Chapter 969: Burning at the stake
I was a little speechless, although I didn't think that this Wei Yuanhu would let me go, but I didn't expect him to turn his face so quickly.
What surprised me even more was that he chose to lock up the tattooed man with us.
In his eyes, we didn't seem to make any difference.
Similarly, Amy and I still have the possibility of resisting this time, but we still chose to be indifferent, because this Wei Yuanhu is not an idiot, he has clearly seen behind me and Amy just now, but he dares to attack us like this, which shows that he is not afraid of us.
What's more, when I fought those crows just now and then avoided the monitor lizards, I basically used all my strength.
We were thrown back into the back seat of the pickup, and then Wei Yuanhu began to ask me about the identity of the attackers just now, and in order to get closer to him, I told him everything I knew, including the few conflicts I had with those Burmese Gu masters in the past.
The fauna of the besieged city retreated quite quickly, and when we returned to the town, the fauna outside was scattered as if it had never been there.
I heard Wei Yuanhu first use the town's radio to inform the people in the town to strengthen their vigilance, then sent out some teams in charge of reconnaissance, and finally asked people to quickly contact the rest of the survivor groups in the vicinity who were usually close-knit, as if he wanted to gather people together.
I have to say that he is still very correct in this approach, although the survivors are now quite numerous, they are facing a group of unknown enemies, and the best way now is to consolidate their own strength.
Solidarity is the most important thing at this time, but they have no intention of "uniting" with us.
After Wei Yuanhu finished giving the order on the radio, he convened a small meeting of some of the people in charge of the town, and the content of the meeting was very simple, that is, let everyone start to prepare for emergency evacuation, if the situation suddenly changed, they would rush into Dongkou Province together, even if they were subject to the management of the wanderers.
......
These people are going to fall into the arms of the wanderers!
That's the last thing I want to see.
The reason why I know this is because the location of their meeting is right above my head, and I can hear it completely clearly with my hearing, during which I learned that Wei Yuanhu also has four other companions who are almost "deputy mayors", and these people are basically in charge of a region, which adds up to form the entire town.
Wei Yuanhu asked these four "deputy mayors" to mobilize their own manpower as soon as possible, not only to prepare for evacuation, but also to find ways to get as many supplies as possible.
These materials are not for their own use, in fact, the current survivors have developed a self-sufficient production model, and they mainly use these materials to "pay tribute" to the wanderers, after all, these people have refused to enter Dongkou Province with the wanderers before, and now they will have to pay a greater price to enter again.
After the meeting, I heard Wei Yuanhu's heavy footsteps "Teng Tengteng" walking downstairs, and it didn't take long for the door of the basement where we were being held to be opened.
I knew that this would definitely not be a good thing, because Wei Yuanhu had a murderous look on his face, and he had also expressed suspicion of a few of us outsiders when he was in a meeting with the others just now.
I'm a little annoyed, not to mention anything else, I at least saved the lives of the people in this town just now, right? But not only Wei Yuanhu, but even the other townspeople didn't buy it, and after I was pushed out, the townspeople nearby were looking at me with hatred.
There are quite a few of these townspeople, and I feel that almost a third of the townspeople have come, presumably Wei Yuanhu called.
At this point, with so many townsfolk surrounding me, I'm afraid I won't be able to make any waves without the help of psionic powers...... Now I have to be honest, and I have to be quick enough not to lose.
I thought Wei Yuanhu was trying to separate me from the others, but he ended up taking me to a room on the second floor...... In the torture chamber!
That's right, this is the kind of room dedicated to torture, and I saw all kinds of torture instruments, which at first glance were homemade, but the degree of self-made restoration was very high, all kinds of handcuffs, anklets, soldering irons, and other torture instruments that I can't name.
I'm rubbing, this fucking is still playing torture to extract confessions?
I hurriedly asked, "What the hell are you asking? Don't forget, I saved you just now!"
"You saved us?" Wei Yuanhu snorted coldly: "You treat me as a fool, right? These people clearly showed that you attracted them, and you want to take this opportunity to win our trust? Then you miscalculated." ”
"Didn't you bring me in? I don't know those people! Besides, didn't you see that they even wanted to kill me just now?"
"That's just you guys playing!" said another man, who was one of the people in the second pickup truck who was in charge of acting as a "bait", and who had also witnessed my whole process, but now he was as good or bad as Wei Yuanhu.
"If you want to lie to us, of course you have to pretend to be some!" Wei Yuanhu said in a loud voice, obviously wanting the other townspeople to hear.
I'm speechless, these guys have the kung fu to interrogate me, it's better to build more city defenses, is this considered infighting now?
"Otherwise, why don't these animals come early or late, they show up the day after you come!"
......
This seems to be a good reason, and to be honest, I am a little skeptical myself.
I feel like maybe these Burmese Gu masters have used some kind of Gu tracking technique that I don't know all the way to here, but ...... They didn't seem to know me when they were on the mound, which didn't make sense.
After just a while, I have already made up my mind in my heart, and I can see that although Wei Yuanhu is known as the mayor of this town, his dominance over other townspeople is far from the meaning of "boss", not that he is what he says, he wants me to comply, then I must let the other townspeople agree with him from the heart.
In other words, I still have the hole card of "public opinion" that cannot be drawn.
To do so would mean that I had to insist that I had nothing to do with the attackers, or if I did, I would undoubtedly fall under siege by all the townspeople, and I would not be able to wash myself by jumping into the Yellow River.
