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    It was evening when Victor and his party arrived at their destination, the small town of Heimen.  There was little smoke in the town, and a large flock of crows hovered in the sky.  The air was filled with the stench of rotting organic matter, which made people want to vomit. Under the reflection of the setting sun, the entire town of Heimen looked like a ghost town.  Looking at this small town with few families left, everyone frowned. Except for the Xilang family and the mage whose face was always hidden under the hood, everyone was not in a good mood.  "No matter what, let's stay here first. The sanitary conditions here are not very good. Is this a small town where the body of the God of Rot passed through? Please understand." Victor said somewhat uncomfortably.  Lin Ya said nonchalantly: "This is a common scenery in the Devlan Valley. It's not a big deal." After saying that, he took the lead and walked in.  The walls of the town are very dilapidated and covered with all kinds of moss and fungi, which look disgusting.  Even the bluestone pavement in the town is dilapidated and has various plants growing out of it. If it weren't for the smoke rising from the kitchens of several families, I'd probably think this is a dead city.  Seeing this dilapidated appearance, everyone was secretly frightened.  After entering the town, there was no guard to stop them. Even the thin children would hide behind the trees and peek at them timidly when they saw them.  Walking on the slippery bluestone road, Victor whispered: "We only eat the food we brought with us. All water must be boiled before drinking. Also, be careful of the residents here." Elaine mumbled.  Expressing their dissatisfaction with this stinking place, others silently unloaded luggage from the carriage.  The town has been dilapidated to a certain extent, and people from various businesses have settled in the only hotel in the town.  There is only one bald boss in the hotel and no servants. The boss personally serves Victor and his party.  When talking about this town, the boss also sighed. Since the body of the God of Death passed here, the residents of the town have suffered from many strange diseases and have moved out of the town.  Those who stay here now are all people who cannot leave their homeland.  As time goes by, I am afraid that young people will not want to stay here, and I don¡¯t know how long they can live like this.  After listening to the boss¡¯s complaints, everyone remained silent and felt a little heavier.  The next day, after everyone freshened up, they visited the mayor of the town.  The mayor, Tolovsky, is a short fat man. He sweats all the time, which makes his skin white and rosy, like a hard-boiled egg.  The facial features are almost squeezed together, making people look indescribably funny.  "Supreme God! You are finally here!" The mayor greeted them enthusiastically with a cry, and before they entered the town official hall, Trotsky tightly sealed the mayor's seal and sword.  He held it in Victor's hand and said with tears in his eyes: "Everything in this town is left to you! I trust you completely! Goodbye!" After saying that, he turned over and rode a thin horse, quickly  left this town.  It was obvious that he had been waiting for a long time, and he quickly left here without even wanting to stay for a minute.  Everyone looked at this scene with gloomy expressions. After a moment, Victor laughed.  "This way, this town is already ours! No one can mess up our plans! We have become the masters of this town!" Victor said happily.  "First of all, we need to gather all the residents of the town to start our plan." Victor made arrangements. Except for Xilang's mother, everyone else knocked on the residents' doors door to door and invited them to the town square.  Assemble and participate in the rally.  At noon, all the townspeople finally gathered together. Victor counted and found that there were only more than two hundred people, and they were all old, weak, sick and disabled. Even there were a few children, who looked very thin and malnourished.  His brows tightened again.  "What kind of fate is this? This is" Xi Lang thought to himself.  "Ladies and gentlemen. I am the new guard captain and mayor of the town of Heimen. My name is Victor von Neumann." Victor stood on the small steps and spoke loudly to the residents.  They started talking.  Xilang stood in the audience, quietly observing the residents of the town.  The proportion of deformities is a little too high. Many people have tumors on their bodies, and some people even have tumors growing out of their skin, with tangled blood vessels bulging outside.  Some people have green ringworm growing directly on their skin, and some people have heavy bark growing on their limbs, which looks very scary.  Some people's eyes bulge, and there is a gap between the eye socket and the eyeball.In the room, green fungal threads were crawling.  This should also be the trace left by the God of Decay.  Victor is still using various grand words to confuse the residents in front of him, but there is only a luster of despair in the eyes of these residents.  Not a whit of agitation.  Victor¡¯s mouth was dry when he spoke on the small stage, and it did not arouse the emotions of the residents. It only made them recognize Victor as their new mayor.  But it seems that it doesn't matter who becomes the mayor.  Victor issued an order that all food must be thoroughly steamed before eating, and all water must be cooked before use.  A running water was introduced in the middle of the town, and all the domestic garbage in the town was discharged through the stream, which slightly suppressed the rancid smell in the town.  Then Victor used his small funds to purchase some herbal raw materials from the residents, requisitioned the town public office, and made healing potions with the mage Ivan and the thief Elaine.  Linya, Matak and Silang recruited ten relatively healthy residents to serve as members of the guard team, responsible for purchasing these raw materials and supervising the health implementation of the town.  In just ten days, they made nearly hundreds of potions, and it was also within the time agreed with the adventurers.  The small public office was cleaned very clean.  There is a row of simple shelves set up on the middle table, and several bottles of green potions are hung on the shelves.  Soon, caravans came from far away, but the number was not large. There were only representatives of two or three caravans, and the largest caravan among them only had chain branches in three or four cities.  Small and medium-sized chambers of commerce.  It seems that the abilities of these adventurers are not very good.  But a lot of adventurers came, nearly two hundred of them, almost as many as the aborigines in the town.  Victor¡¯s face was so gloomy that he could almost squeeze out water.  The dinner was very simple and soon got into the theme of auctioning the exclusive right to buy out the healing potion for one year.
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