After saving the Empress, I became the top scholar in the imperial examination.

Wang Fumang squinted and swallowed hard.

"Go—" Xu Jun frowned, weighed the axe in his hand, and drew out the word.

"Hey!" Wang Fu quickly nodded and took a few steps forward.

Li Liang chuckled dismissively: "Find a stick."

Wang Fu paused, as if remembering something, and repeatedly said "okay." He groped around in the grass for a while and pulled out a relatively long stick.

Li Liangchao, a second-in-command, shook his head and chuckled: "That stupid idiot."

Wang Fu bent over, carrying a lantern in one hand and a long stick in the other. The lantern illuminated the road, and the stick tapped around on the fallen leaves. Not far behind him, Li Liang and his two companions craned their necks to watch.

Creak!

Wang Fu paused, seemingly having broken a branch, but continued walking after confirming that nothing was amiss. His straw sandals crunched on the leaves, and his breathing grew longer and longer.

Just as they were about to reach the center of the large expanse of leaves, Wang Fu stepped forward with a long stick.

"Click-clack-click!"

A crisp sound of the mechanism snapping shut echoed through the air!

Wang Fu's body suddenly tensed up!

"Ah—!" he cried out in surprise!

The long stick in his hand suddenly sank, and something gleaming black 'bit' the other end of the stick.

The group squinted and looked.

A black animal trap.

"Hey! How about it? Brother Xu, Brother Zhang, I wasn't wrong, was I?" Upon seeing the animal trap, Li Liang couldn't suppress his smile. He tilted his chin up, exuding the air of a strategist who had everything under control and was incredibly insightful.

Xu Jun and Zhang Cheng chuckled and said a few words about how capable Chief Li was, which made Li Liang's smile even wider.

"That guy surnamed Ning is probably up ahead," Xu Jun sneered. "He'll probably be done having his fun, just in time for us to go up and castrate him!"

Zhang Cheng chuckled twice and said to Li Liang, who looked displeased upon hearing this and seemed to resent Ning the Demon, "Chief Li, it's not a bad thing."

"If this young lady was taken by that Ning fellow, then it means she's not a virgin anymore. She must have been deflowered by him. Since she's deflowered, then the three of us can castrate that Ning fellow and then take turns having some fun. She's not even a virgin, so the boss can't say anything about us."

"Hey! That makes sense!" Xu Jun laughed like an old prostitute, patting Li Liang on the shoulder. "Boss Li, you'll be first, Brother Zhang second, and we'll take a loss and come in third, how about that?"

"I'll be number one..." Li Liang's heart immediately felt itchy, and he immediately threw the unpleasant thought of "Ning the Demon King having a good time" to the back of his mind. He laughed and said, "Hey, since it was Brother Zhang who suggested it, then Brother Zhang will be number one, Brother Xu will be number two, and I'll be number three."

The two police officers exchanged a smile; this Chief Li did have some sense of propriety.

"Hehehe..."

The three of them talked as they walked, laughing together in a way that suggested they shared the same quirky personality.

Just as Wang Fu, carrying a lantern, was about to leave the area of ​​fallen leaves, Li Liang lifted his right foot and stepped onto the same area, making the same rustling sound under his feet.

Creak!

After walking a few more steps, the same sound of breaking branches underfoot appeared again.

Li Liang frowned, wondering if it was just his imagination, but he felt a slight sway under his feet.

"Shhh..."

At this moment, Xu Jun also stepped on.

Zhang Cheng was half a body length behind.

Li Liang slowed his pace, lowered his head, and uttered a soft "Eh," "Brothers, I feel like something down there..."

He hadn't finished speaking.

A sharp whistle rang out from deep within the woods.

Wang Fu suddenly threw the lantern at Li Liang and jumped up, crouching forward.

"put--!!!"

Screams like pigs being slaughtered rang out from both sides.

The sounds of two ropes snapping came from both sides almost simultaneously!

"Crunch, crunch, crunch—"

A series of soft sounds echoed beneath my feet.

Li Liang felt a chill run down his spine, his throat trembled, and he shouted, "Trap!—" His mouth gaped open, and his voice cracked!

But it was too late!

The entire area of ​​fallen leaves beneath our feet had collapsed as if by a landslide.

Li Liang's health deteriorated.

The lanterns tumbled in the air, their dim yellow light drawing ever closer.

He saw the lantern that Wang Fu had thrown flying in the air, his whole body tilted, and he couldn't get a foothold. Li Liang reached out his hand, trying to grab something.

He instinctively turned around, wanting to grab Xu Jun behind him.

But Xu Jun's body was also falling, and the man's eyes were wide open.

The lantern flew to the top of his head.

The orange light shone on his face.

*Whoosh!*

A terrifying sonic boom echoed from the depths of the forest.

Under the moonlight, a streak of light approached from afar and, in the blink of an eye, pierced straight into Xu Jun's eye socket!

The splattered blood sprayed onto Li Liang's face, but the warm blood made him feel an icy chill from head to toe!

Li Liang stared, his mouth agape, terrified.

The dim, yellow lanterns had not yet hit the ground.

