Only gods can guide mankind.——"General History of the Mortal World: Preface"

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Respect, fear, awe...

The three attributes have their own corresponding values, currently they are all 0. It is not yet known what their functions are.

It should be some kind of evolutionary channel.

If you are punished for refusing the contract, what if you are killed directly, or are given nothing? Why are you thrown into this world and put on the so-called triple shackles?

Therefore, Kino guessed that although the Rejector's brand blocked the regular evolutionary channel, it also opened up another abnormal evolutionary channel. In his case, it was the triple shackles of "respect, fear, and awe".

How to increase the value? It is unknown based on the current information, and the supreme existence has not said anything. Follow-up testing is needed.

After roughly understanding the triple shackles interface that appeared in his brain, Kino sat back in his chair, found a pair of white gloves from the drawer, washed them, and put them to dry by the candlelight.

Immediately afterwards, he found a weapon hanging on the wall, which was an exquisite pocket hand crossbow.

He put on white gloves and used the professional knowledge of the processor to modify the pocket crossbow so that it could be hidden under the wrist sleeve. Then he began to read books and learn about himself and the world.

Let’s not read casual books, literary classics, etc., time is tight, the main thing is to read history books, literature, and legal codes, so that we can understand and integrate into the world as soon as possible.

Since he noticed that he was wearing a military uniform, he also read some military information and memorized conventional military gestures.

Fortunately, the original "Kino" in this world had the habit of keeping a diary, which allowed the current Kino to roughly clarify his position.

He is located in the Kingdom of "Doguland", which is divided into six provinces and is ruled by the royal family and the five major royal families.

This is an old feudal kingdom system. Each noble family has its own lord and has the right to rule in the feudal territory, but it needs to obey the orders of the supreme leader of the kingdom, that is, the king, pay taxes regularly, provide military gifts, labor service, etc.

His full name in this world is "Kino Van Helsing". He comes from an ancient declining family. He was granted the title of Civil Affairs Officer in the town of Schilling on the border of the kingdom.

The population of Xilin Town is around 5,000, and the civil administrator is the so-called mayor.

His responsibilities are to handle the daily affairs of Xilin Town, lead troops to control entry and exit, and...

Prevent smuggling.

26 years ago, after the death of the previous king, a vicious epidemic suddenly spread in Doguland. Infected people will show signs of "animal transformation", and areas of the brain will also be affected by the epidemic, gradually losing their humanity, and their minds will be distorted and fall into madness.

The doctors and alchemists of the kingdom have been searching for a cure, but they are always at a loss.

Later, it was a substance called "salt crystal" that brought the epidemic under initial control.

Salt crystals are a product obtained by alchemists in the laboratory. In practice, they found that if salt crystals are used to purify infected areas, cluster infections will be significantly reduced.

Kino read through the knowledge about salt crystals, gained a preliminary understanding of their physical and chemical properties, compared them with industrial products from previous lives, and found nothing that could be linked to them. It should be a unique substance of this world.

If we must make an analogy, its characteristics are similar to sodium chloride, and it tastes salty in the mouth, but the salt crystal itself is blue and colorless after dissolving.

All in all, after the salt crystal came out, its price skyrocketed due to its anti-epidemic properties. It was eventually listed as a military control product by the Doguland royal family and was uniformly distributed by the kingdom.

But with such crazy prices, there are naturally people flocking to them for money.

In recent years, the methods and equipment for making salt crystals have been completely blocked, and no one can make them privately.

However, salt crystals of unknown origin have been found on the black market, apparently coming from abroad.

These black market salt crystal transactions are not included in taxes, and safety issues cannot be guaranteed. The royal family naturally cracks down on this and orders local borders to strictly prevent salt crystal smuggling.

Shilin Town, where Kino is located, is such an important border town.

He read at night by candlelight, roughly turning over those old books, and gained a preliminary understanding of his identity and the background of the world.

At this time, the night was already dawn.

As footsteps approached, the door was pushed open without knocking, and a soldier wearing simple armor walked in: "There is a caravan entering the country and I need your stamp."

Kino turned his back to him and said, "Your Majesty the Civil Affairs Officer."

The soldier was stunned: "What?"

"Before entering, knock on the door to ask for permission, and then call me your civil administrator." Kino closed the book, turned around, and his eyes fell on the nameplate on his clothes, "This is the most basic courtesy, isn't it? Tiwen

Captain."

Tivan's attitude was very contemptuous, and he even snorted briefly through his nose.

It turns out that Kino was a man without ability or authority. The reason why he became the civil administrator of Xilin Town was just because of his family's remaining reputation. He was also very lazy in governing, and the soldiers never respected him.

Steven didn't realize at all that Kino was no longer the loser he was before, but had become a smiling devil.

Kino suddenly asked: "Captain Tivin, do you fear me?"

Tiwen had a question mark: "What do you mean?"

Kino: "Say, you fear me."

Tiwen felt that this man might have had his head caught in a door when he was a child, but he was a commander after all, so he just rolled his eyes and said casually: "I am in awe of you."

Hearing the sound, Kino entered the triple shackles interface again and found that the three values ​​​​of respect, fear, and awe were still all 0.

This is an experiment to test the method of obtaining numerical values.

At least now it is certain that words are ineffective and just asking others to say respect, fear, and reverence is useless.

Without saying anything, Chino buttoned up his coat, smoothed out the wrinkles, and walked out with Tiwen.

On the way, Tivin reported some information: "Millo's caravan is an old acquaintance of ours. The caravan is fully loaded with goods, with a total of 16 people and 14 caravan guards, plus Milo and his son."

Kino: "Assemble people and check the goods."

Tiwen said casually: "We have inspected it and there is no problem. You just need to sign and release it."

Kino stopped and said, "I'm not here, so you can privately confirm that the goods are correct?"

Tiwen was stunned for a moment and said impatiently: "It's annoying, so go check it out yourself."

Kino looked sideways at Tiwen, with a meaningful smile in his eyes, and slowly left.

Tiwen didn't know what this smile meant, he just felt a little uncomfortable.

Xilin Town is located on the border and has a dry and harsh climate.

A convoy was waiting at the pass, with more than a dozen soldiers from Xilin Town standing beside it lazily, bored.

The caravan captain Milo was delivering some dried meat to the soldiers, and they accepted it without hesitation.

Soon, Milo noticed the young man walking towards him. He greeted him respectfully, nodded and said, "Good morning, Mr. Civil Affairs Officer. I noticed that your soldiers were not in good spirits, so I gave them some dried meat to supplement their health.
Chapter completed!