Chapter 80
With that first scream, the silence shrouding Zhengwuguan was shattered.
“Who goes there? Argh!”
“This place belongs to the branch of the Great Wudang Sect—urk!”
Even as the shrieks rang out one after another, not a single clang of weapons echoed through the air.
The men of Zhengwuguan were too deep in their drink. Their weapons lay out of reach.
Those who managed to scream likely died knowing it. The countless others who died without a sound were probably slaughtered in their sleep—without ever realizing they'd crossed the threshold into death.
Waking in the afterlife, drunk and dazed. Maybe that's the kinder way to go.
Only after a long string of screams did the sound of weapons clashing finally begin to rise—but so few and scattered that it was pitiful, given how many men Zhengwuguan had on its rolls.
That, too, soon died away. It was clear now: the Black Execution Unit had already reached the heart of the compound.
Only then did Yi Gwal, Chief Overseer of the disbanded Black Snake Gang, rise from the shadows.
He entered through the wide-open front gate of Zhengwuguan.
A mountain of corpses, a sea of blood.