Chapter 46
Easily killing the three men in front of him, Li Feng found that his mindset was much better than before, without any fear or nausea.
Li Feng bent down and began to search Ma San and the two ruffians, fishing out more than a dozen pieces of chipped silver from Ma San's clothes. The two lackeys were a bit poorer, totaling probably only five or six taels between them.
This Ma San really was an honest man, reporting precisely how many taels of silver he had on him before he died.
Pity that now that he had killed Ma San, all this money was entirely his.
After packing up his spoils, Li Feng decided he had better destroy the corpses and erase all traces.
Glancing around the surroundings, there happened to be a stone pier.
He thought for a moment, lifted the half-person-sized stone pier, walked over, and obliterated Ma San's facial features.
The other two corpses were treated the same way. That way, nobody would ever be able to tell whose dead bodies they actually were.
Having finished this, Li Feng checked his surroundings, and his luck was good. Although the fight earlier had made a bit of noise, this alley was quite remote and nobody passed by in the middle of the night, so it hadn't attracted the attention of the surrounding people. Even if someone had noticed, it wouldn't have mattered; they would have just assumed it was a gang turf war and wouldn't have dared to crowd around to watch the excitement, terrified of being hacked to death along with them.
Confirming that no one was nearby, he left the place directly.
Relying on his familiarity with the terrain, Li Feng skirted past the night-patrolling guards and silently vaulted back into his own courtyard.
His movements were very light, for fear of waking his sister-in-law, who was still resting.
As a result, the moment he pushed the door open, he saw his sister-in-law sitting inside the room waiting for him.
"Why are you back so late?"
The moment Li Feng went out in the dead of night, Lin Yanqiu had woken up. She didn't ask what he was going to do, but she kept him on her mind and had been waiting for him in the room ever since he left.
"There was a temporary errand, went out for a little while."
"What errand? A murder errand? The stench of blood on you is so heavy," Lin Yanqiu said flatly.
Li Feng had no choice but to answer honestly: "I killed Ma San from the Green Bamboo Gang, the one who previously forcibly collected my protection money, along with two lackey ruffians."
Lin Yanqiu frowned slightly, not asking why he killed them, but just sizing him up top to bottom by the candlelight: "Injured? Whose blood is all this on you?"
Li Feng replied, "It's not mine, I'm not injured."
"What about the corpses? How were they handled? Were they handled cleanly?"
Recalling the scene in the alley just then, Li Feng answered, "Their martial dao realms were all lower than mine. I didn't carry a saber, and beat them to death with three or four punches. I smashed their heads to pieces with a stone pier and left them right where they were."
Lin Yanqiu couldn't help letting out a sigh: "Look at you, covered in the stench of blood and with blood still staining your shoes. Anyone would know you killed someone."
"And you didn't carry a saber, only using your fists to beat others to death. Your punches must have been extremely heavy, and that kind of force certainly couldn't be struck by a Qi-Blood First Stage cultivator. As long as the coroner from the City Guard Office examines the corpses, they can immediately deduce that the killer is a Qi-Blood Second Level martial artist."
"If the coroner from the City Guard Office can examine that, the experts of the Green Bamboo Gang can naturally examine it too. Combined with the conflict you had today, it will be very easy to trace it back to you."
Li Feng's heart gave a jolt.
Although he was calm-minded across his two lifetimes and well aware of the survival laws of turbulent times, after all he had too little experience in killing and didn't understand the criminal investigation expertise of this world. It was truly a careless oversight.
There were capable people coming forth in droves at the City Guard Office; if they really wanted to track along the bloodstains, it was truly possible they could find his home.
Pity that people were already killed, and it was too late for regrets.
My experience with killing is still far too little!
Li Feng chuckled inwardly.
For all his plotting and planning, there were still places he missed.
Fortunately, the ones who died were merely a few underlings of the Green Bamboo Gang, not any important figures.
Under these circumstances, the City Guard Office probably wouldn't pay too much attention. Even if they really intervened to investigate, they would likely just perfunctorily brush it through, unless orders came down from above or someone forked over a huge sum of money.
