Soul echo

Chapter 437 Lily's Confusion

Drip, drip...

The drops of water hanging from the hair fell down when Zhong Ye lowered his head to stare at the bathtub, and fell into the water surface, making a faint ripple.

With a physique so strong that Zhong Ye was so strong, he was already very different from ordinary humans. Even if he put his hand into the burning flame, he could only feel a slight scorching heat.

He couldn't feel the temperature of the water, and naturally he couldn't feel any relaxation.

Zhong Ye looked at the rippling surface of the water, and his mind wandered away.

They hadn't left Schwenningen yet. Although it was still early after the communication with the five crew members, Zhong Ye was drenched in blood, so naturally he had to wash himself off.

Now, he is thinking about the 'hidden things' that the five crew members said.

They did hide some things. For example, a few years ago, a child in the town boarded their boat. They wanted to let the child go, but the child was immediately caught by the traffickers who cooperated with the lord. up the boat.

After he was brought aboard, he was put in the lower hold, where they usually held slaves to be sold.

After that, no one saw the child again.

In addition, there are several similar things, but these things are not what Zhong Ye cares about the most.

What concerned him most was that every one or two years, a beautiful woman would be brought aboard the ship, and the place where she was held was not the bottom cabin, but an ordinary cabin next to the captain's cabin.

In order to prove this to Zhong Ye, a crew member even took him aboard the ship and found that room.

Because of this, no matter how crowded the other cabins were, that room would be unoccupied and of no other use.

When Zhong Ye heard this, he had already determined that the woman was the 'travel money' and the expenses for asylum that the traffickers handed over to their collaborators.

Because the crew needs to clean the ship, they can basically confirm that every time the beautiful woman who was brought on board left in Stuttgart.

In other words, in Stuttgart, the traffickers have a partner.

The lord of Schaffhausen is a lesson from the past. In order to get "relief", the lord of Schaffhausen is even willing to keep this matter deeply in his heart without telling anyone.

Obviously, as long as he speaks out about this matter, he can successfully regain the power of the lord, but he just keeps silent.

Because he already knew that the group of traffickers would use some beautiful women to bribe those in power, so after knowing this, Zhong Ye immediately began to think about which nobleman in Stuttgart became the umbrella of the traffickers.

Although he had never been to Stuttgart and didn't know the specific situation in that city, there were probably only a few nobles who could serve as their umbrella and protect them from being discovered by others.

Whoa!

Zhong Ye stood up from the water, left the tub, grabbed the long towel hanging at the side to wipe his body, and slowly exhaled a foul breath.

No matter who the asylum is, he must die!
Tuk Tuk Tuk!
Zhong Ye swept his eyes and looked towards the door, "Wait a minute, I'm getting dressed."

Lily, who was standing outside the door, wanted to push the door and walk in immediately when she heard these words, but her only reserve restrained her terrible thoughts.

After a while, the door was opened, and Zhong Ye, who was neatly dressed, stood behind the door, looking at her suspiciously, "Is there something wrong?"

Lily took a deep breath, pointed behind Zhong Ye with her chin, "Go in and talk."

Zhong Ye glanced back, stepped aside, and let Lily enter the room.

After entering the room, Lily pulled a chair and sat down, then Zhong Ye sat down opposite her, looked at her in deep thought, and didn't interrupt her thinking.

It took a long time before Lily woke up from her thoughts and looked up at Zhong Ye.

They were not far apart, and Zhong Ye's aura was quite lingering. If he was sitting directly opposite, he could easily feel a gust of hot air penetrate into his collar.

Lily blushed, but she didn't adjust her seat.

"Zhong..." She hesitated for a moment, and said hesitantly, "I have a little... little doubt, I hope you can help me think about it..."

"Just say it." Zhong Ye said.

Hearing this, Lily was silent for a moment, and her hands were involuntarily put together.

"Do you think... 'nobility' is necessary?"

Zhong Ye was stunned for two or three seconds by her question before he could react.

"'Aristocrats' are not necessary to exist. They are products of the corresponding era. Once they enter the next era, they will lose their corresponding role."

Zhong Ye thought about it, and briefly explained Dongtu's system with Lily. Her eyes widened and her mouth opened slightly.

In terms of the inheritance of knowledge, the West Land is not as good as the East Land. Even if there is a God of Knowledge here, He is still cautious, guarding his own one-three-acre land, and dare not spread knowledge easily.

In this world with evil gods, it may not be a good thing to spread knowledge, but if you don't do this, the times will not be able to develop, and a large number of laborers will not be able to exert more powerful power.

The world of Dan has gods. Generally speaking, the combat power is many times stronger than that of the earth. However, if the gods are removed, the combined combat power may not be as good as that of France on the earth. At least France has missile strike capabilities covering half of the world. It is not a problem to destroy the civilization of the world with nuclear warheads.

'Nobles' are not necessary, nor are 'lords', they are products of the times, and when society enters the next era, they will lose their corresponding roles.

Today's Westland has embarked on the road to enter the next era. With the development of productivity, transportation becomes more developed, and the product of the feudal era, the 'lord', will gradually disappear.

Of course, this depends on the awakening of the democratic will and the transformation of social thinking. If the social thinking cannot be changed, perhaps the Dan world will develop into a 'high-tech' world with a feudal system in the future.

After Zhong Ye finished talking about these things, Lily took another breath, "...I'm talking about the actual 'nobles', the group of people who hold privileges and abuse power."

Zhong Ye fell silent because of this, and then shook his head and said: "I think this is impossible, and desires are hard to fill. Once a person has power and feels that others are different from himself, he will inevitably have the idea of ​​arrogance and superiority. No exception.

"It's just that I can suppress this kind of thinking and bring myself back to normal, but not everyone can restrain like me. It's too difficult to restrain. If you want to indulge, sometimes you only need an excuse, or even no excuse. , and once you indulge once, it’s easy to have a second or third time.”

Even in the 22nd century, abuse of privilege happens from time to time, so anti-corruption is the norm.

Other countries have collapsed and gone bankrupt several times under the impact of several financial crises and real economic crises. Only China has not had any major problems, and this is the root cause.

"Lily, why are you asking this?"

"...No, nothing." Lily shook her head, stood up, put the chair back to its original place, then waved to Zhong Ye, turned and left the room.

"Zhong, thank you for your answer."

After saying that, she closed the door and disappeared from Zhong Ye's eyes.

Looking at the closed door, Zhong Ye was thoughtful.

Since Lily would ask him these questions, it is obvious that she already has some new ideas about the privileged class of 'nobility', but these ideas are still a bit vague, so she herself is also a little confused.

Zhong Ye has some answers to these questions here. After all, the social development level of the earth is far higher than that of the Dan world. Even if his own cultural class scores are not good, he is born in a country with the highest average knowledge level on the earth. Naturally, the content of knowledge is not something that people from other countries can easily compare.

It’s just that he himself is a little hesitant. The productivity level in Dan’s world is not enough to allow society to enter the next stage. I don’t know if it’s a good thing to tell Lily the answer early...

"Ugh."

Sighing, Zhong Ye closed his eyes and fell on the bed.

Let's talk about it later, if Lily asks him similar questions again, he will reveal his identity to her and tell her the 'answer'.

As for the implementation or not, it depends on her own choice.

(End of this chapter)