The kitchen was dead silent, with no swords clashing or roars, only the firewood door was ajar, and dark red blood mixed with dust and debris flowed out the door.
A series of bloody footprints stretched out in the corridor.
At the end of the blood mark, the short-haired Taoist priest approached the three remaining thieves with his sword.
A cannibal thief, with the big knife still in his hand, knelt on the ground with a plop.
"Please, spare me, spare me."
He kept kowtowing and shed tears.
However, what responded to him was a swift and decisive sword tip.
The bright sword light suddenly disappeared, and bright blood flowers bloomed in the throat.
The Taoist priest calmly stepped over the fallen body.
"ah!"
Another cannibal suddenly shouted and rushed forward with his spear drawn. He came with ferocity and seemed to move forward inexorably, but tears flowed from his eyes and flowed along the folds of his face that were distorted by fear.
The Taoist priest just turned slightly to let the gun head pass, and at the same time clamped the gun body with his arm. The thief also had a sword at his waist, but he lost his mind due to fear. He just cried and grabbed the spear and sent it forward.
Li Changan raised his sword and slashed the gun body into two pieces.
The thief couldn't hold back his strength and fell towards Li Chang'an. The Taoist priest used the broken spear in his hand to meet him. The sharp stubble pierced his abdomen and pushed out a piece of the leather armor on his back.
Li Changan pushed him onto the railing of the corridor. The railing had been eaten away by time and beetles, and it was immediately broken and collapsed under the pressure. Then the thief fell into the dust outside the corridor along with the broken wood.
There's only one left.
Li Changan turned around and looked at the pale man with trembling lips opposite him.
"Sun Zhong."
Li Changan took a step forward, and Sun Zhong took a few steps back, trembling. At this time, he didn't notice that he had retreated to the door at the end of the corridor. He stumbled on the threshold and stumbled into the room, rolling to the side without even holding on to the hunting knife.
He was about to pick up the hunting knife, but there was darkness in front of him. He raised his head and saw the Taoist priest standing at the door holding the long sword that was still bleeding.
The evening sunlight poured into the room from behind him, raising a bloody outline. In this backlight, Sun Zhong couldn't see the Taoist priest's face clearly. He could only see the two lowered eyes on the outline of his face, as cold as the edge of a sword.
He shivered violently, not even caring about the only weapon on the ground, and rolled and crawled away.
Li Changan did not catch up, but just stood blankly at the door, staring at the room.
This room is probably the slaughterhouse for these thieves.
There were many iron hooks hanging from the beams. Some human torsos and limbs were hung on the iron hooks, swaying slightly in the air, and some were even dripping with blood. Beside the wall, there was a platform paved with stones and door panels. On the platform was a corpse that had been stripped open from the chest to the abdomen. Some parts of the corpse were missing. Next to the corpse, there was a large wooden basin filled with intestines, heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys...
After a long time, Li Changan breathed a sigh of relief, turned to look at Sun Zhong, and said word by word:
"You deserve to die, and your sin is unforgivable!"
After that, he kicked the hunting knife on the ground and returned it to Sun Zhong.
Sun Zhong did not take advantage of the opportunity to pick up this self-defense weapon that was better than nothing, but suddenly laughed.
"Huh? Haha? Hahahahahaha..."
This smile was twisted and weird, as if fear, surprise, anger... many emotions were mixed together. In the dim light, it was not clear how many kinds were contained in his mouth, but his voice was shrill and hysterical.
"So you came to kill us because we eat people?"
His voice suddenly rose and his speaking speed became even faster.
"The sin is unforgivable? What kind of crime is cannibalism? What kind of crime is eating so many people?"
"Back then, 'Rentuzi' led his brothers to besiege Caizhou. The siege lasted for more than half a year. The food in and outside the city was all gone. After the food was gone, the war still had to continue. What do you think?"
Sun Zhong opened his mouth, revealing his sparse and pale teeth.
