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Chapter 1403 - 612: Eradicate the Bandits, No Matter the Time!_3

Chapter 1403: Chapter 612: Eradicate the Bandits, No Matter the Time!_3

The other Crow Men also began to cry poor in a babble of voices.

Mu You just wanted to say "bullshit" to these Crow Men’s act. Not to mention others, how much savings do you, the Clan Leader, have? Don’t I know?

However, Mu You did not directly expose them, but continued to make a proposal.

"If you have no money, you can fundraise from the entire Crow Tribe’s villagers. After all, exterminating bandits benefits everyone. We, the Fools, will exert the effort, while others should naturally contribute financially."

"We could fundraise... but seven or eight hundred thousand is still too much. We Crow Men only do small businesses..." The Crow Men continued to voice their hardships incessantly.

"How about this, then? We Fools can exterminate the bandits for free, but the bounty you set must be raised, from one thousand to ten thousand Divinity for each bandit. How about that?" Mu You revised the plan because the others were unmoved.

Mu You’s original plan was to have the Fools capture all those seventy-odd bandits at once, exchanging each bandit for ten thousand in bounty, which would still amount to seven or eight hundred thousand. So, to him, there was really no difference between the two plans.

The Crow Men were all startled upon hearing this suggestion.

The reason they were reluctant to cough up so much money at once was not entirely because they were stingy, but because they feared that once the Fools got the money, they would just run off. After all, exterminating bandits had no guarantees. It was very possible that after taking the money, they would simply drive the bandits away for a few days, and after a while, the bandits would become rampant again—curing the symptoms but not the root cause. They would have to hire the Fools to fight off the bandits again, wouldn’t it turn into paying a ’protection fee’ regularly?

But now, the other party proposed to exterminate the bandits for free and only asked to increase the bounty. It seemed to become much more acceptable all of a sudden, because to get the bounty, they would have to catch the actual bandits and present them.

And one less bandit caught means one less to worry about. If all the bandits could be caught, permanently resolving the hidden danger of the bandits, they would be willing to pay this money.

Moreover, the Crow Tribe’s Clan Leader felt that this new group of bandits probably didn’t have many people. Judging by the frequency of thefts in the past two days, there wouldn’t be more than ten at most, and even if all were caught, it wouldn’t cost much.

The Crow Men hastily took an excuse to leave their seats and discussed the matter with great animation. In the end, they made a decision.

"We agree with your proposal, but there is one condition; the bandits must be caught alive to receive the bounty!" The Crow Tribe’s Clan Leader returned to his seat and explained to Mu You.

The reason they wanted them alive was that the live-captured bandits could be taken to the bandits’ headquarters. As long as the bandits didn’t want to completely fall out with the Crow Tribe, they would likely pay to redeem the troublemakers. In this way, they could recover some of the costs.

"Good, it’s a deal!"

"Pleasure doing business."

"Pleasure doing business!"

...

That afternoon, as soon as the banquet was over, the Crow Tribe’s Clan Leader took Mu You to the biggest square in the tribe to gather all the villagers.

"Bandits must be eradicated at any time! It’s unacceptable not to do so. Imagine sitting at home, eating hot pot, singing songs, and suddenly getting robbed by bandits... So, a day without bandits is a good day..."

The old Clan Leader, wielding a megaphone, spit flying everywhere, delivered a speech calling for donations to eradicate bandits.

The lines were kindly provided by Mu You, but for the old Clan Leader, they were heartfelt sentiments, as these were all things he had personally experienced.

And it seemed that the crowd of Crow Men were moved by the speech, and of course, having been frightened by the bandits these days, they all generously donated.

Mu You did not see how much Divinity was finally collected, but it should not be less than three hundred thousand.

Mu You even suspected that the Crow Tribe’s Clan Leader agreed to his terms so readily, largely to use the extermination of bandits as a pretext to mobilize villagers to donate, and then take a cut from it. In the end, not only would they fill the shortfall from previous thefts, but they could also profit from the situation.

Too bad they didn’t know that Mu You had already ’enclosed’ more than seventy bandits outside, waiting to be rounded up.

The money they fundraised would not only become bounties in the end but also require the Clan Leader to dig deep into his own pockets.