Back Off, Let Me Come

  Chapter 442 Chapter 442: Strive to complete KPI (22) [seeking monthly ticket]

   "There are no tribes nearby."

Gu Chi doesn't need to recall the northern Xinjiang deployment map, but he can also remember the surrounding terrain. This road was specially selected by them-you must know that the resettlement of the Shiwu tribe is conditional. There must be plenty of water and abundant resources nearby for cattle and sheep. Food for the horses, some natural protection against wild animals or warning of enemies - this nearby area is not, quite barren and remote.

  Not to mention the prey, even the water source is not easy to find.

  The Shiwu tribe is less likely to take root here, and at the same time, it can also reduce the possibility of being discovered by one's own march.

  Jiang Sheng guessed: "Could it be a refugee?"

  Food is a scarce resource, and there are too many monks and too little porridge. Just like the common people in the mainland who lose their houses and land and become refugees, the bottom of the ten blacks who lose the pastures they depend on for their livelihood will also be expelled and become refugees. The former is easy to become a bandit, and the latter is the same.

   Gu Chi said: "Most likely."

  Shen Tang: "Investigate again, report again."

  After the soldiers left, Shen Tang asked the two of them: "Can we go around this valley and take a side road?"

Jiang Sheng: "It's not impossible, but once the road is detoured, it will inevitably pass through a pastoral territory of a large tribe, and we will be easily discovered. Even if we are lucky and make no mistakes, it will take a day and a half longer than the road in the valley. .”

  No matter from which point of view, it is best to march according to the established plan, unless there is an ambush in the valley. With its terrain, the opponent may have found their tracks long ago.

   Gu Chi asked: "The lord is worried about those people in the valley?"

Shen Tang nodded, her young face seemed to be a little unbearable, she said: "If you borrow the way from the valley, these people hiding in the valley will not be able to stay. My target is a group of tribes big and small. refugees from..."

  Although three tribes were wiped out one after another, and more than ten thousand lives were on his hands, Shen Tang didn't feel that he could deprive anyone of their lives without principle. There is still a difference between refugees and enemies. Gu Chi understood the subtle entanglement in her heart.

   smiled and said: "Maybe it's not a refugee but an ambush."

  Shen Tang: "..."

  Gu Wangchao, can you still have some principles?

  Gu Chi is innocent. As a member of staff, can he be called unprincipled according to his lord's mind?

  Shen Tang turned his face away: "...Let's find out first."

  The old man is acting cute at her, with hot eyes.

   Not long after, the scout's scout falcon flew back, and brought back a sneaky spy by the way, who was kidnapped by Wuhuada and brought to Shen Tang. Before approaching, he said in a relatively lame common saying: "Don't tie me up, I'm a good citizen..."

   "Be honest, or I will kill you."

  Xu Quan unceremoniously kicked him on the back of his leg.

  The man bent his knees and fell heavily to the ground.

   There was a muffled bang, which made people's knees hurt slightly.

  Gu Chi listened to this person muttering inwardly: 【This girl is so beautiful, but she is also so vicious. 】

   During the period, there were also comments on Xu Quan's figure.

  Gu Chi: "..."

  Hey hey hey, luckily he didn't say this, otherwise Xu Quan's temper wouldn't have screwed this man's head with his bare hands.

  Xu Quan sneered: "Sneaking around our army camp, looking around, how can you be a good citizen?"

  The man shrank his neck.

   Didiu rolled his eyes to look around.

  Shen Tang said: "Wang Chao, I'm sorry for the trouble."

  Gu Chi cupped his hands and said, "Wei."

  The man who was caught was puzzled. He saw Gu Chi stepping forward, and then lost consciousness, but he woke up again in the next moment, and only saw the back of Gu Chi turning back to his original position. Thinking that he has traveled all over the world for many years, has seen a lot, and vaguely guessed something.

  This tuberculosis-looking young man with a face of kidney deficiency and his body hollowed out must be a literary scholar...

