Just like Cao'er, Ye Zhou and Zou Ming were also locked in this room.
The two orcs did not stay in the house for long, as they still had work to do.
Ye Zhou was also a horned man, and only after talking to him did he realize that Cao'er's understanding was not comprehensive. In addition to "tributing" living people, the residents here were also assigned daily work. For example, the horned people and the tiger-eared people needed to go to the oil press and work at least ten hours a day.
Of course, you can take leave when you have "guests".
"They have to pay tribute and be slaves, but they still think their life is pretty good now." Ye Zhou sat at the table. It was daytime and they were locked up with nowhere to go, so they might as well chat.
The horned man's words were full of protection and gratitude for the town.
Perhaps this town is really a paradise on earth for them, where they only need to work to survive every day, have a house to live in, clothes to wear, food and clean water, even if they have to abandon their humanity and work like slaves.
Ye Zhou passed through several dimensions and surprisingly understood them.
But understanding does not mean agreement. The magic here made Ye Zhou dumbfounded.
When evening came, the two orcs returned and brought with them their dinner, four loaves of black bread.
Ye Zhou watched them casually take out the bread and poured four glasses of water. He knew in his heart that he and Zou Ming should be the targets of "wooing". Cao'er who came yesterday was wooed, and he and Zou Ming were wooed today. This probably proved that this town could no longer find a new source of blood supply.
After all, they didn't dare to target the surrounding farmers and only dared to deceive outsiders.
Zou Ming walked to the window, which was also closed, but firelight could still come in through the gaps.
There were townspeople walking around outside. They looked no different from ordinary townspeople. They would gather together to chat and laugh, and they were carrying baskets filled with grain and vegetables.
Although it was night, residents were still walking around the town.
Zou Ming's gaze quickly fell on a few people. These people were dressed more exquisitely than ordinary residents. They were not tall and thin, wearing leather boots. Their clothes were cut very well, and the narrow cuffs indicated that they were not working.
Even at night, they still wore hats, and even young people held iron canes in their hands.
Wherever they went, the local residents scattered like a school of fish encountering their natural enemy, standing respectfully on both sides, bowing to them with stiff but reverent movements.
Zou Ming withdrew his gaze.
These people are the ruling class of the town, vampires who only appear at night.
They do not choose their food among the residents. They are like anglerfish in the deep sea, and the townspeople are the lights above their heads to lure their prey into their trap.
Rather than saying that the townspeople are their slaves, it would be more accurate to say that they have a symbiotic relationship.
It’s just that this symbiotic relationship is particularly abnormal.
But it is more stable than ordinary cooperative relationships, because once the matter of vampires is exposed, the townspeople, as lackeys who help the evil, will definitely be punished as vampires. So even if something really happens, the townspeople will protect these vampires for their own safety.
"Why do you only eat so little?" The horned man asked Ye Zhou. He looked at the "skinny" human with worry and said anxiously, "If you don't eat enough, you won't have strength. If you don't have strength, you won't be able to find a good job."
Ye Zhou looked at the black bread in his hand and couldn't eat it.
These breads are not as delicious as the breads in supermarkets. Not only are their hygiene issues questionable, but they are also mixed with bran and pebbles. But even if you ignore the bran and pebbles, they are still too dry to eat.
Ye Zhou took a bite and felt like he was chewing sand that had been clumped together.
And it doesn't have any smell. If you have to say there is a smell, it's probably the smell of firewood.
But the orcs ate with gusto. The horned man was worried that Ye Zhou was not full, so he broke the bread into two halves with a painful look on his face and handed the smaller half to Ye Zhou. His round eyes looked at Ye Zhou with concern and whispered, "Eat more, or you will be hungry and unable to sleep."
Ye Zhou waved his hands. He didn't know what expression to make to the horned man.
It is true that the other party is kind to him at this time, but it is also true that the other party has been constantly harming people.
It was so contradictory that Ye Zhou had to take a deep breath before he could force a smile at the horned man: "I ate something on the way here, so I'm not hungry now."
Then he pushed his bread in front of the horned man and said, "Thank you for taking me and my friend in. I'm really not hungry. You can have it."
The horned man swallowed his saliva as he looked at the bread that Ye Zhou pushed over to him. He was very greedy. After all, the amount of food he could eat in a day was limited.
If Ye Zhou and Zou Ming had not come, they would have achieved nothing during this period of time. They neither deceived their own people nor won over outsiders.
The food earned from work was only two pieces of black bread per person a day.
It can maintain daily life, but it can't really fill your stomach.
One piece in the morning and one piece in the evening. They don't have lunch, only two meals a day.
"You really don't want to eat?" The horned man licked his lips.
