After Su Mingan returned to her room, she fell asleep.

Due to the night level of the Demon King and the Hero, he is now extremely sleep-deprived.

But before he slept for long, he was suddenly awakened by the sound outside.

"——In order to ensure the safety of the East District...the royal city...taxation..."

"Please...please...if...we..."

The noise outside became louder and louder, giving Su Ming'an a headache.

He originally didn't want to care about this kind of thing, but the noise outside became louder and louder, even mixed with soft crying, smashing sounds, and loud male voices shouting angrily.

He sat up, rubbed his eyes, and the watch on his left hand suddenly lit up.

"Good afternoon, Master! It is now 3:12 system time, and I will play relaxing and soothing wake-up music for you..."

"Shut up." Su Ming'an said.

The light of the watch immediately turned back, and the music that had originally started fell silent.

A timid voice came from the watch: "Master, you haven't given me a name yet."

"You can get it yourself." Su Ming'an stood up from the bed and listened to what was going on outside.

"But Master, how can you do something like naming yourself..."

"Then your name is A Du." Su Mingan said casually.

Adu is the name of the goldfish Su Mingan raised before.

The watch seems to be very happy to have a smart name.

Su Mingan walked to the door and listened to the sounds coming from outside.

"Sir, 30% of the tax has cost me my life. Can you please tell the Royal City that the 40% of the tax is really..."

Su Mingan opened the door.

The incident happened on another street not far from here. The residents' voices begging for mercy were so loud that they could be heard through the leaky door.

On the bluestone road covered with cloth belts and piles of garbage, a tall man stood in the middle of the road with a cigarette in his mouth. Behind him were several guards wearing royal uniforms.

"How dare you disobey the orders from the Royal City?" The man yelled at the crying woman on the ground: "Now that the barrier is fragile and the storm is rampant, adding a 10% tax is considered mercy from the Royal City. You people only know how to live on your own.

Parasites, selfishness should have limits!"

The man stepped forward, snatched the jade ring from the woman's wrist, turned around and left regardless of her pleas, and at the end he said:

"The day after tomorrow is tax day, you morons, don't forget to pay your taxes honestly! Playa doesn't raise waste!"

Behind him, the uniformed guards stopped the woman. With one push, the woman lay down beside the room.

"Mom, mom..." The little girl in shabby clothes supported the coughing woman.

Behind them is a leaky house.

Residents nearby also helped the woman and patted her back to calm her down.

"Kasana, don't be sad, everything will be fine..."

"The child's father just went to sea. How dare they, how dare they rob so openly? We have lived in Praia for generations, how come we have become moths..." The woman sobbed, crying and coughing, looking like

Been sick for a long time.

"Kasana, the people in the royal city are like this, and we have nothing to do... Otherwise, why don't you go to the tavern we introduced before, and they should be able to give you a sum of money to help you survive this time.

Difficulties..."

Under the persuasion of the residents, the woman's expression kept changing.

Finally, facing her daughter's timid gaze, she nodded with difficulty.

It seems that the "tavern" that people call it is a very scary place for her.

Su Mingan leaned against the door and watched the scene happening not far away.

It seemed that she had had enough of the excitement and the residents were doing their own things. The crying woman also stood up and walked out of the street.

In the room next to Su Mingan, the old lady was stepping on a sewing machine. The sewing machine made a squeaking sound, and there was a slight sound of thread friction.

The room is not soundproofed and the sounds inside can easily be heard.

The family seemed to be chatting.

"...Mom, leave me alone..."

"...How can you ignore it? You are my biological daughter. Don't worry, even if the old man can't get the medicine, you and Lele will be fine."

"……Why bother."

"Don't worry about it, just lie down and I'm looking for someone to help me send this photo from home..."

Su Mingan didn't listen to the corner's habit. He turned around and wanted to go back to the house to catch up on his sleep.

Beside the window, the sound of the sewing machine suddenly stopped.

