Chapter 18: Sin and Evil
These scavengers are actually a group of people who are hated, feared and hated by the upper and lower strata of society, they can be thieves, stealing everything that can be stolen, or they can be vultures on the battlefield, risking being discovered and killed by soldiers, looking for things that can be picked up for money, weapons, armor, food, clothing, etc., and occasionally encountering wounded soldiers who survive on the battlefield, they will not be the slightest soft.
As for everything else, it is even more, when it is weak, it is a good citizen, when it is strong, it is a bandit, robbery, murder, bullying the weak and fearing the hard, plundering children and women, buying and selling human beings...... It can be said that they are the scum at the bottom of society, a group of people who do evil at will in order to survive and live better, and a group of wicked people who can spoil anyone at will.
To put it mildly, if you meet these people in the Seven Seas World, Hao Qi will kill them directly, but here is different after all, the era of this world determines the civilization of this era, and then its civilization determines the way of survival of these people, maybe in a more civilized era, they will become ruffians, become the underworld, and become the dark side of society, but at least they will not be as evil as they are now.
Of course, this alone is not enough for Hao Qi to let them go, after all, evil is evil, hurting others for their own selfish interests, this is evil, but it is still the same sentence, this world is different after all, whether this world is true or false is still two words, this is one reason, the second reason is that Hao Qi wants to see the truth of this world, he wants to find the reason why Shi Zhen sent him to this world, and these scavengers are also one of the truths that belong to this world, he must observe carefully.
In Hao Qi's observation, these scavengers come from several places, divided into seven or eight factions, the number of small ones is only two or three people, basically they are from the same township and village, the largest faction with a large number of people has more than a dozen people, looking at their appearance is an old scavenger, almost no different from bandits and bandits, there are three leaders, the rest are the subordinates of these three people, everyone in them has seen blood on their hands, and they have human lives in their hands, they are considered a tyrant in the fleeing crowd, and even the weaker gentry dare not provoke.
Hao Qi's close observation of these people took him about a whole day to see these people clearly, and then ......
"Sir, are you a goblin?"
Just as Hao Qi was about to end his observation, and then directly deal with the most scumbags among these scavengers, suddenly a little girl's voice sounded behind him.
Hao Qi turned his head strangely, and saw a thin girl wearing a dirty tattered skirt, about eleven or twelve years old, standing on the side of the road looking at him, Hao Qi looked left and right, and then pointed to himself.
The little girl nodded and said, "Yes, sir, people around you don't seem to be able to see you, so are you a legendary goblin?"
There are goblin legends in this world, and they are extremely far-reaching and widespread, almost all the people have been circulating, but with the spread and strength of the Holy Religion, including goblins, including witches, etc., the spread has begun to gradually weaken, and the result is that a large number of people have turned a blind eye to goblins, or directly denied their existence, even if they are close to their eyes, they can't see it at all, and this is very similar to Hao Qi's current state.
But it's just very similar, Hao Qi is not like a goblin because he doesn't believe it, so he can't see it, the reason why he makes the people around him ignore him is because he uses martial arts to interfere with these people's vision and senses, to put it simply, it directly interferes with their nerves, which sounds incredible, but this is not a matter for Hao Qi at all, as long as the other party's strength is not higher than the internal qi realm, and there is no god coverage, then basically this interference can be completed in an instant.
In this way, this little girl made him very strange, no matter from any point of view, this little girl could not be a martial artist of the Inner Qi Realm, and from the eyes of this little girl, she was actually not immune to nerve interference, her pupils actually did not really look at Hao Qi, but looked in the direction of Hao Qi, to put it simply, it is a wide-area perspective, looking at a general direction, which is very wonderful.
"You...... Can you see me?" Hao Qi walked up to the little girl, squatted down and looked at her at eye level and asked.
The little girl's eyes were a little dazed, as if there was no focal length, she nodded and said, "You can see roughly, sir, are you a goblin?"
Hao Qi suddenly remembered the plot of the original comic book in his mind, in the original book, whether it is the little witch Shierji or the little girl who appeared next to the Eagle of Light, they all have some kind of vision beyond mortals, and in their eyes they can see things that mortals can't see, such as seeing the aura of the Eagle of Light, such as seeing the afterglow of the ghost world that ordinary people can't see, there are indeed very few people of this kind in this world, they can see through the illusion, see the truth, and it is likely that they are a special person with witch qualifications in this worldใ
Thinking of this, Hao Qi had some thoughts about the particularity of this world, the real, the false, the material world, the netherworld, the spirit world, the abyss, and the hand of God......
"I'm not a goblin...... Why are you looking for a goblin?" Hao Qi said as he looked at the little girl.
