Joel is dead.
When Ye Zhou got the news, he didn't even know who Joel was.
The cause of death was hanging.
He hanged himself with a hemp rope while his parents were sleeping.
Ye Zhou just sighed when he saw his age, sixteen years old.
After Chen Shu took people to deal with the body, he told him that Joel's parents were very sad, but they did not look in bad spirits, and most likely they would not die with their son.
"I remember him." Sarah patted Ye Zhou's knee while he was reading the information, as if she wanted to sit on his legs. She looked up at Ye Zhou and said, "When my legs were still intact, he gave me a piece of bread."
Sarah's memory was not clear, but she remembered Joel, probably because he was one of the few people who had shown kindness to her.
At that time, she was sitting on the side of the road in tattered clothes, curled up in dirt, with her long hair covering her face. All the townspeople acted as if they didn't see her. They all knew that she was a "person" in the castle, a "person" who was disliked by the Duke and who no one cared about when she was bullied.
They didn't dare to give her anything, or even stop in front of her.
Only Joel dared. Perhaps because Joel's parents kept it a secret from him so well, he didn't know Sarah's identity, and didn't think deeply about why a poor person like Sarah would appear in such a perfect town.
He gave her a small piece of bread, and then quickly left Sarah's sight at the call of his companions.
That's when she learned his name.
But Sarah had no feelings for Joel, even her gratitude was very shallow. When she mentioned Joel, Sarah's tone hardly fluctuated at all.
Ye Zhou was a little surprised: "You have no opinion on his death?"
Sarah found that Ye Zhou was not going to hug her, so she could only sit on a low stool at the side, took a bag of dried fried chili peppers from the coffee table, and ate while saying, "I don't know, I don't feel anything."
Before she met Ye Zhou, her world was gray and her eyes seemed to be covered by a black veil.
Joel is not the light that can penetrate that veil. Maybe he shines briefly, but it is gone in a flash.
Besides, her memory is very poor. It is difficult for her to remember anything, let alone remember her emotions when things happened.
Sarah handed a fried chili pepper to Ye Zhou's mouth and said expectantly, "It's delicious, you try it."
Ye Zhou looked at the chili pepper as if facing a formidable enemy, his mouth began to secrete saliva unconsciously. He could even imagine how many glasses of water he would have to drink after eating this chili pepper.
But Sarah kept her arms raised, determined to let Ye Zhou taste her favorite delicacy.
There was no other way. In order not to make Sarah sad, Ye Zhou could only close his eyes and swallow the pepper in one bite.
He didn't even dare to chew it, he just bit it into pieces and swallowed it.
Maybe he ate too fast, Sarah thought Ye Zhou also liked chili peppers, so she excitedly picked up another one and put it to Ye Zhou's mouth.
This time Ye Zhou finally refused and said, "I'm full at noon, you can eat."
He even changed the subject and asked, "Do you think there are people in this town who should be let go?"
Sarah blinked. “I don’t know. They never talk to me.”
Ye Zhou raised his hand and patted Sarah on the head. Although she was treated like a child, Sarah was not angry. She was used to it.
Maybe it's because she was never treated as a child when she was a child, so even though she is no longer a child, she doesn't think there is anything wrong with such behavior.
"Take a nap." Ye Zhou stood up and left the lounge as if escaping.
He heaved a sigh of relief after closing the door of the lounge. Although he had only eaten one fried chili, he already began to feel uncomfortable in his throat.
Ye Zhou totally couldn't understand people who loved to eat chili peppers. They didn't feel the pain in their lips and throats, especially their lips, which were numb and painful, and drinking water didn't provide much relief.
Thinking of Sarah's two bags of fried peppers, Ye Zhou couldn't help but shudder.
Joel's death did not have any impact on the townspeople. Now almost no one in the town goes out, and the townspeople do not communicate with each other. Only some townspeople run out at night, but they do not want to climb over the wall and leave, but to find food.
They didn't dare to approach the supermarket and would run towards the bakery.
But the bakery had actually run out of bread a long time ago. In the first few days, Ye Zhou did not ask anyone to look after the bakery, mainly because the supermarket was short-staffed. Ye Zhou could only ask most people to patrol and guard the edge of the city to prevent anyone from escaping.
As time went by, the townspeople had been hungry for a while and no longer had the energy to run around.
How to deal with them has become the biggest problem Ye Zhou is facing now.
He couldn't let these people go, but if he kept them in the town, he couldn't do business either.
Fortunately, most of the rescued "blood slaves" were able to walk. The one who recovered the best was a female half-orc with a pair of dog ears and a tail. She had a strong vitality and was able to eat and sleep even though she was seriously injured.
She didn't remember when she was caught, but she clearly remembered that she was brought in by the horned man.
Since they are of the same race, they are not wary of each other.
Ye Zhou was about to rush over to see her.
As he walked on the road, he recalled the Ox-Horned Man and the Tiger-Eared Man. To be fair, the Ox-Horned Man and the Tiger-Eared Man had never intended to harm him and Zou Ming. They just simply wanted to gain benefits and continue to live in this town.
