1940s: I supported my wife and sister-in-law by hunting.

Li Banjie thought he could stall for as long as possible.

Seeing this, Zhen Sanjiang's eyes turned cold, and he had no time to waste with him.

"Old man, you think you're so tough? Where's the money? If you don't tell me, this gun of mine doesn't have eyes; the next shot won't just hit your arm!"

Seeing that Li Banjie still wouldn't budge, Zhen Sanjiang raised his hand and fired a shot that pierced through Li Banjie's arm.

"Ah—! It hurts so much! Please, have mercy! Please, have mercy!"

Li Banjie was in so much pain that he immediately knelt on the ground, his arm bleeding profusely. Terrified of being beaten, he crawled and cried out in pain.

"I'll tell you everything! All the gold and silver are hidden in the east wing of the backyard, under the floor tiles beneath the desk. Dig up and you'll find the cellar!"

Chen Gaoshan, inside the space, saw everything clearly. His eyes lit up instantly, and he exclaimed in his heart, "Heaven is helping me!"

He stared at the monitor screen and saw that there wasn't a single bearded man guarding the east wing of the backyard. He reached out and pressed the controller, freezing the space and time.

The next second, he came out of the space, crouched down and hid in the corridor pillar of the second courtyard, staring at the backyard, planning to play the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.

They intercepted the information that these bearded men had painstakingly extracted.

What's this called? This is called "the beard smashing the nest," he's smashing his beard.

When Zhen Sanjiang saw that Li Banjie had finally confessed, he immediately waved his hand.

"Roll the landmine! Take ten brothers and head to the east wing of the backyard right now. Move everything out of the cellar!"

Rolling Thunder responded, picked up his Mauser pistol, and led a total of ten men towards the east wing of the backyard.

Chen Gaoshan hid in the shadows, watching the group of bearded men enter the east wing. He then quickly scanned the area to make sure that all the bearded men in the courtyard were watching Li Banjie and his group and that no one was paying attention to the backyard. He then quietly followed them and entered the east wing, which had its door open.

It has to be said that with this space, he can kill without leaving a trace!

He hid behind the door and immediately saw the ten bearded men, all with their backs to him, their big butts sticking out, gathered around the desk, diligently prying at the floor tiles, completely unaware that someone was behind him.

"Second-in-command! Look! This old guy really wasn't lying to us; there really is a cellar entrance under the floor tiles!"

A bearded man shouted excitedly and forcefully pried open the cellar entrance with his crowbar.

Before the man could finish speaking, Rolling Thunder and one of his men had just finished putting the pried-out floor tiles aside when they turned around and froze.

The eight brothers who were just prying up the floor tiles are gone; only a stranger is standing there now.

"Who are you?! Where are my brothers?! Or not?"

Chen Gaoshan chuckled.

"Brother Beard, I'm the one who'll take your lives, aren't you happy?"

Before Rolling Mine could even touch his gun, Chen Gaoshan was faster. He grabbed a feather duster that he had casually stuck in a vase by the door and, without a word, stabbed Rolling Mine and another of his men.

He instantly absorbed the two of them, along with the floor tiles, into his spatial storage without making a sound.

Chen Gaoshan dealt with all ten men with beards in the east wing.

He looked at the dark cellar in front of him, went down the wooden stairs, took out the tinderbox from his pocket, blew on it gently, and the firelight illuminated a corner.

"It's okay if you don't look," Chen Gaoshan gasped in shock.

There were two solid wood shelves in the cellar, filled with large and small yellow croakers, glittering so brightly that it was hard to open one's eyes.

The wooden crates under the shelf were opened, and inside were Yuan Shikai silver dollars.

Whether it was gold bars, silver coins, or wooden boxes and shelves in the cellar, they were all put into the space at once, and the cellar was emptied in an instant.

After confirming that all the gold and silver had been collected, he quietly climbed up the stairs.

Hearing the sound of the beard still coming from outside the courtyard, and seeing that no one was coming this way, Chen Gaoshan entered the space again.

