Ye Zhou didn't expect that he would arrive before Zou Ming and Wu Yan. He set out only after learning what had happened from Li Gu - but unfortunately, he got lost.
From birth to yesterday, Ye Zhou believed that he had a good sense of direction.
When his friends and classmates go traveling with him, they don’t need to remember the way. As long as they have walked it once, Ye Zhou will remember it firmly and has never made a mistake.
So he took it for granted that he would not get lost this time, even at night.
After all, the road would not change even at night. To be on the safe side, Ye Zhou not only took a gun, but also wore night vision contact lenses.
When Ye Zhou found himself lost, he was already deep in the woods. He had no choice but to randomly choose a direction and keep walking. If he couldn't get out or find the way in two hours, Ye Zhou would stay where he was and wait for daybreak.
Fortunately, he hadn't walked far before he saw Cao'er standing in the night and the thugs not far from Cao'er.
He could see someone crawling and approaching Cao'er from the side, but Cao'er, who was not wearing any night vision equipment, had no way of seeing clearly.
The rustling of grass leaves as the man crawled was drowned out by the chirping of insects and the rustling of grass in the wind.
Ye Zhou fired a shot almost subconsciously, but after he fired the shot, he almost fell to the ground due to the recoil, and he swayed several times before he could steady himself. This was definitely not due to his lack of exercise, but rather that this gun was just something he picked up from the warehouse, and it was one of the guns used by Luoyang Base to pay off debts.
The problem is that this gun was originally a defective product.
But Ye Zhou didn't want to expose his "weakness" in front of his employees. He smiled at Cao'er and said, "Leave one."
As soon as these words came out, Cao'er and Zhou Wen immediately found their backbone. Ye Zhou also threw them two night vision glasses, but they were not invisible ones, they could just be worn on the bridge of their noses.
Ye Zhou reloaded the bullet, raised his gun, and this time pointed it at the blond man lying on the ground.
The evening breeze blew through the crowd, and the thugs seemed to realize at this moment that they could not fight against the three people who suddenly appeared. They had powerful weapons that could make strange noises, and the contempt they had just shown for the women gave them the illusion that they could resist.
And now, the illusion was dispelled by fear and disappeared without a trace.
This time Ye Zhou did not kill the man. He aimed at the man's calf in the bushes and shot him without hesitation.
After the gunshot, Ye Zhou looked around and said, "If you don't want to die, get down!"
Someone squatted down tremblingly, and after a few seconds he slowly lay on the ground.
Ye Zhou shouted again: "Don't come out of the room!"
Fortunately, the family in the house never thought of opening the door to go out. They did not recognize Ye Zhou's voice, but they had recognized Cao'er's voice before. Even if they didn't know what happened outside the house, their intuition told them that there was danger outside the house.
Cao'er and Zhou Wen were no longer panicked after they could see their surroundings clearly after putting on night vision glasses.
Cao'er turned to look at Ye Zhou who was walking towards her with a gun in hand. She didn't even realize that her voice had become full of dependence: "Immortal, what should we do with these people?"
Ye Zhou didn't bring any rope, so he could only say to Cao'er, "Go to that family and borrow some rope to tie them up first."
He said with some disgust: "This is the person brought by Hamm, of course he has to bear the consequences."
Cao'er nodded. She was no longer afraid of anything. She trotted through the grass and passed by the group of crouching men. No one dared to stop her.
It took the three of them half an hour to tie up all the thugs, even their feet were tied up.
When being tied up, this group of people were very cooperative. No one dared to beg for mercy from Ye Zhou and Zhou Wen. But Cao'er, no matter who she tied up, that person would beg for mercy with tears in his eyes.
"Let me go, I didn't do anything! I was threatened!"
"We didn't do anything, we just wanted to borrow something!"
"We are good people, really good people!"
The burly man looked at Cao'er with tears in his eyes, which made Cao'er's scalp tingle. She would rather these people were ferocious than to see their pitiful appearance with their eyes wide open and trying hard to hold back tears.
