Chapter 12: Slaves
A relatively flat valley not far from the garrison base is home to a group of people who were demoted to slavery during the purge of the capital city, and new slaves are constantly being escorted in by soldiers.
Nearly 200,000 people gathered in the valley, and the whole valley was filled with cries and shouts.
Hundreds of corpses were thrown at the edge of the valley entrance, all killed by the soldiers guarding the surrounding area as they resisted and fled.
Men experienced in the slave trade were sorting the slaves, who were locked in long chains and standing in groups of ten in designated areas. These family members or minor nobles who usually felt superior to each other now only wait for them to be sold.
Qin Feng followed Narik and General Wei Xi of the base to the entrance of the valley by land vehicle, and the guards outside the valley saw that the lord was coming, and immediately moved the barricades, and sent a small group of soldiers as escorts, accompanying them on both sides of the vehicle, and reporting to the officers in charge of the base at the same time.
This time, the Alice escort team that followed Qin Feng was still surrounding Qin Feng, and even General Weixi's vehicle was not allowed to approach.
When an officer in charge of the slaves saw the arrival of Narik and General Vessy, he hurriedly trotted over, opened the terminal in his hand, and reported to Narik, "Report to Lord Lord, the capital Xingqing has captured a total of 260,000 slaves in the rebel family, and more than 4,000 people have been killed in the counterattack during the capture. Now professionals are being classified according to the value of slaves. β
"How many children over the age of six were among the slaves?" Narik asked.
"Report to my lord, according to current statistics, there are about 70,000 children from the age of six and under the age of fifteen among these slaves."
At this time, Qin Feng knew that in the territory of Bosidia, or most parts of the world, basically over fifteen years old is an adult.
"You go and send someone to separate these children, and ask Lord Qin Feng to choose." Narik said to the officer.
"Yes, sir." With that, the officer turned and walked into the valley.
Moments later, there was the roar and slight explosion of a land cart inside, the sound of a single weapon in the air when it was activated, and the cries, shouts, and shouts were intertwined.
Qin Feng sat on the land crane and drove into the valley with Narik.
He saw a miserable scene, with pools of blood on the ground every few minutes. Soldiers were constantly moving in and out of the slave crowd, forcing children out of the crowd and concentrating them in a newly carved area.
Parents are reluctant to cry and cry for their children, and children are constantly pulling on their parents' clothes and reluctant to leave, but where can they stand up to fierce soldiers, most of these slaves are just ordinary members of the family, maybe they are usually a little arrogant, but now they are really no different from livestock.
Qin Feng looked a little embarrassed, after all, although he came to this world as a mining slave, he had not seen the process of the creation of a mining slave. Although he is a little unbearable in his heart, he is powerless to change anything, each world has its own rules, and he is just adapting to these rules and living, and he is powerless to make rules before his strength is strong.
The land truck drove into the makeshift camp in the valley, and Nariq jumped out of the car, "This is going too slowly, add some soldiers to speed up the separation." "General Vesey hastened to contact the base outside the valley and mobilized five thousand soldiers here.
"My lord, let's wait here for a while, it is estimated that it will be half an hour."
Qin Feng knew that it would be difficult to separate 70,000 people out of these 260,000 people, so he just smiled and didn't say anything.
Standing on a high platform in the camp with Nariq, watching the selection and separation of slaves according to rank, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, war has always been the most cruel and bloody, and ordinary people who are powerless to resist will always be sad.
It is conceivable that most of those miners on the 17th Mine Star have experienced the same thing, and they must be, otherwise these people would not hate the Protoss and its subordinate races so much.
"Report to your lordship, children over the age of six have been separated from slavery at your request." The officer in charge drove in, jumped out of the camp as soon as he entered the camp, and ran to the high platform to report to Narik.
"Okay, all the adult men with no skills tattooed and numbered will be transported to the Mine Star Mining, and the young women and skilled slaves will be sent to the trading floor for auction."
Narik took the terminal in the hand of the officer in charge and handed it to Qin Feng, "My lord, here is the classified information of these children, you can pick them up first and see if there is any need, under normal circumstances, those children who are too young are of low value and no one wants." β
Qin Feng didn't ask in detail how to deal with children under the age of six, thinking that he would never be mercifully pardoned or given to others for foster care, according to Narik's style, it is estimated that ten of them will be disposed of.
This world is really cruel.
Qin Feng beckoned Alice's escort team to get into the car and drive towards the children's area.
On the way, Qin Feng saw two transport ships flying over in the distance outside the valley, obviously loaded with adult slaves to transport them to the mining star.
