Demu Farm.
The farmer held a telescope and looked at the black smoke produced by industrial traces in the distance, walking back and forth in the luxuriously decorated room.
He seemed very anxious about the sudden appearance of his neighbor.
Because the other party is obviously not weak. It is impossible for them not to take action if the slave traders who passed by here a few days ago pass by, and there are only two possibilities for them to still be active. Either they are too strong, and even the slave traders dare not take action easily. Either they drove away the slave traders, and both the former and the latter posed a certain armed threat.
The farmer did not consider the third possibility. He thought that it was impossible for the group of people to kill the slave traders or even rob their goods.
"Master, why don't we send someone to investigate?"
The steward made a suggestion, although he didn't think it was anything to be afraid of. With the new tribe, they might be able to sell more food.
He thought less than the farmer, thinking that the people in that territory must be hiding underground and the slave traders did not want to waste too much time. As for the shocking fire that night, it was probably because the slave traders did not blast it. The annoyance of opening the door.
The farmer nodded and asked him to send two people to check out the situation. If it was a place that could be traded, they could negotiate.
There are no advanced reconnaissance machines on the farm. Their most advanced gadget is an energy cannon exchanged from the Black Tower. Except for the guards guarding the farm, the rest of the farm is in a primitive farming state.
Aka and Ade are young men with relatively good skills in the escort team, and are sent by the housekeeper to conduct eavesdropping missions.
They walked along the road to the farm, turned around, passed through the open plains, and then passed through the woods. They saw a tall gray wall, which was daunting at the sight. It was higher than the farm wall. I don't know what it was. What material it is made of, it looks weird.
After walking around the corner, the view suddenly opened up. Not far away was the lakeside where several people gathered.
There was danger in the lake. Aka and the others didn't know why those people dared to get close, and they were waiting with strange things in their hands.
After walking more than a hundred meters, we saw the main entrance of this territory.
The door is made of thick wood and gray stuff, and there are things hanging and writing on it, but neither Aka nor Ade can read and can't understand what it means, but there is an inexplicable feeling of shrinking and stiffness. Scalp close.
From the unclosed door, I saw the working scene inside. Many, many people were busy shuttling back and forth. The tall machines spewed out a steady stream of black smoke. Aka and Ade looked at each other, slightly surprised.
This is completely different from the small place the steward said. With so many people, it should be a good trading place.
"Who are you?"
Zhou Rui, who was by the lake, had been staring at these two people for a long time. Seeing the two men standing at the door looking furtively in, he stepped forward to question them.
Aka quickly explained: "We are from the farm. We saw black smoke here and came to take a look out of curiosity."
Zhou Rui drove away: "There's nothing to see, so hurry up, or don't leave."
The location where the two people came was indeed from the direction of Demu Farm. Judging from their dress and appearance, they did not look like slave traders. Zhou Rui waved her hands and did not intend to be violent. If they were really from the farm, they might still come back in the future. Want to buy food.
Speaking of food, Zhou Rui concentrated on fishing again.
The Sand Moon is coming soon, so we must stock up on more food.
Aka and Ade had no choice but to leave. Before leaving, Ade saw something and bumped Aka's arm. Aka looked over and couldn't help but stop for a while. After being glanced at by Zhou Rui, he left in a hurry.
They did not dare to delay and ran back to the farm to report.
"You mean where those damn slaves went?"
The butler patted the table, looking a little angry.
"It's absolutely true. We must have read it correctly. They are the only ones who seem to be doing pretty well."
Aka's last sentence was a bit sour. He looked at it for a little longer and found that the people next to A Tian were greeting him very politely, as if they were some kind of person.
This was simply unreasonable. He was just a slave who had committed a capital crime and escaped. They thought that these escaped slaves were dead long ago, but they didn't expect that they were still alive and well.
"I'll go report to the master right away."
The butler went to report the situation to the farmer with a bulging belly, and his tone was quite dissatisfied.
