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The man couldn't help but tremble when Jiang Ning looked at him.
"How did he die? Where is his body?"
Upon hearing Jiang Ning's question, the bandit trembled and said, "A few years ago, we went down the mountain with our leader to rob a village. We saw a very beautiful woman, and our leader took a liking to her. The woman and her husband were unwilling. The man was killed by our leader, and the woman was captured and brought up the mountain. She refused to submit to our leader even at the cost of her life. Later, she also died, and her body was dumped on the back mountain."
Jiang Ning remained silent upon hearing this.
This outcome was exactly what he had expected.
It's been so long; if he hadn't resigned himself to his fate, he would most likely be dead by now.
Zhou Sanchun's face was even paler than before.
The other party specifically asked for Wang Yunlan, and now that the person they were looking for is dead, he is definitely involved. Given how ruthless the other party is, he is probably not going to survive.
“Tell me all the locations of the mountain strongholds that you know.”
Jiangning plans to clear out all the mountain strongholds here.
Upon hearing his words, several of the bandits kneeling on the ground couldn't help but tremble; they were the bandits from Shaanxi.
Come again, come again.
The King of Hell wiped out bandits in Shaanxi, and now he's going to do it again in Jiangnan.
"hey-hey."
Zhou Sanchun sneered.
"Judging from your appearance, you're going to die whether we tell you or not, so why should I tell you?"
puff!
Jiang Ning kicked him in the neck, breaking it.
Jiang Ning's violent attitude terrified the other bandits.
"Big Boss!"
A woman saw this and screamed in agony.
"father!"
At this moment, the bandit child saw that Zhou Sanchun was dead, struggled wildly, broke free from the woman's hand, looked at Jiang Ning fiercely, raised his dagger and charged towards Jiang Ning with a shout.
"You dare hit my father? I'll kill you!"
"Big Tiger!"
The woman saw her son rush out and screamed in alarm.
Jiang Ning raised an eyebrow and lifted him up.
"Let me go! Let me go!"
The bandit child struggled in Jiang Ning's hands, raising a dagger to stab him.
Jiang Ning slapped him across the face.
Two bloody teeth flew out of the bandit child's mouth.
The bandit child was stunned.
Jiang Ning slapped him again.
The bandit child felt the pain, lost his previous ferocity, and burst into tears.
But the hand gripping his neck slowly tightened, preventing him from crying any longer, and his face began to turn purple.
"Let go of my son!!"
Upon seeing this, the woman rushed over, but Jiang Ning merely glanced at her, leaving the woman stunned with fright.
Just as the bandit child was about to die, Jiang Ning released his grip and threw him to the ground.
The bandit child caught his breath and coughed violently, his eyes filled with intense fear as he looked at Jiang Ning.
"Big Tiger!"
When the woman saw that her son was still alive, she quickly picked him up and moved him a little further away from Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning ignored the woman for the moment, his gaze turning to the bandits kneeling on the ground. He was about to speak, but stopped a second later.
He saw a couple holding a child's corpse, their eyes filled with hatred as they stared at the bandit child in the woman's arms.
"what happened?"
Jiang Ning looked at the group of bandits kneeling on the ground.
The bandits trembled upon hearing this and dared not speak.
"Great hero, please save us!"
At this moment, one of the bound civilians suddenly struggled and knelt down in front of Jiang Ning, kowtowing repeatedly.
The other people also realized what was happening and immediately knelt down in front of Jiang Ning to beg for help.
"We are all local people. We have no food to give them, so they captured us and brought us here to have fun. Please, hero, save us."
After being captured and brought to Tianfeng Village, the time they spent there was like being in hell. At this time, Jiang Ning had killed so many bandits, and they didn't know whether Jiang Ning was good or bad, but they could only have a chance to survive by grasping this sliver of hope.
Jiang Ning also learned about the couple's son from them.
Jiang Ning frowned and remained silent, looking at the couple and pointing at the bandit child.
"You can avenge your son now."
The couple, who had been glaring at the bandit Zhou Sanchun's son with hatred, could no longer contain their anger after hearing Jiang Ning's words and pounced on him.
"What are you doing! What are you doing!"
The woman screamed in terror.
"Stay away from me, don't come any closer!"
The three immediately began to tear at each other, with the woman desperately hitting the other side.
"Don't touch my son! Don't touch my son!"
The bandit child felt the couple's crazed gaze and cried out in terror.
Jiang Ning looked at these people.
“You are the people here, so you must know where there are bandit strongholds. Tell me the locations of these strongholds within a radius of several hundred miles, and I will simply help you eliminate them all.”
