Chapter 16 Punishment
"If there is anything, I can go there."

Her proposal was rejected by Jiashan. He took off his protective mask, said a few words to the accompanying doctor, then dusted off the dust on his white robe and walked over.

Xu Shanshan didn't know what he saw that made him plan to go alone, or whether he was simply worried about her ability to handle the situation.

She smiled, took the little girl's hand and raised it to indicate, "How can that be? I took three cents from her. If I don't solve this problem, won't I become the female liar that you five people criticize?"

Jiashan: “…”

It was clearly her fault, so why was she so self-righteous as if the five of them had deliberately slandered her?

"It would be even better if there is a Living Buddha from Jiashan. Let's go quickly. I'm afraid if it's too late, the 'thing' will be lost." The little girl urged them anxiously.

Jiashan didn’t know what the little girl had talked about with Xu Shanshan, but he felt that something was not right about the little girl’s “aura”. However, he was not sure, so he could only follow her to see for himself.

In the end, the three of them were together: a monk, a nun and a little girl, a strange combination.

No one would think that they were a family, but they just didn't understand how these three people got together.

"Little girl, what's your name?" Xu Shanshan put her hands together in her sleeves, and Maomao stood on her shoulders.

Luo Yi glanced at the parrot curiously and said casually: "My name is Luo Yi."

Xu Shanshan raised her eyes with a half-smile: "Luo Yi, this name sounds quite familiar."

Jiashan glanced at her.

"Sound familiar?"

She glanced back at him: "Yes, haven't you heard of a dwarf killer named Luo Yi in the martial arts world? I heard that she is best at disguising herself as a little girl to lure the enemy into a trap and kill her..."

Luo Yi's pupils opened instantly, his palms were sweating, his eyes kept changing, and his whole face was full of gloom.

"But I must be overthinking it. I heard that the dwarf named Luo Yi is very ugly. He is not as pretty as this little girl."

The murderous intent in Luo Yi's eyes froze, and for a moment he didn't know whether he should be happy or angry.

Jiashan said, "Ugliness and beauty are just appearances."

"But there are also beautiful and ugly appearances, this is an indisputable fact."

He said calmly: "If a person's heart is full of hatred, beauty is also ugly; if a person's heart is full of love, ugliness is also beautiful."

"That's because you have never seen a true beauty. Even if this person is as poisonous as a snake or scorpion, she can still be so beautiful that people can't take their eyes off her," she said.

Listening to the two people talking back and forth, it seemed like they were debating, but actually they seemed to be exchanging ideas with each other harmoniously, making her unsure whether their relationship was good or not.

"Little girl, the path you're taking seems to be getting further and further off track."

This is already outside the walls of Jiangling City. Once outside the city wall, there is a wasteland ahead with few human traces.

Luo Yi froze.

"This kind of conspiracy usually has to be done in some deserted place. It's not far away, just ahead."

She pointed.

Xu Shanshan looked over and nodded as if she had convinced him: "That makes sense."

Ahead was a desolate village, but the villagers had all moved away. A few thin, weak yellow bamboos swayed feebly in the wind. It was quiet except for the sound of the door frame creaking as the door hinges moved.

"Reached?"

"arrive."

Luo Yi had a weird smile on his face and slowly turned his head...

But Xu Shanshan's eyes were like a quiet deep pool, terribly cold.

"That's good."

She threw three copper coins upwards with her right hand, and they fell to the ground in reverse, facing west, in the constellation of Orion.

Ugh!

The other hand suddenly reached out and tightly grabbed Luo Yi's neck. She started to cough dryly, her eyeballs bulged suddenly, and she let out a rough gasp.

Luo Yi was horrified!

Why did she seem to have all her strength drained away? She was clearly a well-known killer, but now she was like a real child, being slaughtered at will, without any ability to fight back?
A hidden arrow was shot, but the target was not her, but Jiashan.

