Lu Qiqi followed the man into the house. There were more people inside than outside, and they all looked her over with scrutinizing eyes.

She felt a pang of regret. 'A miscalculation! I should have told everyone outside.'

However, time is of the essence, and she cannot afford to delay any longer.

So she described to An Jiu the scene she had just witnessed.

Lu Qiqi's voice wasn't loud, but you could hear a pin drop in the room. Besides her voice, the only other sounds were the crackling of burning firewood.

After speaking, Lu Qiqi specifically checked An Jiu's expression, since what she said was too outrageous.

They were not acquainted to begin with, and had not even met today. It would be difficult to convince the caravan of her words.

An Jiu's eyes remained unchanged, as if Lu Qiqi had simply stated something ordinary.

On the contrary, the people sitting around the fire looked at each other but didn't say a word.

A moment later, just as Lu Qiqi was about to add something,

An Jiu spoke up, "What you've said is truly alarming. In your opinion, what should we do?"

Lu Qiqi didn't expect An Jiu to ask her for a solution.

After all, this person didn't seem to believe her.

An Jiu naturally didn't believe it. A woman delivering a message late at night, wanting to save their lives, must be a living bodhisattva reincarnated!

Lu Qiqi thought for a moment and said, "Let's turn the tables on them!"

"With so much stuff you're carrying, you can't get far even if you want to escape. Since you know this in advance, why not use this as a pretext to make preparations?"

An Jiu thought Lu Qiqi would let them escape. If that were the case, he would immediately tie them up and torture them severely.

The fact that they wanted to lure them away late at night probably had another purpose.

To his surprise, Lu Qiqi actually told him to play along with her plan.

"What insightful opinion do you have, young lady?"

Lu Qiqi said, "The Tartars are rampant, yet you dare to trade on the border. You must be no ordinary merchant caravan. I dare not offer any further insights; you can make your own arrangements."

After saying that, she pushed open the door and went out.

Watching Lu Qiqi walk out of the courtyard, An Shi leaned close to An Jiu and whispered, "Ninth Brother, is what she said believable? Should we leave first?"

Lu Qiqi's figure disappeared at the courtyard gate. An Jiu said coldly, "Let's do as she says and turn the tables on her!"

Even before Lu Qiqi informed him, he had already noticed that the village was acting strangely.

They even saw two villagers laughing loudly and behaving erratically when they entered the village.

These two are clearly suffering from cannibalism!

An Jiu had spent several years at the border. In his early years, the grasslands were hit by a snow disaster, and the Tartars began to commit atrocities at the border.

The cannibalism was prevalent at that time, and their appearance and symptoms were no different from those of the two villagers we see today.

Lu Qiqi left the caravan's lodging but did not leave.

Since a war between the two sides is inevitable, these villagers will certainly have family members staying at home.

The entire village has harmed countless passersby. If the prions were to flare up, they would spread like mad bulls, becoming uncontrollable.

She has to go and tie everyone up!

Lu Qiqi walked into a small alley and heard many footsteps.

The surroundings were empty, and it was too late to hide.

Therefore, she hid in the space again.

Only after the sound gradually faded away did I emerge from the space.

She went from house to house, tying people up.

The elderly, weak, women, and children in the house initially attacked her with knives.

However, how could they possibly be a match for Lu Qiqi? They were subdued by Lu Qiqi in no time.

An old man rolled his eyes and said, "Heroine, spare my life! I'll give you whatever money you want!"

"Please spare my entire family!"

Looking at them, Lu Qiqi never imagined that the seemingly pitiful old people could do such a heinous thing.

She said, "When you were eating people's flesh, did you never think of letting them go?"

Faced with Lu Qiqi's questioning, the old man was clearly startled, his eyes widening like a bull's.

He couldn't understand how she knew this time, since they hadn't even made a move yet, and they had already escaped!

"The money and treasures in your home must have been robbed from these people."

"Yes, yes, yes," the old man said, seeing that Lu Qiqi had no intention of killing him, there was still room for negotiation. "I'll give you money, and you can let my family go."

Lu Qiqi didn't say anything, and the old man thought there was hope.

He slowly got up, took out all the money in the house, and handed it to Lu Qiqi.

He just didn't expect that Lu Qiqi, after accepting the money, would knock him unconscious with a single chop to the neck.

Lu Qiqi took the money and bound the person without hesitation.

Following the same method, Lu Qiqi worked for an hour and a half and ransacked Ruanjia Village.

Lu Qiqi stored the money in her spatial storage and discovered that the entire village had no food.

However, she soon realized that she had oversimplified the situation.

Now that she hadn't visited the village chief's house yet, she climbed over the wall and went inside.

With a powerful kick, he slammed the door shut, the loud bang waking the sleeping person inside.

The little boy ran barefoot to Lu Qiqi, baring his teeth fiercely at her like a wild beast.

Seeing his irritability and unusual gaze, Lu Qiqi knew that the poison had already penetrated his lungs.

The little boy had a history of biting, but he was already prepared when he lunged at her, and knocked her unconscious with a single swift strike.

Just as the little boy fell to the ground, an old woman and a young woman ran out of the house. Their clothes were disheveled, suggesting they had been startled awake and dressed in the dark, which was why they came out so late.

How could the old man and the young man not go crazy seeing their son and grandson lying on the ground?

The two of them simultaneously grabbed stools and smashed them at Lu Qiqi.

Lu Qiqi flashed into the space, and with a bang, the stool slammed directly against the wall.

Faced with the sudden disappearance of the person, the old man and the young man went completely mad.

"ghost!"

"A ghost!"

Before the two could even shout, Lu Qiqi suddenly circled behind them and knocked them unconscious.

Then they used rope to tie the two large and one small together.

Since Ruanjia Village has been robbing people of their money and taking their lives for a year, the majority of the profits must have gone to the village chief's family.

Lu Qiqi didn't expect the old man and the young man to tell her where they were hiding so she could find them herself.

She went into the room where the old woman had run out and quickly found a box under the bed.

Lu Qiqi opened the box and glanced at it briefly.

Good heavens, this amount of money is enough to feed the entire village for ten years.

This suggests that the village may have been engaging in such activities for more than just one year!

The thought of the child's leftover finger bones made her feel nauseous.

Without thinking twice, she put the entire box into her spatial storage.

Since she is going to act on behalf of Heaven, she naturally cannot leave these ill-gotten gains to the people of Ruanjia Village!

What she didn't expect was that these people had no bottom line whatsoever!