"Letting one evildoer go is the same as killing ten thousand people..."
Yun Xuan's face was somewhat pale. This seemed to have gone beyond the scope of her understanding.
She looked toward the direction the bandits had fled, then at the villagers' frightened, uneasy faces before finally turning her gaze to Su Bai.
"Will they... really do that?" she asked softly, her voice trembling slightly.
Su Bai did not answer. He merely turned and stepped toward the direction in which the bandits had vanished.
"We'll know once we take a look."
Yun Xuan bit her lip and turned back to tell the villagers in a low voice, "Don't worry. I'll handle this properly."
Then she hurried after Su Bai.
The bandits' lair lay in a desolate cave a hundred li away.
Before they even drew close, they could already hear the clamor and curses echoing from within.
Su Bai and Yun Xuan concealed their figures and auras, silently landing behind a protruding boulder above the cave.
Everything below lay in plain sight.
The bonfire blazed fiercely, casting light over one twisted, excited face after another.
The one-eyed brute was bare-chested, clutching a jar of wine and guzzling it down before smashing it to pieces and launching into a furious tirade.
"Damn it! What rotten luck! Where did that little bitch come from? She nearly ruined my prestige!"
A bandit with a pointed mouth and monkey cheeks beside him fawned, "Big Brother, don't get angry. That chick was obviously some greenhorn from above, knowing neither the height of heaven nor the depth of earth!"
"Once they leave, we brothers will slaughter that whole village clean!"
"Chop up the men and feed them to the dogs. As for the women... heh heh, we brothers can have ourselves a good time! Let's see