Chapter 143: Hunters Become Bandits
Li Changsheng didn't care about his loud screams. As soon as he let go of his hand, the hunter's beard became shaky and he couldn't control his balance and fell to the ground.
Li Changsheng squatted down to look at him and asked with great concern, "Do you have pain in your hands or feet?"
The bearded hunter cursed, "Your grandfather's testicles hurt a lot!"
Li Changsheng's eyes widened, and he stomped on the hand of the bearded thief with his foot. With a thud, he disabled his other hand.
"I know you're bandits, and there's a hiding place nearby. It's okay if you don't say it, I'll leave you here. Anyway, you have a trap around your ankle, and the other end of the trap is tied to a cypress tree with a steel rope. As you said, if you have a broken leg and a broken hand, you can't go down the mountain. Then make dinner for the wolf pack. Goodbye! I'll come back to see you tomorrow morning."
Li Changsheng is not good at using torture to extract confessions, and he cannot come up with more cruel methods, so he decided to use his own methods to treat him. He patted the dust on his buttocks and said, "If you're still alive tomorrow morning, I'll let you go. I'll help you remove the trap and let you live and die on your own. Goodbye!"
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After Li Changsheng finished speaking, he turned around and left. The bearded hunter on the ground's face changed greatly, knowing that in the deep mountains and forests of winter, the smell of blood at night would inevitably attract wolf packs. Even if he avoids wolves, tigers, and leopards, he will be frozen to death overnight. He finally pleaded for mercy and said, "I'll tell you what you want to know, please let me go. I don't want to die!"
Turns out these two people are really hunters at the foot of the northern slope of Mount Zhongnan, and they are also mountain bandits. There are seven or eight hunters in that village. They usually make a living by catching wild boars, bears, chickens, and civets in the deep mountains and forests far away from the village. They eat the meat of their prey and sell the fur of the animals to make money. If encountering people who travel to the mountains or gather herbs, they will use animal traps to kill them in the mountains and forests, and then gather the relics of the deceased, taking away valuable things and selling them. This kind of income is far higher than their hunting income, and there is no risk.
This is the hinterland of the Qinling Mountains, filled with dense vegetation and primitive forests, and rarely visited by humans. After the families of the victims discovered that their families had been missing for a long time, they all thought they had been killed by wild beasts. No one suspects that these hunters did the case. This is really a profitable business without any capital, and there is no risk.
Li Changsheng finally understood why when he was a child, he always heard elderly people in the village say that someone went missing in the mountains and was said to have been eaten by wild beasts. It turns out that so many people were killed not by beasts, but by humans.
Li Changsheng couldn't help but frown, His face darkened: Beasts eat humans for survival, even if it violates the laws of human society, it conforms to the natural rules of natural selection. Laozi said in the Tao Te Ching that the world consists of two parts, one is invisible energy, and the other is visible material. Therefore, the Tao in the Tao Te Ching also has two meanings. The Tao in invisible energy refers to the energy that generates the universe. In the visible material world, the Tao refers to The laws of the material world and human society. These hunters can survive and reproduce through labor, but now they are killing and eating people, which violates the rules of human society. Moreover, these bandits are still near the Wenshi Temple. If these bandits are not killed, it will also violate the Tao.