Damn, I turned into a monster

Chapter 25 025 Hedong Wang Family (Part )
Li Yuan is now very fortunate that he did not explicitly say before that he would help them get rid of the monster in the Forest of Dead Bones.

Otherwise, if I really agreed to it, I would have to go through with it when the time comes.

Although you can run away, you will still lose face no matter what.

A True Realm warrior, although this True Realm warrior, whose specific name is currently unknown, is not that strong.

But in such a small place, it is already a rare thing to meet a real realm warrior.

It's not easy to see a true realm warrior in such a small place.

Cultivators like them can be seen because there are so many of them, and although true realm warriors and ordinary warriors sound like the same thing, they cannot actually be confused.

He was able to make a True Realm warrior unable to defeat him, forcing him to flee in a panic, and even captured him and made him a star slave for a period of time. Although the other party did not say it explicitly, you can basically guess it after listening to the story.

To be honest, for humans, being a slave to female monsters... at least for extraordinary people, it is not a humiliating experience.

At least that's the case for male transcendents. After all, female monsters are indeed beautiful, and... ahem.

Of course, the premise is that he is not drained dry and can escape alive. For a male transcendent, this is actually not a big loss.

"How is it?" After breaking the pillar with one palm, Wang Wu retracted his hand, came to the three people, looked at Li Yuan and asked:
"What level am I at? I really have no idea about this, after all, I don't even know how to read."

"Haha...young knight, you are joking..." Li Yuan forced a smile on his face, "young knight's realm is already the same as mine. If we fight in close combat, I will definitely die in your hands within a hundred steps."

As he spoke, Li Yuan looked at the long sword hanging on Wang Wu's waist, and recalled what he had just said about the family heirloom sword being broken by a monster. Then he asked tentatively, "Young man, do you also practice swordsmanship?"

"I practiced." Wang Wu nodded. "I know a little bit about swordsmanship, but I'm not very good at it."

"Is that so..." Li Yuan nodded, totally unconvinced by what Wang Wu said about "not being good".

This guy's family tradition must be quite good. Even though Li Yuan is not a real realm warrior, he can also feel that the martial arts he practices are extremely extraordinary.

But this is illiterate...

This may be true.

"Since that monster is so powerful, even if Young Master Wang is a True Realm warrior, it would be difficult to deal with it. Can we ask the government for help?"

At this time, Wang Lan, who had been silent all this time, spoke.

As she spoke, she glanced at Wang Wu, and their eyes met. She quickly retracted her gaze and looked at Li Yuan.

"Government?" Li Yuan had a strange look on his face when he heard this. He then said, "Government won't be involved in such matters, especially for a monster that is neither strong nor weak."

"If you ask the government to help you solve the problem and kill the monster, you will lose the money that your Wang family lost in the forest."

"Send out an army of demon-killers led by imperial monks. When the matter is settled, guess how many times they will ask you for money along the way? I'm afraid even if we put all the silver your Wang family lost on them, it may not be enough."

As he spoke, Li Yuan's face also showed a flash of disdain. Obviously, he was not targeting Wang Lan who asked the question, but someone else. "Supplies along the way, and various miscellaneous expenses. You don't think the county lieutenant will pay for it himself, right? Then we have to ask your Wang family, the dog family, for money?"

"Isn't it the imperial court's duty to exterminate demons?" Wang Wu asked curiously. He still remembered the story that Shu Niang and the others had told him:
Several decades ago, a monster went to a village outside and captured some people to eat. It ate about twenty or fifty people, but less than a hundred.

Then the imperial army arrived.

The imperial army came here directly to sweep away all the monsters. Since then, there are only a few monsters left outside the Dead Soul Mountain.

"That depends on who you are." Li Yuan sighed, "If you were a farmer in the village, it would be more appropriate to say so."

"Although living in the village is not as safe as living in the county town, these farmlands and pastures are the foundation of the court."

"If the village is often robbed by monsters, we only need to send people to the county town for help, and the army will immediately set out to directly eliminate the hidden dangers in the surrounding area."

"That's it..."

After hearing Li Yuan's explanation, Wang Wu immediately understood. After all, Shu Niang and the others had also said that if they really wanted to eat people, they could just eat the merchants passing by on the official road.

As for the people in the surrounding villages, it is best not to move if possible.

"You should remember what happened in Xipeng Village several decades ago." Li Yuan said again:
"A monster sneaked into the village of Xipeng and actually tricked the village's formation and the monster-detecting stone. He settled down there and even married a wife. As a result, within a few years of his residence, nearly a hundred people disappeared in the nearby villages."

"At first, everyone thought it was a conflict between villages that led to some deaths. Until more and more people went missing, and some bodies were found outside, with signs of being eaten and cut."

"From the traces, it was obvious that it was not done by humans, so naturally the people in the surrounding villages became panicked. Then, several villages jointly reported the incident to Hedong County."

"At that time, the imperial court's Demon Suppression Division came to our Nanzhou for inspection, and a demon-suppression army was stationed in the barracks outside the county. The villages below reported for help, and the county happened to have a demon-suppression army."

"That time of clearing the fields and digging holes also brought decades of peace to the official roads of Hedong and Hexi counties."

"As for the monster that caused the disappearance of your Wang family caravan..." Li Yuan touched his chin and said, "It's not weak. It's at least as strong as a small leader under a big monster. It must be from outside."

"Besides, I don't think the disappearance of your Wang family's caravan was caused by a monster."

Although Li Yuan was not clear about the true situation of Zhu Sanniang and the others, he had to admit that this guy was indeed quite capable.

He could even guess that Zhu Sanniang was not a local monster. And he also knew that the Wang family caravan was not destroyed by Zhu Sanniang or his other two neighbors.

"Oh?"

It was Wang Wu who spoke first. As for Wang Yin, his face was calm and he did not show any surprise at Li Yuan's speculation.

"Wasn't the disappearance of the Wang family's caravan three years ago caused by a monster?" Wang Wu asked.

"No." Li Yuan shook his head.

(End of this chapter)