fictionpage #405 - Rob official silver?
#405 - Rob official silver?
On the other side, Liang Jin and his group were still hurrying on their way.
During these two days, Liang Jin had been directing Xiaoyu and the Divine Eagle to operate in different directions to attract the attention of others, thereby cleverly concealing his true whereabouts.
It has to be said that making full use of the [Nine Heavens and Ten Earths] for information transmission is incredibly convenient.
Even if he and Xiaoyu were hundreds of miles apart, they could still achieve instant communication.
In this era, instant communication is simply a powerful weapon in the field of information transmission, with immeasurable effects.
Therefore, he didn't even need to call Xiaoyu back to rearrange tasks; he could directly communicate smoothly with Xiaoyu within the [Nine Heavens and Ten Earths] to complete task deployments.
After two days of long journey, they finally arrived at a city.
"Brother, this is Huai'an City."
Xiao Liu looked at the city in front of him with a complex expression, and said:
"This Huai'an City was bustling and prosperous a few years ago, but now…"
His words stopped abruptly, but the scene before him had already explained everything.
Liang Jin and others stepped into the city, only to see the streets deserted and empty, with no one in sight, only the wind and sand blowing past, occasionally stirring up some debris, making rustling sounds.
However, as they walked past the houses on both sides of the street, they could vaguely feel pairs of eyes behind the window seams, trembling and secretly staring at their group, their eyes full of vigilance and fear.
Obviously, this city has not been completely abandoned, and there are still residents struggling to survive here, but after experiencing what kind of hardships, the residents here are full of fear of outsiders, and can only hide in the dark, carefully observing.
There were no sounds of chickens crowing or dogs barking, and various debris were scattered on the road. The dilapidated scene told of the city's past prosperity and current vicissitudes.
Liang Jin and his party rode their horses, and the sound of hooves was particularly loud on the silent street as they slowly passed through the streets.
Soon, a butcher shop appeared on the side of the street.
A large pot was set up at the entrance of the butcher shop, and the meat soup in the pot was "glug glug!" boiling, with many pieces of meat cooking in the rolling soup.
Large chunks of meat hung from the iron hooks hanging from the roof of the butcher shop, swaying slightly in the wind.
A tall, fat man was using a boning knife to remove the meat from the bones.
He was fat, and the fat on his body trembled with his movements, but his face had a fierce look, which made people feel frightened.
His movements were skilled, and he had obviously been doing this for a long time.
But his hands were extremely unsteady, and even when boning the meat, he would tremble uncontrollably from time to time, and the trembling became larger and larger.
Obviously, his body seemed to have some serious pathological changes.
When Liang Jin and the other two rode their horses closer, the fat man who was boning suddenly spoke without raising his head. His voice was low and hoarse, with a somewhat uncomfortable meaning:
"Three guests, the road ahead is far away."
"Buy some meat to fill your stomach, it's good to be full before you set off."
Liang Jin and the others naturally ignored him, their expressions calm, and went straight ahead.
But the next moment, the fat man seemed to be angered, and suddenly slammed the boning knife in his hand heavily on the chopping board.
"Bang!"
A loud noise was particularly harsh on the silent street.
Then the fat man raised his head, his eyes fierce, and looked at the three of them fiercely, almost squeezing out a few words from between his teeth:
"I said, buy some meat!"
Liang Jin and the other two looked at each other, their eyes conveying tacit understanding and calmness.
Then Liang Jin dismounted, walked towards the fat man with steady steps, and Lei Zhen and Xiao Liu also quickly dismounted, closely following behind Liang Jin.
Liang Jin came to the butcher shop, first glanced at the meat cooking in the pot, the color and texture of the meat revealed an strangeness, and then looked at the meat on the fat man's chopping board.
"What kind of meat is this?"
Liang Jin asked.
The fat man grabbed the boning knife on the chopping board, continued to bury his head in boning the meat, and replied vaguely:
"Vegetable meat."
As for what kind of meat "vegetable meat" was, the fat man didn't explain.
But the three people present had already vaguely guessed the answer, but they all tacitly understood.
Liang Jin asked again:
"How is it sold?"
The fat man didn't raise his head and replied in a muffled voice:
"One tael of silver for ten taels of meat."
Liang Jin nodded, and then asked unhurriedly:
"What if I don't buy meat?"
The fat man's movements suddenly stopped, and he raised his head again, his eyes flashing with fierce light.
"If you don't buy meat, you become meat!"
He said gloomily, his eyes flickering fiercely.
His hands trembled more and more violently, even the corners of his eyes were twitching, the expression on his face became more and more impatient, more and more irritable, and he made a series of chaotic hums from time to time.
The whole person was like a volcano about to erupt, ready to explode at any time.
Liang Jin smiled noncommittally, his expression calm, patiently looking at the fat man, with a hint of playfulness in his eyes, as if waiting for the fat man to explode.
