YNRHPCYC Chapter 102

Seeing the blood, the people knew that Liang Yanbei really dared to take action, and his attack was not light. So everyone’s grandeur suddenly wilted, and no one dared to stand up and speak.

Wen Chan saw that the opportunity was just right, so he said coldly, “If you all make trouble again, you will be like this man. If you stay here well, bengong will naturally make the most appropriate arrangements for you after bengong asks you clearly.”

He called the bailiff by his side, “What’s actually going on? Tell me.”

The bailiff answered very concisely, “Your Highness, this is arranged by Lord Xie. In order to prevent these people from spreading the disease, food is distributed, and doctors are assigned to check them every day. But these people want to break out of the circle. This is not the first time.”

He frowned, “How long have they been here?”

“About five or six days.” The bailiff replied.

“Haven’t you found out the cause yet?”

“No.” The bailiff shook his head, “I heard that Dr Situ, who was invited by Little Master Xie from Jin Ling, was also unable to do anything about it.”

Hearing this, the people began to get a little restless again. Liang Yanbei glanced at them and immediately suppressed their restlessness.

An illness that Situ Zhoulan couldn’t find out was obviously very tricky. If it gets dragged on like this, the people’s riots will eventually be unstoppable one day.

Perhaps because he had been an emperor before, Wen Chan always thought about these things unconsciously, even though these things had nothing to do with him.

It was just that in the current situation, he couldn’t think of a good way for the time being, so he could only say, “Bengong will find a way. But if anyone dares to disobey orders and rush out again, then there is no need to be merciful. Just beat them up until they can’t get up first.”

Although violence was not the best way to curb violence, it was the most useful way.

The bailiff got the order, and they instantly gained confidence. They responded one after another, “Yes!”

Seeing his well-organised arrangements, Liang Yanbei couldn’t help but smile and stood quietly by the side, watching him deal with things seriously.

Wen Chan said, “Which of you is in a more serious condition? Come up and let me see.”

The people looked at each other in dismay, and finally, an older woman came over. Her head was wrapped tightly with a dark cloth, and she walked towards Wen Chan with her head down.

When they were a few steps away from Wen Chan, Liang Yanbei said, “Stop, just stand there.”

The woman stopped immediately and tremblingly untied her scarf, “The first one was the Ding family’s girl, and the second one is me. It has been eight or nine days since I got this disease.”

After taking off the headscarf, a shocking scene came into view. They saw that the woman’s entire face and neck were jet black, and the wrinkled skin was piled up together, as if it was pasted on top, which was extremely ugly.

Thus, many people took a breath of cold air and began to discuss in panic.

When the woman heard this discussion, she cried out in fear, “What should I do? What should I do? Will I die? I don’t want to die yet!”

Wen Chan frowned even more. Looking this close, he felt that it was not strange-looking, “Since it’s a disease, there must be a cause. Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere on your body?”

The woman shook her head, “There is no discomfort. It’s just that sometimes the skin is numb to touch, and it doesn’t hurt or itch.”

It was really a strange disease. Wen Chan had lived for decades in his previous life and had never heard of this disease.

“The doctor you sent is simply a quack. He can’t find anything. You locked us up here. Aren’t you asking us to die?!”

The man who was hit on the head before by Liang Yanbei stood up and began to yell again. He simply wrapped his head with a cloth and wiped the blood off his face. His expression was still as fierce as before, but he was a little more timid this time.

Liang Yanbei looked at him, “I was wrong before. You don’t have a strong head; you have strong guts. Haven’t I hit you enough?”

The man paused at once and immediately raised his voice, “We want to live! Naturally, we will not be pushed around by you! If, in the end, the situation is really hopeless, you people will stand aside and do nothing. Then wouldn’t we lose our lives in vain?”

Wen Chan was a little angry, “I said I would find a way.”

“Didn’t Little Lord Xie also say that he would find a way before? But there has been no trace of said person at all for several days in a row! It’s just your trick!” The man insisted.

After his instigation, the emotions of the people who had just been calmed down rose again, and the momentum was very strong. Many people followed to agree, and every sentence seemed to make sense to them.

Seeing this, Wen Chan thought to himself that this man was indeed the culprit who instigated the people to riot. He shouldn’t have stopped Liang Yanbei just now; he should have told him to knock the man out directly.

At this moment, everyone was talking one after another, getting more and more excited. Liang Yanbei saw that the situation was getting out of control and turned around to find a wooden stick again, but just after taking two steps, the man rushed over!

The moment he saw Liang Yanbei turn around, he stepped forward and pulled the knife out of a bailiff’s hand and rushed towards Wen Chan quickly, with a weird and hideous smile on his face.

Wen Chan saw very clearly the moment the man rushed over; in the man’s wide-open mouth, there were two teeth sharper than ordinary humans, like a beast, showing their sharp points. 

The body reacted faster than the mind. Wen Chan leaned back, trying to avoid the man’s attack, but in this short moment, the man seemed to see through his actions, and he directly turned his hand and swung the knife horizontally to the left. If Wen Chan avoids, his neck would hit the blade.

When Liang Yanbei heard an exclamation behind him, it was already late.

At the critical moment, a knife came flying from nowhere and plunged straight into the man’s neck. The powerful force hit his body and made him fall to the side. He then rolled several times before stopping.

Blood gushed out in large amounts, and the man remained motionless.

Wen Chan was still in shock and hurriedly stepped back a few steps, retreating to Liang Yanbei’s side. He turned his head to look in the direction from which the blade came flying. He saw on a tree with few leaves stood a man in a black robe.

