Chapter 177: The Wanderers
In the entire team of displaced people, I am afraid that only Chen An and the three are the most unwilling to sleep.
The three of them huddled in a corner by the campfire and sat next to each other, keeping a certain distance from the rest of the homeless people, as most homeless families do.
"These people are from the Yuanxia Kingdom in the Hequ Valley," Chen An went straight to the point, recounting what he had just discovered: "The Mountain Ghost Kingdom will climb over the Black Mountain barrier almost every year in the winter season, attack the northern part of Yuanxia, and plunder the property, and Yuanxia's neighbor Quche will also take advantage of the fire at this time to rob and plunder the population in the Yuanxia Kingdom, and they will take away the young and strong, leaving the old, weak, sick and disabled to make trouble for Yuanxia." For these old, weak, sick and disabled, Yuan Xia, who had been poisoned in the north, was unable to support them at all, so he could only expel them into Montenegro and leave them to fend for themselves. ”
"At the moment, these people are all the remaining population of a small city called Lingong, and when they entered Montenegro, there were still six thousand, and now they ......" Chen An shook his head and did not continue,
"Heaven and earth are unkind to all things as dogs," Yuan Jie raised his eyes and looked at the old and old, sick, and disabled poor people around him, dragged a sentence, and then wondered: "Then why drive them into the Black Mountain, I think they are always old, but at least they still have some strength, so they will not all be included in the burden." ”
Chen An glanced at him as if he was an idiot, and couldn't believe that this guy who had been the head of a horse bandit had this knowledge.
"Their homes are destroyed, their vitality is cut off, and one day they will starve to death, and the power that desperate people who are about to starve to death can burst out is beyond your imagination, they will go to the surrounding cities to beg for food, and even attack these intact cities, from homeless people to outcasts, poisoning the entire northern part of the Yuanxia Kingdom. It was not easy to disperse them and resettle them in other cities: it would be too expensive to disperse them all, and no city would be willing to accept these burdens and drag itself down, so banishment of Montenegro became the best and most humane option. ”
It was Yao Qin who took over the conversation, and her opinion provoked Chen An to look sideways, so she explained in a restrained manner: "We cultivators are not blindly avoiding the world and cultivating asceticism, the so-called red dust refining the heart, I once expanded the foreign affairs of the sect in a secular city, which is a bit of a humble opinion." ”
Chen An nodded and didn't go into depth on this issue, but said back to the point: "We are not clean under our buttocks, and we don't have the time to pity them at all, and now thinking about how to use them to hide ourselves is the key." ”
Kite Jie was stunned: "Use them, how to use them?"
Chen An was speechless, this guy Kite-Jie said that he was really shrewd, he could walk a tightrope in the cracks of major forces, and he was really stupid when he said that he was stupid, and he didn't have any constructive opinions these days, so he would compete with Yao Qin.
Yao Qin quietly glanced at the serious Iris Jie, she didn't think that the Iris Jie in front of her was really so honest, and the role of being able to be exquisite in the major forces would be an ordinary person? How could that be possible, the only explanation was that he was hiding and creating a loyal image in front of Jun Yueyi, this is not that he has any malicious intentions, this team is already under the threat of external dangers, if there are three people and three voices, wouldn't it fall apart in an instant. And he gags in it, only does not express his opinion, and obeys the arrangement, but it makes the cohesion of this small team of three greatly increased.
As for Jun Yueyi, the devil, Yao Qin didn't dare to look at him, but thought in his heart: "He will also be deceived, and he is not omniscient and omnipotent." ”
Without Chen An's explanation, Yao Qin grabbed the conversation again and said: "Among these hundreds of people, it is true that most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and have little ability to survive, but there are still a large part of the group of orphans and teenagers, they are weak at this time, but as long as they can survive, they are destined to become young and strong in the future." They are a completely new blood for Montenegrin City, and they are worth eating. And although Black Mountain City has only a population of 100,000, all of them are elites, and it is not a problem to eat less than a thousand people. As for us, we can take this opportunity to really sneak into Black Mountain City and gain legal status. ”
Iris Jie can hide clumsy, because he and Chen An are in the same camp, but she Yao Qin can't, she always remembers her identity, she is just a captive, if she can't always reflect her value and usefulness, sooner or later she will be taken care of on the grounds of instability. Therefore, she rushed to express some constructive opinions at every opportunity, thinking about this temporary small team in all aspects.
Chen An really didn't notice their careful thoughts, it wasn't that he lacked vigilance, in fact, he had never really trusted these two people, the reason why he had no scruples was because he was confident in his own strength, and he wasn't afraid of these two guys making trouble behind his back. Besides, everyone's ultimate goal is to escape, and when the goal is the same, there is no reason for them to hold back.
