Accident

Fatty Wang groggily opened his eyes to see three masked men. He was terrified and exclaimed, "Who are you? What do you want?"

Liu Chuang raised his hand and slapped Fatty Wang twice across the face, his hatred for Fatty Wang causing him to strike with great force. "Hehe, I'm here to take your life." He deliberately croaked with a cold laugh.

Fatty Wang was dazed by the beating, his body writhing desperately as he opened his mouth to shout for help. Suddenly, a rag was stuffed into his mouth, and he could no longer make a sound.

Fatty Wang now understood his situation. He stopped struggling, his small eyes darting back and forth between the three masked men with fear.

Liu Yuanzhou rasped, "Don't shout, or grandpa's knife won't be polite. Are you Fatty Wang?" As he spoke, he held a gleaming, sharp knife to Fatty Wang's face.

Fatty Wang dared not move his head, only blinking frantically.

Liu Chuang looked at Liu Yuanzhou and shouted, "Brother, this kid is stubborn. Let me teach him a lesson."

Liu Yuanzhou retreated with the knife.

Liu Chuang picked up a stick and began to beat Fatty Wang, first striking his head a few times, then focusing on his body.

With his mouth stuffed, Fatty Wang could only make "wooing" sounds in his throat, shouting in his heart, "How can you ask me to talk when you've stuffed my mouth?"

After an unknown number of blows, Liu Chuang stopped, his arms aching, and panted to Zhang He, "Third Brother, it's your turn."

Zhang He didn't waste words, picking up the stick and hitting Fatty Wang a few times before stopping and handing the stick to Liu Yuanzhou.

Liu Yuanzhou took the stick, thought for a moment, and casually threw it on the ground. He felt that he had practiced martial arts for a few days, and it was against his martial ethics to inflict abuse on someone who couldn't fight back.

Liu Yuanzhou pulled the rag out of Fatty Wang's mouth and said in a low voice, "We three brothers are heroes from Two Dragons Mountain. We're passing through your land and have run out of travel money. We heard from the townspeople that your family has thousands of acres of fertile land and countless treasures. Lend us some money for travel expenses, okay? Hehehe."

Although Fatty Wang's mouth was free, he dared not breathe deeply, terrified to the core. He didn't care about the burning pain on his head, nor did he have the mind to doubt Liu Yuanzhou's words. He only wanted to save his life at that moment.

"Heroes, spare my life! Just name your price! Let me go back, and I'll have my dad get you the money," Fatty Wang pleaded.

"Hehe, you have a good plan. Let you go back so you can bring people to catch us? I heard your family has a Martial Master," Liu Yuanzhou sneered.

Fatty Wang quickly said, "No, I wouldn't dare to deceive you heroes even if I had ten guts. Besides, Martial Master Zheng isn't even in the village right now."

"Oh, I don't believe it. What a coincidence. You must be lying to us," Liu Yuanzhou said grimly.

Liu Chuang stepped forward and pressed down on Fatty Wang's big head, pretending to be nonchalant. "Brother is too lazy to waste time with him. Let's just finish him off with a knife and have his liver for wine."

Fatty Wang was scared out of his wits, crying, "Heroes, don't eat me! Everything I said is true. Martial Master Zheng is really gone. He went to Yu Province Prefecture with my elder brother. He's been gone for seven or eight days."

Liu Yuanzhou was about to ask about Martial Master Zheng, which was one of their original plans, when he suddenly heard footsteps behind him, the rustling sound of boots stepping on fallen leaves. A voice said, "Well, well, I didn't expect to meet brothers from my sect in this remote place. What a fate."

Liu Yuanzhou and his companions were shocked and turned around to see a large man walking slowly towards them.

In the lamplight, they saw that the man was tall and burly, with a shiny head and a headband, and a face full of menacing flesh.

The man stopped, his triangular eyes staring at Liu Yuanzhou and his companions. An invisible pressure forced them to retreat a few steps.

"Humph! When did my Two Dragons Mountain disciples start hiding their faces?" the man snorted coldly, sweeping his crescent shovel horizontally.

Liu Yuanzhou and his companions felt a sudden chill on their faces as their masks fell off. The three were terrified. Liu Yuanzhou remained calm, but Liu Chuang and Zhang He trembled like chaff, almost turning to flee.

