Chapter 301 Justice Zero Dollar Purchase
The one who reissues the hidden tasks to the players is the "Online GM", the national team's tool man who stays in the Exile Town and takes the overall situation into consideration.
When Yang Qiu saw his sister capturing the gangster boss's wife, he notified Patton through the matrix to send someone to pick up the prisoner.
Barton, who had hurriedly come to the West Street bar district with a few operators to clean up the mess, was a little confused when he took over the three criminals, the grocery store owner Old Jack, the bar owner Daisy, and the bartender, who were identified by the two victims...
No, how come in Yongwang Town, a place where even petty thefts are rare, every incident is considered a major human trafficking case that needs to be reported to the city hall?
Patton was a little conceited about his abilities, and he was not someone who would shirk his responsibilities. After taking over Yongwang Town, he quickly took in all the homeless people wandering the streets into the sanitation department, and also rounded up all the young and middle-aged men who had nothing to do and were idle - anyone who could be recruited into the militia was recruited, and those with poor quality who could not be accommodated in the militia were organized and sent to the countryside to do odd jobs during the spring farming season.
Farmers pay part of the wages and the town hall subsidizes part of the wages. It is better than letting these idlers cause trouble on the streets and create public security cases.
Not only the town, but also the country idler Barton was not spared. He always organized people to find a way to arrange a job that could at least fill their stomachs, and threatened that if they did not participate in the work for a week and were reported, they would be escorted to the prisoner road construction team, where they would not only have to do hard labor but also not get a penny in salary... The method was a bit crude, but it was useful. Anyway, there was no psychopath in this world who took money from the "Organization Without Borders" and then jumped out to accuse Yongwang Town of having no human rights.
Patton was a little shocked by the disappearance of Brook and his gang in Everlook Town, but when he thought that the person who could attack Brook and his gang was definitely not an ordinary person, and it was not within the scope of responsibility of him as a conscientious puppet lord, Patton felt a little better.
And now, Patton's self-confidence was hit by a major human trafficking case unearthed by the undead - a mere grocery store owner on East Street and a bar owner on West Street had done such a shameful thing right under his nose!
Although he didn't show it on the surface, Barton was actually furious. He ignored the undead's behavior of searching the Horseshoe Bar for spoils after solving the case, and took the three criminals and two victims back to the town hall in a menacing manner.
He asked his confidant Ron to calm the victim and obtain his testimony, while Patton personally interrogated the criminal.
Throwing aside Daisy, the still ferocious proprietress who was caught, Barton whipped the grocery store owner who looked like a wimp, and he confessed faster than the players looted the Horseshoe Bar.
Patton, who quickly obtained the confession, felt even worse...
It was not the first time that Old Jack, the grocery store owner, had kidnapped and trafficked his acquaintances - according to his own account, he would make some extra money like this every one or two years, or every two or three years.
Old Jack, who runs a grocery store near the East Street Vegetable Market, has a natural home advantage. He knows exactly
The most difficult and risky part of the human trafficking business for outsiders is no problem for Old Jack...
By giving them some small pieces of candy, he could allow the little boys and girls to avoid the adults' sight and sneak away to the detention place he had prepared.
When the target is an adult, Old Jack also has a universal excuse that never fails - "Since you have such difficulties, I can help you find a good job, just to avoid offending others/don't let others mistakenly think that there is any illicit relationship between us, I hope you don't tell others." As long as this sentence is thrown out, even the most shrewd housewife will jump into his trap obediently.
Yongwang Town is, after all, a town with more than a thousand households and a population of several thousand. One or two incidents of children going missing or people going out to work and never coming back would not cause too much panic among the locals, and few people would suspect the kind and friendly owner of the neighborhood grocery store - after all, such things do not happen often, only once every one or two years, or two or three years.
Old Jack has been doing this kind of profitable business with no investment for many years.
"…Patton, if you hit him again he will die."
