A strange world

Chapter 190 Chapter 43. "Go Home"

The lonely carriage drove through the ice and snow.

Annan held the reins and endured Joan's whisper in his ear:

"I also led the way. I have a share of this gold coin! You score me 20... 10 silver coins!"

"I'll give you 50 silver coins."

"Yeah!" Joan covered her mouth with a torn glove, and her eyes widened in surprise under her frosty eyelashes: "You said this...don't you want to become my guardian knight?"

"I'm so skinny I can't even hold a gun."

"Then let you be the groom."

"This is repaying kindness with hatred."

"Hmm...how about the housekeeper?"

"This is okay. Do you get a salary?"

"Isn't it enough to serve the princess in daily life? This is your honor!" Joan, who spoke with a strong northern accent that made people want to imitate, raised her head.

"You mean I work for you and I have to pay you?"

Annan suddenly thought of a new way for Magic Video to make money besides ticket sales and advertising: Why should we give money to actors instead of letting actors give themselves money?

A pair of hands stroking around his chest interrupted Annan's thoughts: "What are you doing?"

"Where did you put the kinnar?"

"That's my money!"

"Do you have 50 silver coins?"

Annan shook his head, took out the Jinnar from his pocket and handed it to Joan.

Joan happily held the gold coins and smelled them. She was about to take a bite before she remembered that she was a princess. She opened the patchwork purse sewn with patterns, but only poured out a dozen silver coins. Joan climbed into the carriage and soon handed Annan a bunch of rough jewelry.

"These things can be sold for more than thirty silver coins!"

"Do I want these things...Okay, I'll take them."

"real?"

"I heard that Princess Joan has been taking care of the children in the orphanage. You will also send this money, right?"

"Why does Uncle Murma tell others everything?"

"Why does Uncle Murma tell others everything?"

"Don't imitate me!"

Carry the bustling Joan back to the busier city gate. Returning to Betar City, Joan brought Annan to the orphanage with all the trouble.

This orphanage is located on the edge of a slum full of frozen feces. Joan's arrival caused dozens of children to run out of the dilapidated church. The youngest, who could barely run, and the oldest who were only four or five years younger than Joan, surrounded Joan. An, after she couldn't squeeze any more people around her, they surrounded An Nan again.

"Are they all homeless kids?"

Annan thought there were only a dozen orphans...but there were almost a hundred here.

"Well, some were rescued from scavengers, and some never came back after their parents went out." A gentle voice sounded, and a lady in a robe appeared on the steps of the church.

Many children here have no parents...it just so happens that many people in Xingyue Bay do not have children.

"Are you a nun of this church?"

The lady shook her head: "This church has long been abandoned... It belongs to the God of Justice and Bravery. After He was killed by the God of Justice, his faith collapsed and became a home for children.

"Uwaaaah——"

The cry of a baby was heard in the church. The lady reluctantly returned to the church. Annan followed and found that there were several infants and children who could not walk in the vacated hall.

"Parents who cannot support themselves will leave their children outside the church..." The lady picked up the baby, picked up a bowl of batter from the stove, and fed the baby little by little.

All Annan could do was put down more than twenty silver coins.

"what are you doing!"

Joan ran in shouting, "It's still too late for you to regret it now."

"Shh..."

Annan pointed at the swaddled baby. Joan glared at him and ran out again.

"Thank you, you are a kind child." The lady thanked her with a smile.

"Hold on until this spring comes." Annan said, which was not a consolation. When the lady looked into those serious black eyes, she nodded gently.

"My name is Mia."

"Annan."

After coming out of the orphanage, Annan and the others returned to the hotel.

Asking Uncle Mulma for a notebook and pen, Joan said, "Come to me tomorrow morning!" and ran back upstairs.

There was still some time before dark, so Annan went out and first went to the house where the pirated version of "The Fall of the Master's Tower" was being screened. Perhaps because there was no time and no one was there, he came to the "Slave Street" again.

Free creatures are imprisoned in cages by interests and greed. Fortunately, because slaves have to be sold for money, they will not let slaves die casually.

Even if he tore open his cotton-padded clothes and said he was the King of the North, he still couldn't buy them.

Annan spent a silver coin to hire a guide and asked him to explain what happened here.

The guide told Annan that after the alien order was issued, several mercenary groups headed by the Dechaso Mercenary Group conspired to ambush outside the city. When the elves and dwarves were driven out of Betar City, the mercenaries who had been waiting for a long time captured them. , brought into the city as slaves——

He also said that elves are a hot commodity, regardless of gender, so they sell for the most expensive prices. Orcs are smelly and can only be used as coolies, dwarves are tough and won't work no matter how hard they are taught, ratmen are smelly and hard, and only female ratmen can be sold for some money.

For the sake of generosity, the guide also told Annan a "secret": the Dechaso Mercenary Group and other mercenary groups are still planning - there is an elven tribe living in the Whispering Forest in the South, which costs tens of thousands of gold coins. .

"The alien order is not an extermination order." Annan frowned.

"Who knows? So what if you know?" The guide said nonchalantly: "A few princes in the royal capital beat their heads to pieces, so the royal family has no time to care about what's going on in the north."

"And the rat-men are about to attack. If you stay in the forest, you will be captured by the rat-men. It won't be so bad if you fall into our hands, right? Hehe..."

Annan said nothing more and could only promise from the bottom of his heart that he would rescue them after finishing the matters at hand.

Speaking of which, what was the original goal of running to Bethal City...the purpose of promoting "The Fall of the Mage Tower" and investigating Gema? Then he suddenly remembered that he was here to track down the whereabouts of the unlucky Murat.

Just as night fell, Annan asked the guide about the nearby tavern and went straight there. Following Andrew Luna's teachings, he would circumvent the information he wanted to ask instead of asking directly——

The answer was that Murat was caught by the city lord's palace and imprisoned in the dungeon.

Annan changed to a tavern and exchanged a bottle of sweet plum wine for the exact news: the city lord's palace had indeed arrested a mage a few days ago. It was said that when the mage was arrested, he was talking about the mage tower and false accusations.

It should be Murat.

After confirming where Murat is, the next step is to find a way to contact him. Either reveal your identity and ask for someone from the dungeon, or sneak into the dungeon...

Annan chose the latter and first stole a drunk man's wallet. As a result, the drunk man only cried and secretly returned the wallet guiltily. He ran into the street and bumped into the guards, only to be pushed away by such a young drunkard with a few curse words. He ran to stop the woman, but was almost snatched away by the woman.

Annan lamented how the Diatra family managed Betar City... The next moment, a group of guards appeared out of nowhere and arrested him for insulting the Twelve Kings of the North.