Chapter 152: Who Does Brother Li Want to Kill?
As far as Li Qiuchen was concerned, this affair had many suspicious points, but the most significant of all was the Bai family's position in it.
The Bai family had been away for just one year.
How had the flood dragon lurking at the bottom of the river learned of this? And how had it been certain the Bai family wouldn't come back the following year to settle scores?
It had then committed the atrocity of wiping out an entire family. And somehow the riverside fishermen had decided that a body decorated with chicken feathers and red silk strips was a deliberate provocation directed at the Bai family.
What historical precedent was there for that?
Even if such precedent existed, had the Bai family been provoked in that particular way before? Did every fisherman along the riverbank know the family's history well enough to recognize it as a taunt?
Having confirmed that the memories of the riverside fishermen showed signs of alteration, reconsidering the original incident from that perspective produced an uncomfortably familiar sensation.
Like a badly-written novel.
The kind of author who, needing a scene where a person can't defeat a tiger, artificially restricts the human to the combat ability of a sedentary person who has never trained, removes all weapons both conventional and modern, takes away any buildings in the vicinity for cover, eliminates any companions, and drops the character's intelligence to near-primate levels, then pits them against an adult male wild Siberian tiger capable of withstanding three hundred 7.62mm rounds with its skull and weighing five tonnes.