Extraordinary Puppet Master

Ding——ding——ding——

Pure white blood tear crystals fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

One after another, the long-term malnourished vampires immediately turned rosy after absorbing the life energy of an entire Blood Tear Crystal.

Willy, who had just absorbed a blood tear crystal yesterday, carefully collected the one given to him.

Unknowingly, tears had already covered the cheeks of these vampires. They had not eaten enough for a long time.

Although the blood and tear crystals could only last for a month, the long-lost feeling of fullness still made them cry.

Evans suppressed the joy in his heart and said rudely: "Why are you crying? Look at what you look like, get out of the way. We have something to go to Sid!"

In an instant, all the vampires strangely gave way to a path, and Evans, Almeda, and Amiya were looked away by looks of gratitude and reverence.

Walking deep into the settlement, Sid also stood waiting at the door of the alchemy room early. When he saw the three people coming back, he asked excitedly: "How many blood and tear crystals did you find? It's rare for a brat to be so generous!"

Almeida said calmly: "Not many, just over two hundred."

Sid's eyes suddenly widened and he looked at the other person in disbelief. After Evans told the story of their outing, his expression became dazed again, and he spoke as if he was talking in his sleep.

"More than two hundred? Oh my god, what kind of bad luck did you have to encounter such a good thing!"

Evans was immediately unhappy.

"Hey, old man, what is shitty luck? How about you try to lead the team out next time?"

"Ahem, I'm just a little excited. Let's go, come in first."

Soon the group entered the alchemy room, and Evans and Sid began to talk about tomorrow's blood tax.

"Including today's harvest and excluding the 63 blood tear crystals that were just sent out, we still have 243 crystals left. We will turn in another 63 crystals tomorrow as blood tax. The remaining 180 crystals can last for at least two months if we use them sparingly."

"Then do you want to choose a new person tomorrow?"

"Forget it, it takes a lot of effort to support ourselves. I don't want those rookies who don't know anything to join the colony."

"Okay, then let's wait until the soldiers of the coalition government come to the door in person tomorrow."

Both Almelda and Amiya listened in confusion to the conversation between the two. After listening for a while, they finally couldn't help but interrupt.

"Can you tell us in detail about the blood tax collection and selection of new recruits?"

Evans curled his lips and said, "It's not complicated. All large and small settlements in the wilderness must pay blood tax. In the past, there were settlements that relied on their strength to refuse to pay the tax, but the final outcome was, tsk tsk."

The United Government is a behemoth that all vampires in the jungle cannot afford to mess with.

The government is not afraid that taxes will not come in. Except for a few powerful loners whose traces are erratic, most vampires do not have the strength to hide in the ruins for a long time and can only survive in safe settlements.

A large number of people are concentrated in large and small settlements. Vampires who are chronically malnourished and want to evade taxes need to risk their lives and spend the night outside. Often, very few people who do this are alive.

For those settlements that refused to pay taxes, the coalition government's approach was very simple. They directly dispatched troops to clear the snow, plundered all the settlements' goods, and then captured all the vampires and brought them back to the order area.

No one knew what happened to the captives, but Almelda and Amiya guessed that they had become experimental materials for the White Fang.

Therefore, no matter how much the vampires in the wilderness hate and curse the coalition government, they can only pay the taxes when the tax comes.

After figuring out the details of the blood tax, Almeida asked again: "Then what about selecting new people?"

“Ha,” Evans suddenly showed a sarcastic smile, “I don’t know if the population of the order area is exploding, but on tax day every month, 5,000 trainee-level rookies who have lost their memory are driven into the wild area. "

"At this time, some settlements will take the initiative to select people and let them join them."

Speaking of this, the sarcasm on Evans' face became even more intense.

"Don't think that all the leaders of the settlements have good intentions. Except for a few who really lack labor, most of them just treat these rookies as tool men."

"When these rookies are kicked out, the coalition government will give them a thousand milliliters of blood to show their nobility."

"Many people are greedy for this blood. After taking these rookies under their command, they will rob them by force, and then force them to perform some dangerous tasks, such as baiting."

"Have you ever done this before?"

Evans sneered and said, "Sir, do I need to do this?

If it weren't for taking care of those lazy guys, I wouldn't know how cool I would be wandering around by myself.

I once drank human blood once when I was curious. It had no taste at all and was just like drinking water. It was far worse than blood and tear crystals! "

While the two were talking, Sid noticed that Amiya frowned and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Amiya frowned and said, "You just said that the Order District will exile five thousand trainee-level vampires who have lost their memory every month?"

"That's right. I don't know if these guys lived too comfortably in the order area before. It's okay to have no memory, but they don't even have any fighting instinct.

God knows what the people in the order area were thinking. They had no intention of giving these rookies a chance to survive. "

Amiya's brows immediately furrowed even deeper after hearing this, and she realized a big problem.

She had asked Evans before when they were out.

To this day, the conservative estimate of the number of vampires in the wild is no less than one hundred thousand.

This number surprised her very much. In such a harsh environment in the wilderness, the death rate of vampires was extremely exaggerated.

They either died of thirst or were killed by fallen ghosts when they went out to look for Blood Tear Crystals. On average, at least several thousand people died every month.

But in this cruel environment, the reproduction rate of vampires is also very low, but today there are still so many in the wild, which makes Amiya very confused.

It wasn't until she heard Evans say that five thousand trainee-level vampires who lost their memory were exiled to the wilderness every month that she suddenly realized why the number of vampires in the wilderness could always remain above 100,000.

Then Amiya thought of a new question.

‘Five thousand a month, 60,000 a year, six million in a hundred years. Vampires are not like rats that can keep reproducing. How could the Order District have such a large population?

With the productivity of this era, it is impossible for an order area of ​​about 100 square kilometers to support a population of more than 200,000. These vampires must not be local residents of Meteor Street, but are transported in from the outside world by the White Fangs!

Could it be that they have set up a vampire breeding farm in the outside world’

"Hey, what are you thinking about?"

At this time, Evans' voice suddenly interrupted Amiya's thoughts, and she immediately replied: "Nothing, I was just thinking about why the coalition government wanted to exile these rookies."

Evans shrugged after hearing this: "Who knows, it's none of our business anyway, just live your own life.

Okay, you can discuss the alchemy issue with Sid, and I won’t interrupt you. "