Feng Yu, carrying Xiao Bai, desded the mountain with a mind full of doubt, arriving at the small town.

  He first found an inn aled in. Afterward, he arranged for the innkeeper to prepare some food for him.

  The meal was simple, traditional Japanese cuisine, and a young girl served him on the side.

  In the previous town, Feng Yu had acquired a siderable amount of wealth, so he was now a rich man.

  Of course, his request for the maid to attend to him was irely i; his main goal was to gather information.

  “What’s your name?” Feng Yu asked.

  “Ah… My lord, my name is Ya Zi. Is there anything I do for you?” the girl, blushing and nervous, replied.

  The er in front of her not only had an outstanding appeara also dispyed great wealth, making him exactly the kind of man she had always dreamed of.

  “And… his little white fox looks so adorable… I want to hold it so badly…” Ya Zi g Feng Yu with longing eyes, her head lowered as she stared ily at him and Xiao Bai.

  “If this lord requests something from me…” Ya Zi’s face flushed, and she appeared as delicate as a ripe peach.

  “No… no… Ya Zi, how could you be so shameless…” Feng Yu, fused by the woman’s thoughts, couldn’t quite uand what she had imagined.

  While the woman in front of him wasn’t bad-looking, she was nothiraordinary, and he had no sutention. But to get to the bottom of things, Feng Yu suppressed his urge to send her away aly asked, “Do you know anything about the forest behind the mountain, Ya Zi?”

  “The forest behind the mountain?” Feng Yu noticed that as soon as he mentio, Ya Zi’s pupils seemed to tract, and her breathing quied.

  “I’ve just arrived in this town, and I’ve heard some rumors that there are monsters in the forest behind the mountain. I wao find out more,” Feng Yu expined.

  “My lord, to be ho, I don’t know much about the forest, but retly, there’s been talk about a maing mohere. I’ve never seen it myself, but I heard it from a woodcutter whurly brings firewood to our inn. He said there’s a monster in the mountains that eats people.”

  “They told us not to go up the mountain, but some people didn’t believe it and insisted on going. They never came back. The woodcutter said that those people were eaten by the monster, and they even brought back torn clothes…”

  “Afterward, the rumor spread, and now, whenever a woodcutter sees a strahey warn them about the monster in the mountains. I don’t know if it’s true, but I think maybe there’s some wild beast up there that’s eating people…”

  Ya Zi reted everything she had heard and seen.

  Feng Yu nodded in aowledgment but fell silent.

  “Looks like the woodcutters have their own Demons in their hearts…” he muttered.

  After finishing his meal, Feng Yu decided to take a walk around the town. Perhaps he would find something useful. Though he could head up the mountain right away, he felt fident that, at this point, he could handle any challehat y ahead.

  However, he first wao gather more information about the woodcutters.

  As soon as he stepped out of the inn, Feng Yu noticed two people following him, sneaking behind with cautious steps.

  He pretended not to notice, curious about their identity and motives.

  Feng Yu walked slowly, appearing as if he was simply strolling around the town. He occasionally paused to look at the goods oalls or to watch a street performer.

  After a while, he felt it was time and deliberately turned into ay alley.

  The two men tio follow him closely, exging gnces before nodding in agreement. They quickly approached Feng Yu, brandishing knives.

  “Hey, not pnning to hide anymore, huh? Woodcutters…” Feng Yu didn’t turn around but tinued walking slowly.

  The two men froze, then spoke up. “You sharp kid, you noticed us.”

  They removed the cloth from their faces and sneered.

  “Young man, don’t bme us. If you want to bme someone, bme yourself foing up the mountain…”

  Feng Yu turned around, smiling as he looked at them.

  One of them was a woodcutter Feng Yu had entered on the the mountain. The other man, a stranger, had a deep scar across his fad was muscur, clearly another woodcutter.

  “So, you two really want me dead? Fine, I want to die uanding the truth. What’s really up there on the mountain?” Feng Yu asked.

  “Kid, st to pry information from us. We’re here to take your life. As for why, you’ll uand once you’re in hell,” the scar-faced man snarled.

