Chapter Twenty-Four: The Bandits in Troubled Times (Asking for Red Tickets and Collections)
"Reincarnation No. 228, under the prestige of respect, the title of righteous warrior will bring you the special effect of increasing your attack and defense by 10% within fifty yards of your subordinates!"
Xu Mo also saw it at this time, and a circle of orange-yellow light emanating from him that no one else could see, enveloping the bandits within fifty yards around him. These bandits only felt a shock to their spirits, and their bodies exuded more strength than usual, and they all excitedly accelerated the pace of their feet.
Xu Mo nodded secretly, it turned out that this was the role mentioned in the title of the righteous man - "This title will have a wonderful effect on some specific occasions and characters." ”
After reading the information in the soul imprint, Xu Mo already understood that the second main quest was estimated to be the back hand of the space after the arrangement and guidance of the first main quest. Xu Mo stayed in Qiu Chi for two days, and escaped from Qiu Chi in the early morning of the third day, plus the time he was in a hurry, a total of five days passed.
The war between Yang and Jiang starts after five days, which means that any reincarnation will get an additional ten days of stay as long as the first main quest is completed, and will be forced to participate in this war between Yang and Jiang.
This also verifies Xu Mo's original assumption that the space is consciously arranging and guiding the reincarnators to carry out the main quest one. The main quest is too simple, on the first day Xu Mo entered Qiu Chi, he had the opportunity to join the Sword Transformation Pavilion, and presumably the other reincarnators were the same.
With a better mind, enterprising reincarnators will be able to complete the first main quest earlier, thus gaining more preparation time for themselves to complete the second quest. With the strength of the reincarnation, you can basically use the remaining preparation time to get a good position in a certain force for yourself and reduce the danger of the main quest two.
Even like Xu Mo, he took the initiative to find an opportunity to hide the mission, although it was more dangerous, but as long as it was successfully completed, he could enhance his strength and provide a better foundation for himself to complete the second main quest.
And if the reincarnator can get by, do not look for the hidden task, or even avoid and reject the first main quest, just want to spend ten days safely, complete the main quest and return to space, then he will be very passive to join the main quest two, and the danger will be greater.
This is also the cruelty of space, the law of survival of the fittest is always prompting the reincarnation to continue to progress, constantly to complete the world tasks given by space, enhance their strength, and achieve the mission goals of space.
Thinking of this, Xu Mo's eyes flashed, his main quest in Yang Country was very simple, and I believe that the reincarnation in Jiang Country was the same. But it is clear that in addition to the two capitals, in fact, the reincarnation has other options. This is to join the two capitals, and the same private forces as these bandit forces, join the battlefield as a third party in the war between the two countries.
Unlike the official forces, joining these private forces, the reincarnation has a higher degree of autonomy and can better protect itself in the war, the only drawback is that there are fewer hidden tasks.
Although these bandits are all yellow and thin, they are not all useless, at least in the usual caution, they have trained more teamwork, not the courage of a brazen horseman.
If they eat and drink enough, plus the 10% attack and defense that the title of righteous warrior gives them, with Xu Mo's esteem and prestige among them, and give them a morale boost, they can also be used as half a regular soldier.
The mountain body of Chiji Mountain is not high, only more than 200 meters under Xu Mo's visual inspection, which can be said to be just a small mountain. The terrain is quite steep, there is only one mountain road leading to the top of the mountain, one side is a steep mountain wall, and the other side is a cliff with a slope of almost 75 degrees.
At this time, Ji Liao was tied by the bandits, and followed the team, looking a little wilted. Although he also knew that he was defeated by Nie Li, one of the three righteous warriors of Qiu Chi, this feeling of being transformed from the master of a village to a prisoner was not good, not to mention that he didn't know what Xu Mo would do with him.
After everyone reached the top of the mountain, Xu Mo finally saw the so-called Chiji Village. The summit of Mt. Chiji is a flat roof about the size of two football fields, and the ground is flat black soil, and in some places it is mixed with gravel to serve as a walkway.
At the front of the flat roof is a three-meter-high wooden stake wall, with a gate in the middle, behind which several emaciated bandits are guarded by bamboo spears.
Entered the walled gate, is a wide martial arts field, there is a stone archway in front of the martial arts field, the archway is engraved with "Chiji Mountain" three big seals, the font is quite atmospheric, I don't know if there is really a calligraphy among these bandits, or find someone to carve.
Behind the archway is the main hall of Chiji Village, and behind this hall is the rest house of the bandits. After Xu Mo walked around the cottage, he found that these bandits were not completely unproductive. At least on the left side of the flat top, they set aside a vegetable patch, a pigsty, and a few chicken coops, which were well kept.
