Chapter 9: Killing
Shrubs rustled, Wang San and Zhao Fu continuously struck the weeds, both to drive away any possible hidden venomous snakes.
And also to see if Su Yan was hiding in these weeds.
“Damn it, if we find him, I’ll peel his skin off.”
Wang San muttered curses under his breath, his triangular eyes full of displeasure.
Zhao Fu slightly furrowed his brows but said nothing, gripping the iron fork tightly in his hand.
It was unknown whether they were lucky or unlucky, but the direction of their search was exactly where Su Yan had hidden before.
‘Poison lightly.’
Su Yan issued a command to the Yin Water Centipede, and the purple Yin Water Centipede burrowed into the shrubs, quickly approaching Wang San and the other.
“Ouch! What is that!”
Wang San was searching for something, using the wooden stick in his hand to beat the weeds.
Suddenly, a purple shadow flashed quickly through the gaps in the grass.
He hadn’t even had time to see clearly what it was when the next moment it bit his ankle.
Blood spurted out, and Wang San fell to the ground.
His entire ankle was bitten rotten, a huge gash as if torn open by pincers.
Zhao Fu heard Wang San’s cry of pain and immediately rushed over with the iron fork, instantly becoming shocked.
He saw a purple centipede as thick as a small arm, which had already turned around, its ferocious mouth facing him directly.
“Whoosh”
He thrust the iron fork in his hand fiercely at the Yin Water Centipede, trying to take down this poisonous insect.
The Yin Water Centipede merely twisted, dodging the extremely fast iron fork to the side.
Oh no!
This poisonous insect was actually this agile!
Zhao Fu wanted to retrieve the iron fork to protect himself, but with a long-poled weapon already thrown, how could it be so easy to take back?
He had just started to pull it back when the Yin Water Centipede raised its body, shooting two streams of poison like arrows.
Zhao Fu only felt his eyes heat up, his eyeballs falling into a boiling oil pan, instantly burning unbearably, causing him to tumble to the ground in pain.
He clutched his eyes with both hands, the immense pain unbearable, and unconsciously dug out the two scorched and corroded eyeballs.
“Zhao Fu!”
Li Hu heard the commotion here and rushed over quickly with the hardwood bow in hand, his figure only halfway there.
“Who is it?!”
No sooner had the words left his mouth than an arrow from the forest streaked like a meteor, piercing his shoulder with a thud.
Li Hu cried out in pain, staggering, the hardwood bow nearly falling from his hand.
Enduring the intense pain, he wanted to draw his bow to counterattack. Looking toward one side of the forest, Su Yan’s figure was already completely exposed.
He had just nocked the arrow when Su Yan shot another, directly piercing his other arm.
The arrow went through the biceps, penetrating straight through, the hardwood bow stained red with blood and clattering to the ground.
Su Yan showed no mercy, drawing the bow and firing two more arrows in succession, piercing Li Hu’s knees, blood dripping continuously from the arrowheads.
The burly man fell to the ground with a thud, rolling nonstop, unable to get up again.
By the time Huang Tian reacted with the iron fork in hand, he had already seen Li Hu, Wang San, and the others lying on the ground.
Fear surged in his heart; how could he still dare to dream of getting rich.
He turned and wanted to run toward the depths of the forest, needing to first escape this demon star Su Yan.
Under the boost of fear, Huang Tian was extremely fast, in the blink of an eye already a hundred steps away, his figure mostly submerged in the weeds and shrubs.
“Think you can escape?”
Su Yan’s tone was calm as he released an arrow like a meteor, the arrow piercing through gaps in the trees and hitting Huang Tian squarely in the back.
Huang Tian flew forward a few steps like a shot bird, crashing to the ground with a thud, blood flowing from his mouth, dead instantly.
“Thud thud thud”
Su Yan stepped over the shrubs, the crushed shrubs emitting creaking sounds that clashed with the pained howls.
“Thud”
Su Yan fired two more arrows, one into Wang San’s calf and one into Zhao Fu’s knee.
He warned in a flat tone: “If you keep howling, I’ll add another arrow.”
Whether from adrenaline or fear, Wang San tightly covered his mouth, not daring to cry out in pain anymore.
Zhao Fu, blind in both eyes and in excruciating pain, seemed deaf to it.
Su Yan was not polite, raising his hand for another arrow that pierced his head.
Now, only three living people remained in the entire forest.
“Yan Ge’er, spare… spare me, it’s all a misunderstanding.”
