Chapter 666 The Five Beasts Exert Their Might, Causes and Consequences (3)_1
The father and daughter duo calmly soothed the twelve children while untying them. Mo Yan checked on each child and found that they were only frightened, suffering no other harm, and couldn’t help but sigh with relief.
While it was wrong for these children to run off to the mountain against their parents’ advice, the terror they felt from being kidnapped by the bandits outside was undeniably connected to her. Now that they were safe, her underlying worry had finally dissipated.
What came next clearly wasn’t for the children to witness, lest they be scared again. So Mo Yan left them in the care of her father inside the tent, while she went outside and ordered Red Python to drag the bandits together for an interrogation about the mastermind behind the operation.
They didn’t manage to find out who was pulling the strings, but they did learn that these men were the same two groups of mountain bandits who had ambushed them on their way back from Phoenix Mountain that night.
Since the bandits had been bitten by the "little brothers" called by the Red Python, although the poison wasn’t strong enough to kill them, they ended up paralyzed and bedridden just as Little Flower said—without timely medical treatment. These fifty people survived the ordeal only with the protection of others.
Although she bore a grudge against these men, the moon had not yet risen that night, and it was as dark as dense ink; she was escorted by the imperial Hidden Guards, so those bandits couldn’t possibly have known she was there.
If someone hadn’t informed them, how could they have known of her existence, let alone find their way to Liu Yang Village? She didn’t know if Xiao Ruiyuan and the others had pursued these people later, but now that they had encountered each other tonight, she was determined to clear things up once and for all, not leaving any future trouble.