Chapter 280: The People Are Suffering
Through the butterfly, Zhou Ming began Shen San's memories in recent years. The previous guess was not wrong at all, Shen San was indeed a veteran in the desert area. In his memories in recent years, he is very informative, in addition to the regular hunting of beasts from other worlds, Zhou Ming soon came to several murderous experiences.
"It seems that these people are already habitual offenders......"
Zhou Ming sighed in his heart, if he and Chen Ting were defeated tonight, there was no doubt that it would be a nightmare to greet them.
Through Shen San's memory, Zhou Ming found that this group of people acted in a very ruthless style, and they were definitely not good. In the past few years, almost none of the "fat sheep" they targeted survived. Not only do they rob, but they usually kill people in order not to leave any trouble.
Of course, these are not what Zhou Ming really cares about.
What he really wanted to know was something about the desert beyond hunting and looting.
Shen San didn't disappoint him, and he was really discovered by Zhou Ming a lot of valuable things.
“...... It's not good!"
After a long time, Zhou Ming slowly raised his head and looked at Chen Ting with a solemn expression.
"Brother Ping, do you have a clue?"
Chen Ting looked at Zhou Ming in surprise, and found that Zhou Ming's face was already gloomy, and his eyebrows were full of uneasiness.
"There's a clue!"
Zhou Ming nodded, his fingers moved slightly, and the butterfly immediately flapped its wings and flew up, turning into a sharp blade and landing in his palm. Silently, with a slight shock of the wrist, the cold light has crossed the hazy night. When Shen San's head quietly slipped from his neck, Zhou Ming's gaze had already drifted into the distance, falling into the depths of the night three hundred miles away. That place is where Chixuan City is located.
"It's all bad news!"
Zhou Ming shook his head and said helplessly: "Ting'er, we have to go to Chixuan City!"
"The clue is in Chixuan City?"
Chen Ting followed Zhou Ming's footsteps closely, and suddenly felt uneasy. She knows that Zhou Ming's personality has always been optimistic. The bad news that can make him so dignified must be terrible.
Could it be that the Green Tiger Department has really perished?
She couldn't help but be suspicious, but she didn't ask more. In the Green Tiger Department, there are also her deceased. Zhang Yunlong, Zhang Cailuan, Yuan Ye, and Huang Xiong are all disciples she brought out. After more than ten years of companionship, how can there be no feelings?
"That's right!"
Zhou Ming stretched out his hand and grabbed it directly, and then stuffed it into the Heavenly Tiger Palace, glancing at a few killed Soul Devouring Demon Beasts, and couldn't help but feel a little pity. Now, he knew the value of this otherworldly beast. What's more, if you want to go into the city to do things this time, it is naturally impossible to be empty-handed.
"We're going to have to find a guy named Dukang!
Zhou Ming closed his eyes slightly, then took a deep breath, trying to adjust his thoughts to calm down.
As he said, Du Kang is a key person.
This matter probably started with the Kingdom of Mountains and Seas starting to build a city in the desert.
This city, now known as Chixuan City, is as strategically important as Hornstone City in the Roaring Kingdom, built to conquer the Otherworld.
The teleportation arrays built by the two countries were set up in these two cities.
At the beginning, on the side of the Mountain and Sea Kingdom, a large number of sand people were mainly recruited to do basic work and assist the beast masters to complete the task of building the city.
There is no doubt that in this huge project, the role played by ordinary sandmen is that of the lowest level of coolies.
The Sandfolk were once free people in the desert, masters in the vast desert. When they were suddenly invaded by the expeditionary army of the Kingdom of Mountains and Seas and conquered with a devastating force, I am afraid that they had no idea that their tragic history had just begun.
With the beginning of the great cause of building the city, a large number of sand people were recruited. When the first batch of sand people were coaxed and tricked to the construction site, in just a few months, these free and fierce sand people realized the truth.
-- The benefits promised by the kingdom have been seriously reduced, and the intensity and risks of the work have been seriously exceeded. A large number of sand people died in the midst of heavy work, and even died of exhaustion.
Those old men in the Kingdom of Mountains and Seas don't treat them as human beings at all, they completely treat them as slaves, without any dignity, and they are even inferior to cattle and horses.
Obviously, the officials of the kingdom who presided over the recruitment of ordinary laborers were not good people, and they were very dark-hearted, trying in vain to extract oil and water from the sandmen.
It's a pity that he didn't grasp the scale. Or rather, he is too ruthless and greedy.
Realizing the truth, the Sandfolk began to flee and brought their fate back to the various Sandfolk tribes.
This result led directly to the unanimous revolt of the Shads. They no longer sent manpower to the kingdom, and even evaded the officials who recruited labor.
Thus, the contradiction arises.
The construction of the city is very important, and it is impossible to slow down the progress. As long as the work is underway, then a lot of labor will inevitably be required. It is simply impossible for such a huge project to be done by the beast master alone. What's more, how can the honorable beast masters be willing to do the work that coolies should do?
In order to solve this problem, a character named Du Kang appeared.
Recruiting labor from within the kingdom is obviously too costly, and it is obviously not cost-effective for some greedy and black-hearted beings.
In fact, they rejected this idea from the start. They resorted to an even more brutal and lucrative plan: to capture people directly from the Sandfolk tribes.
The character Du Kang is mainly responsible for this matter.
In the first year or so, the sandmen still had some room to maneuver, after all, the desert was huge, and they still had a lot of places to escape.
But when the beast tide in the Onijin Mountain broke out, everything changed. In the face of the increasing beast crisis, they have no choice at all, and finally can only seek refuge in the Kingdom of Mountains and Seas.
Eventually, the sandmen were sheltered. However, they were no longer free sandmen, but completely reduced to slavery. At present, only a small part of the sandfolk are still holding on, struggling to survive under the minions of fierce beasts.
In the process of changing the fate of the entire sand people, how many terrifying and bloody things have happened. Those details of history are simply unimaginable nightmares.
Zhou Ming now suspected that in this series of incidents, the entire Wind Wolf Alliance was also involved.
In other words, it is very likely that all the people of the Green Tiger Tribe, like most of the sandmen, have become slaves in Chixuan City.
So before the Great Migration, there were only more than 10,000 people in the Qinghu Tribe, what would be the scene now?
It's really a scary question.
It's a pity that Shen San doesn't seem to care much about these issues that have nothing to do with his own interests, so he only knows that this series of events has happened, and as for the specific details, he knows very little, let alone the fate of a small tribe.
Zhou Ming's purpose in going to Chixuan City was to further find answers.