Chapter 23: The Beginning of the Conflict (4,000 words)

Just when those gangsters were looking for Li Zhen's traces under the leadership of the wolf-headed gangsters, Li Zhen encountered another bit of trouble in another place.

"Boy, new here, right?" Just after crossing two more blocks, Li Zhen was blocked again, looking at the dozen or so people in front of him, each with a watermelon knife in his hand, all with ill intentions, obviously different from the wolf-headed gangsters before - this is a group of real scum scum who live by blackmail, and it is not a pity to die.

"How can anyone tell I'm new?" Li Zhen is depressed, is her performance so bad? Is it a person who can see that he is a rookie?

Carrying a nail mallet and a gangster with a hole in the corner of his mouth, Li Zhen solved his doubts: "Hmph, if it weren't for the newcomer, who would look left and right like a hillbilly entering the city?" ”

"I see." Li Zhen understood, it turned out that there was something wrong with her behavior.

Knowing the reason for the matter, Li Zhen was relieved, and looked at the gangster in front of her with both hands: "Then what are you going to do?" ”

"You are messing around on my land, what are the rules, do you still need me to say it?" Another international gesture: "Protection fee, ten taels per person." ”

"You're going to rob?" Li Zhen pretended to be taken aback: "Ten taels of silver? Four people are forty taels, where did I get so much money? ”

A gangster next to him interjected: "Nonsense, we all saw it just now, you were very generous when you gave the kid the wolf head, where does it look like you don't have any money?" ”

It turned out that Li Zhen was targeted when she just came in, and they originally planned to go over to blackmail, but they were preempted by the wolf's head, so they hid aside to watch the play and saw everything in their eyes.

"It's okay, it's okay if you don't have money." Huozi gangster interrupted the little brother's words, and as soon as his eyes rolled, he had an idea, and looked at Li Zhen with a lewd smile: "Isn't there still you?" ”

"What do you mean?" Li Zhen subconsciously felt that the situation was wrong.

"It's easy." The wolf-toothed thug stared at Li Zhen's face: "Looking at your appearance, you are still quite handsome, so let's do it, as long as you let our brothers have a good time, not only do we not want your money, even if it is to paste your money upside down, it is not a problem." ”

"Hahaha......" The gangsters all laughed, not noticing Li Zhen's dark face.

"How? Boy, do you want to trade like this...... Ah......" Huozi gangster said and was about to touch Li Zhen's face, but where would Li Zhen let him succeed, his hand flipped, and a hand-solving knife appeared, instantly cutting off the gangster's hand and wrist.

The rest of the thugs were shocked: "Big brother...... Damn bastard, you dare to attack our Wolf Gang, brothers, give me and avenge my big brother. ”

"Kill."

"Waste them." Seeing this, there was no need for Li Zhen's orders, Cheng Chuliang and the three of them greeted them - don't look at the fact that there are only three of them, but each of them is experienced in a hundred battles, with a hundred fierce generals, each of them has at least hundreds of lives in their hands, and each of them has good skills, not to mention that there is also a peerless warrior like Fang Yiai, who is a thousand, and he is even more able to pull out a thousand and be invincible.

On the other hand, there are dozens of gangsters on the opposite side, but they are just the courage of a horseman, and they look quite powerful, but in fact, they are all weak chickens, and they can't resist the three of them in the face of Fang Yiai.

A quarter of an hour later, dozens of gangsters were all overturned, and at least one bone was broken in each of them, and the worst gangster was taken care of by the three of them in the melee, with at least three broken ribs and twisted limbs at different angles, even if he didn't die this time, I am afraid that the whole person would be wasted. On the other hand, Cheng Chuliang and the three of them, although their clothes were a little messy, they were not injured.

However, it may be that he is used to being fierce, although he was beaten up, but the gangsters were obviously not convinced, and still said ruthlessly: "Even if you are powerful, don't run away, our eldest brother will avenge us." ”

"Okay, that boy is waiting here." Li Zhen was already furious at this time, because when Cheng Chuliang and a few people beat up the gangsters, he already knew the details of this group of people - these people are not gangsters of the Wolf Gang at all, they are actually the low-level personnel under a human trafficking organization, the scum of the scum, the scum of the scum.

