Qingchen performed a full performance. Not only did he pretend to be a refugee from City No. 10, he even took the initiative to provoke Chen's soldiers and got beaten up.
He frowned and analyzed that there was no problem for Chen to explore forbidden places. After all, all consortiums were doing such things.
But this timing is so weird:
The Northern War has just been suspended, and the entire federation is in a state of preparation for war. Everyone knows that a new war will come.
As a result, the four consortiums in the north were fighting fiercely. Chen said that I should go explore a forbidden place first...
Therefore, the Chen Group Army must have a more important mission... Huotang.
Huotang lives in the cracks between various consortiums. They are in a remote location and possess a large amount of forbidden land resources, secrets, and even mysterious practice inheritance.
Moreover, if the Chen family wanted to cross the southwest snow mountains and influence the Qing family's base camp, they had to pass through the fire pond.
The fire pit and the forbidden place No. 8 were like a thorn stuck in Chen's throat.
In the past, when the Chen family wanted to use the fire pond, the Qing family would send troops to practice in the wilderness.
That's why when Qingchen challenged Qingchen in Forbidden Land No. 002, Huotang helped the shadow candidate Qinghuai to kill Qingchen.
The relationship between Huotang and the Qing family has always been ambiguous.
As soon as the Qing family engaged in military exercises, the Chen family had no choice but to retreat.
After all, they were afraid that Qing would suddenly stop acting while he was acting.
Now, all the forces are restrained on the northern battlefield, and the Chen family will take advantage of this opportunity to completely capture Huotang!
Open the corridor for them to go to the Qing family!
Qingchen was escorted towards the direction of the refugees. He kept observing from the corner of his eye, trying to understand the situation of this field brigade.
If we attack the fire pond, it means that there must be Chen masters hiding in the field brigade. Maybe Chen Yu himself is in the Class A airship above his head!
Otherwise, how can a field brigade win over a fire pit where experts gather? Even if the spades are now active in the north, it still won't work.
Master Chen's favorite way of fighting is to hide in the army and look for opportunities to tear up his paintings.
Until you find an opportunity, just wait and see.
Qingchen had just been observing for two minutes when he saw an acquaintance...
Chen Yehu.
The opponent was wearing a senior colonel's military uniform and was returning to the off-road vehicle. This was Chen Yehu's unit.
When Qingchen traveled through prison No. 18, Li Shutong put on a cat mask for the first time and took him to the most famous rooftop revolving restaurant in No. 18 City for dinner.
It was Chen Yehu who came forward to persuade Li Shutong to return to prison on behalf of the Chen family.
At that time, Li Shutong once personally praised Chen Yehu as the most outstanding talent of the younger generation of the Chen family.
While thinking, the soldiers responsible for escorting Qingchen and the others pushed the three of them into the crowd of farmers.
Those farmers were driven on foot for more than 200 kilometers, and their expressions were already numb. Even if Qingchen and others joined the team, everyone just glanced at them and showed no reaction.
These farmers include old people, women, young people, and children.
There were also men holding a two-year-old baby in their arms, walking indifferently and tiredly. Some women had even taken off their shoes, but they could only continue walking barefoot, and their feet were worn out.
Just from the attitude of Chen's soldiers towards Qingchen, we can imagine the soldiers' attitude towards these farmers.
Qingchen frowned. Isn't Chen afraid of being punished by dragging these people to test the rules of the forbidden land?
Fortunately, the Chen Group Army did not know where Yangyang and the others lived, otherwise more people would be in trouble.
At this time, an old lady fell to the ground and could no longer hold on after walking for more than 200 kilometers.
Chen's soldier suddenly kicked her on the back: "Can't you walk anymore? If you can't walk anymore, just die here."
The old lady's son's eyes were splitting: "I'm going behind my mother's back. Don't you want a living person? How can a dead person try the rules of a forbidden place for you?"
The soldier sneered and said: "If you are filial, just carry her on your back. I'll see how long you can carry her. If you dare to walk too slowly, I will beat you two together."
The old lady's son helped her up, carried her on his back, and continued to move forward step by step.
Zard, a psychopath who is usually not serious, actually had a look of compassion on his face. He said in a low voice and seriously: "Boss, I want to save them."
Zard at this moment is just like when he covered Xiaoyu's eyes, completely different from usual.
In the team, Xiaoyu whispered aggrievedly: "Brother Zard, Brother Xiaotu, I'm scared."