This big man is a Martial Master, Liu Yuanzhou thought, his heart sinking into an ice cellar.

The man stared at Liu Yuanzhou and his companions for a moment, frowning. "I don't recognize you. Which brother accepted you as disciples outside?"

The three of them couldn't answer. Their identities as Two Dragons Mountain bandits were fabricated to scare Fatty Wang. Who would have thought they would actually encounter a Two Dragons Mountain strongman?

"Alright, so it's you guys, grandsons of Liu Li Village, trying to scare your grandpa!" Fatty Wang, tied to the tree, suddenly shouted loudly.

Clearly, his face covering had fallen off, and Fatty Wang had recognized their identities.

"This is bad!" Liu Yuanzhou thought with a jolt, becoming extremely flustered.

"Noisy, what nonsense from a sitting duck!" the large man suddenly said. As he finished speaking, his monk's spade flew out. There was a "smack" sound, and Fatty Wang's head exploded, like a watermelon being smashed. Juices splattered everywhere, and blood shot up half a foot high. Liu Yuanzhou, being the closest, had his face covered in the mess.

Clearly, he thought Liu Yuanzhou and the others were just doing a kidnapping, and he didn't suspect their identities at all.

Liu Yuanzhou gasped, a chill rising from his tailbone straight to his forehead, freezing his thoughts for a moment.

Liu Chuang and Zhang He behind him were in even worse shape, collapsing to the ground, their bodies shaking like sieves, faces ashen.

Seeing how pathetic Liu Yuanzhou and the others were, the large man frowned and shouted, "Killing one person scares you this much? How did you complete your Entry Level mission? Where is your Master?"

Liu Yuanzhou had experienced life and death after all, and he quickly regained his senses. He calmed himself, but instead of answering the large man's question, he asked, "May I ask for your esteemed name, Master?"

"This humble one is Lu Busha," the large man replied.

Liu Yuanzhou had no idea which Master of Two Dragons Mountain was his. He had to bite the bullet and vaguely said, "So it's Senior Lu, I've heard of you for a long time. Master only taught us a few days of skills and then left, and we still don't know his name. We only heard him say he was from Two Dragons Mountain."

Lu Busha pondered for a moment, thinking, "The Northwest area is the responsibility of Brothers He and Song. This kind of behavior seems like Headman Song's style."

Lu Busha asked, "Was the person who taught you skills a short, dark fellow with a large tumor on his forehead?" Lu Busha described Headman Song's appearance, as he was always straightforward and didn't doubt what Liu Yuanzhou said.

Liu Yuanzhou lowered his head and said, "Yes, yes, that's him."

"Hmm, that's right, he is from my Two Dragons Mountain..." Lu Busha stopped himself. He suddenly thought that since Headman Song hadn't revealed his name, it seemed inappropriate for him to say it. Besides, his relationship with Headmen Song and He was only so-so.

"Forget it, you wouldn't understand even if I told you. This humble one is in a hurry to handle some matters in the north, so farewell." Lu Busha said impatiently. He lifted his monk's spade and walked straight past Liu Yuanzhou and the others, disappearing into the darkness in a moment.

Liu Yuanzhou breathed a long sigh of relief, still not daring to believe that Lu Busha had left just like that. Did he really believe what he said?

He shook his head, not wanting to think about it anymore. Anyway, Lu Busha was gone, and the urgent problem now was how to clean up the mess.

"Brother Second Child, what do we do now? Fatty Wang has been killed, what are we going to do?" Liu Chuang said, his voice trembling.

"Yeah, Brother Second Child, what do we do?" Zhang He grabbed Liu Yuanzhou's arm, muttering to himself.

Liu Yuanzhou's heart was also filled with panic at this moment. The Wang Family was powerful. If it was found out that Fatty Wang's death was related to them, who knew what kind of trouble it would cause.

Seeing Liu Chuang and Zhang He's panicked appearances, Liu Yuanzhou could only pretend to be calm and said, "Don't be afraid, let's leave quickly and go home immediately. No one knows we were here, except for the big man who killed just now. Do you think he can be easily caught?"

Liu Chuang and Zhang He felt much more at ease, so the three of them quickly gathered the sticks, cloth strips, and other things on the ground, extinguished the Lantern, and hurriedly left the woods.