Chapter 318: Do You Know Your Crime?

The back of the Jin Du ghost hatchling youngest one was greeted by seven or eight weapons, becoming a bloody mess. Xu Chun didn't know where he pulled out a short spear and stabbed it straight through.

Liu Tiao, the skinny man, and Duan Xinyu pulled He Lingchuan with force, wanting to pull him out like a radish from the mud.

Ignoring the pain, the Jin Du ghost hatchling pulled the sleeve arrow head from its chest, backhanded Xu Chun, sending him flying against the stone wall a zhang away, and then roared at the sky.

The bone puppets in the distance seemed to receive a summons, and their forward speed suddenly increased by another thirty percent!

The Jin Du ghost hatchling seemed to have its ferocity triggered by the injuries, suddenly displaying great power, fighting the patrol guards without falling.

It was powerful and heavy; even Men Ban was sent flying four feet away along with his shield, and the skinny man was accidentally hit, his left arm snapping with a 'crack', and he was sent flying into the wall, his head almost breaking.

Fortunately, this violent blow instead "pulled" He Lingchuan out of the ground, even exposing the second ghost hatchling from underground.

Was He Lingchuan going to be polite to it? With the momentum, he slashed, cutting its head off right along the ground.

*Roll, roll*, the ghost head rolled twice on the ground.

"Pick it up, quick!" He couldn't even wipe the green liquid flowing into his eyes; he rolled over and hugged the ghost hatchling's head, not daring to let it touch the ground again.

This bizarre underground palace would absorb the power of the dead ghost hatchlings and give it to the strongest one to inherit.

The youngest one was already powerful enough; he couldn't let it gain the skill of dragging people down anytime, anywhere.

However, He Lingchuan immediately felt an intense pain in his eyes and couldn't help but cover them tightly, letting out a low cry.

"Medicinal powder, medicinal powder!" Liu Tiao was flustered as she sprinkled medicinal powder into his eyes, but it seemed too late.

He Lingchuan endured the astonishing pain and barely opened his eyes; what he saw with his left eye was either red or white, unable to form a normal image.

Green liquid had flowed into his eyes; this left eye... would probably go blind.

Looking at the ghost hatchling's corpse, it was also grabbed by Duan Xinyu and nailed to the wall with a long spear.

There was a distance between the corpse and the wall, and they were not in contact. The cave could no longer absorb the power of this ghost hatchling.

He Lingchuan also nailed the ghost head onto the spear.

At this moment, the bone puppet army finally arrived.

The Jin Du ghost hatchling youngest one made a great leap and fell into the bone puppets. Dozens of bone puppets gathered around it, soon turning into a bone armor flashing with gray-white light.

This bone armor provided very tight protection, and there were even sharp spikes at the joints.

A perfectly fine ghost hatchling covered in blood turned into a murderous white-bone general in the blink of an eye.

It broke off a rib from an unknown bone puppet and ground it a few times, turning it into a bone sword.

With this sword raised, the bone puppet army rushed toward the prey like a tide.

The Jin Du ghost hatchling's patience had run out, and there seemed to be some terrible changes outside the underground palace; it had to finish the battle quickly.

The group's supernatural abilities were unleashed one after another.

He Lingchuan wiped the blood and sweat from his face, stood up against the wall, and swung his blade at the first bone puppet that pounced!

Chifeng Town.

The sun was setting in the west, and the clearing of the landslide was basically complete, with only the last few zhang of the road remaining.

The mountain spirit on the sharp rock wasn't actually slacking off; it had reinforced the large rocks at the high places that were weathered and prone to falling, at least ensuring they wouldn't fall for a day or two.

Village Chief Hu came to check the progress for the fourth time, stretching his neck to look toward the mountain road.

The end of the road was naturally quiet, with no human voices.

The patrol guards who entered the mine tunnel still hadn't come out.

Just at this moment, the sound of rapid horse hooves came from afar, probably seven or eight riders.

Village Chief Hu's face changed slightly; he turned back holding a torch and soon saw dark red armor.

The Great Wind Army! The changes here had actually alarmed the Great Wind Army?

Seeing this, the leopard demon on the high ground also jumped down from the sharp rock and trotted over.

Several fast horses ran to Village Chief Hu before stopping. The leader pulled the reins, and the steed reared up, standing still almost instantly after landing.

A rider behind rushed forward; the knight was Hu Min.

He asked as soon as he dismounted: "Village Chief Hu?"

"Ah, yes!" Village Chief Hu was unsettled, "My lords, wh-what is going on?"

He suddenly saw the leading general clearly and was so scared his eyes went straight.

"How long have those three patrol guard teams been inside?"

Village Chief Hu's mouth wasn't nimble: "It's, it's been almost two hours, right?"

Hu Min nodded and suddenly asked him: "Do you know your crime?"

"Ah?" Village Chief Hu was greatly alarmed, "I, what crime, please don't..."

Just at this moment, the mount of the person behind Hu Min snorted, *pulu*.

Village Chief Hu shivered, and a stream of warmth flowed down his legs.

A cold voice sounded, "Shi Ying, have the patrol guards not returned yet?"

It turned out that the leopard demon was called Shi Ying. It was a local mountain spirit and Zhong Shengguang's spiritual pet, but now it answered with its ears pressed back:

"They have not returned."

"Why didn't you follow them at the time?"