"Don't be afraid, Xiaoyu," Qingchen comforted: "They won't do anything to us for the time being, zard. If you want to rescue people, you have to wait patiently, at least until Dayu comes out again. Otherwise, just the two of us, It’s not enough to deal with the risks.”
Zard nodded and said yes.
At this time, a team of Chen's soldiers came over and put electronic collars on each of the refugees.
An officer said coldly: "Don't think about escaping. Once the location is too far away from the team, we will detonate it. If you don't want to die, just be obedient."
Qingchen whispered: "Ms. Chen has no intention of leaving her alive."
Once the rules of the Forbidden Land are explored, Chen will definitely kill everyone in the Forbidden Land to prevent anyone from returning to the Federation alive and affecting Chen's reputation.
Zard lowered his head and said: "It's too cruel."
"zard, this is what it means for me to change the world."
"Well, I understand."
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The team marched until dusk, and Chen's soldiers were like shepherds, driving the farmers to build barracks and collect dry firewood.
Anyone who moves a little slower will be whipped a few times.
The evening sun shone on everyone, but there was no warmth at all, only a bone-chilling coldness.
An old man with inconvenient legs and feet suddenly fell down while walking on the road holding dry firewood. However, the Chen soldier who was responsible for supervising everyone whipped him down with a whip.
There was a crisp crack of the whip, and Qingchen looked back, only to find that Zard was lying on top of the old man, helping him block the whip.
"You are sympathetic, right?" Chen's soldier sneered, and as he spoke, he whipped more than ten whips, ripping the clothes on Zard's back.
Zard was very cautious this time, and even controlled the body on his back to give up the elementalization and use flesh and blood to bear the pain. Otherwise, if he was not injured by more than a dozen whips, he would be suspected.
At a certain moment, Qingchen felt that Zard seemed to have two souls in his heart, one serious and one not.
The one who is not serious is used to resist the world that once abandoned him.
The serious one is his true face.
It's just that Zard really has a mental problem, and he can't tell which one is him.
This time, it was Qingchen's turn to cover Xiaoyu's eyes. He didn't want Xiaoyu to see this scene.
Chen's soldier was satisfied with the fight, and then he said coldly: "Get up and work quickly. If the barracks are not set up before dark, no one will have food to eat!"
Zard stood up and helped the old man up. Before he could say thank you, he turned around and went to set up a tent with Qingchen.
Qingchen said calmly: "Don't worry, we will make them pay with their lives for this whip."
"What should I do?" Zard asked.
"Give me the puppets. Don't worry. The soldiers will say their names when chatting with each other. I'll control a few first," Qingchen said.
After the rat tide in City No. 10 was exterminated, Qingchen spent two days sacrificing the rat corpses.
Millions of rat corpses piled up on the defense line of the lower third area. It took Qingchen's puppets two days to get thirteen transparent silk threads.
After the puppet was divided into twelve strings, the growth in length slowed down, and the thirteenth string actually required the sacrifice of more than half a million mouse corpses to grow.
Qingchen suspected that the puppet vomited after eating a mouse and did not want to eat it.
At this moment, there was a noise from the crowd not far away, and he saw an old man pestering the soldiers for a drink.
How could Chen's soldiers be used to such a person? He kicked the old man to the ground and said, "Get out!"
The old man pestered him again.
But I heard Chen's soldier jokingly say: "Old man, you learn how to bark like a dog, and I will find some wine for you to drink."
Qingchen knew that the soldier was just teasing the old man, because although Chen's troops were violent, their military discipline was extremely strict. Except for Chen's painters, no one in the army could bring alcohol.
As soon as the old man heard what Chen's soldier said, he turned around and left: "You can't learn from a barking dog."
Chen's soldier was angry: "I ask you to learn, so you have to learn!"
He kicked the old man to the ground and whipped him all over his head and face. The old man protected his head on the ground and huddled up silently until the Chen soldiers had finished breathing.
Qingchen had no intention of paying attention to the old man, but he heard a young farmer in the crowd say: "This old boy Chen Jiazhang is asking for death if he goes to the soldiers of the Chen family to ask for a drink."
Qingchen was stunned immediately!
Chen Jiazhang!
He quietly came to the young man: "You said his name is Chen Jiazhang? Is he from your production base No. 1129?"
"No," the young man explained: "He came to the production base from outside. We make sorghum wine there. He often goes to the wine cellar to steal wine and drink it. Everyone found him in the wine cellar several times, very drunk.
