Immediately, the villagers of Qili Village went on to fight against Xu Yuehuai.
"Stop with the sweet talk. Don't think we don't know what you're thinking. You're just trying to distract us so you can find a way to escape."
"Don't waste your time. You want to die? We'll grant your wish now. Go die!"
"Once you're trapped here, don't even think about escaping!"
The villagers of Qili Village were attacking more and more dangerously, constantly moving their attacks toward Xu Yuehuai's side.
Xu Yuehuai realized that these people didn't believe her, and the villager who had spoken was attacking her from among the crowd. She was already at her limit and had no way to fight against so many people.
Overwhelmed by so many attacks, Xu Yuehuai had no way to resist. As she attacked them, the dagger in her hand was knocked away, and she fell to the ground due to the momentum.
She collapsed to the ground, her wounds scraping away large chunks of flesh from sharp stones. Her blood flowed continuously onto the ground, filling the air with a strong stench of blood and a foul smell from the forest.
After the mudslide, some crops in the area rotted, and some animals died.
The corpses in the area were not disposed of, which led to the outbreak of plague.
After Xu Yuehuai fell into a pool of blood, the villagers from Qili Village gathered around her, standing beside her and coldly watching her.
"Hahaha! You resisted for so long, but in the end you still fell to our hands,"
"Instead of continuing to fight us, it would be better to stop sooner. Maybe you wouldn't be injured like this. Then we could keep you with us and take you out of here."
"But if you insist on courting death, then you can't blame us."
At that moment, some villagers from Qili Village picked up their weapons and aimed them at Xu Yuehuai, intending to kill her.
Xu Yuehuai lay on a patch of damp earth, her whole body sticky and blurry, unable to see clearly. The sky was already getting dark, and when she looked up, she saw a dark shadow loom over her, followed by a flash of white light. It seemed that the person was holding something and trying to assassinate her.
She had already resigned herself to death. She had no strength left to struggle. Her tired hands were trembling uncontrollably, and her wounds were still bleeding.
Even if she isn't killed by the villagers of Qili Village, her injuries are so severe that even if she escapes, she won't live long without someone treating her wounds immediately; she'll die very soon.
Just as the villagers of Qili Village were about to strike Xu Yuehuai with their weapons, delivering a fatal blow, a volley of arrows suddenly shot out from the side.
All those arrows struck the villagers of Qili Village with exceptional accuracy.
"Ah—! What on earth is going on?"
"Why are people suddenly attacking us? I don't want to die!"
"Are the government officials trying to silence us?"
"Who exactly wants to kill us?"
The villagers of Qili Village sensed that more and more people were gathering around them, constantly shooting arrows, trying to kill them to silence them. Only then did they become anxious and gather together, trying to resist the attack as soon as possible.
But the attacks increased, targeting them relentlessly, and soon claimed the lives of a number of villagers from Qili Village.
Several corpses were very close to Xu Yuehuai, and when they died, they fell on top of her, pressing her body to the ground. This allowed Xu Yuehuai to escape the attacks and survive.
The villagers of Qili Village tried to escape and fled to nearby areas, but they were no match for the pursuit of those people. Arrows kept chasing them, and no matter how far they ran, they would be hit and take their lives.
"Are you government officials? We've done so much for you, harmed so many innocent disaster victims, and you actually want to kill us to silence us!"
"I curse you to a terrible death! You all deserve to die! You bunch of devils who break their word! I curse you!"
"Why are you killing us? Didn't we do as you told us to? Why are you killing us to silence us? Why is that?"
Xu Yuehuai could hear the sounds of fighting around her, but she had no way to resist. She was pinned down by the corpses, and even if she wanted to move, she had no strength at all.
She was somewhat dazed for a moment, listening to the people around her being killed by assassins who suddenly appeared. After a long time, the commotion finally stopped.
Xu Yuehuai felt no emotion when she realized that all the villagers of Qili Village had been killed; she simply felt that they had brought it upon themselves.
Just after all the villagers of Qili Village had died, the assassins who had been hiding nearby suddenly came out and finished off the dead villagers.
Xu Yuehuai heard those people talking beside him: "These villagers of Qili Village are really stupid. They actually believed everything the magistrate told them and helped him kill so many people. Now they've been silenced by us."
"How could such ungrateful people possibly live a good life in this world?"
“There were geological disasters in this area before, and the villagers next door rescued the villagers of Qili Village. I didn’t expect that this time it was the villagers of Qili Village’s turn to rescue people, but they actually went around harming innocent people behind our backs. This has nothing to do with us at all; it was all done by them.”
"When the people in the imperial court find out, we'll say that we were acting on behalf of Heaven and helped innocent people kill these demons from Qili Village."
"Hahaha! Great, great, great, that's a fantastic idea!"
Hearing their words, Xu Yuehuai felt extremely angry. She wanted to clench her fists, get up, and kill them all, but she simply didn't have the ability. She could only lie on the ground and let things happen around her.
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