The little girl's eyes appeared an obvious gray, which was the color called despair, not white, nor black, but gray, a color that could not see the future at all, the little girl bowed to Hao Qi, and said softly: "Because the goblin can take the child to the land of dreams without any pain, I want to follow the goblin." With that, she turned and walked off into the distance.
When Hao Qi was talking to the little girl, he had already stopped his sensory interference, so everyone around him could see him clearly, and the place where he was standing was very close to the largest group of scavengers, and when they saw him, the group of scavengers had already surrounded him.
You must know that this is a similar era of civilization in the dark ages of the European Middle Ages, it was an era when you could kill people for a piece of white bread, and Hao Qi was wearing a luxurious outfit that looked terrible (relative to this era), and he had the temperament of a superior person, if there were guards next to him, even if there were only one or two people, this group of scavengers would definitely run as far as they could, but there was only Hao Qi here, then their evil thoughts and greed were simply boiling, whether it was kidnapping for ransom, or directly killing and taking away these expensive clothes and shoes, at least they would not lose, as for one person died...... Is it difficult to go missing a person in this chaos?
"Little master, I said ......"
The first person is one of the three leaders, a lewd man with a mouth full of rotten teeth, only about one meter three or four, who looks at least fifty years old and above, is as ridiculous as a dwarf in front of Hao Qi's height, but there are more than a dozen people around him, each of them has a guy in his hand, and Hao Qi has no weapons on his body, but this group of people is not worried at all.
Then Hao Qi still looked at the little girl, reached out and pinched the dwarf's head without looking back, pulled it in front of him and said, "There are a lot of people here, let's go to the side." โ
A few minutes later, Hao Qi walked out of the woods next to him, he held his chin and looked at the crowd, in which he immediately found the little girl he had been paying attention to, she was a child of a peasant family, it seemed that there were several other girls and boys in the family, she seemed to be the oldest among them, but except for a lame old farmer who drank wine, he did not see the mother of the little girl, and the family's belongings were only a donkey that was also lame and some rags on the donkey, and there was nothing elseใ
(The next step is to start looking at these peasant serfs, starting with this little girl's family...... ๏ผ
Hao Qi was very curious about a question, this peasant family has so many belongings, so where did the head of the family get the wine? Even if it is the most inferior spirit, it is equivalent to the value of grain, he does not think that this peasant family can have enough food......
These people outside the town, their purpose is to enter the town, but this is not the era of civilization, or the era of peace, as the Kusha army raged everywhere, and Kusha, as a pagan of a non-holy religion, implemented a very, very cruel slaughter strategy for the occupied land, whether it was the army or the people, all of them were slaughtered or even tortured, so these people will flee in large numbers, and it is best to flee to other countries, if not, then at least to go to the city or town with walls.
But these nobles are not philanthropists, in fact, they never think that nobles and non-nobles are the same kind of creatures, to enter the city can be, either you can become soldiers, or you are powerful and rich, or you are related to nobles or nobles, otherwise, it is almost impossible to enter the city, even if you want to become a free laborer, you have to wait until the previous laborer dies before you can enter the city.
Because of this, a large number of people were trapped outside the town, and they spontaneously formed several settlements outside the town, and various grass huts and other buildings began to appear, and occasionally the nobles in the city came to these gathering places to select people, either as their thugs, men, laborers, or maids, these places were the greatest luxury of people outside the city, and they were eager to be selected themselves, and then enter the city to live, even if they lived as dogs, they would be content.
And that night, Hao Qi learned about the source of the farmer's family's food......
The little girl and a younger sister, beaten and instructed by their father, went into a straw hut with several other men, who were given a few pieces of potatoes and a few mouthfuls of bad wine......
Looking at these, inexplicably, Hao Qi remembered the story in the Bible again......
When God saw the wickedness of the city and wanted to destroy all the living things in it, the prophet said to God: "Forgive me, Lord, and let me ask the Lord on behalf of the righteous in the city: If there are fifty men in the city, will the Lord destroy them with the righteous and the wicked?"
The Lord replied, "If there are fifty righteous people in the city, I will forgive the wicked in the city for these righteous people." โ
"Though I am dust, I dare to ask the Lord, what if there are only thirty righteous men in the city?"
Jesus replied, "For the sake of these thirty righteous men, I will spare the city." โ
"Have mercy on God, what if there are only ten people in the city?"
Jesus replied, "I will forgive this city for the sake of these ten men." โ
"Listen to my last word, if there is only one man in this city?"
Still, the Lord replied, "I will forgive this city for the sake of this name." โ
After that, the city perished, and the people perished......