"Name."

"Gawain."

"age."

"..."

"Newcomer?"

Qingyuan Village Public Security Management Office.

A bearded Sheriff looked at Gawain who was chained to a chair in front of him and glared at him angrily:

"Age is how many missions you have experienced and how many nights have passed!"

"The first time, Qiye."

"Why did you hit someone?"

"He buys and sells by force."

"Is there a backstage?"

"What?"

"Ask if there are any planting players, unions, or veterans behind you to support you!"

The bearded man picked up the water glass in front of him and took a sip. Looking at Gawain's surprised expression, he said helplessly:

"I have a general understanding of your situation. Newcomers like you have just entered the novice area and are being dragged into buying and selling by veterans. It happens a lot here.

I personally believe you.

But as a law enforcer, since you hit someone, I must punish you.

If you have a backend, I will help you contact the other party and ask them to take you back.

If not, you will be detained for one day and punished with five survival points. This is the rule."

Is it so realistic?

People with no background are not fined, but they still have to be detained.

Gawain pointed to the handcuffs he was held in, with a helpless smile on his face:

"Officer, it's easy to talk about fines and so on. See if you can untie it for me first..."

"Call the Sheriff!"

Taking out the key from under his belt, the bearded Sheriff walked up to Gawain and unlocked his handcuffs with a click.

After flexing his wrist, Gawain glanced at the handcuffs put away by the bearded man.

"This thing is really strong."

"Bullshit, can't it be used to lock you up if it's not strong enough?"

After a pause, seeing that Gawain was quite well-behaved, the bearded man said again:

"Okay, I think you are a good boy. If you follow me to the collection office and pay the fine, I won't let you stay overnight. Learn to be smarter in the future."

As he spoke, the bearded Sheriff took out a pamphlet from the drawer and threw it to him: "This contains some basic information about our village. Take it back and take a closer look."

OK, the money hasn't been paid in vain, it's a bit of an unexpected gain.

Putting the paper pamphlet into his arms, Gawain chatted with the Sheriff for a few more words.

I followed him to the storage facility and paid the fine, and I regained my freedom.

After walking out of the police station, Gawain looked back and glanced at the three-story villa behind him. Gawain was also very happy.

He saw the profiteer he had beaten before walking out with a bruised nose and face.

"Hello, you just came out too?" Gawain smiled and waved to him.

The profiteer shrank his neck when he saw this, turned around and wanted to go back.

He was beaten badly by Gawain before.

Panda eyes and nose and mouth bleeding.

Gawain wanted to get rid of the profiteer, who had just been laughed at by the NPC Sheriff in the police station for a long time.

But who would have thought that he would meet this evil star again just after he went out?

"Hey, come out, I won't beat you."

"Are you serious?"

"Nonsense, if I beat you again, don't I have to go in?"

"..."

That seems to be the case.

Thinking of the police station standing behind him, the profiteer felt a little at ease, and when he saw Gawain coming to his side, he no longer felt afraid.

Then he was grabbed by Gawain's neck.

"You...you...what are you doing?"

Suddenly attacked, the profiteer discovered with horror that even if he was in the police station, he didn't seem to have much sense of security facing Gawain.

It was all an illusion before!

"Don't be nervous, I want to ask you something."

"Then take your hands off..."

"Okay, I said I won't beat you... How about we talk somewhere else?"

...

Fifteen minutes later.

A steamed stuffed bun shop on the street of Qingyuan Village.

A basket of steamed buns and two bowls of porridge were placed in front of the two of them, and they started chatting face to face.

"Brother Wen, let me tell you, I have only stayed in this damn place for about thirty days. I wanted to trick you before, but I really had no choice.

We small traders set up stalls on the street, and every day we have to pay a little living point to the Fortune Society as a stall fee. Brother, my bag is empty, but I haven’t sold any goods. And I happened to see you just now.

Come out of the house....

Hehehe, everyone understands each other, I promise this is the last time."

The profiteer who was drinking porridge was quite good at talking. After the two of them finished eating, they had almost explained everything about the novice area to Gawain.

The novice area where the two are located is named Qingyuan. It is one of the countless novice villages in the metropolis. It is a gathering place specially designated for novices like them who have not yet completed the "One Thousand and One Nights".

The profiteers don't know how many people live in the metropolis, but Qingyuan Village alone has a permanent population of 20,000, and Qingyuan Village's superior town, Fengwei Town, has a full

A permanent population of 100,000.

Qingyuan Village is filled with about 3,000 functional NPCs from all walks of life, and the rest are all survivors like profiteers.

This area has a security station, a city defense force, and an evil society.

It can be regarded as a tripartite stand.

the difference is.

The Public Security Bureau and the City Defense Force are both NPC forces, and only societies with evil forces are organizations established by survivors.

correct.

In the words of the NPCs, they are the aborigines of the metropolis, while survivors like Gawain are called outsiders.

The aborigines do not have the so-called "One Thousand and One Nights" mission. Their existence is to live like normal people, maintain the security around Qingyuan Village, provide some services to the survivors, and earn some survival points for extra money.

There is a small amount of arable farmland outside the village, and because it is close to the river bank, you can also buy certain fishing products.

The price is very expensive!

For survivors, NPCs do not support barter, they only charge the survivors' life points.

This also leads to the scarcity of survival points in the village.

It's not that there are no survivors who want to resist all this, and the metropolis does not prohibit this behavior.

According to profiteers, in the past five years alone, there have been three large-scale rebellions instigated by survivors!

Unfortunately, these senior survivors were quelled by the NPC forces stationed outside the village.

Killing heads rolling in!

The survivors who were not united could not make much of a splash when faced with this NPC army of 1,200 people.

As a result, some survivors who were not willing to be squeezed by NPC formed an organization like the Fulu Society.

It is a mutual help association.

However, it didn’t take long after the organization was established.

Somehow, the Fulu Society actually started to exploit other survivors in Qingyuan Village...

Monopolize the free trade market and charge money for setting up stalls.

The Qingyuan River outside the village is monopolized. Survivors are not allowed to catch fish privately. Every time they go out to fish in the city, they must turn in three survival points.

The black market merchants who happened to pass by were also directly monopolized by the Fulu Club, and ordinary survivors were not allowed to get close to them at all.

There are so many, too many to mention!

It can be said that this organization, which was once founded with the original intention of survivors helping each other, has now degenerated into an evil organization that specializes in exploiting survivors.

It even makes most survivors think.
Chapter completed!