For such a group of robbers, if they can't be completely annihilated, they will always be able to resurrect and add chaos to your madness.

In the case of Zhang Li, a small village that has just started, there is no need for much, as long as they entangle a hundred or so people, they can directly slaughter the village.

This group of people can be regarded as an initial threat in front of Zhang Li, before his territory has developed to a certain stage, they are like a stinky plaster, and they can't make people sleep peacefully.

But their characteristics are destined to make it impossible to completely annihilate them, so Zhang Li is ready for a long battle.

There is a small dirt slope in the dense woods, and no one would think that there is a hole here, and there are trees growing on the dirt slope, but the bottom has been hollowed out.

It's not that all the space has been hollowed out, and people have to dig a winding tunnel inside, otherwise the fragile dirt like this would have collapsed long ago.

The corridor is not complicated, except for the space for walking, there are only fifty or sixty independent spaces left here that have been carved out for people, a few piles of hay in one space can be used as beds, and the environment is wet and slippery, and there are traces of various insect activities, it seems that the life of the robbers is not very comfortable.

But to be honest, living in such a place with roots coiled on the top of your head is still very flavorful, but it always feels depressing after a long time.

During the day, the robbers all went out to "work", and only about 20 people were left here to watch the house, a dozen adults and a few children, and most of the adults were elderly.

A few mud monkey-like children were playing hide and seek in the corridor, while the old man sat in a daze, occasionally watching the frolicking children sigh and continue to be in a daze.

It's not so much a den of robbers as a group of poor people who are alive together.

Defiya has always been a refusal to come, many people who can't survive will join them, and then look at their thin bodies, I'm afraid that even if these people join Defiya, they won't get any good treatment, and they will be the one who is oppressed wherever they go.

But I can live anyway.

"Oh no! Oh no! There are a lot of people in the distance, who look like the army of nobles!"

A little girl ran in screaming, and an old man who was checking the torches for lighting on the corridor suddenly shuddered with his hand, and then sighed imperceptibly.

Is it finally here......

"How many people are there?"

"I don't know, there are about fifty or sixty!"

"Hmm......" the old man nodded knowingly.

"Then it seems that it should be the lord, in that case, you can hide, and when the fight starts, you will escape through the secret passage. ”

As he instructed him, the other old men and the elderly robbers had already begun to go about their jobs.

They walked towards the entrance of the cave very blankly, picked up wooden sticks and mallets or something, and stood in line in the corridor one by one, expressionless.

The old man, who had instructed the child, walked to the middle of the whole passage group, where directly above was the weakest part of the soil, as long as he found a wooden stick and gently pushed it, the soil layer would break, and below that, there was a damp bonfire, and it was conceivable that as long as the bonfire was lit, it would emit billowing smoke, and then the smoke could be blown out of the hole in the soil.

After walking here, the old man looked at the companions in front of him in a daze, and began to wait.

His eyes were numb, just like everyone else's, with only occasional warmth proving that he wasn't a walking dead yet.

"If you are so desperate, why do you insist?" Suddenly, a voice sounded in his ears, and the old man looked over in horror, and with the help of his torch, he saw a man who was dressed and dressed suddenly appeared there.

"Where did you come from!?" his breath was almost choking, and he subconsciously wanted to throw the torch into the campfire, but in a blink of an eye, the man suddenly approached him, and the torch fell into the other person's hand.

"You haven't answered my question yet. ”

At this time, the old man finally saw the appearance of the person who came, it was a very decent face, and it could be regarded as handsome, but it was more appropriate to describe it as Yingting.

"Which lord are you?" At this time, the old people and the old people who were standing in a row in the corridor also turned their heads, and they all showed shocked faces at the person who suddenly appeared.

"Really, that's the first question I asked. ”

The visitor shook his head helplessly, then looked at everyone and said affirmatively: "That's right, I am the new lord, and you are now standing on my territory." ”

This person was Zhang Li, and for various reasons, he sneaked in first.

As soon as they heard that he was the new lord, the old men panicked, they looked at each other, and then none of them dared to move, the fear and awe of the nobles were already engraved in their bones.

"Alright, I've already answered you, now it's time for you to answer my question, if I'm not mistaken, you're bait, right?

"......" No one answered him, but by looking at their expressions, he knew that he was right.

"Of course, if you fight outside, your casualties may be very large, so you are standing here in a row, in order to bring us in, there is a faint smell of vegetable oil, as long as you light this bonfire, the fire will spread everywhere, there are a lot of haystacks here, after burning will smoke us, you are trying to smoke us to death. ”

"......" still ignored him, but at the instigation of some people, they began to gradually surround Zhang Li.

"Don't be impulsive. With a wave of their hand, many roots grew on the ground, and the soles of these people's feet were entangled, and now they finally knew that the person in front of them was not something they could deal with.

"One thing I'm puzzled about, you are acting as bait, so you will definitely die, what makes you willing to die? Do you have family members who have been arrested and blackmailed?"

"No, there's no ambush here, it's just an alarm to tell my companions to get out of here. ”

"Don't lie to me. Zhang Li smiled: "It's impossible for you to lie to me, if I'm not mistaken, the children in that village should also be your people, and that village may also be one of your strongholds?"

The old man paused for a moment, then denied, "I don't know what you're talking about?"

"No, you know very well that the village is very dilapidated, there is only an old man and a group of children, I see them as pitiful, so I propose to take them away to live in the town of Shining Gold for a while, I will provide food and shelter, but they refuse, if it were you, you would refuse this offer when they are all dying of starvation?"

"That can't ...... either"

"Don't be in a hurry to speak, listen to me, and then I asked someone to inquire about the village after I went back, according to the information I received, after the former lord was forced to die, the people in the village should have left after the impact of the fish-men, and this is obviously not what I saw. ”

"So you're suspicious of them?"