Chapter 1172 The City Where the Sun Never Sets 41
Everyone avoided her gaze, but Old Li looked at the mother and son with sympathy, so he asked, "If they just have a common cold, can they still come in?"
"Still queue up, and then all the other players come in."
The steward said coldly.
The small, narrow eyes narrowed, and the look seemed to be saying, "Leave quickly."
"Aunt, you heard it, just go line up again."
Old Li looked at the woman and said, "We all know you two are not sick. Just go get another checkup. Don't touch those corpses outside. It will be quick. We'll be waiting for you inside."
"Just get out of here right away. We're still waiting to be tested."
The manager spoke in a particularly fierce tone, cursing Lao Li a few times. Lao Li quickly put on a smile and said, "Yes, yes, I'm sorry to bother you."
He not only smiled apologetically, but also quickly pulled out a bag of gold dust from his pocket. "I have nothing left but this little bit of gold dust. Please keep it. If they come back again, please take care of it."
The fearful tone and the heavy weight of the words made the steward's eyes widen slightly. He weighed the gold sand in his hand and said, "Well, go in."
"Thanks!"
Old Li was very happy, feeling that he had secured a future for the two tribesmen who had left. Then he sat at the end of the team and walked towards the paradise in his memory.
"Stop. If you want to go in, each person needs a pound of meat or a pound of water."
I originally thought that it would be fine to escape here, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult to get in.
"Butler, our food and water were all used up on the road. Do you think this gold sand will do?"
Old Li took out all his belongings and was not stingy with other people's belongings either, thinking that it didn't matter if they used them up now, as they could just find some work to survive once they got into Pang Tong.
"No, the higher-ups demand food or water."
The manager refused to discuss matters with him, and money couldn't buy him off.
Either give something or leave.
He just couldn't get in at the last moment, and at this point it almost became an obsession for Pang Tong to the Li Gaga clan.
As he kept urging, Lao Li's face became paler and paler. Finally, he asked again, "Manager, can you eat any kind of meat?"
"Of course not!"
The steward immediately rejected the idea, saying, "It has to be fresh, edible meat. If you don't have it, leave now and don't block the road behind you."
"We have, trouble and all."
Lao Li said this humbly but sincerely, and then left with his people for a while. Not long after, they came back with pieces of very fresh raw meat!
The steward picked up each piece, sniffed it, and licked it. There was no rotten smell at all, just a slight fishy smell. Each piece weighed over a pound, no more, no less.
"How did you get this meat?"
The manager looked at the meat and became suspicious, wondering if they had stolen it from somewhere.
"Butler, we killed the last camel."
Old Li replied with a pale face, "Excuse me, can we leave now?"
"Approved, go in."
The steward waved his hand, signaling them to go in. The people of the Li Gaga tribe looked at the scene in front of them and immediately showed joy and surprise.
They trotted forward quickly, smiling their first genuine smiles in a long time.
At the back, the steward who was cleaning the meat looked at the group of people with disdain and ridicule in his eyes.
court death.
He cursed inwardly, then prepared to salt the meat and put it on the stove to smoke.
The weather is too hot, and the meat will immediately go bad if left for a long time. In order to prevent this, you need to prepare salt for the food that is easy to spoil.
This is a lucrative job.
They harvested a large amount of supplies in a day and would not clear them out. Even if they pocketed the money, they would not find anything.
The steward, as usual, picked out a few large, fat pieces of meat and put them in his pocket, then sprinkled them with salt. While salting them, he thought of that tribe again.
Those people are not only a bunch of fools who are willing to die, but also a bunch of cripples.
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The other side
On the long road.
Old Li, who had always strictly restricted the movements of his tribesmen, finally stopped restricting their activities.
The children ran around, touching the branches and leaves of the big trees, and stuffing the bark and withered leaves into their mouths.
The adults' previous fatigue was swept away, and a little light finally appeared in their eyes. They asked in disbelief, "Lao Li, can we really live here?"
"certainly."
Old Li nodded when he heard this, and a relaxed smile appeared on his face. "We just got permission from the manager."
"Then our cut was not in vain!"
The tribesmen nearby looked at the surrounding trees and lawns without blinking, "This is the first time I've seen so many plants."
“It’s all getting ugly now.”
Old Li gave a rare introduction to his tribesmen, who had been confined to their hometown and had never seen the world. "In the past, the grass and leaves of the trees here were all green. In spring, flowers would bloom in the grass. There were two small irrigation ditches on both sides of the road. The scenery was so beautiful that it was a pleasure to just walk in."
But now it’s a drought, so it’s all dried up.”
As Old Li spoke, he walked towards the small ditch on both sides and looked at the dry moss and weeds inside, as well as... some bloodstains?!
Old man looked at the ditch, and under the dry and yellow leaves, there was something like a sausage - it was a finger.
As soon as Lao Li pulled his finger out, he suddenly noticed something stinky in the ditch. He picked up a wooden stick and poked around inside, uncovering a ton of broken bodies and white flesh. The bodies had been chopped up, filling two entire ditches.
Old Li was shocked!
This is not a river of life used for irrigation, it is clearly a mass grave used by Pang Tong’s people to destroy corpses!
Whose body is this?
Old Li suddenly thought of this important question.
At this time, the half-grown Li Gaga boy suddenly saw some sharp objects emerging from the woods. He walked further inside. What were those things?
Swish——
A clay arrow shot through the air, instantly piercing the boy's chest. His eyes widened, and he fell back unwillingly. Even until his death, he never figured it out: wasn't this the safest place Uncle Li had said was?
"Xiao Li!"
"Li Goudan!"
…
People shouted and ran towards the boy.
The next second, countless arrows rained down on them. Lao Li was hit by one of the long arrows. The other tribesmen were attacked without any preparation and were either killed or injured. There was almost no one who was unscathed.
The people of the Li Gaga tribe fell to the ground in an instant, and screams and cries for help rang in their ears.
Terror, anger, and sadness instantly filled Lao Li's heart. He angrily roared at the team that emerged from the bushes, "What are you doing? We all paid the entrance fee!"
They had to cut off their flesh to get in!
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