Chapter 70: Robbers


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    Several knife-wielding bandits escorted Li Shaoying and Uncle Zhan inside, and Li Shaoying looked to find that the vigers had been tied up andid on the ground, but their heads were gone!


    Blood-soaked heads littered the ground.


    Li Shaoying’s face was filled with horror, nearly scared out of his wits.


    People had been ughtered like animals, including those he had grown up with in the vige—the aunts, the old men, and even the young children!


    The entire vige had been butchered!!


    “Number Two, you’re the smart one, eh? With the soldiers busy hunting the Cannibal Monster, they won’t care about us. We can raid vige after vige, and the money will be enough for us to live in luxury for a lifetime!” said the man who looked like a butcher.


    “Kill them all and then throw them out for the wolves. No one will find out it was us, with those soldiers and Dragon Shepherds still looking for the Cannibal Monster!”ughed the deputy bandit leader with the viciousness of a jackal.


    “After we deal with these two, we can leave. Let’s start with the younger one.” The butcher leader, holding a knife, approached with a cold smile.


    Li Shaoying waspletely petrified. The scene before his eyes was too bloody and shocking, and he had even forgotten to struggle or dodge.


    At that moment, Uncle Zhan stepped in front of Li Shaoying, standing between him and the butcher leader.


    “You’re so eager to die; I shall grant you your wish.” With these words, the butcher leader ced his cleaver on Uncle Zhan’s face and pped it twice heavily, creating an ominous sound, as if ready to carve flesh!


    Uncle Zhan didn’t avert his gaze. He took a deep breath and said, “Thest man to p my face like that was Li Ying. I chopped three of his dragons.”


    “Who the hell is Li Ying? A mere herdsman acting like some big shot with us? My cleaver never dulls when chopping meat!” retorted the butcher leader with a smirk, as he swung hisrge knife back.


    Uncle Zhan stood there, his brown eyes suddenly zing with a sharp light!


    “Rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble! !! ”


    Suddenly, the distant waterwheel began to spin violently, and by the light of the fire at the vige entrance, one could see theke churning furiously as if something were climbing out.


    The water level began to plummet, dropping to half its height!


    “BOON”I!!!!!!”


    Far away, theke exploded terrifyingly, and a ck Serpent emerged, crashing through the waterwheel the size of a house and rampaging through the vige entrance…


    The ck Serpent moved too swiftly; the butcher leader hadn’t finished his swing when the serpent was already upon him. Just like a python biting a young mouse, it flung the ferocious butcher into the air.


    The butcher leader was thrown high, then plummeted straight down, and in that moment, the ck Serpent opened its mouth wide, allowing the butcher to slide into its elongated esophagus!


    Swallowed alive!


    The butcher leader was devoured alive by the ck Serpent under everyone’s gaze, his form clearly visible within the serpent’s writhing stomach, desperately struggling!


    The ck Serpent hovered in the air, its body dripping wet, coiling above the vige. The flickering light from the basins barely managed to outline its full size; half of it hidden in the darkness…


    Uncle Zhan stood there, his gaze indifferent. At this moment, his presence was inplete harmony with the dragon floating in mid-air, looking down upon the inhuman gang of bandits.


    These bandits, possessing at best some brute strength, had no power whatsoever to resist the ck Serpent.


    The ck Serpent gave the other bandits no chance to survive, biting and tearing one after another. The bandits couldn’t even flee and were wiped out in a few minutes!


    Li Shaoying was stunned, his eyes filled with shock.


    For over a decade, Uncle Zhan had always been like any other hardworking viger!


    Why, with such immense power, did he choose to live as amon man, and why, being a Dragon Shepherd himself, did he not reveal a hint of it to me?


    Zhan An looked at the massacre of the entire vige.


    Then nced at the bandits, torn to shreds and receiving their just deserts, his eyes filled with helplessness.


    s, despite guarding against the Cannibal Monster, they couldn’t guard against these bandits, and the vige was still lost.


    He wasn’t herding on the slopes; he was hunting the Cannibal Monster, keeping them away from the vige.


    “Uncle, are you a Dragon Shepherd??” Li Shaoying couldn’t believe it.


    “I am not a Dragon Shepherd, just someone with some other abilities. The ck Serpent knows human nature well. Even without a human Spirit Contract and bond, it has always been by our side. From now on, take care of it. Now that I have shown my power, my enemies will likely seek me out; I must leave,” sighed Zhan An.


    Li Shaoying was stunned. There were so many questions he still wanted to ask, and with the vige destroyed, where was he to go?


    Li Shaoying and the ck Serpent continued to follow Zhan An, who waved his hand and then said, “Go back to the Dragon Taming Academy. Take good care of him for me.


    “Awoo!”


    Li Shaoying, with tears in his eyes, was about to respond when the ck Serpent beside him raised its head, sounding a high-pitched cry in answer to the departing Zhan An.


    Li Shaoying’s tears flowed even more freely..