Thanks to the boy's experience in the ancient martial arts world, he has developed the habit of observing details first when encountering things, so he has been subconsciously looking around the village just now.

Quiet.

It's too quiet.

As a tribe where residents live, there shouldn't be no movement at all.

Shi Zhong was stunned for a moment after hearing this, but he quickly realized something was wrong. His expression grew even colder. "Could it be that they already knew the news and set up an ambush in advance?"

But it shouldn't be like that.

They had been very cautious along the way. Apart from the accidental shot that attracted some people, there should have been no one who escaped and came back to report the incident.

But what is happening now...

"It's better to be careful. Everyone, open the safety pins. I will be the first to go in and take a look. You just follow my gestures." Shi Zhong finally made a decision. After greeting several deputy captains, he went in with a gun along the fence wall at the entrance of the village.

However, as soon as he stepped into the village, he froze in place.

The men outside saw him standing in the middle of the main road at the entrance of the village without finding a place to hide, and their hearts couldn't help but beat wildly.

"What's going on, Mr. Wu? Has our captain been drugged?" The deputy captain in the forest urgently contacted Wu Xingjie for consultation.

But Wu Xingjie was also confused at this moment, "No, I didn't see any trace of drugs on him."

Now, the deputy captain became even more anxious.

"Then why didn't the person move?"

It's totally unreasonable.

Wu Xingjie hadn't been out for over ten years, and this was his first time participating in a battle between pharmacists. For a moment, he felt a little unsure, "Could it be that the Huang family has cultivated a more advanced medicine that even I can't detect..."

We couldn't give a specific response here, and in the environment filled with strange petals, the coast guards could no longer hold back.

"Fuck, no more waiting, let's just charge in! We can't leave the captain alone!" The deputy captain gave the order and led his men out of the woods and into the village. Without thinking twice, they immediately formed a circle to protect Shi Zhong. "Captain, Captain! How are you?!"

Shi Zhong's ears were almost deafened by the shouting. He suddenly came to his senses and reacted a little too slowly. "Ah? I'm fine."

"Why are you standing here and not responding for such a long time?" The deputy captain was still looking at him with suspicion, but before he could observe anything, he heard the voice of his subordinate beside him.

"Deputy Captain, do you want to...take a look at the scene first?"

What happened at the scene?

The deputy captain subconsciously turned his head, his gaze shifting from Shi Zhong to the village path in front of him, and then, like his captain, he was petrified.

Wu Xingjie and Wu Heng rushed in right after them, and immediately saw the old men, children and women lying all over the ground.

Wu Heng squatted down to check on them. "They just fainted."

Wu Xingjie spotted the sticker on another person and paused for two seconds before saying, "Mr. Xiao and Ms. Ye must have been responsible. This is left for us to clean up afterward."

“…”

After hearing this, the others looked at the dead silence in the village and could only silently put away their guns, take out their handcuffs and clean up the scene.

"Captain, this is the first time I've carried out a mission like this. It's so easy that I couldn't even imagine it." The deputy captain grinned at Shi Zhong while working.

Shi Zhong felt a little depressed. No matter how he thought about it, he felt that the two men had deliberately sent them away to act alone at the beginning.

In essence, they are just used as decoration and go through the motions.

As someone working on the front lines, he felt his profession was being looked down upon, and he felt somewhat uncomfortable. So he looked up and asked Wu Xingjie and his son, who were not far away, "The village has been cleaned up, so where did they go? We haven't seen any of the missing hostages here."

Upon hearing this, Wu Xingjie and Wu Heng looked at each other and both thought of the answer immediately.

ancestral hall.

Huang Yao was summoned to the ancestral hall early in the morning. He had no idea what was going on outside. Looking at the few dim sum on the table, he said with some dissatisfaction, "Why are the new cooks so poor and their dishes so limited? Dad, can't you find some better ones? I heard that the most famous one outside is the Imperial Kitchen. You should hire one back too."

Huang Weiren, who was sitting in the main seat, had a calm expression that quickly turned into a kind smile after his daughter spoke.

"Okay, as long as you like it, Dad will find it for you. We have everything on Peach Blossom Island."

After he finished speaking, some young men in the hall also nodded in agreement.

"Yes, Yaoyao, you are of such noble status, it is a blessing to be able to cook for you. I will invite any royal kitchen to cook for you."

"Why don't you try my cooking? I've recently learned a few new specialties that are even better than the cook's."

…

Huang Yao listened to the flattery in his ears, but he didn't feel as happy as usual.

Because she had seen the outside world and suffered beatings, she vaguely felt that the ideas she had been educated and instilled with since childhood might be wrong. Perhaps the Peach Blossom Island that these villagers and even her father were so proud of was not that powerful.

Moreover, my father recently said that the population on the island is too small. In order to promote fertility, the cooks have been replaced one after another, and all of them have gone to give birth.

She felt that all the men in the village looked at her with eager eyes, which made her feel very uncomfortable.

"Forget it, I'm not in a hurry to eat this. I want to go swimming at the beach today. Dad, when can I go out?" Huang Yao didn't want to stay in the dilapidated ancestral hall anymore, so he looked at his father who was sitting in the main seat.

However, Huang Weiren didn't have much patience this time. He stared at the doorway, which remained silent, and his tone became irritable. "Yaoyao, you're not a child anymore. Don't just think about playing all day. It's time to think about your marriage. It's more important to expand Peach Blossom Island as soon as possible."

Huang Yao immediately became unhappy when he heard this.

"I don't want to. I'm still in school and haven't even reached the legal age for marriage."

"What outside world? What laws?" Huang Weiren, hearing her talk about the outside world, was furious and yelled, "You are from Peach Blossom Island, so you must abide by the rules here. Here, I am the law, I am the heaven!"

Huang Yao was startled. It was the first time he saw his father get angry with him. He felt both scared and aggrieved.

But she still refused to compromise.

After seeing the outside world, she looked down on the villagers here.

Only a man like Xiao Yunting can win her heart.

If all else fails, she will marry Wu Heng.

However, Huang Weiren didn't have time to argue with her now. He just asked his sons to keep an eye on her and not let her run around, and then sent someone to go out and check the situation.

"Go to the door and spread some more medicine. Those people will come back when they see the signal."

"Yes, Patriarch."

A young man carrying a bag of flower petals walked out of the hall as ordered. However, when he reached the gate and had no time to open it, he heard a loud bang and the crossbar of the gate was broken.

"ah!"

The young man was knocked away and let out a scream. The petals in the bag fell all over the ground and quickly evaporated into a cloud of mist that swirled in the room.

"Oh no, use the antidote quickly!" Huang Weiren was shocked when he saw it, and was the first to take out an antidote from his sleeve and swallow it.