I Am The Human Emperor

2021-12-01

  Chapter 4 4. Blood tax (seeking vote ~)

Ron looked towards Helen, the girl's face The confusion that has not disappeared remains on it.

He was the first asked:   "Helen, I remember you find me, right?"

" ah, yes, Ron Lord, I was an adult Knight I'm going to explore the way before I choose." Helen looked towards Ron as he spoke, and blinked at him purely.

She was taking the opportunity to observe the man in front of her, secretly measuring her attitude.

Equality, a little attachment, or obedience on the surface?   but Ron did not give her time to think, continue to ask:   "We are now waiting for you in this?"

He was referring to the team stop things.

Helen looked a little cramped replied:   "Yes, now is the time to rest."

The two guys just called to have left the team, and As Ron and Helen were talking, a Knight in the distance also stood up.

He whispered a few words to the other two companions, carefully controlling the volume when speaking. Even if Ron had the enhanced senses, he couldn’t hear what he said. What happened.

Just now Ralph said that there was a pathfinder death, and the two selected civilians were also full of fear. It seems that pathfinder should be a very dangerous job, and Helen I was doing this before I found him.

"When you found me..." Ron asked.

Helen continued wittily:

"Raymond and I were just beginning to explore the road, but we ran into you before we had traveled far, so we were able to return In the team, I’m sorry, but in that case, we have no other choice."

No matter how good Ralph and other people say, now Helen’s words still reveal the biting truth—becoming The members of this team are unfortunate.

The girl lowered her head slightly to avoid direct contact with Ron’s eyes. She hasn’t fully reacted yet. Just now Ralph scolded this Ron for a few words, but now she wants to accompany him. .

From the simplest logic, it may be that Ralph wants to use the "ignorant" outsider Ron to achieve what purpose, but she can't think that Ralph can do anything meaningful under the supervision of Knight. .

And if this is not Ralph's conspiracy, one can simply infer a fact: Ron is definitely not as simple as it seems on the surface.

When she was selected as the object of blood tax collection, she tried to find a way to inquire about a lot of information from the nobles, including the hidden value of her appearance, and Helen also believed that Ralph must know this value.

If it were not for losing in the competition, Ralph would not be the object of blood tax collection in his life.

So, maybe Ron also knows the value of this matter, but the question he just asked made Helen confused.

If it were other people on this team, they might not be able to see any problems, but Helen just relied on instinct to perceive that Ron might be talking vaguely.

Is he from outside?    Whatever the truth, Helen plan to keep the original image, and Ron trying to make myself a certain degree of goodwill, so there is no value regardless of Ron in the end, she did not have any harm.

At this moment, the Knight who stood up in the distance finally set off. He moved towards the direction where the two pathfinders had left.

Ron noticed that Knight and pathfinder had left for a while, and he seemed confident that he could keep up with these two mortals.

He turned his head and looked back at Helen. Although Ron didn't know what Helen was thinking about, he also knew that Ralph and she must know many things that he didn't understand.

And as long as the other party is a little clever guy, he will definitely be aware that he has a lot of missing information.

So he did not intend to cover up this matter either:

"Can you tell me about the blood tax?"

Helen asked in surprise:   "do not you know?"

Ron naturally said:

". I've heard rumors, but nothing concrete understanding of the situation"

Helen's face surprised slowly dispersed, revealing understand the expression:    "blood tax is a tradition of our blood Praire, the great nobility adults charged with the responsibility for asylum civilians, and we have paid for their blood, To ensure that the nobles can cope with the needs of the war.

"Generally speaking, blood tax will be collected from the villages and towns in the noble territory, and will be escorted by Knight to the noble residence. After that..."

Her voice became much lower, and her rate of speaking slowly slowed down.

"...the nobles will select civilians who are worth living to serve as servants or other members of their mansion. But I heard that only a few of the many blood tax teams will be selected.

"The remaining civilians will live in the basement as blood donors and draw blood once a month. There is also a saying that the selected civilians will directly drain all the blood when they arrive at the castle. Used to supply noble lords.

"The most terrifying rumors come from the wanderers. They say that the ultimate fate of blood donors is to become those ugly corpse monsters, and they fall to the rotten corpse. The pile is gnawing on his former compatriots.

"But no one knows what is true."

Ron's eyelids were slightly lowered.

According to Helen, for them, this is almost a journey where the end of the field equals death, but everyone seems to have accepted their tragic fate.

Maybe it's because of the three blood servant Knights, maybe it's other reasons that I don't know. In short, the civilians living in the blood noble territory don't have basic human rights, nor do they want to defend their lives. idea.

And now, he has become one of them.

"Your Excellency Ron, why did Your Excellency Ralph let me..." Helen looked at him timidly, saying like a girl afraid of being scolded.

Ron gently told her:   . "I was afraid because he"

Helen revealed the expression of dismay.

Although other people heard his initial question, they couldn't understand what it meant, and because of distance and vision problems, they couldn't clearly see their speed.

Except for Ralph, no one knows what the power he shows can determine.

He went on to explain:

"We just had a conversation that no one else heard. Although I can’t compare with Lord Knight, it’s not difficult to twist his arm. , After all, if I don't have a strong body, it's impossible to wait until you find me, right?"

He smiled and looked at Helen.

Helen Sidongfeidong nodded:    "How's that SO IT IS." her expression does not have any flaws, Ron is difficult to judge her now like what.

But since it is such a bad thing to become a blood tax, Helen looked particularly abrupt when he saw his happy expression at first.

Before telling him the truth about the blood tax, Helen could also say that she didn't understand it, but now, she has exposed her thoughts at the time, but this is also normal.

Because finding Ron means being able to return to a safe team for Helen. When facing life and death, no matter who it is, it is difficult for anyone to control her emotions. She also didn't expect will now be "assigned" to Ron by Ralph.

Ron whispered to Helen and said:   "But this is something you do not and others say, you know?"

Helen once again and again nodded:

"Of course, I won't talk nonsense."

They have reached a fragile understanding between them.

it probably began more double   　　   　   (Chapter End)