It was the person who stopped them from opening the door of Zhong Guoyi’s prison that day. He was dressed in a black robe and a mask, and he was silent.

 

His black eyes under the mask were still calm, and in the right hand, where it was empty, the short scimitar appeared again.

“It’s him!” Wen Chan whispered, “He was the one who stopped me at Gecha Mansion at the time!”

It was already a turmoil here, and the people were frightened again and retreated one after another. The bailiff also crowded around to block Wen Chan, fearing that there would be another fearless person who would rush up to attack him.

Liang Yanbei first glanced at the man who fell to the ground and was no longer moving, and his eyes sank slightly. He then looked at the man in black robes and at the same time, stretched out a hand to hold Wen Chan.

The black-robed man also stared at Liang Yanbei for a long time, then turned around, jumped down from the tree, and ran into the forest.

Wen Chan had always been curious about his identity, and now Liang Yanbei was by his side, so he said, “Let’s catch up with him and have a look.”

Liang Yanbei naturally complied with his request, nodded, and followed with his hand in his hand.

Wen Chan actually didn’t run slowly, but he still dragged Liang Yanbei behind. When the two chased into the forest, they could only see the corner of the black-robed man’s clothes flash by. So he anxiously hugged Liang Yanbei’s neck, “Use qinggong!”

In this lifetime, Wen Chan took the initiative to hug him. Liang Yanbei was overjoyed and hurriedly picked him up. And on his tiptoe, his speed suddenly became much faster. 

Even though he was holding Wen Chan, his qinggong was quite powerful, and he slowly closed the distance with the black-robed man.

After chasing into the forest for only a while, Liang Yanbei smelt a strong smell of blood which filled the air.

He said, “He might have killed someone here.”

Wen Chan was shocked and asked hurriedly, “How do you know that?”

As soon as the question fell, Liang Yanbei stopped. He gently put Wen Chan on the ground and looked ahead.

Wen Chan also looked around and saw that the black-robed man had also stopped, standing in an empty place. But there were several corpses lying in that place, and the blood was still pouring out; obviously, they had just been killed.

There are both men and women, and none of them survived. The black-robed man stood among the corpses like a ruthless killer.

“You killed all these people?” Wen Chan blurted out and asked.

Originally, he thought the man in the black robe would ignore him as usual, but who would have known that he would speak. His voice was clear and pleasant, making Wen Chan feel it to be both familiar and unfamiliar.

“They ran away.”

With just one sentence, Wen Chan understood what he meant. These people were originally patients locked in the wooden circle, but because of the turmoil just now, they had the opportunity to escape from it. But unfortunately, they were stopped by the black-robed man.

In the simplest understanding, the man in the black robe killed these people to prevent the disease from spreading. So, was he a good person?

He had just saved him, Wen Chan thought silently that if he were one of Zhong Guoyi’s people, he would never have saved him.

So who was this person? What was his purpose?

Liang Yanbei didn’t say anything. He just quietly looked at the person in front of him and narrowed his eyes slightly. 

“You……” Wen Chan thought for a moment and asked in a more tactful way, “Do you want to tell me something?”

The man in the black robe looked at Wen Chan and said lightly, “Those people must all be killed.”

“You mean all the people there? Do you know what this disease is?” Wen Chan asked.

“This is not a disease.” He said, “It’s a hex.”

This was the last thing he said. After that, he looked at Wen Chan deeply and then waved his black robe. Then the whole person was hidden in the darkness and disappeared silently in front of the two of them. 

Wen Chan was stunned for a moment, and a tremor surged from his heart. If what the man in the black robe said just now was true, it meant that a demon had come to the capital again.

But wasn’t the Shengui Clan destroyed? Was it related to Zhong Guoyi again? Zhong Wenting’s previous confidence, Zhong Guoyi’s strange disappearance, and the disappearance of the body of the assassin who came to the palace to assassinate him were all connected?

Thinking further, the monster on the Wuyue island that sucked human blood in broad daylight clearly had the same black wrinkled skin as these people. Could they all be of the same kind?

The more he thought about it, the more uneasy Wen Chan felt.

Seeing that he was in a trance, Liang Yanbei squeezed his hand again and said, “I think I know that person.”

This was very effective in bringing Wen Chan back to his senses at once, “Who is it?”

He pondered for a moment, then said, “I think he seems very familiar, but I can’t remember who he is.”

“Could it be that the person you recognise him as, is from Jin Ling? Could they have any relationship with Dan Ke or Situ Zhoulan?”

He shook his head, “I can’t guess the identity of that person. It’s hard to determine. I just think they are an acquaintance.”

“Why does your acquaintance know me?” Wen Chan said, “He just saved my life.”

“I don’t know this, but from the current point of view, this person is probably not simple. He can throw his knife from a distance at such a fast speed and hit the target. Even I can’t do it.” Liang Yanbei said.

Because the time was really too short, he just heard the noise and looked back. In this short moment, the man had been stabbed in the neck by the knife and flew out.

In other words, humans couldn’t do it at all. Unless that person could foretell, was a person of foresight, and knew that the man would attack Wen Chan.

The more they talked, the more suspicious they felt. Wen Chan scratched his head and said, “Let’s go back first. It’s not suitable to stay here any longer.”

The two of them talked and walked out. After they walked out of the woods, they saw that Xie Zhaoxue had come in at some unknown time and was directing people to clean up the blood all over the ground.

Next to him was a handsome young man, dressed in white; even the headband on his head was white, and Wen Chan couldn’t help but take a second look.

After approaching, before Wen Chan could greet him, he saw that the handsome young man in white had noticed them first and then showed a surprised look on his face, “So you’re here too!” 

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