Chapter 420 - Robbery
“Hey kid, give us the things you found at Gongjia Mountain!” roared one of the people behind him.
“If you give them to us, we will let you live.” The other guy punched something and Shao Xuan could hear loud, explosive thuds. It was a show of strength.
Shao Xuan ignored them, sprinting ahead.
“You won’t be able to run from us!” yelled one of them. Although he sounded worried, from his expression, one could tell that he was in a hurry at all. Instead, he had a cunning smirk as he watched Shao Xuan’s back.
The fat duck on the branch moved its claws. It liked being on a branch when it was startled. It flew up again, perched on a higher branch to get away from the battle below. However, its beady eyes were still glued to the scene, craning its neck as if it did not want to miss the show.
In the direction where Shao Xuan was running, behind a thick tree trunk was a person waiting quietly behind. Although he had climbed up to five meters above the ground, as if he was an insect, he made no sound.
At this moment, this person listened as movement approached him. Cruel mischief flashed across his eyes. Between his fingers was an array of bronze blades as long as his palm but extremely thin. Cold light glinted off their tips.
The sharp reverberations of metal on metal echoed. The other person used the momentum from the collision to retreat quickly. That blow had failed and he knew he would never get another opportunity to hit Shao Xuan again. He had to leave!
Shao Xuan’s legs moved and he was now just a shadow moving at incredible speed. The sword in his hand waved in the air, extended towards the person who was running away.
The sword glinted in an arc mid-air.
The other person’s footsteps stopped abruptly, disbelief in his eyes and his eyes lost focus. A gush of red liquid sprayed out of the back of his neck. The sword in his hand fell to the ground, grass flew.
Shao Xuan lifted a solid piece of soil from the ground and threw it in a direction.
Quack!
There was a shriek and a bright green silhouette fell from mid-air.
Shao Xuan walked over and trapped the struggling duck’s wings. He tied it up using some straw rope then tossed it aside.
Then, he walked towards the tree he had kicked down.
There was one person under a branch, bleeding. When he walked over, the totemic patterns on this person’s body that looked like snakes slowly disappeared. He twitched and then died.
Shao Xuan thought it was weird. This person wasn’t crushed by a trunk, and the thorns had not hit any vital parts. Why did he die?
When he kicked the tree away, Shao Xuan flipped the guy over with his sword and noticed that the wounds were green-purple. Where the thorns coated with poison? No. Shao Xuan looked at the little plants on the ground that looked like bean sprouts. Those were the poisonous culprits.
The three people had been dealt with, there was no one else around. Shao Xuan approached the duck and lifted it by its neck.
“Should I roast or boil you?”