Chapter 1012: Chapter 1012: Bandits Surrender
If not for the calm rise of the sun the next morning, they might have believed last night marked the end of the world.
Of course, the city had been in chaos through the night, especially in the Lower Left District and the Right Lower District. Out of so unknown nook or cranny erged a group of black-clad bandits, killing and setting fires, leaving many households of common folk in ruins.
Particularly tragic was the case of the ill-fated couple from the Seventh Alley of the Lower Left District, Scholar Feng’s household. Their ho caught fire last night, but with the intense fighting outside, no one dared risk their life to go and extinguish it.
Not until the bandits had fled did the townspeople dare to erge.
But by then, it was already too late—the couple had long been reduced to charred corpses.
In such a chaotic era, human life was inherently cheap, let alone the lives of a pair known for troubling their neighbors and taking advantage of them.
The crowd rely shook their heads and sighed a few tis before moving on.
The only one to shed tears for them was i Hua, who worked in the sa brothel as Fei Hua.
Looking at the corpses of her sister in suffering, i Hua wept bitterly, her heart breaking at the thought that yesterday had been their final eting, and now they were forever separated by life and death.
Thinking of how she would now walk the path of pimping alone, i Hua couldn’t help but shed a few more tears.
This, of course, was the plight of the Lower Left District.
As for the Right Lower District, another couple vanished silently. But since the Right Lower District was populated by lowly commoners, everyone was already overwheld by their own struggles for a living, let alone having the ti to care about others. Besides, people in this district died or disappeared every so often—it was hardly a ripple to lose one naless couple.
However, half a month later, when i Hua went again to visit this young woman, the elderly couple told her that her husband had died of illness, and she too had followed him in death.
Upon hearing this, i Hua only sneered faintly—such foolish won were truly rare in these turbulent tis.
After that, i Hua never visited the elderly couple’s ho again. But that is another story.
At this mont, Yuwen Jun was forming an alliance of blood with his soldiers, swearing a great vow to slay the dragon, before returning to Biluo City.
Before embarking on his dragon-slaying mission, he needed to readjust his plans.
However, no sooner had he returned to the city than the guards charged with maintaining order reported that they’d captured a group of black-clad individuals.
Yuwen Jun raised an eyebrow and ordered them to be brought forward.
He initially assud these individuals to be remnants of the Third Prince’s faction, Li Wenli’s allies.
But when the black-clad n were brought in and interrogated, the results took him by surprise.
These n turned out to be from the Western Region, allies of Yuwen Song, genuine bandits.
Nevertheless, the bandits weren’t as difficult to handle as expected—they were quite pragmatic. Whatever Yuwen Jun asked, they answered honestly, making it effortless for him.
The two sides achieved perfect communication in an oddly harmonious atmosphere.
The bandits confessed that they, too, didn’t recognize the black-clad figures that had appeared last night. They had sneaked into the city rely to search for clues about Yuwen Luanfei’s whereabouts, but on the very night they arrived, they were apprehended before they could do anything untoward!
Yuwen Jun closed his eyes briefly, then ordered the bandits to be temporarily imprisoned, before retreating alone to the grand hall to contemplate.
It seed likely that these individuals had been rely pawns used by the black-clad ones.
He had been cracking down repeatedly in Biluo City to prevent Yuwen Qing’s old faction from colluding and playing tricks on him.
Believing that Biluo City had been thoroughly cleaned out after months of reorganization, yet others still had ways to defy logic and disrupt his plans.
He hadn’t detected any trace of bandits, yet Yuwen Qing’s old faction had known and even managed to exploit them in a clever escape trick.
If he continued probing deeper, it was possible that they were also connected with the elusive Yuwen Luanfei.
And perhaps among those thirty or so individuals, Yuwen Luanfei could even be one of them.
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