Chapter 441: Scapegoat


    Trantor: Law Editor: Hitesh


    Wulong Yao and Qing Lei came, rushing over indignantly along with Emperor Shun’s personal feathered warriors.


    From Chi Ban Mountain to the current location, Ji Hao and arge number of captives had spent a significant half of the month to cover this distance. However, Wulong Yao and Qing Lei arrived in only one and a half hour after they received Ji Hao’s emergency message.


    With lightning-dazzling eyes, over a hundred thousand feathered warriors floated in midair, ring at those warriors from the Ink Ape n and the seven other ns, who were now kneeling on the ground in lines. These warriors were tormented by Ji Hao with the soul-shaking clocks for an entire night; both their souls and bodies were terribly exhausted. Torpidly, they knelt on the ground and couldn’t help but quiver ceaselessly, as if they had just survived a grave illness.


    What made them terrified, even despair, were not Wulong Yao and Qing Lei who had just rushed over. Based on their positions in their own ns, these warriors could not figure out what the appearance of a Magi Pce’s inner pce elder and themander of Emperor Shun’s personal army meant.


    What actually frightened these warriors to death was an immense pile of human heads right in front of them.


    The heads of all direct and coteral rtives of the eight Magus Kings Po killedst night, and all nsmen who were rted to them by affinity were chopped off and piled up in perfect order right in this ce. The total number of these people was over thirty-thousand.


    The blood flowed till it formed rivers, and the strong scent of blood had suffused the entire space. The leaders of Ink Ape n and seven other ns, along with over a thousand n elders, were kneeling on the ground like the humblest ves, bitterly imploring for Wulong Yao and Qing Lei’s mercy.


    All sins were shifted onto the shoulders of the eight Magus Kings. ording to the exnation given by the leaders of these eight ns, this was all because the eight Magus Kings were tempted by those valuable captives. They colluded with some unruly migratory ns and recruited a batch of warriors who were willing to pledge loyalty to them. They then audaciously attempted to loot the trophies belonging to the alliance of the human ns!


    This was a capital crime. Therefore, the head of everyone who was rted to the eight dead Magus Kings had been chopped off and ced there.


    The leaders of the eight ns had been showing an extremely humble attitude. They were so servile that they had no dignity that could be mentioned anymore. Moreover, they had been desperately crying and wailing while exining to Wulong Yao and Qing Lei, iming that this unforgivable crime was obstinatelymitted by the eight dead Magus Kings alone.


    By now, all people who were rted to the eight dead Magus Kings had been killed already. They had partially atoned for their crime with their own lives. ording to the leaders of the eight ns, all warriors who had participated in the ‘rebellion’st night would all be debased into ves, along with their rtives. Governors in Pu Ban City could unconditionally decide the fate of these people.


    Around three-hundred miles away from Ji Hao’s campsite, a few real migratory ns had pitched their camps and were grazing their livestock. Last night, all nsmen of the few migratory ns were ughtered as well. Everyst one of the more than three hundred thousand nsmen of theirs was killed. From the elderly ones to babies, from men to women, not a single one survived.


    In addition to this massacre, when Ji Hao led Qing Lei to the scene in a fury, they found that the culprit ns had also put some dpidated armors on the bodies of these extremely indigent people!


    If warriors from the eight ns had sessfully looted those ve warriors and vesst night and aplished their entire n smoothly, the nsmen of the few migratory ns would have be the scapegoats, suffering the endless me of furying from the entire alliance of human ns!


    Once their n was aplished, the Ink Ape n and the other seven ns wouldn’t have borne any me at all. In addition to those armors that came from unknown sources, some uniform armors worn by warriors from Ink Ape n and the other seven ns were also found on those killed migratory nsmen’ bodies.


    If anyone tried to investigate this thoroughly, Ink Ape n and the other seven ns could still pass the buck onto these migratory ns — All those warriors they sent to escort captives had died in the battle, and those warriors even had their bones smashed to pieces for the humankind. At that time, how could Emperor Shun and other humankind governors still be heartless enough to me these few ns for the failed escort?