"Escaped slaves are already punishable by death. In addition, they have made a big mistake in the first place. The territory still dares to take them in instead of sending the slaves back to the farm. It seems that they don't take you, the farm owner, seriously. inside."
The farmer touched his mustache and looked a little displeased. He thought the steward was right and should have sent the people back obediently when they caught them.
"Then just wait, we don't need to take the initiative to come to the door. When they come to the door, Fengshayue will be here soon. Since there are so many of them, they will definitely come to buy food. If they take the initiative to hand over the people, we can consider it. Sell them food."
The butler praised: "You are so kind."
In the 901 shelter, as soon as Aka and Ade left, Yan Qin found out about the people coming to the farm.
"Should we communicate with them and see the prices of their food so as to reduce the pressure on food consumption?"
Yan Qin asked Lin Sui that this was something he had wanted to do for a long time, but he was always busy with new things, so he postponed it indefinitely. But now there is no time to delay. According to the food currently stored in the warehouse, a full dozen is enough to eat more than half of it. month, and this is despite the fact that there are new food sources every day for more than half of the month.
"Okay, go ahead."
Lin Sui did not stop him, nor did he reveal his plan to attack the farm now.
No people want their place to continue to fight foreign wars, so what to fight for is particularly important.
In the book, Yan Qin did not launch an invasion plan at the beginning. He wanted to purchase food, but he encountered difficulties from Demu Farm.
The Sand Moon is coming soon, and the price of food will rise. Demu Farm relies on the fact that Sanctuary is a newly established force, and raises the price. The lion opens its mouth, asking Yan Qin to use weapons in exchange for some food, and wants Yan Qin to execute Lao Moke and the other three. Treat it as sincerity in the transaction.
Yan Qin knew that they had no intention of doing business properly. He could not sell the weapons cheaply, let alone kill the residents. In this case, for the sake of the residents' survival, he was determined to attack the farm.
Everything is transitional, and transition makes it easier for people to accept it.
When they learned that the administrator was going to the farm to purchase food, Lao Moke and the others specifically told Yan Qin the prices of several grains at the farm to prevent Yan Qin from being cheated.
Yan Qin brought a small team. Although he was going to do business, he also wanted to let the other party see their ability to do business and avoid being underestimated.
After Yan Qin went out, Lin Sui went to the workshop to see how Uncle Atuo was doing.
Uncle Ato is the person in charge of logistics in the Creia mercenary team. He is good at repairing and manufacturing weapons. Although his manufacturing level is not high, he can complete the replica of weapons when there are replacement materials. He has been suffering from the lack of a console before. So he was busy with other things, but after discovering the operating table in the slave trader's goods, he immediately reported and applied for it to Lin Sui.
Lin Sui gave him a place to build a workshop and asked him to concentrate on this matter. He also asked him to find an assistant.
"Lord Lord."
The assistant who was tapping the bullet saw Lin Sui and said hello immediately. He is Miller's friend. He was a captured mercenary before. After serving as a team leader for a period of time, he came to Ato to help at Miller's suggestion. After his contribution was enough, He got rid of his status as a slave and became an ordinary resident.
Lin Sui didn't remember everyone. He nodded slightly, checked the progress of the weapon manufacturing, encouraged Atuo and left.
The assistant breathed a sigh of relief when the silver-white snake tail disappeared into the workshop.
He wiped the sweat from his forehead: "I don't know why, but I feel nervous every time I see the lord."
Uncle Atuo said with a smile: "This is the aura of Lord Lord, but I think Lord Lord is actually a very gentle god."
After hearing the second half of Atuo's words, the assistant couldn't help but have questions in his mind.
Does the word gentle have anything to do with the lord?
Just by applying that word to the Lord Lord, he couldn't help but feel excited.
"That's when you didn't see him blessing Lord Yan. I really want Lord Lord's blessing."
Atuo recalled that day with envy in his heart.
