Poverty Alleviation Princess

"Actually, the city lord was not like this before."

The unknown character beauty led them to the next room and brought them snacks and tea.

"It used to be very good here. Although it was not rich, there was no war, and everyone's life was decent."

"Oh, you must have suffered a lot..." The beautiful woman originally wanted to feel sorry for the hardships they must have endured in their ups and downs. Seeing a little haggard appearance, the words had to be temporarily changed when the words came to the lips.

"...It must be very hard work."

"Fortunately, except that the carriage and the road on the road are a bit bad." A Yuan shook his head like a picky surveyor, expressing his dissatisfaction.

That was really the worst travel experience she had suffered in recent years.

none of them.

"No matter what kind of person the city owner is, he should open up wasteland and build roads to ensure the most basic transportation capabilities."

It is true that there are still demons and ghosts here in the era of war. It is still difficult to talk about development-after all, the main problem of people at this stage is "survival".But as the main city, you have to pay more attention, right?If the main city is not well planned, it will be difficult to say that it has sufficient defense capabilities when facing the attacks of monsters and ghosts.

Without sufficient defense capabilities and corresponding countermeasures, the city is no different from a buffet for monsters.

The difference may be that people pay for the buffet, while monsters eat the 'buffet' for free.

It's always like this, it's strange to have the resources and experience to continue to develop.

A Yuan does not require all high-ranking people to be considerate like Giotto, he is a wise person.

But knowing the danger and not preparing for it would be stupid.To be stupid in a peaceful world is to lose face and lose one's job.But in this kind of place, one stupid life may be gone.

"I don't think this city has any defenses against monsters? What if monsters come?"

"What, what should I do?"

The beauty was obviously stopped by the question, and put down the hands holding the teapot.

"Haven't you thought about it?"

A Yuan was very surprised.

"Aren't you all afraid of death?" She didn't look like those people were not afraid of death?

Could it be that the City Lord's Mansion has a special barrier, so it can isolate the invasion of demons and ghosts?That would make sense, but then the story of the missing young women wouldn't make sense.

Can't the enchantment need to test young women to maintain it?But that doesn't mean everyone 'never appeared again' - unless they were all dead.

But if it's the type that needs the lives of young women, that doesn't make sense either.

The consumption is too fast, and it can't keep up with the growth rate of young women.

It takes at least twelve or three years for a young woman to be available, and the city lord is recruiting women almost every month.The growth rate is far less than the consumption rate, so it is completely meaningless.

There is no practicality at all except for killing the children and grandchildren of human beings nearby.

"Of course I'm afraid."

Probably because I have never met someone who doesn't follow the rules, the beauty didn't react for a while.After a few seconds, he stiffly made a frightened expression.

"It's so strange that you don't resist so much." A Yuan didn't choose to sit on her knees like people in this era, but crossed her legs carelessly, with one hand on her knee and the other touching Jaw thinking. "Tell me the truth, did the city lord have a bad mind before?"

"..."

The beautiful woman's expression was ferocious for a moment, but it was only for a moment, and soon returned to the gentle and weak.

"The city lord... the city lord was still very good before, no, no, the important thing now is that you all have to escape quickly." At this point, she seemed to have finally found the right to speak, and suddenly she couldn't care less about greetings and comfort.Hastily entered the point.

"You have to escape before he wakes up, and it will be too late when he wakes up."

"Who is he?"

"It is... a powerful monster entrenched in this city."

"That was about a year ago. That powerful monster came here and signed some kind of contract with the city lord, and then the big monster stayed here. It protected the city from being attacked by other monsters, but at the same time ..."

"You also want to offer tribute, don't you?"

A Yuan picked up what she hadn't finished speaking.

"Yes..." The stunning beauty showed an expression mixed with pain and regret, and then deeply lowered her head.

"you are?"

"I, I was originally a princess, and I was chosen to serve this lord... Fortunately, this lord usually sleeps, so I have lived until now."

After she finished speaking, she took a deep breath and stood up.

"Stop talking about me, you guys leave quickly."

As she spoke, she pushed open the cabinet next to the wall and opened a hidden shoji door. "There is a secret passage here. Walk along the corridor to the end and you will see the secret passage to leave. It is very safe here. The girls before have also escaped from this secret passage. Hurry up. Just in case When he wakes up and finds you, it will be too late."

"...What about you?" A Yuan walked to the shoji door and looked inside.

It was pitch black inside, and only the outline of the corridor could be vaguely seen, and a door could be vaguely seen at the end.

"Let us go, what do you do?"

"...I'm fine."

The beautiful woman who showed them the way showed a strong and bright smile.

"I have served the Lord for a long time, and there is always a way."

"That's it."