So she yelled, "Shut up! Or I'll cut off your nose and put it in your mouth and make you swallow it!"
The thugs finally stopped crying and just lay on the ground, wriggling like caterpillars, trying to find a chance to escape.
Ye Zhou walked towards the leader of the thugs who was hit in the calf by him and was trying to get up with his hands on the ground. He just stood beside him and looked down at him as he struggled with all his might.
The wicked are no stronger than the good when faced with such a situation.
He who bullies the good and fears the evil is essentially a coward, no matter how hard his fists are.
Ye Zhou squatted down and grabbed the man's collar. He exerted a little force and the man's head tilted back inevitably, and he saw Ye Zhou's face in a distorted posture.
They met yesterday and the man recognized Ye Zhou at first sight.
Ye Zhou didn't remember who this person was specifically. In his eyes, there was no difference between thugs. Ordinary thugs and thug leaders were the same.
"I thought you had some backbone." Ye Zhou frowned. He saw extreme fear on the other party's face the moment the other party raised his head. That was the fear a person has when faced with something they are powerless to stop. The other party did not want to resist and had lost the courage to do so.
Ye Zhou had seen many people like this, and the first person he killed was like this.
But the other party was almost going crazy at that time.
In order to avoid "misunderstanding" and to prevent Ham from bargaining with him, Ye Zhou did not take action directly.
The man stared at Ye Zhou intently. He didn't know that Ye Zhou had seen through his weak nature. He gritted his teeth and said, "Kill me if you can! My brothers will avenge me!"
"Not now." Ye Zhou stood up again, stepped on the man's back, and then hit the back of the man's head with the butt of the gun, which made the man let out a shrill roar.
Only then did the family in the house come out trembling.
When there was a knock on the door, the whole family woke up, and even though they couldn't see what was happening outside the door, they knew what might happen.
They were still in shock, but they all knew they were safe.
The family moved closely together to Cao'er's side.
"Miss Leila..." The old woman spoke to Cao'er tremblingly.
She is the only one in the family who is familiar with Cao'er.
Strictly speaking, Leila is not a person's name, but the name of a local wild grass. Cao'er didn't come up with an English name for herself, so she just used the local grass as her name.
When Cao'er saw the old woman, a smile immediately appeared on her face, even though she was very tired.
This old woman doesn't look like Aunt Li at all. She looks even more cowardly than Aunt Li. When she was in the village, her mother dared to go and "reason" with the villagers with a kitchen knife alone.
The women in the village who have a good temper will never have a good life.
Even her own man would beat and scold her, let alone outsiders.
Therefore, the women in the village are either the workhorses of the family or shrews who are more courageous than men.
But when Cao'er looked at the cowardly old woman in front of her, she would still think of Li Gu who was on the road to escape.
In the end, both of them were almost dead. Every time they went to beg for food, Li Gu asked Cao'er to hide, and she went forward alone. Occasionally she would get some plant roots or tree bark, and occasionally she would be beaten.
That was not the mother Cao'er knew. The weak, cowardly old woman who was kneeling on the ground begging and forcing a flattering smile was not the mother she knew.
But by then Cao'er had no strength left. She always felt that she would die before her mother. A wound on her body had begun to rot, and the only way to treat it was to cut off the rotten flesh with a sharp stone and then burn it with fire.
Until now, she still has the scar of burnt flesh on her thigh.
No matter how hot the weather was, the women in the supermarket all wore shorts, but she still wore shorts.
She also knew that as long as she asked the immortal for help, the immortal would give her a magical medicine that could remove scars.
But for some reason she didn't say anything and didn't plan to remove the scar.
She also understood why her mother urged her to make progress.
It’s not that her mother doesn’t feel sorry for her, but she knows that feeling sorry for her is useless.
But at that time, no one felt sorry for her except her mother, but now she can feel sorry for old women like her mother.
"Don't worry, it's okay." Cao'er looked at the old woman gently, "You should move to the town tomorrow. It's still dangerous here. There are not many people around."
Although the thugs came from the town, this further proves the safety of the town.
