Chapter 8: A Seed

On the border, the Wu country also sent soldiers to garrison, but some bold and upright dynasty people would still sneak across the border in groups, sneak into the Wu country, catch some ordinary people in the Wu country, sweep the wealth of a village, and then quietly flee back to China.

Not to mention the wealth of the Wu villages, those who were arrested were also wealthy, and they would be branded as slaves and bought and sold as trades.

Because the Duanzheng Dynasty was a country that allowed the slave trade, it was a tradition in this country to keep a few slaves at home.

Someone was caught, and naturally someone fled.

According to those who had fled from the Chungzheng Dynasty, the captured men would be sent to mine, cultivate, farm, and do some physical labor, while the women were used as maids or concentrated in factories to create wealth for the Chungzheng Dynasty.

And these are just appearances, and the real facts feel a little ridiculous.

Those who were caught, as long as the men were strong and the women were beautiful, some of them would be sent to secret places, and most of them were left in the manor by the Shura people in order to help the Duanzheng Dynasty breed the population, which was also the reason for the rapid growth of the population of the Duanzheng Dynasty.

It's just that there is one identity of the person who is arrested that will not change, and that is slave.

Their lives are not guaranteed, and the Shura can kill slaves at will, and even if the Asuras are crazy and beastly, they can tear the slaves apart at will, making them a pile of white bones without any punishment.

Although the Duanzheng Dynasty is called the Shura people to the outside world, there are still differences in appearance and personality between the Shura people and the Asura people.

The Shura people are all handsome and dashing in appearance, have extremely high intelligence, and pay attention to their demeanor in dealing with people, which is no different from other countries on the mainland. The Asuras, on the other hand, are uncivilized barbarians, ugly in appearance, stupid, brave and ruthless, and often mad.

As long as the Asura people go crazy, the level of wisdom decreases, just like the mountain beasts without enlightenment, they will attack people and eat human flesh, so this phenomenon is called beastification on the mainland.

It's just that although the Asuras are stupid and ugly, they are good warriors and loyal to the Asuras, which seems to be a belief that has been deeply rooted in their bones.

Therefore, the Asura people are the eternal subordinates of the Shura people, and the entire upright dynasty is the world of the Shura people.

The Asuras are handsome and like to enjoy but do not know how to produce, while the Asuras can only fight and destroy. Therefore, although the area of the Duanzheng Dynasty is not small, one-third of the entire country is desert, and the population has swelled dramatically in recent years, and all kinds of resources are very poor.

Without resources, plus they can't produce, they can't survive without plundering, and they are constantly fighting internally, and plundering is a part of their lives, and it's a matter of course. From a deeper perspective, expanding the territory and seizing resources is the national policy of the correct dynasty, so as to ensure the domestic balance.

Ma Linlong has always believed that this is the reason why the people of the Duanzheng Dynasty want to plunder.

At the earliest, he also listened to the plundering of the Duanzheng dynasty as a story. It's just a horror story, like a story about an adult scaring a child and shouting that a wolf is coming.

The feeling at that time was the same as the feeling of Meng Huan Chilong now, some didn't believe that this was true, why did the people of the upright dynasty plunder the wealth of others and arrest people from other countries to do things?

Until the early hours of one morning, a group of tall, strong, rude and savage Asuras, led by a dozen handsome Asuras, armed with various weapons, murderously rushed into the sleeping village and attacked his unsuspecting people.

Only then did he realize that all this was true, and the people of the upright dynasty would not only rob the Wu people, but also kill the Wu people. All their wealth, in the eyes of the people of the upright dynasty, is the money in their pockets.

Ma Lin Long was awakened by the sound of the hooves of a group of mountain beasts running, he jumped out of bed, and when he rushed out the door, he saw a chaotic village, a burning village.

Flames rose from some rooftops and spread into a large fire, slowly lighting up the entire night sky.

He saw men in armor, sitting on tall mountain beasts, chasing their own people. While the clansmen were fleeing in all directions, men with weapons in hand roared and rushed towards those in armor.

In the light of the fire, those hideous asuras brandished their weapons and met the rushing man, only to see the sword flash, blood splashed, and the heads of the clansmen flew into the sky.

This scene provoked even more anger or cries of fear from the people. Those hideous and tall asuras laughed happily, and killing was a kind of joy for them.

More Asuras, jumping off their mounts, rushed into the chaotic crowd, captured those who were powerless to resist, and plundered all the wealth of the village.

A dozen handsome Shuras, sitting on mounted beasts, blocked the exit of the village, preventing their tribesmen from rushing out, and if anyone rushed over, they would attack from their mounts, knocking down or killing those who rushed in.

At this time, Ma Linlong felt that the story about the Shura people was true, not just a joke that made people laugh.

To him, those Shura and Asura people were a bunch of demons.

