Chapter 91: Defector
The lush green trees, the turquoise water, and the warm sunlight shone on the two people walking forward, but did not bring a trace of warmth.
Xingduo and Qiluo walked silently one after the other, both with fatigue and hope on their faces.
It has been about a month and a half since they left the Kurosawa settlement.
During this time, they also visited many other known settlements, but without exception they were disappointed.
Among the many settlements, the first one they went to was the rock settlement that was closest to the Kurosawa settlement.
The Rock Settlement is a fairy tribe located at the foot of the mountains outside the Rock Sea.
Since the outer edge of the Rock Sea is the Black Lake Forest, which is very close, the two fairy tribes often exchange what they have and have a close relationship.
When Xingduo and Qiluo decided to leave, the first place they thought of was the rocky settlement.
I thought the mountain rock settlement would be different from the Hei Ze settlement, but I didn't expect the fairies in the mountain rock to live an even worse life.
On the first day of arriving at the Rock Settlement, the two were surprised to find that this place had also been brought under the jurisdiction of the Alliance.
Later they learned that the Alliance had actually first set their sights on the Rock Settlement, and after taking it, they suddenly discovered that there was actually a Fairy Settlement nearby, so both settlements were wiped out in one fell swoop.
Then why do people say that the fairies in the rocky settlement have such a miserable life?
This is also because they joined the alliance earlier.
When they joined the alliance, fairy coins and journals were not yet popular, so the most they could do was some menial work.
But the good times did not last long. A fever for fairy coins suddenly broke out in the fairyland, especially the origin fairy coins, which were even hyped up to an almost astronomical price.
The misfortune began from then on.
Just like the Hei Ze settlement, those privileged fairies required the native fairies of the Shanyan settlement to hand over two fairy coins every day in the name of protection and equal distribution of resources, which was one more coin than what the Hei Ze fairy had to pay.
For little fairies, this requirement is not too difficult, but for elves of all sizes, this requirement is very difficult.
Especially for the elves, even if they were drained of all their immortal power, they could only condense 100 immortal coins. It was not easy to ask them to hand over two immortal coins every day.
So it’s no exaggeration to say that those days were like purgatory.
However, before the fairies of the Rock Settlement could revolt, the Alliance successfully incorporated the Black Swamp Settlement into its territory. The pressure was instantly shared by the fairies in all conquered areas, and the situation of the fairies in the Rock Settlement improved a little.
Faced with the lifeless rocky settlement, Xingduo and Qiluo looked at each other in silence.
They did not choose to stay in this gathering place, but turned around and left.
Then they walked and walked.
The fairies moved very fast. In just a month and a half, they went to the forest, the river, and the grassland. Sometimes they could find settlements, and sometimes they couldn't.
But as expected, every settlement made them feel extremely disappointed.
Most of the fairy settlements taken over by the Alliance are similar to the Hei Ze Settlement, and a small number are as miserable as the Mountain Rock Settlement.
Fairy settlements that have not been taken over by the alliance are basically managed by a privileged fairy.
They didn't know if it was because their luck was bad, but the independent settlements they encountered didn't have a guardian fairy like Xingduo. All of them were standard privileged fairies.
In that kind of settlement, Xingduo and Qiluo also saw no hope.
Is there any difference between being oppressed by the privileged fairy and being oppressed by the alliance?
Isn't it all oppression? Do we have to prioritize them?
Oh, no, there is a difference.
Under the control of the privileged fairies, ordinary fairies still have a chance to succeed, but if they fall into the hands of the alliance...
With strict supervision, a huge base, and powerful upper echelons, ordinary fairies have no room to stand out.
There are only so many pieces of cake, and the privileged fairies will not give up the cake in their hands for free, so most of them will unite together to suppress the fairies who want to climb up.
Add to that the huge number of ordinary fairies, and the resources that can be distributed equally to each person are even fewer.
They have neither the resources to improve their strength nor are they suppressed by the upper echelons. The competition is also very fierce. In such an alliance environment, ordinary fairies actually have no channels for advancement.
Only the upper-class fairies are happy. The lower-class fairies are mud, weeds, moss, and the majority who are always stepped on and wailing silently.
What’s even more tragic is that many fairies could choose to escape or change to a new environment when faced with this kind of environment.
But as it was a turbulent time, the alliance did not allow fairies to leave at all. Once they left, they would be considered as defectors and would be hunted down by all the fairies in the alliance.
Fortunately, Xingduo is one of the stronger privileged fairies, otherwise it would not have been so easy for them to escape.
Even now, they are labeled as wanted criminals of the alliance.
But it wasn't all tiredness along the way.
During her lonely journey or escape, Qi Luo would disguise herself and go to the local Guiyingfang to ask if they had the latest version of "New Mirror of the Times" whenever she arrived at a place.
She seemed to be particularly lucky and could always buy the latest edition.
Therefore, visiting fairy villages in various places and reading magazines became the only happiness for Qiluo and Xingduo on the journey.
Unfortunately, although they knew that the author of "New Mirror of the Times" was Daisy Fairy Marg, the journal did not give the author's address, otherwise they would have liked to meet Marg.
After seeing countless dilapidated settlements and influenced by the journal, the two now decided to go to the empire, the empire filled with dark night fairies.
It was impossible to say that they were not afraid. After all, it was rumored that all the people in the empire were dark night fairies. You could never be sure which fairy would chop them to pieces if she was unhappy.
But in the latest issue of Times New Mirror, there is a photo of the empire.
In that photo, there are fairies sowing seeds, fairies bargaining, and fairies sticking to their posts, but there is no fairy shrouded in death.
Qiluo saw the long-lost vitality in that photo, which was the hope they had never seen in other advanced settlements.
Under the photo was a large caption: "The Empire Welcomes All Fairies!"
"Let's give it a try. What if? What if what the Empire says is true?"
Even though they knew they might face numerous crises, Qiluo and Xingduo couldn't help but be moved.
If the smiles of those night fairies were real, then they would join the empire no matter what the cost.
After walking for three full days, they arrived at this forest, which was not far from the empire.
But the closer they got, the more timid they became.
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