Chapter 10: Square (Fighting for Votes!)

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  The poor guy has completely lost his mind.

  In the eyes of the poor insect, this turtle was not a bad egg except for being a bit rough - originally it was like that, Xia Yalai's appearance was very deceptive, especially when he smiled, he had a rustic simplicity, even his eyes, as long as he wasn't angry, were harmless.

  The guy is a bit of an idiot, but he's still a good person. Moreover, this silly guy has saved himself twice.

  However, the poor insect probably hasn't heard of a saying: "Poor mountains and rivers produce evil people!"

  Don't think that rural people are all simple-minded, in fact, most rural people have a kind of peasant cunning.

  What's more, Xia Ya was born in Wildfire Prairie and grew up in a place like Wildfire Town where men were thieves and women were prostitutes.

  Let's take a look at the kind of people in Ye Huo Town: robbers, thieves, swindlers, fugitives, prostitutes, pimps, smugglers...

  Fifty gold coins is a huge sum of money, even in Wildfire Town!

  A poor-quality black bread cost about one copper plate, while an ordinary bread would cost three copper plates.

  The three copper plates were enough for a person's two-day food consumption.

  One hundred copper coins were equal to one silver coin and ten silver coins were equal to one gold coin in terms of the imperial currency.

  One silver coin is enough for a commoner's two months' worth of food expenses.

  Fifty gold coins, if used just for eating bread, would be enough for Xia Ya to eat for twenty years!!

  This huge sum of money is enough to make people take risks.

  Even Xia Yali knew that in Ye Huo Town, it would cost only one gold coin on the black market to hire someone to kill a person.

  Hiring mercenaries as bodyguards, fifty gold coins are enough to let a team of fully armed and skilled professional mercenaries protect you for a year!

  All the more...

  Xia Yali sneered with an extremely vicious smile, looking at the pale face of the poor insect: "Besides, it seems that there are more than fifty gold coins in this pouch of yours?"

  Indeed, there are almost eighty or more.

  Xia Yalai calmly bent down and put the gold coins back into the bag one by one, weighing them a few times, feeling heavy. He smiled: "No wonder I felt you were so heavy yesterday, it turned out that you still had so much money on you."

  He unceremoniously stuffed the leather bag into his own bosom, with a calm expression and not a hint of embarrassment.

  He really doesn't need to be embarrassed.

  In Xia Ya's understanding, he didn't owe himself anything at all.

  Anyone who travels on the Wildfire Prairie, whether they are merchants, adventurers or demon hunters... anyone follows a rule.

  If you are in a wilderness and your life is in danger, and someone saves your life at that time, the person who saved your life has the right to take away any property on your body.

  If no one else saves you, then you're dead and that's it.

  This isn't black eating black...... If I killed you, that would be called black eating black.

  In the wilderness, no sentimental words are spoken, only the most naked law of survival of the fittest is observed.

  To those adventurers who are accustomed to walking in danger, if they encounter a person in distress and still have their belongings with them, it is already very kind of them not to kill you. If they are willing to lend a helping hand, taking away all the other party's belongings is already considered a rare kindness.

  It's nothing unusual for some people to be ruthless and strike another blow when they see an opportunity.

  In general, when normal adventurers encounter other adventurers, there are often cases of "black eating black".

  Seeing the poor worm being scared half to death, Xia Yareng finally burst out laughing.

  The money is definitely going to be taken away, but the "dig a hole and bury it" just now was to scare this guy. Who told him to be so unscrupulous? He clearly had so much money on him, and he even saved his life twice, yet he didn't take it out to repay the lifesaver? It's simply too unreasonable!

  "Don't worry, I'm just teasing you." Xia Yali stretched out her hand and patted the poor bug's face twice. The poor bug was probably scared silly and forgot to dodge, allowing this country bumpkin's rough hands to slap against its delicate cheeks. It heard the other person's voice full of mockery: "I'm just scaring you. The money belongs to me, but I won't kill you."

  "You...". He slightly regained his composure, looking at Xia Ya with a mixture of fear and trepidation. He had intended to get angry, but suddenly remembered how this guy had just killed a ferocious bloodthirsty wolf, and the fierce and powerful aura he had displayed at that time, which made him somewhat worried: "You, you're going to...".

  "What's with you?" Xia Ya looked at the guy with disdain: "I really don't understand, how did someone like you end up on Wildfire Prairie? Don't you know any rules? Your money belongs to me now!"

  He explained the rules briefly, and finally added: "I'm already being merciful by not killing you. If it were someone else with a ruthless heart, they might take your money and sell you to the dwarves as a slave."

  The poor worm blinked a few times and then its eyes quickly filled with tears, looking pitiful as if it would burst into loud wails at any moment.

