From Zhou Ruizhi and several other people who came from the spirit world, Xue Huan learned that in the spirit world, one must show an identity badge when entering or leaving the city, which is similar to a pass in the secular world.
It costs 100 low-grade spirit stones to make a nameplate. The currency in the spirit world is spirit stones and spirit pearls. One low-grade spirit stone is equivalent to 1,000 spirit pearls. The purchasing power of one spirit pearl in the spirit world is about the same as a penny in the secular world.
Therefore, 100 low-grade spirit stones are equivalent to 100,000 spirit beads, which is not a small amount for most people.
Therefore, many people cannot afford nameplates. Without nameplates, they cannot enter and leave the city openly. Once they are found to have no nameplates, they will be driven out of the city.
Only cities have city defense formations that can resist attacks from monsters and beasts. Living outside the city walls is very dangerous and life safety is not guaranteed.
Those who can live in the city at least have some assets. If they have no assets, they can only sell themselves and become slaves of wealthy families, and never leave the city for the rest of their lives.
Otherwise, you can only live, or rather, survive, outside the city.
On the short walk towards the city gate, Xue Huan saw many people standing on the roadside with straw stuck in their hair, trying to sell themselves to the wealthy people entering the city.
"Go, go, go, go to the side, don't block the road."
Xue Huan silently withdrew her gaze and walked towards the nameplate processing office at the city gate.
The clerk was a man, sitting behind the desk with his legs crossed. In front of him stood a bound book, which he was reading with great interest. A strange and lewd smile was on his face, and he did not notice Xue Huan's arrival at all.
She knocked on the table and handed over a bag of spirit stones. "Get a nameplate."
The clerk raised his head impatiently, and when he saw Xue Huan's face, his eyes widened immediately.
Xue Huan knocked on the table again to bring him back to consciousness.
The clerk came back to his senses, wiped his mouth, put the book on the table, and looked Xue Huan up and down. When he looked at her chest and abdomen, he paused for a moment. "Are you going to get a nameplate?"
He picked up the bag of spirit stones, weighed it, and in front of Xue Huan, he grabbed a handful and stuffed it into the table. "This is not enough. It's missing half."
He embezzled the money so confidently, not afraid at all that Xue Huan would shout it out, and looked very confident.
I'm afraid either there's someone above me, or the entire office is in cahoots with them.
So he was sure that Xue Huan couldn't do anything to her.
Xuan Ling's blood-red eyes darkened. Humans are indeed so shameless and despicable! He was about to swing his claws at the clerk, but Xue Huan held him down.
"You don't have to do anything. I will teach him a lesson myself."
Xuan Ling barely managed to hold himself back.
Xue Huan lowered her eyes, "What should I do? I only have so many spirit stones."
The clerk chuckled, touched his chin, and hinted at her with a lewd look on his face: "Since you are so pitiful, I will help you. But, how are you going to repay me, your brother?"
Ugh! Brother! Xue Huan almost wanted to vomit.
She suddenly raised her eyes, looking at him with a pair of clear and sparkling eyes, and opened her tender red lips slightly: "Make me a nameplate."
The clerk stared at her, his eyes becoming dull, as if possessed, and did what she said like a puppet.
After receiving the nameplate, Xue Huan sneered, "Put all the spirit stones you stole earlier into a bag and hand it to me."
The clerk not only took her money, but also hid at least several hundred spirit stones in the belly of the table.
According to regulations, the price for applying for a nameplate is one hundred yuan, but generally people who come here to apply for it will prepare more, and the extra part is a default benefit given to the clerk.
Over time, those who spend 100 spirit stones to apply for a nameplate will be considered as those who do not know the rules.
If a woman with outstanding appearance comes over, she will be deliberately blocked. If these people are not allowed to take advantage, then there is no way they can get the nameplate.
In order to enter the city smoothly, they had to compromise themselves.
The appetites of these clerks were thus whetted.
And because the lucrative nameplate processing organization was controlled by the Aristocratic Family Alliance, how could those powerless commoners dare to fight them? They could only blame themselves for their bad luck.
And the forces that can come to the fore will never break off relations with the aristocratic family alliance for the sake of civilians.
So this organization has continued to exist in this deformed way.
The clerk put all the spirit stones in the table into a bag and handed it back to Xue Huan.
Xue Huan cast a nightmare spell on him, and he would spend every night from then on in endless terror.
Unless he can stay awake.
But this clerk was just a cultivator who relied on pills to build up his foundation. He was far from being able to use cultivation to replace sleep. How could he not sleep?
It was not until Xue Huan walked away that the clerk suddenly came to his senses. Unfortunately, Xue Huan had erased everything that had just happened from his mind. He felt confused, as if he had forgotten something, but he couldn't remember it for a long time. He shook his head and continued to read the erotic book.
There are many people entering the city and they need to queue up.
When there were three people left and it was Xue Huan's turn, a man dressed respectably like a servant came over, whispered something to the guard, and pointed in Xue Huan's direction while speaking.
The guard glanced at Xue Huan, an ambiguous smile of understanding appeared on his face. He nodded at the servant and said something to him.
The servant left with a smile and returned to the privileged passage next to him, where a luxurious carriage was parked. The curtain of the carriage was opened, and a man hugging a beautiful maid opened his mouth to take the crystal grapes fed by the maid, while casting his sticky eyes on Xue Huan.
When he saw her looking over, he gave her a smile that he thought was handsome.
Xue Huan: “…”
She had a bad feeling in her heart.
Sure enough, when it was her turn, the guard took her nameplate, looked at it, and said, "There's something wrong with your nameplate."
Then he confiscated her nameplate and said, "Next."
A woman standing in line behind Xue Huan pushed her aside and taunted her, "Another one trying to get away with it. You really think you can leap over the dragon gate just because you're a little pretty? A pariah is a pariah. You'll spend your whole life wallowing in the mire outside the city. Don't even think about climbing the ladder of power in the city. Get out of here now and don't dirty the place."
As he spoke, he fanned his nose with his hand, as if he felt that the air where Xue Huan had just stood was polluted by her.
Xue Huan took a deep breath and repeatedly told herself not to bother with idiots. This was the city gate. Although the cultivation of these guards was not high, if they really made a fuss and attracted the city guards, it would be difficult to end.
"Give me back the nameplate." She stared at the guard and cast her charm silently.
As soon as the guard met her eyes, he obeyed involuntarily.
After receiving the nameplate, Xue Huan asked, "Did you see it wrong just now? I spent 120 spirit stones to get my nameplate, how could there be a problem?"
Guard: "I misread it. Your nameplate is fine."
Xue Huan walked past him, her fingers in her sleeves moved slightly, and another nightmare spell was cast.
People like this who act recklessly with just a little power should experience what it feels like to be haunted by nightmares to see if they dare to act recklessly in the future.
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