Chapter 503 The Imperial Princess and the Rebel Leader 16
The team ignored her and continued to leave.
Cha Jiu was not in a hurry. He bit off the cuff at his wrist and held it high in his hand: "I have a golden cufflink in my hand. I want to make a deal with you. Save the two of us. How about it?"
The team finally turned back.
Several people stared at the gold in her hand with shining eyes.
You know, such a small piece of gold is enough for their whole family to eat white bread for several months!
In fact, Cha Jiu has something more valuable on him.
For example, sapphires, emeralds and the like are all auction grade.
But gold is obviously easier to circulate and has no special marks, so it is not easy to reveal her identity.
The members of the team were moved and changed their attitudes one after another, persuading their captain, the middle-aged man, to save the people.
In the team, there was only a pretty but too short girl who remained alert and opposed to rescuing the two people of unknown origin.
However, after she saw Lance leaning unconscious on Cha Jiu's shoulder, she suddenly changed her mind.
"Uncle, let's save them. After all, they are two lives." She turned to the middle-aged man and advised.
Finally, the middle-aged man asked his team members to pull the two people out of the swamp.
He probed: "Generally, those who go into dangerous places like the rain forest to look for spice roots are poor people who are hungry. Since you have gold, why do you still want to take risks?"
Cha Jiu remained calm and said nonsense: "We are the Baroness's servants. We stole her gold cufflinks a few days ago, so we were chased all the way and fled here."
The system has detected that this asteroid is the territory of a certain baron.
But it couldn't understand why the host would lie.
But it soon understood.
After hearing what Cha Jiu said, the members of the picking team looked at each other and exchanged greedy and scheming looks.
That's right.
The team members' original plan was to rescue Cha Jiu and Lance, take the gold and leave them to fend for themselves in the rainforest without caring whether they lived or died.
But now, they decided to take the two men out of the rainforest and hand them over to the Baroness to claim the prize.
This way they can get double the benefits and eat the best of both worlds.
The system was shocked: "How can the human heart be so colorful?"
Cha Jiu said calmly: "Human nature is always greedy, but it is precisely because of this that we can make them be controlled by us."
So now, even if it's just for the Baroness's reward, these people will get her and Lance out of the rainforest safely.
The system once again admired its host's character and means: "Cha Cha, you are really becoming more and more like an imperial princess now."
Make good use of people's hearts and make strategic plans.
Cha Jiu smiled.
She feels no regret or guilt for taking advantage of these people.
In this game of human nature, both parties have their own agenda.
As Lance was unconscious and his injuries worsened, the team provided him with a simple stretcher for him to lie on.
However, the task of carrying the load fell on Cha Jiu and the short girl, because everyone else was carrying dozens of kilograms of weapons and tools for picking spices, and they were the ones who could bear the most lightly.
Although Cha Jiu was exhausted, he didn't say anything and forced himself to follow behind and carry the stretcher.
The short girl was carrying the backpack in front and leading the way.
I don’t know if it’s an illusion.
Cha Jiu always felt that the short girl seemed to be targeting her.
Instead of taking the flat and easy road, they carried their carrying baggage and walked through places covered with thorn bushes or piles of sharp rocks.
Cha Jiu followed her, and soon he felt his feet scratched by sharp stones, which caused a burning pain.
So she spoke up and said to the short girl, "Let's switch positions. You carry the stretcher at the back and I'll go to the front."
The short girl stopped and turned back to sneer at her: "You don't know the way, so you can only follow me."
Cha Jiu insisted: "I'll just follow everyone's direction."
The two were arguing.
Finally, the whole team stopped and looked at them impatiently.
The middle-aged man came over after hearing the noise, looking a little surprised: "What's wrong?"
Cha Jiu glanced at the short girl with a tough attitude and chose to retreat.
"Why don't we split up?" she said. "My companion is too badly injured, and I walk too slowly. I don't want to hinder everyone's progress in finding the spice roots."
Having said that, Cha Jiu squatted down and planned to carry Lance away.
How could anyone bear to let the bounty that was about to be won fly away?
They all blamed the short girl: "Anna, why don't you switch places with her? It's getting dark and we still have a long way to go. Don't make trouble."
Even the middle-aged man frowned and scolded his niece: "Anna, stop being so petty and go to the back to carry the stretcher."
It's not that he didn't see that Anna was deliberately making things difficult for Cha Jiu.
But she is my niece after all.
So he turned a blind eye all the way.
Anna was not convinced, but she had no choice but to do as she was told.
When she passed by Cha Jiu, she whispered coldly: "Don't think I don't know that you are a woman disguised as a man. Although your clothes are tattered, I can tell that it is the skirt of a noble lady. You are lying!"
Cha Jiu found her baffling.
What does it have to do with her whether she is a woman or not?
However, in order to avoid trouble, she still perfunctorily said: "I am indeed a man, but the Baroness likes to dress me up as a girl for fun. You know, nobles always have some strange habits."
Anna was skeptical.
Cha Jiu simply pulled open her clothes in front of her chest to show her.
Flat and empty.
Anna blushed and looked away, saying, "What? How rude..."
However, after learning that Cha Jiu was a man, her attitude suddenly changed 180 degrees.
Not only did he let down his guard, but he also chatted eagerly with Cha Jiu, and inquired about Lance's basic situation in various ways.
For example, age, whether married...
Cha Jiu also got a lot of useful information during the conversation.
On this remote and backward planet Gamma, almost 90% of the indigenous people are poor and cannot even afford food.
Fortunately, this place is one of the production areas of the raw materials of the spices that Princess Silis often uses. Every year, the empire spends a large amount of star coins to purchase spice roots from here, so it indirectly supports many poor people who make money by picking spices and selling them.
However, the rhizome of this spice is difficult to find and pick.
It grows in the deepest parts of the rainforest, specifically on the nests of the extremely dangerous leaf-cutter ants.
People who pick it often have to go through many dangers and life-and-death tests, and broken arms and legs are considered minor injuries.
Therefore, the spice pickers would spontaneously form teams to reduce casualties through cooperation. Anna and her team are one of such teams.
The middle-aged man was the captain and Anna's uncle, his name was Lawrence.
Cha Jiu couldn't remember the names of the rest of the people.
Part of her attention was always on Lance. She saw that the wound on his back was slowly healing, and he kept muttering something.
Anna left temporarily while the team rested.
Cha Jiu leaned over to listen.
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