The Fate of the Gunman

Chapter 6 The Incontrovertible'Cruel Reality'

Lancer swears that he will definitely take off the hat of the'Great Wizard (Reserve)' today!

There is no doubt that Lancer was a little bit excited at this time, so his performance was a little different from usual. This made the people who walked with him couldn't help but sigh - even a man who usually doesn't seem to talk much is essentially a man. ~

But the next route was a bit strange, because they didn't actually walk towards the "Happy Street" that Lancer knew.

As for why Lancer knows the route of the so-called "Happy Street"?Ahem~ These are all trivial matters. In short, Lancer feels that the route is not right.

"Where are we going? Don't we go..."

Although Lancer didn't say the whole thing, but the meaning in the words was very obvious, and the colleague who invited him shook his head with a weird smile on his face.

"Lancer, you may not know when you first came to the Imperial City. Although the'Happy Street' is the most crowded place in the Imperial City, it is actually there...tsk-tsk~ The people who go there are either rich aristocrats or wealthy businessmen, or just nothing. Ordinary people with money, and although the places where the wealthy people go are in Happy Street, in fact, ordinary people in those places are not even qualified to enter. As for ordinary places, I shouldn't need to explain it?"

"That's like you...what about us?"

"Hey~ That is naturally where I will take you next. Although there is no business license, it is a'semi-public' place..."

After finishing speaking, he stopped talking to Convenience but speeded up his pace. Lancer did not ask to keep up with the other party's footsteps. Then everyone came to a piece of'building complex'.

"Here is...Where?"

In Lancer's guess, they were going to either a place full of pink lights and ambiguous colors, or that kind of extremely secretive area, but they did not expect to come to such a place like a'villa area'.

"Here? A slave merchant who just came to the Imperial Capital from the east to do business. Okay, don't waste time, let's go."

After saying that, I took the lead and walked towards the gate. After talking to the person at the gate, the gate was opened, and then the group of them walked in.

"Lord Lieutenant~ Welcome~"

The group of people greeted a middle-aged man with a mustache before reaching the building. It had to be said that the other party didn’t look like a'slave merchant' either in appearance or speaking temperament, but Ling People thank you like a'gentleman'.

"what happened?"

"Either... or the slave merchant..."

"Is the slave merchant weird? Haven't you seen Lancer?"

The other person’s natural expression made Lancer not know what to say for a while. There is no doubt that this kind of profession will not disappear completely even if it is modern, because darkness always breeds in places where people cannot see, but there is no Even if the question exists, it is rejected by ordinary people, but at this time, the natural expression of the other party's clothes made Lancer feel that he is incompatible with this'world' for the first time.

But the other party didn't seem to think that Lancer would think so much. He just patted Lancer on the shoulder and signaled him not to be nervous.

"Slave merchants in the empire are completely legal. As long as you can apply for a slave merchant’s business license, there is no problem. Every year the empire resists invasions by foreign nations or frictions with small countries, of course. It is indispensable that the salaries of ordinary soldiers like us need to spend a lot of money. After those people of different races are captured, they will be sold to slave merchants at the border, and then sold to all parts of the country by them..."

After listening to the other party’s explanation, Lancer even felt that the other party was talking about “objects” instead of living people. This ridiculous feeling came into the building and saw countless people wearing torn clothes with their necks locked in chains. Later, it swelled to an unconcealable point.

"You don't sympathize with these guys, do you?"

"..."

Although Lancer didn't speak, his silence was an answer to some extent.

"Second Lieutenant Lancer, it seems that you still don't know the status quo of the'Empire'. This group of foreign scum is not worthy of your sympathy. Do you know what they did after they broke our village? You know our people were arrested. What will happen after you leave? You..."

But the man who was talking to the slave merchant just before halfway through his words had returned, and he grabbed the middle-aged man's hand to stop his next words.

