Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun's running steps slowly came to a halt. When they looked up, they only had time to see several streaks of rainbow light flash overhead.
The two exchanged glances. After Zhu Zhuyun's expression shifted for a moment, she asked, "What do we do? Do we go back?"
"Let's go back. It seems there are matters that need us to handle."
"All right."
With doubts in their hearts, the two returned along the way they had come to the main city of Nili Province. The east side of the city did not seem to have changed much from before they left.
But West City was different. The two of them both possessed sharp-nosed Feline Martial Souls, and from far away they could smell the thick stench of blood drifting over from the distance.
After the two returned to the Dai Family estate and handed their son over to the servants, they hurried toward West City, wanting to check the situation.
When they arrived at those places where crowds easily gathered at night, the scene inside nearly made the two of them, who had experienced battlefields several times, retch.
Corpses lay crisscrossed all over the ground. That was not even the end of it. Every body was shriveled and aged, as if its marrow had been sucked dry. From the savage expressions on their faces, it was clear that they must have suffered tremendous pain before death.
"T-this... Who on earth did this? Did these commoners offend His Lordship?"
Zhu Zhuyun's expression was uncertain with shock and suspicion. She was terrified that these blind fools had offended Ning Bei and would implicate the newly rebuilt Dai Family.
Dai Weisi, however, soon noticed some clues. Suppressing his nausea, he bent down and examined the corpses, then shook his head