Zhao Family Castle, inside a room, Wei Tiangong and a few others sat around a table, while a woman was speaking softly to the side.
As they listened, anger appeared on their faces.
"Those bastards!"
Wei Tianyuan’s eyes blazed with fury as he said, "We work so hard for them, and they dare to lay a hand on our sister-in-law? Are they even human? I’ll go fight them!"
"Don’t be impulsive!"
"Tianyuan, calm down!"
"Tianyuan!"
The others were startled and quickly pulled him back.
What a joke, with just a few of them, how could they fight Zhao Da?
The latter was a late-stage martial artist of the Muscle Refining Stage, who could easily draw a bow weighing hundreds of pounds.
As for them, the strongest among them was only at the First Layer of Body Tempering, and they had been starving for days, not much stronger than ordinary people.
"Tianyuan, don’t be impulsive."
Wei Tiangong shook his head, his brows knitted together.
He could feel that things were increasingly getting out of his control.
"Brother, do you think we have any other options besides this?"
Wei Tianyuan’s eyes were red as he said, "We thought that by coming here, we could earn more through our skills. But who knew that every time we hunt, we have to hand over our prey to Zhao San for distribution, and we get the least because they say we’re new. Fine, I accepted that. But then Zhao San, without a word, kicked us out of the hunting team to repair the walls.
We endured that too, but now they are targeting our sister-in-law and even say they don’t fear us knowing. It’s too much of an insult!"
The other two or three people, hearing this, also chimed in.
Feeling deep remorse.
If they had known, they wouldn’t have come in the first place.
"Tiangong," one of them said, suddenly realizing something, "I think we definitely can’t win a desperate fight against this group. Staying here is a dead end. We might as well, run?"
"Run?"
Wei Tiangong looked at him, "Where to run?"
"Chen Family Stronghold."
The man said without hesitation, "Don’t you remember what Guodong said last time at the Song Family Castle? If we go back, he will certainly welcome us."
Hearing this, even Wei Tianyuan was tempted.
"Yeah, brother, we are not like Zhao Da and his group. We’d better go back, even if life is a bit tougher."
"Going back is easier said than done."
Wei Tiangong sighed, looking at his wife beside him, "You know it’s hard to leave Zhao Family Castle once you’re in. Even if we can escape, what about our families? Taking them with us is not easy."
Their heads drooped at once.
Yeah, they were not loners; they had elders and children to care for.
Escaping under the noses of Zhao Family Castle’s people seemed like an impossible dream.
"There’s one more thing you haven’t considered."
Wei Tiangong said bitterly, "Even if we do escape back to Chen Family Stronghold, what do you think Zhao San will do when he finds out? Do you think he will just let it go as if nothing happened?"
"This..."
Wei Tianyuan was at a loss for words.
He seemed to understand his brother’s implication.
Zhao San, given his personality, might go to Chen Family Stronghold demanding people.
And they could bring considerable trouble to Chen Family Stronghold.
Wei Tiangong sighed,
He actually had another thought he didn’t say, which was even if they didn’t go to Chen Family Stronghold, Zhao San would probably still go after Chen Guodong and the others once they found out.
The last time he left Chen Family Stronghold with people, he felt very guilty.
How could he knowingly bring trouble to Chen Family Stronghold by escaping again?
The atmosphere in the room became suffocatingly quiet.
"So, we can only stay here?" a man said in despair.
"You’re too optimistic. Right now, we can’t even get out." Someone beside him said with a bitter smile.
Wei Tianyuan clenched his fists.
Then, he opened them weakly.
"Brother, are we really not going to do anything?"
Wei Tiangong was silent.
He really couldn’t come up with a solution.
He didn’t fear death or fighting Zhao Da, but what about his wife and daughter?
Could this be the heavens’ punishment for abandoning Chen Family Stronghold?
At this moment, footsteps and worried conversations were heard outside.
"What’s happening? It’s so late, why haven’t they come back yet?"
"Yeah, usually they’d be back in the afternoon, but now it’s almost dark."
"Could something have happened?"
"Don’t speak nonsense. With Third Brother leading, how could anything happen? They’ll be back soon."
The voices faded away.
The people in the room exchanged glances.
"Zhao San and the others haven’t come back?"
Wei Tianyuan was stunned.
"It seems so? I wondered why it was so quiet in the stronghold when we returned."
"It shouldn’t be. They’re usually back by now. Did something really happen?"
The group was shocked.
After all, Zhao San had taken twenty or thirty people with him. If something happened, it wouldn’t be a small matter.
"Let’s go check it out."
Wei Tiangong stood up.

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