Zhang Qingyun opened his eyes, his hands were tied behind his back. He seemed to be in a thatched house, surrounded by yellow thatch, and where he was was a bed.
This should be the person who built the sentry post in the forest. I wonder what happened to 'Big Brother' and the others...
Click!
The door of the thatched house opened, letting in the wind blowing with flying snow, and several big men wearing animal skins walked in.
"Bring him here!"
Li Xiang sat by the fire. Two militiamen brought Zhang Qingyun to the fire. Li Xiang looked at Zhang Qingyun and asked, "Do you understand what Da Gan is saying?"
"Understood!" Zhang Qingyun replied carefully. He hasn't figured out what happened yet. He just went out to relieve himself. He was tied up as soon as he woke up. It's good to be able to maintain his composure now.
"What are you doing in the forest?" Li Xiang asked straight to the point.
Zhang Qingyun looked around and saw no one else except these few people. None of the people they ran out were present.
"I don't know. Can you see the person with me?"
Li Xiang pulled out the horizontal knife from his waist and stuck it on the ground: "Do you want to see them?"
Zhang Qingyun looked at the horizontal knife on the table. This was the weapon used by 'big brother'. He always carried it with him and no one else could touch it.
Now this cross sword is on the person in front of me...
"What do you want to know, sir?"
Zhang Qingyun immediately wanted to understand his position.
"Tell me everything you know!" Li Xiang pulled out the horizontal knife on the ground and gently wiped it with a piece of animal skin. The horizontal knife shone coldly in the firelight.
Zhang Qingyun was silent for a while. These people should be one of the northwest bandits, just like the village he was in.
"The little Zhang Qingyun is from Qingzhou..."
Li Xiang knew that there were people from all areas of Daqian in the northwest, but that was not what he wanted to know.
"What I want to know is not this, but what you are doing in the forest, you are from that force!"
Zhang Qingyun paused and then said: "We went into the forest this time to send people for the iron mine. We are from Qingzhu Village, which is about three days away from the forest!"
After finishing speaking, Zhang Qingyun didn't say anything more. He could just answer whatever Li Xiang asked.
When Li Xiang heard about the iron ore, he held the Hengdao tightly in his hand, but his face did not change at all. There was no change at all because of the iron ore.
"Just the eight of you?"
Zhang Qingyun shook his head: "Not only that, there were more than a hundred people, and we wanted to take them to the mine. On the way we met the ink-armored beast. The eldest brother took us and ran out, and the remaining people were behind..."
"The black-armored beast..." Something changed on Li Xiang's face. The black-armored beast's reputation is also very great in the Daqian Imperial Capital, and it is one of the top ferocious beasts.
"How could the black-armored beast appear in such a place? Wait!" Li Xiang was panicked, and suddenly thought of the jackal camp. Could it be that the jackals were destroyed by the black-armored beast?
Li Xiang suppressed the panic in his heart and pretended to be calm: "How many people are there in the iron mine? I'm talking about the people guarding the iron mine. Didn't the black-armored beast continue to pursue you?!"
Zhang Qingyun lowered his head and said: "There are thirty brothers guarding the iron ore area and more than a hundred people mining. This time we are going to send people there to mine!"
"The ink-armored beast did not chase us. When we were escaping outside, it used its gifted horn to attack us once, but it never attacked us again. I think the ink-armored beast has already left this forest."
"Do you remember the route?" After hearing Zhang Qingyun's words, Li Xiang's worry did not relax. A top-notch ferocious beast like the Black-armored Beast could easily destroy their entire camp.
"Remember!" Li Xiang's voice came. Zhang Qingyun's face was still cautious, but he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. It seems that he can still survive for a few more days. These people don't know where the iron mine is. .
"But if we go there, it will still take more than half a day!"
The other party established a camp in the forest for the iron ore.
The northwest land is rich in resources. Due to environmental reasons, Daqian people did not come to exploit it, so the opportunity to exploit it was given to those who were expelled from Daqian.
The resource points near the Great Wall have been occupied by major forces. If forces like Qingzhu Village want to exploit resources, they can only search for mineral veins further north.
The iron ore in the northwest is very valuable, and it is also a kind of hard currency in the northwest.
It had only been a few months since Qingzhu Village discovered this iron ore area. Not long after the first batch of iron ore materials were sold, these people appeared in the forest, but they did not know the correct location of the iron ore area for the time being.
If he had lied just now, he would probably be dead like his elder brother and others now.
Li Qing stood up: "Prepare something to eat for him!"
Zhang Qingyun listened with gratitude on his face: "Thank you, sir!"
He hasn't eaten anything since noon. He only ate a few mouthfuls of snow on the way when he was chased by the ink-armored beast, and he was already hungry.
Li Xiang walked out of the house, the cold wind blew on his face, but the worry in his heart weighed on him. The ink-armored beast unexpectedly appeared in this ghost place.
"Lord, what happened?" Li Yi walked over from a distance and saw the sadness on Li Xiang's face.
Li Xiang shook his head and smiled: "It's okay, I just have something I want to talk to you about!"
"Yeah!" Li Yi nodded.
Several people returned to the center of the town, sat by the fire, and told Li Yi the information obtained from Zhang Qingyun, and also told Li Yi about the ink-armored beast.
"Ink-armored beasts, my lord, there is no need to worry. As long as we are strong enough, no matter how powerful the ink-armored beasts are, with our powerful force and sharp weapons, will we still be afraid of them?" Li Yi smiled and said to Li Xiang: " The current priority is to get the iron mine. There should be a lot of food in the iron mine. Get these things, recruit more people, and enter the next era. You can switch to stronger arms.
Even if the black-armored beast comes and kills us, we don’t need to worry!”
"Yeah!" Li Xiang thought for a moment and nodded, then turned to Li Mu and said, "Let the militiamen rest early. We will go look for the iron ore early tomorrow morning!"
"Yes!" Li Mu saluted with his hands folded and trotted out. They wanted to fight. Today's battle with the big man and his party made them feel the sweetness.
Gain experience by killing enemies and become stronger.
Li Xiang looked at Li Yi: "I'll leave the internal affairs to you!"
Li Yi smiled and said: "When I am born, I will be your lord!"
Li Xiang nodded: "I'm going to rest first!"
In Li Xiang's room, there is a long spear broken into two parts. Carefully touch the gun body. The gun body is covered with various knife marks, which are the marks left by the collision with the horizontal knife.
"Old friend, you can rest now!"
Hanging the spear on the thatched wall and lying on the bed, Li Xiang soon fell asleep...
