Jiang Nian whipped the horse and quickly passed through the town exit, returning to the original route.
The dozen or so mules behind him were chasing closely.
The mule cart was naturally slower than a mule without a cart, and the man behind it quickly caught up and tried to chop the cart frame with a knife, but Jiang Yue blocked it with his knife.
Jiang Nian pulled the rope tightly, turned to the right, and stopped the car in an open space.
A dozen people surrounded them.
Jiang Yue looked around and saw that they were all young men in their twenties or thirties. They were not very tall, but they were much more sturdy than the refugees. Their faces were puffy and swollen, and they looked like they were covered with flesh, just like the innkeeper.
It's hard to say they aren't birds of a feather.
The leading man was wearing black clothes and cloth shoes, and seemed to want to blend into the dim sky.
"Why did the two guests leave in such a hurry? Was it because the town didn't offer good hospitality?" he asked with a forced smile.
If you ignore the long sword in his hand and hear this, you really want to give him a bad review.
In fact, Jiang Yue also gave a negative but truthful answer, "Well, the hospitality was indeed poor. I've never seen such a poor town. If it were a peaceful time with good weather, you would have been razed to the ground long ago."
A breeze blew by, and the lukewarm tone made the man stunned.
I was angry in my heart. No one had ever been so disrespectful to me. Was this young lady being willful and inexperienced, or was she being fearless?
He narrowed his eyes. The man behind him was different from the "false strength" they had cultivated by feeding on mutton. He was actually strong and healthy.
Jiang Yue saw him staring at Jiang Nian without saying a word, her eyes darkened slightly, "We have to hurry on our way, please make way."
The others laughed out loud, "What road are we on? The Yellow Spring Road?"
"Why don't you stay with us? You won't have to worry about food and drink in this small town. Isn't this better than fleeing?"
Jiang Yue put on an expression of disbelief. "Oh? Don't your food and drink come from the dead? How many dead people can there be? You have to support so many people in the town and run a business. How can you always have enough food and drink?"
"There are so many refugees on the road..."
"Old Four!" The leader glared at the man angrily. He then realized that he had been tricked.
Then, his face was filled with anger, and he pointed his knife at Jiang Yue and the others, "Stop talking so much nonsense! If you hand over the food today, I will spare your lives! Otherwise, you can stay here and become our food!"
These people make a living by killing people every day, and their bloodthirstiness is several times more intense than those bandits before.
Moreover, they all carried swords, and they were the official swords used by the yamen runners of the dynasty. I wonder how many of them were taking advantage of the situation.
Jiang Yue clenched the knife in his hand, there was bound to be a big battle today.
Jiang Nian raised his eyes and looked at the sky. It would be dawn in half an hour, and it would be disadvantageous for them to delay too long.
"Yueyue, you guard the car."
She nodded, understanding what he meant, and warned, "Be careful."
Jiang Nian got out of the car, put down the knife, took off his coat, and then ran towards the leader.
These people were still sneering at his arrogance, but unexpectedly, a horrifying scene occurred.
Under the dim moonlight, the man ran very fast, transformed into a giant wolf in mid-air, opened his bloody mouth, and pounced on him!
"ah--"
The giant wolf's ferocious fangs pierced deeply into his neck, and with a scream, his neck was bitten off.
Not only that, his head was torn apart, his body separated, and with two "bangs", he fell off the mule, and his head rolled in front of the others...
The giant wolf pressed its front paws on the shivering mule, raised its head, and howled at the moonlight, as if officially starting a bloody battle.
The barbed tongue licked the blood on the fangs, and the indifference in its eyes was frightening.
The person next to him swallowed his saliva, reacted, and wanted to run away, but it was too late.
The giant wolf was already faster than the mule, not to mention that the mule was almost collapsed on the ground, running like crazy and unable to find its way.
More than a dozen people were instantly thrown into chaos.
The giant wolf was as fast as lightning, either biting off the neck or digging out the heart with its sharp claws.
Seeing his companions dying one after another and unable to escape the giant wolf, the man behind him looked at the woman in the car with cruel eyes.
He rushed towards the mule cart and slashed at Jiang Yue with his knife.
Jiang Yue blocked with a knife in her right hand, and quickly stabbed his heart with another knife in her left hand.
He opened his eyes wide before he died. The woman clearly only had one knife in her hand, so how could another one suddenly appear?
In the semi-darkness, shrill screams were heard continuously, truly turning this road into a river of blood.
The frightened refugees in the distance huddled together, hugging each other for courage. "Did you see that? What kind of monster is that?"
"I can't see clearly, it's so big! It can bite a person's head off in one bite!"
"Let's run! Stop looking! What if the monsters haven't eaten enough and start to take a fancy to us?"
“Run, run…”
This group of refugees were frightened and ran towards another road with weak legs.
In a quarter of an hour, all the dozen or so people were dead.
Several mules ran away, and the remaining mules either had injured legs or were scared to death. Jiang Yue used a knife to cut the necks of the injured mules, and then collected them all.
In addition, several hundred taels of silver were found on these people, along with their knives, and all were taken away.
Jiang Nian entered the carriage and wanted to take a shower before changing back into human form.
Jiang Yue stroked her mule and whispered to comfort her, "Don't be afraid, we won't hurt you. They are all bad guys. If you don't kill your mule companion now, you won't be able to survive tomorrow..."
By the time Jiang Nian finished dealing with it and changed his clothes, the mule had stopped shaking.
The sky was bright and the road ahead was clear. The two set off again.
Half a quarter of an hour after they left, people came to the town.
The innkeeper waited for a long time and saw no one coming back, so he realized something was wrong and immediately brought the rest of the people out.
The land before them was stained red with blood, and lying on it were their brothers, whose deaths were extremely tragic.
"What happened to the third brother's head?!"
"There's a big hole in Lao Liu's heart! What kind of monster did this?!"
There was a lot of discussion and people were in unrest.
"Stop scaring people like that! You're just being a bit brutal. Is there anyone more of a monster than you?"
The boss looked around fiercely and said, "Damn it! We have so many mules, and not a single one is left!"
Another man searched the dead brothers, "Boss! Their knives are gone, and all the money they had is gone!"
Although money is worthless now, it will definitely be useful after a natural disaster!
Damn it! Did they run into bandits? Even an eagle gets its eyes pecked out by a bird one day, and they were actually robbed by the bandits!
What a shame and humiliation!
"Boss, what should we do now?"
The innkeeper looked up and saw that the ordinary mule cart was just a small black dot.
He snorted coldly, not believing how much longer they could survive.
He lowered his head, yawned, and said indifferently, "Pull them all back to the town. They can do business alive or dead."
"yes."
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