The leading man in black was originally named Li Yuan.
Before the earthquake, Li Yuan was just an ordinary prisoner in Ningyong County Prison.
He was sentenced to eight years in prison for burglary and robbery.
Li Yuan's parents died early. He was in his thirties or forties and had never married. He was idle and had no proper job, but he had a lot of strength.
Li Yuan had no relatives. After being thrown into prison, Li Yuan planned to stay in prison for eight years and then come out after eight years. However, he did not expect that God would be so kind to him!
Li Yuan had been in prison for less than half a year when the earthquake struck. The strong earthquake immediately caused most of the old prison to collapse!
The high-voltage power grids that were originally used to prevent prisoners from escaping collapsed due to the earthquake and were completely useless. In addition, the prison collapsed and the prison guards were directly trapped underground by the collapsed buildings. A group of lucky uninjured prisoners fled from the prison. Some took advantage of the chaos to escape directly back home, while some, like him, who were homeless, formed a small gang and hid.
At first, they just wanted to avoid the police.
Later they found out that, not to mention the police, the entire society was in chaos. No one could take care of them or control them.
The brave will die of overeating, and the timid will die of starvation.
Having escaped from prison, they had no food and naturally focused all their attention on other residents in the county town.
What happened next happened naturally.
During these days, Li Yuan relied on his strength and clear mind to become the leader of the group.
This kind of life where one is sought after, drinks a lot, eats meat a lot, and has women around at any time is what Li Yuan had always dreamed of!
Whether in the county town, Lixi Village, or Jiangtang Village, there was nothing Li Yuan couldn't accomplish! This time was no different!
Even after facing setbacks, Li Yuan didn't think of giving up. He shouted at the group of subordinates who had come with him, "You, hurry up and come with me to carry a few more lampposts! We'll just knock down their gate! I'll see if they dare to be so arrogant again!"
"Boss, we can't do this. Those damn guys are throwing rocks down too frequently. I don't know where they got so many rocks from! Our people haven't even gotten close yet, and the rocks they dropped from above have already hit us directly... Boss... you see, why don't we wait a while?" A minion beside Li Yuan said bravely.
It was already dark in the middle of the night, and with the incessant storm, they could hardly open their eyes.
It just so happened that the group of people from Wanxi Village stood on the protective wall and kept throwing stones down. I don’t know what they were doing before throwing the stones, but most of them hit the target accurately.
This time, some of the brothers stayed in the county town to watch over all the belongings, while the other followed their eldest brother to rob the food in Wanxi Village.
There were fewer than 200 people who had come to Wanxi Village, only about 180 or so. Now, they were being hammered by rocks thrown from the defensive wall. At least 10 or 20 of them were injured and unable to fight. Several were still lying on the ground, their lives unknown. If they were to go up again, wouldn't they be just delivering food to the enemy?
Li Yuan stood there without saying a word, but the expression on his face became increasingly ugly.
The small thug was trembling with fear as he spoke, but he had to bite the bullet and said, "Boss, we brothers have braved the storm and walked at night to get here today. We have at least used up most of our energy... How about we come back tomorrow during the day?"
"They built a protective wall at the entrance of the village, but there are no protective walls on the other three sides. If we want to go in, we have to take the mountain road and bypass the protective wall at the entrance. By then, even if they want to stop us, it will be impossible."
The little minion tried his best to persuade Li Yuan, and he really used all his strength. The little minion felt that even the peak of his intelligence in his senior year of high school was not as awesome as he is now.
Li Yuan looked at his subordinates scattered in the distance, and at the cheers clearly heard from Wanxi Village on the other side of the protective wall. He glanced at the minions expressionlessly and shouted at the group of students attending class over there, "Everyone, follow me. Let's rest tonight and come back to deal with Wanxi Village tomorrow morning. Once we capture Wanxi Village tomorrow, we'll go in and enjoy the delicious food and drinks. As for any woman in this village, you can take her and enjoy her directly!"
