From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

If they happen to encounter people from the mountain village, they pretend to be blown by the wind and fall forward.

Why are there paper monkeys?

A bandit patrolling the village stepped forward, picked up the motionless paper monkey, and asked the men behind him, "Which brother still folds paper? So childish?"

None of the other bandits behind them, even if they secretly had a hobby of origami, dared to admit it at this moment, for fear of being laughed at by others.

Seeing that no one dared to answer, the bandit didn't ask any more questions. He simply tossed the paper monkey into the arms of a woman who was feeding her child and humming a monotonous tune not far away.

The woman was somewhat attractive, but her eyes were lifeless, as if she had been ruined.

"Madam, this monkey is for you to use to soothe the child."

The bandit said something, laughed, and then led the rest of his men out to patrol the mountains.

The woman picked up the paper monkey, looked at the child in her arms, and unconsciously pressed the paper monkey against the child's head, as if she wanted to suffocate the child.

The moment the paper monkey touched the baby, its head and limbs flailed wildly, and its tail wagged. The woman's lifeless eyes snapped to life in that instant, and her hand involuntarily loosened, causing the paper monkey to fall to the ground.

Then, the paper monkey moved its limbs and ran to the corner of the thatched hut behind the woman.

The woman's eyes brightened, but she remained calm and continued to soothe the child, humming a lighter tune.

After noticing this, the paper monkey slumped down at the corner, motionless.

Ren Jiating opened her eyes and said to Jiang Liu, "Brother Jiang, there's a woman in the village who wants to suffocate her newborn child with my paper monkey... She's probably been kidnapped into the village to be a wife. Borrowing her to find the village's food and weapons storage locations might be faster."

She was abducted to the mountains to be a bandit's wife?

It is not uncommon for bandits to abduct women from the foot of the mountain, have children with them, and most of the abducted women are numb to it. Even if they are rescued, they do not know what to do in the future. Even if they return home, they will be gossiped about by their neighbors and villagers, or even pointed at and talked about to their faces.

Even worse, some women, after being rescued, would blame others for killing their husbands.

That is, Stockholm syndrome.

But the woman Ren Jiating described seemed different; at least from her description, she wanted to suffocate the child with a paper monkey... Clearly, she was unwilling to truly submit to "Zhang Mazi".

"Not for now."

Jiang Liu shook his head.

If Ren Jiating's seven paper monkeys cannot find the location of the mountain stronghold's grain and weapons in a short time, it will not be too late to contact the woman.

Ren Jiating nodded and closed her eyes again.

Instantly.

The seven paper monkeys once again came to life and quietly moved within the mountain stronghold.

One hour later.

Lu Jin and Li Muxuan found their way here, carrying a total of sixteen Type 38 rifles, proving that the two had already dealt with nearly sixteen people.

Um--

The bandits in this mountain stronghold have lost contact with sixteen people, and the lookout and the leader haven't even realized it yet... Their lack of professionalism is outrageous!

However, considering that it was a bandit kept by a large landowner, it is understandable that other bandits and thieves in the area have probably been wiped out and there is little vigilance.

"They discovered that the people who had gone out on patrol had not returned, and the village was in chaos."

At this moment, Ren Jiating opened her eyes and reported to Jiang Liu.

# Chapter 61 Slaughtering the Mountain Stronghold... Pretty easy?

How many people are in the village?

Seeing that Ren Jiating had woken up, Jiang Liu inquired about the situation in the village.

"There were twenty-seven people, plus the woman, the baby in her arms, and several old women who were taking care of her, making a total of thirty people."

Ren Jiating reported the truth.

"The location of the provisions has been found; it's in a warehouse behind their council hall. However, the location of the weapons has not yet been discovered."

"In that case, let's temporarily abandon control of the other six paper monkeys and focus on controlling one to burn down the warehouse." Jiang Liu made his decision.

"it is good."

Controlling only a paper monkey, Ren Jiating didn't need to sit still. Instead, she rushed towards the mountain stronghold with Jiang Liu, Lu Jin, and Li Muxuan.

When they arrived at a point 50 meters from the village, the village's grain warehouse had already been set on fire. Everyone dropped their Type 38 rifles and grabbed basins or pots to fetch water from the vats outside the courtyard to put out the fire. Everyone was in a panic, and some even splashed water on others, showing no discipline whatsoever.

"They're just a bunch of rabble."

Li Muxuan sneered, "I guess it's because of the weapons and ammunition they have that they've become the local bully in this area."

"They definitely don't have enough water."

