After Qin Yao finished recounting his ordeal, the surrounding crowd suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
"'Answer correctly and live; answer wrong and die'? Why does that sound so familiar...?"
"I remember more than ten days ago, when Niu Shiyang had his leg smashed by that madman who broke into his house in the middle of the night, didn't that guy say something similar?"
"That's right, that's right, I know about that too.
"It was my second grandaunt's grandson who carried Niu Shiyang to report the case in the east of the village!
"According to him, that vicious-looking murderer with a scar on his forehead gave Niu Shiyang a very strange lantern riddle, saying, 'Answer correctly and be rewarded; answer wrong and be punished.'
"Niu Shiyang got it wrong, and that madman smashed both his leg and his bed to pieces on the spot..."
"Yes, yes, I've heard about that too. The 'Midnight Black Madman,' right!"
"It's only been half a month, and that guy has committed another crime?"
"And he was even more ruthless this time. It was no longer 'answer correctly and be rewarded; answer wrong and be punished,' but upgraded to 'answer correctly and live; answer wrong and die'?"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, terrifying!"
"But there's no denying that guy's strength. He could silently kill even Captain Yang, a Body Tempering Realm Level Two cultivator... He must be stronger than even the village chief, right?"
While the villagers whispered among themselves, the constables had already finished searching the scene.
After exchanging glances, they all concluded that judging by the damage at the scene and Yang Yongchao's state of dress, there truly were no signs that he had fought fiercely with the "Midnight Black Madman."
This also corroborated Qin Yao's claim that he had not lied.
But the