Chapter 102: The Cat's Playful Trick and the Ghost's Undressing Trick Three

  That short and stout man was shocked by Shi Jin's words, which had exposed their actions. He stared at Shi Jin with wide eyes, his mind filled with a thousand words, but he couldn't utter a single one of them.

  "You should know that a life for a life is the rule!" Shi Jing said, picking up the waist knife that had fallen behind him, stretching out his long arm, and with a flourish, he turned the blade over and quietly placed it on the short, fat man's shoulder.

  Although the short and stout man had steeled himself for death, the icy blade touching his skin still made him involuntarily fearful, and his body went limp on the ground, weakening by half.

  Shi Jin looked at his expression and added a hint of ferocity to his tone: "Your leader is gone, your brother is dead, now you have to pay the debt for these twenty lives. But don't worry, I won't kill you just like that, it's too easy a death, I think it doesn't suit you. Come take a look at what I've prepared for you, get up!"

  Shi Jin's words had an immediate effect, and the short fat man jumped up in surprise. However, Shi Jin saw that he only trembled slightly and did not obediently stand up, so he gathered his strength slightly, and the sharp blade slid along the edge of the short fat man's not-too-prominent collarbone.

  That bright red blood dripped down the blade in small streams, Shi Jin looked at the short and stout man's painful face, and continued to accumulate strength on the blade. Just as the blade fell an inch, the pain was so intense that beads of sweat the size of beans appeared all over his head, and the short and stout man really couldn't bear it, so he gritted his teeth and said: "I'm getting up, I'm getting up!"

  "That's right, why make things difficult for yourself?" Shi Jin said as he slowly raised his knife and led the short and stout man away, with Li Bai Cao and the little servant following behind. The four of them left the main hall, descended the steps, and arrived at the edge of a pit filled with freshly dug earth.

  "Brother, be careful, dig this pit open."

  The little Si from the pharmacy, under Shi Jin's command, immediately used the waist knife in his hand to dig open the pit where the body was buried. After a while, through the mud, you could see the corpses lying horizontally and vertically below.

  That short and stout man looked at the corpses that they had killed, now a mess again in front of him. Although he didn't know what Shi Jin wanted to do with him, that ominous premonition made him look at these corpses, his scalp began to feel numb.

  "Don't bother me with this, go down and keep them company yourself." Shi Jin pushed the stout man to the edge of the pit, withdrew his knife, and pressed the tip against his back.

  "What...what does it mean?" The short and stout man looked at the bloody mess in the pit, and his heart couldn't help but feel a sense of trepidation.

  "It's all so obvious, do you still need an explanation? Don't bother me with the knife, just get into a comfortable position in the pit yourself, and we'll cover you up with soil again. That's basically what it means." Shi Jin looked at the short and stout man, who slightly lifted his foot but still hesitated and pulled it back.

  Shi Jin lightly poked the back of his heart with the tip of his knife, and said seriously, "You don't want to go down, that's okay, but there is also a way out for you." Shi Jin pointed the tip of his knife at the back of his neck and continued, "To be honest, whose man are you?"

  "I... I am..."

  The stout man had barely uttered a sentence when he felt a pain in the back of his neck.

  Shi Jin stabbed the blade into him, because Shi Jin felt that the person in front of him was a hard bone, typically "not shedding tears until seeing the coffin", only after the blade entered his body did he get up, and from this point it can be seen that although he was intimidated, he would behave, but so quickly and honestly confessed, nine out of ten is a trick, there's nothing true to listen.

  Then Shi Jin, with the knife tip piercing in, gave him a little pain and opened his mouth to warn him: "You only have one chance, think carefully before speaking. Look." Shi Jin pointed to the pit and said: "My brothers who were brutally killed are eagerly waiting for you..."

  The short and stout man looked at the dead body in the pit again, knowing that he was doomed today. So he calmed down his mind and said, "I won't... tell you!" As he spoke, he closed his eyes and suddenly thrust his body backward.

  Shi Jin had long been on guard against him, and seeing his shadow dodge to the back, Shi Jin knew that he was trying to dodge onto the blade to seek a quick end.

  Shi Jin still had words to ask him, but he wouldn't let him die so easily. Just as Shi Jin was about to speak, he suddenly pulled out his hand and retreated three steps with his knife. When Shi Jin regained his footing, Li Bai Cao suddenly let out a loud cry, but before he could rush over and grab the short fatty's jaw, the short fatty spat out blood and collapsed, falling forward into the pit of corpses.

  Shi Jin hastily arrived at the edge of the pit and took a closer look, only to find that the short and stout man had bitten his tongue and killed himself.

  Shi Jin looked at the person who had already died and with a burst of anger stabbed his knife into the ground.

  "Big deal..." Lei Baicao looked at Shi Jin with a somewhat angry expression, and walked closer, but for a moment couldn't think of any comforting words to say to him.

  "It doesn't matter, he's dead anyway. It's just a pity that it took half a day's effort to kill him. If I had known it would end like this, I wouldn't have bothered talking to him and would have killed him directly." Shi Jin looked at the short fat man's corpse and let out a slight sigh.

  Li Baicao took a step closer and said in a low voice, "Master, what about our lead now..."

  Shi Jin drew out his sword and inserted it into the scabbard, saying: "There is only one clue left. Originally, I would have asked the dwarf about the mastermind behind the scenes first, and then compared it with the direction of that little head. Now... we can only wait for news. Let's see where the little head went, get the place name, and then we'll follow the trail."

  Li Bai Cao nodded.

  Just as everyone fell silent, a hurried footsteps sounded from the wind and water gate.

  Shi Jin turned his head and saw that it was indeed the little Xi who had followed him earlier.

  He only saw him rushing to the front of the crowd, panting heavily with his mouth open, and wanting to salute. Shi Jin looked at him like this, obviously running tired, both hands supporting the young man's arms, softly saying: "No need to salute, can you see where that dog thing ran?"

  The little servant swallowed his saliva and nodded, saying: "That damned guy is so cunning, with a big belly, he circled around half of Huayin County, and finally, I saw him enter a large mansion."

  "Is it the Kong's residence? Could it be the Kong family..." Shi Jing first thought of was the Kong family, that treacherous merchant Kong Ru had been severely punished by himself, most likely he was afraid it was the Kong family coming to cause trouble.

  "The master of the house is the Huang family's mansion." The little servant looked at Shi Jin and replied seriously.

  "Huang family? You're referring to the Huang family of the two major families in Huayin County?"

  "Yes, it's Huang Tianba's mansion!"