38 Sprinkle beans into chickens
Wu Xiaoqing almost subconsciously put the sword back, and then took out the pistol.
But these people in front of him are densely packed, and if you look closely, there are still old and young. And they didn't seem to be too aggressive, those who were facing him just watched from afar, if he stopped, they would stop, never come closer, if he retreated, they would follow.
But those people on the flanks moved relatively fast, and the few who rushed to the front had even almost overtaken Wu Xiaoqing and went directly in the direction of Shen Changwen.
Shen Changwen had a pistol there, and there was nothing else to defend himself. Once the gun was fired, the group of people in front of him was ......
The consequences are unimaginable.
Wu Xiaoqing could only race with the group of people on the flank, but fortunately, the speed of these people was far worse than Wu Xiaoqing's, and they had to pant in place every time they ran, and they didn't look very good.
Wu Xiaoqing held a shield in one hand and a gun in the other, nervously watching the group of people in front of him gradually approach, and then slowly surrounded the two of them.
It's impossible to run, although the road behind them is still empty, but the two of them can't run fast at all with such a heavy package. Even if he wanted to give up the package, it was no fun - when Shen Changwen walked over, he was already too tired to walk. Now, even if I run desperately, I'm afraid I can only run one or two hundred meters, and then lie on the ground tired.
But fortunately, they have two pistols on them, and if things really go out of their control, they can at least scare and scare these natives.
"Wu Xiaoqing," Shen Changwen noticed that after Wu Xiaoqing put away his sword, these natives seemed to have become much bolder, "You still take out the sword, they don't know the gun." β
Wu Xiaoqing showed his sword, and the encirclement that was gradually shrinking immediately became larger at a visible speed.
This fact made Wu Xiaoqing realize that they should still be afraid of him, so he took a few quick steps in one direction, making it look like he was going to charge, and sure enough, the people in that direction scattered in panic like chickens being chased by dogs.
The other party's cowardly performance made Wu Xiaoqing regain a lot of self-confidence, he went back and tried again in another direction, and successfully forced back a wave of people again. But at this time, the first wave of those who were forced to retreat slowly gathered around.
After driving back and forth a few times like this, the other party seemed to have adapted to Wu Xiaoqing's deterrence, and each time the amplitude of being forced back began to decrease, and in the crowd, some people were eager to try to attack, they picked up the small stones on the ground and smashed them at them.
Wu Xiaoqing was okay, there was a shield to cover, but Shen Changwen was miserable, he could only hide behind Wu Xiaoqing desperately.
In addition to the stones, there were also several very long wooden spears stretched out from time to time in the crowd, and these wooden spears were not close, they were dangling a meter or two in front of Wu Xiaoqing, but Shen Changwen was very scared when he saw this thing - if he was accidentally stabbed by this thing, he might be stabbed in a hole in his body.
The approaching threat finally made Shen Changwen a little unbearable, picked up the pistol, and fired three shots at the sky in a row!
The loud noise frightened the natives enough, and immediately dozens of people ran back, but after they retreated a few dozen meters, they found that the noise seemed to be harmless, and they all came back one by one - if they couldn't get a piece of the bean cake because of this, then they would suffer a big loss.
Taking advantage of their confusion, Shen Changwen had already changed*, and asked Wu Xiaoqing to put down the sword in his hand and pick up the gun again.
The natives gathered around again, and Shen Changwen had already prepared for the worst - it seemed that he had to kill a few people today.
"Put the walkie-talkie in front of the loudspeaker," the search and rescue team spoke through the walkie-talkie at this time, "I roughly understand a few words of their language, let me try it." β
Shen Changwen did so and turned up the volume of the speaker to the maximum.
Then, the voice of the search and rescue team, through the walkie-talkie and then through the horn, became a huge vibration in the air, and it was transmitted precisely to the ears of every native.
Shen Changwen and Wu Xiaoqing didn't know what the search and rescue team was saying, but those natives must have understood, and looking at their expressions, it seemed that understanding was not enough to completely describe it, they should have listened stupidly.
The search and rescue team told Wu Xiaoqing through his glasses: "Grab a handful of glass marbles and scatter them on them, and then you can leave quickly." β
Wu Xiaoqing hurriedly went to the bag to find it, the glass marbles they bought online were covered in a whole large plastic bag, Wu Xiaoqing hurriedly didn't bother to untie the plastic bag, and directly tore it open, and then reached in with both hands, grabbed a large handful as much as he could, and then used all his strength to scatter these glass beads to the crowd.
The next scene made Wu Xiaoqing unforgettable for the rest of his life:
Wu Xiaoqing has fed chickens in the countryside, and he knows that when he sprinkles the chickens, if he scatters them too intensively, the chickens will even jump on their companions to peck at the feed, and this kind of grabbing sometimes causes some damage.
