Chapter 3019 — Dying Without Ever Understanding
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"Two people dressed about like you? And an old man carrying two big axes?" The words surfaced in Ergoudan's mind at once. Those two corpses beside Wei Zhao earlier—hadn't they been dressed almost exactly like this fellow before him? Ergoudan had not paid it any mind at the time, but Old Seven's reminder brought it back to him. So this man was in league with those two, and was very likely an enemy of that ax-wielding old madman?
Still, to make sure of his guess, Ergoudan put on a foolish look and asked, "You mean an old man with an ax who looks like he's gone mad? The two of them are fighting?"
"Yes, yes! Those two dressed alike are one side, and the old madman with the battle-ax is the other. You saw them? Where are they?" Old Seven nodded hurriedly, thinking to himself that this country boy had indeed seen them!
"Let me think about which way they went..." Ergoudan scratched at his scalp and put on an air of racking his brains.
"Right, think hard!" Old Seven urged at once.
"They went that way!" Ergoudan pointed with his left hand, and while Old Seven turned his head to look, his right fist came smashing out!
"Bang—"
With a tremendous crash, Old Seven was sent flying straight up into the sky!
"Aaargh—" Old Seven let out a miserable shriek, his eyes full of shock and disbelief. Never in his wildest dreams had he imagined that a country boy out hunting in these parts would strike at him without the slightest warning! And with such force!
Old Seven felt as though his five viscera and six bowels were about to burst—that was the last thought he had in this life—and then he crashed heavily to the ground and died with his grievance unredressed, not understanding even in death why Ergoudan had killed him.
And how could a country boy possess such extraordinary strength? What was going on here? He was a master at the peak of the late Heaven-Rank, for heaven's sake!
In truth, Old Seven's death was indeed an injustice. He had not guarded against Ergoudan in the least. After all, consider: a local country boy out hunting here, with no grudge or enmity toward Old Seven, who had never even laid eyes on him—how could he possibly lash out in sudden murderous violence?
Besides, Old Seven was a master at the peak of the late Heaven-Rank. Even if the country boy did strike, he could not possibly do Old Seven any harm, could he? That was one of the reasons Old Seven had let down his guard.
Yet Ergoudan had struck all the same—and not with an ordinary blow, but one that sent Old Seven straight to the Western Paradise!
"There now, you'll be seeing those two before long!" Ergoudan said earnestly to Old Seven's corpse.
Simple as Ergoudan was, he was no fool. Old Seven's two companions were dead, and those two companions had been enemies of the ax-wielding Heaven-Rank freak. Wei Zhao had named his terms—that the mad Heaven-Rank fellow be allowed to come near—so wasn't Wei Zhao in league with the mad Heaven-Rank fellow?
Therefore Ergoudan had simply beaten Old Seven to death, sparing him the trouble of disturbing Wei Zhao's cultivation!
After killing Old Seven, Ergoudan went on patrolling the area, while Wei Zhao, not far off, never imagined that Ergoudan had just killed a master at the peak of the late Heaven-Rank from the Five Luminaries Sect. True, Wei Zhao had heard some sounds of fighting, but he had assumed Ergoudan was out hunting!
After all, Old Six's words had been muddled and unclear, and Wei Zhao had never expected that someone else would come chasing after. Had he known someone was pursuing, Wei Zhao would likely have hurriedly had Ergoudan carry him back on his back!
After killing Old Seven, Ergoudan did not disturb Wei Zhao either, but instead wandered back and forth around the area on patrol, watching for anyone else approaching. Yet apart from Old Seven, no one else came this way at all.
It was not until nearly noon, when Wei Zhao called for him, that Ergoudan dragged Old Seven's corpse over to Wei Zhao's side!