Chapter 107: Not Enough
"We spend money to buy news, and naturally someone will find it for us. For a small fee, you can find a wild settlement. Huza said with a smile.
"I see, it's really a way to save time and effort." Yuan Ming sighed.
"Alas, but it doesn't work anymore, those wild people have been caught a lot, and they are slowly becoming smarter, hiding deeper, and it is becoming more and more difficult to find." Huza sighed lightly and said.
As he spoke, a clear song of birds sounded in the sky.
Hu Zha immediately looked up when he heard the sound, and then took out a stone talisman from his arms and held it in the palm of his hand.
I saw a burst of light on the stone talisman, and a flying bird hovering high in the sky immediately fell and stopped on his arm.
"The letter kite used to transmit the message, the lowest spirit beast over there in the Beast Control Hall." Seeing Yuan Ming's puzzled look, Hu Zha explained.
Then he took a strip of cloth from the ankle of the letter kite, looked at it, and smiled.
"Found it, this is going to the southwest, in a valley about one hundred and twenty miles." After Huza said a word, he took out a map of animal skins and searched for a while, and then marked it.
"Speed up." He gave the order.
The whole team began to speed up and chased in the southwest direction.
"These savages are so clever that they don't flee to the depths of the 100,000 mountains, but instead approach the dense places of Dong villages in southern Xinjiang, and want to make the lights dark, it's really stupid." Huza said mockingly as he ran.
Yuan Ming tugged at the corner of his mouth and sneered, but did not echo.
About an hour later, the group came to a valley or so.
At the mouth of the valley, there was already a thin man in a blue cloth robe and a black cloth towel wrapped around his head.
His skin was dark, and his face was covered with signs of wind and sun.
As soon as he saw Huzha and the others appear, the man's eyes lit up, and he trotted over with a look of joy and fear on his face.
"My lord, I have been following those wild men for several days, and they have been circling in the mountains until today, and they have not stopped until today, and they are in this valley." The thin man spoke.
Yuan Ming glanced at it and knew that the person was just an ordinary person.
"Well done, here's your reward." Huza nodded in satisfaction, took out a piece of broken silver from his bosom, about three or four denins in weight, and threw it to the man.
The thin man immediately took it, thanked him so much, and couldn't wait to kneel down and kowtow.
Huza didn't pay much attention to it, and led his men to pull out his scimitar and go straight to the valley.
Yuan Ming hesitated slightly and did not follow up.
He sympathized with the savages who were about to meet their doom, but there was nothing he could do to change their fate.
His strength is not enough to support the slightest kindness of saving others for the time being, and even if he has this strength, it is impossible for him to act rashly and risk putting himself in danger to meddle with other people's affairs.
In a few moments, there was a sound of killing and crying in the valley.
Yuan Ming looked at the thin man who led the way, the latter seemed to be used to those killing and crying, and he didn't feel anything, but he noticed Yuan Ming's sight, and only squeezed out a somewhat jerky smile on his ravine-ravine face.
If you don't know what he's done, anyone will only think of him as an honest peasant in southern Xinjiang.
After a while, Huzha and the others returned, and they had already escorted seven or eight figures to the valley mouth.
Yuan Ming looked at it, they were all wild men with disheveled hair, handcuffs and shackles, and covered in stains, the oldest was no more than forty, and the youngest should be no more than ten years old.
"Damn, this old boy lied to us, saying that there are more than two hundred wild people in this gang, and this is not even half of them?" I heard the grumbling of the tattooed man from afar.
Yuan Ming frowned, and nearly a hundred people only brought out these few?
If you don't bring it out, the end is self-evident.
Yuan Ming glanced at the thin man, and couldn't help but sigh, dozens of lives were actually worth three or four dollars of silver?
"It's definitely not enough, it's too far from the goal we set this time." Huza also frowned and said.
"What's going on?" Yuan Ming waited for them to approach and asked.
"There aren't enough people." Huza said.
"What's not enough?" Yuan Ming continued to ask.
"Maybe the number of people with spiritual roots is not enough, and the soul ...... There are not enough dead people. Huza explained.
"How much is missing?" Yuan Ming asked.
"At least half, we have to find another team of savages of about the same size, otherwise we will definitely not be able to meet the target." Huza said.
"That's still so much, where can I find it?" Yuan Ming asked.
Huza walked up to the thin man, grabbed the clothes from his chest, and lifted him up.
"The number of people here doesn't match your intelligence, do you know where the other wildlings are?" Huza asked viciously.
"Great, sir, no...... No, this is the only team that has been discovered recently. The thin man trembled, scared to death.
When Hu Zha heard this, his brows tightened, and he thought about it.
