Liu Dashi thought for a moment and said, "My God, let me tie them all up first."
"good."
Luo Mingyue grabbed a rope from the storage space, put it on the ground, and took away the knives of the "bandits" to prevent them from suddenly attacking and hurting people while being tied up.
Hei Dou looked up at the sky. He racked his brains but could not think of any kind of awakened person who could make a rope fall from the sky and make the knives fly up to the sky and disappear one by one.
It's really weird.
Moreover, there was clearly nothing in the sky, but Liu Dashi was talking to the sky, calling it "immortal". At first, Hei Dou thought that Liu Dashi was playing tricks to scare people, but who would have thought that the sky was actually cooperating with him...
"Snapped!"
Hei Dou suddenly raised his hand and slapped himself hard.
He suspected that he was under an illusion. When he slapped him, a faint dark green light appeared at Hei Dou's fingertips. He was using the power of his bloodline.
Hei Dou awakened the [Xuan Yi] bloodline, which has many abilities, and each person has a different focus. For example, Hei Dou focuses on poisons and witchcraft. He cannot cure diseases and save lives, but sometimes, "poison" can also become an antidote, fighting poison with poison.
Hei Dou poisoned himself at this moment in order to wake up from the illusion.
However, he found that even though he was poisoned, the scene before his eyes did not change.
This shows that this is not an illusion, but a real picture.
The Liu brothers and others worked together to tie up the dozen people brought by Hei Dou, one after another.
Immediately afterwards, another iron barrel that was upside down on the ground was also picked up, but the person inside was obviously more cautious than Hei Dou and others. He stood there without moving and did not rush out.
In fact, there is no need to run. After all, the iron barrel is gone and the best option is to stand still quietly instead of being trapped inside.
Moreover, when this group of people saw that Liu Dashi's brothers had tied up more than ten people, they did not dare to act rashly for a while.
"Lord Hei Dou, how...how did you fly into the sky?" someone asked in surprise.
Hei Dou had a bitter look on his face, he also wanted to know why he was floating in the air.
Luo Mingyue grabbed him with one hand and pinched one of his arms with the other.
Hei Dou felt creepy, the fear came from the unknown. He couldn't see the "enemy", but his body was being manipulated at will, which undoubtedly increased his fear.
He trembled and said, "Senior, what do you want to do? I can cooperate with you, as long as you don't kill me..."
Hei Dou was originally a squad leader of soldiers and also a military doctor. He could not cure illnesses or injuries, but he could help people get rid of toxins. Later, the world became increasingly chaotic, and several princes rebelled and conquered cities.
The county magistrate in the area where Hei Dou was located escaped, and Hei Dou took advantage of the chaos to sweep up a bunch of property and left with hundreds of good brothers. Among these good brothers, there were three awakened ones. Due to disagreements, the three parted ways. Among them, Hei Dou had the best popularity, and dozens of brothers were willing to follow him.
When Hei Dou and his companions fled, they had limited food with them, so they often went to the villages to rob. At first, everyone still had some conscience, so they robbed some from every household and would not rob them all. Later, they found that water resources were becoming less and less, and the number of robs increased, so their mentality gradually changed. What's more, there were beautiful girls in some villages...
Later, Hei Dou and others started killing and burning people. They no longer remembered how many villages they had massacred or how many places they had moved to.
During this period, Hei Dou led everyone into a village, but there was a powerful prophet in that village, who led the villagers to resist with knives.
Half of the people led by Hei Dou were killed in that village and suffered heavy losses.
They didn't dare go back for revenge and could only flee quickly. Later, Hei Dou became more cautious when choosing targets and specifically selected villages that were not protected by prophets.
Who would have thought that I would mess with a tough guy again today.
Tianliu Village... is so weird.
Hei Dou was like a puppet, and Luo Mingyue turned his arms over and over to check them.
At this moment, Liu Dashi said to the remaining horsemen: "Get off your horses and put down your weapons, and you will suffer less!"
However, how could this group of desperate criminals surrender willingly?
After hearing what Liu Dashi said, they looked at each other and scattered instantly, in order to prevent the bucket from falling again and locking everyone up again. Whoever could run away would be the best.