After Qin Feng left, Narik called the officer in charge here again, "You go and separate all the young and beautiful adult girls who are not married, and no one is allowed to touch them, and if there is any obstacle, they will be killed immediately." Pick a thousand of the best, I'm useful. β
"Yes, my lord."
After the officer in charge left, Narik chuckled to himself, "I wonder what Lord Qin Feng will think when he sees my gift?" β
Looking at the heavily armed escort team and Qin Feng and the others who were riding on the land vehicle, these children were so frightened that they all trembled and couldn't stop shaking, especially the girl kept shrugging her shoulders, wanting to cry but not daring to cry.
Qin Feng looked at it roughly and said, "Separate the commoner children from the children of other nobles." β
"Alice, you take the guards to select 10,000 people, half men and half women, civilian children, in good health, without excessive hostility."
"Yes." Alice agreed and rushed into the crowd with the escort, constantly leading the children who met the requirements to the open space next to them, who did not know what fate awaited them, and listened to the cries and screams of the stabbed around them, and trembled and huddled.
There are very few children who can hide their hatred and hatred too deeply, and there is a reason why Qin Feng asked for not excessive hostility, people are unfamiliar wolves, if there is incomparable hatred and hostility hidden in their hearts, they will explode one day, and it will be a regular bomb/bomb hidden around them.
Obviously, there are very few of these children in this group of city governments, after all, they are still young, and they are the children of commoners, so they can tell at a glance whether they are overly hostile.
After these children were selected, Qin Feng walked in front of them.
"You should also know by now what it means to be a slave. I have selected you so that you will not be sold, and if you train hard you will become a member of my legion, and you will enjoy everything that no one else can get like ordinary people, otherwise you will be stabbed and sold or thrown into the mines to mine. β
"You will be trained militarily for a month. Now I give you a chance, and if you don't want to, you can stand up, and if you rebel like your fathers, the result will be even worse than it is now. β
"My lord, we must train hard and become members of the Legion." A little girl who looked to be six or seven years old standing in front of Qin Feng said with tears in her eyes, and the other children around her also nodded.
"My lord, I want Mom and Dad."
Qin Feng's heart softened, he walked up to the little girl, stretched out his hand to wipe her tears and said, "Don't cry, you are much luckier than other children." If you behave well, I'll bring your parents and brothers together. "Indeed, these children are undoubtedly much luckier than other children, at least Qin Feng can't be hard in his heart to push the people who belong to his own army to death.
"What's your name?" Qin Feng asked as softly as possible.
"Nina, my lord, my name is Nina." The little girl said with a sob.
"Alice, you bring in the rest of the guards and put these selected children into teams. Each guard is responsible for a squad of a hundred children, to ensure the safety of these children, and not to allow outside forces to infiltrate. β
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Qin Feng returned to the temporary camp and saw that Narik's people were constantly busy.
Walking to the high platform, Qin Feng saw that Narik was still there and stopped to ponder, thinking that this rebellion might also be more tricky for Narik, after all, this time the capital star clean-up activity alone caused quite a lot of things, and the impact was also quite large, and it all needed to be quelled by the lord of Narik, and if it was not handled well, it would cause more resistance, which would directly affect Narik's rule.
Hearing footsteps, Nariq turned around, "Your Excellency, have you chosen?" β
"Well, Narik, I want to bring these children's parents and brothers along, I wonder if it's okay?" Qin Feng looked at Narik and said calmly, but he didn't give direct orders, but seemed to discuss with Narik.
Nariq was stunned, "What do you mean, my lord?" β
Qin Feng didn't explain in detail, but said, "This is good for management." β
"That's fine, I'll immediately order the personnel to separate, but some of these people may have been tattooed." Narik said.
"It's okay."
Nariq quickly figured it out, "Your Excellency, you are so clever that you are able to trade these slaves for a loyal group of men who are of little value. β
"Come on, you don't trumpet it anymore." Qin Feng smiled, "You should still have a lot of things to deal with, right?" I'm going to take these kids back to the battleship now. β
"Okay, I'll transfer two troop carriers. When I'm done with that, I'll take you to the planet Piast. β
"Piast?"
"It's that industrial star, where the battleship building base is built, and there are two construction lines. The primary focus of this rebellion was the desire of the families to gain ownership of the base for the construction of the Piast Star Battleship. β
"Okay, but you still owe me a meal."
"Hehe, this is no problem, adults can come at any time."
"Well, as long as it's not poisoned." Qin Feng joked with a smile, which made Narik laugh awkwardly on the side. If you want to talk about "Rise of the Void" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~