Chapter 278 — The Rhythm of Attack and Defense
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
Children flew kites, racing joyfully over the grass; some young men showed off their body arts, leaping into the air in a few steps and standing on a kite in mid-sky, drawing sighs of admiration from the girls below. Then the admiration gradually thinned, and the spring wanderers turned to look at Shen Mu and Ban Gongcuo, those two strange youths.
In the woods whole flocks of birds burst up with a clatter, fleeing far away; the killing aura streaming from the two youths frightened them.
Shen Mu and Ban Gongcuo came to the bank of the Tu River, and of a sudden countless great fish leaped from the water, splashing and thrashing across the surface, fleeing toward the middle of the river in tremendous commotion.
In that instant, as the fish leaped and the birds rose, a child suddenly squeezed his eyes shut and opened his mouth wide and began to wail.
And amid that wailing, by the river, Shen Mu and Ban Gongcuo struck almost in the same instant!