Chapter 119

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"You pledged your life and swore to your faith that everything you did was to show your sincerity to your God. This included killing, torture, and violence!"

The woman was so shocked that she didn't dare to look Lian Yun in the eye. She even forgot to seek support from her companions. She just clasped her hands together, her face full of grievance: "I was only following orders... It said it was a command from God, I was just following orders!"

"So even if it's a bloody mission that has nothing to do with your god, you still do it? Is this your piety? Is this what your god wants?"

The people around lowered their heads, unwilling to face the facts.

"Why don't you let me tell you?"

Lian Yun paced in front of the crowd, scanning every "onlooker" present with sharp eyes.

"The god you feed with blood and slaughter will only bless each of you with sin."

She grabbed the woman's wrist.

Although she was doing rough work, the woman's hands were obviously well-maintained. The warm and greasy touch formed an extremely uncomfortable contrast with the cold corpse of the abandoned beast on the ground that Lian Yun had just touched.

The woman shuddered all over and lowered her head tightly, not daring to look at her.

"Besides this, are there any other abandoned beasts?"

The woman hesitated and glanced at the crowd behind her.

Lian Yun's grip intensified, and the woman cried out in pain, "I don't have the keys to the other two rooms!"

There was an immediate sound of panic in the crowd, and then two people were seen trying to escape into the distance, but were ruthlessly stopped by the orc soldiers.

"Hand over the keys before you leave."

The orc's eyes were as cold as copper bells, his ferocious expressionless face, and his terrifying height made him stare down at the two of them.

The two men swallowed, looked at each other, and simultaneously took out their keys from their pockets and handed them to the orc tremblingly.

The orc took the key and made way, but the two men did not dare to move.

"Thank you for leading the way." Lian Yun smiled slightly.

The two nodded like chicks pecking at rice: "Okay!"

Four orcs followed them to rescue the remaining abandoned beasts.

The rest of the preparations are to listen to Lian Yun's next instructions.

Lian Yun then asked the woman, "Did these abandoned animals escape from the forest?"

The woman trembled, "Yes, that's what I know."

She accidentally looked up and saw Lian Yun's cold expression, and her desire to express herself was immediately aroused: "It is said that because of the poisonous fog hundreds of years ago, everyone said that they were abandoned by the elves and the forest, so they are called abandoned beasts."

"But it's not..."

“That’s not the case!”

When Lian Yun was about to kindly explain and clear the name of the elves, a stubborn voice suddenly sounded from behind him.

It's Honey.

Honey stood up from beside Nuonuo, her palm-sized face full of determination: "No! That's not what my mother told me!"

Lian Yun: "Your mother?"

"Yes!" Honey walked up to Lianyun with small steps and told her the story she knew very seriously: "My mother often told me stories before I went to bed. She said that they were forced to flee because of the indiscriminate poisonous fog in the forest. But they missed their hometown, so the first group of abandoned beasts people saw would cry to the moon at night."

"It's the Weeping Beast!"

They have the same emotions as humans.

They will cry, miss, and even feel sad when seeing the scene.

"Cry" is a word full of emotion.

But these people deliberately misinterpreted it as "qi", meaning an abandoned monster.

The woman didn't even have the courage to glare at Honey, and she couldn't think of any words to refute.

"Why do you raise them?" Lian Yun's gaze returned to the woman's face again.

The woman said without reservation: "Their horns change shape before they are picked. Our whole village depends on them for food!"

Honey on the side couldn't stop crying.

Lian Yun realized that it might not be that simple and wanted to ask her, but the little girl bit her lower lip and shook her head, refusing to say anything.

Lian Yun had no choice but to give up for the time being.

"Did the higher-ups tell you to kill them?"

The woman avoided sight.

"No……"

"After they learned that the poisonous fog in the forest had dissipated, they asked us to dispose of these abandoned animals within two weeks and avoid being discovered."

"They will come to pick up most of the abandoned animals in half a month."

She carefully observed Lian Yun's expression and said, "They gave us a number, and we only need to keep this number of abandoned beasts..."

"How many?"

"...Forty-four."

Lian Yun's expression was extremely cold.

