1239 Man-Eating Monster (2/2)

”Yeah, she's right, the kids in the towns and the villages like to hang around with her. She must be the reason why they have fallen ill! Don't try and stop me, I'll stab her to death right now!” a woman with bloodshot eyes ran forward holding a pair of scissors!

There were not many City Hunters around, so they were having a hard time calming the townfolk down.

Yu Shishi watched the people expressionlessly. When the woman tried to stab her with the scissors, strings of blue silk suddenly appeared from her and surrounded her like a cocoon. The scissors landed on the silk, but they were unable to move an inch further.

The blue silk was slightly transparent. The people could still see Yu Shishi's pale face.

”Please calm down! Stop stirring up a mess here if you seriously care about your children! We're still trying to figure out if the children are placed under a curse. If it's a curse, we can get rid of it by killing her, but if it's something else, the children will be in danger if we don't find a way to save them through her!” Feng Guangkuo yelled.

More City Hunters soon showed up and drove the infuriated townfolk away.

”Captain, you have to save our children! I only have one child, I can't let anything happen to him.”

”Just go home, you are only interfering with our investigation!” Feng Guangkuo snapped back.

Feng Guangkuo was quite popular among the townfolk. He had helped the town a lot whenever something happened in Tongxiang.

The crowd left while murmuring under their breath. Mo Fan was dumbfounded after witnessing it all. Wasn't this a typical scene in an ancient drama?

The men in the village were particularly fond of a beautiful woman, so the other women in the village were extremely jealous of her. As such, when something happened in the village, the women would blame it all on the beautiful woman by accusing her of being a monster, and the reason why the disaster had happened in the first place...

The only difference was that Yu Shishi was indeed not an ordinary human. She was the moth woman, and she definitely had something to do with the children that had fallen ill!

”Why are you here still?” Feng Guangkuo asked in an unpleasant tone after he saw Mo Fan.

Mo Fan showed the man his Hunter Master badge and the proof of his identity as a mentor of the Pearl Institute before replying, ”I'm here for an investigation. She seems to be the reason why the water has stopped flowing.”

”Oh, I didn't expect you to be a Hunter Master at such a young age, not to mention a mentor of the Pearl Institute too. Pardon me!” Feng Guangkuo said.

”Can I have a few words with her?” Mo Fan asked.

”Sure, but I doubt she's going to tell you anything. Whenever we try to do something to her, the silk will show up and protect her,” Feng Guangkuo said helplessly.

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Mo Fan went up to Yu Shishi. The silk had disappeared on its own when Yu Shishi was not in danger.

The woman wearily lifted her gaze and looked at Mo Fan.

”I should have killed you back in the woods!” Yu Shishi was furious as soon when she saw Mo Fan.

She had spared Mo Fan's life, but to her surprise, the man had reported her to the City Hunters instead.

”You've misunderstood me, I didn't tell them anything. I did send someone to keep an eye on you, but I didn't ask the City Hunters to arrest you. Are you the reason why the kids have fallen ill?” Mo Fan asked seriously.

”They won't live if I'm dead, including your student!” Yu Shishi said coldly.

”Why are you doing this?” Mo Fan asked.

”Why?” Yu Shishi suddenly burst out laughing. Her smile was cold and sinister, ”Does a demon creature need a reason to eat humans?”

Mo Fan was stunned.

She was right; if she really was a demon creature, she did not need a reason to kill and eat humans. It was part of her nature, just like how humans ate meat.

”Let the kids go, and I'll make sure you leave unharmed. Otherwise, you will have to spend the rest of your life locked away,” Mo Fan said.

”Hehe, who do you think is going to compromise when the kids are about to die?” Yu Shishi said coldly.

”Fine, but why did you stop the water from flowing? Are you trying to take out the food supply of the entire Tongxiang valley?” Mo Fan asked.

Food was extremely important due to the limited space of human territories in the safe zone. The space available for crops-planting was limited. Tongxiang was a huge source of food. If the water stopped flowing, it would greatly hinder the production of food.

”That's right! I want them all to starve to death!” Yu Shishi said.

”You are seriously an incisive monster, unlike the ones that pretend to be kind and pure-hearted in the TV dramas,” Mo Fan said.