Twenty or thirty horse thieves rushed into the mountain village, showing off their power and shouting.
The villagers in the small mountain village were all silent and did not dare to speak.
An elderly man in the village stepped forward and said cautiously: "Thank you for your hard work, Third Leader, for coming here to collect the money so late!"
"Stop talking nonsense!" the third leader with thick eyebrows and big beard shouted, "You Zhangjiazhuang has more than 1,300 heads, and I'm too lazy to count them! Erase the fraction, two hundred taels of gold, go and get it!"
"Two hundred taels of gold?" The villagers were all anxious, and the elderly man asked, "The third boss, the monthly payment for half a year is one tael of gold for ten people. Normally, we pay more than 130 taels.
ah!"
The Third Master's face turned cold: "Where does all this nonsense come from? The price has increased! Damn it, the price of everything is increasing these days, only the price has not increased - from now on, it will increase! Ten heads, one or two
Half!"
"But Third Master, we followed the past rules and only prepared a little over one hundred and thirty taels..." the old man said.
"Not enough money?" The third leader grinned, which made the villagers tremble. "It's easy to say that the money is not enough. The old rule is to use others to offset it!"
As he said that, the Third Master directly pointed to about ten people. There were beautiful widows, strong men, and a few teenagers.
"Just take them away!"
"Hey, hey, the third master, the third master..." The villagers were all anxious. How could they arrest anyone who came up?
Xu Ming's eyesight was so good that even in the dark night, he could clearly see the scene that happened thousands of feet away.
"In Xu Ming's memory, there were rumors that bandits were rampant in rural areas. I had been in Yunqi City before and had never seen any bandits. Now it seems that these bandits are so arrogant. It seems that this world is really
It's thieves who are rampant!" Xu Ming sighed secretly.
Xu Ming is not a savior, but he is a civilized man from modern society after all. Now that this kind of thing happens and it is just a matter of effort, of course he cannot bear to stand by and watch.
"Forget it, just do some good deeds and accumulate some virtue!"
Thinking of this, Xu Ming quickly rushed towards the small village at the foot of the mountain. At the same time, his internal energy was running, and he shouted: "Stop!!"
"There are experts!" The horse thieves even became alert.
Soon, they saw a young man walking out of the darkness.
The Third Master couldn't help but frown: "Friend, there are rules in the world. We act according to the rules, so why don't you meddle in others' business?"
Xu Ming only whispered one word: "Get out."
"You..." The Third Master's face darkened. He was a well-known figure in this area after all. If someone told him to get out of here with contempt, where would he lose his face?
However, the third master was afraid of Xu Ming's powerful shout just now and did not dare to take action casually: "This little brother, judging from your demeanor, you must have come from a big family to gain experience, right? Didn't your family warn you?
, there are rules on the road, you can’t break them casually?”
"Get out of here, I'll cover you from now on!" Xu Ming understood that there were so many things like this in the world that he couldn't handle them; but it happened to happen, and if he didn't care about it, he wouldn't be able to bear it in his conscience.
Perhaps after coming to this world, Xu Ming had to gradually become bloody and numb and decisive in killing; because if he did not kill decisively, the enemy would kill him decisively. However, deep down in Xu Ming's heart, he still persisted.
Some kindness in a world ruled by law; it seems that only in this way can he feel that he is different from the people in this world.
The Third Master looked at Xu Ming with fear.
The younger brother on the side said softly: "The third master of the family is a master of internal training, so he is not to be trifled with!"
"Hmph!" In the end, the third master still didn't dare to offend Xu Ming. After all, he was just a sixth-level externally trained martial artist and could not afford to offend an internally trained master. "Let's go!"
The horse thief fled away.
Xu Ming originally thought that the villagers would be very grateful and crowd around him as a hero. But he didn’t expect——
"Hey, little brother, you've caused us trouble!" the old man in charge of the village was the first to say.
"Today, you drove away the horse thieves, but will you still be there tomorrow or the day after tomorrow? Then the horse thieves will come again, and we will only be worse off!"
The beautiful widow who had been targeted by the horse thief also looked at Xu Ming with resentment, as if she blamed Xu Ming for ruining her good deeds.
"It's really a dog meddling in other people's business!"
"Where does this guy come from with such a strong sense of justice? Now, you have caused great harm to our village!"
The villagers talked a lot, but no one thanked Xu Ming.
Hearing the voices of blame all around, but not a word of thanks, Xu Ming was confused: "Did I do something wrong? Doesn't this world need to draw a sword to help when there is injustice?"
Xu Ming recalled a time when he was chatting with Gu Hanmo. Gu Hanmo said that Xu Ming was too indecisive and gave Xu Ming eight words of advice - kindness is useless, but killing is decisive!
Decisive in killing, Xu Ming has verified these four words several times; facing the enemy, you really have to be decisive in killing, otherwise you will be cheating yourself and your teammates!
And today, Xu Ming found that he finally verified the other four words - kindness is useless!
"Does this world have to force people to be indifferent?"
"Brother!" At some point, an eleven or twelve-year-old boy walked up to Xu Ming. Xu Ming remembered that he was also one of the dozen or so people targeted by the horse thieves.
The boy blinked his innocent black eyes: "Thank you!"
Just these two words "thank you" made Xu Ming feel a touch of warmth from this world.
…
The next morning.
The gate of Wilderness City had just opened, and Xu Ming had just arrived at this prosperous city.
"Is this the largest city with a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles?"
Xu Ming stood outside the city and saw that the city wall was as tall as a mountain, with endless ends on both sides and how wide it was.
"Gu Hanmo, I'm in Wild City!"
Gu Hanmo quickly replied: "You can stay in Manhuang City by yourself first. I am entangled by Liang's people and it is inconvenient to go down the mountain."
Xu Ming's eyes turned cold: "What's wrong?"
"It's okay, it's just annoying! I will take care of it!" Gu Han said silently, "It's just that you have to take the entrance examination of the Wilderness Sect yourself. However, with your strength, it will definitely be easy."
"Then you handle your affairs well and don't worry about me." Xu Ming said.
A few days were certainly not enough for Gu Hanmo to get over the grief of Qin Ran's death, but at least his mood was much more stable. Xu Ming now tried not to disturb her, but gave her her personal space so that she could slowly get over it.
sad.
As for his certain hope of resurrecting Qin Ran... Xu Ming felt that it was better not to talk about such a futile thing; otherwise, giving Gu Hanmo hope would only make her more sad if it did not come true in the end.
Xu Ming started walking around in the wild city.
Apart from being big, Wild City is not much different from Yunqi City in other aspects. What Wild City has, such as chambers of commerce and fighting arenas, Yunqi City also has.
"However, there are so many masters in Wilderness City!" While walking on the road, Xu Ming had already seen one or two innate masters; as for internal martial arts practitioners, there were even more!
The ratio of masters is obviously not comparable to that of Yunqicheng.
"I'm afraid many aspiring warriors will gather here! After all, this is the core of the entire Manhuang Sect area." Xu Ming once saw in "The Biography of Du Yude" that Mr. Du once roamed the Manhuang City and seemed to have taken the Manhuang Sect.
Ten consecutive victories in the fighting arena is quite a sight.
Two warriors in the late stages of internal training passed by Xu Ming.
"Hey, I haven't been to the black market for a while, would you like to check it out?"
"Okay! Last time I went there, I found a fragment of a scroll, which actually recorded a set of Xuan-level exercises! Although many key points are gone, I was still rewarded a lot by Master after I presented it to him.
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"Many of the innate masters like to tinker with the remnants of Kung Fu techniques and learn some unique skills of their own! I think your remnants of this book should be of some help to your master!"