After traveling through time, I was spotted by the new emperor

Chapter 258 Everyone Was Captured

After Lei Dahong left, Ye Wuwei and Ye Hongxia found an open space in the crowd and lay down.

The two men hadn't taken a shower for some days and they smelled bad. In addition, they were wearing fishermen's clothes, so they didn't look out of place lying in the crowd.

At the beginning of the morning on the second day, Ye Wuwei was awakened by the shouts of "Get up and start work."

Last night, Ye Hongxia insisted on staying on duty and let Ye Wuwei sleep, and Ye Wuwei didn't bother to be polite with her.

Ye Hongxia has deep internal energy. As long as she circulates the internal energy in her body for a few cycles, she can stay energetic all day long and can go without sleep for a few days without any problem.

But Ye Wuwei could only hold on.

Ye Wuwei had just sat up when a man in his thirties next to him asked him, "Are you new here?"

Ye Wuwei didn't even need to explain this.

"I was knocked unconscious yesterday and came here when I woke up."

Ye Wuwei pretended to know nothing:

"Where is this? What are you doing here?"

The man sighed:

"This is an island. They captured us to help them build houses on the island."

"Were you arrested by them too?"

"Yes, I was brought here three years ago and have been doing hard labor here for three years."

"Did you get paid?"

“Forget wages, I can’t even eat enough.

"I start working at 11am every day and continue until 11pm. I'm lucky to be alive."

Ye Wuwei pointed at the people next to him and asked, "Is everyone like this?"

"From what I know, everyone was captured. Otherwise, no one would be willing to work for nothing."

"Then why don't you escape?"

"Little brother, you're too naive. This is an island, surrounded by seawater. Where can you escape to?"

"Let's all flee together. I think there are already 20,000 or 30,000 people captured. Can't tens of thousands of people subdue the people on the island?

Once we subdue the people on the island, we can have them take us out by boat."

The man shook his head:

"There are thousands of overseers and guards on the island, and they have so many crossbows. How can we possibly defeat them?"

Before Ye Wuwei could say anything else, the man stood up and said, "We have to get to work now, or we'll get beaten again if we're late."

Ye Wuwei followed the man and asked, "Hasn't anyone escaped before?"

The man looked around and whispered to Ye Wuwei:

"Little brother, don't blame me for not warning you. Someone escaped before, but was quickly caught and then disemboweled in front of everyone. Their intestines were thrown to the dogs to eat.

Then, the whole person was thrown away to feed the dogs."

Ye Wuwei shuddered, "So cruel?"

At the same time, Ye Wuwei heard the sound of bones cracking as Ye Hongxia clenched her fists and felt Ye Hongxia's surging anger.

Ye Wuwei pretended to be afraid and held Ye Hongxia's fist. He was afraid that Ye Hongxia's temper would flare up on the spot.

That would not only alert the enemy, but he and Ye Hongxia would also have to be killed on the island.

After all, no matter how good Ye Hongxia is at fighting, she cannot defeat the many guards on this island.

“That’s it.

Every time new people came, some of them couldn't bear it and tried to escape, but so far no one has succeeded. They were all caught and publicly disemboweled and fed to dogs.

The man who escaped the longest, after three days, was caught and died in an even more tragic way.

"What kind of cruel method?"

"They tortured him by flaying him. Pieces of his flesh were cut off and fed to the dogs. It took a full half day before he died."

Hearing this, Ye Hongxia finally lost her temper and cursed, "Beast."

The man looked at Ye Hongxia and shook his head, meaning:

You've just arrived and haven't suffered enough. Once you've suffered enough, you won't have the energy to curse.

Ye Wuwei and Ye Hongxia joined everyone in doing the physical work.

While working, Ye Wuwei also asked other people about the situation, and what they said was similar to what the man had said before.

We were all captured, doing hard labor all day without pay and without enough to eat.

If you don't do things well, you will be beaten.

People died from time to time, and every once in a while a new batch of coolies was sent over.

……

While no one was paying attention, Ye Wuwei whispered to Ye Hongxia:

“In fact, if these tens of thousands of people work together, it is not impossible to escape from this island. The key is that they were not captured in the same batch.

Those who were just captured were still thinking about escaping, but those who were captured earlier were either numb or afraid and dared not resist.

Because we are not united, we are always oppressed."

"You're right. As long as someone takes the lead in the resistance and seizes the initiative, these tens of thousands of people will definitely follow suit."

"I observed their defenses when I came in last night. As long as their crossbows are destroyed, their lethality will be greatly reduced.

However, we alone cannot destroy all these crossbows, nor can we convince tens of thousands of people. We need to bring more people to the island."

"But how do we get our people to the island?"

Ye Wuwei couldn't think of a better solution for the time being.

"Let's leave the island first and figure out a solution when we get to shore."