These thugs are not stupid, at least not stupid enough to look for "prey" in a small town.
There are people everywhere and neighbors next door. It is definitely safer than living in the wilderness with only one family around.
The old woman immediately said: "Move, move tomorrow..."
As for the sons finding them missing after returning, let them go and ask.
Cao'er shook her head: "Go pack your things now. It's okay if you don't pack. Come to town with us later. Come back tomorrow to pack your luggage. Remember to lock the door."
The old woman nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay."
Cao'er glanced at the three little girls hiding behind their father. The oldest of them was only twelve years old. Due to malnutrition, she looked no older than ten. If they hadn't come tonight, if they hadn't noticed that the thugs had left...
Cao'er shuddered. She looked at the group of thugs who were crawling on the ground like worms or lying motionless. These people now didn't look like human beings. No, they were not human beings at all.
Cao'er wiped her face and smiled bitterly.
They are human beings, and only human beings can be so bad, and only human beings can be more vicious than beasts.
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"A-choo——" Ye Zhou sneezed. He touched his arm and found that he had goose bumps all over his body due to the evening breeze.
Just as he was about to remove his feet from the leading man's back, he heard a noise behind him. Ye Zhou turned his head and saw Zou Ming and Wu Yan walking towards him.
In a good mood, he raised his arm and waved at Zou Ming and the others. After they came closer, Ye Zhou retracted his feet and put both feet back on the grass.
Zou Ming looked down at the man lying face down on the ground and asked, "Not killing him?"
Ye Zhou shook his head: "After all, he is Ham's man. Let's see if Ham is willing to spend money."
But even if Ham was willing to save him, the man's leg that was hit was disabled, and he would have to be a cripple for the rest of his life. A cripple could not be a thug, and it would be painful for him not to die. The things he relied on for survival had been destroyed, and those he had offended could step on him.
Zou Ming didn’t know what Ye Zhou was thinking, he just looked at Ye Zhou’s profile.
After a moment of trance, Zou Ming said: "Then take them back now."
Ye Zhou: "No, who of you can go and bring Ham here? Today is the day to finish this. Don't delay it until dawn."
Wu Yan glanced at Zou Ming. He inexplicably felt like an outsider, but he didn't dare to say more or ask more. He just lowered his head and said honestly, "Immortal, I'll go back."
"Be careful, do you have a flashlight?" Ye Zhou asked.
Wu Yan nodded: "I brought it."
Having just arrived and having to rush back again, Wu Yan felt that he was probably born to be a hard worker.
But he didn't leave alone, he took the family of five with him.
Cao'er and Zhou Wen looked at the group of thugs lying around the wooden house. Ye Zhou was the only one standing on the grass with Zou Ming.
The leader of the thugs was no longer moving, but he was not dead yet. His calf was just bleeding.
Ye Zhou looked at the blood that kept flowing out of the wound, thought for two seconds and said, "We have to treat his wound, otherwise he will die from excessive blood loss."
But Ye Zhou didn't touch him, and was even less willing to save him. It was Ye Zhou's kindness that he didn't step on the other's wound again.
So Ye Zhou looked at Zou Ming.
Zou Ming: "I'll do it."
For some reason, Ye Zhou actually saw an emotion that could be described as "doting" in Zou Ming's calm eyes. Ye Zhou couldn't help but shudder when he thought of this word.
Zou Ming squatted down to stop the man's bleeding, but his actions were brutal.
You will be in so much pain that you will die if you don't bleed to death.
The man who had been motionless like a dead man just now let out a scream like a pig being slaughtered, so miserable that even the thugs lying on the ground in the distance couldn't help but tremble all over.
Ye Zhou did not lower his head to see how Zou Ming was trying to stop the man's bleeding. He only knew that after Zou Ming looked at him, the wound on the man's leg had indeed stopped bleeding.
"Why did you take so long?" Ye Zhou just opened his mouth to ask, but before he came back, he first waited for a coat.
There was still Zou Ming's body temperature on the coat.
Ye Zhou was stunned, and he subconsciously looked up at Zou Ming.
