He walked all the way to Moonlight City in Suinhall.

The guards at the city gate stopped him and asked him to pay the money before entering the city.

Kurmes was very puzzled: "I am a doctor, and you see, I have nothing but my personal belongings, and I am not a businessman who brings things into the city, so why do I have to pay taxes?"

"You shouldn't let me pay for someone like me."

Once in Meiya City, only merchants who brought goods into the city paid taxes.

But the guard said, "What are you talking about, don't pay taxes when entering the city?"

"I've never heard of it."

Kurmes: "More than a hundred years ago, I didn't have to pay taxes when I entered the city in Meiya."

As soon as these words came out, everyone on the other side laughed.

"What?"

"More than a hundred years ago?"

"I still have a beautiful city?"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

After the other party finished laughing, he immediately surrounded Kurmes with a fierce look.

"You guy is not here to make trouble, are you?"

"This is our common decree, the decree issued by the city lord; all those who enter the city must pay taxes, otherwise you poor people will all scramble into the city.

"Seeing you like this, you are just a farmer, and you also say you are a doctor."

"I also said I am a powerful person. Do you want to lie down and kowtow to me?"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Kurmes also used to be a guard and was very young as the attendant of the city lord. At this moment, he had seen the power of his peers.

But he didn't say anything more, and finally chose to pay the money to go to the city.

But when he entered the city, he suddenly remembered what Long said to him.

"Kurmes!"

"It was more than a hundred years ago when you left, and you were going back."

"Everything has changed, and you can't find anything after you go back."

As soon as Kurmes stepped into this country, he felt as if he had entered another country, and could not find the slightest breath of the past.

After more than a hundred years, he once again looked at all from a human perspective.

"It seems that a hundred years have passed, and everything is indeed different."

"Is this country changing, or has people changing?"

"Or...I've changed?"

Suinhall has much more urban population than in the north. Many of the cities here can be traced back hundreds of years, or even back to the era of Fire Protectors. Unlike the cities in the Snake King Court are mostly newly established.

The city is full of stench and crowds everywhere.

People are crowded on the street, and if you are not careful, you will step on the feces of humans and beasts.

A large number of sheds built by the bottom slums on the outer layer were squeezed together and piled up together.

In the twilight.

There is a sense of horror and depression that twists the darkness.

Kurmes came to this slum, and a fresh food market was not far away.

The smell is so stinking that it makes people faint, but the people living here seem to be used to this smell.

Kurmes didn't go to see what the lives of those nobles were like. He came here mainly to see how the people in the lower class lived.

Is it really the same as the robber said?

Because he originated from such a place, his parents were workers working in the workshop, so he grew up in the city and finally became a guard of the city lord's mansion.

Every morning.

Before dawn, he saw groups of workers working like walking corpses.

Then I waited until it was completely dark and none of these people came back.

"It's dark, why haven't you come back yet?"

"How do you work if you're so dark?"

Kurmes secretly went to take a look and found a new style of thing.

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It is also called an alchemy car lamp. Although it is made of alchemy, it does not have extraordinary power. The word alchemy is added more like a gimmick.

However, such things completely changed the darkness of the city and also changed Suinhall's workshop.

Since the cheap alchemy car lights from the sunrise land came, the night can no longer stop the workshop owners from earning shiny coins.

The workshop owner asked the workers to work in two shifts, regardless of day or night.

When Kurmes went to observe these workshops, he found that there were not only a large number of women, but also many children.

The women were hunched over, and the children were even thin and thin, and the scene looked very terrifying.

Observing the food that every household eats is a paste that he doesn't know if it can be called eating, which emits a stinky smell and is hard to swallow.

And even such things, they cannot guarantee it.

All of them had the last meal but no other meal.

Sometimes, slums would gather to chat, and Kurmes would join in as a doctor.

He has recently treated many people in the slums, which is quite popular in this area.

During this party, he couldn't help asking a question.

"Why are there no adult men in the workshop? Most of them are women and children?"

"Is it because I can't recruit men?"

Someone in the crowd scoffed: "How is it possible? It's because women and children's wages are cheaper."

"Those greedy workshop owners can hire a woman and a child for half or even a quarter of the money, and some even don't have money."

"Why do they still have to spend money to hire men? Women may not do less than men. Although children may work slower, the price is also lower!"

Kurmes was stunned: "So that's how it is!"

Someone replied: "We are pretty good here, we have at least one place to live, and we are at least free."

“Many children were sold to the workshop owners as slaves at the age of ten, working in the workshop like livestock.”

Speaking of which, this person kept shaking his head.

"You haven't seen it, it's really miserable."

"I don't know how many people die in workshops every year. They are dragged out when they die. They are no longer like individuals."

The person on the side laughed at him and said, "I have lived like this, and I am not much better than others. I still have the intention to sympathize with others."

Someone said, "He is worried about his children."

The other party didn't say it in the second half of the sentence. He was worried that his child would be the same in the future.

After a word came out, everyone was silent.

Kurmes asked these people again: "Slaves are wealth. The workshop owner should cherish them. If they die in a few years, wouldn't they lose?"

The other party said: "Slaves are not worth it. Sometimes you can buy a small slave just by giving them a few copper coins."

"Someone will sell you or your children even if you don't have money, as long as you give him a meal."

Kurmes: "How could this happen?"

The other party replied: "Because many people can't support themselves and their children at all, they will at least not starve to death as slaves."

Kurmes was silent for a long time: "Is this all?"

The other party shook his head: "Where is this not the case?"

Kurmes suddenly wondered if the same was true in his hometown.

"Why did it become like this?"

"It wasn't like this before."

"Why does civilization develop more and more, so many years have passed?"

"The situation has not improved, but has become worse?"

Everyone talks, but no one can tell a real reason.
To be continued...