  “Let’s do it. Kill him together!” he ordered the other woodcutter.

  “A-da, I think he might not know the secret of the mountain. Maybe we should leave him alone… Let’s not kill him,” the woodcutter hesitated.

  “You useless fool! Better to kill the wrong person than to let one go! Don’t you want fame and fortuhe scar-faced man kicked the hesitant woodcutter.

  “Ugh… I just… I just don’t want to kill anymore…” The woodcutter’s reluce was clear.

  Seeing that the other woodcutter wasn’t going to act, the scar-faced man charged at Feng Yu with his knife.

  Feng Yu thought, This young pretty boy seems weak, one swing of the knife might finish him off.

  Just as the scar-faced man swung the Sword at Feng Yu, the woodcutter looked away, uo watch.

  “g.”

  Instead of hearing a scream from Feng Yu, the woodcutter only heard the sound of a knife falling to the ground.

  Turning ba shock, he saw the scar-faced man lying on the ground, dead, while Feng Yu remained unharmed, smiling brightly.

  “You… what did you do to Ada?” the woodcutter stammered, terrified, looking at his fallen panion.

  “Don’t worry. I just knocked him out. Now, if you don’t want to die, tell me the truth,” Feng Yu’s smile widened.

  The woodcutter, looking at Feng Yu’s terrifying smile, felt a chill run down his spine. Fetting the motionless scar-faced maempted to run away in fear.

  But he couldn’t outrun Feng Yu.

  Feng Yu leaped in front of him, shaking his head with regret. “You don’t value such a good opportunity, and you think you escape? Well, let me show you what I do…”

  Feng Yu watched as the woodcutter froze in fear, his legs trembling. The man colpsed to the ground, utterly defeated.

  Feng Yu couldn’t help but notice that the woodcutter had wet himself.

  Yes, the man was shtehat he had pissed himself without Feng Yu even lifting a finger.

  Feng Yu took a step ba disdain.

  “Tell me everything. I’m listening.”

  The woodcutter, uo withstand the pressure, fessed everything and begged for mercy, promising to go to the authorities and fess if Feng Yu spared his life.

  He expined how, while w in the mountains, the woodcutters had stumbled upon a gold mi first, most of them wao cim it all for themselves, but disagreements led to an actal killing. Some wao fess, but others, driven by greed, killed the ones who had a sce.

  The rest of the group, fearing the sequences, buried the bodies in a hidden location, theuro the town with injuries, g they were attacked by monsters in the mountains.

  This rumor spread quickly, and wheown’s officers went up the mountain to iigate, they were scared off by a dense fog, which the woodcutters had created with some special stohat produced mist. Ihe fog, the woodcutters had eve up the sounds of chewing to enhahe illusion of monsters.

  This fear tio grow, and over time, no one dared to veo the mountains. Anyone who did was killed by the woodcutters.

  Until Feng Yu came along.

  The woodcutters had thought he came down from the mountain and had possibly discovered their secret. Fearing exposure, they had attempted to silence him.

  “Well, you guys are pretty clever…” Feng Yu mused.

  Although their pn was good, they had run into someone like him who knew martial arts.

  Feng Yu specuted that the fog-produg stone was likely dry ice, and there was a lot of it.

  He sighed, thinking, Greed always drives people to it is, no matter the time.

  “Alright, go fess. But remember, it’ll be far more painful if you’re handed over to me,” Feng Yu said coldly, his expression hardening. He kicked the scar-faced man’s hand, snapping it, thehe axe to chop off one of his fingers.

  The bright red blood filled the woodcutter’s vision.

  The woodcutter, horrified, realized that Feng Yu had seen blood before.

  With that realization, he quickly ran to the authorities, hoping to seek prote from the town’s police.

  He fessed everything, even pointing out the locatiohe bodies had been buried.

  The gold mine was also discovered by the officials, but who would ultimately cim it remained unknown.

  Feng Yu had no i in the gold, as he didn’t need so much wealth.

  “The woodcutters surrendered so easily… it must be because they’ve been living in stant fear and guilt since killing someone…”

  “The huma…”

  "Sometimes it's scarier than a Demon..."

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