The wind howled through the darkness, blowing the leaves every which way.
A wine jar stood in the very center of the room. There was nothing unusual about that.
What was unusual was the human head it held, its eyes vacant, its lips moving faintly.
"Kill me, kill me..."
As though those were the only words she knew.
In his previous life, Li Ping'an had read about this in books.
A Human Pig!
But after reading more books, he had also learned that Human Pigs were unlikely to have existed in ancient times.
With ancient medical techniques, no one could survive having all four limbs severed.
But in this world...
Li Ping'an remained silent for a long time.
"Mother, have some water."
The boy beside her held a dipper of water.
But the woman in the wine jar did not even look at it.
She kept murmuring, "Kill me, please..."
"She won't last much longer." Grasshopper had woken at some point. "Probably just another day or two."
"She was already like this when I found her. A gang of traffickers abducted her when she went out to buy vegetables.
"I wasn't home. There were only the three children and her. That gang had probably had their eyes on her for a long time."
Grasshopper squatted on the ground, gazing at the bright, moonlit sky.
Li Ping'an said, "I smelled some special medicinal herbs in the wine jar just now. This gang is quite professional. They probably aren't ordinary people."
Li Ping'an left the rest unsaid. With the current level of medical care,
he did not believe an ordinary person could survive having all four limbs severed.
Unless she was a Qi Refining practitioner...
"I only caught two of the bastards who ran errands. I don't know anything else," Grasshopper