Chapter 38 His words are law: Anyone who bullies a woman shall be executed!

The other three nodded and looked over in confusion.

Moonlight spilled onto the ramp leading to the underground parking garage entrance, obscuring the view outside, but the sound of horses' hooves grew clearer in the silence.

"Surely no one would be riding a horse around this unfinished building in the middle of the night, would they?"

The bald man muttered something to himself.

The other two said that was impossible; they said there was probably a horse farm nearby, and the horse ran away.

The driver ordered, "Go and take a look."

The three of them carefully walked towards the exit together.

The sound of horses' hooves stopped at that moment.

The atmosphere was strangely unsettling. The driver frowned as he stared at the three figures as they walked away.

Ning Jinli calmed down and, taking advantage of the driver's distraction, quietly used her knee to rub down the denim shorts that he had pulled down halfway.

The driver had to untie the ropes binding her legs so that he could easily pull down her pants.

Having finally managed to dangle her denim shorts, she was holding her breath and preparing to get up and run away when the driver suddenly turned around. "What do you think you're doing?"

“I…” Ning Jinli had a sudden idea and deliberately looked pitiful, “Since I can’t run away anyway, I might as well cooperate with you, so I took off my pants myself.”

The driver saw through her act, raising his hand to slap her and saying sternly, "Who are you trying to fool? You think I can't tell you're trying to run away?"

Another slap was about to land.

Suddenly, bang bang bang!

Three muffled thuds in a row!

The bald man and his companions appeared to be shoved back from the entrance of the underground parking garage by a tremendous force, rolling down the slope like sandbags.

The three of them looked as if they had seen a ghost, coughing up blood as they scrambled to their feet.

On the ramp leading to the entrance, a long shadow, accompanied by the steady sound of horses' hooves, slowly appeared in the moonlight.

"What the hell is this..." The driver's expression changed.

Judging from the shadow alone, it might not be a monster.

It's too big!

Until the shadow continued to move downwards.

Xiao Qidi, riding a black steed, finally appeared before them.

The moonlight from the night sky behind them shone on him and his horse, making them look as if they were wearing a layer of silver armor.

A man and a horse, tall and mighty, like gods descending from the sky, exuding an extremely strong sense of oppression!

"Xiao Qidi!" Ning Jinli burst into tears.

After she was kidnapped, her phone was stolen by the kidnappers, so she couldn't contact anyone. Unexpectedly, Xiao Qidi was able to follow her.

Now she's safe and sound, and she's no longer afraid!

The driver had a strange expression on his face. In this day and age, someone actually dared to name himself after the founding emperor. Wasn't he afraid of not being able to carry it?

"Let her go." Xiao Qidi's thin lips moved slightly.

In the darkness, his general outline could only be seen through the moonlight filtering down the ramp at the entrance to the underground parking garage.

His appearance and expression were not clearly visible.

But those eyes gleamed coldly in the darkness.

The sound wasn't loud, but it was cold and authoritative, slowly echoing in the garage.

"You three!" the driver yelled at his accomplices, "If you're not dead, get up and grab your weapons! Do you think the four of us can't handle a kid?!"

The bald man and his companions were still shaken.

Just now, as I walked out, I was knocked down by that horse before I could even react.

My whole body feels like it's about to fall apart.

They endured the excruciating pain to get up, limped to the van, and took out several iron bars.

"Kid, I don't care what your relationship is with this girl, you better mind your own business and get as far away from me as possible!" the driver yelled.

Xiao Qidi continued to approach on horseback.

The other three, wielding iron bars, were forced to retreat by his imposing aura, while simultaneously emboldening themselves to threaten him.

"You...you stay away!"

"If you come any closer, we'll make our move!"

"I'll beat you to death, you believe me?"

Xiao Qidi ignored it, but when he saw Ning Jinli's disheveled state, his dark eyes flashed with a cold light!

It goes without saying what these people want to do to her!

"Damn it, are you deaf?!" The bald man gritted his teeth and swung the iron bar at him.

Xiao Qidi held the longsword he had casually picked up in the ancient-style themed restaurant earlier, and with a wave of his hand, he blocked the iron rod.

A crisp thud.

The iron rod and the longsword sparked a string of sparks.

The bald man's hand went numb from the shock, and the iron rod slipped from his grasp and fell to the ground.

Before he could react, the longsword was already at his neck.

It was chilly, which made him shiver and instinctively raise his hands.

The driver cursed, "Are you fucking stupid? It's just an unsharpened work of art, what are you afraid of! Do you think he'd use this thing to chop you up?!"

The bald man then came to his senses.

He glanced at the sword at his neck, breathed a sigh of relief, and said sarcastically, "Kid, even a watermelon knife would be better than this thing! What, you're planning to use it to cut me?"

"Come on, come on, cut as much as you want."

