The person lying on the ground refused to get up, and despite the woman's kind persuasion, he remained stubbornly silent.

It seemed that the newly risen bosses in Yao County had terrified him completely, so much so that he didn't dare believe a word the woman said.

Seeing how stubborn he was, and her persuasion futile, the woman finally gave up.

The other two men immediately stepped forward, without a word, slapped him twice, leaving him dazed, then dragged him up, ready to take him back directly.

"If we didn't still need you to work in the future, I'd tear off your arms and legs!"

One man spat fiercely on the ground and said viciously.

Judging by his demeanor, it seemed he originally intended to spit on the person they were holding, but likely reconsidered, worried it might stain themselves as they carried him back, and instead spat on the ground.

Lu Xi'an, watching from the car, finally said, "Go ahead."

After watching for so long, he'd heard enough information, and confirmed none of them were Neo-Humans; if he didn't act now, they would all leave.

"Okay."

Yao Wei nodded and raised her gun.

They almost simultaneously opened the driver and passenger side car doors; the double "click" of the doors overlapped.

The few people in the weeds were startled by the sound.

They had been too focused when coming here and hadn't noticed there were other people around.

The sound was not from a beast, but the sound of doors opening, which scared them to their core.

Especially since they had cars in Yao County and could recognize how much the sound resembled that of a car door opening.

But they hadn't fought for the right to use the car, and under normal circumstances, they couldn't take it out.

Who could quietly drive up here and park the car near them?!

It was indeed frightening.

They quickly turned towards the source of the sound.

Yet, before they could turn their heads to look, several sharp sounds pierced the air, followed by severe pain, and they uncontrollably collapsed downward.

When they clearly saw the car in the distance and the two people who got out, they were horrified to find themselves lying in a pool of blood.

The blood was flowing from their bodies.

—Their legs were broken, and only then did they become aware of the delayed pain of bone breaking and flesh tearing.

"Neo-Humans?!"

"The legendary Neo-Humans?!"

"In this godforsaken place, how could there be Neo-Humans?!"

The two men and one woman on the ground cried out in fear.

The legendary Neo-Humans were truly terrifying.

They hadn't even seen how the Neo-Humans had acted; only a 'whoosh' and they were on the ground with broken legs.

They had seen the most powerful guns, nothing this terrifying.

The person they had been carrying was not hit in the legs. He fell with the two men holding him and, hearing the trio's cries, understood the situation.

He quickly crawled up from the ground, ignoring the others, and kowtowed in the direction the trio was looking, as if witnessing a divine being descending, hurriedly kneeling with reverence.

To him, these two people were indeed like divine beings. Their appearance and stature were completely different from his own.

The woman held a gun, while the man, though not holding a gun, fiddled with pebbles in a way that seemed even more powerful.

He didn't say anything, just kept kowtowing.

"Bang."

Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei closed the car doors and walked into the weeds.

There had been no gunshots, naturally not Yao Wei's doing. With Lu Xi'an mastering the Hidden Weapon Technique, their roles had reversed.

Originally, Yao Wei acted while Lu Xi'an covered; now, Lu Xi'an took action while Yao Wei provided cover.

Lu Xi'an had more Hidden Weapon resources, with bullets being more precious.

"Alright, stop kowtowing."

Entering the weeds, Lu Xi'an said.

The patch of grass was already stained with a wide swath of blood.

Lu Xi'an's initial attack had snapped the legs of the three with three pebbles, leaving them on the ground unable to escape; naturally, the blood loss was significant.

The person, hearing Lu Xi'an's order, dared not disobey. Immediately quieted down.

Lu Xi'an ignored him, picked up the woman on the ground, turned to Yao Wei, and said, "Watch over them here; I'll interrogate this woman."

"Alright."

Yao Wei agreed.

Lu Xi'an carried the woman away, distancing from there.

Once far enough, he put her down and asked, "I heard you say earlier that your boss is in cahoots with the Vengeful Soul?

What's going on in the city? You'd better tell me the truth. I'll confirm with your two companions later."

The woman fell to the ground, in a sorry state, and remained silent.

She did appear somewhat attractive. In this world, ordinary people, even a young girl like Chai Xin, couldn't escape some wrinkles on their faces.

To have such a face, she was indeed gifted.

