Thousand-Faced Dragon

Chapter 8: The Real World is Too Cruel

Chapter 8: The Real World is Too Cruel (Alliance Leader Adds More)
“A somewhat familiar landscape, but not that familiar.”

Walking along the seaside streets of the dock area, smelling the familiar sea breeze and the crooked bungalows around him, Rean seemed to have returned to his childhood.

The same small seaside town, the same chaos and noise under the premise of economic prosperity, and the same opportunities and risks.
"Snapped!"

"It hurts! Damn it, big guy!"

The short cat man who was knocked down by Rean was still cursing.

But seeing those calm and cold pupils, he shuddered and tried to turn and run.

"Bring it here."

The cold sheathed sword was placed on the little man's neck, and he instantly regained his composure.

A deflated wallet was returned to him. The boy was still mumbling something like "poor bastard".

"Didn't your mother take good care of you?" After counting and making sure there was nothing missing, Li En continued.

"She's recovering."

Li En knew this little guy, and actually had quite a grudge against him. Literally, there were both gratitude and grudge.

The orphans adopted by the female Bodhisattva whom Rean helped before, this little Will in front of him is one of them. He is doing relatively well and can make a living independently.

His grudge was that his job was ruined by Rean.

"..What's the point of you stealing from me? I'm a Paladin, what's the point of me being worthless?"

The Paladin may be the upper limit of morality, but it is basically the lower limit of assets. The Oath Knight is the model among them. Under the oath of "poverty/integrity", life is very difficult.

It is hard to say whether the pickpocket is richer or the knight after his payday is richer.

"Heh, whoever steals your wallet will be our new boss."

Now, Li En understood.

He ruined little Will's job because he rushed in and attacked the pickpocket den in the dock area and killed the previous blood-sucking pickpocket leader.

Now this cursing little fellow is actually reminding himself?

"Let them come."

Li En shook his head, left the little guy behind, and continued to patrol the streets.

Wherever Rean goes, there is chaos, and this is exactly the effect he wants.

The familiar smell of fish hit my nose, and a large ship not far away was unloading cargo.
The port in the dock area is the largest source of wealth in this area, and various rare materials from the underground ruins are sold for astronomical prices in other cities.

But the reality is that these riches have nothing to do with the dock area. Instead, the wild dogs attracted by the wealth have caused all kinds of trouble.

Among all the districts in Glowing City, the public security here is undoubtedly the worst.

There are all kinds of messy gangs and criminal organizations, as well as cross-border cults and illegal organizations, ranging from small pickpockets making a living to evil black wizards who need experimental subjects.

"Tsk, looking back, I stayed in a cheap little hotel here three days ago to save money. It was a prime example of an outsider courting death." Looking back, Rean felt that he had probably lived in a peaceful and prosperous era for too long, and he had never considered that there were no safe zones in the slums, even in hotels.

In fact, the police station in the dock area can only patrol the streets within a limited range. There is no need to think about maintaining public order. It is good enough if they can solve some serious criminal cases.

It was natural for the nobleman to collect "tails" here.

Basically, no one cares how many missing people appear today.

The quagmire with the highest crime rate has become Rean's first choice for patrolling the streets.

The Heroic Spirit Card only has less than ten days left, and he needs more "evil". According to the ways to obtain power that Rean found out himself, the cost and price are extremely high, and the cost-effectiveness of the Heroic Spirit Card can be called a cheat.

You don't need to worry about the absence of crime and villains here, you just need to worry about accidentally digging too big and not being able to contain it.

Looking at the gorgeous jade palace-style roof not far away and the endless red walls and green tiles around it, Rean gripped the hilt of his sword tightly and finally sighed.

This complex of buildings, completely different from the dock area, was a slave market, but it was legal and taxed. According to the code of this era, even the Paladin Sur could not enforce the law there.

In the memory fragments, Surta didn't even feel that there was a problem, but just instinctively stayed away.

Li En, however, was extremely disgusted from the bottom of his heart.

The reason why the slave market was located in the most chaotic slum area of the docks was because
"Don't rush, don't crowd. Those who can read go this way, those who can't read go that way. Those with skills go the third way, and those with more evolved races go the fourth way."

The bustling crowd over there are not people receiving welfare benefits, but people queuing up to sell themselves into slavery.

The reality is that free people sometimes live worse than slaves. Of course, the premise is that they are commercial slaves who sell their bodies but not their lives. Those war slaves and slaves who sell their bodies completely are regarded as the property of the holders.