The bald man raised his head and used his neck to push against the sword. "Can an unsharpened thing kill people?"

Xiao Qidi slowly moved the longsword away.

The bald man laughed and turned around, saying to the driver, "Brother, I almost got fooled by this kid. He's just an idiot."

The other two relaxed and laughed.

The longsword that had been moved aside was then raised high by Xiao Qidi.

Ning Jinli quickly closed her eyes.

She had witnessed firsthand how strong Xiao Qidi was.

Swish—

The longsword swung down suddenly!

The bald man's head, shaped like a hard-boiled egg, flew into the air.

laugh--

A fountain of blood gushed from the cleanly severed neck!

The bald man's head fell to the ground and rolled to the feet of the other two men, where it was clearly visible in the headlights of the van.

The guy still had the same laughing expression on his face.

"Who said you can't kill someone if you don't have a sharpened blade?" Xiao Qidi said coldly.

The other two were so frightened they wet themselves.

They've done plenty of bad things, but they've never even seen murder before.

And now, they've watched helplessly as one of their comrades has had his head chopped off!

"Big brother...big brother, spare my life!"

The two men dropped their iron bars and knelt down with a thud.

Xiao Qidi leaped off his horse and rushed over, his tall figure flashing past the two men as he twirled his longsword in a beautiful flourish.

Swish--

Two more heads rolled!

"Ah!!!" The driver's face turned deathly pale. "You...you actually killed someone!"

"Murder?" Ning Jinli opened her eyes immediately upon hearing these two words.

She was horrified when she saw the pool of blood and three headless corpses.

The driver screamed in terror, "You...you...you killed someone! Is there no justice? Is there no law?"

Xiao Diqi, holding a blood-dripping longsword, coldly said to the driver, "According to the principles of Heaven and the laws of the land, those who humiliate women shall be executed."

"Who said that?! What kind of justice and law is this?! You, you, you... you're a lunatic! A madman!" The driver was on the verge of a breakdown.

"I'm talking about the law." Xiao Qidi drew his sword and approached.

In a moment of panic, the driver pulled Ning Jinli up and then pulled a switchblade from his pocket and held it to her neck.

He had no other choice but to deal with this ruthless psychopath.

"Don't come any closer!" The driver, his face covered in cold sweat, stammered, "You know this girl... right? You're here to rescue her, right? You, you... if you don't stop, I'll... kill her!"

Ning Jinli didn't dare to breathe loudly, fearing that if the driver got agitated, she would lose her life.

After a moment's thought, Xiao Diqi stopped and asked, "Why did you arrest her?"

The driver swallowed hard and said, "We...we're just doing this for money, there's no other reason."

"Oh?" Xiao Qidi stared into his eyes and continued, "Who ordered this?"

The driver replied, "How the hell should I know! We contacted each other anonymously online! Of course, the employer wouldn't let us know our identities if they were doing something like this!"

Xiao Qidi narrowed his eyes slightly. "In that case, there's no need to keep you around."

The words fell.

He suddenly raised his hand and flung the longsword out.

In the blink of an eye, the long sword pierced through the driver's forehead and went straight through his skull.

The driver died on the ground before he could even utter a sound.

“Xiao…Xiao Qidi…you killed someone…what are we going to do…” Ning Jinli slumped down as if she had lost her soul.

Xiao Qidi said calmly, "They deserve to die."

Ning Jinli looked up at him, "But this is the modern world. According to the law, criminals must be handed over to law enforcement agencies for trial..."

Xiao Qidi said arrogantly, "I am not from your world, so why should I abide by your laws?"

Ning Jinli: ...

She really didn't know how to respond to what he said.

Xiao Qidi untied the ropes binding her hands and helped her stand up.

Seeing her swollen cheeks and bleeding lips, a look of heartache flashed in his eyes.

Ning Jinli bent down, picked up her pants, and quickly put them on, trying her best to stay calm, but she was still so nervous and uneasy that she was trembling all over.

“You…you really shouldn’t have killed him,” she said, fidgeting with her fingers.

Xiao Qidi frowned. "They humiliated you like that, and I killed them. Do you think I was wrong?"

Ning Jinli gritted her teeth, "I told you, this is the modern world!"

Xiao Qidi's eyes darkened slightly. "I've already said, I'm not from this world."

“You…” Ning Jinli sighed, “Forget it, now is not the time to argue with you about this. We need to dispose of the body as soon as possible, otherwise it will be discovered sooner or later.”

Xiao Qidi's eyes were dark, and he remained silent.

Ning Jinli stared at the blood on the ground, her stomach churning.

However, having witnessed the dismemberment firsthand before, she didn't vomit this time.

"Sigh... what am I going to do?" she muttered, her head spinning. "I shouldn't have brought you out."