There are at least forty or so in this basement, and there are almost the same number of abandoned beasts in the other two places.

So in the end, the “above” only takes one third.

The rest will be dealt with in various ways, such as what we saw today.

Lian Yun took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down, and continued, "If I'm not mistaken, you usually treat them very well, right?"

If they had not experienced such a huge gap, these abandoned animals probably would not be so sad and desperate.

“Yes, yes.”

Due to the special intelligence and completely unguarded trust of abandoned beasts, they can understand human language and believe what they say without doubt.

If they were told that they were being raised only for profit, these abandoned animals would be heartbroken, and the order of their breeding would become disrupted. Who knows what would happen then.

"So...it says this is the best way."

Deceive them and make them stay in the village with gratitude, reproduce and create value for the village.

"We didn't mistreat them!" The woman realized that the beastmen's resentful gazes were becoming increasingly undisguised. She hurriedly explained, "We laid soft thatch for them and gave them enough plants to eat..."

"So they trust you even more." Lian Yun stared into her hypocritical eyes. "In the end, they were completely defenseless and allowed you to capture them all and do whatever you want?"

The orcs felt their hearts tighten as they listened to the woman's words.

"Without your charity, can't they survive?"

To turn the free-spirited and intelligent forest elves into domesticated animals to be slaughtered at will, and then feel complacent about it?

The orcs glared at each other, holding their weapons tightly in anger and hatred.

Just now, these abandoned beasts, who had only met them once, were rubbing their palms affectionately.

It is hard to imagine how they would feel when they realize that the humans they have trusted since birth have betrayed them and are treating them with calculations.

The abandoned animals in the other two basements have been rescued, but they also suffered similar casualties.

Lian Yun looked quietly at the corpses lying on the ground, then looked at the abandoned beasts beside them, which were licking their companions with tears in their eyes.

"Let's bury him on the spot." Lian Yun said softly.

"We'll take those alive."

The villagers finally started shouting, “No!”

The woman raised her ferocious face and tried to pounce, but was held tightly by the orc.

But she still shouted: "No! What are we going to do if you take these things away!"

"You guys?" Lian Yun looked at her coldly, "Don't worry, your punishment hasn't started yet."

With just one sentence, the woman fell silent as if her throat was strangled.

She finally realized her situation.

These people not only want to sabotage their mission, but also want to retaliate against them...

"No!!"

The woman shook her head frantically, but the black-haired girl waved her hand and several orcs walked towards her.

Although they had received a lot of training, the targets they had attacked before were all monsters.

but……

It seems that there is no need for much rehearsal to deal with these guys who are worse than beasts.

The woman's hands and feet were quickly tied up, and she thrashed on the ground like a dehydrated fish.

Seeing the orc's huge hand reaching out to her, she widened her eyes and wailed with bloodshot eyes: "Save me! Save me!!"

Seeing that Lian Yun ignored her, she finally remembered her companions who shared the same crime as her. She turned her head at a difficult angle and called for help from the villagers behind her: "Didn't we do this together?! Save me! Save me!!"

The villagers all looked away, their expressions not of reluctance but of fear.

They were extremely afraid that these orcs would tie them up like this and do something to them.

"You bitches! Idiots! Traitors!" She cried and shouted like crazy, and then her eyes were covered with a black cloth.

The woman, who was already on the verge of collapse, was completely swallowed up by the darkness, and her psychological defenses completely collapsed.

She cried for a full five minutes. During those five minutes, she thought she was struggling in the clutches of demons, who were hitting her with something, kicking her around, and throwing her on the ground covered with swords...

But after extreme fear and tension, the black cloth on her eyes was suddenly pulled off, her consciousness gradually returned, and her screams slowly subsided.

She found herself still lying on the ground.

The orcs were holding long, thin wooden sticks, which they used to push her around.

And the "knife" is nothing more than the gravel under your body.

The darkness and tense nerves overwhelmed her. All the punishment was inflicted by herself.

Lian Yun had seen enough of this farce, and with the corners of his lips pulled up, he looked at the woman with a half-smile.

"How is it? How does it feel to be betrayed? How does it feel to be in darkness?"

