On their way back, they took another route, one that avoided the corpses and allowed them to circle back to the village.

Not long after entering the village, Lin Xuan saw that the women who had been thrown out of the house earlier were now tied to a mutated willow tree.

The willow branches and leaves have turned a mutated bright red, and the leaves are plump and tender, just like a tree full of chili peppers.

The women who had been cooking at the village entrance were crying and shouting as they grabbed the hair of the woman who was tied up and beat her.

Several young women, supporting each other and covered in injuries, stood to the side, glaring angrily at the men who had been beaten. If they weren't so weak, they would have loved to join in and beat them up.

The woman among them, whom she had seen before in the ancestral hall, spotted Lin Xuan and her group from afar.

He said a few words to the girls around him, then stumbled and ran this way.

This person was Ding Xue.

As soon as she rushed over, she fell to her knees and began to kowtow to Xia Feng.

"Thank you, thank you for saving me, and for saving our whole village..."

The woman cried her eyes out, repeatedly hitting her head on the ground until her forehead was bleeding.

"Thank you so much, thank you so much..."

None of these people had any experience dealing with this kind of situation, and Xia Feng even pulled Lin Xuan back quite a distance.

In the end, Cao Zhiyong stepped forward to help the woman up and prevent her from kowtowing anymore.

"Stop kowtowing! Your head is bleeding from all the kowtowing. We just happened to be passing by. You know, when you encounter something like this, no one can just stand by and do nothing, right?"

Yao Yao and Sun Youmei also went up to pull her up and offered her a lot of comforting words.

The woman wiped away her tears and stood up.

He bowed to them several times and expressed his gratitude profusely.