The assistant stayed in the red house outside that day and did not see that scene. However, as Uncle Atuo continued to describe it, he suddenly felt that the Lord seemed to be enveloped in such a gentle light.
Uncle Atuo, Lord Lord of the Morning Frost Domain, is the first person to preach in the Guangming Sect, and he is well deserved.
After Lin Sui inspected the territory, he continued to collect grain.
He entered the water lily lake. The rhizomes of these water lilies grew very fast. After digging a batch, they would grow back soon, but they would be smaller.
Residents can only fish by the lake. In fact, there are more abundant food resources further away, but it is too dangerous for them, but it is okay for Lin Sui.
He took Dolphin and another monster with the genes of aquatic creatures and dived into the bottom of the lake.
After letting Doduo and the others carry the food back, Lin Sui washed his hair in the lake. When he dived in and came out of the lake again, the residents on the shore had already left. A young soldier in combat uniform was squatting by the lake with his Eyes facing each other.
This was a scene that was almost the same as the day they first met. The difference was that Yan Qin naturally stretched out his hand to help Lin Sui without Lin Sui opening his mouth.
"No agreement?"
Lin Sui knew by looking at his face that something was not going well. It was probably exactly the same situation as in the book.
Yan Qin nodded, with suppressed anger in his voice, and told the conditions of Demu Farm, and reached out to help Lin Sui twist the water droplets from his long hair.
Wet black hair hung down on the back of her head, exposing the areas that were usually covered by her hair. The things that Yan Qin had inadvertently rubbed against her cold white chest were particularly obvious.
The stimulation of lower water temperatures keeps them in high spirits and blooming in the wind.
Yan Qin played with Lin Sui's hair absently with his fingers, forgetting what he had just complained about.
Just as Lin Sui guessed, Demu Farm still put forward those conditions this time, and also asked for Dobson's cannon by name.
How could Yan Qin agree to give it to him? Although he didn't know how many weapons he didn't know about in the shelter, who would think there were so many such things? Armed strength was a guarantee of safety in peaceful times, especially in the wasteland world. in this way.
Lin Sui looked calm: "It was right not to agree. Since he won't give it, we have to use other methods."
Just as he wanted, if the attitude of Demu Farm suddenly changed, he might still be worried that he couldn't take action. Only by getting what he had in hand would he feel at ease.
Lin Sui's snake tail swam, and his upper body moved with it.
Yan Qin stared blankly, thinking randomly in his mind about not agreeing to it, not allowing him to touch it, not letting him touch it, he was just curious about the feeling and wanted to try it again...such endless thoughts. After a while, Yan Qin's brain processed the news of this sentence correctly.
"You mean, hit?"
Lin Sui lowered his eyelids and raised them again, silently responding.
Under the gray-white skyline, the richly colored profile looks sharp and casually cold.
Yan Qin found that he really liked seeing Lin Sui like this, this cold and arrogant feeling that everything was under his control.
Yan Qin looked down, pretending to help Lin Sui's hair, and quietly covered Lin Sui's chest with wet hair.
The wet hair brushed by, and Lin Sui's fingers trembled inconspicuously for a moment.
He glanced at it and said nothing.
Yan and Qin are still that virtuous.
In the base, an atmosphere of silence spread.
Kreya pressed her forehead with a headache. She didn't hold Zhou Rui back. That girl was always outspoken and couldn't hide anything.
It was a good thing that this matter was made public now. It was impossible for them not to eat. However, the conditions at Demu Farm were really unacceptable. The administrator sullenly took them away on the spot.
Zhou Rui twisted his clothes uneasily, feeling guilty that he had done something wrong.
She was so angry that she couldn't hold it back when she came back. When Old Mok and the others asked expectantly if they had succeeded, she quickly told the story.
Zhou Rui was taken care of by Lao Mok and the others from the very beginning, so it was impossible for him to agree to do transactions with Lao Mok and the others.
