Seeing seven or eight men running up to him eagerly, he bowed and greeted Lü Tu and the others, saying, "Gentlemen, may I ask what brings you to Ge'an Village?"
Lu Tu stopped Nie Yun, who was about to make trouble, and said with a smile, "We have heard that there are bandits in this area. We have been ordered by the Commandant to come and suppress them."
The man in the blue robe who was leading the group smiled kindly, which was as warm as a spring breeze: "Thank you for your consideration, sir and captain, for remembering us villagers from Ge'an. But we have never encountered any bandits."
Lu Tu stared intently at his face: "Is that so?"
"Indeed, thank you for your trouble, sir. Please accept this small token of my appreciation." With that, the man in the blue robe took out a silver ingot from his sleeve and handed it over.
Just as the man approached, he smelled a familiar scent on him. Although he couldn't remember where he had smelled it before, he instinctively stopped breathing.
Nie Yun shouted from the side, "Don't come near the adults!"
The man in the blue robe maintained his smile: "My lord, please don't think it's too little. This is already the most valuable item that Ge'an Village can offer..."
Lu Tu remembered that he had smelled this scent when he met those women in the mountain stronghold. He Hua was present that day, which meant that the scent came from He Hua. The man in front of him, and indeed the entire Ge'an Village, were members of the White Lotus Sect!
The next second, Lü Tu suddenly drew his sword and slashed at the wrist of the man in the blue robe. The dagger, gleaming with a green light, clattered to the ground.
The other villagers were furious: "Sir, why are you harming us commoners?"
Lu Tu finished off another man with a single stroke, a disdainful smile playing on his lips: "If they were truly commoners, why would they be so pedantic with me? Slaughter the entire village!"
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