Chapter 206: Shock, Captive Rules, What is Called Guilty?

Five or six thousand people from the four camps poured in one after another, and the outer wooden cabin immediately became crowded.

"Look, what is that?"

One person first noticed the supplies piled on both sides of the wooden cabin and spoke with shock. After that, the group of people around him all turned their heads and looked in the direction he pointed.

At this look, they were instantly dumbfounded.

"There are so many beast meats piled over there."

"So much iron ore, coal, Chen fruits, and what is that..."

"Hiss... these three big carts, how much cargo must they be loaded with!"

"So many iron tools, Great Xia, how can it be so rich..."

"They are all wearing full sets of clothes, many different colors, and hair buns and accessories, I have never seen them before."

And as this small group of people spoke, the five thousand or so people who had just entered and were still in shock also looked at everything in the wooden cabin one after another.

The azure beast meat on the ground was piled like a mountain;

To one side, forest-white beast bones were displayed like mountain ranges;

Blue, white, red, purple, green... all kinds of fruits were dazzling;

Shovels, chisels, saws, axes... all kinds of iron tools were just casually placed on the ground;

Knives, spears, swords, halberds, lances, sticks... one after another, weapons they had never seen before were held in the hands of the Great Xia people;

On one side of the wooden cabin, there were two piles of iron ore and coal like mountains. What was even more exaggerated was that people were constantly loading them into bags, transporting them bag after bag to the three iron trailers in the middle of the wooden cabin.

"Gulp..."

"That iron ore must be over a million jin, right?"

"I'm afraid it's more than that. There is even more coal. The coal is already half a cart full."

"Great Xia, how can it be so wealthy..."

Looking at everything around the wooden cabin, the four camps, totaling five or six thousand people, all widened their eyes, their faces full of shock and emotion.

Listening to the voices of the crowd one after another, Xiang Liang's face did not show any unexpected expression. After all, just now, his reaction to these people was the same, and even worse than many people.

"What did you say, this... is still not the real Great Xia station?"

And Xiang Ping on this side was different. The shock on his face was several times thicker than others, just because of the content of the conversation between his son Xiang Liang and him just now.

"Not bad, Father, this is just a station of the Great Xia camp in Wuyuan Mountain. They named this place Wuyuan. That lord named Xu Ning is the person in charge here. I heard others call him Garrison Commander. His status in Great Xia should not be the highest. Above him, besides a Secretary, there is a leader."

"Gulp..."

Xiang Ping turned his head, looked at Xu Ning who had just walked in from outside the wooden cabin, his pupils widened, and his face was full of disbelief.

"How is this possible, how is this possible..."

Hearing his father's trembling counter-question, Xiang Liang shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Just now his father had already told him how Xu Ning led people to defeat them in a destructive manner.

The Earth-Digging Realms of the four families were all gathered at the Flying Tiger camp, so they encountered the fifty people led by Xu Ning's Black Arrow team.

"Over a hundred Earth-Digging Realms, plus the Flying Tiger camp had over two hundred Woodcutting Realms, and they couldn't even hold on for half an hour. Not only were over twenty people killed, but the rest were all captured alive, and they didn't even hurt one of the other side. This... this how is this possible..."

Recalling what his father said just now, Xiang Liang couldn't think of it as anything but unbelievable. He really couldn't hold back his curiosity and asked: "Father, how strong is that Lord Xu? Among the fifty people under his command, you couldn't possibly not be able to beat even one, right?"

Xiang Ping turned his head to look at his son, his face full of bitterness.

"It's not that I couldn't beat them, it's Wang Lie. Among those fifty people, only one person wearing black iron armor came out, and he defeated Wang Lie."

Gulp...

Xiang Liang's expression condensed, and before he could say anything, his father Xiang Ping continued.

"After Wang Lie was defeated, he was still stubborn, wanting to rely on the station as a fortress to resist with more people. But as a result, the Flying Tiger station cave, the giant iron gate weighing over fifty thousand jin, was cut with a large opening by that Garrison Commander Xu Ning with four saber strikes. Those fifty people pushed down the gate and broke in. We didn't resist for long before we were all injured and captured."

