Chapter 383: Preliminary Determination of the Station (Part 1)
Shaking his head, Cons took the lead and a sticky feeling came from his feet immediately.
This dirt road, which is only about three meters wide, becomes extremely muddy because the snow has melted. Moreover, garbage fills the road with both sides, and the dirty water of the garbage even turns the mud black.
This is a very strange feeling, because in theory, in such cold weather, it is really like dripping water, but now there is not only mud, but also dirty water.
Without knowing what happened, I can only guess that this is because the town has a lot of popularity, which has caused the temperature to rise.
Everyone felt a moment of discomfort from the clean stone road and embarked on such a mud road. However, with the leader of Cons, and everyone's background, they quickly threw this discomfort aside and followed Cons tightly.
Cons looked at the dilapidated houses on both sides of the road, and the people who were dressed in rags, their eyes were dull and their faces were either stupid in front of the dilapidated house or searching for things in the garbage dump. No one looked at Cons, who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was conscientious.
At this time, Jia Yi stepped forward and said, "On the main road in Qingxiang Town is only the bluestone road, and the sub-story road is the gravel road. These two roads are specially organized beautifully because the ship owners and merchants from all over the country need to walk on. However, except for these two roads, the rest of the places are like here.
"And there are even more exceptional people living in these places, if they don't have a license or don't dress up, they will never be able to come out. Even if they want to leave the town, they have to drill the broken fence like wild dogs."
A learned about this from the prisoners early in the morning, and now he told Cons that it was to make Cons feel more at ease, because although Cons' territory also has slums, it would definitely not be such a clear contrast like heaven and hell.
Cons didn't speak, just walked silently. He had experienced this kind of lowly life, and of course he understood what it was like to be at the bottom of society.
If this town is its own territory, it would be a traitor to put these people in such a life, and it would be their own obligation to make their people live better; but now, I am just a leader who wants to support the mercenary group, and they are not the family members of the mercenary group, so why should I take care of them?
For the sake of conscience?
When helping people in relationships, everyone will praise them. If you help a few people, you will also say that you are a kind person. However, if you want to help many people who have nothing to do with you, no one, including your subordinates, will think that this is a good deed. Instead, you will say that you have ulterior motives and win people's hearts. At that time, you will definitely be a good intention to get lightning strikes, and you will definitely be wiped out by those in power.
So, since you are not a savior, you don’t have to pay attention to those who are doing nothing.
The group walked in the mud road, deep and shallow. Although the leather boots were waterproof and warm, the mud was much more uncomfortable than snow. The cold and dirty mud wrapped around the footboards, and the uncomfortable feeling penetrated into the bone marrow. Everyone was eager to arrive at the headquarters of the group assistant association as soon as possible to fight, so as to use blood to relieve their greasy mood.
The prisoner who led the way stopped in front of a dilapidated house made of wooden doors with wooden blocks, and then said carefully: "This master, here is the base of our League Assistant Association."
Hearing this, the mercenaries immediately drew their swords and were on guard, and the slaves also ordered the prisoners to gather together.
Hundreds of prisoners tied up with their hands were huddled like sheep on the roadside. No one shouted loudly, and no one walked around, all of whom were well-behaved and obedient.
Cons first looked at the house.
This is a house covering an area of half a street. However, although the walls did not collapse, they were also broken. There was a piece of wall of different colors of old and new walls every other section. These places looked like they were originally Taoist sects.
If you take a closer look, you will find that the headquarters of the group assistant association is connected by more than a dozen houses. Thinking about the fact that there are so many people in the group assistant, there is no such a big place and it is not enough to settle down, so Cons can understand it.
As for how the group assistants got such a large land, that's not what Cons needs to know.
Seeing that everyone was waiting for their reaction, Cons smiled apologetically, and then asked the prisoner who led the way, "How many people are there? I'm talking about armed personnel."
The prisoner shook his head and said, "Master, there are no armed personnel inside, all the elderly, weak, sick and disabled families. All the armed personnel of our group assistant association were either killed by the master or here." Although the prisoner showed a look of pleading and sadness in his eyes, he did not dare to speak at all.
Hearing this, the mercenaries immediately relaxed, then asked Cons for advice, kicked open the door and rushed in excitedly.
Their blood was already a little boiling, but after Cons said lightly: "Get all the people inside." These mercenaries who were ready to enjoy themselves were poured into the pot of ice water.
Want to resist? I dare not. These five of them could not beat the regiment commander at the same time, let alone the regiment commander who had three extremely strong confidants and eight strong slaves.
What's even more terrifying is that if the regiment commander gave the order, the hundreds of weak prisoners would probably be brave.
They are very clear about these low-level figures. As long as they have a backbone and even if they are asked to murder the lord, they will have the courage to be like a sheep now, which is completely different from the current extremes.
A two-person two protected Cons into the house. The first thing that caught my eye was a flat ground of hundreds of square meters. Although it was not as terrifying as the mud outside, it was not clean enough. Not to mention the withered moss and weeds in the corners of the wall, it was extremely annoying. A lot of garbage piled on the ground was enough to make people frown.
Apart from this flat ground, all the tents that are dense, relying on a few pieces of wood as pillars and a few pieces of rags to cover the walls of the house.
At this moment, these tents were lifted up, and under the threat of five mercenaries, more than one hundred elderly people, dozens of men with few arms and legs, more than three hundred children, and more than two hundred women came out from it.
If it weren't for seeing it with my own eyes, no one would believe it. Five armed men drove nearly 700 people out of the sheep pen like sheep. Moreover, these more than 600 people would only show a fearful expression when facing five strong men, and obediently obeyed the orders, but no one dared to resist.
