442: Work hard to complete the KPI (22) [Please give me a monthly ticket]
“There are no tribes nearby.”
Gu Chi doesn't need to recall the map of the northern border defense, but also remembers the nearby terrain. This road was specially selected by them. You should know that the Shiwu tribe has conditions to resettle. There must be abundant water sources nearby, abundant resources for cattle, sheep and horses to eat, and there is a certain natural barrier to resist wild animals or warning the enemy. This nearby place is not, quite barren and remote.
Not to mention prey, it is not easy to find water sources.
The Shiwu Tribe has a small possibility of taking root here, and at the same time, it can also reduce the possibility of its own marching being discovered.
Jiang Sheng guessed: "Is it a refugee?"
Food is a shortage of resources, with too many monks and less porridge. Just like the mainland commoners who lose their houses and land and become refugees, the bottom of the Shiwu Mountain will also be expelled and become refugees. The former is prone to falling into a bandit, while the latter is the same.
Gu Chi said: "It's probably true."
Chen Tang: "Try again, report again."
After the soldiers left, Chen Tang asked the two: "Can we bypass this valley and walk along the side?"
Jiang Sheng: "It's not that bad, but once you take a detour, you will inevitably pass through a large tribe's pastoral territory, which is very easy to be discovered. Even if you don't make any mistakes, it will take a day and a half more than the road in the valley."
No matter what perspective it is, it is best to march according to the established plan, unless there is an ambush in the valley. With its terrain, the other party may have discovered their traces long ago.
Gu Chi asked: "The lord is worried about those people in the valley?"
Chen Tang nodded, his young face seemed a little unbearable. She said, "If you borrow from the valley, you will be able to hide these people in the valley. We are targeting the tribes of Shiwu, and we are facing a group of homeless refugees..."
Although he destroyed three tribes in succession and had more than ten thousand lives on his hands, Chen Tang did not feel that he could deprive anyone of his life without principles. There was still some difference between refugees and enemies. Gu Chi understood her subtle entanglements.
He smiled and said, "Maybe it's not a refugee, but an ambush."
Chen Tang: "..."
Gu Wangchao, can you still have some principles?
Gu Chi is innocent. As a subordinate, he can be called "changing with the wind" according to the lord's thoughts?
Chen Tang turned his face and said, "...Let's find out first."
The big man is cute and eye-catching at her.
Soon, the scout's detective falcon flew back and brought back a sneaky spy, who was tied up and held in front of Chen Tang by Wuhua. Before he could get close, he said in a relatively crappy general language: "Don't tie me up, I'm a good citizen..."
"Be honest, or you will be killed."
Xu Quan kicked him back without hesitation.
The man bent his knees and fell heavily to the ground.
The sound of a silence made people's knees hurt slightly.
Gu Chi heard the man muttering in his heart: [This girl is so pretty and very vicious.]
During this period, there was also evaluation of Xu Quan's figure.
Gu Chi: "..."
Hehehe, fortunately I didn’t say this, otherwise Xu Quan’s temperament would have twisted this person’s head with his bare hands.
Xu Quan sneered: "I sneaked around my military camp and looked around. Why are you a good citizen?"
The man shrank his neck.
Slide your eyes and observe the surroundings.
Chen Tang said: "Wangchao, please trouble you."
Gu Chi bowed and said, "Wei."
The person who was arrested was puzzled. He looked at Gu Chi and then lost consciousness immediately. But the next moment he woke up again and saw Gu Chi turning back to his original position. He thought that he had been traveling around for many years, and had a wide range of knowledge, and had vaguely guessed something.
This young man with kidney deficiency and body hollowed out in his face must be a literary scholar...
I was just interrogated.
Thinking of this, he felt that Gu Chi's eyes fell on him were like two cold arrows, and his spine could not stop the coldness.
Gu Chi whispered to Chen Tang for a long time.
The guy who was caught was really not a big fish, but a pawn who released the refugees in the valley to inquire about the news.
He is a businessman who specializes in smuggling and reselling. He heard that although this job is risky, he also gains a lot of money.
For the sake of the family, I took risks.
When I started working in this industry, I fell into trouble and stumbled a lot, and I only saved my life after a few times.
After that, I did more business and established friendships with several tribes of all sizes. In addition, I was willing to use money to maintain my feelings, so the business became bigger and bigger, and I accumulated a rich fortune, and I was a local rich man.
But when you walk by the river often, how can you not get your shoes wet?
More than half a year ago, he took advantage of the chaos in the country of Geng and purchased a large number of goods from illegal salt merchants and prepared to smuggle them to Shiwu. When he came, boxes of salt blocks were also boxes of gold, silver ore when he left, and then he was extremely happy and sad.
He was robbed by refugees in Shiwu.
Trapped in the valley for more than a month.
Being discriminated against and beaten every day.
He was assigned the dirtiest and tiring work.
Today, when the valley sentry tower found Chen Tang's trace, it was impossible to tell whether it was another refugee or the elites who came to wipe out their elites, so he sent out a few unlucky people, including the arrested merchant. He was originally heavier than his height. After suffering for so long, he was thinner for several times, and his chin turned into a pitiful double layer. His head was unkempt and in a mess.
Chen Tang asked: "Are you smuggling salt?"
The salt vendor knew very well that he was just an ordinary person and was targeted by the literary scholar. Not to mention the little secrets of his identity and background, I am afraid that he would even know what color he likes to wear.
Once you lie, the consequences may be that the head of the world will fall.
He had to nod honestly: "I walked the road from Longwu County and Shiwuxijie... but I just sold salt honestly, and I absolutely didn't buy or sell armor and weapons. I, I don't dare."
Smuggling salt is a felony, but it is lighter than buying and selling armor.
"Why is it the Shiwuxijie?"
The salt vendor said: "The western border is remote, the road is difficult to walk, and there are more dangers. A box of salt can quadruple there."
One trip can earn a lot more.
Chen Tang asked again: "How much do you know about the valley?"
The salt vendors dare not add fuel to the fire.
As speculated at the beginning, the more than a thousand people in the valley were refugees, and they had a mortal hatred against all major tribes. In addition, the blockade of nearby tribes made their lives increasingly poor, and several weak people starved to death every now and then.
There are at most a hundred young and powerful people who can form combat power.
"The refugees of a thousand people are only over a hundred young and strong?"
Chen Tang questioned this ratio.
The salt vendor sighed: "That's all I can eat."
There is nothing left to eat, so I can only eat a little bit like the elderly, weak, women and children, and maintain a state of starvation.
As the bottom-level prisoner, the salt vendor was even worse.
Every day, I only have a few bites of rotten, dry and hard food, and I can’t tell the original color or a little turbid water. I can live until now, all the fat meat I stocked up on my body before. In another month or two, I will either be skinny and skeletonized or 45 years old.
Now caught...
There may only be a few incense sticks left in life.
Who knows-
"You said that these people in the valley hate other tribes very much?" The boy Li, who was sitting in the upper head, pondered for a while, his eyes were sophisticated but not as good as those of this age: "How hateful are there? Is there enough hatred to destroy the whole family and willing to be driven to work hard?"
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June 22nd, sunny.
I have the tenth leader of the mushroom book.
Chapter completed!