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He still did not know about the murders back in town, but he recognized Hong Chenglue at a glance. Surprise flickered across his face, then he asked, “Hong Chenglue? What are you doing all the way out here?”
Hong Chenglue smiled and said, “Someone asked me to look for you.”
“Oh? Who?”
“Liu Yalin.”
Liu Yalin was the name of the very first young man to lose his head on the execution platform. Patrol Officer Chen froze, then snapped, fury twisting his features, “What nonsense are you spouting?!”
“He said that he’d walk slower. That way, you can catch up to him on the road.”
One of Patrol Officer Chen’s men snapped, “Watch your mouth!” He lifted his blade, clearly intending to smack this tall man across the face with it.
The next instant, he went flying backward.
A tree with a trunk that was as thick as a bowl, a little more than three meters away, snapped clean in half when the man’s body slammed into it.
He had already vomited what looked like three liters of blood while still in midair. When he hit the ground, he did not move again. His chest had caved inward, leaving a crater just the right size for a fist.
Patrol Officer Chen’s other subordinate was far from loyal or brave. At the sight of this, he instinctively backed up two paces before shouting, “Boss, careful—”
He had barely opened his mouth when something whistled through the air toward him, swelling larger and larger in his vision until it smashed into his face.
The man toppled straight over on his back.
The object that felled him was a blade in its...
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