Chapter 1322: Retribution is swift

The black-armored leader put away the soul box, pointed to the large pot, and said to the villagers: "He is yours." This team began to walk out, as abruptly as they had come.

The Liuping villagers looked at each other, not knowing what had happened here, or why the black-armored army had come.

The old woman stepped forward and asked cautiously: "You, who exactly are you?"

They had never heard of such a powerful, mysterious, and extremely cruel existence nearby.

"I am the Heaven's punishment for these evil people!" The black-armored knight said leisurely, "They have brought disaster to the world, and I have come to personally deliver them; this is called retribution!"

Heaven's punishment? Deliverance? The vegetable market entrance was silent, and everyone was trying hard to digest this message.

What exactly is retribution? The yellow-haired woman was the first to come to her senses, looking at him incoherently: "You, but, Liuping?"

Did these black-armored cavalry come only for Zhao Guangzhi? Are they not occupying Liuping? There had been no such precedent before.

Were the people who boiled Zhao Guangzhi not more brutal and fierce than him? This was also the reason why everyone was trembling, but now this black-armored army intended to leave? The black-armored leader immediately said: "Zhao Guangzhi was defeated in Shizhou Tou tonight. Those who once repelled him will arrive here by tomorrow noon at the latest."

A whisper went through the crowd: "Zhao's army was in a sorry state tonight; they really lost the battle!"

"I heard that the army of Shizhou Tou was led by their local garrison."

He Lingchuan clamped his horse's belly with both legs, and the mount continued to walk: "How to treat them is up to you to decide."

The yellow-haired woman pursued: "Why did you come tonight, just, just to publicly execute Zhao Guangzhi and let us have revenge?"

After this black-armored army captured Zhao Guangzhi, they didn't kill him with one blade, but brought him to Liuping, letting the villagers pay him back in his own coin, and boiled this cannibal demon alive.

Their methods were so cruel, but their motives were so... she didn't know how to describe it for a moment.

The horse paced past her, the black-armored leader didn't look back, walking toward the east:

"Heaven's principles are clear, and retribution is swift. This is what you deserve."

These few words also echoed in everyone's hearts, as if there were lingering sounds after circling a thousand mountains.

The eastern sky happened to reveal the first ray of dawn.

The day had dawned.

This night, which was both chaotic and bizarre, where the absurd reality and the joy of revenge were intertwined, finally passed.

A brand new day, a day without being oppressed by the cannibal demon, had arrived.

People looked toward the east, and the back of every black-armored knight was plated with a layer of soft golden light by the dawn.

A rustling sound came from behind.

Dong Rui looked back and gave He Lingchuan a real-time broadcast: "Hey, many people are kneeling to you, kowtowing... Oh, many more have followed suit, crying uncontrollably."

He Lingchuan corrected: "Not just to 'me', but to 'us'."

These words were not just for Dong Rui to hear.

"That's right." Dong Rui straightened his sore shoulders, "It's to us."

The black-armored knights couldn't help but look back, seeing a large area kneeling down behind them.

So many villagers touched their heads to the ground, performing the five-body-prostration ritual to thank them for saving them from the sea of misery.

When the villagers looked up, the black-armored knights saw the genuine gratitude on those faces.

In this night of passionate fighting, they had saved the commoners of two cities and harvested the kindness of thousands.

All the cavalry straightened their chests.

They had to take a deep breath to suppress the heroism in their hearts and continue to ride forward.

Wanqiliang inexplicably thought of the boy in the dark alley of Shizhou Tou again. Back in the day, when the Bailong tribe escaped from the Ya Nation, they hid and dodged along the way, starving, and there were many sallow and thin children in the tribe, just like that boy.

Some frail children disappeared without a sound.

He Lingchuan didn't look back, but could hear the murmurs of the crowd behind him.

Like gratitude, like prayer, and like supplication, amplified by the Qianglong Battle Armor, it became particularly clear.

He seemed to be able to hear every sentence clearly, even if people were just muttering in their mouths.

He Lingchuan closed his eyes and exhaled a breath gently.

The wish power collected by the Qianglong Battle Armor had indeed increased again.

He hadn't walked out of Liuping yet, and new wish power gathered from all directions, bit by bit.

He could clearly feel that they came from the two places he had just passed.

Although the quantity wasn't large, He Lingchuan was exceptionally comfortable. Because the two experiments of dealing with City Governor Liu and cooking Zhao Guangzhi could prove that doing things that make people happy can indeed quickly accumulate wish power.

This experiment also proved that what he had to win from now on was people's hearts.

This was actually consistent with his strategic goal of entering the Flash Gold Plain!

He Lingchuan pressed the Divine Bone Necklace; well done, the recasting of the Qianglong Battle Armor was of great help to him.

However, he also felt that the karma attached to the Qianglong Battle Armor also increased a little bit.

This was an annoying thing, following like a shadow, unable to shake off.

The recasting of the Qianglong Battle Armor was like a double-edged sword; he couldn't just want the positive effects.

At this time, Wanqifeng also drove his horse over to report: "Just interrogated two Zhao army captives; they both said there used to be elite squads in the army, brave and invincible, with orderly methods. Zhao Guangzhi used them to defend against enemies and was invincible. But more than twenty days ago, this team suddenly collapsed for some reason, and their performance on the battlefield was mediocre."

"More than twenty days ago?" Dong Rui suddenly realized, "The Profound Lu Ghost King's business scope is quite wide; even Zhao Guangzhi hooked up with it."

He Lingchuan sneered slightly: "One is a ghost king, the other is a cannibal demon; birds of a feather flock together."

Both loved to eat living people.

More than twenty days ago, He Lingchuan destroyed the Profound Lu Ghost King. Naturally, the ghost king's clone placed with Zhao Guangzhi also perished along with it.

Calculating the time, that was exactly when Zhao Guangzhi attacked Shizhou Tou.

"No wonder Zhao Guangzhi suddenly retreated!" Dong Rui specially took off his gloves and snapped his fingers, "The ghost king's clone suddenly disappeared, disrupting Zhao Guangzhi's formation, and Shizhou Tou's resistance was particularly fierce, not looking like it could be taken down in a short time."

The team trotted forward, getting further and further away from Liuping.

Passing through the desolate and uninhabited mountain valley, the scout returned to report: "There is no one for three or five miles ahead and behind."

Everyone immediately put away their battle armor and weapons and changed back into regular clothes.

The stern and fierce black-armored army turned back into a guard team that looked up to good in the blink of an eye, looking like ordinary people. Dong Rui hammered his shoulders and let out a long breath; finally took it off, really not used to wearing it! "Disperse." He Lingchuan ordered Wanqifeng, "Don't let people make associations."

"Yes." Except for He Lingchuan and Dong Rui, the remaining dozens of people immediately split into three groups and scattered like flowing clouds.

Their mission in Shizhou Tou and Liuping had ended.

"Going out on a mission, there are still too many people." Too many people meant a big target, which was not conducive to scattering afterward. He Lingchuan looked at the backs of the crowd, "Do fewer big missions like this later, and the number of people should be streamlined."

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