Jiashan had some martial arts skills, so he dodged in time, but then more than a dozen figures suddenly jumped up, with sharp blades in their hands emitting a chilling light. Xu Shanshan raised his eyebrows, his dark and deep eyes were like a bottomless cold pond: "Three reverses is the water thunder hexagram, which is dangerous and will lead to death... This is the prophecy I made for you."

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The rioting hungry people were hiding in the village. They listened carefully to the noise outside and waited for the ambushing killers to kill Xu Shanshan and Jiashan before they showed up.

However, unexpectedly, a very eerie chill suddenly crept up their backs. When they turned around, they saw a girl in simple Taoist nun's clothes, standing there quietly like a ghost.

This is not the scariest thing. The scariest thing is that she is approaching them step by step.

Why didn't she die?
What about the killers?

"Who are you? What are you doing?" They tried to pretend to be innocent passers-by.

"What are you doing?" Xu Shanshan's long-lashed black eyes were covered with a layer of darkness, and he said with a smile: "Of course, I am here to suppress the thugs under the order of the city commander."

Before he could finish his words, soldiers with sharp weapons in their hands swarmed in from all the dark corners of the village and surrounded them. They were surrounded by cold eyes and sharp weapons, as if they were in a death trap.

The person who had lured others into a trap has now become a fish on someone else's chopping board. This is something they never dreamed of.

"No, don't kill us, we are wrong, please let us go..."

When the mastermind of the thugs saw that the situation was not going well, he immediately knelt down and begged for mercy in a pitiful manner. He was betting on the kindness of the Living Buddha of Jiashan.

"Wait a minute! Things are not clear yet..." Jiashan couldn't bear to see a massacre unfolding before his eyes. He tried to stop it, but was grabbed by Xu Shanshan.

The mastermind made the right bet, but he overlooked one fatal thing - where there is a living Buddha, there must also be a living Yama.

"kill!"

One word determines life and death.

A well-set ambush undoubtedly left these thugs with no ability to resist. With a short scream, their throats were accurately cut by the sharp blade, and blood spurted out like a fountain.

"stop!"

The soldiers moved without any pause as they coldly killed their targets one by one at their feet. The air was filled with the smell of blood as the brutal killing continued.

Jiashan turned his head and stared at Xu Shanshan, with redness and hostility intertwined in his eyes.

"You killed them so indiscriminately?"

Xu Shanshan ignored him. She looked at Luo Yi who was struggling to escape from her hands and said, "These thugs who tried to cause a riot have been successfully captured. Are you satisfied, little girl?"

Luo Yi finally realized at this moment that she seemed to have offended a very important person. She trembled and said, "I, I am very satisfied. Please let me go."

"Since you are satisfied, then we will settle the matter. However, you should also pay for the extra money you have entrusted to me."

"I'll give you money, I'll give you money, how much do you want?"

"This time, I don't want money."

She smiled, took out a yellow talisman and stuck it on Luo Yi's forehead. Blood lines began to appear on his forehead. Her expression of fear and panic froze, and she fell down the next second.

Jiashan looked at her in astonishment.

When she killed someone, her breathing was never disturbed for a moment.

Her heart... is so cruel!
At this time, Xu Shanshan slowly raised his eyes and looked at Jiashan in confusion: "Good man, I don't seem to have improved much. Is it that you didn't convert me seriously, or am I really hopeless?"

What she asked made Jiashan's eyes change suddenly. His eyes gradually began to change, becoming darker and calmer.

He stared at her quietly for a moment, and his eyes, which had been as dark and cold as the night, suddenly became clear and bright again, as if the haze that shrouded his eyes had been completely dispelled in an instant.

He sighed heavily, as if he had made up his mind: "This is all my fault. I now know what to do."

She understood that he was finally going to be serious.

She forced me to do it.

Maomao: "What happened to him? Why did he suddenly admit his mistake to you?"

"Because he understood that this killing was my punishment for his negligence and disrespect."

He is so busy. Countless people are waiting for him to save them. How can he take care of them all?
If she cannot be the unique person in his eyes, the one he must prioritize, when will he be able to see her?

(End of this chapter)