Xiao Liu had already gently pressed his hand on the hilt of his sword. As long as this fat man dared to make any rash moves, he would immediately strike without hesitation and stab the fat man to death.
Lei Zhen, on the other hand, showed disdain. He had long seen that this fat man was only a ninth-rank martial artist, and was not worth mentioning in front of his elder brother.
If it had been two years ago, Lei Zhen would have been unable to restrain himself and would have killed this fat man long ago.
But in the past two years, there has been a severe drought in Chang Prefecture, and people have begun to use any means to survive, and all kinds of tragic things have emerged one after another.
Although Lei Zhen hated these behaviors in his heart, he also knew that he couldn't control them.
But if this fat man dared to cause trouble, then Lei Zhen would definitely not spare him.
But who knew, the fat man held the knife and glared at Liang Jin, brewing for a long time, but never erupted.
He seemed to be shocked by Liang Jin's calm and composed expression, even with a hint of playfulness and anticipation, and he vaguely realized that the three people in front of him were probably not easy to mess with.
To the point that the fat man gritted his teeth, and the hand holding the boning knife turned white because he used too much force, and the veins on the back of his hand bulged up.
But even so, the fat man never dared to strike.
Liang Jin lost his patience, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he slapped him in the face.
"Pa!!!"
This slap was full of strength, and the fat man's head tilted, and the whole person almost fell to the ground, as if extinguishing the volcano about to erupt in an instant.
Liang Jin said disdainfully:
"If you don't have the guts to use a knife, don't play the trick of forced buying and selling with me."
After saying that, Liang Jin turned around and left with Lei Zhen and Xiao Liu.
They returned to the horses and were about to mount.
At this time, the fat man who had been stunned by the slap seemed to wake up at this moment.
He suddenly shouted loudly:
"Big brother! Someone is causing trouble!"
"Someone from out of town is hitting me!!!"
The fat man's voice was like a bell, clearly spreading to every corner of this dead city.
With the fat man's shout, a group of people was quickly attracted.
At first glance, this group of people looked like a group of yamen runners.
They were wearing the black uniforms of yamen runners, black boots, black hats, and holding fire and water sticks.
The two leading ones were also holding signs of "Avoidance" and "Silence", seemingly majestic.
But if you look closely, you will find that the black uniforms on their bodies are not suitable at all. The wide clothes hang loosely on their bodies, which looks very ridiculous.
And this group of people are all rascals, dangling around, without the slightest righteousness and majesty that people in public service should have.
This group of people rushed over and quickly surrounded Liang Jin and the other two.
Liang Jin smiled slightly, not in a hurry to leave.
Because he had already seen new information popping up on the system interface:
[Detected that there are extremely evil people near the host.]
[Do you want to bring them into the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths?]
[Yes / No]
On the radar interface, a large number of light spots appeared nearby.
Obviously, Liang Jin was surrounded by extremely evil people at this time.
Soon, a grand master's chair was carried over.
A man wearing the official uniform of a county magistrate sat on the grand master's chair.
This official uniform was obviously custom-made for a fat official, but the man was thin and lean, as if a gust of wind could blow him down, so wearing this official uniform looked loose and crooked, and the corners of his clothes were drooping on the ground.
The man had no official appearance at all, with a rogue look on his face, but he looked more like a hooligan.
The man sat on the grand master's chair, squinted at Liang Jin and the other two, raised his chin slightly, and asked in a deep voice:
"I am the boss of this city, Xu San!"
"Where did you three troublemakers come from? When you see me, why don't you hurry up and kneel down?"
Lei Zhen smiled disdainfully, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, revealing a mocking smile.
Xiao Liu was still holding the hilt of his sword, his expression vigilant, not daring to relax in the slightest.
Liang Jin opened his mouth and said:
"You are not the county magistrate."
The lean man who called himself Xu San heard the words, stretched out his finger and pointed to the big pot at the entrance of the butcher shop, with a cruel smile on his face:
"The county magistrate was killed by me!"
"His fat can't be wasted, you go and scoop in that pot, maybe you can scoop up his broken bones."
"You three, do you also want to be cooked in the pot?"
After Xu San finished speaking, a group of men dressed as yamen runners also laughed.
Their laughter was full of malice, and the way they looked at Liang Jin and the other two was like looking at prey to be slaughtered.
Liang Jin said calmly:
"Be cooked? Naturally, I don't want to."
"I don't know, what do you want to do?"
Hearing this, the men dressed as yamen runners laughed again, the laughter echoing in the empty street, sounding particularly harsh.
Xu San crossed his legs, leaned back on the grand master's chair, and said lazily:
"Seeing that you three are strong and strong, I will give you two choices."
"First, go into that pot and be cooked."
"Since you said you don't want to be cooked, then I will give you a second choice."