Seeing this, Luo Mingyue put down the black beans, swept his hands over, and pushed the group of people to the ground.
Then he skillfully put away their knives.
Brother Liu Dashi came forward with a rope and tied the man up.
There was a man who was the youngest and the thinnest. He seemed to be obedient, but he was actually tensing up his body. He was ready to wait for Liu Dashi to come in front of him. He would then cut Liu Dashi's throat with a blade and kill him with one blow!
It didn't matter if he didn't cut the aorta. This thin man was Hei Dou's younger brother. The blade was coated with deadly poison, but the poison spread slowly. Therefore, when killing people, cutting the throat was the fastest. If the cut was crooked, it didn't matter. As long as the skin was broken, the person would die. But if the skin on the arm was cut, as long as Liu Dashi cut off the arm in time, he could survive. Therefore, the throat was still the most effective.
Just when he was ready to take action, he suddenly found his body hanging in the air.
His body was grabbed by an invisible big hand, shaking back and forth, he felt dizzy, his stomach churned, and he almost vomited.
Several blades fell out of his sleeves with a crackling sound.
Seeing this, Liu Sanshi said, "You'd better behave yourself. My elder brother is favored by the immortal. You want to play tricks in front of the immortal? Do you think your life is too long?"
With Luo Mingyue watching, the Liu brothers quickly tied up all the twenty people, including Hei Dou.
The horses were frightened and some ran out of the village, while others ran into the village in a panic.
The barking of dogs sounded one after another, waking up many villagers.
Some villagers had poor sleep quality and could not fall asleep because of the noise. They got up and ran to the yard to beat the dog, but they saw a horse passing by outside the yard. They immediately stopped being sleepy and thought someone's horse had run away, so they quickly called for people to chase it.
The horses didn't know the way and ran around, but instead of running out of the village, they were caught.
The villagers lit torches and wondered, "How come there are more than a dozen horses? Is our village so rich?"
Ordinary families simply cannot afford to buy a horse.
Besides, it was definitely not normal for so many horses to come here in the middle of the night.
Village Chief Liu came out late because he found that his two sons were missing. Not only that, the three boys from his younger brother's family were also not at home.
Village Chief Liu cursed and said, "Where did this rebellious son and his brothers run off to?"
"It's so dark in the middle of the night. It's really worrying."
"Village chief, please take a look, what should we do with these horses?"
The horses were frightened when they saw so many strangers, but at least they were not trapped in an iron barrel like before. Some of the horses were injured and could not run, so they gradually calmed down.
Someone suggested, "How about we take the horses home first? If the owner of the horse comes, we can return the horse. If no one comes, we can wait until daybreak and divide the property among the villagers. How do you think?"
Village Chief Liu said, "Don't be fooled by the immediate benefits. Our entire village can't even get five horses together. Only rich families can raise so many at once. If we take the horses home, we will be slandered as horse thieves and may even be thrown into jail."
"Village Chief, what do you say we should do?"
Village Chief Liu said, "I think the owner of the horse must be nearby. Leave some people to guard the horse, and the rest of you go look for him with torches."
…
At the same time, the five Liu brothers were escorting prisoners, with Liu Ershi leading the way holding the rope, and the other four brothers walking in the middle or at the end, responsible for guarding the "prisoners".
Liu Xiaoshi asked: "Brother, how should we arrange for these twenty people? Our house can't accommodate so many people."
Liu Dashi said indifferently: "Who said we should put them in the room? Let them stay in the yard for one night."
"Then don't we have to keep watch over them all night?"
Liu Dashi said, "It's okay, you go to sleep, I'll work harder tonight and watch over them."
"No, I'll go with you, we can take care of each other..." Liu Xiaoshi asked softly: "By the way, big brother, is the immortal still here?"
"I don't know." Liu Dashi raised his head and tentatively called out to the sky, "Immortal?"
The immortal did not appear.
Liu Dashi confirmed again, "Are you there?"
Luo Mingyue still didn't respond.
Liu Dashi said to his brother, "The immortal is not here."
Liu Xiaoshi immediately relaxed a lot. He touched the back of his head and said, "Brother, I want to discuss something with you... I also want to become a believer of the gods, is that okay?"
