Chapter 103.

The stagecoach station didn’t have many oil lamps to begin with, and now that one was suddenly extinguished, the already gray environment became even darker.

At this time, the smell of blood in the surroundings was even stronger, and one could smell it with a slight inhalation.

Zhou An moved his gaze as if he saw a black shadow gradually approaching in the darkness.

The people present were not ordinary people either, and all of them sensed the approaching black shadow.

Zhou An followed the front and the black shadow was becoming clearer.

When everything was clear, he saw a terrifying creature.

The creature was about three meters tall, with arms and legs all over its body, probably as many as a dozen.

And on the shoulders of the terrifying creature were a dozen heads side by side, growing on top of the arms due to the fact that there were too many heads.

It was densely packed and creepy.

Each head carried pain and groans, as if it had suffered great torment in life.

And the most crucial thing was that all of these heads and bodies had large burns.

The burns made the skin twist together and looked even more terrifying.

Some of the heads were so badly burned that even their five senses were curled into a ball.

“Creepy!”

Zhou An narrowed his eyes slightly.

After a person died, there was a certain chance that they would become bizarre if they were under special circumstances.

This horrifying creature in front of him carried a strong sense of patchwork, as if a dozen or so people had been put together haphazardly without any rules and regulations.

Coupled with the blood that he had just smelled, Zhou An had a guess.

“All of the people here might have died, and the accident turned out to be bizarre.”

He had only just thought of this when the Suture Creepy seemed to have smelled the odor of a living person and lunged towards him.

As the Suture Creepy lunged, its three-meter tall body had a powerful sense of oppression, causing those present to grip their weapons tightly.

A gust of wind emerged from the Creepy’s body, carrying the sickening smell of blood.

“Fight!”

Dense sweat surfaced on Qi Shuo’s forehead.

He was a merchant, his combat power was low.

Even if he was a third-rate expert, he couldn’t be useful here.

Of these guards, a few of them hadn’t even entered the threshold yet.

Only a handful of two or three were third-rate experts.

The Hengtong Chamber of Commerce was indeed powerful.

But he was only one of the merchants, and this mission was casting a wide net, and he wasn’t the only one with such a mission.

So equipping him with two or three third-rate experts was already considered wealthy.

“As if, it can’t be beaten.”

Qi Shuo had seen a lot, and he could feel the strength of Sewing Guile’s strength.

That sense of oppression was something he had never encountered before.

The guards were all licking blood from the tip of their swords and were able to feel the difference as well, but they didn’t back off.

The guards of the Hengtong Chamber of Commerce were raised during the weekdays, and now was the time to use them.

They didn’t dare to back off.

If this matter spread out and the merchants of the Hengtong Chamber of Commerce knew about it, it could be even worse than it is now.

There were a few guards who took their weapons and attacked towards Suture Creepy.

Suture Creepy’s dozen arms slightly spread, these guards were thrown out like broken sacks, directly hitting the ground, spitting out blood, already injured.

The attacks of the guards further aroused the ferocity of Suture Creepy.

The Suture Creepy let out a grim roar, its burned body twisted and turned, crawling towards one of the guards with an extremely strange posture, on its hands and knees.

The posture was like an animal crawling backwards, it looked extremely terrifying, and on the contrary, it was also extremely fast.

The guard who was taken as a target only felt his hands and feet go cold, and a thought was born in his mind.

“I’m going to die.”

Being stared at by such a terrifying thing, he knew that he would not live long.

The weapon in his hand had already crumbled long ago the moment he encountered the terrifying stitching weirdness.

In a bare-handed state, it was even more unlikely that he would live.

The guard felt the coldness and shivered slightly.

Qi Shuo gritted his teeth.

Some of these guards had followed him for many years, and now that he was going to see casualties, he was a bit intolerant.

“Stop!”

Qi Shuo ran the air in his body and roared out.

The ability of merchants was to be skillful with their words, they were able to make the other party trust them, the means of attack was weak, but they could influence some through words.

When Qi Shuo shouted out this word, the Stitched Creepy figure that was charging stalled.

The guard who was being used as a target hurriedly climbed to his feet and looked at Suture Creepy warily.

It was only then that he realized that he was already drenched in cold sweat.

Zhou An had already touched his hand to the pink money bag when the guard was attacked, but Qi Shuo’s sudden move slightly surprised him.

This chubby merchant had a few skills.

The Stitching Creep in front of him was indeed very strong, and Qi Shuo was actually able to make the Stitching Creep’s figure stagnate.

