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Beichen Xiao's eyes were cold and ruthless. The tip of the sword was close to Chishe's throat, flashing with cold light, like the scythe of the god of death.

Chishe felt the shadow of death looming over it. Fear and despair intertwined together made it almost forget the pain. It could only face Beichen Xiao's iron-blooded murderous intent with trembling.

The villagers at this time were completely stunned by this scene.

Over the years, the villagers have fully experienced how terrifying the red tongue is.

Many elderly people have lived under the shadow of the Red Tongue since childhood.

They had tried to defeat this monster countless times.

But the final result, without exception, is failure again and again.

Over the years, they have lost countless lives.

Even exorcists and soldiers are no match for this monster.

However, facing such a monster, the young man in front of him actually defeated the monster with just a sword.

"Who is he?"

But despite this, Chishe's eyes were still filled with angry murderous intent.

Chishe's eyes were still fixed on the villagers around him, as if he wanted to remember the appearance of these people completely in his heart.

As if sensing Chishe's strong resentment, Beichen Xiao did not swing down the sword in his hand immediately.

"Such a strong resentment, are you resentful of these people?"

Beichen Xiao looked at the red tongue in front of him, and there seemed to be a hint of pity in his calm tone.

"Kill them, I must kill them!"

Chishe's resentful words made the surrounding villagers tremble.

And those children just stood there, their eyes filled with fear.

“Although I don’t know how much injustice you have suffered, and why you hate the villagers here so much.”

"But you've tortured them for so many years and hurt so many people. It's time to end it."

"Goodbye, monster."

Under Chishe's angry eyes, Beichen Xiao inserted the sword in his hand into Chishe's body without hesitation.

The monster that had tortured the villagers for decades died at the hands of Beichen Xiao.

Looking at Chishe's dead body, the surrounding villagers showed expressions of disbelief.

"Is the monster really dead?"

"Is it over?"

"Aren't we going to be killed?"

"Am I dreaming?"

The villagers' unbelievable words echoed in Beichen Xiao's ears.

At this time, the village chief also came to the huge body of Chishe.

"Finally, is everything over?" The village chief looked at Chishe's body, his eyes revealing resentment, sadness, and a little relief.

It should be a very happy thing that the nightmare surrounding the village has finally dissipated.

However, the village chief's expression was not as happy as expected.

"Village Chief, now is the time to tell me what you didn't tell me."

"This monster is actually related to your village."

Beichen Xiao looked at the village chief at this time and said to him lightly.

"Yeah, there's no point in hiding it now." The village chief looked at Beichen Xiao with a strange expression, but soon, a look of relief appeared on his face.

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"Master Exorcist, you guessed correctly. The appearance of this monster is indeed related to our village."

The village chief was standing in front of Beichen Xiao at this time, as if he was confessing.

"At the beginning, because of the war, not only were a large number of men in our village forced to join the army, but a lot of food and money were also confiscated."

"Because of the collection by the daimyo and his officials, our village was almost out of ammunition and food at that time."

"And in order to survive, we made the stupidest decision."

When the village chief said this, a bitter look appeared on his face.

"He is a bandit, robbing people."

Beichen Xiao quickly told what the other party had done.

Because in a place like this, apart from robbery, there should be no other way to collect so much money in a short time.

"Yes, it's robbery."

"Because of this wrong decision, our village has completely fallen into the abyss."

“It continues to this day.”

As the village chief spoke, the truth that had been hidden for decades slowly unfolded before Beichen Xiao.

Volume 1: Chapter 288: After defeating the boss, there will definitely be rewards.

At this time, Beichen Xiao was quietly listening to the village chief talking about what happened back then.

"At that time, as one of the young men in the village, although I was not forced to participate in the war, I was also a participant in the incident."

"Until now, I still cannot forget the crime I committed."

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Time goes back about twenty years ago——

Because the war had already begun, the village had been almost completely exploited by the daimyo and officials.