So Chen An didn't go to guess the riddle with them at all, but directly opened his mouth and concluded: "I think so too, after all, it is really the best policy to go directly to the door with the token to find someone, if the Red Feather Gang is standing behind the Imperial Soul Sect, then wouldn't we throw ourselves into the net, and even if it is not, we are so blatantly confessing to our relatives, it is too much to attract the attention of others, not the right way." If you rely on the identity of the homeless to be absorbed by their bottom, lurk silently, be cautious and tentative, and then decide whether to use the wooden card, this is the old way. ”
After seeing that Kitejie Yao Qin nodded in approval without objection, Chen An said: "Then our top priority now is to make up an identity first, these homeless people come from a whole city, and they rarely know each other, we make up an identity to integrate into it, and it will never arouse suspicion." ”
Chen An looked around and saw that the two of them were looking at him, waiting for him to speak, and he was not hypocritical, and directly ordered: "From now on, Yuan Jie is the eldest brother, using Cheng Ping's name, Yao Qin is the second sister, named Cheng Lin, I am the younger brother Cheng An, we are not biological children, we are all born to a family surnamed Cheng in Lingong City." I inquired about the family, and under the looting of the Changfeng Camp of the Mountain Ghost Country, not even a chicken survived, so it was not further debunked. ”
He has a feeling of running his old business, and it seems that he has returned to the dark division of the Great Zhou Holy Court, in order to arrange secret agents, doing identity embedding.
"The eldest brother has the strength to work as a nurse in Chengfu, the second sister is a domestic helper, and I have practiced some boxing and kicking with the eldest brother. Such an identity arrangement can maintain some superficial deterrence by force and put an end to some unnecessary troubles. As for the extent to which our martial arts will be revealed, tomorrow I will attract a wave of strange beasts to probe the foundation of those rangers, and then make a decision according to their skills. As for some customs and etiquette badges, I don't need to pay attention to them, I just paid special attention to them, and found that people can really discard anything in a desperate situation, these people have long lost their ceremonial badges, and even the customs and habits are only left to fill their stomachs......"
Chen An said a lot more, no matter how big or small, explained them one by one, and Yao Qin was stunned when he heard it, and he couldn't believe that Chen An had found so many things in just half a day and made such a detailed plan.
Yuan Jie was really pretending to be stupid at the beginning, in a way that reduced the sense of existence, to dispel the hostility between everyone at the beginning, and later he also thought of guiding Jun Yueyi a little, so that he could go according to his own will, so that he could use Chen An's force value without losing the harmony on the surface. But later, Chen An made decisions in everything, and arranged everything properly, not at all like a young man who had no hair on his mouth and did not do things well, so he completely changed from pretending to be stupid to now "really stupid".
However, Kite Jie has his own wisdom and will never have any feelings of envy, jealousy and hatred, but feels that there is Jun Yueyi here, which is very good, and his hope of escape has increased greatly, so he is full of thoughts about holding this thick thigh firmly, where will he still be emotional.
Chen An repeated it again, making sure that they had all written it down, and then took out a few pieces of dried dried meat behind the backs of the surrounding homeless people: "Just roast it on the bonfire, you can eat cooked food today, rest early after eating, and you will have to be busy tomorrow." ”
The night was darker, and the whole camp was lifeless and quiet except for the occasional ** sound of a few homeless people and the sound of a bonfire burning, which made people irritable and depressed. Being in it is like drowning, wanting to struggle, wanting to detach, but being so powerless and desperate.
Suddenly, near the edge of the camp in the east, there was a commotion, followed by the cries of chickens and dogs. However, the noise did not expand, and soon subsided, except for some faint sobs, which swayed in the wind.
Chen An listened attentively for a long time, and then said indifferently to Yao Qin, who was also awakened: "It's okay, it's just that a strange beast suddenly appeared and dragged away two people." ”
Strange beasts are also beasts, but they are affected by the special influence of the Infernal Ghost Domain, and they have become more ferocious. Their claws and teeth are sharper, their muscles and bones are harder, their vitality is stronger, and they have even obtained some strange abilities, which are quite difficult, even if they are immortal cultivators, they are very cautious. If ordinary people encounter it, it is simply a food delivery, and only a few people with advanced martial arts skills can hunt for something.
However, the strange beast is also a treasure, the fur, muscles and bones are all good things, can be used to make strong bows and crossbows, leather armor, although the flesh and blood are poisonous, but with some antidote herbs to cook, it is also a delicacy, not only delicious, but also to strengthen the body after eating.
Therefore, strange beasts belong to a major natural resource of Montenegro and are the favorite of ranger hunters.
But what has happened to these displaced people now is not a good thing, but a disaster. There were more than 6,000 people when they entered the mountain, but now there are less than 1,000, and a large part of the reason is caused by strange beasts.
In the troubled times, human life is like a mustard, Chen An is not a savior, and he has no ability or strength to pity and save them, so he can only be indifferent, or even give up numbly. There was such a loud noise just now, and around this bonfire, in addition to Chen An and the others, more than a dozen other people who were also awakened were numb and dazed except for panic, and they had no intention of helping at all.
There was not even a fake greeting, let alone any help from each other. In this precarious environment, taking care of yourself is the right way.
This happened three times in one night, and seven more people left the group forever. Among them is also a ranger, who has no ability to resist in the face of strange beasts.
The night passed in such a thrilling and uneventful way.
The haze receded temporarily, and the morning sun rose again.