150: Man-eating beast

“Mmm… Mmm!”

Nanny was very invested in her acting.

Her big eyes showed just the right amount of terror. Her small arms and legs flailed wildly.

Then, she tilted her head, rolled her eyes, and “fainted.”

It was worthy of an award-winning actress.

“Alright,”

The proprietress smiled slightly and winked at her scruffy subordinates.

“Clean up those rooms.”

“Yes!”

The men grinned menacingly, clutching the pre-prepared tubes of anesthetic, and crept towards Ye Fan’s guest room.

The proprietress, meanwhile, hoisted the “unconscious” Nanny onto her shoulder, her still-charming figure swaying as she walked towards the inn’s backyard.

…

On Ye Fan’s side.

Seeing that little Nanny had been “successfully” taken away, he felt a mix of amusement and exasperation.

This little ancestor.

“Creak—”

The door was pushed open a crack.

Several wisps of green smoke seeped through the gap.

Ye Fan kept his eyes tightly shut, maintaining his “sleeping” facade, even cooperatively turning over and emitting even snores.

A moment later, three men armed with sharp blades tiptoed in.

The leader was a butcher with a brutish face. He licked his chapped lips, made a ‘throat-slitting’ gesture to his companions, and then raised the pig-slaughtering knife in his hand, bringing it down fiercely towards Ye Fan’s neck!

Just a split second before the blade was about to touch his skin.

The “deeply sleeping” Ye Fan suddenly opened his eyes.

“What?!”

The butcher was greatly alarmed.

“Bang!”

A dull thud.

The pig-slaughtering knife instantly flew out of his hand, back-flying, and plunged heavily into the butcher’s own thigh.

“Ah—!”

The pig-like shriek lasted less than half a second.

Because Ye Fan’s other hand had, at some point, gripped his throat.

“Crack!”

The butcher’s head slumped down.

The remaining two men were already scared out of their wits, only wanting to flee.

But as soon as they lifted their feet, they felt a sharp pain in their ankles.

Ye Fan casually flicked out two streams of Qi, easily crippling their ability to move.

Having done all this, he finally sat up from the bed and dusted off his hands.

“Troublesome.”

He glanced at the three dog-like figures twitching on the ground, and in the next second, he had already vanished from his spot.

…

In the inn’s backyard, beside a dry well.

The proprietress skillfully moved the stone slab covering the well, revealing a dark hole from which a foul, putrid stench wafted out.

She carried Nanny and jumped down.

Inside the hole was a deep, dark tunnel.

Ye Fan’s figure followed her.

As they went deeper, the air grew increasingly foul, even carrying a nauseating smell of decay.

A few dim oil lamps hung on the walls of the tunnel, illuminating the already dried, dark red bloodstains on the walls, making them even more conspicuous.

They reached the end of the tunnel, a spacious underground stone chamber.

In a corner of the stone chamber, a small mountain of bleached bones was piled up.

Most of those bones were slender and small; clearly, they all belonged to children!

The anger in Ye Fan’s heart was almost impossible to suppress.

…

Deep inside the stone chamber.

“Proprietress, what should we do with this little girl?” A man, also holding a butcher’s knife, looked at the still “unconscious” Nanny thrown onto the stone slab, his eyes glinting.

“Should we follow the old rule and sell her to that old pervert, Master Zhang in the west of the city, or…?”

“Sell her?”

The proprietress scoffed, giving him a charming, disdainful look.

“How much money can you get by selling her? It’s too much of a loss.”

She extended her crimson tongue and licked her lips, as if looking at an exquisite delicacy about to be served.

“This little girl, with her tender skin and delicate flesh, is clearly from a wealthy family, fed with delicacies. Her meat must be top-grade!”

“Tonight, we’ll have a feast.”

She counted on her fingers, a look of rapture on her face: “Steamed, braised, fried, stir-fried… And then use her bones to make a pot of soup, making it eight dishes and one soup, delightful!”

“Hehehe, the proprietress is always so thoughtful!” The man, hearing this, also salivated, raised the butcher’s knife in his hand, and was about to chop down towards Nanny’s neck.

Just then.

A small, fair, chubby hand.

Lightly grabbed the falling butcher’s knife.

“Clang!”

A crisp sound.

The butcher’s knife, which could easily split ox bones, was firmly grasped by that small hand!

“What?!”

The lewd smile on the man’s face instantly froze.

He used all his might to try and pull out the butcher’s knife, but the knife seemed to have grown onto the other party’s hand, not moving an inch.

“You… you…”

The proprietress’s face turned pale with horror.

She had been in the Jianghu for decades, what kind of storms hadn’t she seen?

But this scene before her, she had never witnessed.

A four or five-year-old girl, bare-handed, catching a full-force blow from a grown strong man?!

Is this, damn it, a dream?!

No!

It’s not a dream!

Rejuvenation!

This little girl is definitely some old monster with sky-high cultivation who has reverted to childhood!

Run!

Must run immediately!

As soon as she turned around, she froze in place as if she had seen a ghost!

Only to see a figure standing at the entrance of the tunnel, at some unknown point.

The person wore white clothes, with a harmless smile on his face.

“Where are you two going?”

“Thud!”

The proprietress and the man still holding the knife handle, their legs went weak, and they both knelt down simultaneously!

“Senior… Senior, spare my life! Spare my life!”

The proprietress kowtowed, her voice laced with tears, “It’s all a misunderstanding! A huge misunderstanding! This humble one… this humble one was also forced! Please, Senior, for the sake of this humble one’s remaining charm, spare me this once!”

“Forced?”

Ye Fan scoffed, his gaze sweeping past the two of them and landing on the bone mountain in the corner, formed by countless children’s skeletons.

“Truly… a bunch of beasts.”

…

Seeing that begging for mercy was useless, a look of madness and venom flashed in the proprietress’s eyes.

She suddenly pulled out a poisoned dagger from her bosom and fiercely stabbed it towards Nanny, who was closest to her.

She wanted to capture this little monster to threaten the white-clothed young man!

However, what greeted her was not the panic she had imagined.

But a… small hand extended once again.

“You’re so annoying.”

“Crack!”

The dagger was directly crushed.

She was utterly despairing!

“Don’t kill me! Don’t kill me!” She shrieked incoherently, “If you kill me, the adult behind the inn will definitely not let you off! His… his power spreads throughout the entire Southern Domain! You can’t afford to offend him!”

“As long as you let me go, I… I can pretend nothing happened! I… I can even sleep with you! I’m very good at it!”

Hearing that there was someone else behind the scenes, Ye Fan and Nanny exchanged a glance.

…

Inn lobby.

The proprietress, along with her subordinates whose limbs had already been crippled, were all tied up like zongzi and thrown in the center of the lobby.

The commotion here finally alerted Yang Yi and his three Martial Emperor Dao Protectors.

When they heard Ye Fan’s account and saw the horrific scene in the tunnel, their faces all turned as black as the bottom of a pot.

“Brother Ye, these wicked beasts, just kill them. Why keep them?” Yang Yi’s voice was chillingly cold.

Ye Fan, however, shook his head.

“No rush.”

“Fishing, you know, always requires some patience.”

“The bait has been set. Now, it’s just a matter of waiting for that big fish to bite.”