Xu Jun opened his mouth in excruciating pain, but before he could utter a sound, he fell down with the collapsing wooden frame.

As his body fell, the wind whistled past his ears for a moment, and Li Liang also fell down.

Sizzle sizzle sizzle!

Before the feeling of weightlessness had faded, Li Liang felt a pain in his lower body.

Several bamboo spikes pierced his thighs and buttocks... Pain burst forth from his body and surged into his brain.

"Aaaaaaah!!!"

A pig-like scream came from his throat.

"That beast...that beast buried bamboo tips in the pit!"

Li Liang roared in pain.

"Aaaaaaahh ...

Unlike Li Liang, who was waiting to die, Xu Jun, this ruthless bandit, held the arrow embedded in his eye socket with one hand and supported himself on the ground with the other. Several bamboo spikes were also embedded in his thigh beneath him.

But the ruthless bandit forcefully straightened his thigh, flipped his body, and pulled the bamboo tip out of his left thigh. His hand and left foot landed on the ground, and he roared, "I'll kill you! I'll kill you! Damn it!" His jaw was already bleeding. With another force, he pulled the bamboo tip out of his right thigh as well, and blood gushed from both legs.

Then, he suddenly stood up, swaying slightly.

"I'll kill you!..."

The axe was gone. He stood in the pit, his eyes level with the ground, waving his fist.

Just then, a dark figure darted right in front of him.

"die!"

Li Sanzhuang swung a hammer and smashed it straight down!

boom! ——

Xu Jun's skull was smashed and dented, and yellowish-white matter spurted out along with blood.

"Brother Xu!"

Zhang Cheng's roar reached his ears, and the next moment, bang!

Li Sanzhuang delivered another blow!

Xu Jun's body went completely limp.

"Aaaaaaahh ...

He was walking at the very back when the ground collapsed, and he jumped backward. But as soon as he landed, an arrow pierced his chest. Fortunately, it wasn't to his heart, so it wasn't fatal.

Whoosh!

Another arrow shot out from somewhere. Zhang Cheng suddenly flipped over and hid behind a tree. The arrow penetrated the wood three inches deep, and the fletching trembled incessantly.

"Damn it!" Zhang Cheng shouted in fright.

At that moment, a bright white light flashed, and a figure carrying a knife stabbed from the side.

"Hey!"

Zhang Cheng chuckled.

He leaned forward to dodge the blade, then raised the harpoon and thrust it forward.

But he didn't expect it.

This figure was insane. Facing his harpoon, he neither dodged nor avoided it, but instead blocked it directly with his hand. Blood spurted out as the harpoon grazed the other's palm.

They narrowly escaped the harpoon.

Li Erlai gritted his teeth, lowered his body, and stabbed the knife in his hand toward the other man's stomach!

Zhang Cheng was a ruthless man; he was a whole head taller than Li Erlai!

With a quick twist of his thigh, he kicked the opponent's wrist before the opponent could bring out the knife!

But to his surprise, the young man's hand did not loosen at all, and the blade still grazed his stomach.

Li Erlai darted out and passed Zhang Cheng.

Then, whoosh!

An arrow came from another direction!

"The archer has moved to a different spot!" Zhang Cheng gritted his teeth and, using the terrain, darted behind another tree.

But it hasn't gotten a firm footing yet.

Another knife came crashing down on his neck.

"It's you again, you brat!"

Zhang Cheng took a step back, his right hand grinning as he thrust out the harpoon. His gaze widened, and his pupils contracted slightly. He realized the person approaching wasn't the same kid from before, but another extremely cold face. What made his pupils tremble even more was… this person's hands were wrapped in white cloth… white cloth…

"Brother Zhang, Brother Xu, you must be careful of that Ning devil... That kid is both cunning and vicious... Even Old Master Li from our village is no match for him! ... He's incredibly fierce! When he's chopping people up, he likes to wrap a white cloth around his hands..."

White cloth...

White cloth...

Ning the Demon...

Ning the Demon...

"This guy is Ning the Demon... a fake... all of him is a fake... waiting for me... this little bastard is waiting for me... damn it! A trap... damn it!..."

Crazy ideas raced through Zhang Cheng's mind, and a fierce glint flashed in his eyes!

His right hand gripped the harpoon tightly, in the blink of an eye!

In the blink of an eye, his harpoon could pierce the other man's neck and kill him!

But just then, a flash of white light appeared, and another knife slashed down from another direction, gushing blood as his right hand, holding the harpoon, was severed in an instant!

Zhang Cheng's face turned deathly pale.

"My arm is broken..."

呲!

The pain of the severed hand had barely registered in his mind when, before the harpoon and the severed hand could fall from the air, his neck was already slashed open by that indifferent face. Zhang Cheng's eyes widened, and his left hand instinctively covered his neck, but he couldn't stop it; gushing blood spurted out through his fingers.

At this time.

In the deep darkness ahead, a burly figure brandished a hammer and roared as he charged forward.

boom!--

Li Sanzhuang smashed a hammer into Zhang Cheng's head!

under the moonlight.

Blood splattered everywhere.

Like Xu Jun, Zhang Cheng also collapsed limply, like a rotten lump of mud.