The copy has 0 error tolerance, and the last words on the ground are all wrong for me.

Chapter 33: Evil people have their own trials and tribulations

Wu Chang tied his horse outside and stepped into the mist alone.

Visibility was very low in the fog, and a damp smell hit me in the face, mixed with a faint burnt smell and a slight smell of blood.

There was deathly silence all around him, and the only sound he could hear was his own breathing, as if the fog had turned into a dead place.

He held the Silver Dawn in one hand and the Soul-Cleansing Flag in the other, keeping an eye out for the fog around him.

Normally, when the temperature drops to a certain level, the water vapor in the air will condense, causing the ambient humidity to drop.

The temperature near Chenjia Village is freezing cold, probably below minus 20 degrees Celsius. At this temperature, thick fog can still condense in the air. There must be something strange in the fog.

As he went deeper into the fog, subtle noises began to appear in his ears.

There was a dull creaking sound, like the sound of feet sinking into the snow. The sound was right next to him, but when he walked towards the sound, he found there was nothing there.

Only a series of sporadic footprints appeared out of nowhere and disappeared out of nowhere.

Quite shy.

Wu Chang did not get entangled with the pursuer behind him and continued to move forward into the fog. Not long after, he saw the shadow of Chenjia Village.

Chenjia Village is built on the mountain, and the overall architectural pattern is distributed in a gradient. In order to facilitate traveling merchants and trade, the villagers built a small town at the foot of the mountain.

At its busiest time, the popularity here was no less than that of a normal small town outside the mountain. However, as mountain bandits wreaked havoc, Chenjia Village became deserted, and only at the end of spring and autumn each year could it regain its former glory.

The situation in the town was horrific, as if it had been through a war.

The town gate was violently broken open, and the four-meter-high solid wooden door panel broke into three pieces. Judging from the broken ends, it was shattered by a blunt object with great force.

Nearly half of the houses were burned to charcoal, and every time the mountain wind blew, it would bring up a cloud of black smoke.

The people of Chenjia Village value martial arts, and when suddenly attacked, they resisted fiercely.

Spurts of blood and sword wounds could be seen everywhere on the streets and on the walls of houses.

But what was abnormal was that compared to the messy battle situation in the town, the town was too clean and there was not a single corpse to be seen.

Who is so civic-minded that he stays to do cleaning after a war?

He walked along the street, checking every house. When he searched the seventh house, he saw a light red resentment in the backyard.

Below the Resentment is a hidden vegetable cellar, the door of which has been completely frozen shut from the outside.

After breaking the ice shell and opening the door, they found a corpse dressed as a merchant lying behind the door.

The merchant did not die of starvation or freezing, but was lying on the ground with blood all over his face, as if he had hit himself to death.

Let me see what happens.

The scene unfolded in resentment, allowing him to see a glimpse of what happened to Chenjia Village.

The battle took place at midnight. That night, the merchant had just laid down on the bed when he heard shouting and killing outside.

He put on his clothes and opened the door hastily. There was already flames outside. From a distance, he saw a dozen young men from Chenjia Village surrounding a four-meter-tall ghost-faced ape in the center.

The ghost-faced ape looked similar to the mandrill that Liu Shan had mentioned. The mandrill was covered in yellow light and was invulnerable to swords and guns. It slaughtered all the young and strong men surrounding Chenjia Village in just a few rounds.

Seeing such a terrifying monster, he dared not go out and quickly hid in the vegetable cellar, praying that he could escape.

Not long after, the shouting and screaming outside gradually faded, and everything seemed to be over.

But suddenly fog rose in the village, and the fog poured into the vegetable cellar through the cracks.

In the fog, the traveling merchant's mind became extremely sensitive. He began to be afraid of his surroundings and only dared to sit in front of the vegetable cellar with a fire starter in hand.

He didn't dare look back, as if the most terrifying thing in the world was hidden in the darkness behind him.

As time went by, his body began to tremble, his expression changed from nervousness to uneasiness, uneasiness to panic, and panic finally to collapse and madness.

He was determined to escape at all costs, even if he was discovered and killed by the monsters outside.

He wanted to open the door to escape, but found that the door was frozen. He knocked on the door hard, but it didn't move.

When the hammer broke, he started banging on the door. When he was too tired to bang it anymore, he lay down behind the door and kept hitting it with his head, biting it with his teeth, and rubbing it with his face...

