Chapter 335 Levels

"Stop."

Before the caravan came to the checkpoint, a soldier lazily walked out from the corridor of the wooden house carrying a fire/gun. He scratched his messy hair, tapped the harness of Allen's horse with the butt of his gun, and said, "Where are you going?"

Allen was still riding on the horse, reached out and patted the knife case hanging beside him and said, "Through the wind-eroded rift, of course we must go to Violet Harbor, otherwise where else can we go?"

The soldier squinted his eyes, his eyes fell on the knight badge on Allen's chest, and said, "Hey, it turned out to be a knight master. You have a tight face, aren't you from Storm City?"

"Yes, I'm from Sur City."

"That's right, if you want to live, you can pay the tax. One silver coin per person." The soldier said casually, and picked his ears with his nails.

The tax of one silver coin is not cheap. In the city of Sur, this amount of money is enough for an adult to live for a week. The wind-eroded rift is barely within the territory of Storm City, but it is already very marginal. It can be said that passing through the rift valley does not need to go through the territory of Storm City at all. Such taxation, and the high taxation, can be said to be a very excessive thing.

Allen shook his head, unwilling to clash with Storm City here, and said to Willick, "Pay your taxes."

"Wait, call everyone out, I have to count them," said the soldier.

Alan took a purse from Willick, threw it to him and said, "Don't count, there are a hundred silver coins here, which is enough even for horses. We are in a hurry, please remove the roadblock. "

The soldier glared at him, weighed the purse, and grunted to remove the barricade.

I thought everything would be safe and sound, but when the caravan passed by, the soldier suddenly called to stop. Allen asked impatiently: "What's the matter?"

"What are these?" The soldier knocked on the goods on a carriage.

"That's the fabric we're shipping to Violet Harbor."

"Commodity?" the soldier snorted, "Since when did Sur City bring its business to Violet Port? Since it is a commodity, then we have to collect commercial tax!"

Willick clenched his fists loudly, obviously extremely angry. It was about to explode, but Allen reached out to stop him. The latter smiled instead of anger, and asked, "How is this business tax collected?"

"Ten percent, no! Thirty percent, that's right, we want to collect 30 percent of the value of the goods as a commercial tax, now unload your goods,

It needs to be assessed and taxed by us before it can be passed. "The soldier said loudly.

He looked at the dozen or so carriages. According to the normal market price, there were ten thousand gold coins in them. If it is 30%, there will be 3000 gold coins available. In addition to handing over a part to Storm City, he and the others can at least get a hundred and ten gold coins each, which is a windfall!

"Thirty percent, I have a lot of appetite." Allen said lightly.

"That's... what did you say?" The soldier called out: "Stop talking nonsense, let your people unload the goods quickly, and don't delay my time."

Allen said coldly: "Even if our batch of fabrics is shipped to Violet Harbor, the profits we get are not as high as your taxes. Isn't it too much for you to do this?"

"Excessive?" The soldier laughed, walked over and pointed his gun at Allen and said, "Don't think that you are a nobleman because you wear a knight's badge. You are just a knight from the countryside. Can't you earn money?" What does it matter to me if I make money? Stop talking nonsense and work quickly..."

At the end of the soldier's words, he suddenly saw the barrel of the gun fall into Allen's hands, and then the straight barrel was bent by him, and his expression changed immediately. Allen clapped his hands and said: "Don't point a gun at me, it will make me misunderstand. I will not pay this so-called commercial tax. Now I only give you two options, one is to open the checkpoint, and the other is to Let me step down here. Besides, there is no third possibility."

"Okay, this is the opposite!" The soldier shouted: "Brothers, copy the guys, the poor ghosts of Suer City have rebelled."

Soldiers ran out of the wooden house one after another, and Allen watched all this coldly, and winked at Willick. Both sides were about to fight, when someone suddenly shouted: "Stop!"

A middle-aged officer came out of the room with a murderous look, glared at Allen, and said, "Let them go."

Allen glanced at him in surprise, and the officer snorted, "Aren't you leaving? Do I have to give you a ride?"

"That's not necessary." Allen smiled slightly and gestured. The caravan passed the checkpoint and disappeared into the shadow of the rift.

After they left, the soldier who made things difficult for the caravan handed the money bag to the officer and said, "Boss, let them go like this?"

"Then what do you think? Damn it, can you use your brains, there are so many of them. And those guards, all of them silent, are obviously ruthless characters. Do you think that if you do something, you will suffer? Which side?" The officer slapped the back of his head and said, "We only have ten people, and the opponent has three or four times as many people as us. Let's do it, really do it, we can only wait for someone to collect our bodies."