Standing on the treetop, looking towards the village, Jiang Liu made a plan: "To be on the safe side, wait until they leave the village to find water, then you can take action and deal with them one by one."

"it is good!"

Lu Jin agreed.

Sure enough, after running out of water in the mountain stronghold, the bandits grabbed their water containers and ran out of the stronghold to fetch water from the nearby streams and rivers.

Lu Jin and Li Muxuan, who had already infiltrated the area, were not professionals, but because these bandits were just a rabble and had no vigilance, only wanting to put out the fire, none of them noticed them.

So, Li Muxuan used the "Reversal of Eight Directions" technique to control one person's ankle.

Snapped!

The man was running so fast that his lower body stopped, but his upper body leaned forward due to inertia, and he fell face-first into the mud.

The other bandits behind them couldn't stop either, and five or six of them fell down.

"Damn it! What are you good for?"

"Get up quickly, go save them..."

Before he could finish speaking, Lu Jin had already darted behind them, activated his Reverse Life state, and launched a sneak attack from behind, striking the back of each of the six men hard with incredible speed.

Instantly, these six people met their demise.

The human brain is inherently fragile, especially the back of the head. Being hit with a stick can be fatal, let alone for Lu Jin who has activated the reverse life state.

Every move he makes carries the power of a dragon and a tiger; a single punch to the back of someone's head leaves no chance of survival.

That's it!

Lu Jin and Li Muxuan came three or four times, killing nearly eighteen people in total.

Only twelve people remained in the mountain stronghold.

Subtracting the woman, the infant, and the old woman who cared for them, there were only nine people who could be considered combatants.

"Damn it! Why aren't those guys back yet?"

Seeing that the granary was about to burn down, the pockmarked "Zhang the Pockmarked" cursed loudly, telling two people to guard the mountain stronghold's lady while he led six people to fetch water.

However, this "Zhang Mazi" was somewhat wary, carrying a Type 38 rifle on his back and two hand grenades at his waist.

We left the village.

"Zhang Mazi" quickly spotted his "brother" leaning against the trees about sixty meters away. He was furious and cursed viciously, "Damn it, slacking off at a time like this? Don't you want to live?"

"Thump thump!"

He fired two shots directly at them.

Seeing that they didn't move, "Zhang Mazi" immediately realized something was wrong and was about to go back when he suddenly staggered.

The Type 38 rifle he was carrying seemed to be pulled away by an invisible force, and the two grenades at his waist flew to the side and landed on a hand that was sticking out from the bushes about 20 meters away.

"hey-hey!"

Li Muxuan revealed himself, pulled out the fuses of the two grenades, and used the "Reversal of Eight Directions" technique to throw the two grenades at an extremely fast speed into the middle of the seven people.

All of this happened suddenly, and Li Muxuan even used the Reversal of Eight Directions technique, leaving the seven bandits completely unable to react.

Boom! Boom!

After two violent explosions, all seven people were thrown about, and the four people in the center of the explosion were blown to pieces.

"Zhang Mazi" was left with a complete body, though his body was riddled with holes from shrapnel from the grenade explosion.

"To be honest, most people in our circle have cultivated for twenty or thirty years, but their destructive power is still not as great as a hand grenade, right?" Li Muxuan poked his head out from the bushes, looking at the crater with a diameter of three or four meters that had been blown out, as well as the limb remains, and he was still shaken.

"It can't compare."

Lu Jin nodded unconsciously.

the other side.

Ren Jiating once again manipulated the seven paper monkeys in the village, luring away a bandit who was guarding the woman, the baby, and the old woman.

The remaining one was already frightened by the moving paper monkey and was uneasy.

Jiang Liu, who had already infiltrated the mountain stronghold, was about to capture the bandit when he saw the woman hand the child to the old woman in an almost discarded manner, and then grab the bandit by the neck from behind.

"asshole!"

But how can a woman's strength compare to a man's?

The bandit immediately turned around, shoved the woman aside, and pointed his gun at her.

Boom!

Jiang Liu stepped down and gently tapped the bandit on the head. The magnetic field entered the brain, turning it into a mess.

pat.

The bandit fell silent and collapsed to the ground, thick white brain matter oozing from his mouth and nose; he was dead beyond any doubt.

The old woman trembled with fear, and the baby in her arms cried incessantly.

The woman knelt down before Jiang Liu and cried out, "Thank you so much, young hero, for saving my life!"

It was at this moment.

The last bandit ran back.

"Quick! Shoot him! Kill him!"