C26 Find the Killer!

By the time Zhan Tianming returned to Nanqing Village, it was already dusk.

On the western horizon, the sunset looked like dripping blood.

"Woo... woo..."

"Woo... wuu... Big Brother Hai, why did you leave just like that? Sob, sob."

A mournful wail came from the village.

Zhan Tianming was startled.

'This sound?'

Without wasting a second, he activated Nine Dragons Step and rushed towards the wail.

Soon, he stood in front of a woman who was crying her heart out.

Lying in front of the woman was an ice-cold corpse. Dark crimson patches of blood could be seen on the corpses' clothes.

Beat to death.

One glance and anyone would be able to tell that someone had ruthlessly beat him to death.

Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam... repeatedly, no mercy, death.

"U-uncl—"

"Third Uncle Mu?"

When Zhan Tianming saw the corpse, he felt a stinging sensation in his nose, and tears began streaming down his face.

'Dea... dead. He is dead?'

'Third uncle me is dead.'

'This...'

'No, that's not possible!'

For the first time in a long time, Zhan Tianming felt the pain of emotions ripping through his heart.

His beloved uncle now laid before him, lifeless.

Zhan Tianming lost control of his body and just fell in front of Mu Hai's corpse.

"Third Uncle Mu... Third Uncle Mu!!"

With a face full of tears and agony, he held Mu Hai's body and shook it; unfortunately, Mu hai didn't wake up and console him this time.

Mu Hai's body had already turned stiff.

"What is going on? Just what happened!!"

"Who can tell me?"

"AHH!!!"

Zhan Tianming's voice resounded in the entire village, but no one could tell him the reason.

"Tianming, Big Brother Hai died am wrongful death. Sob, sob..." Mu Hai's wife, Zhan Tianming's third aunt, cried out.

"Third Aunt, what exactly happened? Quickly tell me," said Zhan Tianming while choking on his tears.

Right now, all those times when Mu Hai showed him kindness and love like family played in his head.

He had always thought about the day he would repay Mu Hai for his kindness.

However...

The scene in front of his eyes was like a sharp poisonous thorn stabbing his heart.

Was he feeling pain?

The word pain could no longer describe the torrent of emotions he was feeling.

In that entire world, only two people treated him like family: Mu Hai and Liu Yu.

Now, Mu Hai laid lifeless in front of him.

Mu Hai, who was in his prime, died just like that.

It wasn't a normal death. Someone had actually beaten him to death.

"Tianming, I... I don't know how Big Brother Hai died either... sob, sob,"

His third aunt said between cries.

"I just got back from the field, and I heard someone say that Big Brother Hai... Ah! Someone found his body in a broken temple outside the village. So they brought his body back."

"Sob, sob, sob..."

"Ding dong!"

"Congratulations! Host Zhan Tianming has triggered the Killer Hunt mission. You will be rewarded with 10,000 experience points on mission completion."

"Do you want to accept it?"

"Accept!"

Zhan Tianming gritted his teeth as he accepted the mission.

Even if the system hadn't issued the mission, he would've still searched high and low for the killer.

In no world was he letting Mu Hai die in vain.

After comforting his third aunt, Zhan Tianming walked towards the dilapidated temple outside the village with watery eyes.

"Oh, isn't that Zhan Tianming?"

"Hehe... I never expected him to come back instead of running away."

"Humph! So what? Is that gonna make a difference?"

"That's right. With just his strength, he can't even kill my multicolored rooster. He would've died in the wild even if he had decided to run away. By no running away like a coward, at least he didn't implicate Uncle Mu Hai and Dog Egg. Sigh, such a pity, Uncle Mu Hai was fine before, so why did he suddenly die?"

"Let's go and beat Zhan Tianming up again. Otherwise, we won't have a chance to do so tomorrow."

"Uncle Mu Hai is already dead; I have no mood to beat him up."

"I'm not in the mood to beat someone up today either."

"You guys aren't in the mood, but we are."

After saying that, a few youths chased after Zhan Tianming had left in while the others turned around and left.

At the run-down temple outside the village:

That dilapidated temple had been abandoned for more than ten years; even the tiles on the roof only covered a third of it. It was so rickety that it creaked like an old bed whenever the wind blew.

Around it grew numerous types of weed.

Zhan Tianming arrived at the run-down temple.

"Bajie, did you find anything?"

Zhan Tianming had already released Little Purple from the War Pet system.

Little Purple's nose was very sensitive.

This was a common trait in all pigs.

A pig's sense of smell was even stronger than a hound's.

Little Purple sniffed all around.

After a while, it shook its head.

Smell again...

"Haha! Zhan Tianming, long time no see."

Suddenly, a few youths with playful smiles walked over.

That bunch of tryhards was from the Nanqing Village.

Zhan Tianming naturally knew all of them.

"I don't have the time to give two shits about you guys. Scram to the side!" Zhan Tianming bellowed.

Suddenly, those people froze.

Did Zhan Tianming just yell at them?

They were scolded by the village's number one trash.

Zhan Tianming, for the first time, had retaliated against them like that.

The few of them did not get angry. Instead, they widened the playful smile on their faces.

"Zhan Tianming, I heard that you are going to take the examination tomorrow?"

"Why don't you let us train you before you go to the assessment? We promise that we'll beat you until you can stand on your own two feet. After all, if you entered the mountain tomorrow and ended up angering the Mountain God, it will be a disaster."

Laughing playfully, a few of them surrounded Zhan Tianming.

It looked like they were getting ready to attack.

Zhan Tianming glanced at them.

He was in no mood of causing trouble to these people, let alone bothering himself with fighting them.

But...

Just when he was worrying that there was no place for him to vent his anger...

Since that bunch wanted to fight, then let them be.

Anyway, these people had bullied him quite a lot in the past.

So...

Fight!

Nine Dragons Step.

Swish!

Zhan Tianming's figure flashed and disappeared from their eyes; before long, he appeared in front of the youth standing closest to him.

He raised his palm and struck out.

Pow!

A loud slap rang out.

The young man's head tilted from the impact, and two of his teeth were sent flying along with blood and spittle.

He was stupefied; he was completely dumbstruck.

Before the others could react, their vision blurred.

Pow! Pow! Pa!

The slap was loud and clear.

His target's face was burning with pain.

Bang, Bang, Bang!

Before the few of them could react, Zhan Tianming kicked out. He was so fast that it left afterimages.

"Ah!"

"Ah!"

"Ah!"

The bunch was sent flying as they felt a sharp pain in their abdomen. While screaming like pigs, they fell heavily on the ground.

Two people rolled into the brambles. Their bodies were covered with sharp thorns.

Those poisonous thorns would not kill him, but they were extremely itchy.

They got up from the ground and hugged their stomachs as they grimaced in pain.

All of their faces were filled with disbelief.

"If you dare to disturb me again, I'll beat you until your own mother wouldn't recognize you," Zhan Tianming said in a low voice.

The voice reverberated in their ears, and Zhan Tianming's sharp gaze further terrified them.

"Zhan Tianming, just you wait!"

"Zhan Tianming, just you wait! You will have your retribution!"

"Bastard, if you have the ability, don't run. You... You just wait here!"

The few of them threatened as they ran away.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Puff, puff, puff!

Puff, puff, puff!

Flying stone's tore them a new asshole.

The surroundings instantly became quiet.

A moment later, miserable screams came from afar.

After throwing the flying stones, Zhan Tianming did not care about them anymore and turned to look at Little Purple.

"Bajie, did you find anything?"