In the middle of the night, eager to catch the sacrificial man, Yang Chuxia and Ye Zi’an arrived in town and drove their oxcart into the shop. They then hurriedly went out with Ye Zi’an. Uncle Niu saw the two people looking so rushed and worried that something might be wrong, so he followed them from behind.
Seeing this, Yang Chuxia didn’t let him go back, but instead handed her sleeve-arrow to Uncle Niu, "Just pull this when you need to use it later."
Hearing this, Uncle Niu knew that something was really going on and a sense of concern immediately rose in his heart, thinking that he must protect the two kids later on.
That sacrificial man was indeed a master of hiding. According to the confessions of those people, he was hiding in an abandoned house on North Street.
Yang Chuxia had heard of that place before when she first came to town. It was said to be a haunted house. People in the town who had to pass by there would either take a detour or find a group to go with them. No ordinary person would walk there alone.
Thinking about it now, it was really fucking cliché. The haunted house and the fear of walking there were definitely man-made. Even if there were ghosts, they were people disguised as ghosts. This kind of plot had been performed on TV.
However, when she first heard about it, there was no news of missing persons so she didn’t pay attention to it at the time.
But later, Constable Hong had reportedly searched the place with his men, only for the sacrificial man to run back. He really thought the most dangerous place was the safest.
When they arrived at the so-called haunted house, it was actually just an abandoned residential courtyard. Yang Chuxia glanced at Ye Zi’an and pointed at the courtyard door. Zi’an nodded quietly and patted his small crossbow arrow.
Seeing this, Uncle Niu had already gone around to the back of the house by himself. Yang Chuxia ran to the side of the courtyard wall, and with the help of some tree trunks nearby, she easily jumped up onto the wall.
Standing on the wall, Yang Chuxia looked into the courtyard and saw that there was still a faint glimmer of light in one of the rooms. She jumped down from the wall and quietly approached the room. The nearer she got, the tighter her brows furrowed because she could hear the sobbing of women from inside.
Yang Chuxia skillfully lifted the dried-up climbing vines that covered the windowsill, and saw a slightly fat body lying on top of a person. From the sounds, she could confirm it was a woman.
Not only that, there were three other men in the room, two of whom were holding big knives, surrounding the fat white man and the woman. Another man was holding another woman.
Seeing this situation, Yang Chuxia felt disgusted and the fierceness in her eyes gradually deepened.
Although she didn’t know the identities of the two women, whether they were daughters of good families or prostitutes from brothels, being surrounded by several men would be enough to make anybody sick.
Especially for her, as a fellow woman.
Yang Chuxia quietly raised her small crossbow arrow and pressed the mechanism aiming at the fat white body.
Immediately, the arrow shot straight into the room.
However, the two men standing nearby were quite alert. Hearing the sound in the air, they looked up to see the arrow and quickly used their knives to block it.
That white fat man also got up from the woman. Taking advantage of the light in the room, Yang Chuxia saw that the fat bastard was indeed familiar. He was none other than the sacrificial man she had met months before.
Seeing this, Yang Chuxia went around the windowsill and entered the room while loading her small crossbow arrow. As soon as she entered the room, she didn’t say anything and just started shooting.
When the people in the room saw that the intruder was a young girl, they were stunned at first. However, the sacrificial man recognized her as Yang Chuxia.