Oh my god!
Everyone present couldn't help but show anger on their faces when they heard this.
They had previously heard Lord Cao talk about his late wife, and whenever he mentioned her, Lord Cao looked sad, as if he missed her. But they had never expected...
He actually killed his wife!
In their eyes, Lord Cao, who had always been regarded as a gentleman, turned out to be a hypocritical villain.
This is simply... simply a beast!
Everyone present was angry, but what none of them expected was that something even more infuriating was yet to come.
Cao Wanjin knelt on the ground, kowtowed in fear, and prayed to his deceased wife Liu Niang to spare his life.
He kowtowed for a long time, but saw that Liu Niang, who had turned into an evil ghost, did not move.
He couldn't help but stop his kowtow.
When he opened his eyes and slowly raised his head, he found that Liu Niang, who had been standing in front of him, had disappeared, and in her place were the faces of the people he had killed.
"Cao Wanjin...I died such a tragic death..."
"Cao Wanjin...give me your life..."
"Give me back my life...Give me back my life..."
"What deep hatred do we have against you that you would harm us like this?"
"Take your life—"
…
Seeing countless evil spirits rushing towards him with bared fangs and claws, Cao Wanjin was so scared that his face turned pale, his eyes rolled back, and he was about to faint.
But how could the innocent ghosts who were killed by him at the scene do as he wished? One ghost hand pinched his neck, and the other hand pinched his philtrum.
"Don't faint! How dare you sleep after killing so many of us!"
"Who allowed you to sleep?"
"Don't sleep, open your eyes!"
Cao Wanjin didn't faint, but was pinched by the neck and shaken by several ghosts, and several others pinched his philtrum and squeezed him awake.
"ah--"
Cao Wanjin opened his eyes and looked at the ghost in front of him. He was so scared that he wet his pants on the spot.
"It wasn't me...it wasn't me. I was just being ordered to do it."
"It's...it's the King of Qi. I was ordered by the King of Qi. He ordered me to do this. Every wrong has its perpetrator. Go find the King of Qi!"
King of Qi? What King of Qi?
Everyone present was completely stunned after hearing this!
Isn’t he the Crown Prince’s man?
What is his relationship with the King of Qi?
Cao Wanjin: "The King of Qi ordered me to come here in the name of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to find someone to mine and forge weapons."
The miners present: "!!!"
Cao Wanjin knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly to the ghosts in front of him. As he kowtowed, he continued, "I don't want to harm you either. I originally wanted to spare your lives and kill you all after your weapons were forged, but the funds given by the higher-ups are limited, and the mine can't support so many people."
"I have no choice but to take those who can't mine to the village at the foot of the mountain under the pretext of recuperating and killing them. It's none of my business!"
Those who cannot mine are taken to the village at the foot of the mountain under the pretext of recuperating and killed!
When the miners present heard this, they froze.
“What are you talking about!”
Cao Wanjin knelt on the ground, recounting the evil things they had done with a look of horror. Suddenly, he felt a weight on his neck and was lifted up by someone by his collar.
A sturdy miner, eyes red, grabbed his collar and asked in disbelief, "What happened to all the people you brought down the mountain? Where's my wife?"
Cao Wanjin was being grabbed by the collar. Seeing the miners looking at him ferociously, his heart trembled. He looked at the miners around him who were staring at him with red eyes.
Then...why are those ghosts...gone?
"Where is my wife? Tell me!" The miner Adong grabbed the man's collar tightly with trembling hands.
"Where's my mother?"
"Where did you take my father?"
"Where is my sister?"
…
The miners present asked Cao Wanjin, who was dressed in gorgeous clothes, in trembling voices where they had taken their families!
Cao Wanjin's lips trembled as he said tremblingly, "Dead...dead! All dead!"
The miners present were all stunned when they heard this.
Dead...dead!
When the leading miner named Adong heard this, his hands trembled and he let go of Cao Wanjin's hand weakly, feeling completely in disbelief.
“Dead…dead?”
Cao Wanjin didn't know what kind of mysterious magic had fallen upon him, and he actually told everything.
Taking advantage of their shock and distraction, Cao Wanjin ran out and shouted to the twenty or so guards inside and outside: "Kill them all!"
Seeing that he was about to run away, the miners present naturally would not let him go. When they wanted to catch him, the twenty or so guards had already drawn the swords at their waists.
The miner Adong was so heartbroken that he vowed to make Cao Wanjin pay with his life.
He ignored the guard's sword stabbing at him, his wife was killed, and all the miners present were deceived by Cao Wanjin.
Because as long as they are willing to work hard, their relatives living in the mountains can have enough food to eat.
They all looked forward to reuniting with their relatives down the mountain after the mine was completed next month, but they never imagined that they had already been separated by life and death.
"Whoever kills my wife shall die!"
With red eyes, Adong raised the stone in his hand and was about to throw it at the damn Cao Wanjin.
The miners present basically had no martial arts skills and relied on brute force.
Just as the guard's sword was about to pierce his heart, a figure stood in front of him and kicked the guard away.
"Second brother, kill the damn bad guy!"
Wanwan had stood on a relatively high rock at some point and pointed angrily at Cao Wanjin on the ground.
The three secret guards who had been hiding their identities no longer hid their identities and raised their hands to draw out the daggers hidden on their legs.
With a series of extremely smooth and flowing movements, the three of them directly killed the more than 20 guards who intended to kill the miners present.
The speed was so fast that all the miners present picked up their pickaxes the moment Cao Wanjin ordered to silence them. Although they did not know martial arts, they would rather die with this group of evil people.
But unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, before they could make any move, they saw that the more than 20 guards were all killed and fell to the ground.
Cao Wanjin looked at his dead men on the ground, then looked at the three people with mental problems not far away. His eyes fell on Xiao Moqing in front of him, and he said with horror:
"You... who are you..."
Before he finished uttering the last character "人", he saw a man who should be a lame man suddenly stand up not far away.
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