Chapter 107 The mountain cave cracked open, revealing a gigantic...
Lu Xuan used the protective electric fence on the plaza's fence the first time he drew it.
In the first few nights after it opened, some silly little animals that couldn't sense the pressure of the vampire vines would occasionally be electrocuted outside the enclosure.
The electric fence was too powerful, and there were a few really naughty children in the village. The elders were afraid that one day when they couldn't keep an eye on the children, they would accidentally run into the electric fence and die. Also, because the vampire vines could keep out most wild beasts, the electric fence was rarely used and became just for show.
It's gotten quite hot lately, and the kids don't like to wander around outside as much. Plus, there are these annoying things causing trouble. Isn't this the perfect time to use an electric fence?
Li Tie immediately exchanged public resources with Lu Xuan for a large number of high-voltage power lines, and the whole village pitched in to wrap the electric grid around the fields.
Where there are fences, the electric fence is wrapped around them; where there aren't, the electric fence is laid out like a trap between two trees, looping several times to ensure that people cannot pass through the middle.
While they were busy working, they also went to the caves of the disaster victims to warn them: "If you want to live, don't go stealing from the fields or the square anymore, otherwise you will die because of your own mistakes, and don't expect us to take responsibility."
Zhou and Zhao had already figured out what they were up to and didn't take their words to heart.
Not only them, but also Uncle Xu and Lei Shan, who benefited from eating fresh vegetables, didn't seem to care.
Anyone can say tough words, but in reality, they only dare to beat them up at most, and don't dare to kill them at all.
A beating can get you enough food to eat for ten to fifteen days, it's a good deal!
Uncle Xu was particularly interested.
He and his son Xu Dawu are both young and strong, and they have big appetites. They can't eat more than 20 kilograms of meat in a short time.
If those two women, Zhou and Zhao, can get a lot of vegetables, then those two men can definitely get even more.
It's not advisable to go to the vegetable garden for the time being, and the fields are too vast to be completely protected.
They used some kind of magic, whether it was divine or demonic, to make the crops grow every day. Even if you only steal some sweet potato leaves, you can easily get a hundred or two hundred pounds in one night.
The people of Yunlu Village must have thought that after today's commotion, they would behave themselves for a few days.
Uncle Xu, however, insisted on doing the opposite and, after discussing it with his son, decided to take action that very night!
Even after being beaten, Zhou and Zhao didn't behave; instead, they became even more enraged and wished they could destroy everything.
The two groups hit it off immediately and patiently waited in the cave until nearly midnight, estimating that everyone in Yunlu Village was fast asleep before sneaking out of the cave in the dark.
Their plan was not kept secret from the other disaster victims. The others decided to wait and see. If Uncle Xu and his group succeeded tonight, they might as well try to do the same.
Uncle Xu and the others quickly made their way to the vicinity of the field in the dark, and by the moonlight filtering through the branches of the trees, they saw the fine silk threads.
But no one paid it any mind. In order to get more vegetables as quickly as possible, Uncle Xu rushed forward ahead of Zhou and Zhao, his hand grabbing the obstructing threads without warning, and then—
Suddenly, blinding flashes of electricity and sparks erupted from the palm of his hand gripping the electric fence. With a crackling sound, Uncle Xu let out a piercing scream.
"ah--!"
Zhou and Zhao, who were only a few steps away from Uncle Xu, were filled with fear and retreated in a panic.
When they realized that the electric light was still expanding and that the other threads around them were crackling with terrifying sounds, their eyes rolled back and they fainted from fright.
Inside the Lu family villa.
Lu Xuan, who was fast asleep, suddenly opened his eyes when he heard a scream drifting in from the window that had been deliberately left a crack. His ears twitched slightly, a hint of mockery flashed in his eyes, and after letting out a soft chuckle in the darkness, he closed his eyes again as if nothing had happened.
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"Ah—! Someone's dead! Help!"
The next day, after breakfast, the villagers went to work in the fields and found the charred corpse on a patch of land.
Men, women, and children surrounded the corpse, their expressions a mixture of emotions.
"We've already warned them, and they still dare to come. They're really courting death."
"Luckily, we had an electric fence around the fields, otherwise we would have lost a lot of crops yesterday."
That's what they say, but when someone actually gets electrocuted, they still feel a mix of emotions.
It did feel satisfying, but it was still a life at stake.
They tied the electric fence themselves, so doesn't that mean people died indirectly because of their actions? Wouldn't they be considered murderers?
The villagers, who had lived honest and law-abiding lives all their lives, couldn't help but feel a little uneasy, and some even turned pale.
The viewers in the live stream who were there to watch the spectacle with Lu Xuan didn't even flinch.
[I knew this wouldn't end, given the nature of those troublesome disaster victims, and sure enough!]
Why not just live a good life? Why do you have to court death? Sigh.
Although ancient people seemed to value respect for the dead, I still have to say, those who do evil will not escape punishment, and they deserve it!
Just then, a painful scream suddenly rang out.
"father--!"
Hearing the commotion, the villagers instinctively made way, and then saw Xu Dawu rushing over with a face full of grief.
Lei Yan and Lu Qing, who had been wondering whether the deceased was Zhao Shi, looked at each other with mixed feelings.
It wasn't Zhao or Zhou, but Xu Wenze's uncle?
Xu Dawu was startled when he saw his father's charred corpse, which was almost unrecognizable. Then, he was filled with lingering fear.
