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Chapter 327 Hong Yan: What? I challenge Xinglongzhuang alone? (asking for monthly votes)
Hong Yan was impatient. As soon as the curse was removed and his life was saved, he ran out in a hurry, and did not forget to call out to Xu Shu: "Hurry up, it will be too late later."

"Too late? Um..."

Xu Shu touched his chin, thought for a moment, and understood.

Hong Yan must be worried about running into that mid-stage third-order director and causing more trouble!
This was indeed a problem. Although he had wiped out all the members of the Xinglongzhuang gang, there were so many of them. Perhaps they had sent out messages asking for help before they died, and "Genglouzi" was on the way.

Although this director neglected his duties and rarely appeared here on weekdays, the entire Xinglong Village has been taken over by him now. The feud is completely settled. If we meet him again, there will be no shortage of a deadly battle.

In fact, with Alice by his side, Xu Shu would not be particularly weak even if he faced a mid-stage third-order enemy head-on. If he couldn't defeat Geng Louzi, he could at least run away.

As for subsequent retaliation, Xu Shu was not too worried.

Your Xinglongzhuang gang has a backer, but does it mean that I, Deputy Director Xu, have no one to support me?
Even if Bai Sanxiang is from a small place, he is still the boss of the Judgment Bureau. This feud can be resolved! But I don’t know if Lao Bai is here too... This is a problem...

After careful consideration, Xu Shu felt that he had just arrived and that it would be easy to destroy a weak local tyrant like Xinglongzhuang.

However, for a local tyrant like Genglouzi who is at the same level as himself, it would be better for him to avoid a direct confrontation with him. At least it is too early now - in Xu Shu's eyes, he is really at the same level as Genglouzi, who is at most half a level higher.

Anyway, if you don't get caught in the act, regardless of whether the other party recognizes you or not, even if he catches up with you afterwards, what can you do?
He has no evidence.

Not only have all the upgrade drivers of everyone here been confiscated, but even the corpses have been "cleansed". What right do you have to say that I killed his people...

Thinking of this, Xu Shu nodded to Hong Yan and said, "You make a lot of sense. How about this? You retreat first, and I'll search and come back!"

Hong Yan was stunned: "What are you searching for?"

"There's no time to explain to you. I'm going to rob!"

After Xu Shu finished speaking, he quickened his pace and ran towards the courtyard deeper in the villa that had not yet been cleared.

He originally thought that this secret room was a treasure house, but now that it is not, he naturally has to continue looking for where the treasure house is.

Anyway, the feud has been formed, so I might as well go all the way. I'm short of money, so I might as well rob the villa.

It would be nice to exchange all the resources accumulated by the enemy for your own strength!

The money looted from the corpse just now has a total value of nearly two million, including cash and corrosion crystals.

This number may seem like a lot, but it is actually quite small. You have to know that these are the bodies of hundreds of people. There are more than thirty extraordinary people in the villa, and another twenty on the mountain road outside. In total, each person only has tens of thousands of dollars on him. What's the difference between this and beggars?
But Xu Shu didn't believe that most people here were poor. Didn't they have a mine? It was obvious that there must be another place in Sheling Villa where money was hidden.

This must not be missed.

At times like this, the role of a large enough "storage bag" came into play. Without this thing, Xu Shu wouldn't be able to take away much money.

He was mentally prepared, but Hong Yan behind him was a little anxious.

"Hey, why are you still walking in? Stop, stop!
“Hey, let me tell you, even though the gatekeeper is not very strong, he is only ranked in the top ten among the Xinglongzhuang gang members. If I hadn’t been seriously injured, he wouldn’t be the only one watching.

"There are a lot of them. There are hundreds of armed bandits, not to mention nearly fifty first-level fighters. The four bosses are all masters who are as strong as me! I know you are very powerful, but they wanted to ambush Jinbaoshan's people today. All the fighting forces are gathered here. If they block us, we will not be able to escape.

"Um, by the way, where is the gatekeeper Wang Qi? And whose snake is that you just took out to save me? It looks familiar to me... By the way, what did you say you were searching for? What about robbery?"

After surviving, perhaps because of the friendship with the person who saved his life, Hong Yan talked a lot more. He seemed a little puzzled and kept chattering behind him.

However, Xu Shu ran away from her quickly, striding forward without even listening to what she said next.

"Robbery? What robbery? Hey, why don't you listen to my advice?"

Hong Yan watched Xu Shu disappear outside the courtyard gate and felt a little conflicted for a moment.

According to her judgment, the best option now is to quietly leave this place before the people in Xinglongzhuang find out.

With his top-notch "assassin" skills, once he escaped from the predicament, he was like a bird flying into the sky or a fish entering the sea, no longer bound by anything.

But why is this guy so stubborn?

