"Good grief, what was that sound? It scared me to death."
In a bungalow in the eastern district of the town, Old Man Cai, who was over sixty, climbed out of bed.
Though he was no longer young, his hands and feet were still nimble. The old man quickly threw on a coat and was about to open the door to investigate.
"Old Cai, what are you doing? Have you got a death wish?"
His wife called out from the bed. "Did you sleep yourself silly? Have you forgotten our town's rules?"
"You can't go outside at night. I haven't forgotten." The old man withdrew the hand reaching for the door. "I wasn't planning to go out. I just wanted to listen to what was happening outside."
"Besides, who am I? I'm Cai Hongqi. I've got a tough life. Even natural disasters haven't managed to kill me."
His wife waved at him from the bed. "All right, hurry back. Don't catch a cold."
Cai Hongqi nodded and returned to bed. He had just crawled back under the covers when a tremendous boom rang out overhead.
The ceiling rapidly expanded in his vision. Before he could feel anything, he and his wife were crushed into a bloody pulp.
Rumble!
A tremendous sound rang out across Yi Town. With one slap of the Hidden Serpent's tail, an entire street was flattened.
Standing atop the serpent's head, Hong Zhuang laughed until tears streamed down her face.
"They're really so obedient."
"I told them not to leave their houses, and they didn't."
"That saved me quite a bit of effort."
"Hahahaha!"
In the blink of an eye, all of Yi Town had been razed to the ground. The town's original residents and the thousands who had joined them later all died inside their own