Feasibility of Mermaids Infiltrating Qilin

The self-igniting spirit fire talisman landed on the corpse and immediately set the entire body ablaze.

After the body was completely burned, Zhang Shenglin dug a hole in the ground, buried the ashes in it, and then turned his gaze to the three burly men.

The drought has lasted for almost five months. The ordinary townspeople have become so thin that they look almost unrecognizable. Even the wealthy families with some savings have become much thinner. In this drought that affects everyone equally, no one is having an easy time.

But the three burly men in front of them had menacing faces and were fat and strong. Apart from being a little dirty due to lack of water, they did not look like disaster victims who had fled their homes to other places.

Thinking about how they maintained their appearance, Su Xingze looked away in disgust. Every inch of their fat had been soaked in the blood and flesh of their compatriots.

Zhang Shenglin coldly looked at the three burly men, then bent down and put the chin of the man at the top back in place.

“Tell me, what did you do with the other leg?”

The burly man had witnessed him slaying drought demons. Now, this young god of death stared at him with a cold, merciless gaze, just as he had looked at the drought demons who had died at his hands.

He looked at Zhang Shenglin with fear in his eyes and began to cry out his innocence: "Spare me! Master Zhang! I... I was just hungry. I didn't do anything wrong. I was just really too hungry."

He tried to protest his innocence again, but Zhang Shenglin had already lost patience. He chopped the man unconscious with a single blow, grabbed him by the collar, and roughly threw him aside.

He turned his gaze to the next person, and was about to raise his hand to put his dislocated jaw back in place when Su Xingze raised his hand and pressed it down on him.

“I’ll do it. Did you forget this?” He raised his hand, and a string of gleaming gold bells on his wrist swayed silently.

Su Xingze squatted in front of the two burly men stacked on top of each other, his disguised black eyes like cold black pearls, staring at them without any emotion.

Suddenly, he smiled and a clear bell rang out. Accompanied by the boy's soft voice, the two burly men gradually became stunned.

Zhang Shenglin closed their jaws, and Su Xingze began to ask, "Who are you going to give that leg to?"

“We’ll bring it to Master Cai. Every time we bring him some meat, he’ll give each of us a Water Condensation Talisman as a reward.”

The two burly men had become complete puppets in Su Xingze's hands, answering whatever he asked without hiding anything.

A dozen minutes later, the three unconscious men were tied together with their own clothes. Su Xingze straightened up and rubbed his slightly numb legs.

"The matter is very clear: they just couldn't stand the hunger, and they discovered that every time someone died in the group, the officials would have the dead taken away and disposed of."

"On one occasion, they were assigned to dispose of corpses. While burning the bodies, they smelled the aroma of meat and felt hungry. They thought it was a waste to burn the bodies for nothing, so they indulged their desires."

This was the first time. After that, whenever there was a dead body, they would eagerly gather around, but the officials would not assign the task of burning the bodies to the same person every time.

They devised a plan: each time, they would bribe the people disposing of the bodies with water or food, while they would actually steal the bodies and hide them along the way.

As for whether their actions were noticed, they certainly were, but everyone was struggling to survive, so why would they have the extra energy to care about others?

Master Cai is the owner of the martial arts school in Qinghao Town, and he spends most of his time in his own carriage.

That night, the burly men returned home after a hearty meal and were about to rest when they encountered Master Cai getting up to use the restroom. The two met by chance on the way.

Master Cai smelled the lingering scent of meat on them and thus discovered their secret. The next day, Master Cai found them and exchanged the 'meat' they had for a Water Condensation Talisman.

For these burly men, meat wasn't precious, since people were dying in the group every day anyway. Water was far more valuable, and exchanging some of the extra meat for water was a risk-free business for them.

Su Xingze tilted his head and looked at the little Qilin beside him, "What should we do with these people?"

Zhang Shenglin frowned and said softly, "Take it back."

Getting the three burly men to cooperate with them and walk back was simple. Su Xingze snapped his fingers, and amidst the faint sound of bells, the three burly men followed behind them with blank expressions.

Because they had three dependents with them, it was already dawn when they returned to the camp. The conditions for resting were poor, and most of the townspeople had gotten up early.

The people in the camp were surprised to see Su Xingze and his companion return with three people who were tied up.

Dong Zhile and another minor official came forward, looking at the three burly men with surprise.

“Master Su, Zhang Wuwei, what’s going on here?”

"Oh, you mean this?" Su Xingze pointed to three burly men who had regained their senses but were trembling with fear, not understanding how they had returned to the camp.

His face darkened, and he adopted a serious and somber expression.

“They sneaked out of the camp in the middle of the night, and Ah Lin and I accidentally stumbled upon their furtive behavior, so we followed them to find out what they were doing.”

“The result…” A hint of disgust flashed in Su Xingze’s eyes, and his expression turned cold. “We discovered that they actually… they actually…”

His voice gradually trembled with anger, and his eyes seemed to glisten with tears.

Zhang Shenglin glanced at him, then casually looked away, standing aside without changing his expression as he let him perform.

They brought the three men back. Those who knew what these three were up to in secret understood what they had seen. Their expressions were completely different from those who were unaware of the situation. Standing to the side, Zhang Shenglin glanced at these people in the know without making a sound, and then lowered his eyes.

"This matter is truly appalling. You might not believe it just by hearing me say it, but you should see for yourselves."

As he spoke, Su Xingze took out a talisman: "This is a revealing talisman. What they did has been recorded on the talisman."

There is indeed a revealing talisman, but Su Xingze has not yet learned how to draw it. He simply used illusion magic to recreate the previous scene in the name of the revealing talisman.

The scene where the two were last night appeared in mid-air, recreating everything that happened last night.

Everyone saw what the two men did, especially when they saw the three burly men cut off the scholar's thigh and put it over the fire.

Disgusted, repulsive, and hateful gazes fell upon the three of them like sharp arrows.

"My God, they actually!"

The camp was in an uproar; the two men's actions had aroused everyone's anger.

"This is a man-eating demon!"

Suddenly, a man in the crowd shouted, "I remember these guys. They've been looking at my girl a little strange these past few days. Now that I think about it, could they be planning something to do to her?"

Upon hearing this, all the parents immediately hugged their children and moved away from the area.

When the deceased scholar's relatives saw his body being mutilated and roasted over a fire, they couldn't accept it and rushed over to punch and kick the three men.

"You beasts! I'll fight you to the death!"

They made others cremate their loved ones' bodies because they didn't want to see them reduced to ashes. They never imagined that such a beast would do such a thing.

Su Xingze pretended not to have seen the three being beaten and turned to look at the little Qilin's profile.

The little Qilin's profile is really beautiful.

Just then, several screams came from behind. Zhang Shenglin's expression suddenly changed. He drew his long sword, twisted his wrist, and slashed behind him.