He went there knowing that he would face dangers all the way. Could it be that he had a grudge against Xinglong Village and was here to seek revenge like me?
Hong Yan's expression changed repeatedly, and his fists clenched and unclenched, and loosened and clenched again.

Finally, she closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and cursed in her heart:

"I vaguely remember that this guy was so reckless before, and he hasn't changed even after being promoted!
"Well, I owe him a life. At worst, we can both die here today. It will be considered as my repayment for saving his life.

"Ah, am I, Hong Yan, destined to die here? Maybe this is what they call a calamity in my fate!"

She stomped her feet angrily, leaving an afterimage under her feet, and quickly chased after Xu Shu.

As he chased, Hong Yan discovered something was wrong.

As a second-level extraordinary person of the "rogue" path, she possesses the "bloodthirsty" skill, which allows her to sense the danger ahead in advance and make predictions.

This is also the reason why Xu Shu dared to start a group and she dared to follow. Even if it was of no use, at least it could help to avoid danger and seek good fortune.

As expected, in the Snake Spirit Villa, there should be a mixture of large and small 'dangerous smells' everywhere.

However, the reality is...

No.

There is no danger at all!

What's going on?

Could it be that the people from Xinglongzhuang left this place and went to fight with Jinbaoshan?

This also seems possible...

With such doubts, Hong Yan followed Xu Shu worriedly and searched everywhere in the villa.

During this period, she was surprised to find that there was no one in the entire Snake Spirit Villa.

This is so weird. Even if they were going to fight Jinbaoshan, they wouldn't leave no soldiers in the base camp, right? !
Hong Yan couldn't understand.

But Xu Shu was even more confused.

He squatted on the ground, shook his head and muttered to himself honestly: "How could it be like this? This shouldn't be the case... They all look very rich, how come it's just this..."

Hong Yan had been holding back for a long time, and finally couldn't help asking directly: "Why don't you speak more clearly? What are you looking for?"

Xu Shu looked up at her, his eyes empty as he said, "Didn't I tell you I was robbing people? Hong Yan, why do you think Xinglongzhuang is such a big gang with more than a hundred men? Don't they have mines? How come they only scraped out so little money?"

The money on the ground was piled high, but Xu Shu was not satisfied.

Although they did find some hidden treasures, the total value here, plus what they had just collected and the crystals that exploded from their snake servants, might not be more than six million.

This is a village with more than a hundred people.

Xu Shu's demands were not high. He thought that Xinglongzhuang had been here for so long, and it would cost at least 50 or 60 million to justify such a large scale, right?
How come it’s not even 10% of the way there?
When Hong Yan heard this, he covered his forehead and said, "So this is what you are talking about. You don't know this. Although the mine is priceless, it is not considered the private property of the local garrison. They have to send all the minerals to the director for unified distribution. Most of them have to be handed over, usually 70% of them."

Xu Shu was not very happy: "How come it's only 70%?"

"Seventy percent is from above! For all the Baisha mines, Tianxiang mines, etc., it's already pretty good if the local garrison can get 30% in the end." Hong Yan said.

Xu Shu sighed and said, "That shouldn't be all the money. He has saved it for many years."

Hong Yan sighed and said, "It seems that you have never managed a household and don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are. Let's not talk about the daily expenses of each gang, just the expenses for everyone's training and the resettlement expenses for the brothers who were injured or died, each of these is an astronomical figure!

"There are other things like mining costs, right? Everyone needs to be paid for their work, right? All this money cannot be moved. It's all in the account, waiting for someone from above to come and allocate it.

"Especially the snake cultivators in Xinglong Village have to pay extra money for training snake servants. On weekdays, they spend all their money on food and other expenses. It's already good enough to have this extra money and no debt."

Xu Shu was stunned when he heard this and couldn't help but count on his fingers.

For a transcendent, let alone a "big spender" like myself, even if we assume the lowest cost, it would cost two or three million worth of crystals to be upgraded to the first level. There are nearly fifty first-level transcendents in this village, so how many would that cost here?
There are also four second-order ones, and the cost of one is equivalent to that of dozens of first-order ones.

"Alas, I am so stupid, really. I only knew that the landlords would have surplus food, but I didn't expect that the landlords also had to pay tribute..."

Thinking of this, Xu Shu felt relieved, sighed deeply, and turned to walk down the mountain.

Seeing that he was finally willing to leave, Hong Yan hurriedly followed him. With trepidation, she activated her "Bloodthirsty" skill to the maximum, and her whole body was almost red hot.

However, they walked back to Xinglong Town at a leisurely pace, but nothing happened.

At this moment in the town, a thick smoke rising into the sky could be seen from afar.

When they got closer, they saw that it was the warehouse of Mr. Shen that Xu Shu had burned down before.