The soldier rubbed his head and answered yes persistently. But the officer grinned and said, "Of course, they can't be so cheap. The poor ghosts of Suer City are going to trade with Violet Port. I don't think Lord Maude will be happy to hear the news. You, go tell Dick. The old thing, it is said that there are prey to take care of him. Of course, the final harvest must follow the old rules."

"I'll do it now." The soldier said with a smile on his face.

The officer called two more people, pointed to the depths of the rift, and the two soldiers left knowingly.

The rift valley is very quiet, and most of the sunlight is blocked by the rocks on both sides, making the temperature in the valley look cool. Allen and Regis walked side by side, and Regis turned his head from time to time on the way. The boy said strangely: "It seems that they are still smart, and they didn't do unnecessary things."

"They almost did it, and that officer saved their lives." Allen frowned: "I know that Suer City has always been weak, but I didn't expect that Storm City was so arrogant. Soldiers at a border checkpoint, How dare you be so presumptuous. It seems that the city of Sur has been squeezed by Sir Maude for a long time."

"But it's not York or Ethan who is in charge of Sur City now." Regis said.

Allen shook his head and smiled: "For a person like Maud, he will not believe that the city of Sur can rise. But soon, he will know that the city is different. After we come back, we have to think about it. , how to deal with the relationship with this neighbor."

"It's so troublesome, just hit it directly." Regis patted Zhan Tie's scabbard and said.

"That's a matter of time." Allen said.

It was already evening when the caravan walked out of the rift valley. After the team entered the wilderness, a figure appeared from the shadow of the rift valley exit. They were soldiers from Storm City. He used some gravel to form an arrow pattern on the ground, and the arrow pointed to the direction the caravan was leaving. After doing all this, he bent over and continued to follow, trailing behind the caravan.

Source force is flowing in the blood vessels.

Whenever they pass through the heart, some of them will be absorbed by the evil eye. The evolved Alifedo still absorbs Allen's source power. Compared with when he was on earth, the texture of Alifedo's body is much clearer. Allen turned his attention away from it, and remembered the second barrier of imprisonment. He tried to isolate the source force and infiltrate it into the heart, so as to strengthen this organ.

Although he didn't know how effective it would be when he hit the barrier. But now, all he can think of for the time being is this stupid way. Therefore, most of the source power tempered tonight was used on Alifedo and strengthening the heart, and the increase in source power did not even increase by one percent. This negligible gain made Alan sigh softly, he opened his eyes, and ended the source force training.

It was already midnight at this moment, and the caravan camped in a fairly suitable place. Behind the camp was a hill, barely a barrier. At least if there are dangerous species infesting at night, the caravan avoids the danger of being surrounded by enemies.

Allen opened the tent, and the soldiers of the Mountain King outside the camp were on duty at night. Two faint bonfires illuminated a corner of the camp, outlining the vague outline of the camp. With a thought in his heart, Allen turned around and looked towards the hill behind him. On the hillside, Adele held her gun and turned her back to the camp. The girl was looking up at the sky, seemingly asleep.

"Can't sleep?"

After a while, Allen climbed up the hill and sat beside Adele. Night Breeze sent the fragrance of the girl's body into Alan's nose, and everyone who heard it was fascinated. Ellen draped a top over Adele to keep her from catching cold. Although he knew that with Adele's physique, it was not easy to get sick.

Adele gathered her clothes, still looked at the night sky and said, "I was wondering if any of the stars above could be our earth."

The sky is full of stars.

There are no clouds tonight. This unknown planet also has its own moon and sun, and naturally there are also twinkling stars. Countless stars merge into a Milky Way, stretching across the indigo night sky, magnificent and beautiful. Allen said softly: "If it wasn't for me, maybe you are still on Earth now."

"why would you say so?"

"The current situation of losing contact with the earth and being lost in an unknown star field is inseparable from me. Adele, actually..."

Adele suddenly reached out and pressed Alan's mouth, the girl shook her head and said, "This is the path I chose, you don't have to blame yourself for it. Similarly, those who set off with you, I think they have their own reasons We, who came together because of our own choices, should have shared everything with you. Otherwise, why should we be your partners?"

"So Alan, what you have to do is to lead us down. No matter what the end point is, we are willing to follow, that's all."

Allen smiled, raised his head and said, "Thank you."

Adele then retracted her hand, but let out a "huh" again.

"What's wrong?" Allen looked at her.

The girl stretched out her hand and pointed to the wilderness under the night: "Is that the light of fire?"

Allen looked in the direction of her finger, and in the wilderness in the distance, a little orange light was very conspicuous. A moment later, another point appeared. Then dots of fire appeared, forming a continuous piece, roughly estimated to be as many as a hundred dots.

"Our trouble is coming." Allen jumped up and said.

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