Book 1 Chapter 20: Kill the vice-chieftain!
Bai Yunfei’s expression changed repeatedly. He had not expected the existence of these people in the stronghold.
However, he did not find this strange either. There were several hundred bandits in the entire stronghold. Those vicious bandits could not always wash their own clothes and cook their own meals, therefore it was not unusual to see abducted women in the stronghold. Only he had overlooked this problem all along.
Now to think about it, this should be the reason why that bandit group he had encountered last time had kidnapped those women after destroying a village.
Bai Yunfei estimated the time for a while and said: “Don’t worry. Since I already know, I’ll definitely rescue all of you. Now, take me to the place where they are locked up first. I need to learn a bit about the situation.”
Guided by the middle-aged woman, Bai Yunfei arrived at a shabby building that looked like a prison cell. Unexpectedly, there were no guards at the entrance, and the door seemed to be unlocked too.
Even before getting close to it, Bai Yunfei heard lewd laughs of a good several men and sounds of women pleading coming from inside.
His expression changed, but the middle-aged woman seemed to be used to this, distress showing up in her eyes: “They’ve come again. Recently these bandits have been living in fear all day long. There’s nowhere for them to go to vent their frustration so they have tortured them twice as much as before…”
“Was it… because of me? Because I put these bandits under pressure, they have tortured them twice as much?” Bai Yunfei went into a trance for a moment. There was an indescribable feeling in his heart.
Suddenly he raised his head and his body turned into a blur, rushing into the room.
The moment he entered the room, he saw clearly the situation inside. The chamber was divided into five identical prison cells. In each cell, there were nearly ten women in a corner of the walls, huddling together while trembling.
In the cell nearest Bai Yunfei, six bandits with repulsive naked bodies were gathering around several young women and tearing at their already tattered clothes.
With their backs facing the door, the bandits simply did not notice that someone else had come in. Bai Yunfei’s expression was somewhat distorted, his fury seemingly rushing out of his eyes. In the blink of an eye, he charged up to the back of a bandit and thrust the Glacial Pricker in his hand into that man’s heart without hesitation!
To avoid horrifying the women at the scene, Bai Yunfei did not kill the six bandits in an overly bloody way. They all died from a stab to the heart in almost the blink of an eye.
The women seemed to be scared out of their wits by this sudden event. They all looked at Bai Yunfei in stupefaction with dropped jaws.
Right at this moment, that middle-aged women also walked in. Seeing Bai Yunfei throwing the six bandit corpses into a pile like throwing trash, she trembled slightly, but she reacted very fast by hurriedly walking up to Bai Yunfei’s side and saying in a low voice to those women: “Don’t make a sound, everybody! Don’t be afraid! This person has come to rescue us!”
She seemed to be influential among these women. At least what she had said made them loosen up. After understanding the situation, they even began to discuss with each other in low voices somewhat excitedly while often glancing stealthily at Bai Yunfei with expressions containing traces of hope and fear.