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Following that, he suddenly felt his entire body go numb as if it had disappeared. As he sat there, he heard the person say in a soothing voice, ”When the rest come, why not let them sit down as well, since they've been busy all night, they must be tired.”
”Mn… Let them all sit down.”
”The person you're looking for is on the mountain top,” the person pointed at the peak of the mountain.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click visiting.
He continued to stare into the person's eyes, thinking that those eyes were mysteriously beautiful and extremely comforting.
He said, ”Mn, on the mountain, not leaving.”
”You're very powerful, the person you're seeing, is waiting for you to find him, for you to kill him.”
”The person I'm seeing, waiting for us to kill him…”
The few people who had finished creating the footprints trodden over. One of them held onto the ”woodcutter” and asked, ”Is everything alright?”
The person smiled and patted the other person's hand, his eyes not leaving the little captain's. ”Close your eyes,” He ordered.
The little captain immediately felt drowsy and closed his heavy eyelids.
As the few people snaked around him, somebody mumbled, ”Want to kill, want to kill, I want to kill—”
”There is still use in sparing their lives,” The gentle, low voice of the man said.
”I resist, I resist, I resist, resist, resist,” the mumbling faded into the distance.
This sentence seemed to wake the little captain as he opened his eyes. He continued to sit there as he watched the five men return from the cave after a fruitless search. ”Aren't you tired, come, sit,” he called out immediately.
It was rare for the five subordinates to see their superior acting so friendly; hence, they sat down happily and fell into a silence.
The little captain raised his finger and pointed at the mountain top. ”Up there, I saw, very powerful, he said he's waiting for us to kill him,” he said.
The five subordinates squinted at the mountain top and responded, ”Mn, at the top.
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On the night of the thirteenth day of the second month, a five-man team of the Amethyst Cape Knights claimed to discover ”traces of the enemy” on the top of Donglan Mountain. When they were brought back to report to the General of the Amethyst Cape Knights, they claimed that the enemy was not going anywhere, he was waiting for them atop the mountain, waiting for them to kill him. All five were unanimous in their report, and after investigating the mountain, they indeed found several footprints in the mud heading towards the top of the mountain, just as the five had described.
As such, the General of the Amethyst Cape Knights rushed to Donglan Mountain that very night, bringing with him half of the Amethyst Cape Knights and surrounding the mountain tightly. ”Not even a housefly should be able to leave this place!”
On the fourteenth day of the second month, at the main city of Guanyuan County fifty miles from Donglan Town.
A long, snaking crowd had gathered in front of the city gates early in the morning. People inside wanted to go out, people outside wanted to go in. However, all of the merchants and city folk were stuck at the city gates. The gate guards were even more meticulous than usual in their checks, even feeling their clothes. Whatever money they felt was conveniently taken away, and the women suffered, forced to take off their shoes as the guards laughed and felt around their dainty shoes, causing the ladies to cry helplessly.
Everyone had an uneasy look on their faces, yet none of them dared to say anything, merely standing in line and engaging in hushed conversation with the people around them.
”… What's going on recently?”
”I heard they're catching a huge criminal!”
”… This place is still good, the checks at Donglan Mountain, as well as the wilderness, are even more stringent!”
”… See those purple-robed men? Amethyst Cape Knights!”
”Ah… I heard that just a few days ago they were searching Donglan Town for someone, and after they couldn't find the person, they released their anger on the townsfolk, robbing and looting them! The poor Li family even…”
”Silence! Do you still value your life, mentioning this!”
There was a sharp silence as the cowardly commoners shut their mouths and followed the crowd, moving forward obediently.
In the crowd, a haggard-looking Daoist priest suddenly rolled his eyes and stroked the three hairs growing from a mole on his face.
Beside him, a peal of tinking laughter sounded from a child as he bent down and patted the dust on his robes. ”Master, be careful of getting your robes stepped on,” he said.
Behind him, an old man smiled and glanced at the child's hand. ”Go and support the master,” He said to a young servant beside him.