177 Women are a very important strategic resource (Part I)
Chen Xiansong has been thinking about how to deal with Riccardo, so that he will feel a lot more comfortable. When people think about it a lot, they always come to some conclusions: he is not Riccardo's opponent yet, even with Xiaomin. The other party has a lot of money, and he can recruit many top masters, and two or three people can draw Xiaomin, and then he still has a large number of troops, which Chen Xiansong consciously does not have.
To deal with Riccardo, then you have to develop momentum, but this is also a big problem. What does it mean to have power, a lot of people, or a lot of money, or to have your own army? Then further thinking, then, how to make money, how to train, how to grab territory, but if a war is launched, many people will die on both sides, and in order to kill a Riccardo and bury countless lives, is it worth it? Such a thought appeared in his mind at the last time.
But if you don't kill Riccardo, what will he do if he comes to deal with himself in the future, and he will be captured?
He has been thinking, he has been calculating, and the sensibility and reason have clashed with each other, obsessively and reluctantly. It's a good thing to think, but if you think too much, it becomes a problem.
Seeing that Chen Xiansong didn't say a word as soon as he got in the car, he fell into his own world, and barely spoke, Bai Min was worried, the little guy was worried, Ruth was worried, and Catherine was very experienced, she found an opportunity to tell Udil about it, and when the latter heard it, he ordered the convoy to stop on the side of the road, and then pulled Chen Xiansong out of the car and walked behind a big tree.
The mercenaries dutifully emptied almost all the animals living in the vicinity, cut off all the grass and small trees that could obstruct the view, and then protected the two from a distance.
Chen Xiansong's eyes were still bright, but his face was much worse. Thinking for a long time exercised his spirit. But it continued to drain his physical strength. Udir took out a bamboo tube filled with spring water, he handed it to Chen Xiansong, and then asked, "Child, what are you thinking?" β
Chen Xiansong's expression was still a little dazed, the spring breeze blew from the forest, making people feel very pleasant, and he finally felt that he seemed to be sober: "Teacher, I'm thinking about how to deal with Riccardo." β
"How's it going?" Udir asked him.
"It seems like a lot of thought has been put into it. I feel like I'm going to succeed, but I don't seem to think of anything. Chen Xiansong patted his head and seemed to be much more sober: "I want to kill Ricciardo because he is a threat to me, but I don't want to kill him." Because he didn't pose a real threat to me, I didn't know what to do. β
"Then do you want to kill him?" Udir asked.
Chen Xiansong couldn't answer. He was influenced by the morality of the new humanity for many years. If it is found that it does not create an established fact, if it is merely that meaning, it is not a crime. But on the other hand, his subconscious told him that as long as Riccardo recovered from the war in the royal city, he would definitely kill them. If he didn't prepare early, he would regret it later, and these two concepts had been entangled in his head for a long time.
"Then did your elders tell you how to deal with the enemy?" Udir asked again.
"It doesn't matter how many enemies die. Just protect yourself and your loved ones. Chen Xiansong replied slowly, and the more he spoke, the brighter his eyes became.
This is a famous quote in the book "The Necessary Self-cultivation of Natural Persons and the View of the World", he has always remembered, but temporarily forgotten, now that he thinks about it, he feels a little stupid, and then can't help laughing at himself: "I'm really an idiot, I'm a natural person, and I'm not a new human being." For us natural people, relatives and survival come first, and nothing else is important. β
"Teacher, thank you." Chen Xiansong expressed his heartfelt thanks to Udier slightly, it was the first time he encountered such an important choice, it was normal to drill the horns of the bull, if it wasn't for someone to help enlighten him, I don't know when Lu Dao would be able to get out of the circle of thinking by himself.
The convoy set off again, and Chen Xiansong regained his spirits, which made all four people in the car very happy. Chen Xiansong even found that he no longer felt vomiting, and he realized at this time that what he vomited was not the taste of human flesh, but threw away his superfluous and unnecessary sympathy, and the festival was all over the ground.
This coup d'Γ©tat in Emperor Fall City has a lot to do with the association. No one knows what outsiders think, and no one can guarantee that the branch presidents of other cities are not from Riccardo. In order not to get into trouble, Udir advises the convoy not to settle in cities where there are associations, and to find those towns during their breaks until they return to Black Rock.
This suggestion was taken by all the people in the convoy, and for a few days, they had not entered a large city, and they had to pick those small roads with few people, and they were relatively safe until they approached Qingxi City, and the situation changed again.
About 30 kilometers away from Cheonggye City, there is a small town called 'Briganda', which means 'blessed land of white deer' from the name. Whether there are groups of white deer here, Chen Xiansong doesn't know the way, but he knows a little bit, the women here are in groups...... There weren't many men.
Although it was still early, if they continued to advance, they would have to settle down in Qingxi City, which was not in line with their plan, so they had to choose to rest here. As soon as Chen Xiansong got out of the carriage, he felt that countless eyes were focused on him, including surprise, joy, and desire...... There is just no malice.