"Offer your horses and wealth to me, and then follow us, and you will have everything to eat and play with."
"Brothers, pull out the bitches for them to see!"
Xu San said, waving at the group of men.
A group of women were quickly pulled out by those men.
These women were young and beautiful, obviously selected.
But what was shocking was that each of these women had a dog chain around their necks, and could only crawl on the ground with their hands and feet like dogs.
Their faces were terrified, and their eyes were full of fear and despair, and they seemed to be extremely afraid of Xu San and his gang.
Xu San smiled:
"Follow me, and you can have any woman in this city you desire! You can kill any man in this city you want! You can eat whatever you want, as long as it's edible!"
"Because I am the sky of this city!"
Xu San's words were not an exaggeration.
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A few months ago, the people in this city were starving. In times like these, rules are often broken.
Xu San and his gang stepped forward at this time.
They stormed into the county government, killed the magistrate, and seized all the official grain.
After that, Xu San became the master of this city.
But as he gained absolute power, he gradually began to change.
He was constantly worried that the imperial court would come after him, living in fear every day, so he kept recruiting subordinates.
But at the same time, with great power in his hands, he lost restraint and supervision. He began to become unscrupulous, bullying men and women, and committing all kinds of evil.
Now, he has become less like a human and more like a demon!
He has abandoned all humanity, treating all the surviving people in the city like livestock, raising them in this city for him to slaughter and support him.
"Think it over, and then kowtow to thank me."
Xu San leaned back in his chair and said lazily.
Liang Jin and the others exchanged glances, their eyes filled with disgust.
They could roughly guess what had happened in this city.
They could also understand what kind of person Xu San was.
In this chaotic world, too many people choose to join the outlaws.
Some of these people become heroes, eradicating violence and bringing a glimmer of hope to the people in the darkness; but some do evil, losing all conscience, turning the world into a hell.
Today, they encountered the latter.
At this moment, Xu San became impatient, a ferocious look appeared on his face, and he cursed:
"Damn it! You've been dawdling for so long. Are you going to submit to me or not?"
"If you want to submit, hurry up and kneel down to thank me!"
"If you don't submit, don't blame the brothers for being ruthless, skinning you and carving up your flesh!"
As Xu San became angry, the men who looked like yamen runners around him also kept yelling and cursing at the three, spewing all kinds of foul language.
At the same time, they also grabbed their weapons, holding the fire and water sticks in their hands tightly, approaching Liang Jin and the others, their footsteps messy, obviously ready to attack.
Liang Jin smiled, a hint of coldness in his smile.
He was too lazy to talk nonsense with these people.
Just kill them all!
Among the people present, only Xu San was a seventh-rank martial artist. Most of the others were ordinary people, and the remaining martial artists were all eighth-rank or ninth-rank. In his eyes, they were not worth mentioning at all.
Although most of these people were extremely evil.
But Liang Jin also had his own temper.
If he hadn't witnessed the evil deeds, he would have pulled the extremely evil people around him into the [Nine Empty Worlds].
But if he saw the evil deeds, he would kill!
Immediately, Liang Jin was ready to let Lei Zhen and Xiao Liu take action.
Just then.
"Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!"
A series of sounds of piercing through the air sounded, the sound was sharp and ear-piercing, like a sharp arrow across the night sky.
The next moment, several steel needles came through the air!
The steel needles were like a scattering of heavenly flowers, with a fierce momentum, and suddenly shot into the eyebrows of several men around.
These steel needles were full of internal force, and could directly penetrate people's skulls, deeply piercing into their brains.
In just an instant, these men didn't even have time to scream. Their eyes widened, with expressions of horror on their faces, and they fell straight to the ground.
The scene instantly fell into chaos and panic.
The crowd was like frightened birds, running around, their footsteps flustered and hurried, knocking over the debris on the street, making a crackling sound.
Some people were shouting hoarsely:
"There are assassins!"
The sharp shouts echoed in the empty street, adding to the atmosphere of tension and fear.
Some people were so frightened that their legs went weak and they collapsed directly on the ground, trembling all over, their eyes full of despair and helplessness, as if the end of the world had come.
These people were as terrible as man-eating demons to the people; but when facing people who wanted to kill them, they were quickly frightened and trembled like mice.
Liang Jin turned his head slightly, his eyes like torches, looking in the direction from which the steel needles came.
I saw a group of people quietly appearing on the slightly dilapidated rooftops of the surrounding houses.
Each of them held weapons, and in the sunlight, the weapons reflected a dazzling cold light, like a group of avengers descending from the darkness.
These people did not hesitate at all, jumped down, like a group of agile cheetahs, from the roof, and quickly fought with the men dressed as yamen runners.
For a time, shouts of killing and the sound of weapons colliding intertwined.
Among this group of people, the performance of three people was particularly eye-catching, like the brightest stars in the night sky.