Even without witnessing it with his own eyes, Xiang Liang could imagine Wang Lie's despair at that time.

No wonder his father couldn't answer Xu Ning's strength. That Garrison Commander had only used four saber strikes from beginning to end to break the Flying Tiger station's giant iron gate, and he didn't make a move afterward.

"Father, did you also fight with those people?"

Soon, Xiang Liang caught the key message in his father's words.

Seeing his father nod, his face suddenly became a bit ugly.

The He Feng camp was coerced by Wang Lie and others, this certainly couldn't be fake.

But having fought with the people on Great Xia's side, the nature was different.

"Did all 29 Earth-Digging Realms in our camp take action?"

Xiang Liang was still a bit unwilling to give up and asked a follow-up question.

Xiang Ping also understood his son's meaning, his face became a bit ugly, and he nodded helplessly: "The whole process was just one wave of attack. It was Wang Lie who directed us to shoot arrows. All the Earth-Digging Realms of the four families, including a part of the Woodcutting Realms of the Flying Tiger camp, all took action."

Xiang Liang's expression suddenly sank, and he didn't speak for a long time.

It wasn't blame. His father and others were coerced and had to take action, which couldn't be helped. It was mainly because he couldn't grasp how Great Xia would deal with these people.

"Father, don't worry, I'll go and plead for them!"

Xiang Liang spoke in a deep voice and walked toward the Great Xia crowd at the cave entrance, which was the north side of the wooden cabin.

"5321 people, 124 Earth-Digging Realm captives, 821 Woodcutting Realm captives, the other four thousand or so are all ordinary people."

After Lu Yang reported the population situation of the four camps, the group of people around him all showed smiles.

Lin Kai said with excitement: "In the six families that merged in the first half of the year, only two were medium-sized, and the other four were small camps. The population added up to less than four thousand. This time, over five thousand people came at once, and there are so many Earth-Digging Realms. When the Secretary knows, he will definitely be very happy..."

Thinking of something, his tone paused, and he continued:

"Hehe, the key is, the leader is also coming out of seclusion soon!"

Hearing that the leader was coming out of seclusion, Xu Ning, Lu Yang, Xu An, and several people on the side all showed smiles on their faces.

Lu Yang looked around at the five thousand or so people in the wooden cabin, his face sank slightly and said: "This group of people did gather together, preparing to take action against us. Since that's the case, they cannot be given Great Xia status directly."

Everyone nodded when they heard this.

Xu Ning pointed to Wang Lie in the front row of the crowd, as well as the group of Earth-Digging Realms behind him, and smiled: "This person is the main culprit. He was stubborn until death and refused to listen to advice. Two years of corvée labor is definitely unavoidable. The hundred or so people behind him will have to serve at least one year of corvée labor. After returning to the station tomorrow night, report the situation to the Camp Needs Department, and let them handle it."

Hearing the two words "corvée labor," Lin Kai and Lu Yang were full of regret.

"It's a pity that you Black Arrow team happened to run into them. 124 captives, one year of corvée labor, tsk tsk... The coal and iron submission indicators for the Black Arrow team for the next few years are not worried at all. Why wasn't it us who ran into them..."

After Lin Kai finished speaking, he thought of something, leaned in front of Xu Ning, and smiled:

"Share a few with us. Our team doesn't have enough hunting time, where do we have time to mine? Xu Zi, share a few with me, how about it?"

Hearing this, Lu Yang also immediately followed and said: "Right, right, our Dongyang team doesn't have enough hunting time either, Old Xu, share a few with me!"

"Hahahaha..."

Hearing the request of the two, Xu Ning was incomparably happy and laughed out loud a few times, then said: "You want them? If you want them, then bring contribution points to buy them. 15,000 points per captive, how about it?" Hearing this price, Lu Yang immediately raised his head to look at Xu Ning and said: "You are too black-hearted, make it cheaper..."

