northernbook Chapter 376: People at the Bottom of the Lake
Chapter 376: People at the Bottom of the Lake
The woman did not respond immediately, and Liang Chongyue was not in a hurry. The woman in front of her was a mother who had just lost her child. She would definitely go in and persuade these girls.
They are the same age, and if her daughter were alive, she would be the same age as them.
The compressed biscuits were not big, so Liang Chongyue broke them into pieces, and she and the woman each had half.
If people eat too much, they tend to think too much. If there is only a little food in the stomach, they will be hungry soon.
People live to have enough food and clothes, and only when they have thoughts can they have the desire to live.
Liang Chongyue glanced at the mutilated bodies carried out by the soldiers, closed her eyes, and silently mourned for them.
Her daughter was already dead, and she had nothing to remember her by. Seeing Liang Chongyue like this, she sneered:
"It was your people who destroyed our originally peaceful life, and now you are pretending to be a good person? If you hadn't broken through the gate of Xizhou, my daughter and these innocent children would not have died. It's all your fault. You still want me to help you, hahahaha, dream on, hahahaha..."
Liang Chongyue reached out to stop the soldiers who wanted to step forward and restrain the woman, then walked up to her nonchalantly and spoke coldly:
"You are not helping me. The people inside, including you and those who died, were never citizens of Daxia. Xizhou is already plagued by internal and external troubles. If Daxia doesn't exist, there will be others. The fact that you don't have a wise monarch is the root cause of your life."
"Since Xizhou has been annexed by Daxia, you are my people, so I will help you. As for you, are you really unwilling to persuade me just because you don't want to help me?"
"You just can't bear to see the girls who were trapped here with your daughter being able to leave safely. You feel that the world is unfair. Why can your daughter die while they can still live?"
Liang Chongyue's voice was not loud, but every word she said was heart-wrenching. She was battling with her scumbag father in the palace every day. If she couldn't see this, it would be a waste of her scumbag father's years of training.
"Shut up, shut up, they deserve to die, why can't my daughter live, why did my daughter die so early—"
The woman had gone completely mad, her whole body limp on the ground, roaring and raging, venting the pain in her heart.
Hearing some noise behind him, Liang Chongyue turned around and saw the girls standing by the door holding the bag of gold. Their washed-out eyes looked over here timidly.
Liang Chongyue's eyes swept over them, fortunately none of them were missing.
"You gave us the gold, did you?"
The leading girl swallowed her saliva, spoke in unstandard Xia dialect, and walked out with the bag of gold.
Liang Chongyue nodded slightly at her, and seeing that she was a little scared, he took two steps back to give her enough space.
When the girl was carrying the bag, there was a sound of gold colliding in the bag. Liang Chongyue listened carefully and realized that there was a little less gold in it. It must be that each of the girls took a piece.
The girl placed the remaining gold in front of the woman and said something that Liang Chongyue could not understand. When the girl finished speaking, Liang Chongyue saw the woman walked forward with trembling hands and touched the bag of gold, but did not take it away. She even pushed it into the girl's arms.
Because she couldn't understand what they were saying, Liang Chongyue didn't bother to guess. She thought she had done all she could, and anything else was not her concern.
Just as he was thinking, he saw the woman turned her head and looked at him. Liang Chongyue saw the contradictory feeling of relief and desire to die on the woman's face, and knew that no matter what he said, she would not be able to survive.
Liang Chongyue took out the cloth-wrapped dagger from his boots and threw it in front of the woman:
"I think I know why you don't want to live. As a daughter, I just hope my mother lives a long and carefree life."
After Liang Chongyue finished speaking, the woman's "thank you" floated in the cold air tonight when she committed suicide.
Liang Chongyue stepped forward and picked up the dagger that the woman was holding in her hand. After wiping off the blood, he wrapped it up and put it back into his boots. After letting out a long sigh, he spoke to the soldiers around him:
"Thank you all for your hard work today. There's no need to deal with this place anymore. The right people will come and clean it up. Tomorrow, have your centurion deliver your list to me. When you return, I'll have the gold delivered to your door."
After Liang Chongyue finished speaking, a few happy laughs were finally heard in this blood-stained yard.
Liang Chongyue was ready to take people away from here. As for those girls, she had already given them enough money. They were all people who had escaped death, and it was time for them to learn to survive in this cannibalistic place.
When Liang Chongyue walked out of the yard, he seemed to hear a girl calling him from inside, but he did not stop for a moment.
When Liang Chongyue separated from the soldiers patrolling the city, he looked up at the sky. The moon was still not out, but the stars in the sky were brighter than the other, especially the two stars close together.
When Liang Chongyue returned to the base, he had not received a reply from the system. As soon as he walked into the tent, he saw him scratching his head and muttering something.
Even when she approached, she didn't notice it. Liang Chongyue heard it muttering something:
"That's not right. How come this location is in the lake? I looked at the map. There's no pavilion on the lake. Isn't this guy afraid of catching a cold staying on the lake so late at night?"
Although he had only heard a small amount of information, Liang Chongyue had already dared to assert that King Yi was hiding at the bottom of the lake.
"Don't think about it, the person is at the bottom of the lake."
Liang Chongyue had just finished speaking when he saw the system catapult off, then suddenly exploded and jumped far away.
"Host, do you know that scaring others can kill them?"
Watching the system jump three feet high, almost poking the roof of her tent, Liang Chongyue saw the system's jumping ability was so good for the first time.
I usually see it eating a lot and being as fat as a ball, and I thought it was good at nothing except growing big. I really underestimated it.
"Aren't you wondering why he's located at the bottom of the lake?"
Liang Chongyue changed the subject directly and did not respond to the system's words.
When the system heard the host ask this, its curiosity was immediately piqued. It forgot about the shock it had just received and walked towards the host happily.
"Why? Did he dig a secret room at the bottom of the lake? There's no such technology in this era. The one in our house was built based on the blueprints I bought and someone dug it out bit by bit."