CH 300

"But the people of Niu Xin Village were taken away by the Monitoring Bureau."

Cao Butou's words shook Li Huowang's heart. "How is this possible? Why would the Monitoring Bureau take away Bai Lingmiao's family?"

But then he regained his senses. "Wait, maybe this isn't the real Monitoring Bureau. Maybe it's someone pretending to be them!"

But whether it was real or fake, it wasn't good news for Bai Lingmiao's family.

Li Huowang had already seen it from Hong Da. These guys from the Monitoring Bureau didn't care about killing a few people as long as they got the job done.

As for the imposters, the outcome could only be choosing between bad and worse.

"Which way did they go?" Li Huowang asked Cao Butou with a serious expression. They could only try to catch up as much as possible, but he didn't know if they could make it.

"It seems like they went towards the capital. I don't know how far they went," Cao Butou replied, trembling as he pointed towards the west with his hand.

Seeing Cao Butou's shaky demeanor, Li Huowang mounted his horse and rode towards the west.

Watching Li Huowang's figure disappear into the distance, Wang Zhixian breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, his assistant came over.

"Master, I think this matter is suspicious. Do you think something is going on between these two groups?"

Wang Zhixian looked impatient. "If it's suspicious, then it's suspicious. What does it have to do with me and the others from the Monitoring Bureau? Let's go back to the mansion!"

The sound of horse hooves echoed as Li Huowang rode rhythmically. His mind was a mess of garbled code, constantly speculating about various possibilities.

"What if it's not the Monitoring Bureau? Could it be..."

"Hehe...don't be so jumpy. As far as I can see, this doesn't look like the work of anyone else."

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Li Huowang immediately turned his head to look at Hong Zhong beside him. At this moment, he was lying in mid-air, bored and panting.

"As far as you can see? Is there a single word of truth in your mouth? The more you say, the more I suspect that the Monitoring Bureau is being impersonated by the Taoist sects that deceive beings."

"If you don't believe me, forget it. When we, the Taoist sects that deceive beings, want to deceive people, we do it openly. We never change our location."

Hong Zhong sat up and stretched. "Hahaha, besides, who said there's no truth in our words? When lying, what we need is nine parts truth and one part falsehood. If it's all lies, who would believe us?"

Li Huowang ignored him and continued to ride, preparing himself for what might happen next.

He had been traveling like this for several days. Although Li Huowang's body was tough enough to withstand it, the horse was still a mortal body and needed rest.

One evening, Li Huowang tied his horse to a tree and climbed up, closing his eyes.

He didn't know how long it had been when he was awakened by the whispering of the Black Tai Sui. When he opened his eyes again, it was already completely dark.

Shaking his dizzy head, Li Huowang climbed down from the tree and patted the horse's neck, which was sleeping standing up.

The sound of horse hooves echoed again, piercing through the deserted dirt road.

Just as Li Huowang was wondering how long he could endure this life of roughing it and whether he could find them, he discovered something.

Under the dim moonlight, Li Huowang crouched by the side of the road, looking at the dense shoe prints on the ground.

Judging by the number of people and the size of the prints, Li Huowang instinctively felt that these were the people he was looking for!

When he saw the bloodstains on some of the shoe prints, Li Huowang pulled the reins and shouted, "Let's go!"Perhaps because there were many people, they did not walk fast. When Li Huowang chased after them on horseback for an hour, the shoe prints on the ground became more and more obvious.

To avoid alerting the enemy, Li Huowang dismounted and hid his body color in the soil, slowly feeling his way forward.

The pitch-black sky was gradually replaced by deep blue. When it was almost dawn, Li Huowang finally found a group of prisoners huddled together and dozing off in a forest.

Regardless of age or gender, everyone here wore wooden collars and looked like serious offenders.

At first, Li Huowang was not sure if these were the people he was looking for, but when he saw a beautiful woman who looked seven or eight points similar to Bai Lingmiao, he knew he was not wrong.

Seeing that these people were all physically intact despite their haggard appearance and ragged clothes, Li Huowang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Fortunately, as long as they're still alive, there's still a chance to turn things around."

Then, Li Huowang did not immediately reveal himself, but began to search for the people who were escorting them.

If they were enemies, it would be war. If they were from the Monitoring Bureau, it would be negotiation. Anyway, he must save these people himself!

Li Huowang turned slowly a few times, but saw no one.

"It's impossible that no one is watching. If no one is watching, the Bai family would have run away by now."

Just when Li Huowang was at a loss, he suddenly heard an extremely eerie rattling sound behind him, like the sound of something shaking in a bamboo tube.

Li Huowang turned slowly and found that the dim forest was still shrouded in a hazy white morning mist, and the rattling sound came from within the mist.

The creaking sound grew louder, and the sleeping Bai family members started to wake up. They heard the creaking sound and showed a hint of fear in their eyes. Some children even cried instinctively.

Li Huowang could even smell a pungent odor, and he clearly felt that something was moving in the white mist, but he couldn't see it.

Li Huowang didn't want to sit and wait for death. He clenched the hilt of his sword with one hand and cautiously broke into the white mist.

When he was in the white mist, the rattling sound became louder and Li Huowang followed the sound.

"Rattle, rattle." With this strange sound, a wooden man with a black watermelon hat and rouge on both cheeks swayed out of the mist.

"Rattle, rattle." Every time the wooden man's head swayed, this extremely strange sound would come from inside his head.

The moment Li Huowang saw this thing, his body hair stood on end, but he didn't immediately attack because he could feel that the paper man hadn't noticed him.

"What the hell is this thing!"

Li Huowang gritted his teeth and was extremely vigilant as the round wooden head floated closer. Suddenly, a powerful gaze fell from the sky and pressed down on his head, making it difficult for him to even breathe.

Li Huowang looked up suddenly, and a huge wry smile appeared on his face. A pale face with a hint of evil slowly descended from the thin mist.

When it fully appeared in front of Li Huowang, he finally saw what it was.