Yan Liqiang slowly walked up to the Shatu man who had fallen to the ground and looked at him carefully.
The Shatu man was in his forties, with sunken eye sockets, a brown-gray beard, a ferocious face, and was spitting out mouthfuls of blood. When he saw Yan Liqiang coming over, the Shatu man stared at Yan Liqiang, his body twitching, as if he wanted to get up, but it was all in vain.
The Shatu man did not die immediately, but his bones and internal organs were almost completely shattered by Yan Liqiang's blow. At this time, he only had one last breath left.
Yan Liqiang did not speak, but squatted down in front of the Shatu man and looked into his eyes. "I know you can understand what I am saying. Who sent you here? What is your purpose in coming to Pingxi City?"
Yan Liqiang opened his mouth, and blood bubbles rolled in the Shatu man's throat and overflowed from the corners of his mouth. The Shatu man did not speak, but just looked at Yan Liqiang fiercely. Half a minute later, the Shatu man stopped breathing with his eyes wide open, but Yan Liqiang had already got the answer he wanted.
The Shatu man was carrying a small quiver on his back. Yan Liqiang opened the quiver and found two black metal arrows in it.
This was no ordinary arrow. The strings of strange runes on the arrow told Yan Liqiang that this arrow was the work of a rune master. The runes on the arrow gave this arrow a unique characteristic - silent and extremely powerful.
This rune arrow is quite interesting. Yan Liqiang scanned the runes on the arrow with a professional look. This was the second time he saw rune equipment in the hands of the Shatu people. This rune arrow was a bit special. What drove the runes on the arrow were not complete beast core crystals, but the powder of beast core crystals. The rune master who made this arrow, or more accurately, the rune master's apprentice, directly fused the powder of beast core crystals into the rune of this arrow.
To ordinary people, all array talisman equipment are rare, high-end items that are hard to come by, but to Yan Liqiang, in his opinion, the workmanship and craftsmanship of this array talisman arrow are just the workmanship of a relatively low-level array talisman master, and there is still a lot of room for improvement.
Just as Yan Liqiang squinted his eyes and looked at the arrow in his hand, a chaotic sound of footsteps came from behind him. Yan Liqiang put away the arrow in his hand, stood up and turned around.
Eight Shatu people with weapons came out from the burnt ruins. When they looked at the Shatu man lying on the ground and killed by Yan Liqiang, there was a fierce light in their eyes when they looked at Yan Liqiang again. After looking at each other, they slowly surrounded Yan Liqiang.
Half a minute later, looking at the bodies of the eight Shatu people lying on the ground, Yan Liqiang waved his sleeves and walked out of the ruins. After a few steps, he saw the black horn python bow left on the ground, so he picked it up and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
…
When Yan Liqiang returned to the street he had just walked on, the thousands of Shatu people who had been so aggressive on the street had already begun to collapse. After leaving corpses all over the street, the remaining Shatu people were beaten to a pulp by the soldiers led by Liu Yucheng. They were so desperate that they fled like rabbits, stepping over the corpses of their companions. Those who ran a little slower were immediately stabbed to death by the soldiers who rushed up from behind, or were shot by arrows from crossbowmen.
The streets were filled with shouts and screams. Yan Liqiang knew that the days when the Shatu people could act tyrannically in Pingxi City were gone forever from today on.
"Mr. County Magistrate..." Yan Liqiang came to Wang Jianbei, took out a black arrow and handed it to Wang Jianbei, "I have killed that man, but the things he left behind are quite interesting!"
Wang Jianbei took the black arrow and looked at the runes on it. His brows suddenly furrowed and his expression became a little solemn. "Is this an arrow made by a rune master?"
"That's right!" Yan Liqiang nodded.
"There is no formation master among the seven tribes of Shatu!"
"Yes, so this thing should have come from the Shatu Alliance. The seven Shatu tribes should have been secretly flirting with the Shatu Alliance for a long time. This thing should have been prepared for you and me, sir. In Pingxi County, the two of us are thorns in the eyes of the Shatu people. If it weren't for what happened today, maybe the killer would have taken the initiative to find you and me at some point!"
"The seven tribes of Shatu really wanted to do something bad. It was all thanks to your help, Li Qiang!"
"You are too polite, sir. A small assassin can't cause any trouble. However, the matter of the Shatu Alliance interfering in the Gulang Grassland, I am afraid you need to report it to the governor and make preparations early!"
"Don't worry, Li Qiang. I will report this to the Lord!"
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After a night of infighting among the Shatu people in Pingxi City last night, both the Wumu and Uli tribes, and even several other tribes, suffered huge losses and were severely damaged. They were no longer able to organize a large-scale riot.
The assassination of Wang Jianbei naturally became new evidence of the Shatu people's evil intentions to cause riots.
The battle on the street just now was the last respite and struggle of the Shatu people in Pingxi City. After those Shatu people fled in a panic, leaving behind corpses all over the ground, the large army of Pingxi County continued to advance, clearing the gathering areas of the Shatu people inch by inch, and driving the Shatu people out of the city. No large-scale resistance was encountered afterwards, and sporadic conflicts with small groups of Shatu people still occurred, but those Shatu people who dared to use knives would soon become corpses on the ground.
Wang Jianbei's iron-fisted cleanup of the gathering area of the Shatu people in the east of Pingxi City made the whole Pingxi City boil. Everyone cheered and applauded. Especially after the people in the city knew that the Shatu people wanted to cause trouble throughout the city last night, everyone was even more united in hatred of the enemy. Many young and strong people in the city even took the initiative to join in the cleanup of the east city of Pingxi County...
At noon, large numbers of Shatu people were driven out of the east gate of Pingxi City under the escort and supervision of the garrison in the city. The east gate of Pingxi City was crowded with people from Pingxi County who had come to watch.
The Shatu people who were driven out of the city included both men and women, young and old. They all looked dejected, as if they had lost their parents, while the onlookers were proud and in high spirits.
"Well, the county magistrate is indeed our father and mother. He should have driven these Shatu people out of the city long ago..."
"That's right. These Shatu people have never done anything good in our Pingxi City. They only bully and rob people, oppress the good, and the people in our city have suffered a lot from them..."
"Thank goodness, Pingxi City has returned to the hands of the Han people..." An old man in the crowd burst into tears, "My family's shop was in Dongcheng back then, and it was occupied by these damn Shatu dogs. At first, these Shatu people said they wanted to rent it, but later, they came to live here and refused to leave, so they bought our shop at a low price..."
"Pah, these Shatu dogs have finally met their end..."
"I heard that last night these Shatu dogs tried to escape from their gathering area and set fires everywhere, completely messing up Pingxi City. Today, there are also Shatu dogs trying to assassinate the county governor..."
"Kill them!"
"Kill them!"
The onlookers were talking about it, many of them were shouting in anger, and some children even picked up stones and dirt from the ground and threw them at the Shatu people who were driven out...
(End of this chapter)