War, war changed everything.
Falconrich is like the other cities of the gods in the Holy Empire.
There are time and space gates built with countless strategic resources, as well as dazzling, tall and majestic god buildings.
There are also dirty and dilapidated slums filled with temporary slums and tents.
Due to the anxious fighting conditions on the front lines, the vast rear territories of the empire seriously lacked the necessary military power needed to maintain social stability.
Villages and towns that lack the protection of city walls and strong garrisons are like fat meat thrown into the deep sea, and will soon be hunted down by bloodthirsty sharks.
Those attackers may be small groups of Starbreakers, they may be descendants with evil intentions, or they may be bandit groups composed of other refugees.
As the war against the Starshatter intensified, so did the chaos on the Empire's home front.
More and more villages and towns have been destroyed, and countless refugees have lost their hometowns and means of production.
They traveled in large groups through the dangerous wilderness to seek refuge in the safety of the cities of their gods. But what they often get is the lord's disgust and expulsion.
There is no other reason. There are simply too many refugees with unfamiliar production skills and low combat effectiveness.
The limited food and resource output of the god city and the surrounding safety zone cannot support the excessive population. If they are scattered to the wilderness to build new villages and towns, they will soon be attacked, bankrupt, and become refugees again.
Some lords will expel these hungry refugees, but they appear in endless numbers and scurry around like cockroaches.
Slowly, many cities acquiesced to their existence. For these untouchables who could be seen everywhere, city managers had no choice but to let them fend for themselves.
In Falkenridge, not far from the prosperous trading district, there is a notorious ghetto.
Low huts made of broken wooden boards and iron sheets are stacked one on top of another, squeezed into a living area like tofu blocks. Between the tofu blocks, there are only narrow passages for passage.
Chen Jun was walking in such an alley.
He carried a sack on his shoulders, the bottom of which clattered against the mail.
After killing the begging mother and kidnapping her child, the girl named Xuerou started crying loudly and punching and kicking her.
Chen Jun had no choice but to knock her unconscious and put her in a sack.
This is not the first time he has done this.
Several girls who resold in the past have sold them at good prices.
It must be said that this is a hugely profitable industry.
Who would have thought that the source of wealth is hidden among the most humble refugees that can be seen everywhere?
That's right, Chen Jun's main occupation is not adventure fighting or mining and other life occupations.
His job is to get these poor homeless people into the hands of people who really need them - in other words, human traffickers.
As an expert in this field, Chen Jun clearly knows that on the one hand, cities everywhere hate the surging flow of refugees, but on the other hand, some places urgently need them.
Many resource production departments built in the wild, such as mines and farms opened by players, are in urgent need of unpaid slaves.
They have a guild-sized garrison to protect the security of their wild strongholds.
And homeless refugees are the perfect source of slaves.
Although the Casting Star Council has issued a decree prohibiting the Adventers from using the native residents of Ashan as slaves, the thin decree cannot prohibit this phenomenon at all.
This phenomenon was not obvious in the early days of the Broken Star server, and there were even many people who resisted this crime against humanity.
However, as time goes by, the increasingly declining economy in reality makes players more and more eager to make profits in Broken Star and make huge profits.
When they saw that people around them had become rich overnight by forming guilds, robbing villages, seizing mines, and purchasing slave production methods, and achieved wealth and freedom, more and more people were swept into the wave of the slave economy.
At the same time, an argument about the nature of NPCs is becoming more and more popular.
"Shattered Star is just a game, and the native residents are just soulless dull data. Whether it's kidnapping for ransom, or killing for money, players don't have to have any moral burden."
Regarding this explanation, the more people who profit from the slave economy, the more convinced they are.
At this moment, Chen Jun was thinking about a serious question.
"Where can I sell her?"
"How about selling it to a nearby mine?" He looked thoughtful and then shook his head.
"No, a twelve-year-old girl doesn't have much labor force yet, so she can't be sold at a high price in the mine."
Chen Jun thought again that some forces were recruiting refugees on a large scale recently.
For example, the Principality of the Bull and the Principality of the Wolf.
It is said that the Wolf Principality officially included the wilderness area into its territory and rewarded the Lord of Starwind as a fief.
The Lord of Starwind is recruiting homeless refugees and asylum seekers there to develop the land.
However, the strange thing is that the wilderness area is under strict blockade, and anyone who enters never comes out again.
There are different opinions as to the reasons for this.
Sensational legends aside, Chen Jun would not send girls to those places.
Because he has a better choice.
There are many newly opened underground hotels in Falkenridge. As a slave, the beautiful Xuerou will definitely be able to sell it for a high price there!