  Xia Ya looked at the guy with some annoyance - as a man, it's okay to be ugly, but why cry so much? Are all rich people like this?

  Fortunately, he didn't think of the term "sissy", because in Xia Ya's eyes, even a woman is much stronger than this poor worm.

  "You... you're this kind of person, how can you be like this. I..." The poor worm looked wronged and pouted: "I thought you were a good person..."

  Xia Ya ignored him and turned back to rest, letting this guy cry by himself.

  The poor worm sobbed quietly for a while, and then finally found that this guy had not the slightest bit of compassion. Suddenly, he remembered that this country bumpkin still thought he was a man - and a rather ugly one at that.

  "Hey!"

  After crying for a while, the poor worm shouted out loud.

  But Xia Ya didn't care, Xia Ya was already standing next to the giant wolf's corpse with an axe in hand, gesturing at the wolf's body for a while before taking action.

  He easily cut open the wolf's abdomen with an axe, cutting along the midline of the abdominal cavity to the hindquarters, where he carefully cut sideways...

  His movements were swift, and the wolf's corpse under his axe seemed as fragile as tofu. Xia Ya quickly dismembered the wolf's body, and a whole piece of wolf skin was stripped off with its fur and meat intact.

  Then he swung his axe, easily dismembering the remaining wolf corpses. The giant wolf's bones were extremely hard, but under Shaya's axe, they always managed to find the weakest part of the skeletal joints, and soon the wolf's skeleton was dismantled by him, with most of the bones still intact.

  Under this bloody scene, Xia Ya flew quickly with his axe, but it was light and effortless. The axe under his swing even emitted a kind of strange and cruel beauty. Every axe went down without wasting any effort, every axe fell on the most clever part, the axe in his hand was like a sculptor's knife!

  Every one of his movements seems to have been honed to perfection through a thousand refinements.

  It was a bloody scene, but in the end, even the poor worm was stunned!

  When this guy dissects a wolf's head, he doesn't look like a butcher at all, but rather an artistic sculptor!

  Because the package couldn't hold everything, Xia Ya could only reluctantly abandon most of the wolf's corpse.

  He rolled up the wolf skin that had been stripped off, as well as several intact hind leg bones of the wolf, and also pulled out all the wolf teeth and packed them away.

  Finally, they cut off a few pieces of meat from the wolf's leg. There was an additional gain, it was a male wolf, Shaya hesitated for a moment and swung his axe to cut off that thing at the back of the wolf.

  I heard that in Ye Huo Town, there are merchants who buy this thing and can take it back to make wine.

  Finally, after being injured, Xiā Yà Léi Míng took a slight breath and turned to look at the poor worm: "Alright, if you've cried enough, get ready, we're on our way."

  The poor worm immediately looked at Xia Yali with a wronged and fearful gaze: "You, where are you going to take me?"

  "Where?" Xia Ya hummed intentionally before smiling and saying: "Back to Ye Huo Town."

  "......Huh?" The poor insect's eyes widened in incredulity as it stared at Xia Ya.

  "Hmph, don't look at me like that, I'm not doing this out of kindness." Xia Ya disdainfully put away his axe: "Before, I really didn't want to go back. But now, the situation is different." As he spoke, he patted the bulging leather bag in his arms: "With all this money, I think it's better to head back to Wildfire Town first. After all, with this money, I can buy some better equipment. As a demon hunter, I need better weapons and armor. In the past, I didn't have the means, so I could only grit my teeth and fight with what I had. Now that I have the money, of course, I'll prioritize equipping myself properly, so I can protect myself even if I encounter powerful demons - my life isn't something to be taken lightly, and when I can cherish it, I naturally will."

  "But you..." The poor worm was somewhat surprised: "So, your meaning is that you can now send me back?"

  Xia Yali smiled and was about to speak when his ears perked up, following the sound of the wind, and from far away came some strange noises.

  Xia Ya's expression immediately turned serious, and with his rich experience of walking in the wilderness, he immediately recognized that it was the sound of people walking and breaking branches on the ground. Moreover, judging from the sound, there must be more than one person.

  Xia Ya's face changed immediately! He quickly ran over, picked up the poor worm, covered its mouth with his hand, and rushed into the nearby woods with a waist-high stride.

  "Shut up if you don't want to die! Don't make any noise! Someone is coming!!"

  The poor worm was hugged by the toad, feeling ashamed and indignant. As soon as he heard someone coming, he wanted to argue, but Xia Ya had already suppressed his voice and coldly laughed: "You'd better not do anything stupid, in the Wildfire Plains, many times encountering people can be more dangerous than encountering magical beasts!"