334: Do you want revenge?

“Still alive, brother!” A small black sphere, only the size of a marble, bounced and hopped towards a certain spot.

There, another small black sphere, though slightly smaller in size, was also present.

“Yes, still alive!” the smaller black sphere exclaimed thankfully.

“It’s incredible we survived such a powerful attack,” the first small black sphere said, arriving next to the other.

“It’s good to be alive!” the smaller black sphere sighed.

The two small black spheres looked at each other, appearing like circles with a pair of adorable big eyes, blinking at each other.

Then, the first small black sphere hopped and bounced around the other.

“Oh!” it suddenly exclaimed in surprise as it circled behind the other.

“What is it, what is it?” the other asked quickly, thinking something had happened.

After a few seconds of silence, a reply came.

“Brother, you smell so good!”

The other turned its head and saw a wide-open, blood-red maw with sharp fangs inside.

It swallowed it in one gulp, like a shadow covering the sky.

Then its mouth slowly shrank like a balloon until it was back to normal.

From its appearance, it looked exactly the same as before, only its size seemed to have increased slightly.

“Meow!”

Just then, a wild cat appeared, leaping down from the eaves, curiously observing the moving black sphere on the ground.

It extended a paw, wanting to poke it.

The black sphere suddenly turned, looked at the wild cat, and its adorable big eyes blinked.

...

The twenty-third year of Jing Su of the Great Zhou.

There was a great drought across the land, especially severe in Ming Prefecture, where the common people had no harvest, resorted to cannibalism, and fled to other prefectures in droves, leaving corpses strewn across the fields.

The imperial court was incompetent, and various regions rose in rebellion, opposing the court and carving out their own territories, plunging the world into chaos!

Wei Prefecture!

At this time, in the courtyard of an ordinary household, several children gathered outside the gate.

They continuously kowtowed and begged the owners inside, “Please, have pity on us, give us some food.”

The mistress of the house, holding a baby, peered through the crack in the door at the group of half-grown children, her eyes showing some emotion.

She actually wanted to give some food to those children, but with the great drought this year, their own provisions were not much either.

The master of the house sat in the courtyard, sighing repeatedly, not knowing if he was complaining about the state of the world or the inaction of the imperial court.

Such a scene was the third time they had encountered it today.

The previous times it had been adults, but this time, it was children, but...

Thinking of this, the man sighed again and again.

Just then, there was a sudden noise outside, and the people inside the courtyard looked out.

Immediately after, they heard a heart-wrenching cry.

“Meng’er, Meng’er, what’s wrong with you, Meng’er!”

“Don’t scare me, Meng’er!”

It turned out that one of the children begging outside had collapsed from hunger.

Another older child, thirteen or fourteen, quickly crawled over to support her, continuously calling out, “Meng’er, don’t sleep, wake up quickly!”

Under his cries, the little girl beggar weakly opened her eyes, half-closed, “Brother, I’m leaving, take good care of yourself.”

“No, no, no!” the boy cried, tears streaming down his face uncontrollably, “Meng’er, you’re the only family I have left, how can I live without you!”

“Brother, brother...”

The couple inside lowered their heads upon hearing this, the mistress’s eyes slightly red, “Husband, help them, it’s okay if the baby and I eat less.”

“But...” The man hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth, thinking he could just eat less himself.

He couldn’t bear to watch the children outside starve to death in front of him.

The smallest one among them looked only eight years old!

So he nodded at his wife, signaling that he would go out to see.

Then he went into the house, grabbed a small bag containing some dried food.

He hurriedly opened the door, came to the children, and bent down, “Give her some water, she’ll be fine after eating something.”

The children quickly made way for the man.

Then, the man opened the bag and pulled out a piece of dried food.

He handed the rest to the young beggar beside him, then picked up water and fed it to the little girl on the ground.

The young beggar was stunned, accepted the bag, and kowtowed repeatedly, “Thank you, kind sir, thank you, kind sir, I will never forget your great kindness in this life.”

The man did not turn his head to look at him, but continued to feed the little girl.

However, what the man didn’t know was that, in a place he couldn’t see, a dagger had already appeared in the young beggar’s sleeve.

And the man was bent over, his neck lowered, exposed there.

The next moment, a flash of a blade, a soft thud.

The man, still feeding, his hand trembled, food and water spilled onto the ground, and he covered his neck, his eyes filled with disbelief.

But blood still flowed out uncontrollably, seeping through his fingers.

The mistress in the courtyard saw this scene and froze, then let out a piercing scream.

The man’s body trembled and convulsed, he struggled to turn his head, seeing the young beggar holding the dagger.

Behind the young beggar, a swarm of half-grown children rushed into his house.

He heard his child’s cries, his wife’s screams.

He extended one hand, grabbing at the young beggar.

Thud!

But what greeted him was a second knife, piercing straight into his eye.

Slowly pulled out, the man’s hand had long since fallen limply.

“Big brother!” A half-grown child ran out from the courtyard, his face full of excitement, came to the young beggar, and said excitedly, “Big brother, this family is rich, richer than the few we’ve done before.”

“Hmph.” The young beggar snorted lightly, “Of course, I’ve been scouting for so many days, how could I be wrong?”

Changing the subject, “By the way, how are things handled inside?”

The half-grown child nodded, “It’s already handled, the woman is tied up, same old rules?”

“Mm.” The young beggar nodded, “Sell the woman to the city brothel, strangle the child and make dried meat.”

“Yes!”

The half-grown child immediately agreed, then said awkwardly, “Um, the brothers think the woman is quite attractive, and Sister Meng is tired of playing, so they were wondering if they could play with her first before selling her?”

The young beggar frowned slightly, but still agreed, “Alright, just be careful not to kill her.”

“Good!”

The half-grown child became even more excited, trotting into the courtyard.

Through the doorway, one could see the baby being directly strangled by one of the children and placed aside.

The mistress, her mouth covered, was dragged into the house by several half-grown children.

Her frantic struggles were in vain, and as soon as she entered the house, sounds immediately erupted.

It seemed the thing covering her mouth was also removed, and the mistress’s screams came from inside the house.

Following closely, a large wave of people rushed inside.

The young beggar stood outside and shouted, “Cover her mouth!”

As his voice fell, the woman’s screams once again disappeared.

Only the sound of the wooden bed colliding from inside the house remained.

On the other side, the little girl beggar had stood up at some point and came to the young beggar’s side, remaining silent.

The young beggar led her inside, closed the courtyard gate, found a stool, and sat down.

He held the little girl beggar’s head with one hand and pressed it down.

“Sigh!”

They had done many such deeds, always finding kind-hearted families, putting on a miserable and pitiful act to elicit sympathy, and then taking the opportunity to kill them.

After all, their appearance was simply too deceptive.

...

Outside the courtyard.

Because there had been many refugees recently, many families here had moved away early, or simply stayed indoors, so no one noticed the commotion from this household.

As for the dead, too many people were dying at this time.

But in a corner unseen by everyone, a small black sphere bounced and hopped to the man’s side, and instantly burrowed into the man’s ear.

In a trance, the dead man heard a voice.

“Do you want revenge?”