Jiang Ning spoke calmly, but his words startled the others.
Regardless of how the bandits reacted, the common people wept and kowtowed to Jiang Ning.
"Thank you, hero! Thank you, hero!"
However, despite this, the local people only knew about a few mountain strongholds.
Jiang Ning then looked at the group of bandits.
"Hero, if we reveal all the mountain strongholds we know, could you spare our lives?"
"It was a bandit speaking in a trembling voice."
Jiang Ning calmly said, "I told you, I can let you die a quick death and send your colleagues down to join you."
"If you don't talk, I'll skin you alive."
Hearing such cruel words, several bandits who had originally planned to die rather than speak suddenly trembled, and their previous courage vanished.
The bandits from Shaanxi sighed inwardly.
Everything is predestined, and nothing is up to us.
The bandit named Lao Hu couldn't help but exchange glances with his brothers, and they all saw tears welling up in each other's eyes.
This is all fate.
They thought that escaping to Jiangnan would prevent them from running into King Yama Ning, but who would have thought that their good days would not last long, and King Yama would follow them to Jiangnan like a shadow.
It's true what they say: if the King of Hell wants you to die at midnight, who dares to keep you alive until dawn?
"Brother, you really didn't misjudge him by calling him the King of Hell. Now the living King of Hell is going to send us to meet the real King of Hell."
A bandit said in a bitter whisper.
He spoke very softly, but Jiang Ning had sharp ears and still heard him.
"You're the ones who started spreading the nickname 'King of Hell'?"
Jiang Ning looked at the bandits with some surprise.
Even facing death, these bandits remained calm.
“You’re a ruthless killer, even more so than us gangsters. You’re like a living Yama. You just said one thing, and who knew it would get out.”
Hearing these people admit it, Jiang Ning didn't show any anger.
Actually, he didn't feel anything about this nickname; it's just that Yue Buqun was very dissatisfied with this name for a period of time.
Now that the culprit has been found, Jiang Ning can tell Yue Buqun when he goes back this time, which will relieve Yue Buqun of a worry.
However, Jiang Ning still needs to correct these people's statements.
"I am now a great hero of Guanzhong, certified by the imperial court."
Chapter 288: Fate, a Wonderful Thing
These bandits, who had traveled thousands of miles to Jiangnan to escape Jiangning's pursuit, still died at Jiangning's hands, as fate would have it.
Perhaps this is fate, something truly wondrous.
In their final moments, the bandits felt not fear, but relief.
Especially that bandit who frequently dreamt of Jiangning.
Now he no longer has to live in fear, afraid that Jiang Ning will suddenly find them one day.
Jiang Ning also learned the location of the nearby mountain stronghold from those bandits.
After all, death is terrible, but being tortured to death is even worse; they are not tough guys.
Jiang Ning obtained a considerable amount of information about the mountain stronghold from these people, but these bandits could not guarantee that it was all the information they knew.
Jiang Ning didn't pay much attention to this. He would use torture to extract confessions from each mountain stronghold he visited, just to fill in any gaps in his knowledge.
At this point, the struggle between the couple and the woman also ended.
The bandit boy lay motionless in the woman's arms, his face contorted with intense fear before he died. His body was covered in stab wounds, and in some places, pieces of flesh were missing.
The woman also died.
The couple from before were also silently weeping, holding the body of their dead son.
"You should go down the mountain."
Jiang Ning glanced at the couple; the villagers had already gone down the mountain.
"thanks, thanks."
The couple kowtowed to Jiang Ning in gratitude.
Jiang Ning shook his head, said nothing, and let them go down the mountain.
Now the mountain stronghold is piled with corpses.
Jiang Ning did not leave immediately. Before the people came down the mountain, Jiang Ning told them to bring the villagers up the mountain to transport the grain a few days later.
These bandits from Tianfeng Village have been entrenched here for many years, and in addition to grain, they have also robbed a lot of gold and silver jewelry.
The grain can be distributed to the villagers to compensate them for the losses caused by the looting, but the gold and silver jewelry cannot be given away casually. It would not be good for them and would cause a lot of unnecessary trouble, which is not what Jiang Ning wants to see.
Jiang Ning never underestimates human nature.
He plans to bury these things somewhere and deal with them later when he has more time.
He is currently traveling and has many places to visit, so he cannot deal with these things or take them with him on his journey.
After finding a secluded spot to bury the gold and silver jewelry, Jiang Ning went to a forest on the back mountain.