The woman looked as if she had just been pulled out of the water. Her hair was soaked with cold sweat and covered in dirt, and her whole body was shaking violently.

She stared at the ground blankly, as if she didn't hear the girl's words.

But she heard it.

When Lian Yun said to the orcs, "Take a few back for interrogation, and throw the rest... into the basement," the fear just now quickly occupied her mind again.

She couldn't bear to imagine being tied up and interrogated, so she crawled to Lian Yun's feet, her face covered in dust and dirt, and raised her head: "Take me away! Sir! I'll tell you everything! Please give me a chance!!"

Lian Yun gave her a rare look of charity, "Tell me everything?"

"Where's your God? Where's 'up there'?"

The woman shook her head frantically. "I'll tell you everything! My Lord! I'll tell you everything!"

The first person to surrender appeared.

The remaining villagers watched as Lian Yun and his group effortlessly broke the woman's mind.

There is no physical pain, but it can make women so scared that they lose their minds.

It is hard to imagine how they would feel if they were the next to be stacked up in the narrow, damp darkness.

They dare not and do not want to try.

Seeing the woman begging for mercy, the last bit of defense in their hearts disappeared.

promise?

god?

Nothing is more important than being alive!

Two people moved, then three, then four...

Everyone looked at each other's gradually quickening pace, and their hearts skipped a beat as they also began to speed up.

Even when they were stopped by the orcs, they stretched out their arms and shouted at the top of their lungs: "Me! Take me away!"

Before the sun set, Lian Yun rushed back to the orc tribe with the remaining less than a hundred abandoned beasts and three villagers who were being held captive by the orcs.

Ford had been waiting for a long time, and as soon as his subordinates reported to him, he rushed to the edge of the tribe.

Looking at Lian Yun leading the huge group of abandoned beasts coming, Fude felt like he was dreaming for a moment?

"Are you going to...rob the monsters?"

Lian Yun told him that the elves would be escorting a group of little black chickens passing through the tribe soon. Since it was the elves' first time going out and they were unfamiliar with the place, they asked him to help out.

He thought this was admirable enough - who else besides Lian Yun would think about increasing the diversity of meat in the town wherever they went?

Now Ford realized that his understanding of this young lady's lord was far from enough...

"That village only planned to leave more than forty of them. I thought it would be too troublesome for them to deal with them, so I just helped them deal with it." Lian Yun shrugged.

Ford didn't believe it. He moved his eyes to a little girl who came back with Lina. Her face was covered with tears and she looked so pitiful.

He couldn't help but ask, "You are Honey, right?"

The little girl hid behind Lina timidly.

How come everyone knows her name?

"Don't be afraid. It's that... Bernie." Ford finally remembered the name and scratched his head. "Not long after you left, I saw him come back alone, but he didn't go into the tribe. He sat down where you left him before, and kept repeating this name..."

"It seems, he even cried."

Fude and Lianyun originally thought that he was just a puppet without emotions, unconscious, and with some intermittent poor contact.

cry?

This is something they hadn't thought of.

"Bernie!" Honey suddenly jumped out, calling out urgently, "Where is he? Is he okay?"

"Don't worry," Ford quickly comforted the little girl and pointed to the nearest room. "I saw that he was not in a good condition, so I put him in this room..."

Before he could finish, Honey strode towards the house.

Ford looked at the little girl's back and marveled at her.

It was hard for him to imagine that a puppet could develop feelings for humans.

What I didn't expect was that this was a two-way relationship?

He withdrew his gaze, carefully looked at the abandoned beast behind Lian Yun, and then looked at the three miserable villagers.

No matter how I look at it, it seems that things are not that simple.

He quickly cleared out an interrogation room according to Lian Yun's idea.

The three villagers were placed on chairs like chickens, and Lian Yun, Lan Na and Fude sat opposite them.

There were several other tall orcs standing beside and behind the three men. The invisible pressure and intimidation made them unable to think of anything other than confessing.

“Is Bernie a puppet?”

Lian Yun finally asked the three people the question he had been thinking about for a long time.

The woman quickly answered, "Yes... they were sent to us from above."

