The memories that were so vivid just moments ago are now as blurry as if they were from decades ago.
Duo Duo's father immediately realized that this was a tactic used by that adult to prevent people from revealing his appearance.
Then he changed the subject: "I didn't see clearly either. That person was so powerful that I didn't dare to look up at him."
Xiaoyun was very disappointed.
The older brother said he would only save her if she gave him something in exchange.
But she didn't have to pay anything for him to cure her eyes.
If she doesn't even know what he looks like, how will she repay him in the future?
At that moment, she remembered what her older brother had told her—
"As long as you can get to Bright City before Xuanliu arrives next time, I'll find you a good place to stay."
Xuanliu... Bright City...
"Uncle, what is Xuanliu?"
The World-Destroying Mystic Flow erupts once every ten years, but Xiaoyun is only five years old and has not yet experienced it.
Adults usually keep Xuanliu a closely guarded secret and never talk about it in front of children, so Xiaoyun had no idea what Xuanliu was.
Duo Duo's father's expression changed. "Xiao Yun, who told you that?"
Xiaoyun: "I heard it from that older brother."
Duo Duo's father sighed and used one hand to pat her head.
"Xiaoyun, Xuanliu is a terrible disaster. Your father was taken away by it..."
High in the sky.
On the back of a massive black swan.
Xiao Ming sat on Xuan Tu's shoulder, crunching away at the crystal core he had dug out of the Eye-Gnawing Monster's head.
"Xiao Guang, why did you save those two little girls? You never used to meddle in other people's business."
Xuan Tu asked himself calmly, "Yes, why?"
His gaze was fixed on the void when, unexpectedly, Xin Sui's face appeared before him.
He frowned slightly, trying to shake off the expression. "Probably just boredom."
Xiao Ming tilted his head. "Where's the next target for cleanup?"
Xuan Tu: "Medicine City, Blood Vine Flower Manor."
Medicine City, the economic center of the central district, is the largest medicinal herb market in the post-apocalyptic world.
The headquarters of the Mu family, one of the five great families in the Aristocratic Alliance.
This place is rich in various medicinal herbs, and more than 80% of the alchemists in the post-apocalyptic world gather here.
Bloodvine Flower Manor is famous for producing bloodvine gel.
Bloodvine gel requires blood and life to cultivate.
Therefore, every milliliter is extremely precious.
In pursuit of profit, those herbal medicine merchants did not hesitate to use living people as feed to produce blood vine gel.
This approach ultimately sparked a revolution.
Many ordinary people, for their own safety, stood up collectively to protest the depraved practice of those herbal medicine merchants who wantonly kidnapped people to feed them blood vine flowers.
The matter escalated, eventually attracting the attention of the aristocratic alliance.
The aristocratic alliance certainly doesn't care about the opinions of ordinary people.
However, if those herbal medicine merchants are allowed to run rampant, the population of the apocalypse will only decrease.
Without a large number of ordinary people serving as a foundation, how can the aristocratic alliance maintain its superior position?
Therefore, the aristocratic alliance sided with the common people and severely punished those herbal medicine merchants.
A decree was issued prohibiting the use of humans as feed for the blood vine flowers.
Even in peacetime, some people knowingly break the law; how much more so in the end times?
Driven by the lure of high profits, many unscrupulous merchants still take the risk of secretly feeding blood vine flowers with living people.
Where did those living people come from?
Unscrupulous herbal medicine merchants certainly wouldn't dare to target aristocratic families, but the disappearance of too many commoners would also attract attention.
So they set their sights on the refugees and slaves.
Migrants are those who cannot afford crystal cards and therefore cannot have official status.
Without official status, one is not protected by law.
They were not allowed to enter the city and could only wander outside the city.
Even if he dies, few people will care.
Needless to say, slaves were even worse off than refugees.
At least the displaced people have freedom.
But slaves usually had to be bought with money.
Therefore, unscrupulous merchants often target those refugees who don't have to spend money, kidnapping them and feeding them to the Bloodvine Flowers.
They then used the blood vine flower gel they produced to amass wealth.
The aristocratic alliance turned a blind eye to this.
After all, some members of the major families are involved in this business.
Moreover, they receive a lot of filial piety gifts every year, so they naturally won't completely cut off their source of income.
As long as those herbal medicine merchants don't go too far, who will care about this?
It was dusk, and the setting sun on the horizon was like blood.
A violent tremor came from outside the Bloodvine Flower Manor.
That's the Snow Lion team returning from a mission.
Snow Lion, the name of a mutated horse.
With the head of a lion and the body of a horse, its entire body is as white as snow. It runs very fast, like a snow-white satin flowing in the wind.
They are generally of the first tier, with a relatively docile temperament, making them suitable for taming as mounts.
The snow lion team, consisting of twenty or thirty people, returned home with a full load of prizes.
Carrying them was their prey—a group of refugees.
The landowner, dressed in fine clothes and so fat he had no neck and could walk with his feet barely visible, was playing ball with his lover on the balcony.
A ball that was supposedly very popular during the golden age is called golf.
Hearing the noise, the manor owner, his hands adorned with rings, draped a curtain over his forehead and peered toward the gate.
He smiled with satisfaction when he saw his employees bring back a large quantity of prey.
Orders for blood vine flower gel are already booked until after the Lunar New Year.
Unfortunately, those refugees have become clever and learned to play hide-and-seek with him, making them very difficult to catch.
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