Chapter 373: Walking into a Trap
The boss looked past Ye Xiaoman and watched Jiaying approach excitedly, as if he had seen the best shadow puppet in his life.
"You are the Saint..."
Ye Xiaoman gave the order, "Get started."
Jiaying clasped his hands together and said, "Save."
With just one mantra, the boss died without leaving any last words, leaving only a pile of ashes on the spot.
Ye Xiaoman stretched out her hand, and a ship deed fell from the air. She grabbed the deed tightly and became the landlord of the Guizhu bandit village.
The shadow puppets on the wall saw their master being killed, opened their mouths, and collectively let out earth-shaking screams.
"Shut up." Ye Xiaoman chanted the Samadhi Fire Curse, setting the ominous shadow puppet on fire. Amid the puppets' screams, she walked out of the manor's cave.
The second-in-command who had captured Ye Xiaoman personally heard that it had accidentally captured the Son of God, and rushed to the boss's residence excitedly, and happened to run into Ye Xiaoman and the other two.
It looked at Ye Xiaoman's back in horror, the boss's residence engulfed in flames, "You..."
Ye Xiaoman snapped her fingers casually, "Jiaying."
So the second in command also turned into a pile of ashes.
Facing the dumbfounded Scorpion brothers, Ye Xiaoman flung open the ship's deed and said, "From now on, I am the master of this stronghold. I urge you to lay down your weapons and refrain from any unnecessary struggle."
The boss and the second in command were wiped out in an instant. No one dared to take risks considering Jiaying's strength, so the younger brothers threw down their weapons and surrendered to Ye Xiaoman.
"Alright, stop kowtowing and stand up," Ye Xiaoman said, satisfied as she put away the boat deed. "Then, someone, convey my order to release all the people you've captured."
The scorpion man standing in the first row heard this and raised his head in fear, "Boss, after you left, the prisoners were taken away by the third in command."
Ye Xiaoman's eyelids twitched, and the image of Buhui giving her candy appeared before her eyes. "Why did the Third Master take this person away?"
"The Third Master is the direct disciple of the First Master. When the First Master is not available, he will help make puppets."
Ye Xiaoman asked the Scorpion Man's younger brother to lead the way and rushed to a cave.
At the entrance of the cave, she heard the little girl's shrill cry and felt a little relieved that Buhui was still alive.
The Scorpion's minions took the lead and rushed in to stop them, "Stop it now!"
Ye Xiaoman followed him in and stepped on many white bones and fresh broken limbs along the way. The strong smell of blood in the air was indescribable.
In the cave, deep pits were dug on the ground. The third in command stood by to supervise the work, and his subordinates buried the captives one by one in the pits like filling a carrot pit, leaving only their heads exposed.
This is a torture method that involves peeling off the entire human skin: the person is buried in the ground, fixed in place, a hole is dug in the head, and mercury is poured from the top of the head to separate the flesh and bones from the skin. The victim will struggle until the last moment before dying in agony. It is extremely cruel.
The cave was filled with screams and cries. The mixed smell of mercury and blood almost made people faint. At the same time, there was also a strong resentment caused by the tragic death of living creatures.
Ye Xiaoman was hit by this mixture, and the string of rationality that she had been struggling to maintain was completely broken, and she went completely crazy.
She looked closely and saw that the executions had already been completed in the first row of radish pits. Among them was the unrepentant snake man father, whose head hung limply, having already died.
Buhui and his mother were buried in the second row. Looking at his father's back, he witnessed the tragic death of his loved ones and cried until he was hoarse. It was a horrific scene of purgatory.
Ye Xiaoman still remembered the way the family of three snuggled together. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Yue Mushan stroked her back, silently comforting her.
The third in command was interrupted from his skinning work. He was a young white-faced monk with a scorpion tail standing upright. He listened to the scorpion man's younger brother who broke in and reported the information that the first and second in command were killed by the Son of God.
After hearing this, it cast a ferocious look at Ye Xiaoman and the other two across the pit with an unfriendly look, but due to the disparity in strength, it pretended to surrender and grinned a hypocritical smile.
Jiaying was about to physically save the Third In Command, but Ye Xiaoman covered Jiaying's hand seal with her hand and stopped him from killing the Third In Command.
The survivors Buhui and others were dug out of the pit by their younger brothers. After witnessing the inhumane torture scene and escaping death, they were still frightened and collapsed to the ground.
"father!"
Buhui and her mother cried and crawled to her father, but no matter how they shouted, the dead would not be resurrected.
"No regrets." Ye Xiaoman stood on the other side of the pit, gazing at the Third Master from afar. She waved at the snake-man mother and daughter and asked, "Do you want revenge?"
Buhui wiped the tears from her face with her little hands. She touched her father's face, which was open-eyed after death. Her young heart learned hatred today.
She gnashed her teeth and cried, "I want revenge, sister, please help me!"
Ye Xiaoman nodded. She still looked like an honest person, with curved eyebrows and eyes, and spoke slowly. She seemed to be a born good person with a good temper who never got angry with anyone.
She raised her finger and pointed at the third in command, "Come here."
The third in command felt a little uneasy when he saw that among the people it killed was Ye Xiaoman's acquaintance.
But seeing that Ye Xiaoman was talking to it with a smile and didn't seem to blame it, and thinking that Ye Xiaoman had just taken over the village and needed manpower to help manage it, the slightest bit of uneasiness disappeared when he thought of this.
Besides, the first and second in command were killed by Jiaying, so Ye Xiaoman is actually nothing to be afraid of.
It dragged its scorpion tail and came to Ye Xiaoman with a smile, "Boss."
Ye Xiaoman pointed at the dead bodies in the pit and asked kindly, "Did you kill all of them?"
The Third Master nodded and said, "It was I who sent them back."
Ye Xiaoman asked: "Why do you want to kill people?"
"Why kill people?" The Third Master asked curiously, thinking Ye Xiaoman had asked an unnecessary and stupid question. "The Buddha said that fate is inevitable, so they died at my hands."
Ye Xiaoman finally asked: "Do you feel guilty about killing someone?"
The Third Master chuckled, "Why should I feel guilty?"
"Everyone will die eventually, sooner or later, at whose hands, or in what way. As I said above, it's all karma. They shouldn't blame me. Instead of wondering why I want to kill them, they should think about what they did wrong that deserved God's punishment."
"The Third Master has applied the Buddhist theory of cause and effect to perfection. I'm touched and impressed!" Ye Xiaoman also laughed and asked it, "Is it difficult to peel off a person's entire skin?"
"Oh, it's not difficult, but you need to be very careful during the operation and be extra careful not to let the person die too quickly, otherwise it will cause the skin to rupture..."
When the third in command talked about his major, he thought Ye Xiaoman would also be interested, so he started talking incessantly with saliva flying.
Ye Xiaoman listened patiently to the end of the story and said, "I've learned a lot."
She ordered the Scorpion minions around her, "Bury the Third Master in the pit."
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