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Chapter 12 Ripples
The main street of the market.

Once again it was crowded.

Sombre and deadly silence.

Even those evil young men who had managed to survive but were seriously injured and in a miserable state, gritted their teeth and said nothing.

The people who arrived simply dealt with them and casually placed them on the ground, lying together with the dead evil teenagers.

Even the two people who were lucky enough to be unharmed stood obediently by the side, not daring to breathe.

The atmosphere was the most solemn. There were a dozen men and women of different ages standing there. Their eyes, filled with worry and even fear, were fixed on the two figures on the ground.

These are two women who were smiling brightly not long ago, but now have expressionless faces.

The biggest difference between the two was that one of them was lying on the ground, and her chest, which had once fascinated men, was now obviously sunken, and blood had dyed her light green clothes dark red.

The other sat next to her, his head bowed and his eyes dull.

Her right leg was covered in blood, and one could even see the broken leg bones exposed in her calf.

A charming woman in her thirties or forties next to her was carrying a medicine box and her face was full of pleading, but she ignored her.

She tried to use force to punish him, but all she got in return was a pair of cold and chilling looks.

She could only stand there with the others.

In addition, there were many people scattered in twos and threes along the entire long street, especially in the accident section, which was carefully checked over and over again by pairs of eyes.

At this moment, a group of figures in black tights approached quickly, each holding a person in their hands like a dead dog.

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

When these people arrived at the scene of the accident, they threw the people in their hands to the ground, and for a while there was endless wailing and begging for mercy.

"It's unfair, we are wronged!"

"This matter really has nothing to do with us!"

"Even if you give me ten courages, I still wouldn't dare to do that!"

"..."

Standing next to the two women on the ground, an old man in gray clothes and white hair, who was vaguely the leader of the crowd, frowned and swept his cold eyes over those people in black tights.

Soon, the mouths of those who were thrown to the ground and wailing for mercy were stuffed with rags, their hands were tied behind their backs, and they were forced to kneel in a row on the ground.

The scene became quiet again, but also became more solemn.

If Geng Xuan were here, he would find that these people were all the ones who had the meeting at the table in "Hongyue Tower" yesterday.

This includes the man who mistook the teapot for a wine pot and got his mouth scalded, and also the middle-aged man in a long gown who made cold remarks and left halfway.

Without exception, no one was spared.

Everyone who was at that table was now kneeling in a row on the gravel road.

This long street filled with a solemn and depressing atmosphere had not been quiet for long before it was suddenly broken by a loud and noisy sound.

But in the distance, dozens of figures dressed in colorful clothes came running out, basically all of them were women, including girls who had not yet reached the age of marriage, old women with gray hair and walking sticks running quickly, but most of them were middle-aged women who looked to be in their thirties or forties.

With their arrival, the solemn and depressing atmosphere on the street disappeared, and it was filled with noise and chaos.

"My son, you died miserably!"

"My dear grandson, wake up, wake up!"

"Does it hurt? Why didn't anyone treat you and let you just lie on the ground like this?"

"..."

Some cried because their sons and grandchildren had died, while others saw that their babies were seriously injured, and because they were lucky, they couldn't help but take good care of them and ask questions.

Once this first wave of emotions was vented, they were soon directed at the people present.

A burly and sturdy woman took the lead in attacking. She stared fiercely at a middle-aged man who was standing silently next to the two girls and cursed:
"Mr. Lu, do you still have any humanity? Your son's legs were broken, but you didn't want to deal with it quickly and threw him on the ground. Are you still a human being?"

As he spoke, he glanced at the two girls on the ground and cursed, "You don't care about your own son, but you care so much about an outsider. Could it be that this is the bastard you had with your mistress?"

"Shut up!" The man who had been suppressing his anger had eyes that seemed to be spitting fire.

"Why, it hurts you... uh..."

The woman wanted to continue to argue, but suddenly she shut her mouth and her tall and sturdy body fell straight to the ground.

His eyes were wide open, and he died with his eyes open.

She hadn't known when her head had been pierced by a branch as thick as a chopstick. When she fell to the ground and died, a few leaves hanging on one end of the branch were still swaying gently.

The chattering and noisy group of women suddenly fell silent.

The people who had been standing next to the two girls were shocked and turned around to see a middle-aged man quietly appearing behind them.

