Chapter 369

The burly man with a face full of stubble glared fiercely at the convict.

"Brother Ying Bu, we can't afford to provoke him, stop looking."

A thin, frail youth pulled the sturdy man away from the spot.

Seeing someone being pulled away, the burly man with the stubble didn't care.

After all, it was he who had accidentally bumped into him; it was fine that someone had pulled him away.

Moving far from the overseer, the two of them began moving stones to the side.

"Brother Ying Bu, you really have a lot of nerve, daring to stare at the overseer like that."

"Here, we have no status; we'd better be careful."

"Even if you want to do something, you can't let the overseer find out!"

Seeing that there were no overseers around, the frail youth warned Ying Bu in a cautious whisper.

"Sooner or later, I'm going to kill that bastard."

Ying Bu glared viciously at the back of the overseer who had just left.

"Brother Ying Bu, say less."

"We can't afford to provoke them for now!"

Ying Bu looked left and right, seeing that no one was around.

He looked at the frail youth and said:

"Chen Ergou, what about the rebellion we plotted last time?"

"Whether it's rebelling or escaping Lishan, it's time to act, isn't it?"

"If things go on like this, I won't be able to stop myself from killing someone!"

Chen Ergou's small face turned pale.

He looked around to make sure no one was there before whispering:

"Brother Ying Bu, keep your voice down; this isn't the place to talk about this!"

The two whispered to each other.

The surrounding convicts were angry but dared not speak, fearing that one extra word would lead to a beating.

The overseers here were not all normal people.

This burly man with the stubble was a notorious sadist.

If you disagreed with him, you would be whipped.

And such dark scenes were everywhere in Lishan.

It was not uncommon for convicts to be beaten to death by overseers.

It was just that these matters were too trivial, and those above didn't care at all.

Only after a large-scale riot occurred would a large number of soldiers come to suppress it.

Anyone who became an overseer here was a local emperor; all the convicts had no choice but to submit.

If you didn't submit, you would be beaten until you did.

The convicts moved stones, wooden stakes, and built the palace as usual.

For them, every day had become numb.

But for Xianyang City, and even the entire Great Qin, today was a special day.

This special day began when a soldier brought an imperial edict into Lishan.

When the person in charge of the Lishan military camp saw this edict,

he suspected for a moment that it was a fake order!

The reason was simple: the edict actually stated that the seven hundred thousand convicts at Lishan were to be disbanded!

Crazy, absolutely crazy!

This... was simply unbelievable!

How could they just disband them like that?