However, not long after Lin Yu closed his eyes, a commotion came from not far away.
"No? I think you don't want to live anymore, right?"
"I... I really don't have any money left, and I haven't eaten for two days…"
"You didn't eat? Since you've set up a stall, you have to pay or pay something of equal value. Otherwise, get lost!”
After the tyrannical voice finished speaking, there was another sound of doing odd jobs.
"Don't…Don't smash it... Please don't smash it…"
Lin Yu slowly opened his eyes and looked in the direction of the voice.
Two bare-chested, fierce-looking men were holding two thick wooden sticks in their hands and smashing them on a small stall not far away.
The stall owner was an old man. He was looking at the mud jars in his stall in despair. They were shattered by the hands of two men.
After taking a glance, Lin Yu retracted his gaze and stopped paying too much attention.
Lin Yu recognized the two men who had smashed the wall.
To be precise, most of the people in this slum knew them because they were members of the gangs that were entrenched in this area.
Where there were people, there would be bullying. The law of survival of the fittest applied everywhere.
In a place like the slums, where no one cared about filth, there was naturally no lack of gangs.
The gangs were entrenched at the top of the food chain pyramid in this slum.
Compared to the refugees from the slums who struggled to survive every day, these gangs had a much better life.
None of the members of this gang would go out to work. They would rest in the warehouse during the day. At noon and night, they would collectively move out to ask for the meager remuneration of those people.
This was because these guys all had weapons in their hands and were extremely ferocious. The rewards they demanded were always within a barely acceptable range.
Therefore, all along, the people in this area did not dare to resist and could only silently endure.
Keiko and Uei were also exploited.
Don't say why the Fujiwara family wouldn't care about this kind of thing, and don't say why they didn't unite to resist.
In the entire Sugu Posthouse, other than the tall walls as a form of protection, the civilians in the slums were also a form of protection against the rulers of the Tengyuan family.
If Kabane were to break through the wall one day, these civilians would be enough to buy time for the rulers to escape in Jun City.
Therefore, as long as these people did not cause too much of a commotion or cause a large number of casualties, no one would care.
As for resisting, it was even more ridiculous.
This was the slums. Even if they resisted this time, there would be other gangs coming over. They might be even harsher. Moreover, the people living in the slums were very poor.
If they were injured in the process of resisting, they might die because they had no money.
Facing such a situation, patience might be the best solution.
Lin Yu naturally wouldn't stand up for such a thing. He wasn't a hothead with a sense of justice.
In such a chaotic world, it was not easy enough to protect himself and his loved ones. How could he meddle in other people's business?
The people who were setting up stalls around them also looked indifferent towards this matter.
There was no sympathy in the slums. He had lived a precarious life. After living in the slums for so many years, Lin Yu had completely recognized the way to survive here.
"Bah!"
"That damned old man actually bit me.”
One of the two muscular men raised the wooden stick in his hand and smashed it heavily on the old man's head.
"Bang…"
A dull sound rang out, and the old man fell to the ground.
The burly man spat out a mouthful of blood as he looked at the fallen old man and the fresh blood that was slowly flowing out of his head. His eyes swept across the surrounding stalls as he shouted out sternly.
"Do you see that? This is the outcome of not paying!”
"Let's go, let's go to the next shop. Hurry up. I'm still waiting to go back and play with the two new girls.”
With the old man's lesson of killing the chicken to warn the monkeys, the following matters were much easier. Every time they reached a stall, someone would offer money or something of equivalent value before the two of them could speak.
Chu Ying had already woken up from her dazed state. She had been leaning against Lin Yu the entire time, her hands clutching his sleeves tightly. She looked at the two gang members with fear in her eyes.
Lin Yu could clearly feel Chuying's fear.
He gently patted Chuying's shoulder and said gently.
"Don't be afraid. It's okay."
Under Lin Yu's comforting voice, Chuying's frightened eyes gradually eased. However, she buried her head and leaned on Lin Yu's arm, not daring to look at the two people.
Although death and corpses were not uncommon in the slums, for the timid Chuying, there was still a huge difference between corpses and killing people on the streets.
In Chuying's eyes, the two brawny men's unscrupulous behavior was no different from Kabane's. They were both equally terrifying.
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