Chapter 151 The Security Officer Arrives <TOC> Chapter 153 Psychic Energy Pathways and Embracing the Elixir
Translator: SumTLMan
In the town of Orin, the security office, built of reinforced concrete, was covered in dust due to long-term abandonment.
Fortunately, no one dared to enter the security office to dismantle the building, so the structure was still intact, and the office facilities and furniture inside were all still present.
Li Mu didn’t need to lift a finger, as the diligent residents of Orin immediately cleaned up the place for him.
Some bold people had already gone to the Blue Blood Gang’s residence and seen the corpses lying all over the ground. When the news came back, the entire town of Orin was plunged into a frenzy.
Even those who had doubted that the security officer was merely deceiving them joined the celebration of their narrow escape from death.
Li Mu sat in the boss chair in the security office, his feet propped up on the desk, his eyes closed.
Elina and Tabor sat across from him, feeling as if they were sitting on pins and needles.
“Don’t worry, I have no interest in your property,” Li Mu said lazily. Now that Orin was completely under his control, his nerves, which had been tense for so long, finally relaxed.
Having plundered several bank vaults in Avonigarda, he naturally had no interest in the property of two small landlords.
“How many armed men do you have left?”
What Li Mu was interested in was the manpower they had at their disposal.
A bitter look appeared on Elina and Tabor’s faces. They were engaged in the business of buying and selling cattle, sheep, and horses, and the herders who tended these large livestock usually had excellent marksmanship. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to deal with the swamp wolves and ghouls that could be seen everywhere in the wilderness.
Without these armed herders, they wouldn’t be able to raise their livestock.
However, the two of them dared not show any hesitation and immediately reported the number of armed herders they had.
The two families together had more than 200 people.
Li Mu nodded:
“Have these armed herders graze along the Mohanendi River, and don’t miss any tributaries. Keep a close eye on the changes in the entire river system, and if any herders go missing, let me know immediately.”
In the entire Orissa jurisdiction, who could know the geography better than these herders who often spent their nights in the wilderness, grazing cattle and horses?
Although Li Mu had also released the birds he had tamed earlier, they were easily hunted by predators in the wilderness. Moreover, since the Orissa jurisdiction was much larger than Avonigarda City, it was impossible to collect these birds every day and read their memories using the dream realm.
The intelligence of the birds was limited, and after twenty-four hours, the contents of their memories would begin to show serious gaps.
“Off you go.”
Li Mu gestured for the two to leave.
The two felt as if they had been granted amnesty, their sweat almost soaking their clothes. Although they now had an extra higher authority above them, with Li Mu’s protection, the town of Orin should be able to get through the rainy season more smoothly.
Even they might not be able to get through the dangerous rainy season safely.
A moment later, the door to the office was knocked on again. A somewhat chubby figure squeezed in from outside.
“Who are you?”
Although Li Mu asked this, he recognized the identity of the fat man at a glance.
When he had first come to the Orissa jurisdiction to scout, he had seen this man named Lao directing the security guards of his farm to use machine guns to kill the farmers.
It was simply because those farmers wanted to lower the sluice gate to irrigate their land. His farm was located at the end of the Mohanendi River in the Orissa jurisdiction, and the Soul Cult wanted to control the water level of the Mohanendi River, which was impossible without the farm’s dam.
“My humble self is Lao, currently managing a farm for the United Agricultural Production Association.”
Lao appropriately displayed respect for Li Mu and pride in his own identity.
“Hello, Mr. Lao.”
Li Mu gestured for Lao to continue speaking.
“Ahem, there are still about fifty slaves in the Blue Blood Gang’s camp who have been seeded for enslavement, and they are now your property.”
In the wilderness, there was a rule that everyone had to abide by: if a settlement was destroyed, the survivors of the settlement would automatically lose their qualifications as citizens of the Xindu Federation.
Before they joined a new settlement, anyone could treat them as prey.
Even in a jurisdiction like Orin Town, the lucky survivors either became wandering scavengers or slaves.
The Blue Blood Gang was destroyed by Li Mu, so the half-tamed slaves in the camp naturally became his property.
If it weren’t for the awe of Li Mu’s reputation, these slaves would have been divided up and consumed long ago.
Not only the farm owners, but even ordinary farmers didn’t mind having a slave they could order around in their cotton fields.
Even if this slave’s former identity was exactly the same as theirs.
In the desolate wasteland, hurting one’s own kind was a luxurious emotion.
“Our farm is in need of labor, security officer Li Mu. I’m willing to buy this batch of slaves at one and a half times the price.”
Lao squeezed out a pleasing expression on his face.
His original backing was the Soul Cult, but somehow, the power of the Soul Cult began to shrink. The cultists who used to boss him around suddenly disappeared.
When the Blue Blood Gang wantonly broke into the farm, plundering people and wealth, Lao desperately sought the protection of the Soul Cult, but received no response at all.
This forced him to consider finding a new support, and the sudden appearance of Li Mu was clearly a good choice. Buying slaves at a premium was his first step to please Li Mu.
However, he did not expect that the first step would go wrong.
Li Mu stood up and patted Lao on the shoulder.
“How much do you know about the Soul Cult?”
Lao’s body stiffened, and the color of his face visibly faded.
“I…I don’t know anything. I’m just an ordinary farm owner.”
Li Mu grabbed his shoulder, and with a slight force, a crisp sound of bone cracking was heard.
Lao let out a pig-killing-like scream.
“I’ve killed more Soul Cult cultists than you’ve ever seen. Do you think your bones are harder than theirs?”
Li Mu said as he let go of his hand.
“I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you! Don’t kill me, I’m from the United Agricultural Production Association!”
Lao chose to beg for mercy, his entire body’s fat trembling with pain.
“I’m just a peripheral member of the Soul Cult. I’m innocent, I have no faith in the Soul Lord!”
He said with tears and snot running down his face.
“What did the Soul Cult make you do?”
Li Mu looked at the snot on his face with some disdain.
“They just asked me to build a dam on the river to maintain the water level of the Mohanendi River. I haven’t done anything else. At this time of year in the past, the dam should also be closed, so that the farms of the United Production Association upstream can normally draw water from the Mohanendi River.”
Li Mu kicked him to the ground and casually called Li Mei over.
“Lock him up in the jail at the security office, as the first prisoner.
Chapter 151 The Security Officer Arrives <TOC> Chapter 153 Psychic Energy Pathways and Embracing the Elixir