Quick Transmigration: Underdog Turns out to be Untouchable

Chapter 77: Chapter 77: The Crime of Gender 77

After killing two people in a row, Qin Shuangshuang felt nothing in her heart. In her view, she wasn’t killing people, but creatures not even worth the lives of beasts slain by her arrows!

Taking advantage of the other barbarians not having reacted yet, Qin Shuangshuang shot three more times consecutively. This time, she used a triple-shot technique—three releases, totaling nine arrows. She had never missed using this skill on wild pheasants and rabbits before!

However, Qin Shuangshuang was somewhat regretful this time. Out of the nine arrows, she only managed to kill seven barbarians. The other two had sensed danger and dodged in time; as a result, one arrow hit a barbarian’s shoulder, and another hit one’s belly.

Qin Shuangshuang’s attacks were instantaneous, catching them off guard, and within moments, she had taken out nearly half of the twenty-something barbarians present!

With so many dead at once, the remaining barbarians naturally couldn’t remain oblivious. Upon seeing their companions fallen, the surviving barbarians seemed enraged, shouting loudly and charging at Qin Shuangshuang with menacing gestures, urging their horses as they brandished their curved swords!

Qin Shuangshuang sneered, wondering if these beasts also felt anger when their kind died. She would teach them that someone else’s territory wasn’t a place they could just come to and leave as they pleased.

Nocking another arrow, Qin Shuangshuang seized the moment before the barbarians charged closer and released three more volleys of nine arrows. But since they were facing head-on, she achieved less than the previous time, with two arrows dodged, three men wounded, and only four killed.

After this round, the barbarians were upon her, slashing at Qin Shuangshuang with their curved swords. Qin Shuangshuang sneered again. When it came to a contest of strength, she didn’t fear these barbarians. Drawing out a heavy saber she had purchased, weighing thirty pounds and seemingly weightless in her hands, heavy as paper, she began to clash directly with the barbarians.

Qin Shuangshuang didn’t know her master Fang Zhongyi’s background, yet she always felt that it was extraordinary. The martial arts that Fang Zhongyi taught her, even to the inexperienced Qin Shuangshuang, seemed very skilled indeed.

Having frequented Fang Family Village, Qin Shuangshuang overheard from the villagers, since Fang Zhongyi did not deliberately conceal it, that although he bore the Fang surname, he wasn’t from Fang Family Village.

Fang Zhongyi and Fang Yaoyao’s biological mother had settled in Fang Family Village when they were young. This was the reason why Fang Zhongyi had high prestige there but could not become the village chief—because he wasn’t part of the Fang clan!

Qin Shuangshuang didn’t want to investigate her master’s mysterious background; what she knew was that Fang Zhongyi’s skills were unparalleled. As someone whose abilities had surpassed her master, Qin Shuangshuang, with her innate strength, found dispatching the remaining dozen or so barbarians didn’t take much effort despite her initial inexperience at engaging real adversaries!

After slaying the barbarians, Qin Shuangshuang had a bountiful harvest, chopping off all their heads, totaling twenty-seven, placing them in a large sack she had prepared earlier.

Each of the twenty-seven barbarians had a horse, and besides their heads, Qin Shuangshuang acquired twenty-seven tall, powerful, and fine-quality horses. She tied the horses together, intending to drive them as one.

Looking back at the villagers she had just saved, none came forward to thank her. They only huddled together, gazes lifeless and vacant, devoid of vitality, filled with overwhelming confusion!

Qin Shuangshuang hesitated. She had thought about leaving two horses for them. Hu people’s horses were of a quality that couldn’t be matched by domestic ones, each worth over a hundred taels of silver, and in high demand. Just one provided to these villagers would be enough to rebuild their shattered homes.

But these horses couldn’t be given away because the court prohibited common people from privately keeping Hu horses. No matter how they were acquired, they had to be sold to the court, which would pay a high price, so the people wouldn’t suffer. However, anyone daring to keep them would be punished for treason; therefore, neither these villagers nor Qin Shuangshuang herself could keep the horses!

Seeing these distraught villagers, her heart ached with sympathy. Unable to leave the horses, Qin Shuangshuang instead took out the hundred-twenty taels of silver she had brought and placed them on the ground, not daring to approach the startled villagers. She then mounted her large green mule, taking the heads and driving the herd of horses away!

It was a long time after Qin Shuangshuang had left that the traumatized villagers finally rose, approaching the silver she left. An elderly leader, hands trembling, picked up the silver, tears streaming down his face, lips quivering as he shouted, ”Savior!” Then he knelt down with a thud, knocking his head repeatedly in the direction Qin Shuangshuang had departed.

The old man’s actions awoke the shocked villagers, all kneeling down, fervently kowtowing towards where Qin Shuangshuang left, bruising their foreheads until they finally stopped.

Next, the villagers turned their vengeful gazes towards the headless barbarian corpses, arising to assail them with every manner of tool, slicing, chopping, beating, and smashing savagely!

Riding her mule and driving the herd, despite her substantial gains, Qin Shuangshuang’s mood remained far from joyous. The barbarians’ cruelty filled her with impotent rage, hoping that more would join in on the Kill Hu Order, more and more, to put an end to the barbarian raids on the borders for good.

The place to exchange barbarian heads for silver was set inside Feiying Pass, so when Qin Shuangshuang led twenty-seven tall Hu horses into Feiying Pass, she naturally caught the attention of the soldiers guarding the pass.

When Qin Shuangshuang arrived at the exchange spot, she saw a group of soldiers escorting officials out from the vermilion gates, surrounded by a crowd of discussing commoners.

Listening briefly, it seemed these officials intended to embezzle the reward for the Kill Hu Order. Originally, each head was worth five taels of silver, but they only offered three, and were discovered by General Qi, leading to their execution! Reportedly, several groups of officials had been executed for embezzling the bounty.

The first batch of executed officials faced even worse. Not only were the men executed, but their families were also exiled, as that official was greedier, reducing the bounty to just one tael of silver!

Qin Shuangshuang, with a large herd of Hu horses, naturally stood out. Among the soldiers escorting the officials was a handsome young general with bronzed skin, who immediately spotted Qin Shuangshuang, leading a big green mule amidst the herd of Hu horses!