fault in public.
The animal-eared girl named Yu Gu immediately panicked. She repeatedly recalled the process of spraying the medicine yesterday. She was sure that she was not wrong. Why did the other party say so.
Moreover, she sensed evil intentions from him, deeper than the week before.
The others all looked over, mixed with confusion, displeasure, doubt and malice.
"How can it be?"
Yu Gu was a little panicked. She wanted to retort loudly, saying that the one who accused the other party must be him secretly. This guy has been finding fault with her. If it wasn't him, it was someone else.
But she turned to look at the people around her, and the villagers gave her a cold look, and faintly took a step back, further away from her, as if she was the source of disaster, and if you were close to her, you would be unlucky.
Yugu's heart skipped a beat.
"Dad, Mom, I didn't do such a thing, you believe me -"
Facing the vicious face of the accuser, Yugu's parents recalled some terrible past events and became immediately stressed. The two of them supported each other and trembled, not daring to speak to the village chief's son.
Facing their daughter, the parents showed horrified expressions.
Yugu felt his heart getting colder.
Instead of standing up for her daughter, she showed such an expression. This didn't mean she wanted to give up on her.
Who can save her?
Please, anyone can come...
Although she thought so in her heart, she had given up hope.
The village chief's youngest son continued to look solemn and said to Yu Gu: "You have offended the harvest goddess and must be punished!"
"What punishment?"
She has lost her right to choose. No one can help her here, and she doesn't feel like she has a choice.
Before Huang Mao finished speaking, suddenly, there were footsteps coming from behind.
It was a group of people talking.
Huang Mao turned around and saw his father and several uncles, gathered around a few glamorous people with invisible pressure, smiling in apology with low eyebrows.
They, who belong to the powerful class of the village, actually bent down, with awe on their faces, mixed with a bit of easily detectable fear.
Who are these outsiders?
Looks...so strong!
Huang Mao originally wanted to reprimand Yu Gu loudly and perform invisible PUA.
However, he only glanced at the unknown strong man from outside. His mouth suddenly seemed to be blocked by air, and he could not say a word after that.
The group of people came to the center of the village talking and laughing. The village chief bent his waist and saw his son in front. He was about to introduce his good son, but he saw Simon suddenly stretched out his hand and made a gesture to stop talking.
The village chief could only keep his mouth shut.
The village chief is just a three-star adventurer, but he is already the strongest combatant in the village.
He gave birth to ten sons and twelve daughters. Seven of his sons learned skills and worked hard in the outside world to climb up.
Some sons work in the Adventure Group, and outsiders have to take a look at the face of the Adventure Group.
However, the strong outsiders just leaked a little bit of star power through their fingers, and the village chief was so suppressed that he couldn't straighten up.
He was so frightened that he could only bend down and fawningly lead them into the village to find someone.
Apart from that, there is nothing he can do.
The village chief was very confused and didn't understand why the other party came here.
If you want slaves with skill stars, there are so many high-quality slaves with skills in Haizhen and other small towns that there is no need to come here to buy slaves.
"I heard that some of you here know about mirror reflection. Whoever knows it can come forward and show it to us. We will be rewarded. Don't worry about anything else. I can give you whatever you want on the spot, as long as the request is not too much." Simon said calmly. road.
He didn't say two million fine blocks. Putting this amount of money here will only arouse some people's undue greed. The two million reward can be secretly given afterwards.
Having said that, Simon didn't look at anyone else. He subconsciously ignored them and looked directly at the girl with the most outstanding temperament in the crowd.
Even if you are a commoner, as long as you awaken your skills, your body will activate the adventurer panel, making your body different from ordinary people.
In terms of temperament, even if the adventurer is not trained, in the eyes of other adventurers, you can still vaguely feel the difference in temperament, which is the aura from the skill stars.
Not to mention the arrival of the four-star adventurers, Simon and others were able to recognize the person with the skill star almost from a few hundred meters away.
Now, everyone with skill stars has gathered on the field.
The village officials all denied that they knew about mirror reflection, so this girl who had not yet been tested was the only candidate.
And this news was brought by Mr. Iron Tower, whom I had not seen for a long time.
The girl stood stunned on the field, not daring to move. The animal ears on her head lay softly on her pink hair. A large amount of cold sweat flowed from the ends of her hair. Her little head was already overloaded and she didn't know what to say.
Seeing that the animal-eared girl's brain was overloaded, Simon shook his head and asked the strong man beside him:
"Iron Tower, is it her?"
Tie Ta was not from this village. The nanny he paid for was from this village. Before she was sold to the town, she heard that the neighbor's children had learned strange spells called mirrors and so on.
The wet nurse herself has little knowledge, and she only talks about it in a casual way, so she doesn't dare to guarantee it.
Tie Ta did not let go of this clue. He didn't even confirm whether the clue was correct or not. He went directly to Simon's door and conveyed the news.
If Simon takes it seriously, he will send relevant personnel to confirm it.
Anyway, the Snow Mountain Team has a lot of money. They sent professionals to go to the countryside on top-notch horses to prove that the speed is much faster than the iron tower.
What Tie Ta didn't expect was that after Simon heard the clue, he didn't care about the authenticity of the clue. He took him and the team members directly, got on the Netherworld Carriage and set off.
Anyway, no matter how far the journey is, it doesn't matter in front of the Netherworld Horse.
When Tie Ta heard Simon's question, he came to his senses and pulled out the wet nurse behind him who shrank her head and said nothing.
"Is it her?" Tie Ta grabbed her shoulders and asked loudly.
The wet nurse was in pain from being caught, but she didn't dare to say it hurt.
She immediately looked at Yu Gu, who was far away from the villagers, and looked at it carefully.
She knew this matter was important and didn't dare to say anything. She didn't confirm it until she read it three times:
"is her."
The village chief's youngest son, Xiao Huangmao, who reprimanded Yu Gu, became inexplicably nervous when he heard that the strong outsider paid so much attention to him, and looked over and over in his father's direction.
(End of chapter)
