At noon, the sun was shining brightly.
On the only official road leading to Xinkang Town, the crowds of people in twos and threes were no longer as dense as in the morning.
At this moment, most of the people who came to Xinkang Town from ten miles and eight villages to go to the market had sold a lot of things.
The few villagers who came late and couldn't get a spot set up a small stall outside the market and planned to sell as much as they could.
"So, you are the only ones hanging out at this hour. Don't you think it's very conspicuous?"
Stopping in front of a family of three, Pei Wende wiped the dog leg knife with a cloth stained with black dog blood while looking at the confused expressions on their faces.
Because the family of three who were intercepted by Pei Wende at this moment were none other than the trio who had been labeled as "ghosts" by the demon Ma Zheng in the morning.
Old people, women, and a half-year-old child...
This is a standard combination of "old, weak, sick and disabled", and it is also the standard for most villagers who come to Xinkang Town to go to the market.
During this season, the young and middle-aged labor force in the family usually works in the fields. Only the old, weak, women and children who cannot go to the fields will rush to the market with their extra supplies to exchange for daily necessities.
"This young man, who are you?"
First, he gave a subtle wink to the women and children next to him, telling them not to act rashly for the time being. Then the old man walked to a place a few feet away from Pei Wende, cupped his hands and asked.
"Look, here's another flaw."
Without any awareness that he was causing trouble for a group of ghosts, Pei Wende gently shook the dog-leg knife in his hand and suddenly shouted coldly.
"When you see a man blocking the road with a knife, your first reaction is not to beg for mercy, but to ask why I blocked the road?"
"What does this mean?"
"This only shows that you are not afraid of me or a man who dares to block and rob someone on the road."
At this point, Pei Wende's tone paused slightly, and his eyes began to look at the old man unconsciously.
"See if you have any flesh on your body. I really can't think of anything else besides being monsters that you have that dare not be afraid of a strong man holding a knife."
Although Pei Wende is only sixteen years old this year, his years of experience living in ancient temples in the mountains have given him a stronger physique than ordinary people.
Coupled with intentional and unintentional scientific training, today's Pei Wende is worthy of the word "tall" in all aspects except that his face is a little childish.
"I haven't seen such an arrogant guy for a long time..."
Just when the old man was about to continue saying something, the ghost disguised as a child behind him couldn't help but interrupt the conversation between the man and the ghost.
"Since you know that we are not human, you still dare to rob us. It seems that you are either a madman or a fool."
"No, I just have confidence in myself."
Pei Wende was telling the truth. Before meeting Ma Zheng, he had never had a clear understanding of the real ghosts.
But after killing a ghost with his own hands, Pei Wende discovered that these ghosts were not as difficult to deal with as he thought.
As long as they are not those fierce ghosts with strong resentment and invisible comings and goings in the previous life movies, these ghosts with entities can be killed through normal means.
If we want to make an inappropriate metaphor, these demons who specialize in abducting humans are actually more like zombies and walking corpses, with their own key points and weaknesses.
The only thing that puzzled Pei Wende was why these ghosts could walk freely under the sun, unlike other ghosts who were afraid of the sun.
"I remember you. Are you the young man who was taken away by Ma Zheng this morning?"
"It seems that idiot Ma Zheng made a mistake and gave you the illusion that you can fight us?"
There was unspeakable anger in his tone. The old man who seemed to have some conflict with Ma Zheng finally stopped trying to hide it and asked straight to the point.
"Yes, I do think so."
Nodding his head clearly, Pei Wende finally confirmed one of his previous guesses.
The reason why Ma Zheng deceived himself from the road was probably not just because he wanted to eat "alone", but more likely because he was originally in the same group as this family of three.
If Pei Wende guessed correctly, when the family of three met someone who could be deceived, they must have adopted the same argument as Ma Zheng and identified the other person as a ghost.
In other words, Ma Zheng and the family of three actually belong to the same evil demon, and there is a certain sense of "healthy competition" within each other.
To put it simply, if Pei Wende wants to find the tiger behind these gangsters, he has found the right "ghost" now by finding this family of three.
"But something different from what I imagined is that you don't seem to be afraid of bad blood?"
After shaking off the blood stains on his dog's leg knife, Pei Wende didn't think that the three ghosts on the opposite side couldn't recognize the black dog's blood.
Well, this can only mean that just as these ghosts are not afraid of the sun, black dog blood, which is said to be extremely lethal to evil spirits, seems to have no effect on them.
"Black dog blood? We are different from ordinary evil spirits..."
Seeing that his two companions gave up their disguise, the last silent female ghost also spoke.
With a green face and a ferocious face, she slowly raised her head. The murderous and bloody aura in her eyes made Pei Wende couldn't help but frown, even from a few feet away.
Seriously!
In the next second, the three ghosts, the old man, the woman, and the child, showed their ferocious faces in unison, and then suddenly pounced on Pei Wende in front.
With the explosive power and speed shown by this group of ghosts, in less than two seconds, they were able to pounce on Pei Wende and then tear him into pieces and tear him into countless pieces.
"A bunch of ignorant and stupid old haters, do you think I will play close combat with you?!"
Seeing this situation, Pei Wende, who had been playing with the dog-leg knife and giving the ghosts the illusion of "I want to fight you in close combat", decisively distanced himself and picked up the compound bow hidden under his clothes.
collapse!
Winding, drawing the bow, and shooting the arrow are all done in one go, and the powerful potential energy is completely transformed into extremely destructive kinetic energy in an instant.
The old man who was at the front had no time to react before he was pierced through the head by Pei Wende's arrow and fell away faster than before.
collapse!
Another arrow was shot out immediately after. The child who was only one step away from Pei Wende also failed to react, and both the arrow and the person flew farther than the old man.
However, two consecutive rapid-fire arrows were Pei Wende's limit.
Moreover, the parts of the compound bow itself seemed to have been damaged in some way during these two shots, and it was unable to shoot the third arrow at the nearby female ghost in a short period of time.
The balance of victory has tipped to the only remaining female demon.
—Recommendation ticket—/—Monthly ticket—
