Boss Cheng felt that the bleeding wasn't too much, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, he had killed many people and seen the amount of blood lost by those whose throats had been slit.
Boss Cheng chuckled dismissively, "Heh, you think you can hurt someone with that little skill?"
"Boss!" the guard called out to him once.
"What is it now? What are you always arguing about?" Boss Cheng glared at him angrily.
The next second, as his blood rushed to his head, he coughed up a mouthful of blood.
Upon seeing this, the guard's eyes welled up with tears, and his voice trembled as he said, "This arrow...this arrow is poisoned!"
Boss Cheng: "Pfft—why didn't you say so sooner!"
As he finished speaking, he spat out another mouthful of blood and collapsed with a thud.
The guard next to him was also in tears.
He just wanted to ask the boss to get an antidote from that woman, why wouldn't he listen to him?
And look what happened! He even got himself involved!
When Boss Cheng fell to the ground, his expression was still one of disbelief, and blood was flowing from his mouth and nose, making him look quite terrifying.
On the contrary, the guard from earlier doesn't seem to be in as bad a state as Boss Cheng.
He was so frightened that his legs went weak and he knelt on the ground.
Lin Qixia slowly walked over and patted his shoulder: "Alright, the only deadly poison was specially prepared for your boss. As for your poison, it will be automatically neutralized in a while."
In reality, there isn't one at all.
After all, a single dose of poison costs her a hundred gold coins, and she's not so generous as to waste all her money on it.
This poisoned arrow was specifically prepared for the man surnamed Cheng, and it was also a way to "capture the king first"—only by eliminating him could things be handled more easily.
At this moment, Lin Qixia took out the signal fireworks she had prepared in advance, lit them, and set them off.
call out--
With a loud bang that exploded in the night sky, Lin Qixia, with an expression of complete control on her face, said, "Let's begin!"
The group of people who were fighting fiercely not far away stopped in their tracks because of the fireworks.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Lin Qixia grabbed Cheng Laoda's head from the ground and shouted to the group of bandits, "Your boss is dead. I advise you to surrender immediately! Otherwise, you will be killed without mercy!"
At this point, Huo Yanqing had already seriously injured several people.
Many bandits were so frightened that they began to lose their nerve.
Upon seeing Boss Cheng's corpse lying at Lin Qixia's feet, the group instantly fell silent.
"Boss! The boss has been killed by that woman!"
"How is this possible?"
Panic erupted in the crowd, with some even shouting, "I'll fight you to the death!"
"Oh? You really dare?" At this moment, Lin Qixia raised the crossbow in her hand at him.
The man stopped abruptly, frozen in place, too afraid to go forward.
Seeing this, Lin Qixia curled her lips and said, "That's more like it. I believe that not all of you are outlaws. You were forced into becoming bandits by the world."
"I'm giving you a chance now: either go down the mountain and leave on your own, and never come near the Lichong County area again, or—die here!"
As she finished speaking, a ruthless glint flashed in Lin Qixia's eyes.
After she finished speaking, even though the bandits outnumbered her, they looked at each other and hesitated.
Soon, the sound of weapons being discarded rang out.
However, many people did not give up during this period and were still hesitant.
"Everyone, don't be so easily bewitched by her." At this moment, another young man dressed in white walked out of the gate of the mountain stronghold, wearing that strange bronze fox mask on his face.
Seeing him appear, Lin Qixia's heart jumped again, and she knew something was wrong.
Under the cover of night, the young man's voice was clear and melodious, his tone languid, "Sigh, it seems I'm the only one in this sect who truly cares about you all."
He was clearly speaking to the bandits.
"Don't you even realize that even if you lay down your weapons and leave, do you think you can escape your fate of death?"
"You all escaped up the mountain. How long has it been? Have you all forgotten what it feels like to be starving and even witness your own blood relatives and friends starving to death before your eyes?"
The boy in white spoke, looking concerned for them.
Hearing his words, many of the bandits' eyes gleamed with resentment: "That's right! We're doing all this just to survive!"
"Fifth Brother is right! We can't give up like this! If we give up, we'll starve to death!"
"Why is it that everyone else's land is lying fallow, but your Xiahe Village still has food to eat?"
"I don't care! That grain is ours now anyway!"
"Everyone, let's go! There are only a few of them!"
"Charge! Protect the grain! If you want to take it back, you'll have to step over our dead bodies!"
For a moment, that group of bandits were in high spirits, looking like they were ready to fight Lin Qixia to the death!
As those people rushed towards Lin Qixia, the white-robed youth not far away curled his red lips into a wicked smile.
Lin Qixia met his gaze across the crowd, pursed her lips, and was somewhat annoyed.
How can there be such an annoying person!
Huo Yanqing had already run over to deal with him, and the two had already started fighting.
"Kill her!" At this moment, someone rushed in front of Lin Qixia.
Lin Qixia dodged, looking rather disheveled.
Because the opponent attacked at close range, her crossbow bolts were not as effective.
As he dodged several of the opponent's slashes, Lin Jiudong's scream rang out beside him: "Ahhh! Help!"
She didn't know when she had separated from Lin Qixia, and now she was in danger.
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