Zou Ming had a blank expression on his face, as if he had not done anything just now, or as if he had just done something very normal and there was no need to feel unusual about it.
Ye Zhou sighed softly in his heart.
Neither of them spoke, but neither of them felt awkward. Not sure when it started, but Ye Zhou had gotten used to having a taciturn person around him. He often seemed to be non-existent, yet he was everywhere. Although he was tall and strong, he had a very caring heart.
"If you go back, will you encounter danger?" Ye Zhou asked.
He knew that he would definitely meet the young Zou Ming in a certain dimension he went to.
Now Zou Ming has to return to his original plane.
The timelines are different and they won't meet again for some time.
Zou Ming shook his head: "No, I am in charge of the base now."
When he walked to the highest point of the base carrying the head of the previous city lord amidst a sea of blood and corpses, and when the fire that night began to burn, no one in the base dared to resist him anymore.
"Tell me about what happened there." Ye Zhou took off the translator. "What happened after I left."
Zou Ming also took off the translator.
Those were not fond memories.
"The ruler of the base is named Zhao," Zou Ming said, "He trained me after you left."
Ye Zhou raised his eyebrows: "Cultivate?"
Zou Ming: "He wants to train me to be his most loyal dog."
Zou Ming witnessed the extreme evil of human nature in him. Without restraint and scruples, he was like a beast without humanity. Everyone had to follow his will and his likes and dislikes.
The man named Zhao himself did not have any strong martial power. He was a weak man with a pair of sinister and disgusting eyes.
But Zou Ming also learned a lesson from him.
If you want to become a ruler, you either have to rely on force or intelligence, but no matter which one you rely on, you must be the strongest, so strong that you have no rivals.
The Zhaos rely on intelligence, on balancing the forces of all parties, and on constantly exploiting the common people to support the high-level ruling base.
He relied on force, blood and fists, and on suppressing various forces to violently dismantle their ruling bases.
So even if he killed the man named Zhao and took over the base, he still adopted a high-pressure rule.
But Zou Ming did not tell Ye Zhou these. In his words, after Ye Zhou left his dimension, he honestly became a "rich man", living on the property left to him by Ye Zhou, occasionally going out to look for supplies, and then signing a contract while looking for supplies, becoming a bodyguard who can travel between different dimensions.
When he said this, Zou Ming looked a little sad. He lowered his brows and said softly, "Actually, I'm not sure I can meet you."
There are too many planes, and the probability of finding a person is infinitely close to zero. He once despaired and even felt resentment towards Ye Zhou. He hoped that Ye Zhou had never appeared, otherwise he would have died long ago, and there would be no heart-wrenching pain, and no despair of searching hard but finally finding no hope.
Ye Zhou listened quietly. He heard Zou Ming say, "The day I came here, I thought I was hallucinating."
He saw a "naive" Ye Zhou. The Ye Zhou at that time was completely different from the person in his memory. He was not as strong and not as calm. He got to know Ye Zhou in a new way.
Just like what Ye Zhou said before, he actually couldn't tell whether his feelings for Ye Zhou were admiration for an elder or love.
After all, he was not yet an adult when Ye Zhou left him, and Ye Zhou meant too much to him.
She is his guardian, his guide, and the only place where all his emotions are placed.
Ye Zhou played so many roles that he couldn't distinguish his own feelings.
It was not until he met Ye Zhou, who had not grown up, that he truly understood his feelings.
"Didn't you think of telling me before I found out?" Ye Zhou asked.
Zou Ming smiled, and that smile was a little bitter: "If I told you at that time, would you believe it? Even if you believed it, I would still be a stranger to you."
Can a relationship that you have never experienced be considered a relationship?
He didn't want to deceive the other party when Ye Zhou knew nothing.
Ye Zhou thought about it and felt that this was true.
If Zou Ming had told him at that time, his first reaction would have been that this guy was crazy. Even if he believed it, he would not have developed any feelings towards Zou Ming because of it - I haven't experienced what you said, how could I be the person you said?
