Rebirth: Living in Wilderness with My Superpower-Chapter 1012: Bandits Surrender

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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 some unknown nook or cranny emerged 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 home 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 emerge.

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 merely shook their heads and sighed a few times before moving on.

The only one to shed tears for them was Mei Hua, who worked in the same brothel as Fei Hua.

Looking at the corpses of her sister in suffering, Mei Hua wept bitterly, her heart breaking at the thought that yesterday had been their final meeting, and now they were forever separated by life and death.

Thinking of how she would now walk the path of pimping alone, Mei 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 overwhelmed by their own struggles for a living, let alone having the time to care about others. Besides, people in this district died or disappeared every so often—it was hardly a ripple to lose one nameless couple.

However, half a month later, when Mei 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, Mei Hua only sneered faintly—such foolish women were truly rare in these turbulent times.

After that, Mei Hua never visited the elderly couple’s home again. But that is another story.

At this moment, 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 assumed these individuals to be remnants of the Third Prince’s faction, Li Wenli’s allies.

But when the black-clad men were brought in and interrogated, the results took him by surprise.

These men 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 merely 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 seemed likely that these individuals had been merely 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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