If selling hawthorn pills can be regarded as relying on ability to eat, then human traffickers are really scum among the scum, especially black market traffickers like the one in front of you who specialize in selling the people of the Tang Dynasty - that's right, human traffickers are actually divided into two kinds, one is naturally the human traffickers on the surface, this kind of human traffickers mainly sell foreign slaves, and this kind of human traffickers are supported by the imperial court, because their actions can not only make a lot of money for themselves, but also bring more slaves and technical talents to Datang, In other words, their behavior can contribute to the construction of the Tang Dynasty, and although some people in the court can't see through their behavior, they will not come forward to arrest them.

But in addition to this kind of human traffickers, there is also a kind of human traffickers, whose main target is not alien slaves - of course, they occasionally work part-time, but their goal is more to put on the people of the Tang Dynasty, through various means such as robbery, kidnapping, abduction, and fraud, to transport the people of the Tang Dynasty to the black market, and sell them to those rich people with special habits or foreign forces who have a deep blood feud against the Tang Dynasty.

Especially some of the alien forces that were conquered by the Tang Dynasty - the most typical example is Brahmanism, in recent years, because of the suppression of the Tang Dynasty, more and more believers have withdrawn from Brahmin, so in order to retain believers, the major sects within Brahmin have also exhausted their means, some of which are to use various terrorist means to intimidate believers, and then slowly rise a sacrificial method called blood sacrifice.

Blood sacrifice, as the name suggests, is to use the flesh and blood of living people to sacrifice to the gods, so every year these forces need a large number of living people for blood sacrifice - especially as the Tang Dynasty becomes stronger and stronger, the Han nation has been claimed to be the most noble nation in the world, and the people of the Tang Dynasty have become the most noble people in the world, and the people of the Tang Dynasty are treated as special citizens in other countries.

But because of this, their blood is even more loved by those cult forces, at the beginning these were done in person, but later some traffickers found out about the profits, so they gradually blackened under the stimulation of money, and eventually became black traffickers.

In addition to the blood sacrifice, some countries also noticed the threat of Datang, so they planned to start first and began to use various methods to infiltrate into Datang to obtain information, but the appearance of aliens is obviously different from that of Datang, and they can get some basic information, but they don't even have the qualifications to contact those secrets - so they thought of a way, that is, to get a group of Tang people through various means, and after brainwashing training, they will be sent back to Datang to help them climb up, This will make it easier to get confidential information.

Even some killer or mercenary organizations will focus more on the Tang people when selecting new blood, and during the training, a large number of people will die......

Plus those aristocrats or merchants who have perverted fetishes......

It can be said that this is a very large market, although the number of Tang people who have been sold is far less than the number of foreign slave sales, but because the price of Tang people is higher, the price of almost a Tang common person is dozens of times higher than that of foreign slaves, which has stimulated countless slave traders to join this industry.

But you must know that as early as when the Tang Dynasty conquered the Turks, the imperial court had already issued an edict that the people of the Tang Dynasty were not in the ranks of abduction, and traffickers were not allowed to abduct and sell the people of the Tang Dynasty, and the people of the Tang Dynasty were not allowed to become slaves for any reason.

However, just like the hawthorn pill, the laws of the imperial court can only raise the price of the Tang people, but it cannot prohibit the traffickers from selling the Tang people, but more people join the industry and make huge profits - the most serious time was in the twenty-first year of Zhenguan, when the traffickers were rampant to the extreme, and they dared to blatantly attack the village in broad daylight. In particular, overseas territories were attacked by hundreds of traffickers in Borneo that year, and at least thousands of people were taken away by traffickers, especially in some remote areas, and entire villages were wiped out.

Later, Li Zhen was ruthless, put a large number of retired weapons in the Borneo market, countless people were armed, and a village protection team was formed, so that the slave traders had a fair chance to fight. At the same time, Li Zhen did not do nothing, adopted the strictest spot check method, and sent two fleets to patrol the sea off Borneo, no matter where the ship, even if it was a small sampan, it must stop the ship for inspection, but if the mistreated Tang people are found on the ship, they will be killed directly, and if they encounter recalcitrant people, they will not even need to be searched, and they will be sunk directly with the ship.