Patton suddenly came to his senses and realized that he had picked up the whip again without knowing when, and old Jack, who had just confessed in front of him, had been beaten to a bloody mess.
"Fuck!" Barton cursed, threw away the whip, and said anxiously, " Quick, bring the alchemical potion over here."
After keeping the dying old Jack alive, Patton picked up the whip again and looked "gently" at the bartender of the Horseshoe Bar.
The bartender had been frightened by Patton's sudden madness and the ferocity with which he had beaten old Jack to death, so he confessed without Patton having to do anything.
…Then Patton got even angrier.
If Old Jack is a habitual human trafficker, then the Horseshoe Bar is a professional human market broker.
Old Jack lured the man to the Horseshoe Bar, and the proprietress Daisy found a buyer and delivered the goods. The money was split 50-50 between him and Old Jack.
The "business partner" of the proprietress Daisy is not only old Jack. As far as the bartender knows, there are two other groups... But he is originally an outsider, hired by the proprietress to serve as the face of the bar. He is not familiar with the locals, and the proprietress is worried that he knows too much and wants to "go it alone", so she doesn't let him participate in many things, and he can't clearly explain the identities of the two groups of people.
"Can't you just live a good life? Ah, can't you just live a good life?!" Patton was furious. He slapped the bartender on the head and went to interrogate the proprietress with a sullen face.
Daisy was a ruthless person. She probably had some understanding of the Constitution of the Kingdom of the Rhine. She knew that a human trafficker like her with no identity or background would not escape the gallows. As soon as Barton entered the room where she was imprisoned, she started cursing.
Barton laughed angrily: "Okay! Let me see if you are really that tough!"
Barton was determined to get the underground human market network of Everlook Town from Daisy, and the players did not stop the town-wide search.
The fact that Miaobishenghua had triggered a hidden branch gave the players who were tired of searching a lot of motivation. Entropy, who had not found anything yet, and other friends and relatives of the nanny players who had arrived one after another, stepped up their efforts...
"Don't come again! You've turned my woodshed upside down!" In a neighborhood on East Street, a housewife who had sent away three waves of undead in a row saw the fourth wave of undead running towards her house. She slapped her thigh and cursed in anger.
"Ms. Gold Coin, when will this end?" The neighbors couldn't stay at home any longer, so the whole family, young and old, stood sadly on the street.
In places other than "crime scenes & criminal lairs", the undead can only search but not loot, and they are not allowed to damage residents' property. If they break a jar, they have to pay compensation. They have to be careful about the severity of the situation and have not yet forced the townspeople to rebel.
But no one could stand having the undead come to their homes again and again like this, and almost all the residents in the entire block, who were harassed so much, ran to the doorsteps to curse.
"Hey! What do you know? Something big has happened!" A man ran into the block with a surprised look on his face, shouting as he ran, "Something big has happened over on West Street!"
"Four groups of undead guests have come to my house. Is this a big deal?" said the housewife who lives at the corner of the street angrily.
"It's really a big deal. The two girls from the shoemaker Dennis's family who said they went to the city to work were rescued by the undead from the Horseshoe Bar on West Street!" The man who brought the news back said excitedly, "It turns out that the two girls from the shoemaker's family were deceived by Old Jack, the grocery store on our street, and were locked up in the basement of the Horseshoe Bar, and were about to be taken out and sold!"
"What?!" The residents, who were already troubled by the endless harassment from the undead, were all shocked.
The man who brought the news back felt particularly accomplished, and danced with joy as he said, "It's true. Master Barton has taken Old Jack and the people from the Horseshoe Bar back for questioning. He has also taken the two girls from the shoemaker's family away. Old Jack was identified on the spot by the girls from the shoemaker's family. I was drinking in the bar next door at the time and saw it with my own eyes!"
"When Old Jack was dragged away, he couldn't even stand steadily! I didn't expect that old guy would even want to trick a girl he knew into selling her for money. After all these years, I never knew that this guy was such a vicious person!"