"Those of us who besiege the city will eat the people outside the city; the officers and soldiers who defend the city will eat the people in the city. After this battle, okay? We will eat all the people in Caizhou to extinction."
He chuckled.
"Taoist, if you want to kill cannibals, go ahead and kill them. There are over a hundred thousand people in and outside the city. If you have the ability, catch them one by one and kill them all!"
While Sun Zhong was talking, he saw a slight change in Li Changan's expression, and felt happy, thinking that there was a chance of life, and he still needed to shake his tongue.
"In these troubled times, the weak will be eaten by the strong..."
Suddenly.
The sword light swirled and disappeared, and Sun Zhong's head rose into the sky and landed in the wooden basin.
"Lots of nonsense!"
Li Changan lifted up the corner of his robe and wiped the blood on his sword.
"I am a Taoist priest, not a priest. How can I hear so many last words from you?"
He sheathed his sword, glanced at the broken corpses in the room, and sighed.
You are right, the Taoist priest is indeed a Taoist priest with no great ability. In this troubled world where the wind and rain are turbulent and demons are rampant, there is no way to control much. Just do the good in front of you and kill the evil in front of you.
He shook his head and was about to untie the broken corpses from the iron hooks and bury these victims who could no longer distinguish you from me. Suddenly his expression changed, and he seemed to hear a faint voice in his ears.
"Save...save..."
Are there any living people? !
Li Changan turned his head suddenly and rushed towards the source of the sound, but it was a man hanging upside down on an iron hook.
He was covered in cuts and bruises, and it looked like the wounds had been cut alive with a knife. One of his arms had been cut off by the roots. Sharp hooks penetrated the flesh and hung him upside down. A wooden basin was placed underneath, and most of the basin's blood had already been collected. .
Is this man still alive? !
Li Changan carefully took it off and was about to ask about the injury.
The man suddenly broke away from Li Changan, jumped up and rushed towards the wall.
"you……"
While the Taoist priest was wondering, he had already opened up the debris on the wall, revealing a small door. He bent down and hurriedly got in.
This house actually has partitions?
Li Changan quickly followed. After entering the door, he looked up and saw that the compartment was not big, but there were many women and children tied up inside. The man was muttering incoherently, and kept rummaging through the crowd. Blood was pouring out from the wounds all over his body. As long as he stopped for a moment, a pool of blood would accumulate.
Li Changan opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't stop him and just went to untie the others.
However, his heart became colder and colder.
All these women and children are dead!
……………………
"No, no, not here, not here..."
The man fell to his knees weakly and muttered to himself.
His eyes wandered around the room without focus, looking miserable and helpless, and suddenly they focused on Li Changan beside him. A light called hope suddenly burst out in his eyes.
"Taoist, Taoist!"
He didn't stand up, maybe he didn't have the strength to stand up. He moved towards Li Changan on his knees, dragging two bloody tracks on the ground.
"Have you seen my baby? She's a little taller and has a round face."
The man was writing in a panic. He suddenly remembered something and quickly pointed to his forehead.
"Yes! There is also a mole here."
Forehead? mole?
Li Changan stretched out his hand to help the man and stopped in mid-air.
The man's face showed anticipation at first, then became astonishment, and finally became tragedy.
His body swayed a few times, and he held his hands on the ground without falling. After a while, he slowly spoke again:
"Taoist Master Mercy, can you do me a favor?"
Li Changan quickly replied: "Please tell me."
"The villain's surname is Mao and his name is Fengnian. He is from Xiahe Village at the foot of the mountain. Due to the recent military calamity, in order to preserve the incense of my family, he took his wife and took refuge in the mountains. Who knew..."
Mao Fengnian paused here. There was no sadness on his face, just numbness.
"...Excuse me, Taoist Priest, please spare me a message and just say..."
He knelt down.
"The child is unfilial!"
"Don't worry, I will definitely bring you."
Li Changan lifted him up and closed his eyes.