Through this iron-blooded method, Li Zhen completely suppressed the arrogance of the slave traders, but this kind of thing can never be prohibited, although the imperial court has exhausted all methods, but in a place like the black market, human trafficking shops are still in full swing, and business is very good.

And the gangsters in front of them are working for a human trafficker organization - there is no doubt that they have been eyeing Li Zhen since Li Zhen entered Area 5, and the so-called letting Li Zhen accompany him is just an excuse, his main purpose is to get Li Zhen back and sell it for a good price. After all, Li Zhen's appearance is very handsome, and such "good goods" can be sold at a high price no matter which side of the force they sell, especially those nobles or businessmen who have special habits, and are willing to pay a high price to buy.

At this time, because of the previous fight, a large number of people had gathered around to watch the excitement, and they were very shocked that Li Zhen actually defeated dozens of people on the other side with only three people, but they were still not very optimistic about Li Zhen - after all, they didn't know what Li Zhen's background was, but they knew very well what the force was behind the gangsters, and they also knew very well how powerful this force was.

"Yo, Huozi was actually planted? That's a rarity. ”

"He deserves it, seeing that he is so arrogant on weekdays, he can't get used to him for a long time, this time he finally kicked the iron plate, right?"

"What if you plant it? Huozi is not the only one with such a small number of people, but he has the support of the iron boss behind him. ”

"That's it, these people are also fools, Huozi is obviously stalling for time, and they are actually fooled."

"Maybe it's because newborn calves aren't afraid of tigers, they don't know what kind of enemy they're facing."

"Cut, it's nothing more than relying on their own skills, the problem is that they can overturn more than a dozen people, but can they still deal with hundreds of thousands of people?"

"That's right, the Iron Boss's slave hunting team has thousands of people, no matter how powerful they are, what can they do?"

“……”

The onlookers who ate melons surrounded Li Zhen and pointed at him, but the content of the explanation in his mouth also made Cheng Chuliang and others roughly understand what kind of enemy they were facing, this group of damned human traffickers, actually wanted to abduct and sell His Royal Highness the Prince......

Cheng Chuliang was furious when he heard this: "Bastard, it is really not a pity to die if you dare to hit the idea on the son's body, I will go and call people to destroy them." ”

"No, our people are already here." The old god Li Zhen stopped Cheng Chuliang in the presence, he had already seen that in the crowd of onlookers, there were a few people who were obviously familiar faces, and as time went by, the number of these familiar faces became more and more - what the people who ate melons didn't know was that not only Huozi was waiting for someone, but Li Zhen was also waiting for someone.

However, this scene fell in the eyes of the onlookers and the people who ate melons, but it became synonymous with fools.

"Don't you want to leave? Do you really think you can run amok with a little ability? ”

"Hehe, it looks like they still don't understand what Iron Boss means?"

"No matter how high the martial arts are? It's a black market here, only the jungle eats the strong, but no one talks to you about morality. ”

“……”

"Whoa!"

Just when Li Zhen closed her eyes and waited, and the onlookers ate melons and watched the play, a commotion came into everyone's ears.

Li Zhen opened her eyes when she heard the voice: "It seems that your people are here." ”

"Hehe, that's right, our boss is here, you just wait to die." There was a cruel smile in the eyes of the open-mouthed thug: "What should I do with you later?" Is it a hammer that smashes your bones one by one? Or will they just cut you 3,600 knives and throw you into the river to feed the fish? ”

Li Zhen smiled and asked, "Why don't you kneel in front of me and kowtow and beg for mercy?" ”

"When you die, you still have a hard mouth, I will be merciful to let you be proud for a while, and then let you see Uncle Ben's ability...... Sucking ...... "The open-mouthed gangster has not given up Li Zhen's idea until now, and his eyes looking at Li Zhen are still full of filth......

(End of chapter)