"Ms. Gold Coin, how could such a thing happen in our town!" The residents all widened their eyes.
People living in a world of information overload are keen on eating melons. In this world of information blockage and lack of spiritual food, the public's enthusiasm for shocking melons must be deeper and more fanatical; whether it is the housewife who is worried about the dilapidated woodshed at home, or the angry neighbors who cannot return home, all of them don't care about the dead running around in the house behind them, and they all surround them...
The man who brought back the news had never received such attention in his life, and he spoke more and more excitedly. He had clearly heard second-hand information from others, such as the undead smashing a big hole in the second floor of the Horseshoe Bar, and the undead discovered that there was a cellar under the bar where people were imprisoned, but he told him it as if he had seen it with his own eyes.
Soon, a resident discovered the problem and shouted angrily, "Wait a minute! Are you saying that the undead were about to leave, but then they realized something was wrong and went back to the second floor of the bar, only to find the entrance to the tunnel where the people were hiding?"
"Yes, the group of undead had already walked to the gate. I even saw them coming out of the bar next door." said the man who brought the news back.
"So, these undead spirits are here specifically to look for the imprisoned people?" The resident who discovered the details became even more angry. "That's why they're searching all over the town?!"
When these words came out, the whole audience was stunned.
"Ah! No wonder these undead ghosts always search my woodshed every time they come!" The housewife who lived at the corner of the street shouted in shock and anger.
Her family of seven all squeezed into a 40-square-meter duplex wooden house. Even the attic was vacated for her youngest son to live in. Naturally, the only place to hide people was the woodshed next to the house.
The other residents also seemed to have an epiphany, and they all recalled the details of the undead's search after breaking into their homes... the attic, utility room, storage space under the stairs, large closets and other areas were often repeatedly gestured by the undead with strange hands!
“So that’s how it is!” Even the housewife who was usually the most gentle and good-tempered clenched her fists at this moment.
"It's people like Old Jack who are involved in human trafficking who are attracting the undead here!!"
"Old Jack, you bastard!"
"You can't get around him!"
The residents became angrier and angrier as they talked, and no one knew who took the lead, but hundreds of people involuntarily moved towards the vegetable market.
Old Jack has no children. His wife moved to the countryside many years ago, and only his nephew comes to help him occasionally.
Old Jack was taken away by Master Patton, but his grocery store is still on East Street!
When the angry residents arrived at the vegetable market, they found a group of people already smashing the door of Old Jack's grocery store.
The leader was the shoemaker Dennis and his family. The family was furious when they found out that their two girls were not able to go to the city to work, but were deceived by Old Jack and locked up in the cellar of the Horseshoe Bar waiting to be sold.
"Smash his shop! Never let this bastard come back to our town!" The shoemaker, with red eyes, saw more people coming and shouted from the steps.
"Smash his house!" The equally angry residents shouted.
People flocked to...
Next to the grocery store, a vegetable seller's family who lived in the store were terrified and screamed at the top of their lungs: "Watch out! Be careful! Don't smash my store. We are not the same kind of people as Old Jack!"
When the security team patrolling nearby rushed over sweating, the people at the scene had already blocked the street in front of the grocery store so tightly that no water could get in.
"Calm down! Calm down!" It was obviously impossible for the security team of only a dozen people to hold back the hundreds of excited people, so they could only desperately maintain the most basic order on the periphery. "Just smash old Jack's house, don't involve other people's houses!"
"No one should try to take advantage of the chaos. The Tarantan Undead are still in town!"
"If you don't want to be captured by the undead, keep them under control!"
The existence of the undead allowed the excited townspeople to remain a little calmer... These undead were able to kidnap the prince of an enemy country from an army of tens of thousands, so their deterrent power was obvious.
In a very awkward, rational, and calm act of smashing the store, the shoemaker Dennis and his family broke open the tightly closed door of Old Jack's grocery store, rushed into the store, grabbed the goods on the shelves, and threw them out with force...
