After about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Quan Jinghuai, having circled the area a second time, looked at the person sitting on the carriage shaft with a complicated expression.
"Are nine really dead?" Hong Xiaoduo asked helplessly.
That shouldn't be the case. She only intended to kill the mountain king, but at such a distance, it was just a small pebble. How could it have killed someone?
"There are nine for now, but I think a few others are also nearing their end." Quan Jinghuai hesitated for a moment when he saw her distraught state, but still told the truth.
"What?!" Hong Xiaoduo looked at Quan Jinghuai in disbelief. "Is it possible that they had internal conflicts all along, and that they did it among their own people during the chaos?"
She just couldn't believe it. People died by her own hand. How could she be so powerful? How could she have really killed people, even though they all deserved to die?
But this involves human lives. It would be understandable to accidentally kill one person, but what happened? So many?
Even in this dynasty, something like this would happen sooner or later, but at least give her a process, a gradual transition, right? Good heavens, if they don't start killing, fine, but once they do, it's in droves!
"Did someone secretly help you?" Quan Jinghuai asked, voicing his doubts.
Otherwise, there's no way to explain it. How could she possibly fight so many bandits all by herself? And these weren't just ordinary petty thieves! It's something even she couldn't do!
Hearing Quan Jinghuai ask this, Hong Xiaoduo's heart stirred. Yes, it's possible that a martial arts master really did help her in secret.
"I've examined it carefully twice. The injuries are from whips and hidden weapons. There's a man over there with a shattered shoulder armor and a broken left wrist bone; those were caused by a whip."
"Another one died with whip marks on his back, which damaged his internal organs. Was that your doing?" Quan Jinghuai asked.
"At first, I did discipline them with a whip, but not to the point of crushing their bones, breaking their bones, or damaging their internal organs to the point of death, right? I just wanted to make sure they were injured so they couldn't use weapons anymore," Hong Xiaoduo replied after thinking carefully.
She recognized the keywords Quan Jinghuai mentioned about several body parts. She just hadn't expected her whip to be so powerful.
Upon hearing this, Quan Jinghuai looked at the whip at her waist. He saw this whip at her waist every day; it was just made of a slightly better material than an ordinary whip!
Could it be that she possesses internal energy, and that her internal energy is so profound?
"There's another type of injury caused by hidden weapons. Was it you?" Quan Jinghuai asked again.
She always carried a whip and a sword at her waist, and I never saw her carrying any hidden weapons during the time we spent together.
So, in a casual question, he guessed that if someone was secretly helping her, it must have been with a hidden weapon.
Hong Xiaoduo thought for a moment, then reached into her brocade bag and pulled out a few pebbles to show him: "Does this count as a hidden weapon?"
Looking at the size of the object in her open palm, Quan Jinghuai was taken aback. He thought of the size of the blood holes on the bandits' bodies that he had just examined, and he couldn't figure out what kind of hidden weapon had caused the injuries. Could it really be this pebble?
"Is this really that amazing?" Quan Jinghuai felt like he was going crazy when he asked that question.
Hong Xiaoduo played with the pebble in her hand and said, "It's alright. I usually just hunt birds and rabbits. No, I've also used it to hunt people. I used it when I encountered robbers on the road."
"You've hit someone? You should know what kind of injuries you caused," Quan Jinghuai said.
Look, even she herself isn't sure about these things, so it's no wonder she doesn't believe she managed to handle all these people!
Hong Xiaoduo shook her head and said, "I do know what kind of injuries occur when shooting birds or rabbits. But I really don't know what happens when someone is shot, because I never checked on the injured person after I successfully shot them."
"Why don't you watch it?" Quan Jinghuai asked, somewhat puzzled.
"Why should I look? Even if I did, I wouldn't bandage them," Hong Xiaoduo retorted.
"You? Okay, then hit that tree." Quan Jinghuai said helplessly, pointing to a tree not far away.
Let's have a fight on the spot. Hong Xiaoduo also wants to confirm whether a martial arts master really helped her in secret.
Without saying a word, he raised his hand and threw a pebble at the tree.
She only felt that she had hit the tree trunk. Quan Jinghuai had good hearing and could indeed hear the sound of something piercing through the tree trunk. His scalp tingled. He hesitated for a moment and walked towards the tree. He reached out and touched a hole with trembling hands. The hole was about the same size as the blood holes on the wounded and the dead.
It really was her? Her inner strength was so profound!
After touching the tree hole again, Quan Jinghuai walked back and said in a consultative tone, "Could you treat this tree as a bandit or an enemy and whip it?"
Hong Xiaoduo knew that he wanted to test the power of her whip.
Suddenly, I remembered that in Dawu Pass, that young master Zhao had cracked the bluestone road with his whip.
If that's the case, Quan Jinghuai just said that someone was whipped on the back and died from internal injuries, that is, the second leader. Could it really be that he was the one who whipped him?
Humans are made of flesh and blood; surely they can't be more robust than those bluestone bricks?
If Quan Jinghuai were someone else, not the teacher of the seven children, Hong Xiaoduo would definitely have evaded the question and stammered to get away with it.
But now that he's one of us, there are some things I can't tell him, but there are also things I don't want to hide from him.
So, he jumped off the carriage shaft, walked to the tree, and following Quan Jinghuai's suggestion, imagined the big tree in front of him as a bandit, as the villain who bullied Tian Shu and the others, and lashed it with a whip.
The whip whipped up a gust of wind, and the moment it struck the tree trunk, the thick tree snapped with a crack, and the top section of the trunk fell to one side.
Quan Jinghuai was stunned and shocked. There was no doubt anymore. She had single-handedly dealt with more than thirty bandits here!
"Brother Quan? What should we do here?" Hong Xiaoduo asked tentatively when she saw Quan Jinghuai standing silently in front of the broken tree.
It's almost midnight, what should we do about this mess?
Quan Jinghuai, snapped back to reality, said, "Leave this to me. You drive to the mountain valley six miles to the south to pick them up and continue on your way. I'll finish things here and then go after you."
"So, Brother Quan, what do you plan to do with them? Are you going to go all the way and kill them all and bury them?" Hong Xiaoduo asked as she was about to leave.
Quan Jinghuai looked at her helplessly and said, "Of course, we should tie her up and report her to the authorities."
"Oh, right, Brother Quan, when you report to the authorities, remember to tell them that the bandits told them there were more than sixty of them, and more than thirty of them came down the mountain this time. Their mountain king and the other two leaders have also been killed here. Now is the perfect time to go up the mountain and wipe them out." Hong Xiaoduo reminded them before leaving.
After saying all this, he sat on the carriage shaft, determined the direction, and drove away in two carriages, one with Blackie and the other with Grayie.
She had dealt with over thirty bandits without losing a single hair on her head, escaping unscathed, but she couldn't feel happy; her mind was in turmoil…
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