With the help of enthusiastic residents in the town, the fire was finally put out. At this moment, many people gathered around the burnt warehouse.

Boss Shen and his men had been devoured long ago, and most of the mutated "baby basilisks" were burned to death in the fire, but because the fire was put out in time, a few were still alive. They looked at the onlookers with fierce eyes and howled.

The onlookers were pointing and talking about these snake monsters who used to be children. Most of them were sighing and saying things like "bad luck". Others were saying things like "Why are there still disaster stars that haven't been sent away?", "We've already gone to ask for help from the adults at Snake Spirit Villa!", and so on.

Xu Shu shook his head after hearing this. These people had long been brainwashed by the snake cultivators of Xinglong Village. Even if they saw some children being made into "Sublimation Pills" with their own eyes, they would not doubt the origin of this thing.

After all, the snake cultivators have been working here for many years, and the 'Legend of the Snake Mother' they compiled has long been deeply rooted in people's hearts.

Everyone thought that these snake-child monsters were the result of their mothers' insincerity and failure to worship the Snake Mother devoutly, and that this was bad luck that had come upon them; no one noticed the problem.

As for the pregnant women who were released by Xu Shu before, they were not seen. It was not known whether they had returned home or were afraid to come forward and tell the "truth".

"Get out of the way, everyone! The adults from Snake Spirit Villa are coming!"

After a while, a group of people came from a distance. There were more than a dozen strong men, all of them looked ferocious and had poisonous snakes around them. Two of them even had snake servants with them.

These are the gang members that Xinglong Village left behind to guard the town. These two are extraordinary people, the so-called "snake cultivators" of Xinglong Village.

Judging from the scale of Jinbao Mountain, there should be at least one second-level transcendent at this station.

However, in order to ambush Xu Shu and negotiate with Jin Baoshan on the ownership of the new mine, they withdrew all their personnel, so this station was actually quite empty.

When enemies meet, their eyes turn red. Hong Yan suppressed the murderous intent in her heart and said in a deep voice, "It's time to leave. We can't stay here for long. It won't be long before the people from Jinbao Mountain arrive. If they find out that I killed Hong Qiangwei, we will be attacked from both sides and it will be difficult for us to leave."

Xu Shu narrowed his eyes, looked at Hong Yan, then looked at the group of snake cultivators who were shouting and driving away the onlookers, and suddenly asked, "Sister Hong Yan, I have a question."

"Uh...what did you say?" Hong Yan got goosebumps all over her body when he called her for no apparent reason, and thought to herself, I seem to be older than you?

Xu Shu said, "That's right. According to the rule here that a gang guards a town, they are also responsible for preventing the monsters in the wasteland from approaching, right?"

"Yes, what's wrong?" Hong Yan didn't understand and added, "Making sure the town is not disturbed by wandering monsters is the basic duty of the town guards. In addition, hunting wandering monsters is also one of their sources of income."

Xu Shu licked his lips and said, "Okay, then here comes the question. You see, Jin Baoshan is about to come and fight with the people of Xinglongzhuang. If Jin Baoshan's people win a great victory and wipe out all the people in Xinglongzhuang, does that mean Jin Baoshan has conquered Xinglong Town?"

"That's the rule, but the gangs all agree that they won't do such shady things. No, why are you asking this..."

Hong Yan answered subconsciously at first, and then her eyes suddenly widened.

She thought of the unusual absence of people at Snake Spirit Villa and the strange situation of not meeting anyone along the way, and a bold idea came to her mind.

Could it be that...all the people in Xinglongzhuang are dead?

He killed all the people in Xinglongzhuang by himself?
This horrible thought was like a flood, instantly filling Hong Yan's brain.

It wasn't that he realized it late, but because his mind told him that it was impossible, so he didn't dare to think about it at all.

That's a whole gang!
However, everything I saw along the way seemed to prove this point.

"You, you, could it be that... you killed all the people in Xinglongzhuang?" Hong Yan opened his mouth, looked at Xu Shu in shock, and spoke with a slight stutter.

Xu Shu gave her a strange look: "I thought you had guessed it a long time ago."

"What the hell am I going to guess? Do I dare to guess in that direction?"

I thought that after experiencing the torture of life and death, I would no longer be emotionally disturbed by anything, but now Hong Yan said that she was really numb.

Although she was extremely grateful to Xu Shu for saving her life, she also knew that this guy was now ranked 99th on the Qingyun List as the "Demon Slayer", and was extremely powerful.

However, she never thought that Xu Shu could wipe out all the people in Snake Spirit Villa by himself!

They were both at the second level, and I seemed to be on par with him at the beginning, even better than him in some aspects. But now, he actually wiped out the entire Xinglong Village single-handedly, and destroyed it so thoroughly that there was no trace of the body left!
Oh, by the way, he also has a level 3 succubus cat...