"Xu... Gang Leader Xu!"

"Boss Xu!"

"..."

Everyone spoke up, but they could hardly control the trembling in their voices.

Fear and panic were clearly written on everyone's face.

Faced with these greetings, the middle-aged man did not respond.

From the moment he appeared, his eyes were always on the corpse on the ground.

He stepped forward, and the people surrounding the two girls quickly made way for him.

In this suffocating atmosphere, an old voice sounded:

"Boss Xu, you are an important person. No one dared to move without you. But my grandson is about to die. You..."

A white cone-shaped energy suddenly swept through the void and sank into the forehead of the old woman with a stick who was mumbling incessantly and looking pleading.

The next moment, this cone-shaped energy flew out from the back of the old woman's head, bringing out a line of brain and blood mist, and flew forward nearly ten meters before suddenly disappearing.

"Pfft"!
The old woman fell to the ground with her hunched body.

It was not until this moment that the women finally realized what was going on. They were all so frightened that they fell silent and no one dared to make a noise.

A man behind "Boss Xu" signaled to one of the men in black clothes.

Soon, these brightly dressed women were taken away from here.

Boss Xu walked all the way to the two girls and stood beside them. He paused for a moment at the sunken chest of the girl on the ground before asking, "What's going on?"

This was the first time he spoke since he appeared, and his voice was calm, without any emotion, as if he was asking about a trivial matter.

The woman sitting on the ground finally spoke, her head still lowered and her voice hoarse.

"At the beginning of the month, we came to Lvyi Garden to escape the summer heat, and they often came to curry favor with us. Because we were bored, we often played together.

Yesterday afternoon, they said they wanted to invite us to join them for something fun, and we agreed without giving it much thought. ”

"Is it fun?" Boss Xu's voice remained calm.

The woman didn't reply.

Boss Xu's expression remained calm as he continued to speak heart-piercing words.

"Your sister died, and you didn't cry?"

The woman is silent.

Didn't cry.

However, you can see that a string of tears are sliding down her cheeks and hitting the ground like raindrops. Boss Xu's expression is still calm. He turned his head to look at the charming woman holding a medicine box next to him and said, "Treat her."

The charming woman was as if she had been pardoned, and she quickly squatted down to help the woman with her broken leg.

This time, the woman no longer resisted and let him do whatever he wanted.

Boss Xu looked at the old man in gray clothes and white hair and said:
"I sent my two daughters here to escape the summer heat. I told you in advance. What did you promise me at that time?"

The old man said nothing, didn't respond, and bent his head to ninety degrees.

"Now, my two daughters are dead, one is disabled, and the other is disabled. How are you going to explain this to me?"

The gray-clothed, white-haired old man finally spoke, pointing at the people kneeling in a row on the ground not far away, and said:

"They got into trouble here, and these merchants bear an unshirkable responsibility. They have always been in charge of this street. I took everything from them, and now I'm letting them do whatever they want with it!"

The people kneeling in a row on the ground had suffered many tortures and had been sick for a long time. But at this moment, they suddenly seemed to have a last burst of life and were extremely excited.

Unfortunately, his mouth was blocked and his hands were tied, so he could only struggle in vain like a worm, with despair in his eyes, as if he had countless grievances to tell.

Among them, there was only one exception, that was the man in a long gown who left the table halfway. He just knelt straight and did nothing.

After hearing the old man's words, Boss Xu was stunned, and then he burst into laughter as if he heard a joke.

Then he suddenly looked angry, pointed at the old man and cursed: "Is this your explanation to me?"

This was the first time he had lost his composure since his appearance.

The old man had a bitter look on his face. He knew that this price would not fool the other party, so he was about to speak again.

Fortunately, he had not expected to appease the visitor's anger so easily. If it succeeds, that would be great. If not, they could continue talking.

But before he could utter a word, his open mouth turned into a claw and grabbed his face fiercely.

"what--"

The old man let out a shrill scream.

Instead, he dug two fingers directly into his eye sockets, and his two eyeballs were popped.

After succeeding, Boss Xu did not stop there. He took a step forward and inserted the two fingers into the eye sockets completely.

"mean--!"

The desperate old man only had time to utter two words before he died.