Not only Chen Xiansong, but 99% of the team are men, and they are also the objects of attention. If you are watched by one or two women, men will be excited, if you are watched by three to five more women, you will feel embarrassed, and if you are watched by a large group of women with that kind of lust and dissatisfaction, it will only make people feel hairy, and it is not sexual happiness at all.
"What's going on?" Balgh asked Aslan, "What about the men here?" β
"I don't know, I passed by here a year ago, and everything is fine." Aslan also felt strange, and he replied in a low voice: "At that time, there were still many men, and now except for women, it seems that there are only little children under the age of ten. What the hell is going on, is it possible that the men have disappeared en masse? β
They found a hotel and sent a letter, and coincidentally, the owner was a middle-aged man, who looked a little haggard and seemed to be overworked. It seems like no one has been to this inn for a long time. There was a layer of dust on the tables and chairs, and the shopkeeper was surprised to see Chen Xiansong, and then he hurriedly cleaned up, and at the same time shouted outside, and six or seven beautiful women came in to help.
Chen Xiansong found an opportunity to ask him: "Shopkeeper, where did all the men in this town go, why haven't you seen a few?" β
"It's gone, it's gone." The shopkeeper's expression was very strange and a little glad. There was also some fear. He let the woman do the work, put down the work at hand, found a place to sit down, and talked endlessly.
About a month ago in the evening, someone in the village was heard shouting from far away: "Everyone, run away." There are demons. When they heard this, the women were afraid. But many men are more afraid. They got together and whispered, and the shopkeeper tried to join in to ask what was going on, but they were pushed out, and about early in the morning, they began to rest again, and the town became quiet again. But in the morning, many women got up and saw that their men were gone. About half of the men were gone. β
"At first, people thought they were going up to the mountains to hunt en masse." The shopkeeper recalled with a somewhat helpless look: "We waited until noon. They were not found to have returned, and they were not seen in the evening. The women were in a hurry, and we, the remaining men, organized ourselves and went to the nearby mountains to look for them, but as a result, nothing was found, nothing. Even if all the people were dead, we should have left something behind, but we really didn't find anything. β
"But there was a strange thing at that time, when we twenty or so of us went up the mountain to search, there were many other men who said that they would not go with us, and they seemed to know what to say, but none of them would say, even if Lady Gianna asked herself. And then another two days passed...... It was the most terrible thing I've ever seen in my life, a lot of skeletons with purple wings flew over our town, everyone saw it, we thought the demon was coming to the town to eat people, we were so frightened that we all hid, and the next day, the other half of the men were gone. β
Chen Xiansong and Udil glanced at each other, and they thought of the same thing.
"Somehow this spread to neighboring villages and towns, where some people say that we are cursed here, and others say that we have encountered a man-eating demon here...... No one wants to come to us, and if we go out, we will be driven out by other villages and towns, and no one will dare to take us in. You are the first guests we have received in more than a month. β
The shopkeeper didn't know a lot, and he didn't recognize the meaning of the robes worn by Chen Xiansong and Udil, so he was able to talk in front of the two of them: "We want to leave here, but we can't find a place to live, even Qingxi City doesn't dare to take us in, there are more than 300 women here, but there are only more than 20 men, and even a few little boys, it can't go on like this, sooner or later there will be problems." β
"Shopkeeper, aren't you very happy?" One of the mercenaries laughed enviously and gave a look that a man understood.
The shopkeeper pointed to the women who helped him take care of the shop: "They are all my wives, this is my biggest limit." When you don't have it, you feel like you might be happy, but when you have it, and it's a responsibility, you won't be too happy. β
"Xiaomin, what do you think?" Chen Xiansong asked the girl next to him.
"There is not enough data to analyze." Bai Min shook his head.
Chen Xiansong felt that these things were strange, most of them were related to those skeleton shelves, he glanced at the little guy who was dozing off sitting on his lap, those skeleton shelves, once targeted Frances, maybe she knew something, and asked at night when there were no outsiders.
Maybe it's been too long since I've seen a man, the door of the inn is crowded with women, big and small, looking at Chen Xiansong and the mercenaries like a lone wolf looking at a piece of fat, at this time, they suddenly gradually separated, making way for a walkway, and then walked in a middle-aged woman wearing a warlock robe.
She was already looking old, with several long wrinkles on her forehead and a noticeable slack at the corners of her mouth.
"Ms. Gianna." The shopkeeper greeted him: "Why did you come in person?" β
"I heard that there were a lot of guests, so I came over to take a look." The middle-aged woman's voice was a little eager, she looked at Chen Xiansong and Udil, first stunned for a moment, and then knelt down on one knee: "Civilian Sichuan-level sorcerer Gianna, I have seen two soul contemplative sircules. (To be continued......)