Midnight Massacre

"Xiao Feng, did they come to collect protection money again? Did you give them the money?"

Only after Mother Lin entered the house did she recover from the fright just now, then she asked Lin Feng.

"I did!"

Lin Feng said.

To divert his mother's attention, Lin Feng promptly brought out the wild boar meat, vegetables, and rice.

"Where did these come from? How do you still have money to buy such things? If this were exchanged for wheat bran and corn gruel, it would be enough for us to eat for more than ten days!"

Mother Lin said heartbrokenly.

They had lived through hard days for so long that eating meat two days in a row made her feel uneasy.

"Mother, it's fine. Eat!"

"Little Sister, eat too!"

Lin Feng comforted her, then told her about helping out at the slaughterhouse today, getting a side job, and finally Old Wu San giving him pork.

After hearing Lin Feng out, Mother Lin finally set her mind at ease.

"Your Uncle Wu is a good man. When you work there in the future, don't be lazy. Help look after things inside and out!"

Mother Lin instructed him as she ate.

"Don't worry, mother! I understand!"

Lin Feng said.

Seeing Little Sister stuffing her mouth full of food, and seeing the smile blooming across his mother's face, Lin Feng felt incomparably happy.

The people closest to him absolutely could not be harmed in the slightest!

By the time his mother and Little Sister finished eating, it was still midday.

Lin Feng left the house.

He knew that now was not a good time to make a move.

So he first entered the city, spent another half tael of silver, ordered a jug of wine and a table full of dishes at a restaurant, and ate slowly.

After eating and drinking his fill, he took another lap around the Outer City, but found no good opportunities to make money.

The good jobs had long since been taken by people with connections.

What remained were jobs that were both exhausting and poorly paid.

They did not even compare to the income from the slaughterhouse!

Then he bought a few things, left Kaiyang County, went to the Shantytown, and took another lap around it.

When he returned home, it was already evening.

Mother Lin had already cooked dinner, and Lin Feng ate with his family.

Afterward, he put the four improvement points converted from his afternoon and evening meals into raising his cultivation level!

Name: Lin Feng

Cultivation Method: Formation Breaking Art

Cultivation Level: Outer Refinement Realm—Skin Tempering Realm (12/100)+

Supernatural Ability 1: Ingestion

Divine Ability 2: Avert Calamity

Techniques:

Tiger Roar Fist (1/20)+

Butcher Ding's Ox-Slicing (1/20)+

Improvement Points: 0

Once he finished adding the points, Lin Feng felt his strength increase by another measure. His entire physique changed somewhat as well.

The muscles on his body began to feel slightly swollen.

By the faint candlelight in the room, he could see the distinct muscle lines across his upper body!

Then he practiced several rounds of boxing in the courtyard. After familiarizing himself with the changes in his body, he rested early!

At midnight, the night was black and the wind was high. The Shantytown was silent.

After sensing that his family was sound asleep, Lin Feng quietly rose and climbed over the wall of the small courtyard.

A pig-slaughtering knife was tucked behind his back.

A pig-slaughtering knife was quite fitting for slaughtering these beasts!

He had deliberately taken a lap around the Shantytown today precisely to scout the area.

The only place of entertainment in the Shantytown was a tavern.

He knew that if Scar Brother had nothing to do, he would definitely be drinking there.

Now was just the right time. If they had been drinking, he and his lackeys should be nearly drunk by now!

Very quickly, Lin Feng arrived at that tavern, only to find that it was somewhat quiet tonight.

From afar, he could see only the waiter and the owner inside.

There was no one else!

"They didn't come to drink today?"

Lin Feng muttered to himself.

"Looks like they're at home. Good. It saves me from waiting bitterly for them!"

Originally, if Scar Brother had been drinking here, Lin Feng had planned to wait outside until they went home before making his move.

But his target was not here now.

Then he could only go take a look at his house!

Lin Feng slipped into the darkness again. Like a ghost, he headed toward Scar Brother's home.

Scar Brother's house was easy to recognize.

In this Shantytown, it was the largest and most luxurious one.

It was a single-courtyard residence with a large yard.

"As expected, they're home!"

Listening to the noisy sounds inside, he heard people playing cards and drinking.

Upon listening closely, aside from Scar Brother, there were four others!

They were all wine-and-women wastrels who looked fierce on the outside but had no fighting ability whatsoever!

Lin Feng swallowed, his heart pounding violently!

After all, this was still his first time killing someone.

Then he thought of his mother and Little Sister, remembered Scar Brother's lecherous gaze, and the fire in his heart surged upward.

He could not hesitate. Hesitation meant defeat!

The next moment, he drew the pig-slaughtering knife tucked at the back of his waist, bit down on its spine, and with a push of both hands, easily vaulted over the courtyard wall.

The five people inside were still drinking and playing cards, completely unaware that the god of death was drawing near!

Lin Feng crept closer.

In two or three steps, he reached the door.

They still had not noticed him.

The next moment, the door opened!

Gripping the pig-slaughtering knife, Lin Feng charged inside.

Before they could react, he drove the blade into the kidney of the lackey closest to the outside!

Before he even stabbed, he seemed to feel an unusual familiarity with the human body.

As though they were livestock laid out on a chopping board!

Butcher Ding's Ox-Slicing knife technique!

This feeling came from his technique! Lin Feng understood in an instant!

The next moment, he seemed to enter a strange state.

After driving the knife in, he pulled it out, then stabbed again, this time horizontally. It slipped through the gap between two ribs without the slightest resistance!

Then it pierced the heart!

The next moment, the pig-slaughtering knife was pulled free. Blood quickly soaked through the man's clothes from behind.

His whole body went limp.

Lin Feng continued his attack. With a slash, he chopped directly at another lackey's neck!

The pig-slaughtering knife was as precise as a surgical scalpel, passing directly through the gap between two sections of bone.

Without any resistance, it severed the man's head in a single stroke!

Blood burst forth like a fountain, spraying Scar Brother and another lackey across the table full in the face!

Only then did the drunken men realize that two of their companions were already dead!

And that a masked man had actually broken into the room!

With another punch, Lin Feng's right fist smashed into the third lackey's right temple!

The lackey had only just heard the commotion and turned his head when he was struck by the heavy blow!

A fist carrying four or five hundred jin of force knocked his head sideways and slammed him into the nearby pillar.

His head blossomed open!

His neck was twisted at a bizarre angle as well.

He had already stopped breathing.

"You!"

By then, the remaining two were drunk senseless. They clearly wanted to scream, but their tongues simply would not cooperate.

Coupled with their extreme terror, their entire bodies trembled!

Scar Brother, especially, had even wet his pants!

The two of them both staggered two steps backward!

But the next moment, Lin Feng closed in. His right hand seized Scar Brother's mouth. With a crack, Lin Feng accidentally dislocated his jaw!

At the same time, his right hand swung again, and the pig-slaughtering knife swiftly sliced across the other lackey's neck!

Blood burst forth!

It sprayed Lin Feng across the face.