The group of people discussed business with them without inviting them in. They pointed guns at them for fear that they would rob them, and their tone was very bad.
Lao Mok, A Tian and A Shui were not interested in working, and sat aside in despair, looking like they had been hit hard.
The three of them came from a farm and didn't have much knowledge. It was only after following the administrator and the lord that they realized that life could be so happy. They didn't have to be cursed and whipped like animals every day, and the administrator and the lord wouldn't be inexplicably harsh. They don't behave like masters in front of them.
Now that life is getting better and better, they thought they could continue like this, but to their surprise, the farm still refused to let them go.
The three of them had not committed any serious crimes at all, at least they were not serious crimes here. Old Mok was old and had bad legs and feet. After working for too long, he collapsed in the field and broke a red rice seedling. , was about to be beheaded. They said that anyway, he was old and living was a waste of food. He could not even grow food well, so he might as well die.
Ah Shui was a water bearer in the old man's house. He had been hungry for three days. He couldn't bear it any longer, so he went to the kitchen to dig out a small piece of bread and was caught.
A Tianze had a conflict with a member of the farm guard team, and the other party beat him first to vent his anger.
The three of them were locked up together, and the guards that night went away to play cards. No one thought they would escape, and no one thought they could escape.
A Tian said, do they really want to die like this? Why do they want to live like this?
Old Mock couldn't answer him, because everyone lived like this and had always been like this, but he was unwilling to do so. Do he really want to die like this? He still wanted to live.
He just accidentally crushed a seedling. He started working when he was eight years old. He has grown countless grains for forty or fifty years, but he died just because he crushed a seedling.
They decided to take a risk, and the worst they could do was to die anyway. Old Mock knew the terrain of the farm and also knew that there was a hole that had not been blocked. They ran all the way and left the farm through the hole.
They didn't think about what the future would be like at that time. Fortunately, they met the current administrator. Even the lord knew not to let the monsters go hungry, let alone let them go hungry. In the work full of hope, they knew Their existence is also meaningful.
But now, the farm said that it would only sell them food if the three escaped criminal slaves were executed.
How can you do this! How could this be possible!
But... we can't live without food.
The look in Old Mok's cloudy eyes gradually became firm. He couldn't make things difficult for the Lord. As long as he volunteered, no one would feel bad about the Lord.
As soon as Lin Sui and Yan Qin walked into the shelter, they saw Old Mok coming over, lowering his head to state his sins.
He expressed his determination: "Lord, I volunteer to be executed."
A Tian and A Shui were silent and nodded with difficulty, but their eyes could not conceal their despair.
The people around him were either persuasive or silent. Some thought Demu Farm was going too far, while others thought Demu Farm was normal. Some people only valued the grain trade.
These thoughts were all normal. Lin Sui was satisfied when he saw that there was no one who would jump out and ask the lord to execute the three people immediately.
"Who said you would be executed?"
Lin Sui spoke, and Lao Moke and the others were stunned.
Zhou Rui raised her chin, she just said, there is no way the lord would do this!
"They proposed an unreasonable price that we would never agree to. They also want to decide the life and death of my people. They have no right to dictate in my territory."
"Except for the judgment from the Morning Frost Territory, no one else has the right to decide the life or death of the people of the Morning Frost Territory."
Lin Sui's voice was not loud, but it fell into everyone's heart and shocked everyone.
Even if most people believe that within a group, the interests of a small number of people need to be compromised for the interests of the majority, no one is sure that they will always be in the majority.
No one wants to be abandoned, and no one wants to be sacrificed.
"Long live the lord!"
A Tian was overjoyed and knelt down to salute.
Old Mok and Ah Shui couldn't believe it. Old Mok wiped the moisture from the corners of his eyes and saluted with choked sobs.
"Long live the lord!"
The sound echoed over the territory, shocking people's hearts. Even those slaves who were resentful had some subtle changes in their hearts.
