Last night, the void phantom had feasted on living people. The scene was bloody enough to set the wild dogs outside barking madly without pause.
Ordinarily, such a noisy commotion would have drawn the attention of all the neighbors.
But Mao Laoyao was so miserly that he would not even spare leftovers for the wild dogs. The dogs had howled for half the night, and everyone had grown used to it.
"Mao Laoyao brought this upon himself!"
The neighbors sighed with emotion. Looking again at the soul-stricken Mao Laoyao, they all shook their heads.
The constables dragged the corpses out of the house. Every one of them vomited until their faces turned white and their legs went limp.
According to what Constable Liu had privately told Zhou You, Mao Xiaoli and his mother had had their organs and brains hollowed out. Every tender part of their bodies had been eaten clean, leaving only a layer of skin over the corpses.
A void phantom's eating habits were vastly different from a human's. It specifically went for organs, brains, and other smooth, tender, flavorful parts with heavy scents.
Zhou You frowned slightly, grateful that he had prepared Evil Warding Pills for his parents in time.
If the void phantom had slipped into his home last night, his parents likely would not have escaped disaster without the Evil Warding Pills protecting them.
Thinking about it now, one hundred taels per pill was not expensive at all. After all, they could save a life.
"Young Master Zhou, it is inconvenient for me to reveal too much about this matter. You'll understand once you return to the martial arts school."
Before taking his leave, Constable Liu spoke in a low voice.
The implication was that the martial arts school also knew a great deal about