As early as when Gu Shao'an killed the first trafficker with a copper coin and blood spread from the corpse, the pedestrians on the street had already been frightened by the bloody turn of events and scattered with screams, leaving a small area empty.
Yet almost no one left outright. They merely watched from afar.
Then they saw that Gu Shao'an was not satisfied with merely injuring them. He had even broken all four of their limbs.
Such actions made people draw sharp breaths. They felt that despite his young age, Gu Shao'an's methods were astonishingly vicious, hardly those of a decent person.
But when they learned from others nearby that the men on the ground were traffickers, the expressions of the surrounding crowd abruptly changed.
Looking at Zhou Shan and the others, who were still howling in pain, they could not help but spit at them, feeling instead that Gu Shao'an had gone too easy on them.
Those who engaged in trafficking deserved to be cut into a thousand pieces.
At the same time, the Emei Sect shijie had subdued the three men who had scattered and fled, then dragged them back and tossed them before Gu Shao'an.
However, after examining the men on the ground for a few moments, the round-faced shijie who had spoken earlier could not help asking, "Little Junior Brother, are you sure these people are traffickers?"
Gu Shao'an nodded. "Shijie and I did not provoke anyone outside, yet these people targeted us for no reason. Even if they are not traffickers, they are certainly no good people."
The round-faced shijie looked at Gu Shao'an, then turned to look at Zhou Zhiruo.
If she were a trafficker herself, seeing such adorable children without adults protecting them would probably stir her thoughts as well.
"These people