The bailiffs: "???"
They did not seem to understand what Yang Min meant.
They only felt that this grain transporter bound for the Capital City seemed deeply hostile toward them.
So they casually picked up the sticks they had dropped on the ground.
"What rat plague? One fire and it'll all be gone."
"A plague outside the body can be eradicated, but how do you eradicate a plague of the mind?" Yang Min said calmly.
"You might as well speak plainly. If you want to squeeze out more benefits, just say so. We won't make this trip of yours for nothing."
"What I want is the truth behind this story."
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Twenty strands of water silk shot from Yang Min's hand, hurtling straight toward the fleshly bodies of the twenty bailiffs.
"Courting death!"
The twenty bailiffs lunged at him viciously!
Pfft pfft pfft pfft!
Their sturdy bodies were instantly pierced by Yang Min's exquisite water silk. In a single exchange, the twenty bailiffs were pulled into spread-eagle shapes just like the Rat King, hanging in the middle of the relay station.
"Screee!"
The Rat King let out a shriek, seemingly mocking the bailiffs for ending up exactly like it.
Yang Min looked over the relay station, filled with smoke and flames, then gave a slight wave of his hand. A cloud in the sky unleashed a torrential downpour, washing away the bloodstains and dust covering the ground.
This patch of land became neat and clean.
"Release us!"
"Assaulting imperial officials—you're dead! You'll definitely die!"
"We're all human, so why are you doing this to us?!"
The bailiffs were still shouting, but Yang Min found them neither intimidating nor threatening. Only noisy.
"If I'm not mistaken, you raised these rats yourselves. You raised rats into a calamity, tried to