54: Chapter 54 It's normal that dead people can't speak.

Three and a half days later.

The dense forest outside Huoyun City.

"We've finally arrived!"

Qin Muyuan patted Wangcai's head beside him, let out a long sigh, and said.

Hearing his words, Wangcai shrank its wolf head slightly, stuck out its tongue, and revealed a flattering expression.

Originally, according to the distance from Xiniu Prefecture to Huoyun City, it would only take two and a half days to rush to Huoyun City.

But... halfway through, Wangcai got lost.

As a wolf demon, it had never been to the capital of Huoyun Country at all. On the halfway journey, it happened to walk down a fork in the road and got lost.

This caused the journey that originally took two and a half days to walk to take a full three and a half days instead.

Fortunately, after Qin Muyuan woke up midway, he redirected Wangcai and re-entered the time acceleration state.

To him, this time getting lost only took a few extra minutes to point the way.

"The time acceleration function is simply too powerful!"

Thinking of this, Qin Muyuan let out an exclamation of emotion.

If there was also a time acceleration ability in reality, it would be great to directly skip those boring elective classes.

Pulling back his thoughts, Qin Muyuan headed straight down from the dense forest outside Huoyun City and walked onto the main road.

As he approached the city gate of Huoyun City, he heard noisy and bustling human voices.

Outside the city gate of Huoyun City, countless disheveled commoners of Huoyun Country lived in a shantytown composed of thin wood and tents.

Some commoners were still standing in long queues at the city gate of Huoyun City, preparing to enter the city to make a living.

Qin Muyuan rode Wangcai closer and overheard the conversations of these commoners outside the city gate.

"You fled here from Yinhua City? Your Yinhua City actually birthed a demon too?"

"Yeah! You have no idea, that demon was terrifyingly dreadful! It was still noon back then, and the daylight was still bright! As a result, as soon as that demon came, the entire Yinhua City directly darkened, as if someone had covered the sky with a layer of cloth..."

"What does that count as! Over on my side, there weren't any anomalies in the sky, yet my neighboring folks suddenly bled from all seven orifices and died! Not long after dying, they turned into corpses and stood up again, which was truly terrifying! Hearing what they said, this was because these corpses were parasitized by demons..."

"Fortunately, our family noticed something was wrong in advance and escaped! And fortunately, the current Emperor is benevolent, taking us in and even opening the granaries to distribute food to us..."

"Yeah! Although that food has been stored for too long and has a fishy smell, as long as we can eat and stay alive, it's fine..."

Hearing the conversations of these commoners outside the city wall, Qin Muyuan's heart stirred:

"A demon? What is a demon?"

"Awoo-awoo-awoo..."

"A kind of thing even more terrifying than your Yao Race? Extremely difficult to be killed? And also exceptionally powerful?"

Hearing this, Qin Muyuan secretly remembered the so-called Yinhua City in his heart.

The so-called "demon" raided Yinhua City. It was heard that only a portion of the commoners escaped from the city, while quite a few commoners were trapped in the city by the demon.

Thinking about it, there should be many quests that can be accepted there...

However, before going to accept quests in that so-called Yinhua City, he would first slaughter the high-and-mighty Emperor of Huoyun Country.

Emperors take turns ruling, and today it comes to my house, does anyone understand this!

"Hmm?"

Right at this moment, Qin Muyuan saw a head with an exclamation mark flashing within the shantytown outside the city gate.

"There's a quest?"

Following the exclamation mark, Qin Muyuan found his target.

That was a woman whose face was likewise covered in dirt. Although her appearance was obscured by dust, her figure was well-proportioned and graceful.

It could be seen that if her body wasn't covered in dust, she should be a woman with a quite good appearance.

And precisely because of this, this woman was surrounded in the middle by several stalwart, burly men.

In front of these burly men, there was also a youth dressed in silk, wearing a jade pendant, whose attire and styling did not resemble ordinary commoners.

"With this figure, her appearance must be pretty good! Come on, raise your head and let this young master take a careful look."

Then the gorgeously-dressed youth gave a faint smile and raised his hand to reach toward the woman's face.

"Step aside!"

Seeing this, the woman let out a terrified scream, slapped away the gorgeously-dressed youth's palm reaching toward her, and tried to escape backward.

But this woman had long been surrounded by the gorgeously-dressed youth's guards; where was there any space to escape?

She could only have her retreat blocked by a burly man, staring flusteredly at the gorgeously-dressed youth.

"Oh? Still resisting?"

Seeing the woman resist, the gorgeously-dressed youth not only did not Life Qi, instead he grew even more interested in this woman.

The corners of his mouth split open into an evil smile:

"Good! I just like this kind of thorny wild flower! Only when this kind of wild flower is tamed does it pack a punch!"

Hearing the gorgeously-dressed youth's words, the guards beside him immediately smiled flatteringly:

"This kind of wild flower is something only the young master can tame!"

"That is naturally the case! After all, this young master is the renowned Great Dragon Spear of the entire Huoyun City!"

Hearing this, the gorgeously-dressed youth laughed even more uninhibitedly.

This scene caused quite a few commoners in the surrounding shantytown to tightly clench their fists.

Only.

When seeing the gorgeous attire worn by the youth, as well as those surrounding stalwart guard attendants wearing short garments, bulky in build, and with short sabers tucked at their waists.

All the commoners who wanted to stand up for that woman lowered their heads entirely.

Because even if hot blood rushed to their heads and they rushed up, it would still be difficult to beat those few stalwart guard attendants to the ground or rescue that woman.

Furthermore, if they acted impulsively, it was extremely likely that they would be targeted by the gorgeously-dressed youth, implicating their families...

The reason why acting heroically for a righteous cause was widely praised by people was because all people in the world possessed a hot-blooded heart, yet lacked the hot-blooded capability to resist the subsequent revenge of villains.

Precisely because it was scarce, precisely because the hearts of the people yearned for it yet could not carry it out, this caused the world to look forward to a great hero.

However, how could yearning ever wait for a true great hero——

Hum!

Suddenly, a crisp sword cry exploded within the shantytown.

The masses raised their eyes to look and saw a youth with black hair and black eyes, followed closely behind by a massive wolf demon, slowly walking into the shantytown.

Meanwhile, accompanied by the heavy landing sounds of "pat-pat".

Around the surrounded woman, streams of blood simultaneously violently jetted out from the necks of the four burly men!

And the heads on the necks of these burly attendants... all hit the ground at this moment!

This horrifying scene caused all the commoners to widen their eyes, plunging into dead silence.

In the shantytown, that gorgeously-dressed youth stood stunned in place, slowly raising his hand to touch his cheek.

Between his fingers, wave after wave of scalding-hot tactile sensations came over.

That was... the fishy, foul-smelling fresh blood that had jetted out from his attendant's neck!

"Ah——"

The gorgeously-dressed youth let out an extremely terrified scream, but this scream had not yet managed to resound through the skies before it abruptly ceased.

Simply because.

His head, just like those four guards, dropped to the ground with a "pat" sound.

And that scream also abruptly stopped along with the head hitting the ground.

After all.

People cannot speak after they die, which is normal.

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