Chapter 393: Volume 1, Chapter 393: Evil Dragon x Slave x Witch (13)

Jiang Zhi's condition wasn't good either; her face was deathly pale, like a sheet of paper, and in the dim light it looked almost translucent.

"Hmm, I ran into an old man along the way."

Gu He instinctively asked: "What old man?"

Jiang Zhi said: "It should be one of the twelve elders of Zhucheng, but I killed him."

Gu He no longer felt surprised either: "Oh."

Those few elders also deserved to die.

As they were about to reach the refuge, several figures could be seen running on the ground beneath the cape flying high in the sky.

Gu He happened to see them, thinking they were pursuing enemy troops, and involuntarily lowered his head to take a careful look.

"Xiao Liu?"

He made out one of the figures and said uncertainly:

Upon hearing this, Jiang Zhi stopped her high-speed flying cape and used her right-eye gold-thread glasses to see clearly the few people below.

They turned out to be people from the refuge.

She quickly maneuvered the cape downward to come before those people.

Their injuries were severe: two half-beasts and one human, and among them, the half-beast with cat ears had one ear sliced off, blood pouring from the wound.

Upon seeing them, the cat-eared half-beast burst into tears, stammering: "Mas... master, things are bad!"

Jiang Zhi furrowed her brows, her mental energy exhausted, a faint pain in her chest, she asked: "What happened?"

The cat-eared one could not speak from crying, so the human resident beside them related what had happened.

After hearing everything, Jiang Zhi's face grew increasingly grim.

Among the slaves rescued last time, one was a spy of the chief elder, the head of the twelve elders of Zhucheng.

After they left, he reported the news to the chief elder stationed in Zhucheng.

The chief elder sent people over, they destroyed the barrier, imprisoned the slaves inside, seized the refuge, intending to let the nobles come live there.

She had altered the soil of Chendi to be suitable for farming and habitation, dispelled the dust and haze, so there was sun by day and a sky full of stars at night.

How could they possibly let it go?

It was Jiang Zhi's own carelessness; she hadn't thoroughly investigated the slaves' backgrounds, otherwise this wouldn't have happened.

Gu He could not control his emotions either: "They're not human at all!!"

Jiang Zhi wore a cold expression and immediately said: "I'll first imprint you onto talismans; after I calm things down, I'll release you."

The three responded in unison.

After Jiang Zhi healed their wounds, she imprinted them onto talismans.

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"Speak, just who is that witch?!"

The guard asked coldly.

On the open ground, several half-beasts and humans were tied to posts, their bones broken and limbs severed, yet they uttered not a word.

"If you won't talk, then starting now I'll kill one slave every ten minutes; if you still don't speak, I'll kill all your slaves!"

The refuge's residents remained silent, enduring resolutely.

A little boy escaped confinement and ran out, rushing to the front of more than ten posts, suppressing his fear, he roared angrily with a choking voice.

"Even if you kill us, we won't talk! Our master is the best master in the world; she's nothing like you!!"

The woman bound behind, seeing this, burst into tears, her face streaming, she pressed her lips shut without making a sound.

One guard sneered, drew a spiked whip, aimed at the boy's body, and lashed out hard.

The boy's small body was flung straight into the post, spitting a mouthful of blood and losing consciousness.

Others seeing this struggled to resist, but to no avail; too many guards had arrived, and these unarmed residents were no match for them.

A cry rang out from nearby; the goat-horn half-beast dragged out of the house by the guards was pressed to the ground.

That guard, overcome with lust, didn't care that he was in public; he tore the goat-horn girl's clothes and laughed: "There's actually such a beautiful half-beast here; I've never tasted half-beast before, today I'll give it a try."

The other guards were used to it and found nothing strange.

Just as the goat-horn girl was about to bite her tongue to kill herself, a wave of warmth splashed across her cheek; the man pressing on her went still, she struggled to open her eyes, and saw the person before her pierced through the chest by a blade, slowly collapsing to the ground.

A person descended before her, grabbed and pulled away the guard on her, then took off his cape and robe and covered her with it.

"Don't be afraid."

The goat-horn girl heard the familiar voice, choked with sobs, tears streaming down in torrents, splashing onto the ground.

"Mas... master!"

The guards saw the witch suddenly appear; before they could react, their bodies moved uncontrollably, gripping their blades they slit their own throats.

Countless puppet silver threads intertwined in the air.

In an instant, nearly a thousand guards collapsed dead, eyes not closed in peace.

Gu He and the others watched this scene in disbelief.

After a long while.

Everyone cheered.

"Master!! Master!!"