Douluo Continent has a system, but I don't want to use it.

Chapter 22 Surprise

Red Hair finally realized what was happening, but seeing his three brothers die in the blink of an eye, he collapsed to the ground with a "plop," with water stains spreading beneath him.

"Grandpa, spare my life! They forced me to come here, and this is the first time I've ever done something like this. Please, grandpa, spare my life! I promise I'll turn over a new leaf and start anew!" Seeing Fang Tian's gaze fixed on him, the red-haired man was terrified and hurriedly knelt down to beg for mercy.

"Hmm, not bad, not bad. Turn over a new leaf and start anew!" Fang Tian nodded in affirmation.

"Yes, yes! Sir! I will definitely turn over a new leaf and start a new life!" Seeing Fang Tian nodding with a smile, the red-haired man thought he could live and nodded frantically to make his promise.

Taking advantage of the moment when the red-haired man lowered his head, Fang Tian flicked his wrist and threw a knife into the red-haired man's throat.

"Ugh! Ugh!" Red Hair made a few unintelligible sounds, then collapsed to the ground with a thud, kicking his legs a few times before going completely still.

Today marks the first time Fang Tian has killed someone across both his lifetimes. However, Fang Tian did not experience the physical or psychological discomfort described in the book. Perhaps it was because he knew that he had killed scumbags who did not consider them human at all.

"I really am cold-blooded!" Fang Tian couldn't help but marvel at how calm he was after killing someone.

"Little girl, come here, help me touch the corpse." Fang Tian put aside his sentimentality and, seeing that the girl who had been stopped had a calm expression, asked her to help touch the corpse.

"Touch a corpse? What do you mean?" the girl asked, puzzled. "By the way, my name is Qiu Fengyan. Thank you for saving my life today, uncle. May I ask your name?"

"It was nothing, nothing to mention. My name is Li Xunhuan, you can just call me Uncle. Looting corpses means checking if they have anything valuable on them." Fang Tian smiled nonchalantly at the girl calling him Uncle.

After explaining to the girl, Fang Tian began to search the four bodies, starting with the middle-aged man who was in charge.

Fang Tian cautiously made his move, but after checking for a long time, he found nothing. Undeterred, he used his soul power to probe further.

"Damn, he actually has a storage soul tool." Fang Tian had never seen a storage soul tool before. He only realized it by using his soul power. The middle-aged man's belt could absorb soul power and had a ten-cubic-meter space inside.

"I've hit the jackpot this time!" Fang Tian exclaimed in delight, quickly untying his belt and fastening it around his waist.

"Let me see if the other three have any surprises?" Fang Tian chuckled and began to pat the corpse-wearing man.

"He had nothing but a few dozen gold soul coins. What a poor wretch! He should have learned more from his older brother. It's no wonder he died!" Fang Tian muttered to himself.

At this moment, the girl Qiu Fengyan had finished looting the corpses of the red-haired and blue-haired men. Together, they had only found nearly a hundred gold soul coins. The girl handed the money to Fang Tian.

Fang Tian waved his hand, indicating that the girl could put it away herself.

Then Fang Tian pulled out three blood-stained willow-leaf throwing knives from the corpses, wiped them clean, and put them away. He then took out a small porcelain bottle and poured some powder onto the wounds of the four corpses.

The sounds of "hiss! hiss!" continued to ring out as the four corpses gradually turned into a pool of yellow liquid.

This is a corpse-dissolving powder specially prepared by Fang Tian. It was quite a coincidence that Fang Tian accidentally used the system to identify bone-dissolving grass and blood-dissolving grass in the back mountain of Sweet Potato Village. He then specially selected several highly corrosive herbs, mixed them together, and after dehydration and concentration, it became the corpse-dissolving powder used today.

The body-dissolving powder had only been tested on rabbits before; this is the first time it's been used on a human corpse. However, it seems to be working well.

Qiu Fengyan stared in surprise at the effects of the corpse-dissolving powder, then handed the gold soul coins she had found to Fang Tian, ​​her delicate face full of stubbornness.

"What, you're not taking this hush money?" Fang Tian teased. "Only the two of us know about what happened today. Although I killed all four of them, it was to save you. So, it's as if we killed them together. Now that there's a benefit, we should both get it. That way, we're accomplices. Otherwise, I'd be worried you'd report me."

"I'm not that kind of person!" the girl retorted angrily.

"Hehe, you can know a person's face but not their heart. I don't know what kind of person you are, so I'll only feel at ease if you accept these gold soul coins," Fang Tian continued to tease.

"Thank you!" The girl paused for a moment, then put the money bag containing the gold soul coins into her bosom.

"You thanked me earlier." Seeing that she had accepted the gold soul coins, Fang Tian stopped teasing the girl.

"To be honest, I was worried you'd blame me for indiscriminate killing! After all, the four people's crimes just now weren't punishable by death," Fang Tian said leisurely.

"If we don't kill them today, who knows how many more girls will suffer at their hands in the future, and who knows how many girls they have already harmed before today. So killing them is the right thing to do. If I had that ability, I would have killed them too." Qiu Fengyan spoke eloquently, and surprisingly, her views were similar to Fang Tian's.

"Excellent! Excellent! That's exactly why I killed them." Fang Tian was overjoyed, never expecting that this girl's views were so aligned with his.

"I think this direction leads out of the city. Do you live outside the city? I also need to go out of the city to take care of my clothes. Can we go together?" Fang Tian asked again.

"Okay!" Qiu Fengyan agreed and turned to walk out of the city.

Fang Tian put the wild goose feather knife, gold soul coins, corpse-dissolving powder, and other odds and ends he was carrying into his storage belt. He then took off the mask and turban covering his face and head, and immediately felt relaxed.

Fang Tian took out some masking spray and sprinkled some on himself to cover up the smell of blood. He had been covered in blood when he killed the man.

The two left the city, and Fang Tian followed Qiu Fengyan back to her home.

"I live in a village called Wanghun Village. My current home is a house that was previously vacant. I moved in with the permission of the village chief. The house is very simple, I hope you won't mind." Qiu Fengyan said politely as they approached home.

"Hey! What's the big deal? My family lives in a small village too, and we usually live in very simple conditions. Besides, we've even slept under the open sky in the wild before. I'm not that fussy," Fang Tian said casually.

"What should we do with your clothes? Are you going to burn them?" Qiu Fengyan asked.

"No, I need a wooden basin, fill it halfway with water, add two drops of blood-dissolving herb liquid, and then soak the blood-stained clothes in the water. After a quarter of an hour, the blood will be gone, and then you can take them out and let them dry before wearing them," Fang Tian explained in detail.

Qiu Fengyan found a wooden basin, filled it halfway with water, and watched Fang Tian's actions with her own eyes, still finding it incredibly amazing.

Fang Tian gathered some firewood, lit a small fire, and placed his coat on a branch next to the fire to dry. He thought it would be ready to wear in about an hour.

"Fengyan, is it okay if I call you that? I want to ask you a few questions." Seeing that the two were being too dull, Fang Tian started to find a topic to talk about.

"Okay, go ahead and ask me anything."

"You should have seen me at the Great Soul Arena before, right?"

"Yes, your codename in the Great Soul Arena is Green Vine, and you use a slender sword as your weapon. Because my martial soul is very similar to the weapon you use, I've been paying attention to you," Qiu Fengyan answered honestly.

(End of this chapter)