Chapter 737: Understanding (Part 1)

Chapter 737: Chapter 456: Understanding (Part 1)

You couldn’t blame them.

It all happened too fast.

It may sound like a long time, but only a few seconds had actually passed.

Once they came to their senses, they scrambled to flee in all directions.

But the four trained militiamen, despite their pale faces, didn’t immediately flee. Instead, they gripped their weapons.

The four of them fanned out and charged straight at Hu Qi.

Seeing this,

Hu Qi bent down, swiftly picked up the Dagger Rock had dropped, and held it in a reverse grip.

Just then, the militiaman on the far left thrust his Long Spear toward Hu Qi’s throat like a striking snake!

Hu Qi didn’t dodge. Instead, he stepped forward to meet the spearhead.

The instant the tip touched his skin, he jerked his neck to the side. The spear blade scraped past, drawing a faint line of blood.

At the same time, his left hand clamped onto the spear shaft like an iron vise while the Dagger in his right hand shot forward, slicing along the wooden pole!

PFFT!

Three fingers flew into the air. The militiaman screamed and dropped the Long Spear.

Hu Qi then swung the Dagger in a backhanded upward arc, plunging it up under the man’s chin.

He put a sudden burst of force into the motion.

SQUELCH!

The next moment,

the Dagger ripped his entire jaw apart!

A gush of blood sprayed from the militiaman’s throat. He staggered back, hands uselessly trying to cover the gushing wound before collapsing to the ground.

—WHOOSH!

The sound of a blade slicing through the air approached.

The second man’s broadsword was already chopping down at his head.

It was as if Hu Qi had eyes in the back of his head.

He brought the Dagger up in a diagonal, backhanded slash.

The Dagger met the blade with a shower of sparks. Hu Qi kicked the man square in the abdomen.

The militiaman instantly doubled over in pain.

The next moment,

the Dagger plunged down into the back of his neck, its tip emerging from his Adam’s apple.

Suddenly,

“BANG—!”

A loud report tore through the night sky!

A spray of blood erupted from Hu Qi’s back as he looked up.

A militiaman was holding a black iron tube and pointing it at him.

It was clearly a firearm.

However, due to its primitive design,

this type of firearm could only fire a single shot at a time.

After firing, it needed to be reloaded.

Hu Qi, of course, had no intention of giving him that time.

He lunged forward like a tiger,

appearing right in front of the militiaman.

The Dagger swept out in a horizontal slash.

With a spray of blood, a terrified head flew into the air.

CLANG!

“M-Monster!”

Seeing this, the last man was utterly terrified.

He completely forgot about attacking Hu Qi.

The Long Spear fell from his grasp as he turned and fled.

Seeing this,

Hu Qi’s expression was calm. He bent down, picked up the Long Spear from the ground, and watched the man run.

The muscles in his arm tensed before he hurled it with sudden force.

The spear’s shadow tore through the air.

THWUMP!

With a sickening thud,

the Long Spear pierced straight through the deserter’s back.

…

After it was all over,

Hu Qi suddenly staggered, nearly collapsing to his knees.

His chest heaved as he gasped for breath.

‘This body really is still too weak…’

A wry smile touched Hu Qi’s lips.

He then walked over to the militiaman who had been impaled by the spear and was not yet dead.

He plunged his fingers into the man’s wound.

The next instant,

the militiaman’s body shriveled, turning gray and desiccated.

Meanwhile, the wounds on Hu Qi’s body healed at a rate visible to the naked eye.

The lead ball embedded in the muscles of his back was even squeezed out, clattering to the ground.

His gaze swept over the area.

Then, Dagger in hand, he walked over to the pit from before and untied the two men, who were already scared witless.

Paying no mind to their reactions,

he quickly vanished into the nearby woods.

…

After a long while,

villagers who had been hiding in the shadows finally peeked out, trembling, to see what had happened.

When they saw the bloody scene on the ground, all the color drained from their faces, leaving them deathly pale.