Returning to the specially cleaned-up room, Xue Huan began to think about a question.
This mountain stronghold can be said to be an excellent natural fortress. It is not easy to take it down unless it is breached from the inside.
Moreover, it will take more than one or two days to mine all the black iron ore. It would be great if we could transform this place into a secret base.
In this way, this place can become an arsenal for producing weapons, and Xue Huan plans to give it to Pei Ji.
Of course, she was not just trying to make her boyfriend happy. More importantly, the elders of the Wuqi tribe had predicted that there would be a plague of demonic insects in two years. Before the disaster came, no matter how much preparation was made, it would never be too much.
With this arsenal, Pei Ji has an extra heavyweight bargaining chip in his hand, which will enable him to sit in that position faster and more steadily. When he becomes emperor, he will be able to plan more calmly for the disaster that will come two years later.
According to the prophecy of the great elder of the Wuqi tribe, the plague of demonic insects targets all living beings on this continent, regardless of gender and race. It is obviously not advisable to keep oneself out of trouble, otherwise most people will become bloodthirsty monsters. Even if she and the people around her survive, their situation will be extremely difficult.
It is better to make plans in advance so that as many people as possible can survive when the disaster strikes.
There is just one problem. The bandits in the mountain stronghold have been given puppet pills and will definitely not reveal the secrets here. However, those who were abducted here will definitely not be able to keep the secret of the black iron ore when they go down the mountain.
How can we help them keep secrets without hurting them?
Xue Huan entered the Soul Realm and consulted several big guys.
Zi Gu taught her a silencing spell.
A person who has been silencing others cannot reveal secrets in any form.
The boss is indeed a boss, he easily solved her problem with a silencing spell.
Xue Huan learned it in the Soul Realm, and when she came out, it was already daybreak outside.
After breakfast, everyone gathered again in the open space in front of the village.
Xue Huan cast a group silencing spell on the people outside the room, then came out and said, "Those who want to stay stand on the left, and those who want to leave stay where they are."
To her surprise, nearly one-third of the people were willing to stay, and almost all of them were women, and of course, their children.
Lu Jinyao, who almost became the boss's bride last night, was also among them.
These women may not all be reluctant to leave their bandit husbands. Perhaps they are more worried about the world's views and are afraid that they will not be able to survive after coming down the mountain.
After all, the world is so harsh to women. They were abducted into bandit dens and their innocence was gone. Even if they came down the mountain and returned to their respective homes, could they still marry again?
I'm afraid the neighbors will gossip about it.
Some parents may even be unwilling to accept their daughters again.
The fate that awaits them is definitely not good, so it is better for them to stay in this mountain village.
Xue Huan didn't say much, and said to Ah Man and the others, "Go and move the things out of the warehouse."
There was a lot of rice, flour and food in the warehouse. She gave each person some money and supplies to ensure that they had enough money to go back.
These people were very grateful to her and knelt down to kowtow to her, "Thank you very much, young master!"
Xue Huan asked them to get up, and then said to Xuan Xiao and the other two, "Send them down the mountain."
She also accompanied them for a while. When they reached the outside of the mountain stronghold, she gave Xuan Xiao a silver note worth one thousand taels. "Take them to the nearest town. On your way back, please buy some supplies for me. This is the list I made."
Xuan Xiao took it and said, "Yes."
After these people left, Xue Huan returned to the village and looked at the remaining people.
These women who were abducted to the mountains were either particularly beautiful and taken as the property of the bosses, or those who were averagely pretty might be given to the people below after being enjoyed by the bosses, becoming a means for the bandits to vent their animal desires.
Most of these women did not survive, and the few who survived had numb and indifferent expressions.
Those with average or ugly looks would have a better situation, and would be assigned to do odd jobs, such as washing clothes and cooking. The luckier ones might even be spotted by a bandit, marry him, and have children.
That’s how the children in the village came about.
"I conquered this stronghold. Since you want to stay, you must obey me from now on. Of course, I won't enslave you like bandits, and I won't interfere with how you live. But one thing is for sure: don't cause trouble."
After a blow, you have to give someone a sweet reward to appease people.
So Xue Huan opened the warehouse and distributed some food to each person according to their number, and asked them to take it home.
"Okay, let's all go."
Wu Qi didn't know where Ye had gone. Xue Huan only had Ah Man by her side. She gave her a task: "Find out for me if there's anyone who can read and bring them to me."
Ah Man said "hmm" heavily and went out.
Xue Huan went to the place where the bandits were imprisoned. At this time, they had woken up and were standing upright in the room, motionless, like robots, except for their eyes.
Those eyes were filled with all kinds of complex emotions, including confusion, surprise, anger, fear, etc.
People who take the puppet pill still retain their own thoughts, but they can no longer control their actions and can only obey the first person they see after waking up, that is, Xue Huan.
"Are you feeling strange about why you have become like this? Don't doubt it, this is what I did. I gave you a drug that will make you lose your ability to move independently, and from now on you can only be ordered around by me.
"Are you angry? When you robbed and killed, raped women, and treated men like livestock, you should have expected retribution to come one day. Now, your retribution has come."
At this point, Xue Huan smiled slightly and issued a series of orders: "From now on, you must not bully the women and children in the village, you must not leave the village without permission, and you must not sneak around..."
Finally, she said, "Now, let's go mining."
A group of bandits, led by the big boss, lined up in neat rows and walked out one by one into the dark and deep mine. From then on, they would spend the rest of their lives in the dark mining career.
At this time, Ah Man came over with a pretty woman wearing a straw hat and a cloth skirt without any makeup. The woman was Lu Jinyao.
"Sir, I've inquired and found that many women in the village are literate, but Miss Lu is the most knowledgeable. She used to be a daughter of an official."
When Ah Man said the words "official lady", Lu Jinyao's eyes drooped, and her curled eyelashes cast a layer of melancholy shadow on her eyelids, as if the past was too unbearable to look back on.
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