Liu Dashi squinted at him and asked, "Weren't you unhappy before?"
"Ahem, I was ignorant before... and many people in the village don't believe in gods, and I don't want to be the odd one out."
"As long as you have a pious heart, the immortal is actually very easy to talk to..."
The two brothers walked and chatted.
Liu Dashi whispered, "To be honest, I don't want to spare their lives at all, but I don't want to kill them in front of the immortal. Even if I really have to kill them, I can't do it, because we still have to carve stone sculptures for the immortal, and we can't let the blood of these people dirty our hands."
"That's right. It's a good opportunity to bring these bandits back for everyone to see. We can be considered to have done a great deed today."
Liu Dashi said, "Shut up! You're claiming to be doing great things... We only spent some effort tying the ropes, otherwise, how could we, the brothers, subdue so many bandits?"
Liu Xiaoshi stopped talking and just smiled foolishly.
After turning the corner, as they walked, they spotted a fire ahead. "Hey, are the villagers awake?"
The two sides came together.
Village chief Liu originally wanted to blame his sons for not sleeping and running around late at night, but he saw that the leader was Liu Ershi, who was holding a rope in his hand, and the rope was tied to a group of strangers.
Village Chief Liu asked: "Ershi, who are these people..."
Liu Ershi said, "These are bandits who came on horseback. They are very fierce, and each of them has a knife in his hand. The horses have almost all run away, but the people are still here."
The villagers suddenly realized, "So that's how the horses that ran into the village came from."
Next, the two sides exchanged information, mainly Liu Ershi giving a general account of the whole story.
As for Liu Dashi, he didn't want to talk to people in the village recently, so he just hid in the back.
"Are there still bandits in our area?"
The villagers expressed their incomprehension. They knew they couldn't sleep if they went back home anyway, so they simply interrogated the bandits in the middle of the night.
"What are your names? Where are you from?"
At first, Hei Dou and others were unwilling to speak, but after being severely beaten up by the fierce young villagers, they almost became obedient.
But there are many people who tell liars.
They all didn't want to die, so they made their life stories sound pathetic and spoke nonsense.
If one person lies, others may not be able to tell the truth from the falsehood, but there are too many liars, and they do not have a unified caliber, resulting in loopholes in their words. For example, one said that he ate grass roots today, and another said that he had not found food for several days and survived by drinking water. Another cursed and said that his companions were brainless. If life was really difficult, they would have killed and eaten the horses long ago, and why would they eat grass roots? They were all a bunch of idiots, and their lies were not perfect. I am ashamed to be with idiots...
The villagers separated the prisoners for interrogation and killed two of them in public.
Finally, someone confessed honestly: "We are from a county far away. We heard that several princes were rebelling. We couldn't survive, so we burned, killed, looted, and robbed everywhere to make a living..."
"We usually act at night because people are asleep at night and are least alert. Often, some villagers are hacked to death by us while they are still asleep."
"The men in the village are useless, so just kill them. If the women are pretty, we'll enjoy them. We won't kill them, but I don't think they'll survive, because we've taken away all the food."
"Our leader is called Hei Dou, and he is an awakened one."
Some villagers asked: "What does awakened mean?"
Some villagers also asked: "If the princes fight, will the dynasty change?"
Hearing this, a trace of disdain flashed in Heidou's eyes. It was indeed a remote and poor place, isolated from the outside world. They didn't even know that the outside world was in chaos. "I don't know which prince will win in the end. It may still be in the midst of war. Anyway, they can't fight here, and the officials won't enter the village."
Some villagers had a strong sense of crisis and said, "That's not necessarily true. We have to be prepared. When the soldiers really come, it will be too late."
Hei Dou sneered, "Don't worry, there's not even a county government office in this village. You're all a bunch of poor people. The officials spent a lot of food and grass to come here, and found that the things they looted were not enough to fill their stomachs. Who would be willing to do such a loss-making business? Besides, there was no need to attack your village. We only needed to attack the key cities, and then send one or two officials to collect taxes from you. Whether the emperor changes or not will not have much impact on you villagers..."
"Who said the impact is not big? We can only eat meat now, we can't grow food, and we can't pay taxes at all."