After walking around the cottage, Xu Mo's eyes flashed, and he ordered all the small leaders among the bandits to go to the main hall to talk. Xu Mo did it cross-legged behind the incense case in the main hall, and after a while, the three little bandit leaders came to the main hall to meet Xu Mo.
"Fang Mao, Lu Chen, Qu He meet the leader!" After the three thieves saluted, they stood in place nervously, waiting for Xu Mo to speak. They are all the henchmen of the original leader Ji Liao, although the material of Chiji Village is relatively poor, but as Ji Liao's henchmen, they can still eat and drink enough.
For these troubled bandits on the border between the two countries, they were originally just civilians with broken families, deserters in the army, as long as they could eat and drink enough, they were satisfied, and they didn't have too many pursuits.
Xu Mo's bravery in the battle with Ji Liao at the foot of the mountain, they have already seen it, as Ji Liao's henchmen, the three of them are also the three most active people to attack Xu Mo, but Xu Mo is too strong, deterring most of the bandits, and they have no choice but to die down in the end.
The ascension of a new leader means that the old and the new are replaced, and under normal circumstances, their small boss status is basically over. They don't have the idea of being a small boss now, they just need to be satisfied if they can save their lives.
"You don't have to panic, sit down first!" Xu Mo pointed to the small tables on both sides of the main hall, and waited for a few people to sit down before continuing to speak, "In the cottage, how many brothers are there now, and how much money and food are there?" ”
The three bandit leaders glanced at each other, and it was better for the older Qu He to reply:
"Nie Li, the leader, excluding us and Ji Liao, there are a total of thirty-six brothers in the cottage. There are about four stones of grain, three pigs, six chickens, twenty catties of wine, and thirty catties of minced meat. ”
Xu Mo nodded, one stone of grain is about 60 kilograms of modern times, 120 city catties, people in this era only eat two meals a day, except for Ji Liao, they are a total of 40 people, one person eats one pound of grain a day, one stone of grain can be eaten for about three days, four stones of grain have twelve days, plus pigs and chickens, that is, half a month's storage of grain.
If Ji Liao does not control the distribution of food, then soon Chiji Village will run out of food, no wonder these bandits are all yellow and thin. However, this is not a problem for Xu Mo, he does not need to strictly control the rations of the bandits.
The war is about to begin, these bandits, as his subordinates, are going to go to the battlefield with him, on the battlefield, as long as they can win, they will not worry about no gain, and after more than ten days, how many of these bandits can be left in front of me is probably a problem.
After Xu Mo finished calculating, he suddenly thought of a language problem in Qu He's words, so he frowned and asked, "Minced meat?" Cottage slaughtered livestock a few days ago? What is it? ”
Qu He and the three of them glanced at each other, and Qu He replied cautiously: "Those few livestock, Ji Liao is not allowed to move on weekdays, and only after we have made a big deal, Ji Liao will allow the brothers to eat a meal of meat." During this time, we haven't done a lot of business for a long time, and the leader of those minced meats will know a thing or two when he comes to see it. ”
Xu Mo's eyes flashed, and when he heard Qu He's answer, he had a very bad premonition. Then he got up, followed Qu and the three out of the main hall, and came to a house in the cottage.
After entering the house and seeing the things in the house, Xu Mo sighed secretly, the situation in the house was similar to what he expected. It's a slaughterhouse, but it's not about animals, it's about people.
The house was filled with all kinds of slaughter knives, and several iron chains hung from the roof, and the top of the chains was a curved iron hook. On the iron hook were several human limbs, presumably limbs, which looked like they had been salted. On the walls hung two sets of human bones that had been shaved and hollowed out.
After the four of them entered the house, there was a brief silence, and Qu He and the three of them felt the cold chill emanating from the man in front of them, and they couldn't help sweating on their foreheads, and involuntarily slowly took a few steps back.
For these bandits, they don't have much resistance to eating human flesh, in troubled times, they have seen more tragic things than Xu Mo, as long as they can live, they don't care whether others are dead or alive. If that person could fill their hungry stomach with their own flesh, they would be absolutely disrespectful.
To the surprise of the three bandits, Xu Mo was silent for a while, but he didn't get angry at them, but just turned his back to them and asked lightly:
"Are there any other prisoners in the cottage who are treated as minced meat?"
Qu He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, shook his head and replied: "There are only these two, they were originally a couple who fled, and they were ...... by us a few days ago."
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