"Ah!"
"Ah!!"
"I'll beat you to death! You still want to run!? You damned dog!"
Piercing screams of agony came from the woods. Amid the crack of the whip were several vicious curses.
Stepping onto the soft earth, Lin An calmly turned his gaze toward the distant woods.
With a light wave of his hand, he signaled Zhang Tie to stand by.
The moment they stepped out of the wooden house, the three of them saw the outline of the distant city.
They were just outside a stretch of woods, and the dirt road not far from the door was covered in numerous tire tracks.
"Team Leader Lin, should we go take a look?"
Hearing the man's repeated screams of agony, Bear Dunce asked Lin An quietly, already gripping the Ling Chi-er in his hand.
The sound was close by. It sounded like a slave owner whipping a slave.
Lin An nodded slightly. After determining how many people there were from their voices, he vanished from the spot like a shadow, using the power of stealth to swiftly approach the source of the sound.
In just a few seconds, Lin An, transformed into an invisible shadow, appeared at the location of the sound.
In the clearing among the trees, a fat merchant dressed in a long robe was panting heavily as he repeatedly swung the whip in his hand, beating a man who was lying face-down on the ground.
The attendants around him indifferently held his coat. Clearly, they had long since grown accustomed to scenes like this.
Ordinary people
Hidden in the shadows, Lin An silently sensed the closest few people and determined their strength in an instant.
There was nothing unusual. They really were just ordinary people.
The fat man in the middle was even somewhat weak.
Moving