After asking everything he wanted to know, Shen Shixu frowned at the people tied to the trees, unsure what to do with them. They could hardly leave someone behind to watch them.
When Xiao Jinyi came over and saw his frown, his own brows drew together. "What's wrong? Why the long face? Have these people been uncooperative?"
As he spoke, he turned a vicious glare on the bound group. Their hearts pounded under that stare, almost leaping out of their chests. They were terrified.
They were on the verge of tears. They had only just seen off one terror, and now another had arrived. They really knew they had been wrong and would never do anything bad again. Couldn't these people just let them go?
Shen Shixu glanced at the group, who had nearly been frightened to tears, his eyes full of disdain. If the Left Protector was willing to use people like these, he must truly have had no one else at his disposal.
"No, they've been fairly cooperative. They answered everything I asked, and it didn't sound like they were lying.
"I'm just wondering what to do with them. We can't leave someone here to watch them, can we?"
Shen Shixu still did not know what the situation in Pingcheng County was like. Naturally, he did not want to waste a pair of hands guarding them, but he could not simply leave them to their own devices either.
Xiao Jinyi looked at the group with murder in his eyes. "They're not good people anyway. Why don't we just finish them off? We can bury them afterward. At least we'll have given them a decent final resting place."
At Xiao Jinyi's words, they burst into tears. They made such a commotion that they drew Xiao Lie over.
After hearing