Chapter 111 Cleanup! A menace!
"don't want…!"
boom!
Before the scream from the young man with the whites of his eyes could even reach him, he was sent flying backward like a stone, his entire face caved in.
Then he slammed hard into a protruding rock, the sound of bones cracking rang out, and the young man with the whites of his eyes died on the spot.
"You bastard!"
Upon seeing this, the others roared and rushed out, drawing their long swords and slashing at Su Hao!
Su Hao's face was cold. He raised the heavy crossbow in his hand and shot at two of the young archers who had already drawn their bows.
Two consecutive "pfft" sounds.
The heads of the two young men wielding heavy bows were shot through on the spot, their eyes filled with horror and resentment, before they collapsed to the ground, powerless.
"Come on!" Su Hao swung his heavy crossbow again, aiming at the three burly men wielding long swords who were charging at him.
When the three of them saw the treasure in Su Hao's hand, their faces showed expressions of horror.
Only then did they finally understand why this young man was capable of hunting fire-spotted deer.
It turns out this guy actually had a heavy crossbow, a weapon prohibited by the imperial court!
"Boy! You're wielding a heavy crossbow! Believe me or not, I'll report you to the authorities and have you thrown in jail!"
"I think you'd better just hand over the heavy crossbow to us obediently, and we'll pretend we know nothing about what happened today! We don't want the fire-spotted deer anymore!"
The group threatened Su Hao.
"OK!"
Su Hao nodded, then threw the heavy crossbow in his hand on the ground, but his hand reached into the cloth bag again.
The group was slightly taken aback, but when they saw that Su Hao had actually thrown the heavy crossbow, they were overjoyed and rushed forward to pick it up.
"However, I know a better way to shut someone up..."
The sound of the mechanism starting up, accompanied by Su Hao's words, caused the group to freeze instantly, then turn deathly pale.
Before they could even beg for mercy, three rapid shots rang out.
Each of the three people had a thumb-sized crater in their head, and a faint ray of light could be seen behind the craters.
"Life is so fragile..."
Su Hao looked at the five or six corpses that had suddenly appeared on the ground and shook his head.
After casually looting the corpses and obtaining about thirty taels of silver, Su Hao left satisfied.
He found himself seemingly trapped in the strange cycle of the protagonist in a novel from his past life.
Whenever I discover a benefit, there are always some clueless people who come looking for trouble.
The same thing happened when we encountered the people from Bianyan Village after the last tiger hunt.
This time, we encountered these petty thieves again.
He felt somewhat helpless about this situation. In truth, he didn't want to be discovered and prevented from getting good things.
After all, he could handle it once or twice, and the people he encountered weren't particularly strong.
If this continues indefinitely, one day you will encounter a difficult opponent.
After cleaning up the scene and collecting all the crossbow bolts, Su Hao threw all the corpses into the bushes by the roadside.
Then he quickened his pace and left.
There is absolutely no need to worry about whether these bodies will be discovered in the future.
After all, at night, there are far more ferocious beasts and poisonous insects than humans in the entire Dayanshan area.
These people probably wouldn't even be enough to feed a few wolves, so there's no need to destroy the evidence.
After rushing back to Shili Slope, Su Hao began to deal with the carcass of the fire-spotted deer.
Creatures like deer have extremely high value for their fur and antlers.
So Su Hao first cut off the deer antlers and peeled off the whole deer hide, then took a bamboo pole to dry it.
The next step is to dissect the entire deer.
Although Su Hao had never studied slaughtering, he had remembered a lot of things from watching He Dazhong and the others dismantle the tiger carcass after the last tiger kill.
The most important thing to note is that when opening the abdomen, you should not damage the internal organs and organs such as the gallbladder.
Therefore, Su Hao was very careful and removed all the internal organs. The next step was to disassemble the limbs and torso.
The deer legs were all removed by circumcision of the joints, followed by the deer ribs and spine. Su Hao also chopped them into pieces with a machete and then threw them into a large iron pot to cook.
Cut the excess venison into chunks and marinate it with salt along with the venison leg.
It is now late autumn and early winter, and the weather is cold and dry, making it the perfect time to cure meat.
Su Hao had already planned that if he had enough, he would preserve the meat in this way.
This way, he will have enough provisions to replenish his energy and blood for at least the next few months of winter.
After all, in winter, all things go into hibernation, and many exotic beasts also have the habit of hibernating. In addition, heavy snow closes off the mountains, making hunting much more difficult.
After doing all this, Su Hao took out some small cloth bags from the cloth bag, poured them all onto the table, and began to check the contents.
These cloth bags were naturally obtained from the bandits and mountain thieves he had killed before.
However, I didn't have time to check them all just now, so I simply packed them all up and brought them back to see if there was anything of value.
However, after checking it over, Su Hao did not find any valuable items in the bag.
Apart from some poisons, poison powders, and ornaments made from animal teeth, there was nothing else of significance.
Ok?
However, Su Hao soon stopped his inspection.
My gaze immediately fell on a somewhat familiar black ornament in one of the cloth bags.
"This is……"
Su Hao frowned slightly and picked up the item to take a look.
Sure enough, the token was engraved with an ancient Chinese character for "sparrow".
"The Black Sparrow Gate's token?"
Su Hao frowned immediately. He hadn't expected to find the Black Sparrow Sect's token on a bandit.
What's going on?
Su Hao's brows furrowed even more deeply.
He recognized the design of the token before; it belonged to a disciple of the Black Sparrow Sect.
Su Hao wondered why a petty thief would suddenly appear here.
Either the token was obtained unintentionally, or these petty thieves are also connected to the Black Sparrow Gate...
Su Hao felt that the second possibility was more likely.
If my guess is correct, it seems that the Black Sparrow Sect has quite a few spies in Yanshan City.
"It seems that the Black Sparrow Sect is a great scourge to the entire Yanshan City..."
Su Hao threw the token into the furnace to burn, muttering to himself.
I've only been hunting in Yanshan a few times, but I've encountered people connected to the Black Sparrow Sect several times, or even directly fought with them.
In contrast, the Qingdu Faction, which is also one of the three gangs and two factions, is much more low-key.
Apart from the information about the Qingdu Sect that I heard from He Dazhong, I basically don't hear any related news from other places.
Gathering his thoughts, Su Hao looked at the bubbling bone broth in the pot. He stopped thinking about it and started picking up his bowl, taking large chunks of venison from the pot, and eating heartily.