The family was relatively sober, knowing that they were unlikely to take over Old Jack's property, but they also didn't want this bastard to keep the property, so they simply let the townspeople who came to their daughter's plight "share the spoils equally" and "buy for free" together...
After throwing away all the goods on the store shelves, the shoemaker Dennis and his family rushed into the store's warehouse and emptied it out completely...
The residents of East Street never thought that they could get some benefits by venting their anger. Although everyone wanted to rob, after all, they were surrounded by old neighbors and acquaintances, and there were also security guards watching covetously...
Anyway, Old Jack's grocery store has enough goods, and every family can benefit from it, so a few older townspeople came out and presided over the "dividing the spoils" at the door of the store. Your family takes some, my family takes some, and some is left for the shoemaker's family...
On the outskirts of the crowd, a dozen security guards watched this absurd scene numbly.
"Is this really okay? Are we derelict in our duty?" a team member said in despair.
"It doesn't matter, isn't it? The Horseshoe Bar was emptied by the undead." The captain said stiffly, "It can't be that the undead can do this, but the people in the town can't."
The players were unaware that the townspeople had also joined them in a righteous robbery. After arriving one after another and searching the town repeatedly for several times but failing to find the mission target Brook, and after no one triggered the hidden branch quest, they left the town one after another, spreading out in all directions to the villages within the Everlook territory with Everlook Town as the center point. The missing location mentioned in the mission was near Everlook Town, and this vicinity covered the entire Everlook Territory, not just the town.
The villages close to the town were the first to suffer bad luck...
At this time, at the market two miles east of Everlook Town, it was learned that the Tarantan Undead had already turned the town upside down.
The reputation of the Tarantan Undead was known throughout the Rhine Kingdom, at least in the Adler territory adjacent to Innadri.
Adler, the slave trader who was squatting in the carriage inn and seemed to be waiting for someone, became visibly nervous.
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Yang Qiu, who was sitting next to them and watching them, watched as the orcs actually packed their bags...
"——What have you learned in all these years in human society?" Yang Qiu had a lot of complaints but he had no way to vent them.
Thinking about it carefully, Yang Qiu found that he couldn't blame anyone...
After all, Osrian King had once participated in the orc resistance organization Silas Alliance in the Kenyan Empire. After the failure, he was sold to the red-light district of Westram to work as a male prostitute to serve some clients with special fetishes. Of course, there was nothing wrong with his intelligence and vision.
And these beastmen, like the beast girl Lika, were all slaves born on the farm. They were thrown into the red-light district when they reached adulthood or before adulthood because their looks met human aesthetic standards. It is unlikely that their knowledge is much higher than that of the farmers who have never seen the world...
"Well, it's all my fault. I hired the wrong people."
Yang Qiu stood up with a look of pain on his face, and under the urging of the Adler slave traders who were almost unable to maintain their smiling masks, he followed Osrian King who was being carried out of the cabin and got into the same carriage.
The group rushed to leave the inn before the undead found this country market.
Well... as to whether this is lucky or unlucky, it’s hard to say.
Yang Qiu sat in a carriage with a simple stretcher on it. He used his mental power to check on the unconscious Osrian King, and confirmed that he was just forced to sleep by taking some kind of drug. Apart from being a little dehydrated, there was no major problem with his body. He then turned his attention to the Adler man who was driving the car.
These people used sweet words to trick the orcs into not riding in the same carriage with Ossirian King, and they did not arrange for their own people to supervise the only orc with brains, but they did not give up surveillance - the two coachmen driving the carriage were extremely capable and brave, and it could be guessed from their appearance that they were not ordinary people.
Not long after the carriage left the village market, one of the "coachmen" opened the front window of the carriage to look at the sleeping Osrian. After confirming that the orc showed no signs of waking up, he complained to his companions, "I really don't understand what Boss Bauer is so afraid of. Hasn't we already dealt with this most difficult guy? Why are we still dawdling here?"