She thought to herself that if it weren't for a sudden urge to let Xiao Qidi experience modern life, she wouldn't have taken him to the restaurant.

Then she wouldn't have been kidnapped at the restaurant.

Ultimately, the trouble started with her, and she blamed herself.

However, Xiao Qidi misunderstood, and suddenly tightened his face, saying coldly, "So, you not only think I'm wrong, but you're also blaming me?"

Ning Jinli had been subjected to a series of shocks, and her mental state was already extremely tense.

Hearing his words, I felt he was just being argumentative, and I instantly exploded like a powder keg, blurting out in anger, "Oh yes, yes, yes! You're wrong, it's all your fault! Are you satisfied now?"

An invisible chill suddenly emanated from Xiao Qidi.

He suppressed a hint of anger in his eyes, then turned and left.

"Hey?" Ning Jinli exclaimed, "Why don't you help me think of a solution!"

Xiao Qidi leaped onto his horse and coldly said, "With Miss Ning's intelligence, why would she need my help to come up with a solution? I'd better not get involved, lest I make another mistake."

After saying that, he pulled on the reins and rode away.

Ning Jinli was dumbfounded.

This kid...

He's really just leaving her like this? He seems angry?

baffling!

"Xiao Qidi!" Ning Jinli shouted, "Stop right there! Come back here!"

However, all that answered her was his retreating figure and the ever-fading sound of horses' hooves.

"Fine, fine, fine," Ning Jinli was furious. "You better never show your face in front of me again. I... I'll never take care of you again!"

A whoosh—the night wind swept in.

The chill gave Ning Jinli goosebumps all over her body.

She shuddered, looked around, and her heart began to pound.

Four decapitated corpses, blood everywhere... in a pitch-black underground parking garage.

She burst into tears.

"Xiao Qidi...you bastard...waaaaah!"

Cry as you may, curse as you may.

Even if you're terrified, you have to bite the bullet and figure out a way to dispose of the body.

Otherwise, she will definitely have to take responsibility for this later, and she won't be able to explain it to the police. She'll definitely go to jail.

She cried as she dragged the body into the van.

The corpses of four grown men left her exhausted, her arms and legs nearly broken.

But she dared not take a breath.

They stripped off a few more pieces of clothing, trembling as they wrapped the head up, and stuffed it into the carriage.

Finally, she found the car keys and her stolen phone in the car, and mustered up the courage to drive the car away.

Ning Jinli felt dizzy and her nerves were on edge.

Not long ago, she was just a fine young woman who had never even cleaned chickens or ducks.

Now, she's struggling to find a way to deal with a truckload of corpses.

"What should I do, what should I do..."

Ning Jinli wiped away her cold sweat and took deep breaths repeatedly, "Calm down, please calm down..."

No one can help with this; she simply can't explain it.

I'll have to figure it out myself.

"Ah! I've got it!" Ning Jinli had a flash of inspiration, and a look of relaxation finally appeared on her face, which was covered in sweat.

She checked her location on the map on her phone.

Then, after carefully studying the route, I drove this beat-up van, swaying and rattling, towards an even more remote section of the road...

The van had just driven out of the unfinished building.

Beside the underground parking garage, Xiao Qidi rode out of the darkness on horseback.

He stroked the horse's head. "Horse, oh horse, tell me, is she bold or timid, careful or careless?"

"You might say she was cowardly, but she actually dared to move a corpse all by herself."

"You could say she's brave, but she was trembling and crying as she carried it."

"To say she's careless... she knows to dispose of the body properly; to say she's meticulous? She ignores the blood all over the place."

The horse shook its head and snorted.

Xiao Qidi continued, "You also feel you can't understand her, right? Well, I killed those people who wanted to defile her, and she got angry with me instead. Ha, women's minds are generally so strange. Even after more than two thousand years, they are still incomprehensible."

As he muttered to himself, the image of a certain woman appeared in his mind.

His heart suddenly ached, and even his eyes filled with cold hatred.

He closed his eyes to catch his breath, then dismounted and patted the horse. "Wait here for me, I'll go clean up the blood."

——

One night passed.

The sky was just beginning to lighten.

In the camp of Linxian Village, Duan Wu was awakened by someone.

"General Duan, our scout has brought back something important. His Majesty is not here, please take a look!" The man hurriedly knelt down and presented a carrier pigeon with both hands.

He then explained that after annihilating Bayong's army overnight, the king sent spies to infiltrate the nearby border of Yu Kingdom.

The scouts caught a carrier pigeon that had flown from the direction of the capital of the Kingdom of Yu.

Presumably it was important military intelligence, so they quickly sent the carrier pigeon, with a small bamboo skewer tied to its leg, back.

Duan Wu quickly removed the bamboo stick and stared intently at the words on it, which were smaller than grains of rice.

As he watched, his expression changed drastically!