lcionline Chapter 383 Plunder
Chapter 383 Plunder
After a while, hot meals were served. Although they were just simple meals, they were a rare treat for the two people who had been traveling for days.
Xiao Zi was also awakened by the fragrance. She crawled out from Gu Yang's collar, jumped onto the table, and took away a piece of meat without any hesitation.
The village chief was stunned: "This, this is..."
Gu Yang smiled slightly: "It's just a little pet at home, don't worry about it."
After they had eaten and drunk their fill, Hu Qing took out a few pieces of silver and placed them on the table, saying, "Thank you for your hospitality. This will be your meal payment."
The village chief waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no, it's a blessing for us that the two young masters can come to our village..."
Hu Qing stuffed the silver into his hand without hesitation and said with a smile, "Take it. We need to stay another night. This money will be used as accommodation fee."
As the night deepened, the village fell into silence. Hu Qing half-leaned on the wooden bed, his hands behind his head, looking at the mottled old beams on the roof, and let out a long sigh of relief.
After flying for several days in a row, even practitioners would inevitably feel mentally exhausted.
Lying on the soft bed at this moment, all my muscles and bones relax, and fatigue surges over me like a tide.
Gu Yang sat cross-legged on a wooden chair by the window, closing his eyes and regulating his breathing.
Xiao Zi curled up in the cabinet, his tail covering the tip of his nose, and he made a soft snoring sound.
The occasional chirping of insects outside the window makes the night even more peaceful.
"This village is quite quiet." Gu Yang said lazily.
Hu Qing opened his eyes slightly and said calmly, "Mortal life, working from sunrise to sunset, is naturally less troublesome than the cultivation world."
Gu Yang smiled and said, "It's nice to take a night off like this occasionally."
The two said no more and soon fell asleep.
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However, this tranquility did not last long.
On the hillside outside the village, pairs of scarlet eyes flickered in the darkness.
More than thirty orcs were crawling in the grass, with smelly saliva dripping from their fangs, staring greedily at the sleeping village below.
The leading pig-headed man, Pig Ten, had protruding fangs and two streams of white air coming out of his thick nostrils.
It held a rusty giant axe in its hand and murmured in a low voice: "Tonight, I can have a good meal..."
The wolf-headed man beside him licked his sharp claws and grinned, "Boss, you have to give me an extra leg this time. Last time, the village didn't even have enough meat to fill my teeth!"
The snakehead stabbed out his tongue and said sinisterly, "I like those with delicate skin and tender flesh, especially children..."
Zhu Shi opened his bloody mouth, raised his giant axe, and growled, "Kill! Leave no one alive!"
"Roar!" The orcs let out bloodthirsty roars, waving crude weapons, and rushed towards the village like a tide.
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"Huh?" Hu Qing suddenly opened his eyes and frowned.
Gu Yang also became alert instantly and whispered, "There is murderous intent."
The two looked at each other, and in a flash, they appeared outside the house.
At the edge of the village, the wooden doors of several houses were roughly kicked open, and the orcs rushed into the houses, and screams suddenly pierced the night sky.
"Beast!" A cold light flashed in Hu Qing's eyes. He raised his hand and waved it. A stream of spiritual power swept out and directly cut the three orcs in half!
Gu Yang's body was as fast as lightning, and he instantly appeared behind a wolf-headed man. His palm was like a knife, piercing directly through his chest.
Xiao Zi also woke up from the cabinet, turned into a purple light and rushed out, tearing the snake-headed man's throat with his sharp claws.
Seeing this, Zhu Shi's pupils shrank: "Cultivator?!"
It roared angrily and swung its giant axe towards Hu Qing.
Hu Qing sneered, light gathered at his fingertips, and flicked lightly—
"Dang!" The giant axe broke, and Zhu Shi's huge body was shocked and retreated repeatedly.
"Retreat! Retreat quickly!" Zhu Shi shouted in horror and turned around to run away.
"Want to leave?" Gu Yang snorted coldly, and with a wave of his sleeves, dozens of wind blades whizzed out, instantly shredding the remaining orcs into pieces.
Before Zhu Shi could run a few steps, a purple light flashed before his eyes, and Xiao Zi was blocking his way. His small body exuded a terrifying aura of oppression.
"Don't, don't kill me..." Zhu Shi collapsed to the ground, trembling all over.
Hu Qing walked over slowly and asked coldly, "Why did you attack the village?"
Zhu Shi shuddered, "I-we were just extremely hungry... All the wild animals in the nearby mountains were eaten, so we could only..."
Gu Yang's eyes were cold: "If you eat humans, you deserve to die."
Before he could finish his words, Xiao Zi slapped Zhu Shi's head with her claws, and it exploded like a watermelon.
The surviving villagers in the village poked their heads out tremblingly and were shocked and frightened to see the orc corpses all over the ground.
The village chief came over tremblingly and knelt down with a plop: "Thank you two immortal masters for saving my life!"
Hu Qing helped him up and said gently, "There's no need to do this, old man. It's just a small favor."
The night wind howled, carrying the smell of blood throughout the village.
The villagers gathered silently at the entrance of the village. Several women hugged their children and sobbed softly, while the men carried the orcs' bodies with gloomy faces.
In the light of the fire, those hideous heads and twisted limbs looked particularly terrifying.
Hu Qing squatted beside Zhu Shi's headless body, gathered a wisp of sword energy at his fingertips, and gently cut through the orc's thick skin.
The subcutaneous fat has a strange bluish-gray color, but the muscle texture is surprisingly similar to that of humans.
He frowned and said, "The structure of the muscles and bones is almost the same as that of humans, but with some more beast characteristics."
"Half-demon?" Gu Yang's fingers flickered in his sleeves, and a breeze lifted up the wolf-headed man's broken claw for a closer look. "No, demons need to cultivate their intelligence. These guys are weak and are clearly acting on instinct."
Gu Yang then withdrew his consciousness, frowning slightly: "There is no trace of orcs within a hundred miles, but the arrival of these beasts is strange."
The two looked at each other, turned and walked towards the old village chief who was comforting the villagers.
When the village chief saw them coming, he bowed quickly, his cloudy eyes full of awe.
"Father-in-law, where do these orcs come from?" Hu Qing asked directly.
The village chief sighed and pointed his skinny finger to the north:
"You two immortal masters may not know that thirty miles north of here is the border between the Daliang Dynasty and the Orc Kingdom.
Originally, the two countries had lived in peace for hundreds of years, but since the king went into seclusion three months ago..."
"The king is in seclusion?" Gu Yang keenly grasped the key point.
"Yes." A worried look appeared on the village chief's face. "Our Daliang King is a powerful figure in the world. When he was stationed at the border, those orcs didn't even dare to show their heads.
But ever since the king's retreat, the orcs, like jackals smelling blood, have begun to frequently raid the border."
Hu Qing narrowed his eyes and asked, "How dare those scumbags attack the village so brazenly?"
"The Red Dragon Guards are mainly stationed at the fortress."
The village chief explained with a wry smile, “A small village like ours can only rely on itself for good fortune.
These roving orc bands specifically target remote areas and treat living people as…” The old man choked up when he said this.