Chapter 132: Just born in a peaceful country
"Are you actually from the city?" Zhao Ziyan poured a glass of water for Lin Manman and then started chatting with her.
Although Zhao Ziyan is a mage and very beautiful, no matter how she dresses or works, she is just like the rest of the Zhao family, bold and courageous.
"Is it obvious?" Lin Manman looked at herself. After running away all night and encountering a wave of beasts, she was much more embarrassed than the people in Zhaojiacun.
Zhao Ziyan smiled and said, "Your eyes are too clear, and you seem to have little experience in dealing with beasts."
Although she awakened as a mage, she was born and raised here. At her core, she is the same as other tribesmen, good at fighting and decisive.
"Beast tides... have you experienced it often?" Lin Manman's heart tightened slightly as he thought of the horrors on the battlefield outside.
"Yes, almost every year. However, because the garrison regularly cleans up, even if there is a beast tide in previous years, there will not be too many high-level spiritual beasts. This year is a special case."
Human beings regard spiritual beasts as hunting targets. In the eyes of these spiritual beasts, the flesh and blood of professionals like them are also the best supplements.
Therefore, every year when ferocious beasts gather food for the winter, villages like theirs will encounter a tide of beasts of varying sizes.
This year, because the garrison has not left the city to clean up the city for almost two months, not only did the beast tide form early, but it was also large in scale, and even eighth-level spiritual beasts appeared.
"Okay then, why haven't the garrison troops come out to clean up recently?" Lin Manman took the opportunity to ask. She wanted to return to Jinling City now and needed more news about the garrison troops.
"I heard that it was because of some important events in the city that we couldn't spare the manpower to clean it up in the past two months. But we all know that's a lie."
"Our village often goes to the city to buy and sell supplies, and occasionally exchanges with the garrison for some equipment they don't want. We are quite familiar with those garrison."
"It's just that recently, all the garrison troops I knew originally have been replaced by unfamiliar faces, and many of them don't look like Chinese."
"The elders in the village feel that the current Jinling City is not safe, so we have not done business in the city recently."
When Lin Manman heard this, he couldn't help but frown. What Zhao Ziyan said was the last thing she wanted to hear.
Obviously, the current garrison has most likely fallen into the control of Fan Chengye's forces, and the original garrison has been replaced by them.
Now it's not just a question of whether she can go back, but also whether the people in Jinling City are safe, whether her family is safe...
"Thank you." Lin Manman said to Zhao Ziyan. Seeing that the other party intended to tell her more news, she sincerely thanked her.
Zhao Ziyan smiled slightly and shook her head.
"You're welcome, it's just a little bit of news. You have saved our entire Zhaojia Village. Is there anything else you want to ask? As long as I know, I will never hide it."
This year's beast tide is extraordinary. If it weren't for the help of the ninth-level gryphon at the critical moment, their village might have ceased to exist after today.
Since Zhao Ziyan said so, she is not polite!
Afterwards, Lin Manman and Zhao Ziyan chatted for a long time and learned that the living environment outside the city wall was harsh, not only due to harassment from wild spiritual beasts.
It also comes from humans. There will be some people who want to occupy these villages to survive.
Most of these people can no longer live elsewhere and want to seek refuge around China.
Lin Manman also knew that the main urban area of Huaxia almost did not allow outsiders to enter the city. Even those like Zhaojiacun who occasionally went to the city to do small business would be given vouchers and they must leave the city before dark.
The trading venues of this type of people are also fixed in a certain area, so Lin Manman has lived in the city for fifteen years and has never seen anyone outside the city.
This also led to the fact that outsiders who wanted to gain the protection of the Chinese forces could only seize the space outside the city wall.
However, over the years, fixed village forces have long been formed on the periphery of the main city. If you want to survive here, you can only rob the existing villages. "Haven't you professionals ever thought about taking your family to live in the city?"
The alliance still has many benefits for professionals. For a high-level professional like Zhao Gui, it shouldn't be a problem for him to bring his whole family to settle in Jinling.
"There are also people who will go to the city, but not everyone is willing to give up the relatives and friends they grew up with."
Lin Manman nodded and understood. Then she asked why there was no beast master profession in their village. In this kind of growing environment, the rate of awakening of warriors was relatively easy to understand.
But there is no beast master, which seems a bit strange.
Hearing Lin Manman ask this question, Zhao Ziyan glanced at her with a complicated expression.
"It's not that there have been no beast masters awakened in Zhaojiacun, it's just that some of them didn't survive, and some were given to forces in the city who were willing to worship the beast masters."
It turns out that because there is no training method suitable for beast masters here, it is difficult for many villagers who have awakened as beast masters to improve themselves.
The wild spiritual beasts outside the wall are too aggressive and difficult to tame with the contract.
There was no way to improve his soul power, and he was contracted with wild and untamable wild spiritual beasts. Therefore, the beastmasters who awakened in Zhaojiacun a long time ago almost always escaped death.
As for why he didn't spend money to buy a spirit beast from the spirit beast shop to make a contract, it was of course because he had no money.
Even if the whole clan tightens their belts, they may not be able to collect enough money to buy a silver-level spiritual beast.
Coupled with the money spent on subsequent training and training of spiritual beasts, this is a bottomless pit, and you need to keep throwing money into it.
In the situation of Zhaojiacun, even if everyone is willing to dedicate themselves to support a beast master, it will not be enough.
So later, the elders in the village met and decided that once someone awakened to the beast master profession, they would be sent to the city to find a way out.
But with their background, even if those forces are willing to accept them, the conditions they put forward are very harsh.
They can train these beast masters, but the prerequisite is that these beast masters will have no relationship or contact with their families and villages from now on.
For the future and lives of these children, the people of Zhaojiacun had no choice but to agree to such conditions.
After listening to Zhao Ziyan's words, Lin Manman couldn't help but let out a deep breath.
At this moment, she sincerely thanked Chinese professionals and officials for all their efforts for the Chinese people. They had never been born in a peaceful world, they were just born in a country that worked hard to give peace to its people.
If the alliance did not establish a special spirit beast research institute for beast masters, the beast masters in the city would not have the possibility to awaken the contracted spirit beasts safely.
Without the alliance's successive expedition teams, the industry chain related to secret exploration in the city would not be so developed, and all walks of life would not have the opportunity to flourish, allowing residents in the city to have a safe, stable and high-quality life.
When she thought of the alliance, she couldn't help but think of Meng Wenbin.
She still had too many details to figure out the whole story about Fan Chengye, but she thought he might have done this for the sake of Jinling and the people of China.
Although she was not angry that she was being used as bait to avoid the truth, she also respected his many contributions to China, not to mention that he also had an ambitious goal that cared about all the people of China.
Perhaps this is the ideological gap between big shots and ordinary people like her. Just like the famous tram problem in previous lives, there is no perfect answer, it's just a different perspective.
Talk about Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here!
While Lin Manman was thinking about Meng Wenbin, Zhao Gui hurried over and told her that someone was coming to pick her up.
This person is none other than her teacher who is about to be laid off, Meng Wenbin!
(End of chapter)