Chapter 335.
“Quiet.”
In the front hall of the village main house, Wang Dust raised his hand and said in a deep voice.
His voice wasn’t loud, but it fell on everyone’s ears as if a thunderbolt had exploded, and a group of villagers who had come to ask for help immediately closed their mouths, revealing terrified looks.
It was as if they suddenly realized that this young village chief was a Purple Mansion Superior!
The entire room was silent, a pin drop could be heard.
Wang Chen saw everyone’s expressions all in his eyes, and with a wave of his robe sleeve, he flexed his fingers and flicked out an elixir pill.
This pill was held by an invisible force and hovered in front of a villager.
“Eat the healing pill first, then tell me more about the bandits.”
There were priorities.
Compared to the one who lost the cow and the one who found the gopher, the two villagers being taken by the bandits was the top priority.
Ever since crossing the Jade Dragon Mountain Range to the Western Sea Spiritual Domain and settling in Dada Village, Wang Chen had always felt that the environment here was very peaceful, with people living a stable life with no worries about food and clothing, and even being idle and rich.
There is no threat of evil spirits, and no evil cultivators, although there are people where there is a jianghu, there is no less fighting, but on the whole, it is much stronger than the Yunyang homeland back in the day.
Especially Wancheng, almost can not see the beggars and displaced persons.
But now Wang Chen realized that under the calm surface there may be hidden tides, he came for too short a time, contact with few people, the news is very closed, what he learned is naturally superficial.
“Many thanks to Lord Village Chief.”
This villager’s face was pale, his right hand covering his chest, coughing from time to time.
It was he and his companions who encountered bandits during their journey up the mountain to cut firewood, and although they were lucky enough to escape back, they were also slapped through the air, injuring their internal organs and suffering from minor internal injuries.
And after consuming the Healing Pill bestowed by Wang Chen, the villager’s injuries recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye.
A trace of blood color soon appeared on his face, and his voice became much more grandiose as he spoke.
He told Wang Chuan that he and the others had encountered a group of gray-clothed masked bandits, and that the other party had not revealed their name, but had come up to rob people, and were very fierce.
This villager because of practiced stance, found the danger to run the fastest, only by chance to escape.
After hearing this, Wang Chen asked, “Have you ever encountered bandits before?”
The villagers looked at each other, no one dared to answer.
Wang Dust’s eyes flashed and he said with a deep face, “Don’t dare to say or don’t want to say? Could it be that you have collusion with bandits?”
This was not a malicious accusation that he made up out of thin air, at least eight out of ten of the scattered cultivator strongholds in the outer regions of the East Cangzhou Continent were involved with bandits in an unspecified and unclear manner.
Some of the smaller fortresses are even bandit dens!
Although the West Sea Spirit Area is the jurisdiction of the first great immortal gate, the West Sea Sect, but as the saying goes, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, this place is more than 100,000 miles away from the gate of the West Sea Sect, which belongs to the fringe of the fringe area.
In a village like Dada Village, the actual ruler was a country squire landlord like Master Huang.
The existence of bandits in the surrounding area was not something outlandish.
And Wang Dust’s big hat was snapped off, immediately scaring these villagers, one of them shivered and replied, “Your Honor, I wouldn’t dare!”
Bandits have existed since ancient times, and there is more than one group in the neighborhood of Dada Village.
To the south of Dada Village was the Yulong Mountain Range, and the nearby mountains and forests made it the best harboring place for bandits.
Under normal circumstances, the bandits in the mountains would not easily attack the villages below.
The prerequisite was to pay a protection fee.
But sometimes, some bandits would do the evil deed of capturing villagers in order to replenish their manpower.
The villagers who are taken away will never see their bodies again, and the chances of them coming back safely are slim to none.
In the past, when the bandits were fierce, Wancheng had also sent out war cultivators to besiege them, and even deployed a Purple Mansion Superior.
As for the result, we are not sure, and then it was closed down.
In the past, Daitian Village had also encountered such a thing, and in the last few years, it was safe and sound, but I didn’t expect it to happen again.
I didn’t expect it to happen again.
Wang Chen secretly sneered.
His predecessor had been missing for two years!
If there wasn’t something fishy here, he would have written the word Wang backwards in his Wang surname!
“You take me to the place where the accident happened now.”
Not letting the other party tell him, Wang Dust directly grabbed the villager who came to report the incident, “The others go back and wait for news first.”
He walked out of the front hall and catalyzed his mana to take off into the air.
The villager who was grabbed by Wang Chuan’s hand was scared to death, his mind was blank, and he ignorantly showed the way for Wang Chuan.
In full view of everyone, Wang Chen flew all the way past the village and the spiritual fields and into the rolling hills.
After flying almost a dozen miles, he landed in a mountain forest.
This mountain forest was a place where villagers often came to cut firewood, and there were stumps with mushrooms growing everywhere.
“I remember they came from that direction.”
The villager who had just landed pointed a trembling finger in the northwest direction, “There were, like, six or seven of them that I saw.”
“Good.”
Wang Dust nodded, “Go back by yourself, I’ll go after them.”
Regardless of what was fishy about this matter, these bandits robbing the villagers of Dada Village, that was a blatant provocation to him.
If Wang Chen sat back and did nothing, then in the future, he would no longer have any reputation or prestige to speak of in the village!
Nor would he want to pass the Western Sea Sect’s entrance examination.
The villager swallowed his saliva and said, “My lord be careful.”
“Uh-huh.”
Wang Chen glanced at the other party, then suddenly disappeared in place.
The next moment, he appeared a hundred paces away.
Turning his eyes, he disappeared into the dense woods.
Wang Dust didn’t launch his search in just one direction, but circled around the neighborhood, looking for traces left behind by the bandits.
He soon made a discovery.
A wild goose leaves its voice, but a man leaves traces. Unless they are flying high in the air, it is impossible for a group of people to travel back and forth in the mountains and forests without traces.
Wang Dust found the tracks left on the ground by the bandits.
Although the tracks were very shallow, if he hadn’t scanned and probed with his divine sense, it would not have been easy to find them.
Wang Chen didn’t follow these tracks because it would be too inefficient and very slow.
He condensed his mana on his fingertips and drew a tracking talisman in vain.
The tracking talisman was a first-order intermediate magic talisman, and since very few people purchased these talismans, the amount of usage was also extremely low.
Therefore, Wang Chen had never refined one before.
However, he had mastered the basic talismans long ago, and his elementary talisman making art had even reached the level of great perfection.
Finger painting the void and condensing qi into talismans was just idle!
“Duh!”
Wang Chen suddenly waved his palm and slapped it, and the tracking talisman that had just appeared suddenly exploded, and dots of spiritual light instantly converged into his eyes.
Wang Chen’s eyes flashed with spiritual light, and the traces on the ground suddenly became clear and vivid.
And they extended all the way to the depths of the dense forest.
Wang Chen followed these traces and looked forward, his gaze becoming stern!