Although they are all old, weak, sick and disabled, the number of people still dare not resist when they reach more than one hundred to one. This only shows that the cowardice of these people has penetrated into their souls.
Seeing this situation, Cons couldn't help but ask the prisoner in confusion: "Since you are so cowardly, how dare you fight against the association?"
It’s no wonder that Cons thinks it’s strange. The group support association is at the bottom and the members are so cowardly. How can they have the courage to compete with the sorority association at the top of the pyramid? What’s even more strange is that the sorority association actually allows the existence of the sorority association?
Cons did not think that the association would also be concerned about other forces supporting the group. As for what Elon said, Cons was half-believing and half-doubting about the situation of the sphere of influence, but absolutely did not believe in the relationship between forces. If the association was really as powerful as Elon said, the town would not have no government agency.
Cons's words were actually very embarrassing, but the captain didn't care and said directly: "Because the president said we can compete with the sorority, we compete with the sorority."
Everyone who heard this was shocked. For such a simple reason, these people who were not well-dressed and not full dared to fight against the most powerful association in the town? I really don’t know whether to admire them or laugh at them.
The family members of the group assisting association who were driven by five mercenaries, although the five mercenaries salivated at the beautiful female family members in the family, although these people were cowardly, they also protected the female family members and children in the middle, making the mercenaries not dare to get in and tease them.
When these families saw their tied relatives, they immediately showed sadness and fear, and all subconsciously leaned towards this side. Moreover, the people from both sides immediately began to call their fathers, husbands and wives, and the scene immediately surged.
Everyone thought that this group of strong men wanted to destroy themselves and others to avoid future troubles, so they were venting their sorrows to the fullest.
The mercenaries and slaves were shocked. If they wanted to get together, they would lose the threatening target. If any brave guy shouted, a riot would break out again, so they couldn't help but draw out their weapons and shouted fiercely.
And the first and second players immediately blocked Cons, staring at these people with great enthusiasm.
Although the cowardly people, even though there were almost a thousand people, almost filled the open space and were in a very sad and fearful mood, they still allowed these armed men, who had only a dozen, to easily isolate them from the difference between young and strong and old.
The scene suddenly became quiet, only the snow dogs and war horses tied outside the door were chirping in a low voice.
When the mercenaries and slaves were busy, Cons was calm. He knew very well that these cowardly people would not cause much trouble to him.
These people are not people struggling in the wild. Those who are asking for food in nature have already been stolen by nature in the process of asking for food. Just like yourself, facing such a person, unless you can truly admire the other person, you don’t have to imagine that you can conquer the other person at all.
But these people in front of you grew up in a prosperous, prosperous, but extremely realistic Qingxiang Town. The abnormal prosperity of Qingxiang Town will naturally form abnormal customs. Needless to say, such customs have completely penetrated into their souls.
These people who are inferior to domestic dogs have no awareness and willingness to fight against the strong, and have only kneeled down at the feet of the strong for the sake of benefits.
People like themselves can be called wolves-like personality, while these people can only be called pet dogs.
Yes, it is a pet dog who pleases his master and pesters him all day long. He begs for the food he gives to his master, but he is not even as good as a janitor. Look, more than a dozen people pulled out weapons and scolded him, and nearly a thousand people became so docile like sheep, and they were indeed not as good as a janitor.
Seeing that the situation was stable, A-2 muttered a few words to Bilinters, and Bilinters immediately ran into the courtyard with one of his subordinates.
Faced with such a dense prisoner, everyone was nervous and focused their attention whenever there was any movement.
Only when they saw Bilents and his men searching for the broken tents for a while, the two of them came over with a slightly better looking stool.
A Er took the stool and placed it in the center of his hand, then wiped it carefully before finally asking Cons to sit down.
This series of actions was completed under the eyes of nearly a thousand pairs of eyes. For some reason, after seeing this scene, the mercenaries and slaves naturally calmed down.
Cons naturally straightened his waist, looked forward, spread his legs and sat on the stool, pressing his thighs with one hand, and posting the other hand on the hilt. Arms, one and two armors stood behind him and stood with their left and right, and a strict feeling suddenly appeared in everyone's hearts.
The mercenaries and the three brothers Bilents were shocked, because they actually felt like they were in the shogunate. They were not the mercenary commander. Judging from their demeanor, they were at least a general who commanded 100,000 troops!
Such a person actually appeared in front of me, and I was really curious about the identity of the leader of the group.
As for the prisoners and their families, they were so scared that they didn't dare to extricate themselves. They bowed their heads obediently and waited for their own destiny.
"Well, I wonder if you are willing to defect to me?"
Cons said this in a very plain tone, and everyone present was stunned.
The mercenaries couldn't help but hesitate. They just went to the Mercenary Guild to change their hometown and became members of the mercenary group. Didn't this be said to them?
The slaves, especially Bilinters, couldn't help but think about it. They were their master's slaves. They wanted to recruit themselves into the mercenary group? Unlike, the mercenary group was treated so well and they could still obtain territory. How could a slave have a luxury to think about?
When everyone was worried and didn't know how to answer, they soon discovered that Cons's eyes were on the prisoners, that is, this was said to the prisoners. The mercenaries and prisoners immediately stopped their guesses and looked at the prisoners with disdain.
But the prisoners were not able to feel Cons's gaze because they all lowered their heads.
However, after hearing Cons' question, no one answered. A bold prisoner couldn't help but look up. Seeing Cons's gaze on him, he immediately lowered his head in fear. However, he suddenly remembered something and looked up at Cons with disbelief.
Seeing that this man was the prisoner who led the way, Cons nodded and asked again: "Would you like to be loyal to me?"
Chapter completed!