One of the women, her eyes were like a pool of autumn water, clear and bright, her eyes showing intelligence and decisiveness.
She was very beautiful, wearing a purple outfit, outlining her strong figure.
At this moment, she held a pair of mandarin duck yue in each hand. The mandarin duck yue seemed to have life in her hands, flying nimbly, but constantly harvesting other people's lives.
Especially her lightness skill was even more remarkable. Her toes lightly touched the ground, and she could leap several feet away like a swallow, which was amazing.
And the wave of precise and deadly steel needles just now came from her hand. Obviously, her hidden weapon skills were very powerful. Every time she shot, the steel needles could hit the enemy's vital points accurately, as if they had eyes, making it impossible for the enemy to defend against.
Another person was a skinny man. He looked like an ordinary farmer, wearing a coarse linen shirt that had been washed white and patched, and his skin was dark and rough.
He held a copper mace, and the copper weapon shone with a simple luster in the sun.
His moves were strange and unpredictable, making him unpredictable.
Especially he was good at acupoint techniques. Wherever he went, the enemies were hit one after another, their bodies instantly stiffened and slumped to the ground, and they could only watch themselves being restrained, with desperate expressions on their faces.
Another person was a young man with a handsome face.
He wielded a chain mace in his hand. The chain mace was swung by him with great force, and every swing brought a strong gust of wind, as if it could tear the air.
His strength was amazing, powerful and heavy, and every blow could easily break the enemy's bones, making a chilling cracking sound.
What was shocking was that these three people were actually all sixth-rank martial artists!
Their addition instantly reversed the entire battle situation.
Xu San and others, who were originally arrogant and invincible, seemed vulnerable under the fierce attack of these three people. They were no match for them at all, and were beaten to pieces.
Seeing someone taking action, Liang Jin was happy to be idle.
He stood easily with Lei Zhen and Xiao Liu, with a leisurely expression, as if he were an outsider.
During this period, the woman turned her face slightly when she passed by Liang Jin and the others in the gap between battles and kindly reminded:
"Don't be afraid, my name is Yan Sanniang, known in the martial world as 'Flying Swallow Thief'. We are not bad people, we are here to save you."
"Don't run around, lest you get hurt by mistake."
Her voice was clear and melodious, like a mountain spring, which was particularly clear on this noisy battlefield.
After speaking, she turned around and flexibly threw herself into the battle again, and the mandarin duck yue in her hand danced more and more quickly, bringing a ray of cold light.
Of course, Liang Jin and the others were too lazy to move. They still stood leisurely in place and continued to watch the show with great interest.
This fight did not last too long. Under the fierce attack of Yan Sanniang and others, Xu San, the fat man, and the group of men were basically killed.
Yan Sanniang and her group of martial artists obviously knew Xu San and their details very well, so they attacked extremely fiercely, with fatal moves, and did not intend to leave anyone alive.
Every time they attacked, they had the determination to kill, as if they were carrying out a righteous trial.
In the end, there was only a pile of dead bodies left on the entire street.
The dead bodies lay scattered on the ground, blood flowing from their bodies, spreading on the street, gathering into rivers of blood, exuding a strong bloody smell.
At this time, Yan Sanniang ordered people to release the poor women who were treated like dogs.
At the moment when those women regained their freedom, it was as if they had returned from hell to the world.
Their legs were weak, and they all collapsed to the ground, tears streaming down their faces, crying bitterly. In their cries, there was both the joy of regaining freedom and the pain and despair of the past tragic encounters.
Then Yan Sanniang set the butcher shop on fire.
The raging fire burned instantly, and the flames licked the walls and roof of the butcher shop, making a crackling sound.
She seemed to think that Liang Jin and the others would be puzzled, so she turned around and explained to them:
"This meat is not edible."
"If you want to eat, you can work for us."
Liang Jin just smiled.
Lei Zhen and Xiao Liu were also quite helpless.
Xu San wanted to recruit soldiers, and this Yan Sanniang also wanted to recruit soldiers?
At this time.
I saw this group of martial artists transporting a large cart of grain.
They scooped out the grain with gourds and distributed it to the poor women.
As the grain appeared, the people who had been hiding in the houses finally came out of their homes.
They looked at the cart full of grain, initially full of apprehension and fear.
But then, they finally couldn't restrain the hunger in their stomachs and rushed up.
In this world, there is nothing more terrible than hunger.
The martial artists maintained order while distributing the grain to the people.
Yan Sanniang jumped onto the grain cart at this time and shouted loudly to everyone:
"We just need to recruit a group of people to carry goods. Whoever is willing to help, the food is enough!"
"Anyone who is a martial artist can also join us!"
"As long as you are brave enough, you can go with us to — rob official silver!!!"
"If we rob the official silver, everyone will have food to eat!"