In order to prepare for war, these people even plundered all the remaining food rations that the villagers had worked so hard to save.

In order to keep the people in the village alive, the village chief at that time made a difficult decision - that is, to rob the merchants and passers-by.

As a relatively famous village nearby, anyone passing by will definitely pass by this village.

This also gives these villagers an opportunity.

"At the beginning, we didn't intend to hurt those people. We just wanted to get enough money to survive in this chaotic world."

"But everything started to change when we got a lot of money from a passerby in our first robbery."

“The gulf of desire will not be filled by satisfying it once or twice; it will only continue to deepen and eventually swallow us up.”

"And on that day, we ultimately made the worst decision."

Although the villagers made a lot of money because of the highway robbery.

But they also knew that if they continued to do this, they would be discovered sooner or later.

Once the soldiers knew what I did.

People like us will definitely be punished.

It is precisely because of this fear.

The villagers made a plan - to kill all the witnesses.

Of course, this kind of thing cannot be done immediately after the decision is made.

It will take some time for these people to go from robbery to murder.

And on that day, a passerby came to the village to rest with his wife, children, and several guards.

In this era, it is very rare for a man to travel with his wife and children.

Generally speaking, unless there is some huge danger, no one would choose to come to such a place with just such a small number of people.

And in the eyes of the villagers, this passerby in a hurry should not be an ordinary person.

Looking at the passers-by who behaved very properly, the villagers couldn't help but feel a little greedy.

Just like in most stories.

At first, the passerby was not wary of these ordinary villagers, and the guards around him were not on guard against these ordinary villagers either.

After gaining a certain degree of trust, they successfully tied them up by drugging them.

I hope to get a huge amount of money from the other party in the end.

"Did you kill him in the end?" Beichen Xiao asked calmly.

"We didn't, no, you could say that."

"We used every possible means to get the other party to know where they kept their money."

"Including insulting his wife in front of him and all kinds of cruel things."

"But the other party still insisted that he did not have any property in his hands."

"How could we know that the person in front of us was just fleeing from the war."

"It's a pity that we are already dominated by desires, so we don't think so much."

"So in the end, we simply starved his whole family to death."

As he said this, the village chief scratched his face in pain with his dry hands.

He now feels extremely regretful that the people in his village made such a choice.

"Did you make the decision at the beginning?"

Beichen Xiao asked.

"No, I and some other villagers did not participate in that incident at the time."

"Besides, because that passerby begged for mercy, I also secretly helped him."

"Perhaps it was because of this incident that I was able to survive after he turned into a monster."

"But, over the years, we have also paid a heavy price."

"Even my children..."

As the village chief spoke, tears began to flow.

He will never forget the day when his child confidently told him that he would kill the monster and save the village.

Beichen Xiao did not say anything at this time, but quietly looked at the old man with an extremely painful expression.

Sure enough, the red tongue in front of him was the monster that the passerby had transformed into.

Because his wife was insulted and his children and himself starved to death, he eventually became such a resentful person.

In order to take revenge on the villagers who killed him, the monster wants to make these people feel the same pain as he did.

It’s not that the villagers don’t want to leave the village, it’s that they simply can’t.

Even if he left, he would die at the hands of this monster.

In this way, this monster tortured these villagers for decades.

But today, because Beichen Xiao distributed food to the villagers and let the monster have a full meal, it completely went berserk.

"Although I don't ask for anyone's forgiveness, I still ask Exorcist-sama, for the sake of these children, to spare their lives."

"All the faults are caused by us old guys."

The village chief was kneeling in front of Beichen Xiao at this time, and seemed to have lost hope of living.

The surrounding villagers looked at Beichen Xiao in fear, as if they were waiting for Beichen Xiao to make the next move.

However, Beichen Xiao turned around and did not look at the village chief.

"You seem to have made a mistake."

"I am an exorcist, not a so-called officer."

"My goal is just to kill the monster."