CH 74

"Li senior brother! What are you doing?!" Seeing Li Huowang self-harming, Bai Lingmiao ran over, holding his bleeding left hand.

The pained expression on Li Huowang's face pushed her away as he hysterically shouted with bloodshot eyes, "Why can't I have some peace and quiet?! Why does this place always have to have things happen like this?!"

The dagger inserted into his palm was pulled out and then viciously thrust in again, this time piercing through completely.

Bai Lingmiao was scared and stood frozen in place. After a few seconds, she rushed over and snatched the dagger from Li Huowang's hand, throwing it far away.

Then, she opened her arms and hugged the man in front of her tightly. "Huowang, please don't do this! I'm begging you."

The moment he heard her voice, Li Huowang instantly calmed down. He trembled and closed his eyes, slowly burying his face into her soft body.

Gradually, Li Huowang regained his composure. He slowly let go and looked at Bai Lingmiao again, taking a deep breath before asking, "Alright, I'm fine now. What about the others? Have you seen them?"

Upon hearing this, Bai Lingmiao silently nodded. Her eyes were slightly red as she took Li Huowang's hand and walked towards the shore.

Soon, they saw the other medicine gatherers by the shore. There were originally seven adults and five daoists, but now there were only six adults and three daoists left, and not all of them were able to move.

The grieving Bai Lingmiao shivered as she spoke with her purple lips, "Junior brother Sun is better at swimming than I am. We risked our lives to search the lake for people, but we only found these few, and the idiot...drowned too."

Li Huowang stood in front of the people, looking at the idiot's face that had turned purple from suffocation. Another medicine gatherer had the same color on his face, as well as a daoist.

Two were missing, and three had drowned. After this trip, five out of twelve people had easily lost their lives.

Li Huowang was not very familiar with these people, but regardless, they were his comrades in life and death at Qingfeng Temple. During their rest times, he had heard these people talk about their longing for home and reuniting with their families when they returned.

But now everything had come to an abrupt end, and their deaths were worthless.

With a gloomy face, Li Huowang walked along the shore, looking at the people who had drowned. The negative emotions he had just felt had disappeared without a trace.

"Bang!" Li Huowang kicked a bloody head hard, sending it flying. "Damn it!"

He had just gone insane! He felt guilty for these murderers!

Li Huowang even wanted these human remains to come back to life so he could kill them all over again!

"These people deserve to die!! Their whole families should die!!"

Just as Li Huowang's emotions became unstable again, a man who had been invisible in the crowd walked over to him. He spoke with a guilty tone, "Li senior brother, I originally wanted to grab the idiot, but he was too heavy, and I couldn't hold on."

Li Huowang knew him. He was Junior Brother Sun, the one Bai Lingmiao had said was good at swimming. His name was Sun Baolu.Looking at him, frozen like a drowned rat, Li Huowang furrowed his brows and said, "Don't stay here, go find the kitchen in the village and start a fire."

At this point, there were only a few survivors left. He couldn't let the cold take away any more.

A group of people carried their companions' bodies and slowly made their way towards the village. The whole reed village was filled with blood, flesh, and corpses. Dark red blood flowed everywhere, sticking to their feet as they walked.

The others exchanged glances, seeming to have questions, but Li Huowang didn't want to explain anything.

After turning a corner between various houses, Bai Lingmiao was instantly frightened and huddled behind Li Huowang.

The once dignified Yuan family patriarch had his head wide open and was impaled on a bamboo pole, his eyes full of unwillingness.

"Did I do this to him? When did I kill him?"

Li Huowang thought about it for a while, but couldn't remember. There were just too many dead people.

After wandering around for a while, they finally found the kitchen. The iron pot on the stove was opened, and firewood was thrown in to create a bonfire.

Everyone gathered around to warm themselves, hoping the heat would take away the cold from their bodies.

Li Huowang didn't go to the fire. He stood in the corner of the kitchen, silently looking at the stiff, purple faces in front of him.

Finally, he fixed his gaze on the fool with the national character face. Li Huowang didn't expect him to die too. This loyal and honest fool was even more naive than the Taoist from before.

"I shouldn't have called you a fool all the time. At least I should have given you a proper name, so your tombstone would be easier to write." Li Huowang muttered to himself as he looked at the fool's body.

At the moment he said this, he suddenly saw the stiff, purple fool's eyes widen.

"He's pretending to be dead!!" Li Huowang was startled and took a step back, immediately pulling out his sword.

As others saw this, they scrambled to find their weapons. The fool's big mouth opened, "Ow~"

He vomited black, stinking mud mixed with lake water.

After he vomited everything in his stomach, the fool lay on his side, gasping for air, and quickly regained his color.

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"My god, Li Shixiong, you can bring someone back to life! How did you do it?" The excited Gouwa ran over and helped the fool up.

Li Huowang didn't have time to answer him. He quickly ran to the other drowned people to try and save them. Maybe someone else was just like the fool, not dead but unconscious.

Unfortunately, the fool was the only one who came back to life. After Li Huowang's busy efforts, there were no signs of revival from the other drowned people.

Anyway, it was a good thing that one person was brought back to life. A group of people surrounded the fool by the fire, asking after him. The atmosphere in the kitchen was not as oppressive as before.

Faced with the concern of others, the fool held back for a long time before finally uttering a sentence. "I...I...I'm hungry!""Hungry? Let's eat meat! When I came in, I saw that they were raising pigs here! I'll go slaughter one right now."

Gouwa grabbed a nearby chopping board and hurriedly rushed outside with a knife.

Not long after, the taken-down iron pot was placed back on the stove. When the water boiled, large chunks of fatty pork were thrown in to cook.

After a while, with a sprinkle of salt from Xiaoman, the aroma of the meat filled the air.

After a busy night, not only was the fool hungry, Li Huowang pulled out his long sword and picked up a large piece of fatty pork from the pot, with more fat than meat, and gnawed on it like he was eating fruit.

While gnawing on the meat, Li Huowang was still thinking about other things in his mind. "This water bandit stronghold is so big, there must be more than just pork as a reward."