Chapter 306 - 304: A Ferocious Humanoid Beast (Second Update)

Chapter 306: Chapter 304: A Ferocious Humanoid Beast (Second Update)

A group of villagers was stunned, all unconsciously looking with some dissatisfaction at the loudmouth villager, saying: "After what happened last night, haven’t enough people died in our village? There are quite a few families where no one survived..."

When tragedy happens to everyone, it ceases to be a tragedy and instead becomes a commonplace event that can’t move people’s hearts.

"No... it’s not!"

The villager’s face turned pale as he said, "Wang Man’s family is different from the others! They... they weren’t just killed, their bodies were... were all mutilated! Wang Man’s son’s head was cut off! The whole house is covered in blood! It’s simply... simply like hell..."

Not a single body was intact?

Xu Jing’s eyes darkened slightly, and she temporarily pushed aside the thoughts in her head as she walked over and said, "Take me to see."

Ever since Xu Jing saved Zhang Si’s wife, she had become a heavenly Goddess in the hearts of these villagers. With her request, how could the villager refuse? Immediately, he fearfully led the way, saying: "Wang Man’s family lives at the end of the village. At first, everyone was too busy with their own troubles to pay attention to others. Thanks to the Goddess’s arrival, the village slowly began to regain order, and some of the less severely affected villagers organized themselves to help others, myself included.

Because I live at the end of the village, I’m mainly responsible for checking which households there need help. Who knew... who knew that as soon as I walked into Wang Man’s house, I smelled a harsh blood scent. On closer inspection, I saw the whole house was stained with blood. Wang Man, Wang Man’s wife, Wang Man’s son, daughter-in-law, and their not-yet-six-year-old grandson were all... all lying in a pool of blood, dead, all dead! The bodies... the bodies were all too gruesome to look at. I’ve lived over thirty years, and it’s the first time I’ve seen such a horrific scene..."

As he spoke, his voice trembled, as he was truly frightened.

In the meantime, they had reached Wang Man’s house, which was as ordinary a farmhouse as any. Looking at the courtyard, though it was also in disarray, compared to others that had been smashed or burned, it was relatively intact.

Without entering the house, Xu Jing saw that the threshold was already completely stained with blood. A short, stout man lay by the door, his right hand struggling forward, as if seeking help. Shockingly, though, his waist had been brutally severed, with his intestines and liver a bloody mess exposed, leaving only some skin and bones clinging together.

Other villagers who followed to see the situation were so frightened at this scene that their scalps tinged with numbness, their bodies stiffened, and their feet seemed nailed in place, unable to step forward.

This is more than hell.

It’s simply an earthly inferno!

After just a brief pause, Xu Jing continued inside.

Just as the man had said, Wang Man’s house was splattered with blood everywhere; there was hardly a spot to step down safely. The smell of blood in the air was so thick it felt like walking into a slaughterhouse.

The furniture inside the house was scattered everywhere. Just entering, there was a lean young man lying face-up beside an overturned table, his body covered with wounds so deep the bones were visible, his head cut clean off. The terrified look on his face vividly showed the agony he experienced before death.

In the left corner, leaning against the wall, was a slightly plump young woman; her corpse was even more horrific, having been split in two from the head down. Not far away on the floor was a little boy; by the look of his movements, it seemed he was desperately trying to crawl to his mom, with equally deep, bone-revealing wounds, and his legs below the knees cut off.

Unconsciously, Xu Jing held her breath. Even for her, such brutally murderous scenes were not often seen.

Beside the young woman was an overturned shrine, with incense burners, ashes, and plaques scattered everywhere. Further right on the wall leaned an older woman, likely Wang Man’s wife.

Xu Jing’s eyes paused slightly on the woman’s body, then she quickly walked over, squatting beside her, thoroughly examining her, before gently placing her on the ground and turning her body over to inspect carefully.

The man who led Xu Jing there had seen the scene a second time and was better than the others. He trembled slightly as he walked to Xu Jing’s side, saying, "Goddess, could it be that Mrs. Ye... is still savable?"

Mrs. Ye was Wang Man’s wife.

But that couldn’t be right, Mrs. Ye’s head had a big gaping hole! That blood cavity was terrifying to look at, the blood from inside dyeing half of Mrs. Ye’s body red, how could a normal person survive?

However, the Goddess had already saved the dead wife of Zhang Si, so saving another wife of Wang Man seemed not that big of a deal.

The man couldn’t help but look at Xu Jing with anticipation, only to hear her say, "No, she can’t be saved; her body is already stiff and has been dead for some time."

The man froze, instantly feeling stiff himself.

"However..."

Xu Jing’s eyes remained on the woman’s body, her voice slightly sinking, "Don’t you think her corpse is strange? The bodies of the others in this family have all been more or less destroyed, and quite brutally, yet Mrs. Ye’s body is very intact, aside from the head injury and some bruises on her body, there’s no other visible wound on the surface."

The man was stunned, then mustered the courage to look closely at Mrs. Ye and the other bodies, exclaiming in surprise, "That’s right! How could this be? Could it be that those bandits last night suddenly lost interest once they got to Mrs. Ye, and she was lucky to have her body left intact?"

"That’s not right either."

After a simple examination of Mrs. Ye’s body, Xu Jing stood up, slowly surveying the house’s tragic scene, and coldly said, "Though those inexplicable soldiers did many evil deeds last night, they mostly burned, killed, and looted. Only the Wang Man family died in such a gruesome way. I don’t think those soldiers would be so bored as to specifically abuse only the Wang Man family, and also..."

Xu Jing walked over to the child’s body, squatted down, and carefully lifted a piece of clothing near one of his wounds, saying, "These deep, bone-revealing wounds on the deceased are wide in the middle and tipped at both ends, with obvious notches at the edges, accompanied by skin peeling and subcutaneous hemorrhage. The uneven wounds suggest an old, damaged axe - not the kind of weapon those soldiers would have used last night."

Some villagers, having come around, couldn’t help but come closer, incredulously asking, "Does the Goddess mean that it wasn’t those bandits who killed Wang Man’s family last night? But... someone else?!"

"That’s right."

Xu Jing glanced at the villagers, their faces turning pale, lips tight, saying, "Moreover, given these wounds, they were almost all caused in a single strike. The child’s thin body is one thing, but even for adult men, this murderer could almost split them in two with one axe swing, which shows the killer has astonishing strength and a certain build.

Amidst the chaos last night, there must have been a beastly, human-like creature mingled, and this human-like beast had some connection with Wang Man’s family."