"Brother Quesser, your words are a bit heavy. Second Lieutenant Lancer has just joined the army after all; and Brother Lancer, don't be angry with Brother Quesser. He was transferred from the eastern army and he participated in several times at the border. The battle with foreign nations included missions to the hinterland of foreign nations. He has seen many things that we haven't seen... Forget it, let’s not talk about it, after all, today is here to be happy~"

While talking, he took Lancer to the rows of'iron cages'.

"Boss, you don't need to accompany the few of us, we pick it ourselves, but my friend is here for the first time, you can introduce him."

After speaking, he walked to the side, and the others were the same, leaving Lancer standing with the slave merchant.

"This gentleman, I'm sorry, I'm only introducing myself now. I am the owner of this slave chamber of commerce——Nipah. Please allow me to introduce my'commodities' to you."

The opposite party's extremely calm and even slightly proud tone made Lancer not know what to say for a while, and the other party felt like the owner of a pet shop introducing him to pets.

"Listen to the master captain, sir, this is the first time you have come to a place like ours, right?"

"Yes..."

Lancer's voice seemed a bit dry at this time because of the complicated mood, but the other party didn't seem to notice, and still talked with him politely but respectfully.

"It's not that I haven't met guests like you, sir. Guess how I usually persuade them?"

"……do not know."

"Although it is not so good for me, it may actually be a good ending for these slaves to be bought away. The largest supply here is usually strong men and beautiful women. If It is undoubtedly a good thing for them to be bought by a caring host."

The other party did not explain the situation of the'slave' to him, or even refuted what he had done. The other party simply stated a fact, and it was this'cruel reality' that was irrefutable.

Chapter VII Expats and Attacks

If Lancer was still enthusiastic before coming here, when he really started to "choose goods", he fell into a state of silence because of the three views that were completely different from this world.

Basically, people in this world will not be surprised by the'slavery'. The reason why they are more resistant is entirely because the condition of these slaves does not look good.

Those "high-quality goods" are okay. Some of the general goods are not even covered in clothes. Generally speaking, people who come here are at least people from well-off families. People who have never seen such a picture will inevitably be affected. But Lancer was different. He was totally disgusted with all this.

But after the initial anger, he showed a bitter smile. What is the meaning of his disgust?Leaving aside whether he has the ability to change the'slavery', we must know that the era he lived in did not completely eliminate these things. He just didn't see it.

In the end, he left here after saying hello to other people because of no interest.

Because of his irritability, he chose to directly return to the guard station. Although he wanted to drink alcohol to relieve his boredom, he was not allowed to drink in the barracks, and he himself was more afraid of death. This idea could only end without disease.

On the other side, Lancer didn't know that when he left the slave chamber of commerce, several of his companions who went to'Happy' with him also returned to the barracks later, not much slower than him.

When they told Bud what happened today, the other party just nodded and did not make any comments.

As far as Lancer’s strength is concerned, Bude shouldn’t have received so much attention, but so far, Bude has not fully trusted Lancer, so tonight’s "inviting" is actually a test, and the final result made him Fairly satisfied, it seems that the other party is not an "alien".

However, Bude was very dissatisfied with the "sympathy" shown by the other party. In his opinion, no matter how strong the individual is, the extra compassion for the "enemy" has no meaning at all!

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Lancer woke up the next day when he was asked to go to Bude's office by the commander. He was dumbfounded. It stands to reason that a soldier would be troubled when he went to OO, but why was he asked to talk if he didn't go to OO?

"According to practice, our Guards usually send soldiers to various border troops for short-term training. I plan to send you to the Western Army. How about?"

how is it?What else?Although it sounds like a question, it doesn't look like it no matter how you look at it.

"Everything obeys the arrangement!"

"Very well, this is your letter of introduction..."

Lancer's mouth twitched twice as he watched the other person's proficiently pulling out a letter from the table. Although he didn't dare to resist at all, he couldn't resist, but - you said you didn't make it in advance. ready?