Chapter 352: Chapter 301: Do Good People Get Rewarded?
The cause of the incident wasn’t complicated, it was purely something they brought upon themselves.
As the saying goes, the bigger the tree, the more it catches the wind. On top of that, their actions indeed went too far—just as Da Lang Wu Zhao had previously guessed, there was something unreliable in Du Chengfeng’s ideas. This time, however, Du Chengfeng managed to foresee the oversight in Da Lang Wu Zhao’s approach.
And that is, overly violent behavior is bound to incite something.
Indeed, in just two days, there were already people willing to die for Wu Zhao’s orders, but some bore even deeper grudge against Wu Zhao—the most typical example being the head guard who was knocked to the ground by Wu Zhao. As a local figure of prominence, he was actually beaten to his knees in public. How could he tolerate such a shame?
He had to take revenge, only by doing so could he make people recognize his might and maintain his reputation.
So, facing an undefeatable enemy, the head guard’s chosen method of revenge was...
Report it.
After offering a box of fine bronze, the city guard commander stood united with him, preparing to clear out the city’s miscreants together. And after receiving half a box of fine bronze, even the noble ruling over this small city was greatly enraged. Under the head guard’s relentless efforts, the upper echelons of Yellow Sand City quickly reached a consensus, determined to give these cunning villains a lesson.
"Am I really doing something wrong by doing good deeds?"
Facing the large-scale arrest, Du Chengfeng, who had already befriended the locals for a week, wore an expression of innocence. He had no idea where things had gone wrong.
"All I did was distribute some food and be friendly with the locals, is that wrong too?"
"What are you saying? You actually dared to distribute food to them?"
The guard commander leading the troops was taken aback, widening his eyes in disbelief.
Before coming to apprehend him, he even thought that the big man being arrested might be somewhat wronged, after all, he knew the head guard’s temperament—deceiving and extorting, bribing superiors to suppress dissent, not to mention committing atrocities would be an understatement—but now he realized that the head guard was indeed not lying, this was truly a grand case of astonishing magnitude.
What on earth is going on, this giant dared to distribute food to the locals, what is his intention? What is he trying to do?
"Take him away!"
The guard commander waved his hand, and several guards approached to put shackles on Du Chengfeng. Due to Du Chengfeng’s enormous size, the shackles couldn’t fit, and they even had to try wrapping him up roughly with chains.
But even this level of restraint was practically nothing to Du Chengfeng.
He didn’t even need to use any Evil Qi, just the brute force of his body would be enough to snap those chains and slaughter everyone present.
"So, why aren’t you making a move?"
From the street corner afar, two men and a dog cast puzzled glances. Naturally, the keen Wu Zhao wouldn’t possibly be trapped indoors by this level of encirclement, they had long since left—but what puzzled them was why Du Chengfeng, who was even more skilled than they were, hadn’t come out, and even after the chain was around his neck, he didn’t show any resistance.
"He’s not killing?"
Seeing that Du Chengfeng actually seemed like he was going to go along with them, the three Wu Zhao were flabbergasted.
No, the Du Chengfeng they remembered wasn’t like this, was he? That violent Warrior was supposed to kill whoever opposed him, but for some reason, he himself hadn’t been killed.
It was at this moment that he saw Du Chengfeng in the distance throwing a glance his way, as if he was trying to convey something.
"Don’t worry, I’m fine."
"You..."
For a moment, the three Wu Zhao didn’t know what to say.
It seemed like, well, nothing would happen. Although being captured by a bunch of mortals was quite disgraceful for powerful beings like them, Du Chengfeng had long stopped caring about face—he could even guess that Du Chengfeng planned to use this opportunity to get close to the local nobles and continue spreading his so-called "goodwill," thus winning their favor.
After all, he definitely wouldn’t be killed, the guards probably didn’t know what kind of monster they had actually captured.
"If they survive, perhaps this would be the most brag-worthy day of their lives."
Wu Zhao thought for a moment and decided not to care anymore. After all, he hadn’t yet encountered any formidable figures in this world, everyone here seemed to be just ordinary people.
Ordinary to the extreme.
Without Evil Qi, not knowing how to employ the demon within their hearts, these people only understood battle as simply wielding weapons. In Wu Zhao’s eyes, these individuals who had no mastery of inner strength were like uncivilized apes, and the only difference between them and apes was that they wore clothes.
"Can these people really create the envisioned region with just this?"
Wu Zhao suddenly felt like his mission was somewhat overly challenging.
Fortunately, he was a seasoned Warrior and had experienced far more troublesome matters than this, so the current difficulty level was still acceptable—he just needed to spend more time on it, which he was willing to, remembering a time when he waited so long underground for a suitable opponent. Spending ten or twenty years now wasn’t much.
Of course, a time frame of ten or twenty years might be unacceptable for Du Chengfeng, but what did that have to do with him?
He just needed to proceed according to plan, and as the number of people he controlled increased, the quantity would eventually be sufficient.
Regarding Du Chengfeng...
"May he live long!"
The three Wu Zhao were actually quite happy to see Du Chengfeng suffer, since, strictly speaking, they were still competitors.
What these Wu Zhao hadn’t anticipated was that the development of events differed slightly from what they imagined.
After apprehending Du Chengfeng, the guards began searching for those who had received food from the giant—receiving food made them potential accomplices. After all, if they dared to accept the giant’s food today, they might dare to work for him tomorrow; what that could lead to in the long run was terrifying to even contemplate!
However, this search yielded no significant results, simply because the giant hadn’t actually distributed any food. Perhaps due to his intimidating size, locals shut their doors tight upon seeing him.
"Doesn’t he have any accomplices? How could that be?"
The guards concluded after deliberating that they might as well round up a few thieves to make up the numbers, because there had to be accomplices to make the case airtight.
Little did the guards know, their arrests inadvertently revealed to others that the giant had been captured.
"Wasn’t he a good man?"
Facing the investigative guards, a lone elderly widow questioned in this manner.
"Why are you capturing him?"
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