LSLFBW: Chapter 102 Part 2

Qi Bai got the information he wanted. Without further delay, he got up and left the stall.

Qi Bai said, “No wonder why I haven’t found any tribe to exchange slaves with after searching for so long. It turns out that all the slaves were taken away by the Rough Wood Tribe.”

Due to the transaction between the Rough Wood Tribe and War Bear Tribe, Qi Bai had a big question mark about the integrity of the Rough Wood Tribe. If possible, he didn’t want to deal with this tribe at all.

Lang Ze told him, “Go to the Rough Wood Tribe.”

Qi Bai nodded. They had no choice now. Even if they were unwilling, he had to bite the bullet and do it.

The location of the Rough Wood Tribe was very easy to find. In addition to the direction pointed out by the stall owner just now, the Rough Wood Tribe had another unique feature.

It was behind the stalls. In addition to the tent, there were several rings made of wood and thorns. This was presumably where they kept the slaves.

Qi Bai frowned. The Rough Wood Tribe’s attitude toward slaves was even worse than the Black Mountain Tribe’s care for the four-eared sheep.

If nothing else, he could smell the stench from inside even on the street. This gave him an idea of the living condition of these slaves.

At this time, a pot-bellied beastman walked out from behind the tent. He threw yellow grass leaves into a ring, scratched the flesh of his belly, turned around, and prepared to go back.

Qi Bai called out loudly, “Rough Wood Tribe, we want to exchange some slaves.”

The beastman turned around after hearing this and glanced at the two of them with small eyes. He soon saw the linen cloth in Lang Ze’s animal skin bag and walked to the front of the stall, moving the wood blocking the outside. “Come in.”

The beastman shouted toward the tent. “To!”

A middle-aged beastman walked out of the tent. He first saw the open door and said with some dissatisfaction, “Yan Zhong, how many times have I said that you should keep an eye on the door? This time, the bugs are restless…

Before Yan To could finish his words, he saw Qi Bai and Lang Ze waiting on the side. The words in his mouth came to an abrupt end.

Yan Zhong didn’t notice Yan To’s change and only said, “They are here to exchange slaves.” Then he walked slowly to the door and blocked the wooden fence outside again.

Qi Bai took the initiative to say, “We are from the Black Mountain Tribe. We want to exchange more slaves this time. I wonder if we can still get them now?”

Yan To’s smile became more sincere when he heard the deal. “Of course, how much do you want?”

Qi Bai said with a half-smile, “We can take a look first, right?”

Yan To led the two of them to a few wooden rings behind the tent. “It is all here.”

“These are all sub-beastmen slaves.” Yan To pointed to the first wooden ring. “They might be more expensive than other slaves. They can not only work, but also give birth to children.”

Yan To looked at Lang Ze behind Qi Bai. He walked to the next ring and smiled obscenely. “This ring is full of strong beastmen. You will definitely like them.”

Yan To said they were strong, but when Qi Bai took a look inside, he saw that they were all skinny beastmen. In addition, they looked even thinner due to their tall stature.

Qi Bai looked at the third wooden ring. “What about them?”

That wooden wing was the most tightly enclosed. One could hardly see what was going on inside from the outside.

Qi Bai actually had some guesses in his heart. It was because Ming had said last night that the Rough Wood Tribe had a lot of two-legged sheep.

As he expected, Yan To said, “You probably won’t be interested in those. They are all two-legged sheep.”

Qi Bai smiled. “Why wouldn’t I be interested? We are a tribe that migrated from the east. What we lack most now is food.”

Long before they decided to trade with the Rough Wood Tribe, Qi Bai had already made plans in his mind. Since all they needed was population, he really wanted to save the beastmen who were treated like two-legged sheep.

After all, slaves might still be able to survive after being sold. However, the beastmen treated like two-legged sheep would have no way to survive once they were brought to the cannibal tribe.

Yan To raised an eyebrow.

There was a big difference between a cannibal tribe and other beastmen tribes. For example, in the Bloodthirsty Tribe, most of the members were unkempt, and their behavior was more like wild beasts. Many beastmen who had been eating two-legged sheep for a long time couldn’t even speak clearly.

Therefore, even though the Rough Wood Tribe was engaged in the trade of two-legged sheep, a large tribe like theirs didn’t bother to eat the two-legged sheep.

The sub-beastman in front of him had clear eyes and a noble posture. There was also a very strong slave following behind him.