Seeing this, the people on the side were unwilling to be left behind: "When they sent it here, they told us to do whatever we wanted. This thing is a jerk. If it doesn't obey, we will beat it. It doesn't matter if it dies!"

Lanna noticed something strange: "Disobedient?"

Ford was stunned for a moment: "If you know they are puppets...how can they be disobedient?"

He remembered that Lanna had summoned a puppet before, and quickly asked him what he thought.

However, since Fisherman No. 1685 appeared, he has been either fishing, fishing for stones, or on the way to fishing for both.

After the underground cave was filled with water, he changed to fishing for blind fish beside the semicircular moat of the town. The fish he caught in a day was enough to add an extra dish to the table of every household in the town.

Disobedient?

Lanna thought about it.

He and the adults didn't really force No. 1685 to do anything, and they had no way of knowing whether he was obedient or not.

Ford lowered his voice, his tone full of curiosity: "Why don't you summon one now and see?"

Lana looked at Lian Yun, who shook his head firmly.

Until we figure out what a puppet is, it is enough for the town to have one.

Ford had no choice but to give up.

"What is the relationship between Honey and Bernie?" Lian Yun continued to ask.

The woman knew more about this matter than the two people beside her. She tried to recall the things about the two of them and said, "Bernie was sent here when Honey was a child."

At that time, there were quite a lot of puppets, and almost every family could be allocated a puppet to help with housework and farm work, and take care of the abandoned animals raised at home.

After hearing the above, the villagers treated these puppets mercilessly. It was common for them to beat or scold them if something did not go their way. If they were really unhappy, they would even beat them to death without any hesitation.

But the Honey family was an exception.

Honey's father died of illness in his early years, and it was her mother who took care of Honey.

Their family was only given an abandoned beast, and was also the last family to get a puppet.

Honey's mother had to do farm work, take care of children and raise abandoned animals every day. She was exhausted by the pressure of life and almost couldn't breathe, but she never abused the new puppet.

She even gave the puppet a name.

That was the name she had prepared for her stillborn son - Bernie.

"What about Honey's mother?"

Although Lian Yun had heard of this person from several people, he had never seen her.

The woman paused, her voice gradually lowering. "Last month... we sent her to deliver an abandoned beast to the higher-ups."

Although the woman's words sounded high-sounding, Lian Yun immediately felt that it was far more complicated than she said.

"Last month? Where is she now?"

The woman's body began to tremble again. "This is what happens when we send an abandoned beast away. She won't come back."

"Only in this way will we not know where the top is..."

Every once in a while, "the higher-ups" would need a supply of abandoned beasts.

Because the abandoned beasts' bodies are actually very flexible, if they don't follow you voluntarily, they can escape at any time.

Ordinary humans cannot catch up with them.

Neither the higher-ups nor the villagers themselves obviously wanted to let the valuable products they had painstakingly cultivated over the years escape.

So every time this happens, the village will choose a villager to take the abandoned beast that they trust the most to the place designated by "the higher-ups", and the other party will send someone to pick them up.

For the sake of confidentiality, their generation has never even seen anyone from "the top".

"So... Honey's mother won't be coming back?"

The woman nodded.

Lian Yun was silent for a moment: "Does Honey know about this?"

"This is the established rule in the village. However, Honey is too... naive. I guess she doesn't know it."

The woman wanted to say that she was stupid but she didn't dare.

But given Honey's mother's personality, she would never tell Honey that she was going to die.

"Then why did you lock up Honey?" Lian Yun asked another question.

She thought this question was the easiest to answer in this interrogation, but the three people in front of her kept their mouths tightly shut.

Lian Yun:?

These people really refresh her imagination.

"Is it difficult to talk about it?"

Lian Yun spoke softly, "Do you need me to give you a choice? Did she ask to see her mother, or...did she discover some secret of yours?"

When the second option was thrown out, the three of them were indeed shocked.

But they also knew that if they told this, they would probably not live long.

Lian Yun narrowed his eyes slightly.

It seems to be very serious.

"Tell me, and I can spare your life."

"Or, now I'll send you back to the basement and stack you at the bottom."

"You choose."

The woman choked with sobs: "I'm sorry, sir. I, I lied to you..."

"Not only do they need their horns... they also need their flesh."

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