When passing by here, Rean gripped the hilt of his sword tightly, and the guards also stared at him. The "Reckless Mad Knight" has become famous in recent days, and there are many paladins who believe that slavery is a crime.

But in the end, he still walked over and left a lip mark with his teeth.

“No matter how real a fake is, it’s still just a fake.”

Rean closed his eyes and smiled self-deprecatingly, "Do you really think you are a paladin who never compromises?"
"As expected, I am just a coward who bullies the weak and fears the strong."

Soule believed this was legal because slavery was more common and brutal during his time.

Rean didn't draw his sword because he was afraid of the evil that was too powerful.

".I am just an ordinary weak person."

Synchronization rate increased by 1%

What’s strange is that after realizing his own weakness, Sur actually resonated with him, or perhaps comforted him?
Li En shook his head and continued patrolling the streets.

Since you are weak and ordinary, start with what you can do. Do not do evil, no matter how small it is; do not refrain from doing good, no matter how small it is. Do as much as you can.

Those "little things" you do have actually changed the lives of others.

How many children's lives could be saved by eliminating the tail collector who was committing crimes crazily in the dock area?

Helping that female Bodhisattva get rid of the snakehead can at least make the orphans live a better life. At least little Will's life will be changed. Maybe we can help him find a right path in the future.

Oh, this weird little guy.
".He really came."

Li En sighed, his dragon eyes had already seen the encirclement.

Behind him was a lizard thief trying to blend in with the background wall, and behind the wall over there, two rabbit ears were exposed, and behind the wall, there were also a spider and a bat hanging.

Lizardmen (reptiles), catmen, dogmen, crown tribes (chicken people) and horned hoofed tribes (horses, cattle and sheep) are jokingly called the five major tribes in this world because they are numerous in number, have many subspecies and branches, have excellent reproductive capacity, but are at the bottom of various racial values.

If the Lizardmen followed the "Way of Secret Scales", it would be easy for them to develop the ability of "illusion skin color" by forcibly shedding scales. This is the cheapest stealth ability in the world. And this is also one of the most common evolutionary formulas in the world.

In this world, orc blood can be evolved and purified, but it requires corresponding materials and rituals.

This knowledge and assets are also a precious and rare wealth, and are the basis for each noble bloodline to stand at the top.

Not to mention the distant future, as long as a complete evolution is completed, physical strength will be greatly improved and lifespan will be greatly improved. Not only will civilians have a poor life, but their lifespan will also be much lower.

The image of the Lizardmen as prolific thieves and thieves is due to this widespread universal evolutionary formula, which is used to mass-produce thieves and assassins who can become invisible.

"This world is too unfair."

But this time, the heroic soul Sur did not respond. In his opinion, this was the most normal common sense.

Similarly, the multi-tailed nobles actually knew very well that the perpetrator of the crime this time should be an aristocratic cat-man, because in the secret advancement, there is a very powerful "multi-tailed cat system".

It is said that this advancement path involves high-end destiny power, and they can use their tails to die in place of others, and it has many other uses.

But normal multi-tails are evolved through cultivation. This kind of crooked path is obviously abnormal and most likely involves cults and evil gods. This is undoubtedly a public enemy-level taboo, but some people are born not to take taboos seriously.

"Maybe, some nobles are using them to prolong their lives." Talia said this with some shame and hesitation.

In this world's cognition, leopard people are actually regarded as a branch of cat people. Perhaps she, who is also from the local area, has some relatives with the criminals.

No one cares that there are a few more missing people in the dock area, just like no one cares that the cat master has a few more tails.

For this reason, Rean, who dared to stop the noble's carriage alone and catch the man in the act, helped the dock area solve a huge problem. These things were caught on the spot and there was solid evidence, so the nobles had no way to pursue it openly.

But even so, killing that Spider-Man, Diego, still caused trouble, and his family would definitely take revenge on Rean.

If his "fiancée" hadn't stopped him, the assassin would have already set off.

"Sin Domain Judgment."

"Break the evil. Slash with the sheath!"

Faced with the siege of the Pickpocket Gang, Rean quickly solved the problem in less than three minutes.

He did not completely deal with them because the sins they committed were not serious enough.

But soon, he encountered evil of a certain level.

"Uncle Lien, my brother is in trouble!"

A little guy grabbed Li En's hand.

Fifteen minutes later, in the dilapidated ruins, Rean saw the boy again.

He lay on the broken bricks, his empty eyes looking up indifferently, and a silver coin was thrown at his face in a mocking manner.

It seems to be saying that this price is cheap for you.