Ye Zhou: "You are right."
"So when are you leaving?"
Now two planes have been unlocked, but you need to wait until you get the money before you can jump to the plane.
Zou Ming said, "You will know when you decide where to go next."
Ye Zhou was stunned: "In those two planes?"
Zou Ming nodded.
Ye Zhou: "...Can't you just tell me directly?"
Zou Ming was silent for a long time, and finally said: "I can't influence your decision."
"Okay then." Ye Zhou sighed.
In fact, the locations in the two planes that can be seen now look similar. They have no names, only numbers.
One is 368 and the other is 276.
This can only be done by blind guessing.
There is no choice at all.
The system may have also learned to be bad and knows how to create obstacles.
As soon as the two finished talking, they saw a light not far away. Wu Yan was coming here with Ham, and behind them was a large group of people, including supermarket employees and thugs brought by Ham.
All the thugs followed Ham obediently, probably because they couldn't see the situation here clearly.
It might also be because they were frightened by the flashlight in Wu Yan's hand.
All in all, they now look as docile as sheep.
However, Ye Zhou didn't care even if they suddenly rioted. As long as they had guns, Chen Shu and Zou Ming could deal with them.
Ham walked into the bushes and closed his eyes in despair.
We finally agreed to add four more lights, but now we might have one less.
Are these people made of sticks? That's all they can think of? He had already paid them to go to the brothel before he came!
Ham was so angry that he wanted to rush over and strangle the one closest to him.
This is simply a waste of money to get yourself in trouble.
"Mr. Zhou..." Ham knew that he was in the wrong and that he was going to bleed, but he pretended to know nothing on the surface, hoping to get away with it. "They might really be going there to borrow something, but they haven't done anything yet. Since they haven't done anything and caused no harm, there's no point in digging into this matter."
"Let me pay for that family's house in town." Ham looked as if he had shed a lot of money.
But the most expensive house in the town was only two gold coins, and a house for a family of seven would cost at most about forty silver coins.
Ye Zhou watched Ham walk up to him alone and felt that he was quite perceptive. He shook his head and said, "Now is not the time to talk about this. Mr. Ham, what do you think should be done with these people?"
Ham: “…”
Of course, he would not be stingy with these people's lives. He even wished that this group of people would just die.
But he couldn't do it, because two-thirds of the guys he brought with him were thugs, and the rest were his own guys.
If he didn't protect them, they wouldn't dare to attack him even here. On the way back...
Hamm shuddered.
He felt that he was extremely unlucky.
"They haven't done any damage yet," Ham laughed. "We're leaving soon anyway."
Ham sighed and begged in a low voice: "Boss Zhou, please think about me. It's easy to kill a few, but I can't kill all of them. But if I don't kill them all, I can't let them go. What if I die on the way back?"
"I'm just a businessman. I haven't spent much of my money yet." Ham was almost in despair.
Ye Zhou thought about it and felt that what Ham said was right. He himself would not be in any trouble, but Ham's life was probably in danger.
Although he didn't like Ham very much, to him, Ham was just a buyer and a person with completely different thinking. They could not be friends at all and no feelings could be developed between them.
But after all, we have business dealings, and it would be hard for me to just get rid of him.
Ye Zhou: "Then these forty, no, thirty-eight people tonight will stay with me first. With these people as hostages, the thugs who send you back will not dare to attack you. As for how to arrange these people after you leave, it's up to me. How do you think?"
Ham nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay."
Even if these thugs wanted to come back for their "big brother", it would have nothing to do with him.
Ye Zhou smiled at Ham: "As for my buddy's hard work today..."
Ham was very sensible: "Two gold coins per person."
Ye Zhou nodded, and the two profiteers looked at each other, both thinking that this was a good way to handle the situation.
As for the two thugs who were already dead, neither of them mentioned them.
As long as the leader of the thugs is not dead, it is not time to fight these thugs to the death.
What's more, Ye Zhou didn't know whether there were people who were temporarily recruited among the "little brothers" of these leaders. Those people should not pay for the mistakes of others.
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