Or rather, most people in the town are like this. They don't have the subjective intention to harm others, they just want to make a profit.
As long as they can make a profit, they don't care what they do and have no moral bottom line.
He had never seen the ox-horned people and the tiger-eared people. What they did was no different from that of other townspeople. Ye Zhou felt a little sorry for them, thinking that if they were in a different environment, they might become good people, but that was all.
He will not be treated differently or let off the hook just because the Bullhorn Man has shown kindness to him.
Ye Zhou entered the tent where the dog-eared people lived. She was not tall, not as tall as the ox-horned people. On the contrary, if it weren't for her ears and tail, she looked more like a dwarf or a goblin.
But what is the same is that the dog-eared people also have a very honest face, a pair of round eyes, scowl eyebrows, and a bit of a bitter look.
When she has no expression, she looks like she is crying.
This reminded Ye Zhou of the golden retriever his classmate had, which looked very miserable when it didn't open its mouth.
As soon as the dog-eared man saw Ye Zhou coming in, she immediately sat down on the chair obediently, with her head held high and her chest puffed out. There were still scars on her face that had not completely healed, but the bruises on her skin had faded and her body had gained some flesh. She didn't dare to look Ye Zhou in the eyes, but only at his chin.
Ye Zhou cleared his throat and said to the dog-eared man in a gentle voice: "Don't be afraid, you are safe now. When you recover, you will have a job and you don't have to worry about your life in the future."
In order to show that he was different from the vampires who had kept them captive before, Ye Zhou added: "If I wanted to do something to you, I wouldn't spend so much time and energy saving you."
The dog-eared people will do the math. Orcs are generally not very smart. They seem to be incompletely evolved, so although they are humans, their behavior and way of thinking are more like animals, relying on intuition rather than the brain. And for example, the dog-eared people also have the habits of dogs, which is loyalty.
But slave owners did not like orcs very much, because although they worked more, they also ate more and were prone to causing trouble and offending customers, so orcs either lived in villages deep in the mountains and forests, or were low-level slaves who could only do hard labor.
The dog-eared person nodded, her ears moved, and her tail swung twice unconsciously. Probably realizing that her behavior was not good, Ye Zhou watched her tail hook, twitch, and then pause in the air.
The dog-eared man nodded, and she looked very nervous and embarrassed.
Ye Zhou could only ask her first: "Do you still remember where your hometown is?"
The dog-eared man's eyes lit up immediately, and she quickly said, "In the middle of the two mountains!"
"We dig ditches in the spring so that in the winter the ditches become wider and don't freeze. But we eat more meat, so we have to exchange the crops we grow for meat, but meat is too expensive."
"We're still hunting!" The dog-eared man's tail swung from side to side. Because she had been locked up in the cellar before, her tail was a little bald.
Ye Zhou smiled and encouraged her to continue: "Then why did you leave your hometown?"
The dog-eared man's ears drooped, and she whispered, "Because the ditch was dug too big, the village was flooded when it rained."
Ye Zhou: “…”
The dog-eared man quickly said, "I heard that humans and other races like dogs very much! So the village chief asked us dog-eared people to come out and see if there is any village willing to accept us. Once we settle down, we will take them in."
Ye Zhou: "...Your village chief is quite smart."
The dog-eared person smiled. When she smiled, the bitter expression on her face disappeared and she looked particularly sunny.
"What punishment do you want those orcs who tricked you into getting caught to receive?" Ye Zhou got to the point at this time, "Because of them, you entered this town and were captured by vampires. Now that you are free, it is time for them to be punished."
The dog-eared man was stunned for a moment. She scratched her chin, then scratched her ears. The smile on her face disappeared. She lowered her shoulders slightly, looked at Ye Zhou's expression carefully, and finally said, "Let them go."
Ye Zhou shook his head: "There are many farmers around. If they can't find food and a place to stay, they might rob those farmers."
The dog-eared man gestured and said, "You can take them to the woods. There are no roads in there! They have to hunt and find a place to live by themselves. If they can survive, it means that the beast god has forgiven them."
Ye Zhou was stunned, and he immediately realized that the dog-eared man meant exile, right?
Exiled to a deserted place, whether they live or die in the end is left to luck.
This is indeed a good idea. It doesn't require you to get your hands stained with blood, nor do you have to worry about them causing harm to others. Even if they survive in the end, they will have suffered a lot and received enough punishment.
Even for people with wilderness survival experience, the wilderness is extremely dangerous.
Ye Zhou smiled at the dog-eared man: "Thank you."
He stood up on his knees, and the dog-eared man blinked, not understanding why he was thanking him.
But she still remembered her other mission. Before Ye Zhou completely left the tent, she shouted to him, "Then! Can someone from my village take over?!"
Ye Zhou turned his head and said gently, "Okay, we will be short of people here soon."
And he needs locals to act as living signs to attract business.
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