"Hey, what's up?"
Seventeen or eighteen men jumped down from the carriages, each grabbing a long knife or club from the carriages. They all looked gloomy, with unkind smiles on their faces.
Their eyes swept back and forth between Linto and Terumi Mei, especially when looking at Terumi Mei, the lust in their eyes almost overflowing.
As their three carriages stopped, another thirty or forty people stumbled over from behind.
However, this group of people all had their hands tied with ropes, one after another, hanging behind the carriages.
Linto sat on his horse, his expression calm, but Terumi Mei, who knew him well, knew that his anger was silently burning.
"These."
Linto pointed to the woman with blood flowing from her forehead, and then to the men and women who were tied up, and asked seriously:
"Is this the 'fairness' you seek?"
Hearing Linto's question, the bandit who had been grabbing the woman's hair and was bare-chested immediately got angry.
He was already filled with lust, and as a result, Linto disturbed his good time. The lust in his heart turned into anger. He pulled out a hand axe from his waist and threw it violently at Linto, shouting:
"Boy! Didn't your parents tell you not to answer other people's questions with questions?"
The hand axe spun out, making a whistling sound.
The bandits all looked excited, as if they foresaw the scene of Linto being chopped in the head with an axe, and they taking the opportunity to enjoy Terumi Mei.
Until the axe stopped in mid-air, and then—
Boom!
A loud rumble came, the ground shook, and many bandits lost their balance and fell to the ground.
A few drops of hot liquid dripped on their faces. They reached out and touched it, and felt scarlet blood. They turned their heads and saw the bandit who had thrown the hand axe standing blankly in place, one arm broken off at the shoulder, constantly spewing blood.
The cause of all this...
Was precisely the hand axe that had been thrown before, and now, was deeply embedded in the ground, still emitting billowing heat!
"Based on the angle you threw the axe, an ordinary person would have their shoulder crushed and their arm chopped off. So, I am breaking your arm."
"Fair, right?"
The bandits finally came back to their senses and all pulled out their knives.
Linto ignored them, got off his horse, walked to the carriage, and opened the curtain.
Three carriages, one carriage loaded with women, and the other two carriages loaded with gold and silver jewelry and food and wine.
Looking at the people who were tied up, they were carrying all kinds of tools on their backs, including carpenters, tailors, and construction tools.
Linto asked again: "Is this the 'fairness' you seek?"
"What's wrong with that?!"
A bandit shouted: "These women can please rich merchants and give them children, why can't they please us and give us children?
The government officials can live in luxury houses and have servants to wait on them. Why can't we live in them, why can't we enjoy it?
We've suffered all our lives, it's our turn to enjoy it now!"
He shouted hoarsely, shouted righteously, as if even he had been persuaded by this theory.
Seeing Linto silent, the bandit shouted even harder: "Our boss is Linto's student. He listened to that adult's lectures in Kirigakure."
He pointed at Linto:
"I advise you to get out of here quickly, otherwise, our boss won't spare you, and that legendary Linto won't forgive a remnant of the old era—Gah!"
Star Platinum threw a punch, and the bandit flew out in a wail, heavily hitting the water puddle.
Scarlet blood rippled in the shallow puddle, and the bandits swallowed their saliva in fright.
Although their boss kept saying "use the weapon of thought to arm ourselves," but facing a real strongman, their superficial "thought" did not make them brave.
"A monster!"
The bandits turned to run, but just as they were about to take a step, Linto's voice came from behind them—
"Can you take me to see your boss?"
No threat, the voice was steady, like talking to an old friend.
But at the same time as hearing these words, the bandits' vision seemed to have an extra layer of gray filter, and the world dimmed.
This man…was not human at all, but a monster exuding a rolling demonic aura!
They only felt that around them, under their feet, and above their heads, there seemed to be terrifying, dark ropes spreading over, entangling their throats and limbs. Once they took a half step, they would be strangled to death, worse than death.
"I'll take you there."
The bandit who threw the axe at Linto first gritted his teeth and said.
Linto shook his head and said softly:
"Not you, you all take me there, today—"
"None of you are going anywhere."
The one-armed bandit stared at Linto, and said harshly, "Okay, if you're not afraid of death, come with us!"
In his opinion, Linto did have some tricks, but these tricks were not worth mentioning compared to their leader.
When they got to the place, he would let Linto see...
What real power was!
Linto and Terumi Mei, plus seventeen or eighteen bandits, and a group of captured women and craftsmen, the group came to the foot of the mountain in a strange atmosphere.
Suddenly, a bandit took out a flare from his waist, broke it, lit it, and threw it violently into the sky.
A sharp cry was heard, and the scarlet flare flashed across the sky, shining briefly like a meteor, and then disappeared into the thick fog, without any movement.
The one-armed bandit swallowed his saliva. Two or three seconds of silence was simply torture for them.
At this moment, the mist suddenly churned, and groups of mist gathered together, forming a terrifying Shura that was tens of meters high, with a ferocious gaze overlooking everyone from above.
The terrifying aura frightened many timid craftsmen and women, and they fainted. Those who were not frightened were also trembling and sitting on the ground.
The horses kept neighing, raising their front legs, about to break free from their reins and escape into the distance.
"Shh—"
Linto comforted softly.
Hearing this voice, all the horses quieted down, standing quietly in place, ignoring the tall Shura.
"Large-scale illusion?"
Linto raised his hand, and a yellow-brown ripple gathered into a wisp of golden flame at his fingertips, and he flicked it gently.
The golden flame fell into the mist, like a flame falling into a pile of willow catkins in spring, instantly tearing open a large area of mist, revealing a middle-aged man hidden behind.
"Boss!"
The bandits shouted excitedly, their faces flushed, they clenched their fists, and their hearts surged. They were waiting for their trusted boss to be able to get rid of evil and kill the villain in front of them who was in the same camp with the old forces.
But they were too excited to understand how…
Frightened!
This bandit leader was not lying. He had indeed listened to Linto's lectures in Kirigakure and was one of the first members to participate in the awakening course.
So he recognized Linto!
The bandit leader's heart skipped a beat, and without hesitation, he turned and fled into the deeper mist.
Linto gave Terumi Mei a look and stepped into the fog alone, chasing after him.
Seeing Linto swallowed by the mist, the bandits shouted excitedly:
"It's happening! The boss is luring the enemy deep!"
Terumi Mei sighed softly: "Can you be quiet?"
The one-armed bandit sneered: "What, you think your man can walk out alive? Let me tell you, he's dead, it's your turn soon, you stinking woman—Ah!"
A kunai pierced the one-armed bandit's jaw and tongue from bottom to top, the sharp point piercing the upper palate, and, under Terumi Mei's superb control, did not pierce the brain.
She wanted to leave them alive, to let them witness the ending with their own eyes.
Then kill them.
Terumi Mei stared at the mist, her expression full of solemnity. She was not worried that Linto could not solve the bandit leader.
This level of opponent, not to mention Linto, even she could take down.
The key lies in the meaning behind this matter.
She thought of the three enemies Linto had mentioned that night.
"Living enemies can be killed."
"But what about the enemies born from 'twisted thinking'…?"
Terumi Mei couldn't think of an answer.
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