Of course, this thought only lasted less than a second.

This was because Qi Shuo immediately became pale after shouting out that word and directly sat down on the ground with a hollowed out look.

Handsome but not for three seconds.

Zhou An: “……”

He was still ready to boast about it, but he didn’t expect the other party to fail here.

However, due to Qi Shuo’s outburst, Stitching Creepy seemed to be enraged.

A dozen burned faces with anger and grimness abandoned the guard and charged directly towards Qi Shuo.

The speed was extremely fast, flashing a trail of residual shadows in midair.

This scene caused Qi Shuo’s face to turn even paler.

The guards had just been dispersed by the rush, and it was already too late to make a move at this point.

As he watched, the Stitching Guile was getting closer and closer.

Qi Shuo’s cold sweat broke out.

Right at this moment, the Suture Creep that was sprinting suddenly stopped.

The scene was instantly quiet.

As the crowd looked along, they realized that what the Suture Creep was targeting had changed from Qi Shuo to Zhou An.

Without knowing when, Zhou An had an additional long knife in his hand.

The long knife looked ordinary, but carrying it in Zhou An’s hands gave Zhou An a stern aura.

This aura caused all of the people present to have their breath stutter.

Qi Shuo also subconsciously raised his head and looked at Zhou An’s back.

It suddenly occurred to him that this young man who rode in the same carriage as him had a complicated background, was highly powerful, and had even personally slaughtered Magistrate Chen.

It was also at this time that Qi Shuo was able to feel that Zhou An, who was usually peaceful and upright, had that aura on his body that was even stronger than Stitches Creepy.

“Roar!”

The Suture Creep let out a grim roar, along with noisy words that emerged from inside each head.

“It hurts, it hurts, this fire is burning me!”

“He’s coming, he has roiling flames, he’s burning me so badly!”

“I want to die, I want to die, please let me die!”

“Snake and scorpion poisonous woman! And that iron lump! It breathes fire!”

The words were illogical, but filled with an aura of resentment.

The guards present felt dizzy when they heard these words.

This was already considered an attack.

“Spiritual attack, Brother Zhou, be careful! This sound can cause your spirit to fall into ……”

Qi Shuo was also well-informed and hurriedly gave a reminder.

Most of the attacks were towards Zhou An, and the others were only radiated.

But even if they were radiated, they still produced quite a bit of impact, not to mention Zhou An who was treated as the main target.

Qi Shuo’s reminder came to an abrupt end, and he couldn’t say the words that followed.

This was because he saw that Zhou An was not affected.

Zhou An’s face remained calm.

The Spirit +2 effect brought about after reading a hundred scrolls to reach Level 3 had left him unaffected in the slightest.

Just this?

This was considered a spiritual attack?

It was nothing more than that.

Of course, Zhou An also heard something unusual from Stitched Creepy’s words.

“The person who killed them used fire.”

“There is also a so-called iron lump, the iron …… should be cast dao.”

While Zhou An was sorting out the information, Stitching Creepy finally attacked.

While speaking noisy and boisterous words, it was extremely fast and rushed towards Zhou An.

With a dozen arms, it wanted to churn Zhou An to pieces.

It was at this time that Zhou An finally moved.

He slowly raised the long blade in his hand.

In the eyes of the crowd, a flash of snowy blade light suddenly surfaced.

The light of the knife came from the bottom to the top, and in an instant, it pierced through the stitching strangely.

When the knife came out, the ghosts and gods were shocked!

Suture Creepy’s sprint came to a halt, splitting a long gap from the center, and was split in half by this knife, twisting on the ground.

In the next moment, the twisting gradually stopped, and the Stitched Creepy turned into a ball of ash.

Before turning into ashes, Zhou An saw that inside these heads, there was a child’s head that was also burned and twisted.

Zhou An was silent for a while.

Only after the dust returned to dust returned to earth did he put the knife back into the pink money bag.

“There should be no survivors here.” Zhou An said.

At this time, Qi Shuo and the guards also recovered a bit and stood up from the ground.

“Check it out.”

What had happened here, Qi Shuo could also think of.

He and the guards searched inside the post for a while and didn’t find any living souls.

“Dying in a fire and carrying an iron lump, does the other party have two abilities?” Zhou An frowned.

Qi Shuo didn’t say anything.

This was thought to be an ordinary journey, but this kind of thing happened, and the key was now in front of the village and behind the store.

“Brother Qi, take a rest, hurry up and set off, get to the next stage early and talk about this matter.” Zhou An said.