After successfully launching a sneak attack, Gang Leader Xu pulled his fingers out of his completely empty eye sockets, slowly wiped the blood off his hands, and glanced at the people who were silent as a cicada, saying:

"The old man didn't tell me what to do, so I want one myself. Is that okay with you guys?"

Who dared to object when everyone was trembling in their hearts?

Even those men in black clothes who were directly under the old man did not jump out to seek death.

After wiping the blood off his hands, Gang Leader Xu swept his fingers outwards like swinging a pipa, and several conical energy streams flew out, and before anyone else could react, they penetrated into the heads of the surviving evil teenagers.

"Boom bang bang-"

Like a watermelon exploding, the heads exploded into bloody flowers on the spot.

"What are you still keeping these garbage for?"

Boss Xu looked at a man who had his teeth clenched and fists clenched, as if he was trying his best to suppress his emotions.

He continued to provoke:
"You have so many sons, it shouldn't be a big deal if the most useless one dies, right?"

"This... is his own fault." He said and closed his eyes in pain.

Gang Leader Xu stared at him for a while, then looked at the others:
"You have no objection to my handling of this, right?"

After waiting for a while and seeing that no one objected, Gang Leader Xu nodded slightly.

Ignoring the others, he looked at the enchanting woman squatting on the ground treating his daughter and said, "Can you hurry up?"

The enchanting woman shuddered, not daring to continue dawdling, and quickly finished the job in a few moves.

"Carry my daughter into the car." Gang Leader Xu ordered again.

At some point, an old servant had pulled up beside them in a carriage.

The enchanting woman picked up the woman with the broken leg and placed her gently on the carriage.

He also carefully adjusted the cushions in the car so that the woman with the broken leg could lie in the most comfortable position.

After she was done, she said to Boss Xu: "Boss Xu... Boss, I'm done."

Gang Leader Xu gave her a cold look and said, "Are you blind? I still have a daughter. Are you going to leave her here?"

The enchanting woman shuddered, secretly cursing herself for being a fool, and quickly carried the cold corpse on the ground onto the carriage and put it away.

Boss Xu walked in front, and the old servant followed behind him in the car.

He stopped in front of the crowd who were kneeling in a row again. The others were shaking like sieves again, but there was only one person kneeling straight and motionless.

Boss Xu looked at him and asked, "Aren't you afraid?"

This person's mouth was blocked by rag, so he couldn't speak.

He flicked his fingers and shot out a stream of energy, which scattered the rags in his mouth.

The man spat out the rag in his mouth and said, "Of course I'm scared."

"Then why don't you beg for mercy?"

"is that useful?"

"How do you know it's useless?"

The man was startled at first, and then he crawled on the ground like a worm with his hands tied behind his back, "Please, Boss Xu, spare my life!"

"Haha..." Boss Xu, whose daughter had just died, laughed heartily. After a while, he asked, "What's your name?"

"Ji Yunxiao."

"My name is Xu Xiangfeng, and you will work for me from now on."

When the carriage started again, there was one more person on board.

After a while, Xu Xiangfeng stopped again, looked at a man who was standing with one foot on the gravel road and one foot on the drainage ditch and asked:
"Anything discovered?"

"It must be because of water seepage in the canal."

"Is that the reason?"

"should be."

Xu Xiangfeng was silent, frowning as he looked at the drainage ditch that had already been broken into pieces, and he didn't say a word for a long time.

The damage to the canal is now more than ten times worse than before the tragedy.

There were even two horse carcasses half-submerged in the canal, and the surrounding area was so destroyed that it was impossible to restore the appearance before the accident.

The canal was also damaged a lot by the horses' trampling after they lost control, the horses' falling, and the young men's falling off the horses. Finally, the canal was damaged again when people on the street fled for their lives, and it is no longer recognizable to its original state.

After a while, he said, "Yunxiao, what do you think?"

"If it was an accident, there is no need to investigate; if it was not an accident, there is no need to investigate." Ji Yunxiao said lightly.

"Are you afraid that I'll hit a wall?" Xu Xiangfeng said, with emotion in his voice.

No more sound came from the carriage.

After a while, Xu Xiangfeng suddenly got on the carriage and said softly, "Let's go."

Finally, this time the carriage did not stop, but quickly went away and disappeared.

(End of this chapter)