  I was interrogated just now.

  Thinking about this, he felt that Gu Chi's eyes on him were like two icy sharp arrows, and his spine couldn't stop the chills.

  Gu Chi whispered to Shen Tang for a long time.

   The guy who was caught was really not a big fish, but a **** released by the group of refugees in the valley to inquire about news.

  My job is to be a merchant who specializes in smuggling and reselling. He had heard that although the job was risky, it was also rewarding.

   To make a living for the whole family, they took risks.

  When I first started this business, I stumbled a lot, stumbled, and took a few lives before recovering one.

After that, I did more business, and established friendship with several large and small tribes. In addition, he was so sophisticated and willing to spend money to maintain his relationship. The business grew bigger and bigger, and he accumulated a rich net worth. He is a local rich man. .

  But I often walk by the river, how can anyone not get their shoes wet?

  More than half a year ago, taking advantage of the chaos in the country of Geng, he bought a large amount of salt from illegal salt merchants and planned to smuggle it to Shiwu. There were crates of salt blocks when they came, and crates of gold and silver ore when they left.

  He was robbed by refugees in Shiwu.

   Been trapped in the valley for more than a month.

  Being discriminated against and beaten every day.

  All the dirtiest and tiring jobs are assigned to him.

   Today, the sentry tower in the valley found traces of Shen Tang's group. Not sure if it was another group of refugees or the elite who came to exterminate them, they sent out a few unlucky ghosts, and among them was the merchant who was arrested. His original weight was heavier than his height, after suffering for so long, his whole body became thinner several times, and his three-layered chin became a pitiful double-layered one. Unkempt and embarrassed.

  Shen Tang asked: "Are you smuggling salt?"

  The salt dealer knows that he is just an ordinary person, and he is being targeted by literary scholars. Not to mention the little secrets of his identity and background, he probably knows exactly what color he likes to wear.

  Once you lie, you may end up with your head on the ground.

  He had no choice but to nod honestly: "I'll take the route of Longwu County and Shiwu West Territory...but I'll just sell salt honestly. I definitely don't buy or sell armor and weapons, and I, I don't dare."

  Smuggling salt is a felony, but less serious than buying and selling armor.

   "Why the Shiwuxi Territory?"

  The salt seller said: "The western region is remote, the roads are difficult, and the danger is even greater. A box of salt can quadruple its value there."

   You can earn a lot more by taking a trip.

  Shen Tang asked again: "How much do you know about the valley?"

  Salt sellers dare not add oil and vinegar.

  As guessed at the beginning, the thousand or so people in the valley are all refugees from the Ten Wus, who have feuds with the major tribes. Coupled with the blockade of nearby tribes, their lives became more and more impoverished, and a few frail ones starved to death every now and then.

   There are at most a hundred young and strong people who can form combat power.

   "Thousands of refugees, only a hundred young and strong?"

  Shen Tang questioned this ratio.

  The salt seller sighed: "There's only so much you can eat."

   There is nothing left to eat, so they can only eat a little like the old and weak women and children, so as to maintain a state of starvation.

  Salt dealers are even worse as the bottom captives.

   Every day, I only eat a few mouthfuls of food that is sour and dry and hard to see the original color, and a little cloudy water. Being able to survive until now is all due to the fat hoarded on his body before. In a month or two, he will either be skinny or be forty-five.

   now caught...

   There may only be a few incense sticks left.

  Who knows—

"You said that the people in the valley hate the other tribes of Shiwu very much?" The young man Li Li sitting at the top pondered for a while, but his eyes were sharp but not like people of this age: "How much hate? But there is so much hatred that it can kill everyone. The degree to which you are willing to be driven to sacrifice your life?"

   (*▽*)

   June 22, sunny.

   There is a tenth alliance leader in this mushroom book.

   Thanks for the absence of the host, baby, (`) heartfelt, I love you.

  (end of this chapter)