But being an ordinary person, no matter how talented, in such a harsh environment, the prime of life is really too short, and she's already showing signs of aging.

Lu Xi'an threw her onto the ground, and she propped herself up with one hand, slightly tilting her body, deliberately highlighting her figure, her brows lowered, looking pitiful.

This was clearly meant for Lu Xi'an to see.

But Lu Xi'an was unmoved, weighing the stone in his hand, glanced at the woman, and said coldly, "Aren't you afraid I'll kill you if you don't answer?"

The woman finally gave up her useless posture, chuckled self-deprecatingly, and began to speak, "If I answer you and you don't kill me, then what kind of life can I have after betraying the boss?

"I've already lost my leg and become disabled. If I betray the boss, and manage to survive to return to Yao County, I can only imagine the torture I would undergo."

Lu Xi'an said, "You don't need to worry about that. If you're afraid of being tortured by your boss, I'll just kill him for you—just answer my questions honestly."

But the woman still shook her head, saying, "It's no use. Even if our boss is gone, there are other bosses.

"Unless you stay in Yao County and promise to spare me and not torture me.

"But how could someone like you stay in a godforsaken place like Yao County?"

She said, slumping to the ground, "Either kill me or torture me and let me die.

"To be tortured by someone like you is still better than being tortured by those cretins."

"..."

Lu Xi'an was speechless. How could being tortured have a good or bad side?!

He really wanted to kill this woman on the spot, there were three other people to ask anyway.

However, he didn't act on impulse.

Just now, watching these people communicate, this woman seemed to be the small leader among the three, and it was her who was mainly speaking.

If there's some situation only she knows and the other two don't, acting impulsively could ruin everything.

He said, "If you answer me honestly, I'll give you a way out, a chance at life, which might be far better than now."

The woman's expression shifted, asking, "What way?"

So this woman still had desires, just now she seemed to have completely given up hope...

Lu Xi'an said, "Getting out alive is not so easy. First, answer me a question."

"Which one?"

The woman asked.

Lu Xi'an said, "The first one I asked just now—what's the deal between your boss and the Vengeful Soul?"

"I don't know either."

The woman's expression was unclear, saying, "We haven't seen that soul.

"In any case, our boss said he's made contact with the soul.

"He said that the two souls aren't actually dead. They were hunted down by the previous boss, luckily survived, and then assassinated the old boss.

"Those two souls came down from Sword Mountain, a bit strange, but that's normal, though they aren't on the level of Neo-Humans.

"They can't take on the whole city themselves, so they made contact with our boss and formed an alliance.

"Recently, people under other bosses in the city have been dying. Our boss says this is done on the orders of those two souls.

"He wants to use those two souls to subdue all others and become the new boss."

Lu Xi'an raised an eyebrow, listening to the woman's words, as if Chai Xin and Shu were still in Yao County.

But Lu Xi'an still felt something was off.

From what the woman said, he could only confirm one thing—those mutated from Sword Mountain were not just the three he had seen, there were others that Yao County people also knew about.

But with the information in hand, it seems the Yao County town shouldn't have such people, nor Neo-Humans—if there are any, it would only be Shu and Chai Xin.

If there were other Neo-Humans, those four people meeting him and Yao Wei earlier wouldn't have reacted so severely, and wouldn't say something like "how could Neo-Humans come to such a godforsaken place."

"Do you all know about this?"

Lu Xi'an asked.

But the woman didn't answer, instead saying, "That's the second question. If you want me to answer, you must first tell me what is the way you're offering me?"

She didn't answer Lu Xi'an, and he didn't answer her either, instead, he asked another question, "Do you think your boss is telling the truth or lying?"

The woman, reluctantly, followed Lu Xi'an's question and answered, "I don't know. Maybe it's the truth; those people who died in the city these days were really killed by the souls.

"Or it might be a lie, and those deaths were just done by the boss's people or the boss himself, pinned on the Vengeful Soul, preventing us from offending the crowd and getting attacked.

"All of these are possible.

"He doesn't usually tell me about these things. Only when I sleep with him, he'll boast about things I don't know.

"If it wasn't for him using this as the reason to send me to fetch people, he wouldn't have told me any details.

"But even with more details, if you think about it, I think it's fake.

"If it were true, how come we've never seen those two souls all this time?"

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