Like a dead dog that forgot to run."
"Then what? Just let him keep stealing wine?" Qingchen asked.
"Otherwise, we hung him in the sun for three days at first, and then let him go, but he came back to steal," the young man said with emotion: "He is really addicted to alcohol and is completely desperate for his life."
I don’t know how he sneaked into the wine cellar, and there was no way he could stop him. But later on, he didn’t drink for free. Sometimes he would go to the wilderness to pick up the carcasses of wild animals and bring them back to us, including wild boars, pheasants, and hares.
In exchange for drink money.”
Another young man on the side said: "His drinking capacity is not very good. He was drunk after six liang. Let's put it all together, forget it, let him go."
These farmers may have been city dwellers in their ancestors. Because they couldn't stand the life in the city, they went to the wilderness to farm. At least they could eat real food by guarding the production base. With guns in their hands, they could hunt and improve their food.
Although there were plunderers from the wilderness, we could still defend it with the help of metal storms and weapons.
These people were relatively simple in nature, so they did not kill Chen Jiazhang.
And Qingchen suddenly understood that this was his uncle whose spiritual path was cut off.
Li Shutong said that after Chen Jiazhang's spiritual path was cut off, he went anonymously to find a way to break the shackles of reverse breathing.
But now it seems that the other party has not found a way, but has begun to give up on itself.
The broken spiritual path.
Betrayal of blood relatives.
Chen Jiazhang was overwhelmed.
Knights are not saints. They will also take detours and suffer setbacks like ordinary people. Knights do not have the same character and personality.
Qingchen can understand that Chen Jiazhang has become like this, but he can't bear to see this scene.
Moreover, after the other party's cultivation path was cut off, he seemed to be aging faster and did not stay young forever like Li Shutong.
Many knights such as Qin Sheng still looked like they were in their early twenties when they died.
Come to think of it, Chen Jiazhang's aging is the sequelae of the reverse breathing technique.
Qingchen walked over and whispered in Chen Jiazhang's ear: "I am Qingchen."
But the old man who was lying on the ground froze and turned his head: "Who the hell are you, I want to drink!"
"I know you have heard of me, and I also know that you don't dare to recognize me now, but it doesn't matter," Qingchen helped Chen Jiazhang up and walked towards zard and Xiaoyu with a gesture that he could not refuse.
Chen Jiazhang tried to break free, but he found that Qingchen was stronger than him!
Logically speaking, he should be stronger than Qingchen, because he is an orthodox knight of A-level, but alcohol has corroded his body and will over the years.
He looked at his nephew in surprise, but he didn't expect that he had only heard the other person's name two months ago, and that he had grown to this point two months later.
Qingchen whispered: "We cannot tolerate your willfulness now. We want to save the farmers in these production bases. It would be best to have your help, uncle."
Chen Jiazhang looked around and said to him: "I am not your uncle, I don't know you."
"You know who I am when you hear my name, which means you are still paying attention to the Knights organization," Qingchen said: "I didn't find you before, but now that I have, I won't let you indulge like this."
Chen Jiazhang stopped talking and just sighed.
Qingchen asked: "Master said that you were looking for a way to break the shackles of the reverse breathing technique. Did you find it?"
Chen Jiazhang was speechless.
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When night fell, Chen's soldiers gave each of the refugees one of the cheapest protein bars, which was everyone's meal for the day.
If this continues, even if they can reach Forbidden Land No. 008, these refugees may not be far away from starving to death.
The refugees wanted to sleep after eating, but Chen's soldiers did not allow them to lie down. They had to sleep sitting up in the wilderness.
There are a total of 1,329 refugees, guarded by 120 Chen soldiers, and four combat teams, each led by four combat team leaders.
Qingchen had already confirmed the names of 87 soldiers with his hearing, and planned to control the four team leaders at the right time. In this way, at least the refugees would have a slightly easier life.
At this time, several Chen soldiers and other main forces were all sleeping, and they quietly walked towards the refugees, and picked out a few women from the crowd, trying to drag them into the tents.
When zard saw this scene, he felt inexplicably sad and angry: "Let them go, come at me if you have any problems!"
Qingchen: "..."
Chen Jiazhang looked at zard with a strange expression, and suddenly asked Qingchen: "Is this also a member of our knights?"
When Chen Jiazhang saw Zard, he couldn't pretend anymore.