"Hey, let's see who's standing at the door...young man, young man, hey, it's from Su Lin's family!"

As soon as Su Mingan turned around, the old lady's voice came from the window.

Seeing him looking over, the old lady stopped what she was doing.

She folded the cloth in her hand with the clothes next to her and waved to him through the window.

Su Mingan hesitated for a moment, then walked over. Unexpectedly, the old lady opened the door directly and let him in.

The house was not large, but it looked very clean, as if it had been carefully cleaned. There was only a screen between the dining room and the bedroom inside, and a woman's cough could be heard from time to time on the other side of the screen.

When Su Ming'an came in, the family's granddaughter Lele came out holding an empty bowl filled with medicine. She frowned slightly when she saw him, as if she was very wary of him.

"Lele, let me have a conversation with this young man." the old lady said.

Lele curled her lips, turned around and continued to enter the screen.

Sitting next to the sewing machine, the old lady carefully arranged the clothes in her hands.

"Young man." She lowered her head and said, "You still want to sign up for soul hunting?"

"..."

"When you didn't come back last night, I knew you must have become a soul hunter... Don't be nervous, I don't blame you." The old lady smoothed the cloth with her thin hands.

He polished his fingers in the box next to him, and then took out a thin needle: "I think the feast on the sea is about to start, so I want to ask you for a favor."

"It's okay." Su Mingan said, "You tell me."

Communicating with local residents helped him collect some information, and he did not refuse.

The old lady grinned.

She squinted her eyes, put down the needle, and found a painting-like photo.

This photo seemed to be made with special techniques. The photo was extremely blurry and the faces were blurred. Only a family of four could be vaguely seen standing inside.

She stroked the black and white photo with trembling fingers, and after a moment of pause, handed the photo to Su Ming'an.

"Young man, you are a child of the Su Lin family. You are a good young man." She said: "I am getting old and can hardly walk anymore. I can only live in this small room all day and night..."

Su Mingan took the photo.

"I would like to ask you to send this photo to the Central Soul Hunting Department." The old lady said: "After the soul hunters die, their photos will be preserved at the Central Soul Hunting Department. I think, although the old man

I can’t come back, but I want to fulfill his wish so that the photo of him and my little Hull can be preserved together... This photo is the clearest one I found. I hope I can still see him clearly.

s face……"

Su Mingan took a look.

The photo is blurry, and even the face looks like it has been polished, and it is completely impossible to tell who is treating whom.

"It's clear." He said, "I will submit it to the Soul Hunting Department."

He accepted the photo, and the old lady seemed to want to say something else.

After putting on the glasses tremblingly, the needle in her hand began to move.

"You have probably seen it in the past few days since you came back." She said softly: "This Praia is not a kind hall. It is not a good place where everyone can live a good life."

Su Mingan remained silent.

"You have seen the scene just now. There is nothing we can do about the tax increase in the royal city. If there is no young and middle-aged person in the family, life will be like a moth and life will be a burden..." The old lady said: "I saw something nearby last night.

There's a Knight of Light here, maybe the church can't tolerate a poor neighborhood like ours..."

"Knight of Light?" Su Ming'an guessed that Xie Lude came to him for a mission last night, but unfortunately he was still with the Soul Clan in the Southern District last night: "It shouldn't be the church. They don't seem to care about this."

"Really?" the old lady laughed: "In Praia more than sixty years ago, during the most scarce and difficult period of resources, Su Lin had just ascended to Yunzhong City and had not yet obtained the enchantment.

At that point in time when it was established...the church was the first to advocate giving up residents and saving resources."

As she spoke, her fingers holding the needle gradually tightened: "At that time, life here was not that difficult... My old man was a cultural person of the older generation. At that time, he could also talk about literature, history, and...

The customs and customs of Praia. Even if I work as a lobbyist and write some tabloids, I can barely get by...
To be continued...