After leaving Li Lake, Li Hai shot forward like an arrow loosed from its bow, hurtling through the clouds and tearing across the sky at breakneck speed, trailing layers of gray-white sonic-boom clouds as he flew toward the distant horizon.
His destination was the stronghold of Lang Yunsheng, Chief of the Black Wolf Bandits: a fortified town called Wolf Nest.
From Zhou Hu and Zhou Yugen, Li Hai had learned that this so-called Wolf Nest lay a thousand miles in the direction he was headed, amid an endless stretch of mountains.
There, ranges upon ranges of peaks were steep and rugged, riddled with sheer cliffs. It was a perfect place to defend and a nightmare to attack, and it lay close to rivers and lakes, with plenty of water and an abundance of fish and crabs.
As a result, Wolf Nest, nestled in that location, was home not only to several thousand bandits belonging to the Black Wolf Bandits, but also to countless vicious criminals who had drifted there from Great Jing in the north and the barbarian lands in the south.
So things like street murders, dismembering people on the spot, extortion, robbery, fencing stolen goods... all manner of wicked deeds played out constantly in every corner of Wolf Nest and its surroundings.
It could be said that there were no ordinary people at all in Wolf Nest. Even if there were, the wicked would soon bully them to death.
Those who could stay there for long were almost all scum and thugs. Some were worse than others, some stronger than others; the cruel and vicious lived high on the hog, while the rest were treated like oxen and horses.
But as far as Li Hai was concerned, he didn't care who was what. They were all evil, so