Lao Xu calmly rubbed behind him quickly. The two men's attention was completely attracted by Hu Xiaodong, and they didn't notice anything strange about Lao Xu for the time being.
In order to paralyze the enemy, Hu Xiaodong continued his "ignorant" behavior: "What exactly do you want to do? What did you do to him?"
"Haha," the two men looked at each other and smiled. One of them immediately shook his bone-cutting knife and said with a smile: "What do you think we did to him?"
"Did you kill him?"
"It's not that simple. Didn't you just enjoy the big meal he provided at noon?" He meant something, and the man's words verified Hu Xiaodong's previous inference.
The manor is indeed engaged in killing and eating meat.
"Aren't you afraid of retribution for doing this?"
In the apocalypse, there really are everyone.
Hu Xiaodong couldn't understand how these people could do such a heartless thing.
This is completely different from the nature of ordinary robbery. This is a complete loss of human nature.
"Retribution? Boy, what you said is really naive. We have never forced you to do this. Didn't we confirm with you before? Didn't you say you wanted to join us? Since it is all of your own free will, what's the point? Where can I talk about retribution?"
With a serious tone of heresy, Hu Xiaodong glared at the man: "We said we were right to join you, but we never said we would use our bones to cook for you."
"What's the difference? Young man, no matter what you do these days, you have to pay a price. Do you think you can enjoy good food and drink here casually? When you think of something, you have to pay something. We should explain this to you very clearly, but understanding is something... haha, it seems that not everyone has it."
With a playful smile, the man scolded Hu Xiaodong in disguise.
Hu Xiaodong didn't have time to respond to this. He didn't look sideways and covered Lao Xu with Huo Yuankai as usual, and then continued in vain: "Huh, you guys really make excuses for your behavior. If so, if you stay, you have to stay with me." If you risk our lives, okay, then please tell your village owner that we are leaving!!"
"Leave!?" As if he heard some funny joke, the man shrugged his shoulders: "Where do you think we are? A charity? You can come when you want and leave when you want? Besides, those things you eat, If you don’t repay the materials you used... do you think it’s reasonable? Haha.”
"Let us out, and we will find a way to get it for you. Do you think it is better to kill people and eat meat than to let the survivors go out to search for supplies? If you don't kill us, we can continue to search for supplies for you, but we can kill you How long can we supply you with this meat?"
After hearing this, the man laughed "haha": "Boy, you are still too young. We have done this before, but do you know what the result was? The people we released eventually led more people to run back to the manor. Thanks to them, they killed the original owner of the manor. After all, we have to thank them for doing such a good thing. Otherwise, we would not have the chance to get to where we are today under the leadership of the family owner."
There is a lot of hidden information in this conversation.
Hu Xiaodong made a brief analysis and it is not difficult to conclude that the manor here did not originally implement this cruel murder and meat-eating system.
It turned out that the owner of the village was really taking in the survivors, and also sent people out to search for supplies as Hu Xiaodong said.
It's a pity that he misjudged people's hearts, or did not conduct the necessary screening of defectors.
This is a common mistake many shelter managers make in the early days of the apocalypse.
After all, most people are good in nature, especially in the early days of the end of the world when everything is unclear.
Bound by past legal and moral systems and trust in government, people's trust in each other still exists.
It is this kind of unabashed mutual help that has led to many good people being harmed by vicious elements.
The direct consequence of this is polarization.
These kind-hearted people who were violated either learned to be vigilant through tragedy.
Or just give up on humanity and go to the opposite side of good.
It is not difficult to tell from the tone of Hanzi's words that they seem to be in the second situation.
After suffering a blow, the old head of the family died, a new head took over, and then this inhumane strategy of killing and eating meat was launched.
"You can trust us. We won't do the things you said. You can see from our behavior after we come that we really want to contribute to the manor." Trying to use words to awaken the man's conscience, as long as we can... After leaving the manor, Hu Xiaodong could ignore what happened here.
Unfortunately, although he had a good idea, the man smiled mischievously and said, "It's not easy to contribute to the manor. What you are doing now is all."
When communication failed, Hu Xiaodong shook his head: "You can feel at ease eating human flesh? Are you afraid that the dead will come to trouble you at night?"
"Haha, this is a good question. Then I want to ask you, did you ever feel sick or uncomfortable when you ate that braised pork before? If I remember correctly, you didn't leave any leftover, and you were full of praises! "
The man's words left Hu Xiaodong speechless.
And just when Hu Xiaodong was about to continue his covering words, Hanzi No. 2 suddenly rushed forward with a knife and shouted angrily at Xu Renjie: "What are you doing!?"
Quickly stopping his movements, Xu Renjie held the blade in his hand.
"Nothing done? What's wrong?"
"Nothing done?" Man No. 2 stepped forward arrogantly, held down Huo Yuankai's head and pushed it aside. Then he grabbed Xu Renjie's collar and dragged him forward without any reason. After seeing that the straps on his back were correct, he loosened them and threw them on the ground.
Seeing this, Hu Xiaodong breathed a sigh of relief: "It's so dangerous!"
Thanks to Lao Xu's quick reaction, he stopped the overhand action in time, otherwise if the other party saw this, the consequences would be disastrous.
"Okay, stop talking nonsense with them, hurry up, finish things, and go back to rest." Man No. 2 was obviously not as patient as No. 1. He urged impatiently with a chopping knife in his hand.
"Okay, then let's get started. Now, between you two, who wants to start? This is a very sacred thing. It's up to you to choose."
"You are all crazy!" Hu Xiaodong looked at Lao Xu anxiously, because judging from the latter's behavior just now, it seemed that he had not yet cut off the straps.
This situation is undoubtedly extremely detrimental to our own situation.
Whether Lao Xu's wristband can be broken successfully will directly affect the lives of several people.
"Boy, pay attention to your words. You should thank us for giving you the chance to live. Don't miss the chance to join your friend who gave you his life in exchange for it. Young man, you should learn to be grateful. Do you understand? If it weren't for us, Take it in, you will have to die outside sooner or later. So I want you to die now to help you escape. Since you will die sooner or later and be eaten by zombies sooner or later, why don't you make some contribution to us? "
