17. A Dead Village

Su Mo hurried to the outskirts of the Breezewind Mountain. He smelled blood in the air when he arrived closer to the location told by the servant.

"Damn, should have trained an escape skill."

Soon, Su Mo came across a small village with about a hundred households.

However, the whole village was in ruins. Most of the houses had collapsed, and corpses lay scattered on the ground.

Blood flowed like streams, making the place look like hell itself.

"Aaaah! Who did it?"

Su Mo screamed. He thought he had seen the cruellest of the worlds as a mercenary but the sight before his eyes shook his heart.

The knowledge of this world, the mercenary life, and past experiences, all seemed feeble before death.

Su Mo knew that the main heroine of the story was from a village that the bandits slaughtered. Su Mo was not cruel to let people die if he knew he could save them. Hence, he had persuaded his father to set up a patrol for rescue operations.

His efforts had been quite successful. He had saved dozens of villages to date. He also hung a few bandit leaders on the main city square to warn the others.

He was extremely incensed, and his eyes grew cold.

After taking a deep breath, he rushed into the village.

The whole village was dead silent, with strewn corpses, broken limbs, and blood flowing everywhere. It was a heart-wrenching sight.

Most corpses were of dead women, children, and older people. He saw a three or four-year-old little girl lying in a pool of her own blood, with a knife stabbed through her body.

It was a massacre. Every dead body filled him with anger.

Amidst the deafening silence, he heard a faint groaning sound.

"Ah!"

Su Mo hastily ran toward the sound and arrived at a collapsed hut. Only the head of an old-aged man was visible under the wreckage. He was counting his last breaths.

"Old Man, don't worry and stay still. I will save you."

Su Mo hurriedly lifted the destroyed hut and helped the old man out.

He realized that the old man's stomach had been cut open, and his guts were flowing out. There was no chance he could survive.

"Hey Old Man. Wake up. Don't die!" Su Mo patted the old man's face to keep him awake.

"Cough! Cough!" The old man opened his eyes slightly. With the little strength left in his body, he grabbed Su Mo's hands.

"Xi'er, Xi'er!" Old Man's voice began to die out.

"Old Man! tell me who did it? who did it?" Su Mo asked him hurriedly.

"Blood... Blood...Bla..." Old Man died in Su Mo's hands.

Su Mo's eyes narrowed. Two bandit groups were active in this region, the Blood Sword Bandits and the Blood Thirsty Raiders.

These two notorious groups were still active.

Their hideouts were unknown but Su Mo would not give them a chance to hide this time.

These two groups only targeted the weak. Therefore, they had always gotten their way for years instead of being uprooted.

Su Mo's eyes burnt in rage. Judging from the size of the village, it may not have more than five or six martial artists above Lv 3 Qi Cultivation Realm. Hence, the group of attackers may not have anyone above Lv 4 or Lv 5 of Qi Cultivation.

"Whoever you are, You have angered the Devil."

Su Mo stood up and observed the paths leading out of the village.

He found a large number of horse tracks at the southern exit. Su Mo brought out a horse-dung bee and let it guide its way. It was not a fool-proof way but the robbers should be within a five km region.

Since he found that the bodies of young men and women were missing from the village, they would have been captured and brought along.

Transport was not very easy for people from the lowest reaches of society. Hence, he could easily catch these bandits.

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"Move! Move!"

A group of bandits whipped the people dragged by their horses along a mountainous path.

They were slowed down by the 20 to 30 ladies they had captured.

Some of these ladies were 30 or 40 years old, and some were only 12 or 13 years old. No matter if they were married women or maidens, they were all very pretty.

"Brothers, let's take a rest here and continue after a meal," ordered the tall leader of the bandits.

Soon, the bandits stopped to rest. They lit a bonfire and roasted some game.

Then, they gathered all the ladies together.

"Haha! I didn't expect so many pretty women this time. I can't wait any longer!"

A bandit smiled disgustingly and lewdly looked at those ladies.

"Haha! I haven't touched a woman for over a month, so let's enjoy ourselves this time!"

Another scar-faced bandit laughed, and said creepily, "This girl is beautiful! Damn! I've never seen such a pretty girl in my life."

A 15-year-old maiden in green stood out among the ladies with her outstanding looks, which attracted the bandits' attention.

The simple clothes on her could not disguise her elegance.

"Humph! If you want to save your little ass, you'd better leave her alone. She was for the chief!" The leader scolded coldly.

"Haha! Since she's a give for the chief, I won't touch her."

The scar-faced bandit shivered at the thought of the chief's cruelty and gave the leader a big smile.

"Hmm?"

Right at that moment, one of the ladies started to run away while the bandits were not paying attention and made it dozens of meters away in the blink of an eye.

"Haha! Leader, leave her to me!"

The scar-faced bandit laughed coldly and chased her in excitement, catching her in no time.

"Haha! Little cunt, trying to run under my watch? I'll teach you a lesson right now!"

He chuckled vilely and dragged her into a grassy field.

"Aah!"

Not long after he disappeared, a loud scream emerged from the grass.