Thinking of this, Chen Jun immediately took action and headed towards another neighborhood.
Suddenly, a strange figure appeared in the alley of the slums, blocking his way.
The man in front of him has a well-proportioned figure, a tall nose bridge and dark blue pores, which are the characteristics of people from the north of the mainland.
【Algernon】
【First-class Freedmen】
[Attribute rating: Strength D Agility C Magic E Physical D]
"Sir, what's in your sack? Do you need help?" the other party asked politely.
Chen Jun's eyes immediately turned cold.
Why are there so many nosy people today?
Just now it was an idiot named Li Ran, and now there is another strange NPC.
"It's none of your business, get out of here."
However, the man named Algernon had no intention of getting out of the way.
As an elite operator of Star Wind Shadow, he clearly remembered Li Ran's order - to bring the kidnapped girl back safely.
"You really don't know how to live or die." Chen Jun cursed and threw the sack into the corner, stretched his neck, pulled out his sword, and walked towards Algernon.
These stupid NPCs are different from players in that they cannot see the information cards containing the opponent's attribute data.
In fact, with his strength, he can easily crush a first-level opponent.
【Chen Jun】
【Second level mercenary】
[Attribute rating: Strength C Agility D Magic E Physical strength C]
Algernon flicked his sleeves, and two daggers immediately appeared in his hands.
In the narrow alley, two men met each other.
Chen Jun relied on his level and strength to have the advantage, so he chose to strike first and hit the enemy head-on.
However, Algernon was nimble on his feet and dodged the attack by turning sideways. He took advantage of the situation and advanced towards him with the dagger.
Chen Jun swept across with his long sword, only to find that the alley was extremely narrow and impossible to use. The blade was immediately stuck in the corner. He had no choice but to drop the long sword and take out the short knife from his waist.
Choking!
The dagger and the blade collided fiercely, and Chen Jun narrowly blocked the attack. If he was slower for just one second, his throat would be cut into pieces by the dagger.
Chen Jun was furious, brandished his dagger and launched a fierce attack.
But he was horrified to find that although the opponent was only at the first level, his body skills were extremely flexible, like a dancer on the blade, giving full play to the flexibility and aggressiveness of the dagger.
Damn it! This is no ordinary pariah at all!
While Chen Jun was fighting hard, Algernon was getting more and more relaxed.
When he was training at the military academy in the Starwind City Garrison, he had received personal instruction from An Ke, and he had mastered close combat skills such as dark elf assassination and dagger fighting.
The man named Chen Jun has higher level and strength, but seriously lacks combat experience and skills.
This is a common problem among most Adventers.
Algernon snorted coldly. As an elite member of Star Wind Shadow, it would be an unacceptable shame if he were defeated here.
Seeing that he was about to lose, Chen Jun was desperate and said angrily: "I am the descendant who came to save you, a player! You NPCs are going to rebel, right?"
Algernon looked cold and said nothing, choosing to end the opponent's noise with death.
A fierce fight with short weapons broke out in the narrow alley.
Finally, the tip of the dagger suddenly smashed Chen Jun's jaw and rushed straight into the inside of his skull.
The descendant's eyes were full of astonishment, his whole body was exhausted, and he knelt down slumped on the ground.
The last image in front of Chen Jun was the girl who had just lost her mother and was thrown into a corner by him in a sack.
After he died, Algernon gently opened the bag and took Cheryl out.
...
The tavern hall of "Black Blade" is always full of excitement and hustle and bustle.
What is quite embarrassing is that an ordinary priest apprentice is sitting alone at the round table, drinking tea and seeming to be thinking about something.
The drinker next to him looked at Li Ran, who looked calm, with an expression of disdain.
In their opinion, this man went to the tavern to only drink tea without ordering wine, which was very tasteless.
Moreover, his level is only the first level. He is wearing a simple initial priest robe, and he looks like a novice at first glance.
No matter what, they would never have imagined that, from a certain perspective, this entire tavern was Li Ran's new property in Falkenridge.
In the dim light, Li Ran gently took a sip of the fragrant black tea.
"That young man named Algernon should be back soon," Li Ran thought. "He secretly trained Star Wind Shadow very well, and even buried an intelligence stronghold in a complex area like Falkenridge."
While waiting patiently, Li Ran did not waste time.
At the wine table nearby, two drinkers had drunk too much, and the conversation was quite interesting.
"Hey, brother, did you know that Lord Starwind has a fleet?"
"The one that appeared in the Wolf Principality a few months ago?"
"Right now, the whole development area is going viral that they are going to the Emerald Ocean!"