The merchant used up his last bit of strength and died in terror, not knowing whether he died of exhaustion or fright. The screen went black, and Wu Chang withdrew from the scene of resentment.

The fog covering Chenjia Village was indeed abnormal. The traveling merchants had been exposed to it for too long and suffered a mental breakdown and died.

It was just that because his willpower was more than ten times stronger than that of an ordinary person, and because of the soul-purifying flag in his hand, he did not realize the strangeness of the fog.

During subsequent home inspections, he found seven or eight more bodies. Their deaths were similar to those of the merchants, all of them self-inflicted due to the influence of the fog.

Unfortunately, these people did not harbor any resentment, so it was impossible to obtain more information.

As it was getting dark, he gave up his blanket search, let go of his perception, entered a state almost like meditation, and tried to find clues with inspiration that was stronger than his will.

In a trance, he felt the Soul-Purifying Flag fluttering slightly, as if attracted by something.

Following the guidance of the Soul-Cleansing Flag, he came to the side of the town close to the mountain.

This was originally the warehouse and trading place of Chenjia Village. The villages in the mountains would transport their stockpiled mountain products here and sell them to traveling merchants who came into the mountains.

But at this moment, the trading floor has turned into a slaughterhouse.

The place originally used to store mountain products was now filled with dead villagers from Chenjia Village. Thousands of young and strong men were neatly laid out there. The biting icy fog filled the air, turning the place into a huge cold storage.

Oh no, the monsters are here to buy mountain products too.

While marveling at the monster's generosity, Wu Chang soon discovered a problem.

When I watched the resentment of the traveling merchants before, I didn’t notice anything wrong with Chenjia Village. But now, with thousands of Chenjia Village villagers lined up together, why do they look less and less like good people?
All the dead in the village were young and strong men, which can be explained by the fact that Chenjia Village had already sent away the women and children.

The young and strong men are all muscular, with strong muscles and bones, which can be fully explained by regular walking on mountain roads and exercising.

Seventy percent of them had scars or other injuries on their bodies, which could be explained by the ferocity of wild animals in the mountains.

But how do we explain the swords, spears, and halberds piled all over the ground?

Even if it is a copy plane, privately hoarding thousands of weapons is considered treason.

What's more, considering the physical fitness of the villagers in Chenjia Village, this level of force has far exceeded the explanation of self-defense. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are private soldiers raised by a certain force.

Combining the above points, a bold idea came to Wu Chang's mind.

Could the so-called Chenjia Village be the Black Mountain bandits who fled into Bailihuai Mountain?

If Chenjia Village was really the Black Mountain bandits on the wanted list, then the fact that the village was massacred by the bandits by monsters was a testament to the saying that every evildoer will be punished by his own evil.

Every villager in Chenjia Village is strong and healthy, with abundant vitality, so the probability of them harboring resentment after death is extremely high.

Through the villagers' resentment, Wu Chang fully understood the drastic changes that Chenjia Village had suffered.

Five days ago, the palace lanterns of Huaigu Village were returned.

The villagers and traveling merchants in the town were arm in arm, eating meat and drinking wine, discussing whether the government had recently relaxed its control over Baili Huaishan and whether they should increase the number of transactions from twice a year to four.

When everyone was drinking happily, the formation used to expel monsters in the village suddenly broke, and the lights in the surrounding towers went out at the same time.

In the chaos, a mandrill that had sneaked near the village broke into the village and, together with five or six other monsters, massacred the entire Chenjia Village.

Wu Chang had seen two of these monsters before. They were the mountain-blocking ghost couple he met in the black shop when he first entered the dungeon.

No wonder this place looks like a cold storage for storing meat. It seems that the two mountain ghosts have suffered from their occupational disease.

Thinking back to the five or six monsters that appeared in the resentment, Wu Chang felt a headache.

From killing one evil spirit, it becomes killing a whole team of monsters. Is this also a fluctuation in difficulty caused by the contamination of the copy?

However, he has not been attacked since he entered Chenjia Village until now, which means that these monsters should have left.

He had to act quickly before they came back.

After gathering enough information through his resentment, he left the trading floor. As soon as he walked out, he saw the fog covering the village turn into a vortex, and a body condensed in the open space in the center of the town.

A biting cold and murderous intent hit me in the face.

Wu Chang shrugged. It seemed that the monsters had left one to guard the house.

(End of this chapter)