"Let's go! I want to see if the people in this village can still laugh at this time tomorrow!" Li Yuan snorted disdainfully, ignoring that.
He took his more than one hundred people and headed back in the direction they came from.
This time they came out of the county town in a total of four minibuses. These four minibuses were more than enough to accommodate more than a hundred people, and there was even a lot of space for them to store food.
Due to the collapse of road sections after the earthquake, many roads have become ruins.
These four minibuses were quite large, and it took Li Yuan a lot of effort to drive all the way from the county town to Wanxi Village without any obstruction, as he finally found such a winding but relatively smooth road.
Otherwise, Li Yuan would not have brought so many people all the way to Wanxi Village to steal food. It would take at least seven or eight hours to walk dozens of kilometers. By the time they got here, their physical strength would have been exhausted. How could they fight with the entire village and steal their food?
Moreover, he had heard before that the people in Wanxi Village were very poor, unlike the wealthy villages like Lixi Village. Many farmlands were abandoned, and people would rather go out to work than farm at home.
Because the people of Wanxi Village are poor, they work harder in harvesting their crops.
It’s a pity that the price of grain is so high. Even if these people take good care of the crops in their own fields, they can’t sell them for much money. On the contrary, they earn less than those who work outside.
This is also the reason why so many people in Wanxi Village have gone out to work in recent years.
But even so, because the village is poor, the fields of every household are fully planted, and there is no such thing as abandoned fields. Even the fields outside the village are all fully planted. On weekdays, passing vehicles can immediately see the difference between the villages as long as they pass by them.
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"Boss, Badger and the others were hit by the stones thrown down earlier. You must take us to avenge them tomorrow!" Sitting on the minibus, someone looked at the miserable state of his companions and brothers with red eyes and said gritting his teeth.
They have been doing well these days. Normally, they are the only ones who rob others, but they have never suffered such a big loss!
"Yes! Boss, you must take us to avenge our brothers! These people in Wanxi Village are all unruly mountain people! When the time comes, we must let these guys see how powerful we are!" Another person echoed angrily.
At the same time, everyone sitting in the minibus started a heated discussion about what had just happened.
Li Yuan wiped his wet hair with a towel and threw the towel directly on the backrest of the chair.
"Today's feud has been forged. We must seek revenge on those bastards from Wanxi Village! ... However, our top priority is still the food supply from Wanxi Village! Now is different than before. Nothing can bring peace of mind more than food!"
"If I'm not mistaken, there must be a lot of food in Wanxi Village. Although the entire village has less than one-third of the population of Lixi Village, I estimate that there is probably more food in their village than in the previous Lixi Village! As long as we can carry all this food back, we will be able to survive the next few days safely!"
Li Yuan narrowed his eyes. He coveted the food in Wanxi Village. After the other party had slapped him in the face today, Li Yuan sneered twice and gave a half-encouraging, half-cold order to the people around him: "Everyone rest in the car tonight, and tomorrow we will go around the mountain! I want to see what tricks they can use to stop us this time! I know that many people in this village like to go hunting in the mountains on weekdays. They must have a lot of meat in the village. Once we enter the village, we will take care of these guys... Then I will allow everyone to eat all the meat in the village!"
"Really!"
Li Yuan's words immediately excited everyone in the minibus. Even the two people who had previously said that they wanted to avenge their companions were looking at Li Yuan with shining eyes, and the meaning in their eyes was self-evident.
Meat! They want meat!
After they take over Wanxi Village tomorrow, they will definitely have a big feast!
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Li Yuan and his men rested in the minibus, but none of the villagers from Wanxi Village who had been guarding the protective wall could fall asleep and were still busy working in the storm.
Some kept moving rocks in an attempt to calm themselves down, while others stared warily at the direction Li Yuan and his group had left, fearing they would suddenly show up again.
"Village Chief, what do you think we should do now? Did those people really leave or just pretend to leave? I can't help but feel my left eyelid twitching. Could something bad be happening?"
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