But after a while, his brows widened, and he said with a smile: "If I'm not mistaken, the village where you live seems to be nearby, tell me well, how many households are there in your whole village?" How many people are there? ”
When the thin man heard this, his whole body stiffened, and his face became extremely pale.
After Huzha threw him down, he immediately knelt down in front of Huza, kowtowed like pounding garlic, and begged for mercy again and again: "My lord, don't, don't...... I'll help you find it, please give me a little time...... Please. ”
Huza sneered and looked at him without pity.
The rest of the beast slave hall men gathered around, their faces full of playful smiles, as if they were looking at a mourning dog.
When the thin man saw it, only Yuan Ming had no smile on his face, nor did he look at him.
As if grasping a life-saving straw, he struggled to pounce on Yuan Ming, hugged his feet, and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.
"Please, help me, I'll be able to find other wildlings, I'll only need a day...... No, give me half a day, please. He wept so hard that he was miserable.
However, Yuan Ming's gaze fell on those savages, and he didn't look at the thin man.
Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs.
In this evil land of southern Xinjiang, who is not fish on the chopping board?
Soon, the wailing man was dragged back by the collar, and a bloodied scimitar rested on his neck.
"Take us to your stockade, or I'll chop you up and feed the dogs right now." Hu Zha smirked and threatened.
The thin man had already been torn apart, and only irrepressible fear remained.
He felt the cold blade cut through the flesh of his neck, his veins even felt the cold, death was just a stone's throw away.
"I'll bring, I'll bring ......"
A guy who can sell other people's lives can also sell his own people sooner or later.
His face was mixed with tears and snot, and his crotch was already a mess.
"Can you spare my family?" With the last shred of hope, he pleaded.
"We have been working well together before, and I can promise you this condition." Huza laughed.
The thin man's face was gray, and he had lost the joy he had when he had received the money.
"Senior Brother Yuan, you and the others are waiting for us here, I'll just bring two people over, and I can come back in two hours at most." Hu Zha confessed to Yuan Ming.
The conversation on the road made him feel that he and Yuan Ming were already quite familiar, and this "Senior Brother Yuan" was also very smooth.
Yuan Ming nodded and did not speak.
Even if Huza doesn't mention this stubble, he will find an excuse not to follow.
Hu Zha immediately greeted him, took the tattooed man and another big man with a scar on his face, and escorted the thin man away.
Yuan Ming and the others, holding those wild people, stayed in place.
The few big men who stayed behind came to Yuan Ming's side one after another, wanting to get close to him.
The location of their Beast Slave Hall in Biluo Cave has always been much lower than that of several other halls, and almost all those who do not practice will be classified as Beast Slave Hall.
After all, it's just hunting and killing savages, and it doesn't require too high a level of cultivation.
Therefore, if you can climb the disciples of other halls, especially the inner disciples, the benefits will naturally be extremely many.
"How long have you been doing this work?" Yuan Ming asked casually.
And they replied in a big way, some saying three years, some saying five years.
The eldest of them has been working for almost ten years.
"Do you know why we're killing these savages?" Yuan Ming asked.
The others were silent, unsure of why.
Only the eldest man, hesitated for a while, pointed to the direction of the sky and said, "The request from above." ”
"Above...... Elder? Or is it the cave master? Yuan Ming frowned.
"Then we don't know, anyway, just do what you are told, and we've been like this for so many years." The man said.
Hearing this, Yuan Ming's eyes flashed slightly, and he didn't know what to do in his heart.
The only memory he had of the Central Plains was about that prosperous city that he didn't know where, but compared to these cultivators, it seemed much more stable and beautiful.
And what I saw and heard in southern Xinjiang was almost all tragic things in the world.
Yuan Ming only wants to be able to protect himself, steadily improve his cultivation, and one day be able to return to the Central Plains.
Seeing that Yuan Ming had lost the interest in chatting, the others also dispersed with interest, some ran to tease those wild people, and some went out to hunt, preparing to come back to make some food.
There were also two or three people sitting together, continuing to gossip with each other.
Yuan Ming suddenly heard one of them say: "Haku's kid is really unlucky this time, according to the captain's temperament, even his entire family will have to be killed, and even the entire village will have to die." ”
"We have a heavy task this time, not to mention the Miaohua Village of the Haku family, I look at the villages near Qingyuan Mountain, and they have to be destroyed if they are not good. I don't think I will be hunting here for ten years. The other replied.
Yuan Ming's mind suddenly "boomed", turned his head and asked, "What did you just say?" ”
The three people chatting were taken aback, you look at me, I look at you, and they didn't react for a while.
(End of chapter)