Shi Ying's tail tip twitched, not daring to make a sound; it didn't even dare to mention the monitoring part.

It just wanted to slack off, didn't it?

At that time, it didn't know that the monster in the mine tunnel had already eaten over a hundred people.

"Hu Min, you ask about the cause." Her cloak was also red, "The rest, follow me."

The group answered in unison:

"Yes, General!"

Village Chief Hu managed to squeeze out a shout: "General Red, spare my life!"

Unfortunately, no one responded to him.

Watching them turn toward the mountain passage, Village Chief Hu lay in the snow, sweating like rain.

"The number of miners who met with disaster was thirty-seven; subtracting the two who escaped, there were thirty-five dead." Hu Min's voice echoed above his head, "Heh, the mine tunnel had an accident, yet you delayed reporting it for two days! During these two days, you privately contacted outsiders to enter the tunnel, at least forty or fifty people, and none of them came out, right? Not counting the patrol guards who entered today, that's almost ninety people."

Village Chief Hu's head buzzed, and he went numb.

"Do you know that your concealment of the death toll has caused a great disaster!" Hu Min really wanted to kick him in the forehead, but he was still mindful of the people behind him, "That monster in the tunnel went north these past two days and ate another whole village, another seventy or eighty!"

Village Chief Hu's brain buzzed, and he went numb.

"In just three days, this monster has eaten one hundred and sixty or seventy people, not counting the mountain spirits and wild monsters here!"

Village Chief Hu subconsciously argued: "My lord, that village has nothing to do with me; I didn't know the monster went out to eat people!"

"Interesting, why didn't it eat you guys?" Hu Min stroked his chin, "Clearly it was closer to you, why go far to the north?"

Village Chief Hu's voice was weak: "I, I don't know either. We are just a mining town!"

Besides mining and smelting, they didn't do anything else.

"Speak, why did you delay reporting for two days, and who did you contact to get these forty or fifty extra people?" Hu Min said coldly, "If you reveal the mastermind, perhaps your punishment can be reduced at the discretion of the court."

The severity of the punishments in Panlong City flashed through Village Chief Hu's mind.

He almost arched his head to the ground.

The road to the mine hadn't been cleared of the blockage, so General Red also led the crowd on foot.

A quarter of an hour later, the Chifeng mine tunnel came into view.

The cave entrance, half-hidden by large trees, was no different from what He Lingchuan and the others had seen earlier, and the nearby low houses were also hidden in the shadows of the large mountain.

The mine tunnel was located in the mountain's shadow; at this moment, it looked two parts sinister, like a monster opening its mouth waiting for people to jump in.

General Red asked the sand leopard Shi Ying: "How many mountain demons and wild monsters have gone missing in this vicinity?"

"More than thirty."

In other words, within three days, the monster inside had swallowed nearly two hundred living beings.

Even the most insane monster, unless acting in a pack, couldn't do such a thing.

"Not a small number." General Red seemed to be talking to herself, "But it also shows that the most powerful Jin Du hatchling was only born three or four days ago."

The elite Great Wind Army soldiers behind her asked: "General, shall we enter the cave?"

"No rush." To others, this mountain forest was quiet and peaceful; but in General Red's eyes, the demonic energy here was soaring to the sky, and the resentment of the newly dead seemed to be rising toward the sun's true fire.

Just approaching the mine mountain, she could feel the existence of the so-called "Son of God."

This newly born Jin Du hatchling was too arrogant and didn't hide its aura at all.

Such arrogance, such an appetite, made things easy to handle.

General Red didn't know where she took out an open-mouthed golden bowl, smaller than a washbasin, with three legs carved with Chi dragons.

She wanted the mountain spirit Shi Ying to lead the others to fetch snow from the tips of old tree branches—and it had to be old locust trees—and put it into the bowl.

The mountains and plains here were full of miscellaneous trees, and old locust trees over two hundred years old were everywhere.

The snow turned into water upon entering the bowl. From General Red's perspective, the bottom of the bowl was not flat, but had ups and downs.

As she stroked the bowl, it rapidly deformed, slowly taking the shape of mountains and rivers, slowly separating into high ridges and low valleys, and even houses and cave entrances appeared...

Wasn't this a miniature map of the Chifeng mining area where they were? Even the winding posture of the two trees outside the cave entrance was exactly the same.

It was just that they were almost scaled down to the bottom of the bowl.

Now they were all under the rippling clear water.

At this step, General Red reached her finger in and stirred clockwise. No one knew if she was chanting a spell, but the air around her suddenly flowed, the wind force grew stronger, and even the guards couldn't help but retreat several steps.

And mist began to form in the golden bowl, from light to thick, soon covering the entire bowl.

Interestingly, it only steamed up to the rim of the bowl, as if an invisible lid was blocking it, and it could only churn repeatedly inside.

In a short while, only thick water mist remained in the entire bowl.

Seeing this, General Red withdrew her hand, but the mist still churned incessantly, as if something was moving beneath it.

In the blink of an eye, vertical fins emerged on the surface of the mist, a very long row, and the rear seemed to be connected to a tail, winding and coiling in the mist sea, like a snake or a crocodile, already possessing a compelling momentum.

Immediately after, it revealed its true form on the mist sea: a super miniature flood dragon.

Although the flood dragon body was also made entirely of mist, the sharp horns, scales, and whiskers were all there, not cut corners at all.

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