Chapter 4 (2/2)
The animal clamp trap was extremely tight and painful enough to make him yell. When he lifted his head he saw the scoundrel he had been pursuing slash his machete in his direction, his face full of mud and sweat: ”Go die!”
The middle-aged bandit painfully lifted his saber in parry. The two metal weapons met and sparks spattered everywhere, almost as if splas.h.i.+ng on his face.
During this exchange his foot had moved and his blood now flowed out faster - this was a trap made to catch wild pigs, and when caught in it the more you struggled the more it would tear your muscles and bleed you.
”b.a.s.t.a.r.d, I’m going to cut you dead!” The middle-aged man struggled on and wanted to hack off the trap on the ground, but Pei Ziyun’s sword flashed forward at this moment: ”Kill-”
That voice was full of violence and didn’t seem to come out of a teenager. ”Puff!” This time the middle-aged bandit hadn’t escaped completely unscathed and there was a huge b.l.o.o.d.y hole in his left shoulder.
”Ah, how dare you cut your father!” The middle-aged bandit screamed tragically. The feeling of approaching death made a mess of his mind and he wielded his saber in at random under the pressure of the gigantic pain.
Seeing the Black Wind bandit weaken, Pei Ziyun felt his heart lighten and a refresh feeling fill his body.
He couldn’t rein in a laughter that echoed in this clearing. Another machete strike fell down when the laughter hadn’t even fallen yet.
”Puff!” This middle-aged man had his hand holding the saber cut off. The weapon flew away from the hand. In pain, he shouted: ” You dare to kill me - our fortress lord will come down from the mountain and take revenge for me!”
”Let him come then.” A blade slashed down, spattering blood spattered.
”Hero let’s talk, I surrender, I’ll give you money. All the patrols in the county are on intimate terms with us, they won’t do anything to me. If you really kill me the Black Wind bandits definitely won’t let you off – ” The Black Wind bandit was trembling in fear as he faced imminent death.
”Moron!”
Pei Ziyun breathed deeply, seeing this Black Wind bandit’s third master trapped in the clamp, all kinds of memories from the past life flashed through his eyes. Yes, it was time to settle this grudge. Although his body had reached its limit he still sluggishly raised his blade and pressed on step by step.
”As a new dynasty raises, the court sweeps its reforms on the hinterland and hasn’t bothered yet cleaning mountain bandits like you folks in distant areas. The prefecture capital only wants to preserve the local status quo, keeping matters in check, but founding a state necessitates a bandit purge. At most in a few years the court will send troops and clean the county, and then all of you will become scattered ashes and dispersed smoke. Exterminating you Black Wind bandits today is a kindness from me.”
Saying such he was about to strike down, but unexpectedly at this time this third master of the Black Wind bandits knelt down despite the clamp and begged loudly for mercy: ”Don’t kill me, I still have parents and children…”
Pei Ziyun squinted his eyes and was ready for the kill, but suddenly the Black Wind bandit pulled a dagger from his calf and threw it with the good hand he had left.
That dagger was mesmerizing under moonlight. Pei Ziyun rolled his body in shock and felt pain on his face. A trace of blood flowed down on his face.
”Go die!” Pei Ziyun wasn’t going to leave anything to chance anymore and hacked his machete on top of the middle-aged bandit’s head. ”Puff” The man’s skull exploded and whitish yellow brain matter spurted out.
”Finally dead!” Under the moonlight Pei Ziyun gasped. His strength deserted him in and instant and he fell straight on the ground, tired to death with every part of his body filled with pain.
Resisting the pain he pulled dozens of thorns from his body and wiped the blood from his face. He picked some raspberries and threw them in his mouth. He sat, put his hands on the ground behind him and propped himself on them, quietly recovering his strength and breath.
After long while, his stamina somewhat recovered, he went and examined the bandit corpse. He was truly dead.
He tidied the bandit’s belongings. When he lifted the bandit’s clothes he discovered that underneath there still was a short sword with a refined appearance. Cold light filled his vision when he pulled it out.
Searching the rest of the corpse he found a wallet, and when he opened it he saw inside some pocket change, around 10 taels of silver.
This was all his war booty. Pei Ziyun laughed and graciously accepted it. He stood up and gazed at the scenerey afar. In the distance was a continuous mountain range. The mountain wind was blowing over his body at this moment, refres.h.i.+ng him. Looking down at the chaotic village beneath he felt a kind of heroic pride arise inside him unbidden. He removed the blood and soil, then headed down the mountain.
When he reached a big tree he suddenly heard ”Zhi Zhi”. Pei Ziyun immediately stopped, his gaze sharp again as he asked full of suspicions: ”Who is it?”
”…is it big brother Pei?” The trembling voice came after a long while, and following that voice a person came out from the shadows.
Under the moonlight he saw it was Ye Su’er. Her clothes were disorderly and one of her hairpins had fallen, leaving half her hair scattered, but it was indeed Ye Su’er.
When she saw Pei Ziyun and then the blood on his body, she suddenly cried and she flew in Pei Ziyun’s embrace with tears flowing down.
Pei Ziyun was startled, in the previous life she hadn’t managed to escape, how did she come out this time? Seeing her sorry figure he suddenly understood.
This young girl had guessed his own actions and she had found courage she hadn’t had in the previous life as she came looking for him.
She really had a death wish searching for him under this kind of situation.
Pei Ziyun suddenly felt dazzled, he realized those were the feelings of tears and joy and happiness from the body’s previous owner.
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