Her veil hung low, her long whip coiled at her waist, the gold thread glittering like a beautiful belt, outlining a slender waist that seemed it would break with a shake. Her voice was gentle as she said: “This is what’s called robbery.”
In this world, even being a bandit meant getting robbed, and robbed by a woman at that. What else could Ding Dachui and the others do? They submitted to their fate. That woman indeed didn’t take their lives, restored their tendons and bones to normal, and thus became the new boss.
Not only that.
The other two strongholds on Falling Eagle Mountain didn’t escape either.
This stretch of mountain range was like an eagle crouching on the earth, with the scattered peaks each named according to their shapes.
Because the mountains were large with abundant game, Ding Dachui’s group wasn’t the only hunters—bah, bandits. Because the mountains were tall and forests deep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, suitable for ambushes, there were also other bandits hiding within.
Speaking of it, the three strongholds had fought each other plenty, each wanting to swallow the others, but because they were evenly matched, in the end they could only mark out territories and mind their own business.
Who would have thought that today all three of their strongholds would be robbed and swallowed by someone else, merged into one.
“Alright.” Ding Dachui put away his complicated emotions. “The brothers are still alive and still together. Being the boss or not doesn’t matter.”
Having said this, he indicated for everyone to lift the wild boar “—take it back to the stronghold—salt it!”
The men lifted the wild boar, and one of them couldn’t help saying: “I wonder what the boss looks like. She must be beautiful—”
Before he could finish, Ding Dachui kicked him.
“If you don’t want to die, talk less nonsense.” Ding Dachui said coldly. “That she can be the boss has nothing to do with what she looks like.”
The man quickly shrank back, not daring to joke anymore.
The group carried the wild boar forward. They had only walked two steps when they heard a sharp bird call from the mountain forest.
This bird call made everyone present freeze. Ding Dachui instantly remembered that when the new boss had arrived, the mountain forest had made this kind of bird call—urgent, high-pitched, sharp, as if clutching at one’s heart.
What had happened?
Immediately after the bird call stopped, then the entire mountain forest erupted with bird calls, overwhelming and heart-trembling.
“Something’s happened.” Ding Dachui shouted. “Drop the wild boar, get back quickly.”
The men dropped the wild boar and followed Ding Dachui running toward the stronghold. Before reaching it, a figure first appeared before their eyes.
This was also a woman, but different from the new boss—small in stature, still a teenage girl.
“Who’s here—” The bird call transformed into a sharp shout as she yelled loudly, “Who is it—”
The long blade in her hand glinted as she charged toward the stronghold.
Ding Dachui stopped in his tracks. The current stronghold was not the same as the previous stronghold.
Around the stronghold, deadly traps were hidden.
He had witnessed them before.
At the time, not all the bandits had truly submitted. Mangy Chang from the neighboring stronghold had come for a night raid, but just as he reached the stronghold entrance, it was as if he’d crashed into a large net. That glinting golden net was sharp as knives, and in an instant had dismembered Mangy Chang into eight pieces—
That bloody scene had thoroughly ensured that no one dared have any other thoughts.
This girl wanted to break into the stronghold. The next moment she would also—
The next moment, in Ding Dachui’s view, the girl cut through the void and entered the stronghold.
At the same time, a woman’s figure flew out from within the stronghold, the veil beneath her conical hat fluttering in the wind.
Ding Dachui clenched his hands. When the two women met, who would prevail?
But there was no clash of blades, nor flying flesh and blood.
“Auntie! Why have you come!”
“I was worried about you.”
“Auntie—I’m so glad you’ve come—she’s so dangerous—wuwuwu—I was so scared.”
The urgent and gentle female voices intertwined, then there was only crying.
The girl threw herself into the new boss’s embrace, like a lone bird returning to its nest.