Chapter 46: Abandoned village

Heinuma Village is the worst human settlement in the Black Forest, and the village is also home to a bunch of rotten people. But for Zhou Qingfeng, who has no foundation, he can only rely on this rotten mud village as his foundation.
The village is undergoing transformation in Zhou Qingfeng's hands, saying that the good point is ‘to promote employment and maintain social stability through large-scale infrastructure construction. ’
At present, the effect is still obvious. At least the waste in the village praised Master Hugo's kindness, and even when the external traffic was cut off, the villagers were barely able to eat a full meal, and there was no big mess.
In order to make the village work for his own use, Zhou Qingfeng had to take out valuable materials including grain and buy them in the village. Although he knew that building a road, digging a well, and building a toilet didn't make much sense to him, these things had to be done.
Such a transformation is actually difficult to last, but at least temporarily glorious. Outsiders such as Luke and Nal came to Kuruma Village, and the novelty they saw everywhere naturally felt that they had learned a lot.
The group arrived at the dwarf witch doctor's shack, where five Cold Wind City artisans headed by Wilson led the work. Seeing artisans and trebuchets, Luke and others were relieved and had a little more confidence in the next move.
Zhou Qingfeng also had no time to talk nonsense. He was short of time and directly asked Wilson. How was the formation of the team in the village? Can he set off immediately?
Wilson carefully reported: "The transport team of fifty people is ready. I have organized them into five groups, and our five artisans will lead the team in person. All vehicles including the trebuchet can be guaranteed to leave normally."
"Furthermore, I feel that the transport team alone is not enough. I also recruited another fifty logistics team. It was mainly cooking, camping, and doing some chores. The next thing to do is to have someone do the work.
"In addition, we took away a hundred people from the village and took away the food. What about the remaining two hundred? I don't know what to do about it. After all, there is not enough food."
When Wilson was reporting, he was a little bit nervous. He probably knew what Zhou Qingfeng wanted to do, but he was a little soft-hearted, so he called for another fifty people in the name of the 'logistics team'. In this way, the villagers should be able to starve fewer villagers.
Zhou Qingfeng actually knows that those skinny guys in the village can't do any logistical work, and bringing them is a burden. But he closed his eyes for a moment and considered, and then sighed, "Have another hundred logistics personnel."
The war is coming, and Zhou Qingfeng has enough capital and enough stage to show his ability. The role of the springboard in Kuronuma is greatly reduced. He was afraid he would not come back after leaving the team this time.
Those left behind were not food and clothing, and mass deaths would occur within a few days.
At this time, being able to follow Zhou Qingfeng is like being on the 'Schindler's List' and there is a chance to survive.
But for every extra person in the team, there is one more person who can't do anything, and one more mouth to eat.
Fifty more recruits made Wilson very disturbed. He was even more shocked to hear Zhou Qingfeng actually opened another one hundred recruits. The original point turned into panic, and he could not help reminding: "Her Hugo, our food is afraid"
"Hundreds more people, how many days is enough to eat the food?" Zhou Qingfeng asked with a low voice, his face down.
"Up to four days." Wilson veiled his four fingers secretly, for fear of being seen by others, "But once you start working, even slaves will eat more, otherwise they will die a day. So maybe only Two days. If there are fewer people, "
"There is no need for fewer people." Zhou Qingfeng shook his head flatly. "Two days are enough. Within two days we must lay down the rat rat village and grab the goblin food to feed ourselves.
Also, tell the people in the village that if you want to survive, keep up. I don't have extra food for them, but I can find a way for them. "
"You want to bring people from the whole village?" Wilson shook his head like a rattle. "No, no, this is absolutely not possible. Lord Hugo, I know your kindness, but you really don't need to save this Everyone in the village.
The village is actually homeless, thieves, gangsters, and deserves no sympathy. I know very well that the nature of these is that no matter how much it benefits, they will not be grateful. "
"I know." Zhou Qingfeng nodded bitterly. "I know that this broken village is full of rubbish, and I don't want to save them. I just give them a way of life. If anyone dares to make trouble, just kill him."
Except for the ‘too kindness’ that Wilson did not understand, this behavior really did not bring any clear benefits to Zhou Qingfeng. But he could n’t do it.
When Zhou Qingfeng returned to the village, the virtual screen that had not been moving for a long time suddenly jumped out and issued him a task to save as many villagers in the Black Forest as possible, allowing them to live to the liberation of fifteen human villages.
Mission rewards will be calculated based on the number of villagers who survived.
This forced Zhou Qingfeng to ‘give mercy’.
Luke and others did not come to Kuruma Village. They confirmed that the craftsmen and the trebuchet were intact, and they escorted the valuable personnel and supplies quickly to the battlefield. Everyone was busy and just drank some dry food without stopping for a while.
Zhou Qingfeng gave an order, and Wilson could only follow suit.
When the call to set off sounded, the real side of Kuruma Village was exposed in front of the adventurer masters.
One by one, half-man and half-ghost villagers came out of the shack. They faltered, their eyes were dull, and African refugees lived better than them. Some people are as thin as living skeletons, with deep eye sockets and countable ribs.
"Hugo, do you want to bring these people to the battlefield?" Nal was most shocked, and her worst servants could turn the waste in front of them into pieces. "You are too kind. These burdens are worthless, they will only drag us down."
"I know." Zhou Qingfeng also sighed. It was also the first time that he had gathered people in the village, and it was also the first time that he knew that hunger could turn people into ghosts. Looking at the villagers who can only wait to die, he is also sad. "I'm not kind, I'm just"
In the end, I really don't know what to say.
At most half of the villagers can take care of themselves, and the rest are just like walking dead. Had it not been for Zhou Qingfeng's porridge for the villagers these days, they would have died on a large scale. But now these people are just more breath than living people.
Someone really fell on the ground during the assembly process and could never get up again.
The adventurers are masters who stand high, no matter how hard they are, they will not be hungry for a while.
When they first entered the village, the accompanying adventurers were curious about Zhou Qingfeng's various measures to govern the village. But now seeing his house so embarrassed, and a little skeptical and contempt. Although they didn't say it, they murmured in their hearts.
When Wilson spent a lot of effort to gather the whole village, when the transportation team and the logistics team hurriedly pushed the carriage to leave, when there were more than a hundred villagers who would be abandoned and watched helplessly Take the team to take all the survival supplies
The emotions of the abandoned people are in a trough.
This was a silent death march, and those who could not keep up with the team would only become hungry on the roadside.
"I must say something, and I must give them hope."
When the team started, Zhou Qingfeng rode to the side of the road, stood high, and shouted with a serious voice: "The garbage in Heinuma Village, listen to me."