Wang San had never seen such a killing scene; clearly only fifteen or sixteen years old, yet like a born demon star, killing without even blinking.
And that eerie ability to control insects.
He had truly been blinded by lard to dare seek trouble with this demon star.
His legs trembled, his crotch wet, not daring to call “Yan Ge’er” in a teasing tone anymore; now he only begged for his life.
But Su Yan merely sneered coldly: “Talking nonsense won’t save your life. Think carefully about what to say. I’ll ask you later—don’t give the wrong answer.”
Su Yan ignored Wang San first and walked straight toward Li Hu.
Wang San and Li Hu’s faces changed abruptly.
“It was all Li Hu who instigated it!”
“It was Wang San who egged me on; it’s not my fault!”
Wild dogs gathered for profit would naturally turn on each other for profit in an instant.
In a flash, the looks they gave each other were filled with shock and anger.
Su Yan grabbed Li Hu by the collar and dragged him like a dead dog toward the forest on the side.
The dragging tugged at his wounds, making him cry out in pain involuntarily, veins bulging on his face.
“No no… I’ll talk! I’ll talk!”
Su Yan dragged Li Hu into the shrubs on the side; with their figures concealed, Wang San could no longer see them.
In that moment, his heart grew even more panicked, fearing Li Hu would pin everything on him.
He kept begging, but there was no reaction from the shrubs.
This made his heart even more panicked, as if seventy or eighty percent of his life had been scared away.
In the shrubbery, this Li Hu was no tough guy. As soon as Su Yan stopped, holding the hardwood bow.
Li Hu spilled everything like pouring beans.
“It was all Wang San who egged me on. He said you found Treasure Land, that’s how you got so many Treasure Plants. He urged me to tail you and seize the Treasure Land…”
“How many people?”
Li Hu hadn’t finished speaking when Su Yan interrupted him.
Wang San had ideas, but only seizing Treasure Land without killing?
This was in the mountain forest—could such words be believed?
“Four… four.”
Li Hu didn’t dare lie and revealed everything in detail, though the process involved distancing himself as much as possible.
But Su Yan pieced together most of the story, having a plan in mind.
“It’s all Wang San’s fault. Yan Ge’er, if you spare me, I’ll follow Brother as my leader from now on.”
“How many such business deals have you done?”
Su Yan interrupted Li Hu again, but this question made Li Hu’s blood run cold.
“Brother, please spare me, I—”
“I asked, how many times.”
Su Yan said word by word, gradually drawing the hardwood bow in his hand.
Li Hu knew he couldn’t hide it and blurted out: “3 times, just 3 times. I still have ten taels of silver on me; I’ll give you the money.”
Su Yan grinned: “Fool, if I kill you, it’s all mine.”
He drew and shot, the sharp arrow entering through Li Hu’s eye socket, instantly taking his life.
The eyeball burst with blood, the bloody smell making one’s stomach churn.
Su Yan’s face paled slightly, but he quickly composed himself.
After days of shooting game and getting used to blood, although killing people differed from killing wild beasts.
He had still cultivated seven parts courage and three parts killing intent. Though his first time killing felt somewhat uncomfortable.
It was like a vast sky where birds could fly freely; his courage was initially formed, daring to harbor intent to kill.
Su Yan took ten taels of silver from Li Hu and put it into the Insect Realm Space.
Then he pulled out the bloodied arrows one by one, wiped them with a handful of weeds, and walked step by step out of the weeds and shrubs.
The arrows stained with blood, his expression indifferent.
Li Hu instantly went silent, completely panicking the remaining Wang San.
“I’ll talk, I’ll tell everything.”
Before Su Yan even approached, Wang San was already shouting at the top of his lungs to confess.
“Time to hit the road.”
Su Yan said indifferently. Although only Li Hu had confessed, he had already pieced together the gist of the events.
Plus Wang San had blocked his path before; the two incidents corroborated each other, giving him a clear picture.
No one behind them; handle them all cleanly, and the matter ends here.
Later, have the Yin Water Centipede bite the arrow wounds to mutilate them, obscure the tracks a bit, and in this mountain forest, the corpses would be gone in one or two days.
Seeing Su Yan’s attitude, Wang San grew anxious.
“Your father Su Dahe didn’t die from a fall; it was Niu Han and them who did it!”
In his panic, Wang San blurted it out.
Su Yan’s gaze sharpened like a knife piercing Wang San.
“Tell me in detail.”
