fifth form

Chapter 2024: Brahma Lotus
The only Xiongguo settlement Zhang Xuezhou had ever seen was Longcheng, where the Xiongguo royal family lived. However, the scale of Longcheng's buildings made it difficult for Zhang Xuezhou to complain, and he felt that it was not even as good as the city defense of Rongcheng.

This is the case with the royal family, and the whereabouts of many tribes in the Xiong Country are extremely uncertain.

The Xiong people prefer nomadic lifestyle rather than settling down, and they migrate every year, every month, or even every day.

If Zhang Xuezhou had not been flying high in the sky, it would have been difficult for him to discover these tourist tents behind the mountains.

Zhang Xuezhou was not hungry, but if he wanted to quickly recover his magic power and demonic power, proper food would help his body recover.

In the past, he had been thinking about testing the limits of his Bigu Jue when he went to West Kunlun, but now, after a flight of thousands of miles, Zhang Xuezhou felt that there was no need to test it.

He just won't starve to death, but he doesn't have infinite physical energy.

Now he can still go hungry for a long time, but his body needs to rely on eating and rest to recover its strength, not on fasting.

After taking a deep breath of cold air, Zhang Xuezhou slipped into this small tribe of only a few hundred people in the twilight.

After scaring away two night-watching hounds with intimidation, Zhang Xuezhou successfully sneaked into a tent.

"Bitch, stinky bitch!"

The woman's panting and shouting could be heard from the tent. In the dim light, Zhang Xuezhou saw a man and two women rolling on the carpet.

There was a strong and sturdy woman from the fierce country who was naked and kept yelling and cursing, and was whipped from time to time with a small whip. There was also a strong man with half a small tail on his butt who was gasping for breath. There was also a woman who was lying on the ground motionless, allowing the strong man to toss her back and forth.

Zhang Xuezhou had no interest in this kind of occasion. He cursed "bad luck" in his heart and quickly searched the tent for any edible food. He decided to take it and leave.

"Who are you, a blind barbarian, to dare to enter the residence of Nanshan Baichang?"

When the vicious woman who was whipping with a whip inadvertently glanced over, she saw a figure moving back and forth in the shadow of the tent, which made her shout loudly. She threw away the small whip in her hand, reached out and grabbed a long whip next to her, and whipped out like a python.

"break!"

For Zhang Xuezhou, who is fluent in the language of the Holy Land, he can barely understand some of the language of the small tribes of the Xiong Country.

He broke into the residence of Nanshan Baichang, a Baichang who had a hundred soldiers under his command.

The population of this small tribe is only about four or five hundred. Even if all the people of Xiongguo are soldiers, the other party has extremely high military power in this small tribe. If he is not the tribal chief, he must be a person of extremely high status.

The woman from Xiong Country who slept with Nanshan Baichang was not very powerful, only at the level of body control, but her strong body made up for some of her disadvantages.

A whip was lashed out, and the sound of it breaking through the air was almost like an explosion.

Even cows and horses would be knocked to the ground by this whip, and it would not be surprising if an ordinary person was beaten to death by this whip.

Zhang Xuezhou obviously had no interest in fighting back and forth. He quickly dodged and then stretched out his hand. The woman knelt down tremblingly and kowtowed there continuously.

Before Nanshan Baichang could react, Zhang Xuezhou also hit him again. The man who had stood up in excitement and glared suddenly fell to the ground holding his lower body and began to twitch.

"cut!"

Zhang Xuezhou was about to make another attack to subdue everyone in the tent, but then he realized that the third attack had lost its target.

He walked forward and turned over the woman lying on the ground. He saw that her back and lower body were covered in blood. After turning over, there was no breath left.

With the help of the light in the tent, Zhang Xuezhou saw that the dead woman had rough hands, cracked and white feet, and her face was covered with the frost of overwork. Only her skin was still fair.

"Captive?"

"赀虏" is another name for captives, slaves, etc.

In a sense, the captives are no longer human beings, but just commodities. Their status is not even as important as that of a hunting dog. Their life and death depend on the mood of their master.

Although there were servants of low status in the Han Dynasty, such beatings to death and desecration of corpses were rare.

Zhang Xuezhou looked at the young face of the woman and couldn't help but sigh. Everyone in the world is trying to survive. There are those who enjoy glory in high positions, those who struggle like Zhang Xuezhou, and those who have a miserable end like the young woman.

Zhang Xuezhou can't even save himself, let alone save others.

But he couldn't calm down for a moment, and couldn't help but hit Nanshan Baichang and the sturdy woman again, which doubled the mental pain of the two people under the intimidation and suppression.

"Why is there no food in Captain Bai's tent?"

After knocking down these two men, Zhang Xuezhou's looting activities became much larger.

But there were mostly furs, clothes, etc. in the tent, but no food was found.

"Freeze this prisoner overnight and cut it up tomorrow!"

When Zhang Xuezhou opened the tent and was about to search elsewhere, he heard a voice of low cursing and giving orders.

He then heard a 'thump' sound, and a dull sound fell outside the tent.

When he got closer, Zhang Xuezhou saw a dead naked woman again.

There were two skinny men dragging the corpse towards a place.

Zhang Xuezhou looked up and saw hay spread there and a pile of wood, with some stripped corpses lying on the ground in a mess.

"The hunting winter is here, and they are starting to clear out the population that consumes food!"

"All captives who cannot bear children will be killed by them!"

“I don’t know how many years we can live!”

"We're better off dead!"

"I don't want to be eaten by them after I die. If possible, I still hope that my body can be buried intact underground, so that I can be reborn into a good life in the future."

"I'm also a little unwilling to be eaten like this!"

"It would be great if our Han Dynasty could send troops here, maybe we could be rescued!"

"Our border is guarded by General Cheng. He is famous for defending but not attacking. It is impossible for him to send troops here. Moreover, the people here have been migrating everywhere. No one knows where they have gone. Even if they want to escape, they can't!"

……

The two skinny men who were dragging the corpse muttered to themselves, looking at the dead woman as woodenly as if they were two zombies. It was obvious that they were used to this situation.

"Wuchao needs to take care of these tribes. They have too many children and can't feed them. They have even fallen to the point of cannibalism!"

Zhang Xuezhou felt that he didn't need to search the tents for food anymore, as there was no chance that there would be any leftover food in this small tribe.

"I must ask the Golden Crow Emperor for another feather this time!"

Looking at the sounds of sheep and horses coming from the livestock pen in the distance, Zhang Xuezhou couldn't help but take a deep breath again, using his breathing to promote the fasting technique to slowly restore his physical strength.

It was not difficult for him to capture livestock, the difficulty lay in the lack of flame for roasting.

Zhang Xuezhou has been relying on the fasting technique for a long time, and he never thought that he would have the ability to recover quickly by eating a lot.

"It would be great if we could find the Brahma Lotus. I heard that eating that treasure can keep you from being hungry for three days and can also resist the cold. As long as we eat a Brahma Lotus, we can definitely escape from here on horseback. Even if we die on the grassland, it's better than being eaten by others!"

"The Brahma lily grows in the snowy mountains. We might freeze to death on the road before we find it. They will use hunting dogs to search and drag our bodies back to chop them up!"

When the two skinny men who were dragging the corpse whispered about the escape plan, Zhang Xuezhou had an idea.