"We'll just do whatever the higher-ups say, why do you care?"
"I'm just curious, has Boss Ball figured out whether these guys are Kenyan citizens? If not, why would we bother with them? Can't we just sell them off?"
"It's not as simple as you think. Didn't you hear what Boss Bauer said? Even if these orcs are not Kenyan citizens, they must have some background. You've seen the orc mercenary group in Moses Port before. Those orcs are considered to be doing relatively well, but they are still no match for the halflings, let alone our human mercenary group. These orcs can easily take out a bag of gold coins, and the carriages they use are of this quality, and they even have lizard horses. Do you think their backgrounds are simple?"
Inside the carriage, Yang Qiu, who was eavesdropping openly, had a blank expression on his face.
Ten years ago, the Kenyan Empire, which was troubled by the frequent disturbances caused by the orc resistance organization Silas Alliance, introduced the "Orc Citizenship Act."
This bill... It seems that the Kenyan Empire has made a concession to the orcs who have unyieldingly resisted the fate of slavery for three hundred years and recognized the citizenship of the orcs, but in fact it is a sinister trick used to divide and disintegrate the orcs' resistance organization - in the "Bill", only the "obedient subjects" recognized by the Kenyan Empire and the offspring born to these "obedient subjects" within the territory of the Kenyan Empire are recognized as citizens of the empire!
In other words...the rulers of the Kenyan Empire have the right to decide which orcs are citizens and which are not.
The Kenyan Empire knew that their intentions were a bit disgusting, so they deliberately elevated the status of "obedient citizens"... no, orc citizens, infinitely elevating the political correctness of orc citizens, and carried out a propaganda war around this focus, stipulating that all dramas and operas launched by the empire must have orc actors participating, and even launched a few orc superstars...
This move was truly ruthless, a fatal blow that completely broke the orcs' inherent spirit of resistance and caused the Silas Alliance, which had been maintained for three hundred years through hard struggle, to disintegrate overnight.
After all... not all orcs have the spirit to defend the dignity of their race with their lives. There will always be surrenderers, and the "favorable treatment" these surrenderers receive from the officials of the Kenyan Empire, like treating them like pets, can make more weak-willed people change their positions.
By designating an area as a "protected area" and cutting half of the funds originally used to suppress the rebellion, it is enough to resettle a total of one million "orc citizens"; imperial officials no longer have to worry about the Silas Alliance's fearless assassinations and assassinations, and can even get a share of the resettlement funds, which is cause for celebration.
Sadly, this practice of using pets to settle some orcs and continuing to enslave other orcs has actually made people in other countries and regions on the continent of Nabarron accept and recognize that "Kenya Empire Orc Citizens" have a higher status than ordinary orcs... This can be regarded as the alien version of "the moon is rounder in other countries".
Yang Qiu definitely won't buy it.
Kenya is Kenya and Innadri is Innadri.
Innadri does not need to put on any show to recognize anyone. As long as the orcs live in the territory of Innadri, they are the subjects of Innadri, have legal citizenship, are protected by the city hall, and have the right to work and get paid like humans, and the obligation to pay taxes according to their income level.
No matter it was resold to Innadri by the Adler merchant, or came from other channels, as long as it fell into Yang Qiu's hands... and in Yang Qiu's eyes, it was Yang Qiu's person!
The two Adler drivers continued to gossip, speculating about the origins of this group of wealthy orcs and the plans of Boss Bauer.
After much guessing, the two men came to a consensus on their boss's plan... If the "big buyer" on Innadli's side didn't recognize this group of orcs, then Boss Ball would definitely be ready to "take action."
The carriage drove on the road for a long time, until the sun began to set, and finally stopped in front of a manor.
Yang Qiu saw the nameplate hanging on the manor gate from the car window and couldn't help but smile.
“So it’s you.”
