Chapter 156 Game
After most of the soldiers had finished playing with the villagers, they left the villagers according to Wang Lieci's request and returned to Wang Lieci to protect him. Only the soldiers who played with Liang Juming did not return to the team, but continued to watch over him at the side under Wang Lieci's order to prevent this martial arts expert from breaking free from the rope or using any tricks. The reason why Wang Lieci did not let the soldiers kill Liang Juming immediately was that he wanted Liang Juming to watch everything that happened next helplessly, and then let this martial arts expert be killed by the people from the same village while he was tied up and unable to resist.
Wang Lieci ordered the soldiers to take the Ding couple to a large circle formed by the villagers. Ding Shang was taken to the east, and Ding Sen was taken to the west, with some distance between them. Wang Lieci ordered the soldiers to untie them, but as soon as they were untied, the two men attacked the soldiers who were holding them.
At this moment, with a "whoosh", an arrow shot out from the bow in Wang Lieci's hand and hit a five-year-old child closest to him. The child screamed, fell to the ground immediately, and died with his eyes open.
"If you two lay hands on my men again, or dare to go and save any villager, all the villagers around here will die immediately!" Wang Lieci said with a smile.
The Dings could do nothing more. The soldiers who were holding them walked out of the circle formed by the villagers. The couple looked at the dead child with heavy and sad expressions. A few days ago, the child's parents had brought him to the Ding family as a guest. Now, the three of them had been killed by the invaders.
"Why do you two have such bitter faces? I just wanted to invite you to play a game, what's with that expression? I let you play because I saw that you are good at archery. It's your honor to have my respect, but you actually spoiled my fun by giving me a cold look! Let me tell you, if I hadn't seen that you are good at archery, I wouldn't have given you the chance to play, and you would still be tied up like them!" Wang Lieci pointed at the tied villagers and said loudly to the Ding couple.
Wang Lieci cleared his throat and continued loudly, "Now I will tell you the rules of the game, and you two listen carefully. My soldiers will return your bows to you in a while, and will throw an arrow to each of you at a time. You have to shoot these villagers to death one by one. I want to see if you two can really hit the target every time, and if you can really kill people with every arrow. If you shoot a villager to death with one arrow, my men will applaud and cheer for you; if you hit the target but fail to kill him, my men will chop another villager to death; if you miss the target, my men will chop two more villagers to death; as soon as the person who gives the order shouts 'shoot', you must shoot the arrow immediately, and if you delay, my men will chop three more villagers to death! In a while, I will stand on that hill and watch, and of course you will not be able to shoot me, but if you are ignorant and dare to shoot arrows at any of my men, my other men will chop off the heads of all the villagers in that circle, leaving no one alive!"
Wang Lieci shouted at Ding Sen, "You, shoot the people in the northern half of the circle, starting from the hunchbacked old man in the east, and shoot to the west!" He shouted at Ding Shang, "You, shoot the people in the southern half of the circle, starting from the pregnant woman in the west, and shoot to the east!"
(End of this chapter)
