Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 382 - 151: Yin Envoys All Follow Daoist Priest Fan’s Orders! Encounter with Head Arrestor Liu Again! (A 10,000-word Mega - , Please Subscribe)_3
In the end, all the gazes could only focus on Zhen Zhiyuan. Although Zhen Zhiyuan was quite young, after all, he was still the heir to Zhenhai Escort Agency.
Feeling the stares directed at him, Zhen Zhiyuan thought for a moment before he spoke out loud, "The unkind and wealthy Hu Dafu has met his retribution; there’s no need for our Zhenhai Escort Agency to transport his goods anymore."
Having said that, he paused and continued, "Get some men to open up the boxes on one of the horse carriages and take a look."
He indeed wanted to see what it was that Hu Dafu had been using.
After all, at the beginning, Hu Dafu had always kept things hidden and secretive.
Which made him very curious until now.
However, due to his own status, it wasn’t quite appropriate for him to probe into some secrets and privacy of his employer.
But now his employer was dead.
These things had become unclaimed property, so he no longer felt the need to hold back.
Under Zhen Zhiyuan’s command,
several knife-carrying Escort Masters immediately took a large box from atop a horse carriage. They brandished their long knives, cutting the ropes binding the box, and then used the knives to pry the box open by inserting them into the cracks.
A bizarre smell of decay assaulted their senses, bringing with it a cloud of dust, causing the Escort Masters who had pried open the box to cough repeatedly.
Waving their arms to clear the dust in front of them, they focused their eyes to look inside the box.
Suddenly!
They were stunned.
Dumbfounded!
Zhen Zhiyuan had already walked over, casting a surprised glance at the stunned Escort Masters, and then he leaned in to look inside the box himself. Merely one look was enough for his eyes to widen instantly, and he sharply inhaled a breath of cold air.
His face was a picture of horror.
"Bones!"
Zhen Zhiyuan exclaimed, "They’re all very strange bones!"
He saw that the box was filled with one skeletal remain after another.
It was a sight to send shivers down the spine.
Eerie and chilling.
These bones looked very peculiar, with many that didn’t seem to belong to humans at all. It was as if these skeletons had belonged, while alive, to beings with a form of... half-human, half-beast stature.
Wait a minute!
Half-human?
Half-beast?
Zhen Zhiyuan was suddenly startled, "Aren’t these the villagers of Guyue Village who were murdered? Could it be that these are their remains after being killed? Did Hu Dafu transport all of their skeletons out?"
"Open all the boxes!" he ordered.
One by one, the Escort Masters sprung into action, and sure enough, inside each box was nothing but bones.
The discovery sent a chill through everyone present.
Who would have thought that the pot-bellied Hu Dafu could be so monstrously cruel!
Despite having seen hundreds of wronged souls earlier, the crowd had not felt much. But upon seeing the large number of bones, they felt differently... feeling that even the bloodiest of butchers were not as heartless and mad as Hu Dafu!
"Indeed... he is worse than a beast!" Zhen Zhiyuan said with a dark face, cursing under his breath.
Although those of them who wandered Jianghu as Escort Masters couldn’t exactly be called good people, they weren’t inhumane like Hu Dafu.
Didn’t that guy fear divine retribution when doing these things?
Zhen Zhiyuan thought for a moment.
He then said, "Since we’re resting here for the night anyway, why not dig some holes and bury these poor souls right here? Their bones shouldn’t be discarded carelessly, after all."
Primarily because he had been frightened by the hundreds of wronged souls from Guyue Village, he was concerned that if he carelessly disposed of these remains, he might invite some form of retribution.
Now, Hu Dafu was already torn to pieces and had become a heap of mangled flesh spread on the ground.
The faint smell of blood that was almost unnoticeable inside his nose was a constant reminder...
——Man acts!
——Heaven watches!
Even without Heaven’s watch, that Yun lady and Daoist Priest Fan were already watching.
Then.
Under the command of Zhen Zhiyuan, and with him leading the way personally, members of the Zhenhai Escort Agency started using their weapons as tools to dig graves in a good spot near the official road.
...
The next day.
Early morning.
The Escort Masters who had been busy all night were waking up one after another. The first thing they did upon awakening was to check whether they were missing any parts of their bodies?
After all, with the bizarre events they had encountered the night before, they were worried they might wake up missing limbs for no apparent reason.
Fortunately, most of them were alright.
Only some had fallen ill.
But the illness wasn’t too severe—just a runny nose, some sneezing, and their whole bodies seemed somewhat weak, as if they had overindulged themselves within a day.
It was quite normal for them to look like this after having encountered so many wronged spirits and even a Yin Envoy the previous night.
Being swept by the howling Yin winds for so long.
Not falling ill would actually have been strange!
After gearing up,
the Escort Masters of Zhenhai Escort Agency decided to head back the way they came, as they had no more goods to escort. Of course, they felt no disappointment; Yun Jiuqing had dropped four thousand taels of silver on them, causing each and every Escort Master to smile so broadly their faces almost split.
How could they possibly be disappointed?
And so...
Fan Wu, Yun Jiuqing... bade farewell to the Escort Masters of Zhenhai Escort Agency and went their separate ways.
On the road.
Yun Jiuqing, while leading Old Blue Ox by its leash, still had not let go of her resentment and grumbled, "It’s a pity that the villagers of Guyue Village were too hasty in their actions. If they had just been a little slower, I would have had the chance to give that guy called Hu Dafu a good thrashing to vent my anger!"
