Chapter 205 Tiankui People
Number Eight turned around and dragged a man off his horse and put him in front of Su Ying. "Just now when I was on patrol, I heard some movement outside the guardhouse. I went out and saw someone lying there. After I saw who it was, I didn't intend to intervene, but he said he had to see the madam."
Su Ying frowned as she looked at the man on the ground, covered in blood and beaten beyond recognition, "Wu Feng?"
As soon as Su Ying opened her mouth, the person on the ground moved. He struggled to open one of his bloody eyelids and looked at Su Ying with difficulty.
This made Su Ying confirm her guess.
Wu Feng moved his body with difficulty, raised his head with all his strength and said: "Su, Su Ying, help... me, he, they are coming, the Tiankui people, coming, coming..."
"Tiankui people!"
Hu Wei and the others had walked out of the house at some point and just happened to hear Wu Feng's words.
Su Ying realized something was wrong and brought Wu Feng into the house.
The cheerful atmosphere in the room disappeared in an instant. Mother Zhao and the others took the children to other rooms to avoid them being frightened.
After hearing the three words "Tiankui people", the smell of alcohol on Hu Wei and the others' faces disappeared completely.
Wu Feng's eyes had become numb. Su Ying knew that he was at the end of his strength. She turned back to the house and injected him with a micro-needle to strengthen his heart.
Wu Feng's pupils began to focus slightly.
“Oh my God, the Tiankui people are coming. They want two thousand bags of food… The Qinglong camp doesn’t have… any… Kill them all…” Before Wu Feng could finish his words, his head tilted and he died. His bloodshot eyes gradually widened.
The atmosphere in the room suddenly became solemn.
Just as No. 8 was about to take Wu Feng's body out for disposal, he was stopped by Su Ying.
Su Ying squatted down. Wu Feng's cotton robe was already tattered, but if you look closely, you can find that the marks on the clothes were not man-made. She tore open the clothes on his back and found that a large piece of flesh on his back was torn off. The whole back was covered in blood.
"He was killed by a wild beast."
Su Ying came to the conclusion.
"It's a beast raised by the Tiankui people!" Hu Wei clenched his fists.
Su Ying stood up and signaled to No. 8 that he could take the body out.
"Tell me, who is this Tianshen person?"
Everyone sat down on the chairs with a serious look on their faces.
Qiao Yang slammed the table and said, "Brother, what are you afraid of? We have our own people. Let's fight them to the end. Why should we pay them so much grain every year? Does our money fall from the sky?"
Hu Wei's eyes widened when he heard this. "Who was that idiot who nearly had his legs broken last year? Have you forgotten?"
Qiao Yang was so exhausted by the glare.
During this period of time, they have been making the Tiger Camp better, and with the addition of Su Ying and Xiao Jin, they have forgotten about the matter of the Tiankui people. In previous years, they also came in December, but since they didn't come this year, they thought that the matter would just pass, but they didn't expect that they would still come.
Mengzi took a sip of tea and suppressed the bloodshot in his eyes. "The Tiankui people, as far as we know, have always been the rulers of the Northern Wasteland."
"Whether it's the Azure Dragon Camp or the Tiger Camp, they have been standing in the Northern Wasteland for a much longer time than the Tiankui people. All the large and small camps in this wasteland of the Northern Wasteland must follow the lead of the Tiankui people. Normally, the Tiankui people would not do anything to us, but they would require us to hand over a certain amount of food and 100 children under the age of five every year."
Su Ying's expression twisted slightly. She could understand handing over grain, but why handing over the child?
“What do they want with kids?”
Mengzi shook his head. "No one knows what they are going to do. We only know that if we don't hand over the specified number of children by the time the deadline comes, they will send people to massacre those who don't follow their instructions."
Hu Wei's face was tense. "There aren't many people in our Tiger Camp. How can we get so many children for him? Moreover, every child has a loving parent. Who would be willing to hand over their own child? We have no choice but to buy those orphans from outside. But last year, when it was time to hand over the children, one child ran away. We were one person short. The Tiankui people were furious on the spot and strangled dozens of us!"
Su Ying had fought with Wu Feng before. Even though he was not a top-notch master, their combined combat power was not bad. However, he was still almost torn to pieces by the beast. You can imagine how fierce the Tiankui people were.
"Wu Feng said that they suddenly asked for two thousand bags of grain this year. Hu Wei, how much do you have in your warehouse? Is it enough for them?" Long Ba had witnessed with his own eyes how powerful the Tiankui people were. He was afraid of death. In case there was not enough food and a fight broke out, he had to hide away in advance.
Hu Wei's face darkened. "We have enough food, but if we give it away, what will we eat in the next two or three months?"
"I was able to get through it in previous years, so I'm sure I can do it this year as well." As long as we get through this, we can worry about the rest later.
Su Ying and Xiao Jin looked at each other. It was the first time for them to see such heavy expressions on these people's faces at the same time.
"You didn't resist?"
"Who said there wasn't..." Hu Wei didn't want to think about what happened that year at all. It could be said that almost all the people in the Tiger Camp were killed at that time, and then the beasts from the Gu Clan betrayed them, which was simply a disaster.
It took them several years to recover and regain some of their strength.
Hu Wei exhaled heavily, "They have already arrived at Qinglong Camp, and they will come to Tiger Camp in a few days. If it really doesn't work, we can give them the food first."
"We have food in the warehouse, but you didn't buy the children in advance. Now that it's almost the end of the year, the traffickers won't go out to do business anymore. Where are you going to get them a hundred children?"
Su Ying's words left Hu Wei speechless for a moment.
"How much do you know about the Tiankui people?"
Qiao Yang gritted his teeth and said, "We only know that they live in the mountains. We have also sneaked in to investigate, but their defenses are very strict. There is no possibility for our people to sneak in. There are beasts everywhere. No matter how we disguise ourselves, those beasts can detect any abnormality with just one sniff."
"Every time they come to collect grain, they will specify how many people they bring with them."
"We didn't bring many people with us. They were all wild beasts. They were very ferocious, like murder weapons. They were not comparable to ordinary wild beasts at all."
Su Ying nodded and stood up, "I understand."
"Madam Su, we know that you and Young Master Xiao are both great martial artists, but these Tiankui people are definitely not ordinary people. We have limited manpower, and it is difficult to gain the upper hand in a battle with them. Madam Su, you'd better not take risks easily. You are not the only one behind you." Long Ba also stood up with difficulty. He didn't want to be enemies with the Tiankui people.
(End of this chapter)
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