Chapter 46: Confrontation Before Spider Village

When the first ray of sunshine in the morning passed through the main hall of Centipede Village, the news that the mountain bandit younger brother had inquired about all night followed.

"Leader, I have confirmed with the brothers of Spider Village. Except for one person, the rest in the portrait are people from Spider Village."

Black Centipede pushed open the door with his upper body naked: "Is the person in Spider Village now?"

The mountain bandit outside the door reported truthfully: "It is said that this group of people had more than ten people a few days ago and had joined Spider Village for a period of time, but they suddenly disappeared a few days ago, and now they are not in Spider Village."

Hearing this, Black Centipede moved his neck and revealed a long-lost smile: "Call the brothers to gather."

Then Black Centipede turned back to the room to put on clothes. When he came to the open space at the door of the main hall again, more than a hundred people were already standing in place waiting.

Although the queue was crooked, the scene was quiet and not messy. Just this point was better than Poison Snake Village.

One person in the team stepped forward to report: "Leader, except for the brothers on duty last night who are resting, the rest are here."

"Brothers, take your tools, set off for Spider Village!"

Black Centipede waved his hand and walked out of the stronghold gate with high spirits.

According to the default rules in the past, such a scene could not appear. You only needed to

But this time was different; Black Centipede did not have the time to slowly haggle with Spider Stronghold. The Tang family had only given him three days, and today was the second.

Black Centipede concluded that a fight would not break out; he was only doing this to use his influence to pressure them. If other strongholds followed Spider Stronghold's example and ignored the rules, and he had to spend money to demand people back every few days, how much money would he even have?

By establishing his reputation once and for all, he could avoid a lot of trouble in the future.

As Centipede Stronghold poured out in full force, the various major strongholds received the news one after another. The previously calm Lianhuan Shan was suddenly filled with undercurrents.

Viper was somewhat surprised today, because that lecherous worm, Adder, had actually crawled out of bed and was now sitting in the main hall presiding over the big picture.

Upon hearing the news brought by his subordinate, Adder said, "Continue to follow up. I want to know the real-time situation between Centipede Stronghold and Spider Stronghold."

"Yes!"

After the subordinate left, Viper tentatively asked Adder, "Big Brother, why are you up so early today?"

Adder yawned and did not look at Viper: "With such an important matter, I'm afraid you won't be able to handle it."

Viper lowered his head and nodded repeatedly in agreement: "Yes, yes, Big Brother is right."

Meanwhile, Spider Stronghold did not yet know what had happened. Upon hearing the report from his subordinate, Poison Spider pondered for a long time before muttering to himself.

"What kind of major operation is Black Centipede planning? Why wasn't there even a whisper of wind about this before!"

Before Poison Spider could think further, another person hurried in from outside to provide an explanation: "Report! Great Chief, the people from Centipede Stronghold are heading toward our stronghold!"

Poison Spider could no longer sit still: "Are you certain?"

The subordinate nodded in response: "Absolutely certain. They are already on the small path up our mountain; they will be at the stronghold gate in the time it takes to burn a stick of incense!"

The incident was sudden. Although he could not guess what medicine was in Black Centipede's gourd, necessary precautions could not be neglected.

"Call the men, grab your weapons, and assemble."

Fortunately, it was still early, and the brothers had not yet gone down the mountain, so the combat strength of Spider Stronghold was intact.

Inside Toad Stronghold, the fat and lazy Toad was sitting in the head seat, dozing off. Even though a crowd of subordinates was discussing things noisily, it did not affect his impending sleep in the slightest.

Just then, a subordinate brought the latest news—Centipede Stronghold was heading toward Spider Stronghold.

Toad's sleepiness was completely shaken off, but he was not angry because of it. He sighed helplessly: "Keep watching!"

"Yes!"

Lianhuan Shan consisted of five mountains standing close together, with each stronghold occupying one mountain. From left to right, they were Spider Stronghold, Scorpion Stronghold, Viper Stronghold, Centipede Stronghold, and Toad Stronghold!

Among them, the mountain where Scorpion Stronghold was located was the highest of the five. At this moment, Evil Scorpion stood on the peak of Lianhuan Shan, overlooking the mountain range. If one observed carefully, one could even see people moving about on the mountainside below.

Evil Scorpion's build was as thin as a scholar's, and even his face looked quite refined. The only flaw was a piece of black cloth covering his right eye, like an impurity mixed into a piece of fine jade.

The twenty or thirty people behind him all stood in place waiting for Evil Scorpion's orders. The formation was orderly and their gazes were firm; in terms of discipline alone, they were definitely the head of the Five Poisons!

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By the time Spider Stronghold had finished gathering in a rush, the sleepy bandits were pulled behind the main gate of Spider Stronghold.

Just then, the group from Centipede Stronghold successfully arrived at the gate of Spider Stronghold. Looking at the tightly shut gate, Black Centipede stepped forward and shouted to the bandits on the watchtower: "Tell your Great Chief, Poison Spider, to come out!"

Just then, the gate of Spider Stronghold slowly opened, revealing the group from Spider Stronghold that had just finished assembling. Poison Spider stood in the center of the crowd and asked in a deep voice: "Black Centipede, I'm here. What do you want?"

"That's what I should be asking you!"

Black Centipede looked around and noticed black shadows flashing on many treetops. He knew these were scouts from other strongholds.

Poison Spider was a bit impatient. Black Centipede had come up and said nothing of substance, which caused an inexplicable fire to rise in his heart.

"What? You bring people to block my stronghold gate without a word; do you think I'm made of mud?"

Seeing that Poison Spider was still pretending, Black Centipede shouted: "I ask you, was it your Spider Stronghold people who intercepted and killed the Tang family members on the road the day before yesterday?"

Only then did Poison Spider realize Black Centipede's intention, but at this moment, he did not realize the seriousness of the matter.

"I thought it was something major. Who are you trying to scare with such a big display for this little thing? Just solve it according to the rules!"

"Scare? Do you know who your Spider Stronghold people intercepted?" Black Centipede replied with a dark face.

"Who?" Poison Spider naturally did not know. His brothers went down the mountain to rob every day; he only cared about whether there were any gains.

"The Tang family's eldest daughter, and she was almost defiled by your Spider Stronghold people." Black Centipede said louder and louder.

Seeing Black Centipede so anxious, Poison Spider could naturally guess that the Tang family must have applied pressure, but the more this was the case, the happier Poison Spider felt.

If you want me to hand over people, fine, but if you don't bleed heavily for this, I'm not called Poison Spider.

So, Poison Spider mocked instead: "Tsk tsk! We are bandits. If we don't rob houses and kill people, should we go help the government maintain peace?"

Once these words were spoken, everyone burst into laughter. Black Centipede replied with a sullen face: "Robbing houses is fine, but don't cut off my source of wealth!"

"Alright, alright! Stop the nonsense. Who are the people who did the robbing?"

Poison Spider was just running his mouth; he was still counting on scraping some profit from Black Centipede!

Little did he know that Poison Spider's words made the bandits of Spider Stronghold feel insecure, all of them wondering if they had done such a thing during this period.