In the event of an emergency, the post station would become an important place for news to be delivered.

If the post station went to Yunlai Mansion to inform them, then it would be much faster.

Qi Shuo also knew that they couldn’t control the big events currently happening and could only nod.

The crowd rested their feet here, but Zhou An was thinking about those burned heads just now, especially since there was a child among them.

This world was ultimately chaotic.

On the surface, it looked like a peaceful cloud, but for ordinary people, losing their lives was just a matter of moments.

Even if Emperor Xingwu was on the throne, he devoted all his efforts to protecting ordinary people.

But that was just ordinary people.

“Let’s go, Brother Zhou.” Qi Shuo said.

Zhou An snapped back from his contemplation and nodded.

The crowd boarded the carriage and traveled to the Yunlai Mansion once again.

On this journey, nothing else happened and the next stagecoach station was normal.

Zhou An and the others talked about what happened at the last stagecoach station.

Qi Shuo was somewhat related and was released without being investigated.

Of course, before he was released, Qi Shuo also made a guarantee.

Guaranteeing that he would report to the Zhen Gui Si at the first opportunity after he went to Yunlai Mansion.

Then he would tell the story of what happened before cooperating.

“Hyah!”

Accompanied by the driver’s yell, the horse lifted its legs and ran towards the Yunlai Mansion.

On their side, they were getting closer and closer to the Yunlai Mansion.

On the other side, a hidden place in the Yunlai Mansion.

Yu Hang was tied to the ground, his eyes were red, and there were tears in the corners of his eyes, his forehead veins rippled, his tone was angry and impulsive.

“You killed me, you killed me! What’s the point of you doing it to those ordinary people!”

“You’re not a human being!”

Not far ahead of him, Mi Mo was calmly drinking tea, and after hearing this, he revealed a flirtatious look.

“It’s just a few dead civilians, why are you so agitated? These people’s lives aren’t worth much.”

“Let go of your fucking dog’s ass!” Yu Hang shouted angrily.

He couldn’t help but feel a throbbing pain inside when he remembered the scene in the stagecoach station earlier.

While passing through the stagecoach, he suddenly woke up and found himself in a special container.

After recognizing it, he realized that he was packed into an iron lump.

Yu Hang immediately shouted and screamed.

But the result that came was a miserable scream.

The screams echoed around, leaving Yu Hang stunned.

There were men, women, old and young, blending together, just listening to it made people’s bones creepy.

After waiting for a while, the screams gradually stopped, and Yu Hang realized that he had fallen out of the iron lump.

Immediately after, he saw a hell on earth.

The ground was filled with corpses, all scorched by the flames to the point of being inhuman.

Mi Mo was blowing away the flames on his hands, his face full of smiles.

Then, Yu Hang heard a sentence that he would never forget.

“These people’s deaths have something to do with you oh.”

“They found you hiding inside so I had to kill them, alas, it would have been better if you didn’t scream.”

“We still have to pass through a few more stages, if you call out again, I’ll have to kill them all the way there.”

When he spoke, Mi Mo was speaking in a teasing tone, but in Yu Hang’s ears, this tone was no different from the devil.

Further on, Yu Hang did not say a single word.

He was afraid.

He was afraid that the stage behind him would be slaughtered again.

He also knew that the black-clothed woman in front of him, whose skin was like beautiful jade, hid a snake and scorpion inside.

“It’s useless for you to swear at me, it’s just incompetent rage.” Mi Mo laughed.

Yu Hang gritted his teeth, “What the hell do you want?”

Mi Mo cheerfully said, “What else can I do, kill all the young cast dao people in Yunlai House, your friend is also an expert, I have to lure him over, so I will have to aggrieve you.”

“Asshole!” Yu Hang cursed again.

Mi Mo was even happier, “It’s useless for you to curse even more, you’re just an ordinary person.”

“I heard that your goal is to get into the imperial examinations, but even if you get in, you are still an ordinary person, and ordinary people are like grass and weeds in front of me.”

Yu Hang fell into silence.

Mi Mo did not continue, drinking tea to herself.

Yu Hang kept his head down and said nothing, but his heart was already filled with bitterness.

He recalled what Magistrate Chen said when he gave him the water burial method.

“It’s almost impossible for an ordinary person to walk out in this world, and all the ones you’ve seen are probably just a very few.”

“To truly stand in this world, you must step into that threshold.”

Yu Hang’s eyes were confused.

Step into the threshold? ……

Must you step into the ……