In the early hours of that morning, the people of the Duanzheng Dynasty not only changed the life of Ma Linlong, but also changed the history of a village.

Although the village is very small, with only more than 500 people, this village is the whole of Ma Linlong.

Most of the villages in the country are the residence of a single family, and only the town is a mixed place of multiple surnames. So the village is Ma Linlong's home, where all his relatives are, and all his emotions are here.

Just overnight, the village was gone.

He remembered the tragic scene after the ransacking of the village, the whole village was empty, it seemed to be dilapidated and depressed in an instant, and the village, which had been alive for thousands of years, was completely in ruins. The entire village was only a litter of corpses and splatters of blood, and some of the broken houses were still burning silently on the beams.

The strongest feeling is quiet, a kind of stillness that is different from tranquility, but a dead silence that does not feel a little vitality.

The mountain wind whipped up a thick and pungent bloody gas, which permeated the entire village, stimulating all the senses of the Ma Lin Dragon. This feeling numbled him, and it also made him feel a trace of murderous intent, because his heart ached.

He didn't believe that his familiar relatives were gone, leaving him alone in this lonely village.

In those days, he wept silently, drained all his tears, and all that was left was hatred, and this emotion burned violently in his heart like a fire in the mountains. He couldn't and didn't want to extinguish the fire of hatred, but let it burn more and more in his heart, burning into endless killing intent, straight to the clouds.

It was a complete accident that Ma Linlong escaped capture and killing by the Asuras.

When he was woken up by the noise of the village, Abba told them to flee with Grandma, but Abba himself rushed at the asuras, brandished an iron rod, and smashed the head of a grinning asura with a single blow.

In the screams of the Asura people, Ma Linlong took Ah Di's hand, followed Ah Ma, and ran towards the outside of the village.

As he rounded a corner, he glanced back and saw Abba for the last time. I saw that Abba was knocked out by an Asura man more than a foot tall, and Abba spurted blood from his mouth, and he fell to the ground and couldn't get up again.

It should be said that Ma Linlong's grandmother made the right choice, when she saw that the entrance to the village was blocked by the Shura people, she fled with the children towards the back mountain of the village, which is a dense mountain forest, as long as she escapes into it, she will have a chance to survive.

It's a pity that they forgot that the people of the Duanzheng Dynasty came by riding beasts, and the two-legged people couldn't outrun the four-legged riding beasts, so they were captured one by one, or killed by the Asuras in the mountains and forests.

Only Ma Linlong was lucky, and when he was following behind his grandmother and running away with his brother, an asura man riding a mountain beast rushed over, grabbed his brother, and picked him up.

Before he could snatch his brother, the fast-running riding beast crashed into him. He only felt his whole body soar into the air, then lose his balance and fall downward. When the head was hit strongly, I only felt that my eyes were dark, and the whole person fainted.

It was a deep pit hidden by the grass, and the grass blocked the Asura people's view, plus after he fainted, he didn't make any sound, and the Asura people didn't have the heart to look for it, because there were still many prey running away, so he escaped the Asura people's capture.

He was just fourteen years old that year, about the same age as Menghuan Chilong now.

When he awoke in the darkness and struggled to crawl out of the pit, he saw only a ray of sunlight pouring down from the sky, illuminating the already cold village, and the air was not as fresh as before, only a strong and pungent smell of blood.

He didn't care about any of that, he just wanted to see how his people were, how his village was, because that's all he had.

But the village was empty, and when the Asura people left, they set fire to all the houses, and a fire reflected the entire mountain forest, and puffs of smoke flew into the sky. Not only did they rob the village, but they burned the memories of it.

Ma Linlong saw that there were many clansmen in the village who were lying in pools of blood, and that was the strong warrior of their village, who was killed for resisting the plundering of the people of the Righteous Dynasty, and his Abba was one of them.

He looked into the distance again, and the asuras, wielding swords and spears, rode all kinds of riding beasts, and ran happily towards the border line.

The people were dragged behind the riding beasts like cattle. Some of the clansmen were dragged to the ground and let out a terrible scream, but the Asuras ignored it, just laughed proudly and continued to gallop forward.

Looking at all this, he couldn't do anything, because he was young and didn't have the ability to resist the people of the upright dynasty. And he was the last life of the village, and if he died, the village would really be gone.

On the slopes of the back hills, surrounded by grass that had been burned yellow by fire, Ma Linlong fell to his knees deeply, and the fire and smoke rising from the village, and the painful cries of the people in the distance, made him close his eyes and cover his ears.

But he couldn't hold his heart, and the bone-chilling pain made him faint again.

At this time, a seed was quietly planted in his heart, and took root, and he wanted to avenge his people.

And the premise of revenge is that you must be strong, which is the only way to solve hatred.