The father and son were supposed to go together yesterday, but his father told him to find a place to hide the vegetables and dig a hole so that he could hide them after he got them, so that the other people in the cave wouldn't be envious and covet them.
Unexpectedly, Xu Dawu dug the pit and went back to the cave, waiting all night, but his father never returned.
Just as dawn was breaking and he was about to go check on things, he bumped into Zhou Zhao, who had run back in terror. From the two of them, he learned about his father's tragic death.
Uncle Xu dared not touch the horribly gruesome corpse of his father, but knelt a meter away from it, crying out in anguish, "Father! Wake up, Father! What will I do if you die!"
After shouting, he angrily yelled at the people of Yunlu Village: "My father was just starving and wanted to borrow your food, but you killed him! That's a human life! How dare you?!"
The villagers, who had felt guilty and uncomfortable just a moment ago, suddenly became unhappy.
"What do you mean by 'a little bit of vegetables'? You think you're in the right to steal the crops we worked so hard to grow?"
“Who killed your father? We warned you yesterday not to even think about it. He was the one who wanted to die. Who can you blame?”
Xu Dawu didn't care about any of that. "I don't care! In short, my father was killed by you, and you have to pay for it! Either give me back my father's life, one life for one life, or you give me grain!"
The villagers and spectators choked for a moment, and couldn't help but roll their eyes.
So all that grief and anger, in the end, is nothing more than an excuse to extort supplies?
That's true. Xu Dawu is the kind of guy who would throw his own mother away in a dangerous situation. How could you expect him to have any deep feelings for his own father?
What is more important than food for the dead?
Having learned from his previous experience, Xu Dawu wisely refrained from making exorbitant demands again.
"I don't want much from you. Just one hundred catties of grain, twenty catties of meat, and that storage space for supplies! Give me these and we'll be even! Otherwise, unless you kill me right now, I'll definitely kill at least one of you! I'm not joking!"
The last sentence made everyone in the village frown, and their gazes toward Xu Dawu turned cold.
[Tsk tsk, they don't have the guts to hunt and gather their own supplies, but they dare to threaten their own kind.]
The price of 100 jin (50 kg) of grain has dropped quite quickly.
[He really dares to ask for 500 jin (250 kg) and see what happens, won't the streamer teach him a lesson?]
[Does that mean we shouldn't punish him for weighing 100 pounds? Host, should we give this guy another beating like we did with Lei Shan last time?]
Lu Xuan didn't have the patience to do the same thing over and over again, so he simply released the Bloodsucking Vine!
The blood-sucking vines, which had been out for a long time, surged out from his palm and the ground around him, flying around Xu Dawu like a dozen giant pythons.
"Ah—!" Xu Dawu's pupils contracted violently in fright, his face filled with horror: "A demon, a monster—! Help—!"
Under Xu Dawu's terrified gaze, a thick, blood-sucking vine bound him and his uncle's corpse together, wriggling towards the direction of the disaster victims' cave, and with a whoosh, forcefully flung the man and the corpse towards the cave entrance.
"Bang! Bang!"
"Ugh—!" Xu Dawu groaned as he was hit, vomited a mouthful of blood, and collapsed to the ground unconscious.
Then, the vampire vines continued to lash at the rocks at the cave entrance, causing the disaster victims who were secretly peeking out from inside to scream in terror.
"Monster!"
"Help--!"
"We didn't do anything! Please let us go!"
The villagers who had come to watch the spectacle with the vampire vines found the screams inside incredibly satisfying.
Li Tie's eyes gleamed; he had been looking forward to this moment for a long time!
From the moment the disaster victims first showed their ungratefulness, they should have been completely subdued by the bloodsucking vines!
This time, Lu Xuan did not put the blood-sucking vines away again. Instead, he let some of them hang on the earthen wall and let the others grow wildly on the ground, just to see who would dare to approach.
The disaster victims: !!!
The fear brought by the blood-sucking vines was even more terrifying than Lu Xuan's ability to smash trees with his wind-based powers. The disaster victims dared not even go out to fetch water, let alone continue causing trouble.
Some disaster victims, having been repeatedly tormented, could no longer tolerate it and parted ways with others, fleeing the area.
I'd rather continue to suffer the threats of hunger, thirst, and heat than live with the increasingly strange people of Yunlu Village.
Even Zhou and Zhao, who remained, were traumatized by witnessing the horrific scene of Uncle Xu being electrocuted to death by high voltage and dared not act rashly.
But the people of Yunlu Village did not regain their peace as a result.
Just two days after Uncle Xu's unexpected death, another earthquake struck the mountains.
Unlike the disaster victims next door who were screaming in fear, the villagers, having been warned by Lu Xuan beforehand and knowing that their homes and fields would not suffer any damage this time, were hardly frightened and didn't even get scratches.
The problem arose after the earthquake.
In a corner deep within the cave, an earthquake created a crack about half a person's height. The sound of wind could be faintly heard coming from below the crack, and shouting into it could be heard echoing back from within, suggesting that there was a vast space below.
Lu Xuan piloted the drone to fly into the crack and take a look.
At first, the control screen was completely dark and nothing could be seen until Lu Xuan turned on the pinecone light that he had attached to the drone beforehand, and the screen suddenly became clear.
The villagers who were watching were taken aback when they saw what was on the screen.
What appeared above was a huge underground cavern that seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see!
Everyone: !!!
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