In this Outer City, human life was the most worthless thing of all. Gang fights occurred almost every month, and the death of gang punks like this could be said to be completely normal.
However, even though the City Guard Office won't investigate, it doesn't mean the Green Bamboo Gang won't. That Lei Hu will probably jump up and start probing around.
Take this to heart and learn from the experience; mistakes like this must not be made again in the future!
Li Feng thought to himself.
Having figured things out, Li Feng recorded the lesson, and the remorse in his heart gradually dissipated.
This isn't entirely a bad thing either, since at least it let me know that this murder had so many flaws.
Once the remorse faded away, a sense of rejoicing slowly welled up in Li Feng's heart.
Sun Yan and Chief Constable Zhao were different from ordinary gang punks. If they were murdered out in the wild like this, the entire upper and lower ranks of the City Guard Office would definitely attach extreme importance to it.
Formal guards or even a chief constable had actually been assassinated-this was simply unacceptable!
This was equivalent to rubbing the face of the City Guard Office into the dirt, and the higher-ups would definitely dispatch dedicated guards to investigate.
With this lesson, Li Feng decided that the next time he killed someone, he must be cautious and more cautious, especially with Sun Yan and Zhao Quan. If circumstances forced him to kill them, he would strive to make matters seamless and foolproof enough to evade the investigation of the City Guard Office.
True enough, knowledge gained from books was always superficial, and one must personally experience a matter to truly understand it.
He finally understood now why people said that dealing with the aftermath was far more troublesome than taking action itself.
Friends who frequently handle people all know: making people is easy, disposing of the corpses is hard.
Li Feng was filled with a myriad of emotions.
He had the Heavenly Dao Advance Panel, and his martial dao future was bright. As long as nobody touched his principles and bottom line, there was no need to fight others to the death.
Once his martial dao realm continuously broke through, would Sun Yan and Zhao Quan still dare to strut around then? He would slap them dead with a casual wave of his hand, or even when he reached a high position, he wouldn't even need to make a move himself-there would be plenty of people willing to do it for him.
Having figured these things out, Li Feng only felt his mind suddenly clear up.
He picked up the blood-stained dirty clothes and shoes and walked into the kitchen.
These clothes and shoes were stained with blood and very difficult to wash clean. Long nights bring many dreams, so they had to be disposed of right now.
He lit the stove fire and threw both the clothes and shoes right into it.
The flames of the stove gradually burned the blood-stained garments and shoes, emitting a faint crackling sound.
Li Feng watched the firelight, his gaze gradually growing calm.
Suddenly, a pair of arms reached out from behind, tightly hugging his waist, and a soft, warm female body pressed up against his back.
Li Feng's body stiffened instantly, freezing in place without daring to move at all. Through the thin fabric of his clothes, he could clearly feel the temperature of the person behind him.
A familiar fragrance drilled straight into his nose, making his breathing stall for a few fractions of a second.
"Xiaofeng..." Lin Yanqiu pressed her face tightly against his back, speaking softly, "In the future when you encounter this kind of thing... be doubly careful. The Li family only has you left as a man, and Big Brother left early. If anything else were to happen to you and left me all alone, I really wouldn't know what to do."
Li Feng did not turn his head, nor did he dare to turn his head.
He was afraid that if he turned his head, his restraint would completely spin out of control.
He took a deep breath, slowly raised his hand, placed it over the pair of soft hands around his waist, and said firmly, "Sister-in-law, don't worry, I will definitely protect myself well and I will protect you well too."
The kitchen grew quiet for a moment, leaving only the sound of their intertwined breathing.
A moment later, Lin Yanqiu suddenly snapped back to her senses, realizing just how ambiguous this posture was right now.
"I... I'm going back to rest first. If the fire goes out, you should go to sleep early too."
She flusteredly pulled back her hands, stepped back a few steps, and hurriedly dropped those words before turning around and fleeing the scene like she was running for her life.
That night, Li Feng slept exceptionally soundly and sweetly.
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