The Snail Princess and Her Benefactor

Chapter 181 Killing Indiscriminate Innocents

Yang Shilin, Hua Chao and Ling Mi quietly sneaked to the entrance of Shelong Village.

Yang Shilin chose a hilltop, and the three of them looked at the village from afar. Standing here, you can see all the places in the village.

"Brother Yang, this position is pretty good. You can actually see everything in the village clearly."

Ling Mi exclaimed as she stood up.

"Yes! This is the best location. Let's observe here first. If these officers and soldiers are just going to Master's house and can't find it, they will go back. Then we don't have to go out."

The three of them stopped talking and just carefully observed the movements in the village.

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A general wearing armor and riding a tall horse led his soldiers into the Xilong Village and rushed straight into Master Zhou's house.

I searched everywhere and turned the house upside down, but I couldn't find Master Zhou.

The officers and soldiers reported back to the general.

"General Wang, there is no sign of the old couple in the house."

General Wang was furious and waved the axe in his hand and screamed.

"Gather all the people in the village here. I don't believe it. Where can he run to when he's two grown men are gone?"

A group of officers and soldiers rushed into the Shelong Village and quickly brought all the villagers, young and old, to the presence of General Wang.

In the moonlight, the armor on General Wang's body was gleaming with moonlight, and the long axe in his hand was shining with a faint cold light.

General Wang swung the axe in his hand in a circle. In the dark night, as the axe turned, a cold light hit a huge rock not far away.

As the cold light hit the boulder, it immediately collapsed.

The long axe handle rested on the ground.

Immediately, the long handle poked a deep hole in the ground, causing the surrounding soil and rocks to fly.

General Wang swept his cold eyes over the villagers.

The duck-voiced man shouted.

"And listen to this general. Today, we were looking for the master of the traitor Yang Shilin in the village. I don't know who leaked the news and let the thief escape."

"Now, if you can tell me where he is, I can spare your lives. Otherwise, everyone in your village is a traitor. No one can escape and I will kill them all."

After hearing this, all the villagers were terrified and knelt down to beg for mercy.

"General Wang, please spare my life..."

"General Wang, please spare my life!..."

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The village elder was an old man in his sixties. He staggered and staggered out of the crowd.

His gray hair fluttered in the night wind and his long gray beard trembled slightly.

"General Wang, I am the elder of the village. The villagers in my village have always been law-abiding, and there are no vicious people."

"The Yang Shilin and his master you mentioned are both kind people, not traitors or anything like that. I hope General Wang can see clearly and not wrongly accuse good people."

General Wang's tonsils were swollen bigger than his face, and his pig-bristle beard was standing upside down with anger.

"Where did this old immortal come from? How dare you question the imperial court? Yang Shilin teamed up with the fox spirit in the mountains to turn Lord Wang Ba Tian Wang's mansion upside down and even killed Lord Wang Ba Tian Wang."

"Now the clansmen in Wang Batian's mansion have reported this matter to the court, and the court has specially sent me here to eliminate the bandits and monsters. A commoner dares to defy the court, so he deserves death!"

As he spoke, he swung the axe in his hand, and in a flash of cold light, the elder of the village was split into two halves.

There was an immediate commotion among the crowd, and the villagers fell to the ground and kowtowed.

"My Lord! My old man is a kind villager, not a rebel or a monster. How can you kill him just like that?"

A white-haired old woman tried to break through the crowd and rush to the side of the elders.

But there were rows of soldiers blocking her way. How could an old woman like her break through them?

He could only roar helplessly.

"It turns out that this village is full of unruly people. After killing one, not only are they not afraid, but some are even trying to break through the defenses."

"Come here, kill the wife as well. Let's see if these unruly people are afraid or not."

"Yang Shilin, come out! If you don't, I will kill someone every hour."

As he spoke, he swung the axe in his hand, turned his horse's head towards the village entrance and shouted in a low voice.

"Do you think the hundreds of people in your village can withstand being killed by me? Hahahaha..."

"You killed my eldest brother, so I will let a hundred people from your village be buried with him!"

The sound drifted slowly in the night wind and drifted to the hillside not far away.

Ling Mi's beautiful eyes widened and her slender brows were tightly furrowed.

"Sister, why don't you kill this evil man now? When will you do that?"

Hua Chao held Yang Shilin's strong arm tightly with one hand. If Hua Chao had not acted quickly, Yang Shilin would have rushed down the hillside.

Hua Chao had not expected that the armored general would kill the elderly elder in just one move.

After all, they are all kind-hearted villagers. Those wearing armor must be the imperial army. They should only protect the peace of the villagers. How could they take human lives lightly?

But I didn't expect to see him kill a living being in front of his horse with a wave of his hand.

Those were poor, unarmed civilians, not enemies on the battlefield.

He is truly cruel and ruthless, even more tyrannical than Wang Batian.

"Hua Chao, let go of me. I am going to rush down and kill that dog-headed general. What kind of bastards are they? They simply regard the lives of poor people like us as worthless."

Hua Chao did not let go, but held on even tighter.

"Brother Yang, the people who came today are different from the usual ones. Wang Batian brought servants instead of the army."

Hua Chao stretched out her jade hand and pointed at the dark crowd of soldiers standing in the village.

"You should take a good look. There are at least four to five thousand soldiers here tonight. How can you and I fight against so many soldiers with just a pair of bare hands?"

"Besides, these officers and soldiers tonight all seem to be elite soldiers and strong generals, unlike those defeated soldiers in the palace that day."

Yang Shilin interrupted Hua Chao and asked angrily.

"So what? Are we just going to hide here and watch them kill my fellow villagers, who are like family members to me, one by one?"

Ling Mi rushed over and pushed Yang Shilin, causing him to stagger.

"Hey... why are you talking about my sister like that? Why don't you just listen to what she's saying? Why are you talking nonsense here before she finishes?"

"Ling Mi, you can't do this. Brother Yang said this because he is anxious."

Only then did Yang Shilin react. How could such a kind-hearted girl from Huachao watch someone killing innocent people?

"Hanaha...I..."

"Brother Yang, don't be anxious. Given today's situation, we still need to consider it carefully and discuss it before taking any action."

"The armored general did this just to irritate you and me."

"Maybe he has set an ambush down there, waiting for us to fall into his trap."

"I think we should do this..."