As soon as he entered the space, he saw the ten bearded men he had just brought in. Eight of them were still in the same position as before, sticking their butts out and prying up the floor tiles, while Rolling Landmine and the other one were still holding floor tiles in their hands.

Chen Gaoshan looked at the group of bearded men.

He had never had any goodwill towards these bearded men who robbed and oppressed the people. The Anti-Japanese United Army was the Anti-Japanese United Army, and the group left behind was no longer the same group of men who valued morality and rules.

Before, when he killed people, it was by using wolves to kill or by making people stupid; it didn't count as getting blood on his own. But this time, it was the first time he was really going to kill people, and it was ten of them at once.

My palms were sweating, and I was still a little nervous.

But then I think about all that messy stuff that those guys with the dry beards do.

In this world, it's either you die or I live. Being soft-hearted towards evil people is being cruel to yourself!

He took out the knife he had used to unlock the door earlier and stepped forward.

These bearded men harmed many people, young women and wives alike, their blades slicing cruelly across everyone's necks, severing their tracheas.

After dealing with everyone, not touching them is not in his nature.

Believe it or not, they pulled out thirty-one silver dollars from the pockets of these ten men, and among the ten guns was even a gun brand pistol, which looked much more refined than a Mauser C96 pistol.

It was easy to carry, and there were two snuff bottles. I also took off all the clothes that looked decent.

Once everything is tidied up.

Chen Gaoshan threw all ten corpses out of the space, and they remained in the same positions.

As soon as the corpse appeared in the outside world, Chen Gaoshan immediately adjusted the time flow of the space to be completely synchronized with the outside world. He also left the space and emptied the east wing of everything he could see, including the tables, chairs, dressing table, jewelry boxes, and bedding.

The ten corpses lay sprawled on the ground, blood gushing from their neck wounds. Several of them twitched and struggled instinctively for a few moments before falling lifeless and motionless in the blood.

He returned to the space.

On the other side, Zhen Sanjiang, in the second courtyard, paced back and forth, waiting for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, but Gun Di Lei still hadn't returned with the gold and silver, and he felt a little uneasy.

"Damn it, what happened? I went to move some things, and now I'm gone!"

Zhen Sanjiang cursed.

"You, take two men and go to the east wing of the backyard to see what happened!"

The subordinate responded and, with two brothers, rushed to the backyard with guns. Just as they reached the door of the east wing, they saw ten corpses lying on the ground, all of them brothers from Black Tiger Mountain. They were terrified and scrambled back to report.

"Boss! Something terrible has happened! The second-in-command and all the brothers have had their throats slit and their clothes stripped off; they're dead in the backyard! There must be an ambush there!"

Upon hearing this, Zhen Sanjiang's expression changed drastically.

"Bullshit! Rolling Mine is our mountain's top marksman. He always leads the brothers down the mountain and they never come back empty-handed. How could he have gotten himself killed? This is suspicious!"

He refused to believe it and sent another team of men to search the backyard inside and out with guns. They found no ambush, not even a shadow of a stranger. The only place they found was the cellar, which they had pried open, which was completely empty.

The gold and silver that were within his grasp vanished, and he also lost his second-in-command and ten brothers. Zhen Sanjiang was so angry that his eyes turned red and his heart was filled with rage. He turned his head and looked at Li Banjie, who was lying on the ground and trembling. He was convinced that this old man had played a trick on him.

Without saying a word, he raised the gun in his hand, aimed it at Li Banjie's chest, and with a bang, killed him on the spot.

Zhen Sanjiang roared with red eyes.

"Search! Search every inch of this Li family compound, every single room. Take everything of value!"

The remaining bearded men immediately scattered, rushing into each room to ransack the place, looting all the jewelry from the concubines and young ladies, the gold and silver jewelry boxes in the rooms, and the valuable silk fabrics, before finally carrying away the bodies of Rolling Thunder and the others.

Seeing the loss of his brothers and the meager gains, Zhen Sanjiang was angry, but he was also afraid of further unforeseen events.

"Get out of here!"