Ye Zhou nodded, his expression very sure: "I really can't eat it. If you eat it, you will be doing me a favor. After all, we can't waste food."
After confirming it again and again, the horned man grinned and put Ye Zhou's bread on the table in front of him.
The tiger-eared man glanced at Zou Ming.
Zou Ming handed his piece of bread, which he had hardly touched, to the tiger-eared man. The tiger-eared man was not polite. He took it without hesitation, looked at Zou Ming with a look that said "you're sensible", then stuffed it into his mouth and started chewing it.
After eating and drinking, the horned man stayed in the house, while the tiger-eared man left the house.
The horned man was not a fluent talker. He spent a lot of time praising the town. From the smallest blades of grass to the castle in the center of the town, everything was praised in detail by him.
While complimenting him, he would observe Ye Zhou's expression, but he couldn't tell whether Ye Zhou was impressed or not, so he could only "hint": "Do you want to join us? As long as you stay, you can also get a house. You are a human, so you can get a very good house, an extra piece of bread every day, and occasionally vegetables and meat."
The horned man only looked at Ye Zhou and did not look at Zou Ming who was sitting on the other side.
Ye Zhou tried his best to look expectant. His voice became louder, with an eager longing: "We came here just to stay here."
“It’s a scary world out there.”
Ye Zhou recalled the life of the common people that Kane of Minzil had described to him, and said with his head down, "We have to pay a lot of rent to the lord, and also taxes. Every year after paying taxes and rent, the food left is not enough to feed us. My parents and brothers took out all their money, hoping that I could find a place where my family can settle down."
He imitated Kane's expression and movements when he said these words, his whole body trembling slightly, like a lost lamb: "As long as I can have a place to stay, fill my stomach after paying rent and taxes, and have food to eat every day, that's enough."
The horned man quickly comforted him: "Of course you can, you can all stay."
After the horned man finished speaking, he asked in a long voice, "You should be able to get a house tonight. Will you come to see me later?"
The horned man said quickly, "I can make wreaths, I can make wreaths for you. I can also make cabinets and bamboo baskets, I can make them for you."
Ye Zhou looked at him, and the ox-horned man felt that this "thin" human in front of him had a pair of eyes that could speak, especially when he smiled, those eyes seemed to contain countless unspoken love poems.
The horned man's face slowly turned red. He swallowed, lowered his head, and whispered, "You are very beautiful."
Ye Zhou was stunned for a moment, and he replied slowly: "Thank you."
Fortunately, they didn't have to wait long. More than half an hour later, the tiger-eared man knocked on the door.
Just like what happened to Cao'er last night, when Ye Zhou and Zou Ming walked out of the room, they saw the streets full of residents. They looked at Ye Zhou and Zou Ming with smiles, as if welcoming them to join the town.
Under the terrifying gaze of these pairs of eyes, Ye Zhou took a deep breath quietly.
The tiger-eared man walked in front, leading Ye Zhou and Zou Ming to the house assigned to them.
Because there were two of them, and they were humans, they were assigned a two-story building, which happened to be on the same street as the old woman from yesterday.
They didn't make any meaningful suggestion. Before the Tiger-Eared Man opened the door and let them in, he told them that they would need to bring people over every month and someone would take those people away at night.
As for where they were going, the Tiger-Eared Man did not say.
Just ask them if they are willing to accept it. If not, they can leave town now.
Of course Ye Zhou is willing.
He also didn't believe that he could leave the town if he didn't want to. Now that he knew the news, if he chose to leave, he would be choosing death. After all, the vampires here didn't even dare to attack the surrounding farmers, which proved that they were still afraid and didn't dare to let this matter leak out.
After Ye Zhou and Zou Ming entered the house and the Tiger-Eared Man handed them the key to the house, the ceremony of their entry into the town was over.
After closing the door, Ye Zhou glanced at Zou Ming. Neither of them spoke. They lit the kerosene lamp and opened the window a crack. They just had to wait for all the people on the street to disperse so that they could take action.
Ye Zhou walked to the window and walked towards Zou Ming. The two stood side by side, both looking out the window.
"I remember Sarah said that she wanted to kill her mother and brother." Ye Zhou's expression was calm.
"So I didn't help her?"
Ye Zhou's voice was cold. He asked Zou Ming:
"Why didn't I help her?"
Zou Ming shook his head: "I don't know, only she knows what happened at that time, but she can't show up now, so I can't tell you."
Ye Zhou: "Anyway... I'll definitely know the reason later."
Since the past cannot be changed, there must be some reason why he cannot help Sarah achieve her goal.
Either he couldn't attack the vampires here for some reason, or he tried but failed.
But he would know.
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