In the Beastman Continent where food was difficult to obtain, such strong slaves were extremely rare.

Therefore, Yan To only thought that Qi Bai was the disciple of a priest in some large tribe. He hadn’t expected this tribe to store two-legged sheep.

However, Yan To didn’t care about the eating habits of the Black Mountain Tribe. He really needed to get rid of these two-legged sheep quickly.

Most of the two-legged sheep were collected from tribes from the east. Some of them tried to escape, some injured their owners, and many had been sold many times.

The Rough Wood Tribe had many ways to punish slaves. However, they were unable to tame these ones and could ultimately only sell them as the cheapest two-legged sheep.

As for whether they died or ran away after being sold, this was no longer the business of the Rough Wood Tribe.

The wooden ring wrapped with straw rope was opened, and the smell of blood and excrement hit them.

The beastmen in the wooden ring had pale and cracked lips, their bodies covered with wounds.

If the slaves in the first two rings had dull eyes then the beastmen in the last wooden ring had been tortured to the point of having only one last breath left.

Rather than being living people, they were more like ‘corpses’ piled together haphazardly.

Qi Bai took a look and turned his head away, unable to bear looking any further.

However, he saw Lang Ze’s heaving chest and red eyes when he turned his head.

Seeing Qi Bai’s expression, Yan To thought that he was dissatisfied with these two-legged sheep. After all, even if it was food, people preferred to eat cleaner food. He had to say, “They are a bit dirty now, but that is because we don’t have time to take care of these two legged-sheep. You can exchange them and clean them up when going back. Besides, these two-legged sheep are much cheaper than the slaves mentioned before.”

Qi Bai gently held Lang Ze’s hand, only to feel that the place where he touched was wet.

“Of course, I understand this,” Qi Bai said calmly. “Still, this place is too dirty. I’ll have my slave check them. I will take all those who are still breathing.”

Yan To had a greedy look on his face. “This requires a lot of salt.”

Listening to the two of them discuss their fate, several dying beastmen opened their eyes a bit.

Several of them struggled to sit up as if they noticed something. They looked toward Lang Ze with a hint of fanaticism in their eyes.

Yan To thought that these two-legged sheep were still going to resist, and fearing that Qi Bai would go back on his word, he immediately added, “But our Rough Wood Tribe has always been generous to our friends. This time, I am in charge of the Rough Wood Tribe’s trading day, so I can reduce some salt.”

Qi Bai didn’t want Yan To to find the difference with Lang Ze and these slaves, so he glanced over and said calmly, “Then let’s go out and pick some other slaves.”

Yan To was overjoyed. “Okay okay, let’s go now.”

Qi Bai squeezed Lang Ze’s fist. “You are here alone, so choose carefully.”

Lang Ze closed his eyes and said in a hoarse voice, “I understand.”

The wooden ring was closed again. Yan To called another person to guard the entrance and hurriedly took Qi Bai to the front.

The tribes living in the Northern Wilderness needed a limited number of slaves. The small tribes who fled from the east wouldn’t even have slaves to sell to them, let alone buy slaves.

If these slaves couldn’t be sold, they would eventually be treated as sheep and handed over to the cannibal tribes. This meant they would lose a lot of salt earnings.

Unexpectedly, the Black Mountain Tribe could take in so many slaves at once. Yan To’s attitude changed by 180 degrees.

Qi Bai’s mind replayed Lang Ze’s grief-stricken expression, and his heart felt as if it was hammered by something. There were waves of dull pain.

If he was like this, how would Lang Ze feel?

However, in the eyes of the beastmen just now, Qi Bai saw a light that shocked him. That light was hope.

As long as they still wanted freedom and had the belief to fight, even if they were on the brink of collapse, they could be saved by such hope.

Qi Bai looked at the bound beastmen and said, “Raise your head and look at me.”

The beastmen, whose will had been worn down, were slow to react to the outside world. Only a few of them raised their heads when hearing the words.

Qi Bai looked at them one by one.

It was a choice, and they made a choice with each other.

By the time Lang Ze came out of the last wooden ring, Qi Bai was followed by more than 20 slaves, most of whom were young beastmen. This wasn’t due to Qi Bai specially selecting them. It was because there weren’t many old slaves among them.

There was no sign of anything unusual on Lang Ze’s face, so Qi Bai asked, “How is it?”

Lang Ze nodded. “No problem. We can take them back to the tribe.”

Qi Bai looked at Yan To and said, “Name a price.”