A Yuan's gaze was on her body, scanning back and forth several times between the shoji door that opened.Then he stood up straight and looked directly at this beautiful woman who was so beautiful that it was easy to make people feel good about her.

For a lonely and helpless girl who was forced to be separated from her relatives and friends and brought here, the appearance of this person is undoubtedly a light of hope, a savior in the dark.

"what happened?"

Seeing that A Yuan hadn't moved for a long time, the woman couldn't help asking with concern.

"last question."

A Yuan stood on the edge of the shoji gate.

"Where are the girls you let go in the past?"

The girl's voice fell, and the whole room fell into an eerie silence.

The beauty, who had always been slightly sad and concerned, seemed not expecting her to ask such a question, and she was stunned, but then the corners of her rosy mouth began to rise, and finally cracked an arc that normal humans could not complete.

"Of course he was taken away in despair."

The extremely beautiful face began to distort, and then her body began to protrude, like a cicada slough that was about to shed its outer skin, and the human part fell off as a 'skin'.

"I, I like to see the desperate and distorted expressions of those young women who thought they were saved after knowing the truth."

"Become one of them too!"

The huge, arthropod-like limbs were raised high, and with the sound of howling wind, it stabbed viciously at the weak girl in front of it.However, the imaginary image of blood splattering and the girl falling down with a terrified and distorted expression did not appear.

After a few seconds, something did fall to the ground.

But it was not the girl in front of her, but a limb of an arthropod.

"It doesn't take a single person for a monster to become vicious."

Blood spurted from the wound, but none of it fell on the girl.

Uchiha Madara, who had been silently staying behind watching Yuan's actions, raised his sleeves to block the rain of blood sprayed out by her.Needless to say, it was due to the wound on his body, and it was naturally his masterpiece.

"Oh oh oh - hateful human beings, how dare you!"

The monster that had shed its beauty's skin let out an angry roar, and its other limbs waved violently due to the pain.It finally revealed its true face—it was a monster about three meters tall, like a spider and a praying mantis, with a human face.

"Can kill?"

A Yuan didn't pay attention to its roar, but leaned back, raised her head and asked the 'beauty' who would protect her well at all times.

"easy."

Uchiha Madara held the girl in his arms in one hand to avoid the attack, and replied confidently.

Although he has no experience in fighting monsters in the past (tailed beasts are not counted), but just the monster in front of him, he is absolutely sure to get rid of it before it threatens Ji Jun.

"Catch the ones alive, try to see if you can use illusion to ask about those girls."

After getting Uchiha Madara's answer, Yuan felt more at ease.

However, her calmness further angered the monster in front of him. He no longer pretended, and all his blade-like limbs attacked her.It's just that before they got close to A Yuan, they were all chopped down to the ground by the flashing blue knife light.

It's like a crab that has been stripped of all its legs, and it can't turn over even if it tries to struggle.

"Wait for me here."

Uchiha Madara fell lightly to the ground with Yuan in his arms, and then walked alone to the monster rolling and howling on the ground.

He wasn't sure that his pupil technique would work immediately on monsters, so he didn't act directly when Ji Jun was probing.Although Uchiha Madara has not seen anyone stronger than himself so far, it is a completely unfamiliar environment after all, and it is hard to guarantee that there will be no people with special powers like Giotto.

He would never allow Ji Jun to be hurt because of his carelessness.

Just when Uchiha Madara walked in, the monster who was still struggling suddenly turned his head, and spit out a large amount of silk thread with corrosive liquid from his mouth.

At such a short distance, even if the human being reacted, it would be difficult to retreat completely, and as long as the guy in front of him showed his flaws, he could take this opportunity to kill that stinky girl who dared to fool him.

He never expected that he would be so fooled, the monster's teeth were about to be crushed - he was the only one who played with these humans, how could any humans hurt him?

He must tear them into pieces to get rid of his only hatred.

However, those poisonous threads he gave high hopes did not play the expected role.

They hit a piece of translucent blue 'shield', and then fell powerlessly to the ground, making a rustling sound of corrosion.The target he attacked remained unharmed.

"How on earth did you see through my disguise?"

He has used this skin to deal with humans dozens of times, and there has never been a problem. He doesn't understand what went wrong this time.

Even if you die, you have to die to understand.

——Of course, the NCs that appear in this situation count as one, and they are all suspicious.

No well-meaning person would let someone go in a ghost story in such an aboveboard manner.

What's more, she was the only one in the whole room, and she was said to be a princess in a monster costume, but she acted like a master.And the hole in the conversation...

If there is an explanation, there are as many loopholes as there are.

However, A Yuan didn't explain the meaning to a vicious monster in detail.

At a critical moment, if you talk too much, something will happen. She doesn't want this fg.

So she just evoked a smile:

"Because... being a princess, I am a professional."