Soon Wei Yuanhu began to threaten me, saying that if I didn't tell the truth, he would kill me.
The rest of the townspeople also seemed to be "guilty" and began to heckle me, and some even started to hit me with stones.
My impression of these survivors began to decrease further, but I still did not give up hope, only that it was the post-apocalyptic environment that had distorted their personalities and psychology.
I began to bite myself off without knowing it, and I repeated my previous measures on how to save the townspeople, and finally it worked, and a small number of townspeople began to intercede for me, thinking that I couldn't act rashly until the matter was clear, and if I helped them, I would regret killing me.
The leader of the quest for me is none other than the boss I used to set up information about, and this boss now has no more of the embarrassment we felt when we were caught at the beginning, and now he has been mixing in the crowd and fanning the flames of the people around him.
Although I don't know what this thing is planning in his heart, he is at least helping me out now, so I also hope that Wei Yuanhu will not notice his existence now.
Under the instigation of the boss, more and more townspeople began to oppose it, and then I heard Wei Yuanhu say: "I have already checked when I was outside just now, the people who attacked us should be some Gu practitioners in Myanmar, these people call themselves Gu masters, and they specialize in doing some evil and crooked things on weekdays, and their skills in expelling Gu worms and Gu things to do things for them are very high. Now the climate here is bitterly cold, and Gu worms can't survive, so they drove Gu creatures to attack us. ”
The surrounding townspeople began to nod their heads, looking very impressed by the accuracy of their mayor's information.
However, it was clear to me that I had told him these things, and that he was simply repeating what I was saying.
Just when I was about to continue to defend myself, Wei Yuanhu suddenly focused the contradiction on me again, and he said that if there is something wrong with me, the easiest way is to verify whether there are Gu worms in my body.
Because as far as he knew, all Burmese Gu masters would raise Gu in their own bodies, and they would know if they were good or bad.
......
I thought Wei Yuanhu was really ignorant, because his explanation of the Gu Master was obviously wrong, Ouyang Shuo was also a Gu Master, and his sister had also dealt with the Gu Master all year round, and I had never seen Ouyang Shuo have Gu worms in his body, or Ouyang Jingjing had mentioned something similar.
In fact, if you use a human body to raise Gu, that person will also suffer great damage, and I don't think those Gu masters will be so stupid.
But I quickly understood Wei Yuanhu's intentions, the reason why he said this was not because his news was wrong, but because ...... You want to kill me!
At this point, he began to shake out the fact that I had killed a few town guards before, which completely angered all the onlookers, and even the boss of the intelligence scheme didn't know how to coax him now......
Stimulated by this incident, everyone agreed with Wei Yuanhu to verify my identity, and then Wei Yuanhu told everyone that if you want to verify whether I am a Gu Master, then you must burn my body with fire, as long as there are Gu worms in my body, the Gu worms will break out of my body, if not, then prove that I am innocent.
"What a!" I scolded directly: "Roast it over fire? You already roasted me to death before you roasted the Gu worms! You clearly want to kill me!"
"You murderer! I should kill you!" The townsfolk around me burst into flames, and the people who threw stones at me just now had their blades in place, looking like they were going to disembowel me.
Wei Yuanhu walked up to me with a gloomy face, then looked into my eyes and whispered, "That's right, I'm just going to kill you." ”
......
I didn't say anything, just stared at him for two seconds, and then I understood what he meant.
He's not worried that I'm an undercover agent for those people, he's actually ...... It's the fear that I'll threaten his position!
That's right, I'm afraid I'll replace him as mayor of this town!
I'm not wronged about that, because I did, and I'm going to do it in the future, but ...... Can he see through me?
Wei Yuanhu took a few steps back after speaking, and then the two attendants on the side tied me to a stone pillar in the middle of the hall, and one of the townspeople handed him a torch, and more townspeople began to pile firewood at my feet.
I ...... grass
How does this feel so much like the scene of medieval Europeans burning witches?
And I'm that "witch" now.
Wei Yuanhu's movements were very fast, as soon as the firewood was put on, he ignited it with a torch, and I immediately felt a hot wave under my feet, and the next moment I was choked by the smoke and couldn't breathe normally.
Normally, people who don't burn in flames will actually choke to death by the smoke before they are burned to death......
I'm in this situation right now, I feel like my whole airway is being doused with chili pepper water, and I can't see anything clearly.
Will someone come to my rescue?
Of course not, the moon spirit won't care about me anymore, not to mention, even if she comes, she won't be able to break through so many townsfolk guards without the support of psionic energy.
Others don't have to count on it, if they want to survive now, they still have to rely on themselves.
I struggled with my arms while the fire had not completely knocked me unconscious.
That Wei Yuanhu knew that my strength was not an ordinary person, so he deliberately made up two iron rings when he tied me just now, and now it is actually the iron rings on these two wrists that are restricting my movements.
I tried to use brute force to break free of the hoop, but I didn't succeed, the texture of the hoop seemed to be very hard, but fortunately, I didn't work on the hoop, but just kicked my back leg and kicked the stone pillar behind me.
The pillar was not as hard as an iron ring, and I kicked it over, and then I heard a scream all around me, but it wasn't me, they were screaming, it was ...... That Gu worm of mine!
Probably because the fire was too strong, causing the temperature around it to rise for a while, my Gu worm actually flew out at this time, it obviously sensed my danger, and now its whole body erupted with an extremely bright blue light.
This blue light is a little muddy compared to the moon spirit's, but the visual impact is stronger.