When the atmosphere calmed down, Yan Qin said loudly: "The lord will protect every one of his subjects. Those who are innocent in the territory's laws must not become sinners in other people's territories."
He first talked about the imbalance of the Demu Farm transaction in detail, focusing on the damage to the interests of the territory, and then brought up the matter of food.
"As for food, we will continue to negotiate with Demu Farm. If they still deliberately make things difficult..."
Yan Qin extended his final tone, faced Lin Sui, put his right hand on his heart and bowed in salute, saying word by word:
"We will fight for the Lord, and for the Domain of Morning Frost."
His voice was steady and powerful, revealing his determination in a calm manner.
"Fight for the Lord! Fight for the Domain of Morning Frost!"
Creia and other mercenaries were originally wandering between life and death. In their view, they were already the lord's people. Now that they had a stable life, it was their duty to live and die in the territory.
The people of the tribe are by no means weak. Just because they lost their home once, they know what it feels like to be displaced. They don't want to lose their new home, and they don't want to become other people's goods or slaves, and become objects that can be disposed of at will.
Even some robbers were inspired by this, and mingled in the back row of the crowd and waved excitedly.
They are familiar with their profession, and they like to do this kind of thing the most. This is no more happy than baking bricks and mixing cement!
The atmosphere became more and more lively, and the residents standing in the back row looked at the slaves with instructable expressions. Both parties had their own thoughts but strangely had the same purpose.
I will follow the Lord to the death!
The residents were passionate, surging, angry, and passionate, making loyal voices with their souls.
Lin Sui stared at their faces, and his eyes fell back on Yan Qin's face.
Yan Qin looked at him with the corners of his lips raised slightly.
This is a somewhat cunning arc that makes this loyalty particularly special.
Lin Sui knew that he was wagging his tail to show off.
"Everyone returns to his or her place, and there will be new tasks later."
Lin Sui raised his hand to reduce the deafening sound.
He asked Old Mock to make a fish soup to reward everyone, and then returned to the underground.
We need to plunder the farm as soon as possible. We really need a cook. Old Mock's skills are still not good enough.
Yan Qin watched Lin Sui leave, but did not let everyone disperse quickly. Instead, he asked Lao Moke and the other three to explain clearly the mistakes they had made in the farm.
Yan Qin didn't like to bury hidden dangers. In order to prevent the new residents from mistakenly thinking that the old residents had special treatment and to arouse everyone's emotions, Yan Qin wanted to do this in the sun to prevent anyone from mentioning the old thing again in the future.
After the lecture, Yan Qin returned to the administrator's office.
Lin Sui sketched on the light screen and said to Yan Qin who came in: "Call Creya and the others over soon. Now we need more standardized training. Even if it is to sharpen the gun before the battle, we will take down the farm in half a month at the latest."
"Are you so anxious?"
Yan Qin was a little surprised by his time arrangement. I am afraid that half a month of training will not produce very effective results. According to the terrain of the farm, it is estimated that he can only attack from the front and push horizontally.
Fortunately, they still have an army of monsters, so this arrangement shouldn't be a problem.
"The Sand Moon will arrive in half a month. By then, there will be a lot of yellow sand, which will not be conducive to an attack. There is another important factor."
When Yan Qin heard this, he realized that he didn't know enough about the world. No wonder he felt that there seemed to be a lot of sand recently, but it wasn't too noticeable. It turned out that there was still such weather in the wasteland, so he really had to hurry up.
He heard Lin Sui's unfinished words and asked: "What is the important factor?"
Lin Sui held up his cheeks and said, "The Sand Moon is the time for monsters to reproduce and mate. Once they get busy, they won't listen to anyone's orders."
Monsters...reproduce...sex...ahem...
Yan Qin's Adam's apple slid up and down and he made a subconscious swallowing motion. Looking at the slightly swaying silver-white snake tail, his brain felt slightly dizzy.