    The dead wouldn’t talk. All those migratory ns’ people were silenced. Therefore, surely no secret would have been leaked.


    This was a nearly perfect n. However, because of the existence of Ji Hao and his teammates, the leaders of the eight ns were now huddled on the ground like wild dogs with no spines and had been crying their hearts out. They couldn’t do anything but dere while buttering that all this had absolutely nothing to do with them.


    Indeed, at first nce, all this seemed to have nothing to do with them.


    Nevertheless, although the eight Magus-King-level elders were killed already, all these warriors captured alive on the scene were still alive. If Wulong Yao and Qing Lei did want to investigate this thoroughly, they could still find enough evidence.


    Ji Hao stood behind Wulong Yao and took a nce at Po, who was now with a nd face.


    Last night, Po made his move which was as powerful as a genuine thunderbolt and killed the eight Magus Kings within a moment.


    ‘Is brother Po unmerciful? Or is he too lenient？’ wondered Ji Hao.


    Last night, if Po had captured the eight Magus Kings alive, it would have been highly possible that once Wulong Yao and Qing Lei arrived, the eight Magus Kings would have given in to the pressure and made an oral confession. If that had happened, the number of human heads piled up in this ce would have been at least ten times bigger!


    For the ns that dared to encroach the properties of the entire alliance of human ns and dip their fingers in the trophies that belonged to the whole humankind, probably only very few nsmen of theirs could survive the punishments that would havee their way. The Ink Ape n and the other seven ns would have literally suffered a true massacre.


    Po killed the eight Magus Kings in a cruel and decisive way, and the lives of tens of thousands of people were taken because of this. However, by killing the eight Magus Kings, Po had also managed to create a slim chance of survival for the majority of nsmen of the eight ns.


    ncing at Po who had been remaining silent all this while, Ji Hao took a step forward, saluted to Wulong Yao and Qing Lei, and said, “Elder Wulong, Lord Qing Lei...Regarding this, since it all started with the reckless decisions made by the few elders...the infants in their ns are innocent after all.”


    Wulong Yao’s eyebrows twitched. He nced at Ji Hao, then slightly lowered his head.


    Qing Lei remained silent for a while. All of a sudden he pulled out his sword and wielded it across the air. Following his move, the heads of the eight n elders flew high into the air. A few feathered warriors dove down from the sky, grabbed the long hair of those few heads and carried the heads back up into the sky.


    “After all, we have to bring something back for the lords from all the ns... the heads of a few elders? Not enough!” Qing Lei put his sword back into its sheath and nodded at Ji Hao. From the manly and serious face of his, a faint smile emerged. “Little one, not bad! Hm, you’re gonna make a big deal in the future. Back at Pu Ban,e to drink with me!” said Qing Lei.


    Followed by his resonant order, Qing Lei and all the feathered warriors rose into the air, hovering for a while then flying towards Chi Ban Mountain.


    Wulong Yao took out a handwritten letter, handed it to Ji Hao and patted heavily on his shoulder while saying, “All warriors who participated in the robberyst night are granted to you as your personal ves...Among those non-humankind ves and ve warriors, you can select the best ones and buy them out at eighty percent of the market price. Count these as the rewards for the credits you madest night.”


    Wulong Yao then pressed his hand hard on Ji Hao’s shoulder and continued with a deep voice, “Ji Hao, you’re a good-hearted boy. But...Ink Ape n’s suzerain n was Water Ape n, a powerful n of the north. That was a n under the protection of Wuzhi Qi’s family. Do you think the few small ns which can’t even be counted as mid-scale ns actually dared to cast their greedy eyes on the trophies of the entire humankind themselves?”


    Ji Hao paused shortly. ‘Does this have something to do with Wuzhi Qi again?’ thought Ji Hao, ‘If it’s so, then the one who has been supporting Wuzhi Qi is Gong Gong Wuyou! It’s Gong Gong family! Those guys do have the guts!’