Nightfall

Amid the crowd.

The middle-aged man with the gun on his back immediately smiled.

Then he put an arm around the man beside him and said calmly,

"Second, don't do this kind of thing so often from now on. It's easy to stir up people's anger. If you run into someone reckless, you could get hurt."

As he began criticizing him, the robbers immediately stopped laughing.

Clearly, the middle-aged man held considerable authority.

"In our line of work, the County Government Hall may not be able to control us, but who knows when we might kick an iron plate."

"If we're only robbing people of money, some folks would rather avoid trouble, and everyone gets along."

"But if we're robbing women, and some expert can't stand it, then we'll have a problem."

"Besides, we aren't short on cash. There are plenty of girls in Paradise on Earth, every style you could want. Why take the risk? Don't you agree?"

Only then did the Second Chief nod with an unhappy expression. "Yes, yes, Big Brother is right. I won't do this anymore.

Did you all hear that?! If anyone dares to screw up again, I'll whip his ass for Big Brother!"

"Yes, yes, yes."

"Right, we won't do it again. This was the last time."

"Hahaha, let's enjoy ourselves tonight first."

Everyone relaxed and began laughing again.

But they had no idea.

In the woods not far from them.

Xu Qing was perched in a tree, watching them intently beneath the cover of night.

The leader with the gun in his hands was especially the target of Xu Qing's attention.

At that moment, he had ten fist-sized rocks tucked into his clothes.

He had no intention of charging in headfirst.

He planned to take down a few of them with rocks first.

Especially in the darkness—given his strength, and the fact that he could strike without a sound.

With these people unprepared.

He might be able to kill two of them in one or two throws.

After preparing for a while.

Finally, when the robbers had gotten drunk and started talking nonsense,

Xu Qing picked up a rock,

recalling how he had used stones to hit birds as a child.

He tensed the muscles of his upper body and silently raised the rock over his head,

aiming at the robber leader with the gun on his back.

Then he hurled it forward with all his might.

Whoosh!

The fist-sized rock streaked through the night sky like a meteor.

With a faint whistle through the air, it struck the back of the robber leader's head with a thud!

It smashed his skull inward on the spot.

The robber leader, who had been drinking, pitched forward onto his back.

His entire body fell onto the bonfire, motionless.

The robbers all froze.

The remaining five stared at their boss lying facedown on the fire.

For a moment, none of them knew what had happened.

Then, at that moment.

Another stone came hurtling in, smashing directly into the side of a robber's face as he sat beside the leader.

"Aah!"

With a shrill scream.

The man collapsed in agony, and only then did the remaining four robbers jump to their feet in shock and fury.

They grabbed their blades and looked wildly around.

"Who?! Fucking come out! Who did that?!"

The Second Chief waved his machete and roared furiously.

Another robber beside him hurriedly reached for the gun strapped to their boss.

But the instant his hand touched the rifle.

A stone shot toward him with perfect accuracy and smashed into his head.

The man screamed and fell into the bonfire as well.

This time.

The remaining three robbers were terrified.

The pitch-black night concealed the killer.

No one could see where the stones had come from, or how they had killed them.

Nor could anyone have imagined that they would be beaten to death by rocks.

Standing by the fire, every one of them felt a chill run through their hearts.

"Run!"

The Second Chief made a snap decision and turned to flee.

The other two hurried after him toward the highway.

But after they had only run a little over ten meters.

The robber at the back suddenly sensed movement behind him.

Without thinking, he swung his blade backward.

Xu Qing, who had rushed up behind him, ducked sharply and avoided the steel blade sweeping over his head.

Then he pushed off with both legs, gathering all his strength as he drove a fierce punch forward from his chest.

Drilling Fist!

Thud! Crack!

"Aah!"

A dull impact and the sound of breaking bones rang out at the same time.

The man let out a muffled groan and was sent flying backward.

Xu Qing's Drilling Fist had launched him through the air.

Xu Qing took two steps forward, caught up to him, and stomped hard on his chest.

With another pained groan, the man went still.

Root out evil completely.

Those four words filled Xu Qing's mind.

He had no room to think about anything else.

Nor did he have time to feel afraid or disgusted.

At that moment, he was acting on nothing but a single breath.

A breath of rage!

Xu Qing grabbed the machete the man had dropped and sprinted after the others.

The remaining two robbers seemed to hear the commotion behind them and ran even faster.

The fear of death was like a wild beast lunging from the darkness.

Constantly clawing at their taut nerves from behind.

At some point.

The night suddenly fell silent.

Xu Qing shot out of the woods and swung his blade at the Second Chief.

Clang!

A fist-sized burst of sparks suddenly flashed in the forest.

It illuminated the Second Chief's terrified face, as well as the pink mask on Xu Qing's face.

A terrifying killer wearing a girlish pink mask?

A strange feeling rose in the Second Chief's heart.

His fear deepened even further.

Even Xu Qing had not expected the Second Chief to roar and raise his hand to block the strike.

"Got him!"

At the Second Chief's shout.

The other man suddenly stopped running.

But the moment he stopped, he witnessed a sight that left him dumbfounded.

Before the Second Chief had even finished speaking.

The blade in his hand, along with his entire body, was split cleanly in two by Xu Qing's terrifying strength.

Blood instantly splashed all over the man, leaving the robber frozen in place.

Got him? Got what?

The Second Chief had misjudged Xu Qing's strength.

Clang.

The last robber tremblingly dropped his blade and fell to his knees before Xu Qing, repeatedly banging his head on the ground. "Sir! Sir, we were wrong! Please spare me! I still have—"

Splat!

Xu Qing swung his blade horizontally.

There was no technique to it.

Without the slightest hesitation, he cut off the man's head!

He did not even listen to what the man was saying.

"No matter what you have at home, it's no excuse for becoming a robber."

After killing the last robber.

Xu Qing stood there blankly for a while.

Because of the darkness, he had not clearly seen what the dead men looked like.

Naturally, that lessened his fear and some of his stress response.

He tossed the blade to the ground and turned to leave.

But after taking two steps, he turned around and ran back.

First, he took off one robber's shirt and wiped his hands.

Then he searched through the two men for a while.

He took everything they had except electronic devices and stuffed it into his pockets.

Then.

Using the robbers' clothes, he carefully wiped down the entire hilt of the blade he had held.

He even wiped the blade itself completely clean.

Only then did he grab the two corpses and run back toward their camp.

When he returned to the camp.

The once-lively campsite had fallen completely silent.

The stench of blood filled the night air.

Suppressing the nauseating smell,

Xu Qing dealt with the remaining robbers in the same way. After searching their bodies, he threw all the corpses onto the bonfire.

Watching the flames blaze high.

He finally turned and walked over to the jeep.

"Ahhh!" Liu Yun screamed in terror and twisted around inside the vehicle.

"Shut up!"

Xu Qing raised his blade and pointed it at her, finally making her stop screaming.

Then, using his sleeve, Xu Qing pulled open the car door without leaving fingerprints.

He used the machete to cut Liu Yun's ropes, then lowered his voice and said heavily, "Find your phone. Call the police, then wait on the highway."

Then he pointed in the direction of the highway.

Only then did he turn and vanish into the night.

From beginning to end, he never revealed his identity to Liu Yun.

Liu Yun watched Xu Qing disappear, crying tears of joy.

Only then did she realize that he had saved her.

She kept murmuring words of thanks.

After calming down for a while, she looked at the bonfire and the corpses nearby, and fear finally gripped her heart.

She scrambled over to the pile of phones,

found her own phone, and used its flashlight as she called the police.

Only then did she stagger toward the highway.