Chapter 4: A Weak Chicken Who Knows No Martial Arts
With the “tool men” voluntarily showing up, Gu Yu certainly wouldn’t mistreat himself by refusing to do the work.
As it turned out, two young and strong men were already helping to tie the stiff corpse of the man in black to a tree.
Their panting and wheezing appearance made Gu Yu, standing at the foot of the tree, feel incredibly comfortable.
Fortunately, he met the innkeeper!
“Move a bit to the right, yes, just like that… Look how straight this corpse is standing, it has an artistic feel. Wait… separate those two corpses a bit, otherwise, if two men are leaning on each other, it’s awkward even in death!”
Just looking wasn’t enough. Gu Yu’s words made the two men fiddling with the corpses tremble, wondering what kind of person they had encountered!
It felt like he was a pervert!
He wouldn’t let even dead people go, which was truly terrifying.
With these thoughts in mind, the two men’s actions became faster and faster, fearing that if they dithered, Gu Yu might kill them too.
With increased work efficiency, the tasks assigned by Gu Yu were completed.
As the men retreated fearfully, Gu Yu paid them no mind. He stood before the corpses as if admiring works of art, then turned his head towards the entrance of the small town, a brilliant smile flashing across his lips.
These guys dared to target them, and they would have to pay the price. They shouldn’t think it was all over just because they died.
“Don’t just stand there, come and take a look with me, so you don’t end up looking like this yourself in the future!”
After Gu Yu said this, the faces of the two men immediately changed.
One of the men, instead of retreating, took a step forward. He patted his waist, and a soft sword immediately appeared in his hand. With a sinister look in his eyes, he stabbed directly at Gu Yu, who was standing not far away.
The man hadn’t expected Gu Yu to be so alert.
He had originally intended to observe for a while, but now there was no time, so he could only fight Gu Yu to the death.
This time, he was tasked with killing the Gu family members, and he did not underestimate them. Thus, he was prepared for death. However, the end of dying before he could even attack was something he absolutely would not accept.
It was a shame…
“When… When did you poison me!”
The man’s long sword did not Pierce Gu Yu’s body. In fact, even before he ran a few steps towards Gu Yu, a sharp pain erupted from his abdomen, causing him to drop his sword with a dull thud.
This turn of events was completely unexpected by the man.
He had been hit without even knowing when Gu Yu had made his move, which showed how skillful Gu Yu’s methods of using poison were. It also proved, from another perspective, that Gu Yu had been wary of them for a long time.
But, from when did Gu Yu know that their identities were not those of the inn’s waiters?
“I’m a person who is good at everything, except trusting strangers! Your boss was so polite, I didn’t want to disappoint him, so I had already spread a wide-ranging poison in the inn earlier, poisoning everyone who was eating and drinking on the first floor… As the saying goes, it’s better to kill three thousand by mistake than to let one go.”
Gu Yu looked at the man kneeling on one knee and then narrowed his eyes, smiling playfully as he replied.
Gu Yu always had a good amount of patience when it came to dead people.
“I… You… Why…”
As the poison spread, the once robust man instantly turned into a pale “weak chicken.” He stared at Gu Yu with wide eyes, seemingly disbelieving that he had died so easily.
However, no matter how unbelievable it was to the man, his life was rapidly fading.
Before he could even finish his words, the man immediately fell face-first onto the ground, dead.
“Oh dear, dying so quickly is really troublesome! I don’t want to get my hands dirty. Hey, little brother who’s still standing, come and hang this corpse on the tree too.”
Seeing the man die so quickly, Gu Yu shook his head helplessly.
It had taken him quite an effort to deal with the bodies of these men in black, and now there was another one, which was really headaches.
He wouldn’t touch dead bodies…
Upon hearing Gu Yu’s words, the other man who remained motionless became cowardly. He took a step back, wanting to escape this place quickly.
This Gu Yu was truly sinister!
When they had pursued the Gu family, they had also learned about the personalities of the Gu family members along the road, knowing that Gu Mengyao and her brother were not bad people, and were even a bit naive. Even Gu Mengyao, who had fought on the battlefield, had only killed countless enemies on the battlefield and was usually reserved in her interactions, treating her family and friends extremely well.
As for Gu Yu, the son-in-law who married into the wife’s family, besides possessing astonishing medical skills, he also had excellent money-making abilities.
Beyond that, there was nothing else.
After all, a weakling who knew no martial arts was not a threat in the eyes of these people who were prepared to hunt down the Gu family.
However, it was this very weakling who had killed so many people with a single move.
Moreover, after a brief encounter, one immediately knew that this person was not a good person, but rather evil to the core.
How could Gu Mengyao have fallen for someone like this and even taken him as a son-in-law into the Gu family, without fearing that the Gu family would suffer because of Gu Yu?
“Don’t retreat anymore. Three more steps, and although I’m the one who administered the poison, I can’t bring the dead back to life.”
Gu Yu didn’t pay much attention to the man’s continuous retreating movement.
With his subsequent words, the man immediately stopped retreating, and then looked at Gu Yu with a face full of terror, wondering if Gu Yu’s words were true or false.
Being able to poison someone without anyone noticing was enough to make people take his words seriously.
“Gu Yu, I was wrong, please be magnanimous and don’t hold it against me!”
“Oh? What could I hold against you!”
“I was just accepting a reward from the Chen family for intercepting the Gu family, not risking my life for them. So, as long as you let me go, I’ll leave immediately and won’t follow you anymore.”
The man stopped retreating but didn’t move forward either. He stood still and began to bargain with Gu Yu.
Judging by the wary look in his eyes, he was very intimidated by Gu Yu.
However, now that Gu Yu knew he was a killer, the man didn’t expect to return intact. But he wouldn’t rush forward like the fool just now; instead, he would look for an opportunity to leave here.
Far away from Gu Yu.
“Actually, you don’t need to be so scared. I dislike trouble, so if you behave yourself, I won’t kill you. Instead, I’ll give you the antidote.”
“What do you want me to do?”
“It’s nothing major, just to tell those tag-alongs what just happened… If they continue to follow, I’ll have time to practice the poisons recorded in the Poison Scripture.”
Looking at the man’s uncertain expression, Gu Yu smiled innocently, but to the man, it looked like the smile of a demon.
