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Chapter 8 How does Butler Liu plan to kill me?
"What did you say?" the tree demon roared in fury.

Cheng Mai stood up and patted the dirt off his clothes. "You can't even mimic a parrot properly, yet you're trying to eat people here."

As Cheng Mai spoke, he not only showed no fear of the corpses, but even walked over to them, saying, "So many people have been killed and no one has reported missing persons. It seems there's more to this than meets the eye."

The tree spirit fell silent, observing Cheng Mai.

This is clearly a human being, not even a Taoist priest, so why would it have such audacity?

"Who are you?"

"The people who came to arrest you."

"Are you a Taoist priest?"

"No, that's not it." After counting the remains, Cheng Mai found there were seven in total, and judging from the tattered clothes beside them, they were not beggars or vagrants.

However, there have been no recent reports of missing persons in City A.

Enraged, the tree demon unleashed its withered branches from all directions, attempting to strangle Cheng Mai. "You little human, whatever you're so proud of, today you will become my nourishment."

The tree branch approached Cheng Mai, who counted down, "Three, two, one."

"boss!"

There was a bang.

The dead tree was split open, and the tree spirit let out a heart-wrenching cry.

As the sun streamed in, Cheng Mai saw the man leaning against the big tree opposite.

"Boss Shang," the tree spirit stammered, trembling.

Merchant Jian casually tossed a skinned rabbit to Cheng Mai, "Can you roast it?"

Cheng Mai: "Boss, you seem to have some serious illness."

Is it time to roast rabbit?

And rabbits!
Can't you please respect the fact that she's a girl?

"This rabbit demon has eaten no fewer than a hundred people over the past hundred years."

"Spicy or plain roasted?" Cheng Mai asked, trying to find some firewood.

The tree demon's soul was still panting on the ground when Shang Xingjian raised his hand and shaved the tree demon's true form into firewood, which he then used to build a fire.

Cheng Mai readily agreed and put the rabbit on the shelf.

The merchant simply tossed the rabbit demon's soul beside the tree demon.

then,

A recliner appeared out of nowhere.

There are also matching sun umbrellas.

He slowly lay down, looking every bit the vacationer.

Cheng Mai was shocked and speechless.

"I have never liked the method of scattering the soul, but I have one subordinate who can cut flesh and destroy the soul, repeating the eighty-one times, and then repair the soul. This can be repeated, and he can last for more than a hundred years." Shang Xingjian lit a fire with his fingertip and threatened slowly.

Cheng Mai glanced at Shang Xingjian silently.

This guy's methods of threatening people are all the same.

"Tell us, tell us!" The rabbit demon, seeing its own body sizzling and dripping with oil from the roasting, immediately shouted, "A hundred years ago, one day I suddenly gained consciousness and met an old Taoist priest in these mountains. That Taoist priest taught me the method of cultivation."

"eat human?"

The rabbit demon cowered: "Yes."

"Where did these people come from?" Cheng Mai asked.

The rabbit demon bared its teeth, looking down on this mortal.

The merchant simply raised his hand and delivered an invisible slap.

The rabbit demon rolled several times after being whipped, groaning, and hurriedly replied, "We, we don't know either. It's just that every year, if anyone who enters the mountain has a red dot on their forehead, we can eat them. That's what the old Taoist priest said!"

“That old Taoist priest must have been sending fewer people lately, which is why the mountain spirits are becoming agitated and harming normal people who come up the mountain,” Cheng Mai guessed. “Starting from half a month ago.” “You, how do you know?” the tree spirit asked in shock.

“It really is him.” Cheng Mai sneered. “Liu Bo had someone set up an array for me, and the price was that every year I would send living people to Shaoming Mountain to feed these monsters and help them cultivate.”

"Not too stupid." Shang Xingjian gave a verbal compliment.

Cheng Mai planned to poison the rabbit to make the man mute.

"What's the purpose of that person raising all these spirits on the mountain?" Cheng Mai looked at his leisurely boss. "Boss?"

"Things will work themselves out; kill one at a time." As soon as Shang Xingjian finished speaking, two screams rang out, and the souls of the rabbit demon and the tree demon vanished instantly.

Cheng Mai: "Soul scattered and spirit dispersed?"

That's not what the boss just said!
Merchant Jian: "It's just that I don't like it, not that I can't."

As they were talking, they produced a set of seasonings from somewhere, along with a plate of watermelon.

Iced.

Cheng Mai tried to ignore his boss's various shady tactics and steered the conversation back to the main topic, "The Shaoming Mountain fire is such a big news story that the whole country knows about it. That person should come looking for Liu Bo, right? Then we can just arrest that person directly?"

“Shaoming Mountain is just the tip of the iceberg. To make such a big plan, that Taoist priest is just one link in the chain. But we can follow the trail.” Shang Xingjian took out a chocolate ice cream and started eating.

Cheng Mai: "..." Where did all these things come from?
Did you bring a refrigerator with you?

"So you mean there are probably many other places where this is happening?"

The merchant nodded.

"Then why aren't you going to investigate? Why are you still here on vacation?"
"Aren't you building a non-human internet? Connecting will be quick," Shang Xingjian said nonchalantly, showing no real urgency.

Cheng Mai let out a breath and asked seriously, "Is killing a god illegal?"

This time, Shang Xingjian paused for a moment before slowly saying, "It's not illegal, it's just utter ruin."

The rabbit is roasted.

Shang Xingjian reacted quickly; by the time Cheng Mai realized what was happening, the rabbit was already in Shang Xingjian's hands.

The merchant casually tossed her a piece of bread.

Cheng Mai: "..." Is this something a human would do?
"This rabbit is deeply sinful, its resentment seeps into its very bones. I'm doing this for your own good." Shang Xingjian enjoyed his meal.

Cheng Mai angrily took a bite of bread, wishing his resentment would devour him.

"Why does this bread taste so strange?" Cheng Mai said, instinctively looking at the packaging.

The next second, Cheng Mai roared furiously.

"The merchant's certificate has expired twenty years ago!"

Even if it means eternal damnation today, she will still slay the god!
Before Cheng Mai could kill the god, news of Shen Luo arrived.

"Liu Bo has been found."

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Liu Bo returned to the Cheng family home under cover of darkness, evading all the servants, and brought out the injured Madam Cheng and Cheng Ying.

Having lived in the Cheng family for so many years, he knows every path the Cheng family takes.

He hasn't dared to come back recently because he's avoiding Cheng Mai, but the Cheng Group is in turmoil today, and Cheng Mai himself is in dire straits.

"I won't leave, I won't leave! I'm the eldest daughter of the Cheng family, who do you think you are?" Cheng Ying screamed shrilly, but Madam Cheng covered her mouth tightly.

She struggled fiercely, refusing to acknowledge that Liu Bo was her father, that she was the eldest daughter of the Cheng family, and that the entire Cheng family should belong to her.

"Yingying, listen to me, let's go quickly, or we'll really be beaten to death." Madam Cheng cried as she pleaded with her daughter. Recently, her father would beat her whenever he didn't like her, and she was terrified of being beaten.

"Yingying, be good. Daddy promises to bring you back. Then the entire Cheng family will be yours," Liu Bo said tenderly.

Cheng Ying glared at Liu Bo with malice, "Then you promised to kill that bitch Cheng Mai. She stole everything that should have belonged to me."

"Don't worry, Dad's master is very powerful. As long as we go to him, he can kill Cheng Mai at midnight. She definitely won't live past dawn," Liu Bo coaxed.

"Is that so? How does Butler Liu plan to kill me?"

(End of this chapter)