Lu Yang held a post in the Camp Needs Department, specifically responsible for the coal and iron mining in Wuyuan and trading affairs with other camps, and was most sensitive to these numbers. He calculated immediately that it was a big loss.

But Lin Kai couldn't. He calculated a bit slower.

After reacting, he also hurriedly called it expensive, saying Xu Ning was black-hearted.

One year of corvée labor, calculated according to the mining volume of Earth-Digging Realms using gnawing chisels, is 400 jin a day, which is 40 contribution points. 360 days is 14,400 points.

Xu Ning actually quoted 15,000. No wonder they called him black-hearted.

"Black-hearted? Then I won't let them go. I didn't want to in the first place. Over a hundred captives, our team won't need to mine for at least four or five years in the future. With so much extra time, how many cold beasts will I have to hunt? Hahahaha..."

Seeing Xu Ning's cheap-looking appearance, Lu Yang and Lin Kai knew that he didn't intend to let them go at all, and they suddenly hated him so much that their teeth itched.

"No, no, still have to hurry and find a new camp. Must run into some blind ones. As long as a wave of Earth-Digging Realm captives comes, the whole team can be liberated from the mine for several years..."

Hearing Lin Kai's words, Lu Yang nodded, his eyes full of desire.

The captive rule was newly formulated by Secretary Xia Chuan two months ago.

Not a single error in the content at a glance!

Two months ago, Watching Yue Feng's Shanhe team discovered two new medium-sized camps in the north of Mirror Valley, which was the Pingxi Plain boundary.

The hunting teams of these two camps were greedy for the weapons in the hands of the three isolated members of the Shanhe team and actually united to take the initiative to attack them.

Although the other side had many people and was powerful, fortunately, the three had rich wilderness experience and finally escaped back to Mirror Valley.

At that time, Watching Yue Feng's Shanhe team had just been promoted to intermediate, and encountering such a group of blind people, the reaction didn't need to be thought about.

The two camps were naturally merged into Great Xia as a matter of course.

But the way of merging was different from before.

The captive rule was formulated by Xia Chuan at that time. The general principle was that anyone who took action against Great Xia members should be guilty.

The so-called captive rule refers to entering the camp as a captive, and one must serve corvée labor. The service time is judged according to the size of the crime, with the maximum being life and the minimum being only half a year.

Only after serving the corvée labor can one obtain the official status of a Great Xia camp member.

Any camp that takes the initiative to attack Great Xia is subject to this rule.

In fact, the first camp subject to this rule was the three tigers and Tongling in Wuyuan Mountain.

Liu Erhu and Liu Sanhu of the Three Tigers camp, as well as other villains, had already been executed, but there was still Liu Da Hu who was seriously injured and not dead. Later, after Xia Chuan investigated, he learned that both Liu Da Hu and Meng Yuan had taken action against Xia Hong, so he sentenced them to life corvée labor directly.

These two, as well as more than ten Earth-Digging Realms from the Tongling camp, were still mining in the dark mine cave, and they probably wouldn't be able to come out for the rest of their lives.

Later, in order to use this rule to motivate everyone, Xia Chuan advocated that hunting teams be used as units. Whoever caught the captives would belong to them, and the coal and iron mined by the captives during their service could be used to count toward the monthly submission indicators required by the hunting team.

The two camps north of Mirror Valley were cleaned up by the Shanhe team, and the fifty or so Earth-Digging Realm captives naturally belonged to the Shanhe team.

Relying on those forty or so captives, the Shanhe team not only earned 500 contribution points per person per month but also had so much extra time to use on hunting.

With this, everyone went crazy.

Almost all hunting teams were frantically looking for traces of other camps.

This time, with Wang Lie, the big smart guy, Flying Tiger and the other three camps were clearly also subject to this captive rule.

Xu Ning picked up over a hundred captives for nothing, and the team wouldn't need to enter the mine cave for several years in the future. At this moment, his mood was incomparably happy.