But the scene in front of me can no longer be described simply as a snatch of food.
Everyone was like crazy, desperately in the field, in the clothes of their companions, desperately rummaging for this kind of glass beads on Taobao, an average of two cents a piece. With each one, the finder would eagerly shove the bead into his mouth - probably the best place to store things on their bodies, and then look down for more.
After they cleaned the glass beads on the surface first, they naturally noticed that there were still many fish that had slipped through the cracks in the soil, so everyone was very decisive and picked up their hands and began to dig. For a while, the scene was dusty, and from a distance, it was almost thought that this group of people were fighting each other in the mud.
Taking advantage of this chaos, Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen hurriedly packed their bags and hurriedly walked in the opposite direction. They walked out for more than a kilometer, and when they looked back with binoculars, there were still many people lying on the ground, rummaging carefully, and they even brought farming tools and carefully pulled up the place where Wu Xiaoqing threw glass marbles, as if these glass marbles were likely to drill into the ground.
"These people are crazy poor." was so far away, Wu Xiaoqing looked at the people in the camera, and he still had palpitations when he searched carefully.
"This kind of behavior is normal," the search and rescue team told Wu Xiaoqing a fact that he might not be willing to face, "when you went to look for that piece of gold, it was actually not much different from them." β
"Impossible, no," Wu Xiaoqing still remembers the scene of digging gold, "I will leave as soon as I dig it." β
"Indeed," said the search and rescue team, "so you're worse than them, or at least they're pragmatic." β
"You guys stop for a moment", Shen Changwen interrupted the two of them, "Wu Xiaoqing, look at the ...... ahead"
Wu Xiaoqing picked up the binoculars and saw that not far ahead, there was a new farmland, in the farmland, there were slaves who were also working, and there were overseers with whips behind them.
"TMD", Wu Xiaoqing gritted his teeth and scolded, "Let's take a detour." β
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They met several groups of people, from merchants driving ox carts to soldiers on horseback who looked like knights. These people are all fine, after meeting and seeing Wu Xiaoqing's armor and sword shield, they will take the initiative to keep a suitable distance from Wu Xiaoqing, and some will even take the initiative to give way to show respect.
Wu Xiaoqing also got some general information from these people, and knew that a war between two religions seemed to be being prepared hereβthey believed in two suns of different sizes in the sky.
These people still seem to know some politeness, and Wu Xiaoqing has even learned a lot of understanding.
The most troublesome are the poor.
Yes, Wu Xiaoqing himself is a poor man on earth, but he still has to say so.
Oh, the poor people Wu Xiaoqing mentioned were the slaves he saw working in the fields before. Later he learned that they weren't, and that they were technically freedmen - they had the right to choose freely, whether to farm for their lord or starve their families to death.
There is a very funny fact, when the search and rescue team interpreter told them, Wu Xiaoqing himself didn't believe it, those overseers who held whips and stood behind to supervise everyone's labor were actually most of the free people who took the initiative to ask for it, and it was even a kind of welfare - yes, everyone raised money and spent money, and people used whips to spur themselves to work hard. Some of the poorer lords couldn't even afford to support such a full-time overseer.
Those free poor people are still acceptable when they meet Wu Xiaoqing alone, or just a few people. At most, they will avoid Wu Xiaoqing from a distance like a cow or sheep avoiding a lion, as if they are afraid that Wu Xiaoqing will rush over at any time with his shining silver sword and snatch the stinky rotten cloth strips on their bodies, or a few bags of beans and vegetables that they carry with them, or worry that Wu Xiaoqing, the knight lord, will ravage those "pure girls" who look like monkeys, thin and black, and have calculus between their teeth.
But when there are many of them, it becomes worrying. Sometimes there are dozens of small gangs together, and some of them look like farmers who are escorting grain together, but they are armed with weapons for self-defense; Sometimes, a few villagers set up a checkpoint on the road at the head of the village, and a dozen people with bows and arrows stood behind a wooden fence to check for "infidels" to infiltrate the ...... But no matter which one it is, when these peasants see Wu Xiaoqing and Shen Changwen, they will always stare at the big bags on their backs with the kind of familiar eyes that Wu Xiaoqing has seen before.
They barely hide their eyes.
The reason why these people were able to stop the impulse of evil in time, in Shen Changwen's opinion, the biggest reason may be the set of silver luxury armor that Wu Xiaoqing was wearing, which came from modern industrial production, at least they had not seen armor with more visual impact than Wu Xiaoqing's body all the way.
This constant vigilance lasted two days, 49 hours. Finally, on the horizon, the two saw a walled town. According to what they heard on the road, it was confirmed that the town was controlled by a "famous" lord - that is, that the lord would not attempt to rob or levy taxes on passing merchants like the poor - perhaps by coincidence, the two words seem to be pronounced very close in this world.
This is the best news the two of them have heard since they came to this world.