It turns out that without realizing it, the gap between us has become so big...

At this moment, Hong Yan, who always claimed that she was no weaker than anyone and that even her sister's prestige on the human list only gave her more motivation to move forward, felt a strong sense of frustration for the first time.

Xu Shu, however, had a slightly excited look on his face: "No time to say more, where is your human skin mask? Put it on quickly and act out a scene with me."

"Acting? What kind of acting?" Hong Yan asked weakly.

Xu Shu said: "Act out the story of you single-handedly taking on the entire Xinglong Village and killing them all, dying with honor!"

"What the hell?" Hong Yan widened his eyes.

"No time to explain, hurry up and catch up!"

As Xu Shu spoke, he secretly sent out two "Eight Spider Lance" and assassinated the two Xinglongzhuang remnants by shooting them in the head from a distance of 88 meters.

The crowd was suddenly in chaos, but the culprit Xu Shu had already left the scene.

……

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Two hours later.

Jinbaoshan's chief supervisor Bai Hongzhi and second supervisor Qi Yao, with more than 80% of the best men in the gang, entered Xinglong Villa with great momentum and headed straight towards Sheling Villa.

Their expressions were quite serious, they were full of murderous intent and resentment in their hearts.

I was stood up by the other party at Yuntai Mine, but I had to make this trip in order to rescue the third supervisor Hong Qiangwei!
However, from a distance, they saw a raging fire burning above Snake Spirit Villa.

After looking at each other in bewilderment, everyone quickened their pace and ran forward.

Finally, they passed through layers of mountain paths and arrived at the entrance of the villa.

However, the entire villa was engulfed in flames. A slim and alluring female figure was seen with snakes biting her all over her body. She looked extremely miserable, but she was still standing at the door.

"It's Sister Qiangwei!"

"Rose, what happened?!"

Everyone at Jinbaoshan was shocked and rushed up quickly.

However, the figure at the door who looked like a female general raised her head and shouted:
"The thieves in Xinglong Village have gone too far. Even though I die today, I am still... the Queen of Roses!!!"

The roar shook the mountains and forests, revealing its domineering power and emitting unimaginable terrifying majesty.

In an instant, all the members of the Jinbaoshan Gang trembled at the same time, and for a moment they couldn't control themselves and lowered their heads.

They were shocked at what their third supervisor had done and what had happened, and the next second they saw the other's body suddenly explode and break into pieces.

All that was left was the Snake Spirit Villa with flames soaring into the sky, ruins all over the ground, and unrecognizable charred body parts, making this shocking and blood-stirring scene even more tragic.

After a long time.

There were figures in Sheling Villa without any safety measures, going in and out, crawling around like ants.

They finally reunited at the entrance.

Second Supervisor Qi Yao shook his head at Bai Hongzhi: "We have searched everywhere in the village, and there is no one alive. Big brother, our third sister..."

He didn't know what to say for a moment.

Bai Hongzhi knew what he wanted to say

The third sister "Red Rose" actually killed everyone in Xinglong Village single-handedly. With this strength, I'm afraid she was hiding her true identity before. Her real identity is not ordinary!
"The third sister was personally named by the director to be placed on our side. I originally thought that she just had a special relationship with the director, but now it seems that this special relationship is probably not an ordinary special relationship..." Qi Yao hesitated for a while, but still said it.

"Shh, keep your voice down!"

Bai Hongzhi's expression changed again and again, and finally he snorted coldly and ordered: "No matter what, since Xinglong Village is completely destroyed, this land will belong to us from now on! Those mines will also belong to us from now on!"

"This? But the director..." Qi Yao was shocked. Thinking of the rich output, it was impossible not to be excited, but he was a little hesitant.

"Go and do your work quickly. If you are slow, others will smell the smell and come over! I will naturally explain to the director!"

Bai Hongzhi acted decisively and immediately sent people to several mines under the jurisdiction of Xinglongzhuang. He walked to a deserted place nearby, turned on the upgrade drive, and after a brief pause, sent a message:
"Director, the people from Xinglong Village have captured our third sister, Hong Qiangwei. Yan Xiong is so crazy that he even threatened to destroy the mine and wanted to do something indecent to her! The third sister is stubborn and refused to obey us. We fought with all our might. Fortunately, there was no loss in the mine and we were all saved! It's a pity that the third sister fought hard and made meritorious contributions, but was eventually killed by a conspiracy. I am a poor performer. Please punish me, Director..."

In his description, it was originally "Xinglongzhuang that was destroyed by Hong Qiangwei alone", but after the fight between the two sides, he paid a huge price to completely eliminate the other party.

After reviewing it several times, Bai Hongzhi sent the message without hesitation.

Soon, he received a reply from the director.

“?”——Genglouzi, the third-level master.

(End of this chapter)