His entire family perished in battle; he rose from the ashes to conquer the world.

At that moment, a terrifying thought flashed through Zhang Dongjia's mind.

But I can't believe it.

After some thought.

He immediately led his men to Qin Hongxiu's room.

In terms of pushing open.

Zhang Dongjia and his group searched the house, but like the other rooms, it was empty.

"Did you encounter a ghost?"

The man beside him said in a terrified voice.

The others were also terrified. They had clearly seen Mu Yuan and his group go upstairs, but now they were all gone from their rooms, vanished into thin air.

Aside from encountering ghosts.

They couldn't think of any way to make someone disappear into thin air.

Zhang Dongjia raised his hand and slapped the employee next to him, saying viciously:

"What nonsense! There are no ghosts in this world! Besides, even ghosts are afraid of evil people. We've killed so many people; even if they were ghosts, they'd be afraid of us!"

The slapped waiter covered his face, looking aggrieved, and dared not speak again, for fear of angering Boss Zhang and getting slapped again.

"Let's go downstairs and take a look!"

Thinking that no one was on the second floor, Zhang Dongjia decided to go to the first floor to look for them.

Come downstairs.

Zhang Dongjia and his group were stunned.

The people they wanted to kill, including Mu Yuan, were sitting at the table where they had been eating earlier.

"Boss Zhang, what are you doing bringing men upstairs in the middle of the night, armed with knives? Are you planning to commit murder and rob someone in the dead of night?"

Mu Yuan sat upright, a smile on his face, looking at Zhang Dongjia and his group.

Seeing that he had been exposed, and that things had come to this point, Zhang Dongjia stopped pretending and immediately ordered his accomplices:

"Kill them all! Kill the men and make meat buns, keep the women, we'll have our fun, then sell them to brothels for money!"

"It really is a rip-off!" Qin Hongxiu said angrily.

As he spoke, a group of people from the inn rushed over with knives.

Mu Yuan, however, showed no intention of getting up or even running away.

The Shadow Squad behind them immediately engaged in battle.

next moment.

The two sides clashed.

The sounds of fighting erupted.

However, the fight only lasted a short while.

The Shadow Squad members were all elites among elites. If Mu Yuan hadn't ordered them to be captured alive, they could have ended the battle in an instant.

When Zhang Dongjia saw that his men had been captured and pinned to the ground, he immediately realized that Mu Yuan and his group were no ordinary people, and he was so frightened that he immediately turned around and tried to escape.

Unfortunately, this idea had barely formed in his mind.

I suddenly felt a chill on my neck.

When Zhang Dongjia looked down, he was shocked to find a sharp sword pressed against his neck.

And the one wielding the sword.

It was Qin Hongxiu.

"Heroine, spare my life!" Zhang Dongjia trembled with fear. In order to save his life, he wisely dropped the knife in his hand.

"He looks honest, but he's actually full of bad intentions and his mind is full of dirty and filthy thoughts."

Qin Hongxiu's eyes were filled with murderous intent. If Mu Yuan hadn't instructed her beforehand to leave a witness alive for interrogation, she would have killed Zhang Dongjia on the spot with a single sword stroke.

Zhang Dongjia also realized that Qin Hongxiu was not the one in charge. He glanced around and finally fixed his gaze on Mu Yuan. He clasped his hands together and kept bowing and begging Mu Yuan for mercy.

"Great hero, spare our lives! This is the first time we've done something like this. Please forgive us, as we are all first-time offenders."

"First offense!?" Mu Yuan sneered, "Judging from your actions—drugging and barging into the room with knives, slashing around—these methods don't seem like those of a first offense."

Although I had made ample preparations before coming here and knew that this was a border region, a place where all sorts of people mingled and the world was in chaos, I never expected it to be so chaotic.

Even the inn was a den of thieves, involved in murder and robbery.

No wonder there are hardly any people in the city.

It turns out that everyone who stayed here has become a lawless villain.

When Zhang Dongjia heard Mu Yuan accurately describe the movements of his group, he immediately realized that from the very beginning, every move of his group had been secretly monitored by Mu Yuan and his men.

"We really are first-time offenders!"

Zhang Dongjia gritted his teeth and persisted, thinking that as long as he kept denying it, there might still be a glimmer of hope.

If they were to confess everything they had done over the years, even ten lives wouldn't be enough to compensate for it.

"You still dare to lie!"

Mu Yuan slammed his hand on the table, then gave Jin Kui, the leader of the Shadow Squad, a wink.

The latter understood immediately.

He strode up to Zhang Dongjia, grabbed his right hand, and twisted it hard.

There was a click.

Zhang Dongjia let out a mournful howl; his right hand had already been broken.

"If you don't tell the truth, I can't guarantee it's just a simple broken hand," Mu Yuan warned.

Mr. Zhang panicked.

He never expected that the group of people in front of him would be even more ruthless than himself. Just because they didn't agree with him, they ordered their men to break his hand.

Zhang Dongjia dared not imagine what would happen if he continued to be stubborn.

"I'll talk, I'll talk."

Zhang Dongjia completely gave in.

Seeing that he had backed down, Mu Yuan asked, "How many times has your group done something like this before?"

"Three times."

"Tell the truth!!!" Mu Yuan shouted.

Startled, Zhang Dongjia quickly changed his tune, stammering, "It's...the thirteenth chapter."

"Looks like you're an old hand at this." Mu Yuan's smile held a hint of sarcasm as he continued his questioning: "When was the last time?"

Zhang Dongjia was so overwhelmed by Mu Yuan's relentless questioning that he kept swallowing hard.

"The most recent one was the day before yesterday."

A strange look flashed in Mu Yuan's eyes, and he quickly asked:

"How many people?"

"one."

"Male or female?"

"A woman."

Based on Zhang Dongjia's answer, Mu Yuan became even more certain that the woman Zhang Dongjia mentioned was most likely Lin Xueshang.

"Is that woman dead or alive?"

Mu Yuan kept his face calm, not letting Zhang Dongjia see any clues.

"Alive." Zhang Dongjia didn't find anything wrong with Mu Yuan's question and answered truthfully:

"That woman is quite strong. We originally used a drug that would make people lose their strength, but even so, she still managed to kill two of our brothers before we could barely subdue her."

Upon hearing this, Mu Yuan's heart skipped a beat.

At this moment, Mu Yuan was certain that the woman Zhang Dongjia was talking about was Lin Xueshang.

"Did you do anything despicable to her?"

No, absolutely not.

Zhang Dongjia shook his head vigorously: "That woman is incredibly fierce. She could kill two of our brothers if she were drugged. We're scared too, how could we dare do that to her? We can only lock her in the woodshed for now, and plan to..."

"What are you planning?" Mu Yuan pressed.

Zhang Dongjia swallowed hard: "I plan to choose an auspicious day and send her to Black Cloud Village in Black Wind Mountain to be sold to the head of Black Cloud Village as a concubine."

Upon learning that Lin Xueshang had not been sexually assaulted, but merely locked in the woodshed, Mu Yuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

But soon, the Black Cloud Village mentioned by Zhang Dongjia caught Mu Yuan's attention.

This gang of people, who frequently commit murder and robbery, actually had to cooperate with others.

Moreover, when Zhang Dongjia mentioned Black Cloud Village...

He was clearly afraid.