Ridding the World of Evil

Pan Long lay motionless in the knee-high, gray-yellow dead grass.

While using Stealth, he spent one point of mana every three minutes; lying still, he recovered one point every ten minutes. With his current total of 34 mana points, he could keep Stealth active for about 150 minutes.

Two and a half hours was more than enough for his plan.

He lay there waiting. Nearly an hour passed before hoofbeats sounded in the distance.

He could not sit up to look, but judging by the number of horses, these were probably the people he was waiting for.

Unless another four riders happened to pass by, also galloping recklessly without a care for their fine horses, the newcomers had to be the notorious "Qingyuan Four Pests."

The Qingyuan Four Pests were no mosquitoes or flies, but four bullies from Qingyuan County. Led by a man named Wang Mi, they had stirred up storms and made waves, bringing misery to their neighbors and committing no end of wicked deeds.

A few days earlier, they had raced through the countryside and struck an old man with their horses. When his son confronted them, they tied him up and dragged him behind a horse for several miles. He had survived the ordeal, but after the villagers carried him home, he died that night.

The old man, injured and furious, also breathed his last. His grief-stricken wife jumped into a river, leaving only their daughter-in-law and her two-year-old daughter to depend on each other.

Pan Long happened to pass through Qingyuan County and heard what had happened. He felt he had to do something.

So he secretly gave the mother and daughter some money, then set out to find the Qingyuan Four Pests.

The four had always acted with swaggering arrogance and never hid their