Chapter 186: The Small Town Was Shocked
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Dozens of hooligans were a.s.signed tasks while the cowardly ones stood guard at the intersection.
Those who had seen blood in their hands climbed over the wall and approached the courtyard.
“No problem!”
Then, the hooligans tied up the merchant’s family with ease.
Soon, the hooligans were about to attack the merchant when they broke into the merchant’s house.
Swoos.h.!.+
In the courtyard, sword qi suddenly appeared and pa.s.sed through the hooligans’ chests.
It was not until the moment they were killed that the hooligans finally reacted.
“There really is… an expert!”
Swis.h.!.+
More than ten hooligans, including those who were outside the door, were all pierced through the chests by the sword.
The continuous sounds rang out, startling the surrounding people.
No one dared to come out in the middle of the night at this moment.
Swish…
The sword qi circled around the courtyard and cut the rope that bound the merchant.
“Help!”
A shrill cry tore through the night sky.
Creak…
The merchant’s neighbor opened the door.
Not far away, the expressions of the Zhou family’s guards changed drastically.
“Have they been discovered?”
Wan San asked.
“It doesn’t seem like it! They all know how to do things properly and are veterans. They are not easy to be discovered!”
“Then what’s going on now?”
“Let’s go over and take a look!”
A few guards walked a few steps away from the Zhou family and took a look from afar.
At this time, most of the people in the surrounding area had already gotten up.
The merchant family was surrounded in the center.
The corpses on the ground seemed to be saying that there had been a ma.s.sacre here.
“What’s wrong? It seems that the matter has been exposed!”
The faces of the few guards were deathly pale.
“Wan San, go over and inquire about the situation.”
One of the guards said while trembling.
“Why is it always me!”
“You are familiar with the surrounding situation, we don’t know anything.”
Wan San was pushed out by a few guards.
Under extremely unwilling circ.u.mstances, Wan San walked into the crowd.
Looking at the corpses all over the ground, Wan San’s face turned pale.
It was over!
They were all killed.
They had only entered the room for less than 15 minutes, why were they all lying on the ground?
Who killed them?
Enduring the discomfort in his body, Wan San coughed lightly and said, “I am a guard of the Zhou family. I came to see what happened here so that I may report to my master.”
“Sir, you came at the right time! These d*mned people want to take the lives of our entire family at night. They also want the savings of our entire family for several lifetimes.”
The merchant laid on the ground and cried.
The cries quickly attracted many neighbors.
Many people who lived nearby also got up to watch.
When they saw the corpses on the ground, their expressions were strange.
“What exactly happened?”
Wan San asked.
“During the night, one of us…”
The merchant described the situation his family had encountered in detail.
“So, they were suddenly killed?”
“Yes! We were tied together and couldn’t shout even if we wanted to, let alone fight. They suddenly fell to the ground and the ropes on our bodies were suddenly untied.”
As the merchant’s family spoke, they showed the ropes they were tied up with.
Everyone looked and saw that the ropes were indeed cut by sharp weapons.
Soon, the bailiffs also came over.
They watched the coroner open the chests of the hooligans.
Hiss!
The onlookers sucked in a breath of cold air.
“This…”
“How come everyone’s wounds are the same? There’s a wound in their hearts.”
“It seems that they were killed by a thin sword.”
“Who in our city can use such a sword and kill so many experts in one strike?”
“The key is that everyone seems to have been killed by a single sword.”
After thinking for a long time, the more they thought about it, the more they didn’t dare to think further.
Hiss…
“Did you see the appearance of the person who killed them?”
The bailiff asked.
“No!”
The merchant shook his head.
“Look at these people’s faces that still retain their appearance when they died. It can be seen how hasty their deaths were!”
Someone reminded them.
Swis.h.!.+
Everyone once again looked back and stared at the faces of the corpses.
“Indeed. Other than a few Saint-level warriors who seemed to have some remorse on their faces, the others seem to have died without knowing how they died.”
The coroner said.
“Could it be that these Saint-level warriors have discovered something?”
“Impossible! If they had discovered something, they would have shouted. When they died, their true qi was abundant. After they were killed, they lived for a few more seconds to think about life, and only then did they look regretful.”
The coroner said with certainty.
In this line of work, he had seen many thoughts of the dead before they died.
Everyone nodded.
No one challenged the coroner’s authority.
These expressions could be understood by anyone with little intelligence.
“It seems that the murderer is at least a Perfected Person expert.”
“Could it be that the Zhou family’s old master has returned?”
Someone asked.
Instantly, the entire air became quiet.
“So, it’s true that the rumors of the Zhou family bringing experts to layout waits for the chaos in the city to take action are true?”
“I’m afraid it’s true. How can our small and remote city afford to raise other experts? I’ve never heard of anyone else who is so outstanding in our city.”
After a round of a.n.a.lysis, everyone suddenly realized that other than the Zhou and Liu family’s old masters were hiding in the shadows, there didn’t seem to be any other possibilities.
“Why are they hiding behind the scene?”
“Isn’t it because they’re waiting for the b*starts in our city to take action so that they can catch them all in one go?”
“This net has indeed caught quite a number of b*stards. What about the rest of them?”
Wan San didn’t know how he returned to the Zhou family.
It was too terrifying.
He was just one step away from being finished.
Fortunately, the Zhou family didn’t do anything. Otherwise, he would have been finished the moment he reported the news.
No matter what, it was impossible for him to continue being the guard of Zhou family.
Seeing Wan San returned in a daze, a few guards became suspicious.
After asking for a long time, Wan San did not say anything.
The guards ran over to take a look for a while. When they returned, their faces were pale.
They even wanted to retaliate against the Zhou family.
Fortunately, they did not make a move, or else they would not even know how they died.
That night, the news of dozens of robbers being killed spread throughout the city.
Immediately, countless civilians in the city were excited.
Along with the news that had spread earlier, countless merchants in the city began to imagine it.
The Zhou and Liu families must be playing a big game of chess.
“By the way, the matter in Wuxin City has been over for so long, there’s no need for the old masters of the Zhou and Liu families to hide anymore, right? Isn’t it good that the city is so peaceful?”
“The two families must have obtained something in Wuxin City this time?”
“Li Mu’s manual? That’s impossible!”
“That’s definitely impossible! Think about it, many experts died in Wuxin City. These lucky experts didn’t bring anything back from these dead bodies?”
“Yeah! Recently, there have been many treasure hunters in Wuxin City. Those who survived this battle are all digging treasure!”
“So the Zhou and Liu families are rich.”
After the imagination and discussion, the Zhou and Liu families’ status in the hearts of the people in the small city rose a lot.
Two days pa.s.sed quickly, and the young man woke up from his cultivation.
“Tier sixth of Saint-level, haha!”
With such cultivation, he could barely protect the Zhou family.
Let’s see who would dare to make a move against the Zhou family.
He had finally survived the most difficult period.
Feeling refreshed, he walked out of the room.
“Young master!”
A few servants greeted him, not daring to raise their heads to look at the young man.
“Hm? Why are these servants being polite again? Could it be that after I broke through, there’s an aura around me?”
The young man walked around and discovered that many of the guards were looking at him in a different way.
Could it be that something had happened recently?
He had been in closed-door cultivation for more than ten days, and there were many things that had yet to be dealt with in the Zhou family.
“Men!”
After a long while, the young man let out a long breath.
Was this a blessing from heaven for him?