"That's why Linzhong Town is like this. All the townspeople are hiding in their homes and don't dare to come out. The streets are empty and dead." The old shopkeeper shook his head helplessly, looking very melancholy.
After listening to the old shopkeeper's description, everyone put down their chopsticks silently.
Ren Tanqian touched his beard: "In that case, why don't you escape?"
The old shopkeeper shook his head helplessly and said: "It's not that we don't want to escape, it's that we have nowhere to escape."
"Sir, you don't know something. Our Linzhong Town is located in the forest. If you want to escape from the town, you must cross the forest."
"But there are a lot of wild beasts in the forest, and there are even legendary monsters! Many young and strong people died in the forest while escaping, not to mention the old, weak, sick and disabled."
"Besides, even if we escape, we will have nowhere to settle down. After all, our ancestors have lived here for generations, who would be willing to leave?"
At the end of the sentence, the old shopkeeper bowed his head in resignation and sighed sadly, as if he had surrendered to fate and gave up resistance.
After a while, the old shopkeeper calmed down a little and said, "Guests, you'd better set out early tomorrow morning. Those gangsters rarely come out to raid in the morning, so it's safest to leave at that time."
Ren Tanqian counted the days and asked the old shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, do you know where the gang's lair is?"
There are still two days before the opening of the Wangcheng Martial Arts Conference, so if something like this happens when he passes by here, Ren Tan Qian will not just sit idly by and ignore it, so he plans to deal with the gang of gangsters and help the town get out of crisis.
Hearing Ren Tanqian's words, the old shopkeeper showed surprise: "Lao Chao? What's the purpose of this?"
Ren Tanqian didn't mince words, he went straight to the point and said: "Maybe we can deal with those gangsters."
Hearing Ren Tanqian's words, the old shopkeeper was stunned for two seconds without responding.
When he came to his senses, he looked at Ren Tanqian in shock, as if he had heard the most incredible thing in the world: "You...what did you say? Can you deal with it?"
"Don't worry, shopkeeper, we have our own solution." Ren Tanqian knew that the old shopkeeper would react like this, so he was not surprised by it.
The old shopkeeper looked at Ren Tanqian with doubt on his face: "Even the patrols sent by Yuzhou to deal with these bandits have failed. And how can you, a group of businessmen, be able to deal with them?"
Yuan Xiaofeng said impatiently: "You old man, why are you so disrespectful? Do you know who we are..."
Before Yuan Xiaofeng finished speaking, Ren Tan Qian reached out to stop him, and then said to the old shopkeeper in a friendly manner: "There is no other way now, the shopkeeper might as well let us try it."
The shopkeeper smiled bitterly and shook his head, giving up on himself and said: "It's useless. If you try it, you will die in vain. You have no idea how powerful those gangsters are."
The shopkeeper's body couldn't help but tremble as he spoke: "They are all extremely powerful. They can break trees and crack rocks with their bare hands, and they can climb over cliffs and walls on foot. They are simply not human!"
Linzhong Town is isolated from the world. The townspeople have been farming and doing business for generations, and no one has tried to practice cultivation at all.
The shopkeeper was just a newbie and had never been exposed to warriors. Therefore, in his mind, it was unbelievable to climb over walls and trees on foot and break trees and rocks with bare hands.
It was precisely because he had seen the power of those gangsters that the shopkeeper believed that those gangsters were omnipotent and could not be defeated. After the fall of the patrol sent by Yuzhou, he became even more concerned about this.
Believe it or not.
But at this moment, these businessmen, old and young, actually said that they have a way to deal with those gangsters. This is simply the funniest joke in the world!
After listening to the shopkeeper's description, Lin Yun and his party remained extremely calm, as if they had heard nothing.
Seeing the few people who were as calm as usual, the old shopkeeper was completely stunned.
If you were an ordinary person, if you heard descriptions of someone being able to "climb over walls and climb walls on foot" or "break trees and rocks with bare hands", they would be very shocked, even unbelievable and unbelievable.
However, the businessmen in front of them became extremely calm after hearing this description.
Those who should drink tea drank tea, and those who should eat vegetables ate vegetables. No one expressed shock, and no one was surprised. It was as if this kind of thing was normal and they were used to it.
The old shopkeeper couldn't figure out what was going on with them? Wasn't he surprised at all?
"Apart from this, do you know anything else? For example, how many people are there in this group of gangsters? Where is their lair?" Ren Tanqian stroked his beard and asked the shopkeeper in a calm tone.
The old shopkeeper shook his head helplessly: "I don't know where their lair is, but there must be a lot of them."
"The last time Yuzhou sent a patrol to suppress the bandits, there were more than 500 people in total, but these more than 500 people never returned. It can be seen that the size of the gang of bandits is at least 500 people
above."
After the old shopkeeper finished speaking, he glanced at Lin Yun and others. His mocking eyes seemed to say: Are you scared?
In the shopkeeper's view, any one of the gangsters could easily defeat the few businessmen in front of him, let alone hundreds of them.
The five businessmen in front of them actually said that there was a way to deal with the bandits. Not even a three-year-old child would believe this.
"So I advise you to leave it alone and leave as soon as possible tomorrow morning, so as not to get caught by the gangster and get into trouble." The shopkeeper gave the final advice to everyone, and then turned around and returned to his room.
Ren Tan Qian did not explain to the shopkeeper anymore, but turned to Lin Yun and the others and said: "The Wangcheng Martial Arts Conference opens in two days, and we still have an extra day."
"Just have a good rest tonight. Tomorrow morning we will start investigating the lair of these gangsters. We must find them and eliminate them before we leave."
Yun Ruoxi, Yuan Xiaofeng, and Hu Jin all nodded.
Lin Yun had no objection. Although he was not the Bodhisattva who saved the world, and he did not care about the lives of these mortals, it was still okay to draw his sword to help when there was an injustice.
What's more, Lin Yun didn't even have to draw his knife to deal with these tough bandits. For him, suppressing bandits was like chopping vegetables.
Of course, the most important thing is that the Demon God Nucleus relies on killing to increase its cultivation. Although this gang of gangsters is weak, they have hundreds or even thousands in size. If they are all killed, they can also bring a lot of cultivation.
Seeing that all the disciples had no objections, Ren Tan Qian emphasized: "If we want to catch all these gangsters, we must destroy their lair and uproot them. Otherwise, after we leave, they will continue to make trouble."
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"So before we find their lair, we must not expose our strength, so as not to scare the snakes away and scare them away."
"We understand." Several people nodded, and then went back to their rooms to rest.