"I can be considered to have picked up a bargain. If I hadn't been this Wuyuan Garrison Commander, these hundred or so captives probably wouldn't have been my turn, hahaha..."

Thinking of this, Xu Ning felt that Wang Lie became much cuter when he looked at him again.

Suddenly, Xu An ran over from not far away and whispered in Xu Ning's ear:

"Big brother, that Xiang Liang wants to see you."

Xu Ning raised his eyebrows when he heard this, turned back to look at Xiang Liang who was blocked outside by the team members, thought for a moment, and nodded: "Let him come over!"

Xu An hurriedly ran over, said a few words, and brought Xiang Liang over.

"My lord, when I came last night, I had already reported to you that our He Feng camp was coerced by Wang Lie and had no choice but to unite with them. My father Xiang Ping and others should have only shot one arrow at Great Xia people from beginning to end. I beg you lord to show mercy and spare them?"

After Xiang Liang got close, he knelt down directly to Xu Ning without thinking.

Xu Ning frowned, looked at Xiang Ping in the crowd, and said slowly: "After returning, I will tell the person specifically responsible for this situation. When judging the crime and punishment, the He Feng camp will be treated with discretion and lightened."

"Judging the crime?"

Hearing this, Xu Ning immediately became anxious and said: "My lord, I risked my life to report to Great Xia last night, and I was also instructed by my father. No matter what, he shouldn't be guilty!"

"Moreover, he should have only shot one arrow from beginning to end and did not cause any casualties to Great Xia."

"He also asked me to offer the Cold Marrow Iron to Great Xia, my lord..."

"Then what do you think is called guilty?"

Xu Ning suddenly spoke in a deep voice, interrupting Xiang Liang with a question.

Xiang Liang's expression stalled, and before he could react, Xu Ning continued.

"The moment your father chose to take action, he was already guilty!"

He deliberately increased his volume, his words were sonorous and powerful, not only making the group of Great Xia people around him turn their heads and look over with a hint of ridicule, but even Wang Lie and the thousands of people who had just entered the wooden cabin all quieted down and looked over here.

"You risked your life to report to us, I personally, including the members of the twelve teams stationed in Wuyuan, are very grateful to you, and can even promise you some conditions, but if you want me, the entire Great Xia camp, to accept this favor, then it is too whimsical..."

Speaking of this, he paused, looked around, found Xiang Ping in the crowd, and continued: "Only shooting one arrow from beginning to end was not because your father found his conscience, but because he didn't have the ability to shoot a second arrow.

You should be glad that he only shot one arrow!

If there were really casualties tonight, then your father, and these people below, would not be like this now, just tied up and waiting to be judged."

Xu Ning sneered, stared at the group of people in front of Wang Lie, then withdrew his gaze and placed it on Xiang Liang, saying:

"You, and these people, will return to the Great Xia station with us tomorrow night. Before returning, I have a sentence here, you all remember it well..."

Speaking of this, Xu Ning put away the smile on his face, and his expression became solemn.

"Anyone who takes action against Great Xia, regardless of who or for what reason, should be guilty!"

This sentence seemed to carry some kind of magic. As soon as Xu Ning finished speaking, Lin Kai, Lu Yang, Xu An, and all the Great Xia people in the circle around him became solemn, and a hint of arrogance appeared on their faces.

Taking action against Great Xia is a crime, no need to argue!

Xiang Liang, who was kneeling on the ground, heard the domineering contained in this sentence, his heart shook inexplicably, his mouth moved a few times, and he didn't dare to say another word.

"It's dawn, everyone start packing things up. Once it gets dark, we can set off to return to Shuanglong Valley for the New Year!"

"Finally can go back after working hard for several months, haha."

"Iron ore, coal, fruits, beast meat, beast bones... so many things to pack, hurry, hurry."

"There are quite a few things in the cave, go, go, go, all follow me to move."

Hearing Xu Ning's words, the Great Xia crowd immediately became excited and started packing the supplies in the wooden cabin in full swing.

Returning to Shuanglong Valley for the New Year was clearly of great significance to them.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 207 =====