Chapter 166 Bandits, the Other Side of Human Trafficking!
"Crack!" The dull thud of a whip striking flesh rang out, and an elderly man screamed in pain, falling to the ground.
"Hurry up! You old codger, you've wasted our time, be careful you don't lose your life!" A burly man on horseback brandished his whip and cursed.
Perhaps due to his age, the old man, after being whipped, struggled to his feet but couldn't.
"Damn it, I'll teach you to dawdle!" With that, the burly man drew his curved sword and slashed at the old man.
"Clang!" The sound of clashing swords suddenly rang out.
"Third Brother, why are you stopping me?" the burly man said, displeased at the approaching figure.
"Fifth Brother, why are you so impulsive? Even if a living person is old, the other party can still offer one silver soul coin. If you kill him, where will that silver soul coin come from? Will it be deducted from your share?" a thin, broad-shouldered man scolded.
"Third Brother is right." The burly man bowed apologetically, then glared fiercely at the civilians beside him and shouted, "Hurry up and carry this old bastard away! If he dies, you'll all suffer the same fate!"
"Yes, yes, yes!" Several men in coarse linen clothes turned pale and hurriedly stepped forward to lift the old man.
The large procession did not stop because of this small incident and continued to move forward slowly.
Wu Xuan and Xiao Xiao stood in the middle of the straight road, calmly watching the procession approaching them.
"Brother Xuan! Aren't bandits usually only after money and not murder? What are these bandits doing grabbing a bunch of civilians?" Seeing the scene before her, a cold frost appeared on Xiao Xiao's pretty face.
"Whatever they're doing, they've run into our line of fire, consider them unlucky." Wu Xuan gritted his teeth, his knuckles cracking.
"Big Brother! There are two little brats ahead who are probably scared out of their wits by the brothers, they can't even run away." A burly man as black as the bottom of a pot laughed wildly.
The stubble-covered bandit leader leered at Xiao Xiao, swallowing hard. "Go, kill the man, and bring that little girl here."
"Yes, sir!" The burly man, as black as the bottom of a pot, roared with laughter, spurring his horse towards Wu Xuan and Xiao Xiao.
"You little brat, you're too scared to run away when you see us grandpas, what a coward. But don't worry, grandpa will send you to your next life, hahaha."
"Shut up!" Wu Xuan waved his hand, and a pale blue wind blade flew out. In the blink of an eye, the burly man's laughter stopped abruptly. He and his horse had been cleaved in two by the wind blade.
"A high-level Soul Master?" The bandits who had been laughing wildly fell silent. The fact that the little brat could kill a level 15 charcoal-faced man in one move without using Soul Skills was enough to prove that the little brat's strength was beyond their ability to contend with.
"Young friend, it's a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding! I apologize, and we'll part ways here." The stubble-faced bandit leader rode forward and bowed.
"A misunderstanding? Then you'll pay with your lives." Wu Xuan sneered, raising one hand slightly and unleashing nearly a hundred wind blades that instantly decapitated the nearly one hundred bandits who had been standing still.
The civilians, witnessing this scene, were terrified and knelt on the ground, too afraid to move.
The bandit leader, seeing this, was so frightened that his liver and gall bladder trembled, and he scrambled to his feet, begging for mercy: "Grandpa, spare my life! Grandpa, spare my life!"
"Get lost! Who's your grandpa?" Wu Xuan kicked the bandit leader, sending him tumbling several times.
"Speak, why did you capture these civilians?" Wu Xuan grabbed the bandit leader by the hair and lifted him up.
"Spare me, spare me!" the bandit leader cried, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.
"My patience is limited. You should know one thing: the consequences of hiding this from you will be far worse than death." Releasing the bandit leader's hair, Wu Xuan had lost his patience.
"It's the Sun Moon Empire! It's the Soul Masters from the Sun Moon Empire who are offering high prices to buy these civilians!" The bandit leader kowtowed repeatedly in fear.
"They're buying, and you're selling? As Soul Masters from the same country, how can you do this?" Xiao Xiao gritted her teeth.
"I was wrong, I was wrong, I'll never dare to do it again. But it's not just us; several other groups of ours are also doing this business. The price they're offering is just too high." Hearing the tone was off, the bandit leader started accusing others.
"Buying civilians? What price are they offering? Where are they sending you?" Wu Xuan stopped Xiao Xiao from attacking, his words icy.
"For anyone alive, the minimum price is one silver soul coin; for the strong and healthy, it's ten or twenty gold soul coins; and for those with soul power cultivation, it's even more expensive. They want us to take him to a mountainous area." The bandit leader said, pulling a map from his robes and handing it to Wu Xuan.
"You've made quite a bit on this trip, at least a thousand gold soul coins," Wu Xuan said, opening the map and sneering.
"I dare not, I dare not! This is all my wealth! Please, sirs, spare my life!" the bandit leader pleaded, removing the soul tool from his wrist.
"Heh! But I always believe only the dead can keep their promises. Send him on his way," Wu Xuan said calmly, waving his hand.
Xiao Xiao, who had long been unable to bear it any longer, swung his claw, and a massive, dark golden claw suddenly appeared in the void. This claw was nearly five meters long, its terrifying sharpness instantly tearing the bandit leader to pieces.
This move was the Dark Golden Terror Claw Bear's right palm bone soul skill, Dark Golden Terror Claw.
Even a young girl possessed such strength; the commoners prostrate on the ground felt their breath catch in their throats.
"We are students of Shrek Academy! The bandits have been killed! Get up!" Wu Xuan shouted loudly, using his mental power. Without using their mental power, those at the back couldn't hear Wu Xuan at all.
Hearing that they were Shrek Academy students, the crowd cheered, "Thank you both, Soul Masters, for your help! Thank you, Shrek Academy!"
After expressing their gratitude, the commoners gradually rose to their feet.
Shrek Academy held such prestige in the eyes of the commoners, and to avoid trouble, Wu Xuan directly announced Shrek's name.
Wu Xuan directly crushed the storage soul tool surrendered by the bandit leader, and gold soul coins poured out, instantly piling up into a small mountain. "Take these gold soul coins and go back to live a good life. However, there's one condition: the gold soul coins must be divided equally. If I find out anyone took more than their share, they will suffer the same fate as these bandits." Hearing this, the commoners, who had never seen so much money before, immediately knelt on the ground and wept bitterly. They had thought their survival was hopeless, yet they were being saved.
Wu Xuan selected a few commoners who knew how to calculate and distributed the money to everyone. Then, he and Xiao Xiao left with their soul tools; they didn't have time to wait for such trivial matters.
Buying commoners from the original Douluo Three Kingdoms was undoubtedly the work of those evil soul masters from the Sun Moon Empire. He didn't have time to rescue them all individually, but he could write a letter to Dai Yueheng and Duke Baihu, asking them to increase defenses and send troops to wipe out those treacherous bandits who trafficked people.
As for the evil soul master's hideout in the Mingdou Mountains, he would go back to obtain his sixth ring and discuss it with Elder Mu and the others before making a decision.
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