He had just returned from closing the case at the fishing village...

The fishing village...

The water ghost...

That strange pebble...

For a moment, Henry Walker thought about many, many things.

In reality, he had only been in this world for a few days and didn’t have a deep bond with Samuel Wright, so all he felt now was regret and astonishment. He didn’t have the grief that others had expected.

It wasn’t that he hadn’t seen dead people before.

But he had never seen so many dead people at once.

“Where is the Chiling Daoist from the Xu family?”

He heard Frank Walker asking the head constable.

“In another place. The body was cut into several pieces, and some parts were even gnawed by wild beasts...” the head constable replied in a low voice.

A moment of silence followed.

Whether it was the members of the Lu family, the magistrate, or the townsfolk gathered at the city gate.

“The Chiling Daoist’s quick sword was even stronger than Uncle Baker...” Frank Walker’s voice gradually lowered.

Uncle Baker was the strongest martial artist hired by the Lu family.

The Chiling Daoist was even stronger than Uncle Baker, yet he was dead too.

This case was no longer a simple murder, but a major case that could threaten everyone present!

Of all those present, who could claim to be stronger than the Xu family?

Including the magistrate, no one dared to say so.

Henry Walker stood silently by the roadside. He had originally thought this world was very safe, just a replica of ancient China.

Some minor surprises, but nothing serious.

But now it seemed...

He touched the pebble in his sleeve pocket.

At this moment, the pebble was burning hot.

He took out the stone, hesitated for a moment, but still gently tossed it away.

This thing might bring disaster upon him.

The Xu family, whose foundation was as solid as the Lu family’s, had been wiped out overnight.

This made Henry Walker extremely agitated.

He thought for a moment, then suddenly walked back to the pebble, bent down, and picked it up again.

Hiss.

He didn’t know when, but his index finger was accidentally cut by a blade of grass sticking out of the snow.

The grass was a special kind called blade grass, with edges as sharp as a knife.

Henry Walker’s finger was immediately sliced open, and a few drops of blood dripped onto the surface of the pebble.

“Master?” Little Grace followed closely behind him, a little worried, her small face streaked with tears. Clearly, Samuel Wright’s death was a blow to her as well.

Henry Walker froze in place.

Suddenly, a very peculiar string of syllables echoed in his mind.

“Welcome to the Deep Blue Skill Cheat Device.”

Henry Walker’s eyes instantly glazed over.

It took him quite a while to snap out of it.

He looked at the blue, semi-transparent box that appeared before his eyes, and inside were his name and the skills he possessed.

“Isn’t this... the little cheat device I programmed on my phone?!”

Henry Walker felt like he was going crazy, hallucinations appearing one after another.

It was bad enough to be reincarnated into a rich young master with no strength to truss a chicken.

Now he was even seeing all sorts of hallucinations!

In his previous life, when he was bored, he had downloaded a game called “Random Sword Heroes.” Because the game was too difficult, he had written a simple cheat to modify the martial arts in the game.

He named it the Deep Blue Cheat Device. Come to think of it, the voice just now was even one he had personally recorded with a voice changer.

He never expected...

Then Henry Walker decisively examined the interface inside the box.

The interface was extremely simple, just a dense array of small squares.

At the top, it read:

Henry Walker——

Martial Arts: None.

Chapter 3 Black Tiger Saber Technique (Part 1)

“Is it a hallucination? Or not?”

Henry Walker narrowed his eyes, suppressing his thoughts.

“It’s nothing.” He straightened up and replied calmly.

“Master... Mr. Wright, they were such good people, such good officials, how could they...?”

Little Grace’s eyes filled with tears again, about to start crying.

Henry Walker silently looked at the Xu family’s corpses scattered all over the ground.

All the bodies were bluish-gray, with strangulation marks on their necks.

The magistrate glanced a few times, then hurriedly left, leaving the matter entirely to the chief constable in charge of the case.

The other yamen officials investigating the case were also discussing the case with the chief constable off to the side.

“Master, the old master wants you to come over.” A servant ran over and quietly said to Henry Walker.

As he spoke, he couldn’t help but glance regretfully at the Xu family’s corpses on the ground.

“I’ll go right away.” Henry Walker glanced at the servant. “Aren’t you afraid?”

“Of course I am.” The servant was only about eighteen or nineteen, but his demeanor and expression carried a maturity beyond his years.

“But I’m a refugee from the Great Rong Kingdom to the east. There’s a famine there now, corpses everywhere, and many families have even resorted to cannibalism. I’ve seen such tragedies many times... sigh...”

He sighed, then quickly realized the person he was talking to wasn’t a usual friend, and hurriedly lowered his head.

“Seen it often? In the Great Rong Kingdom to the east, are there many similar incidents?”

Henry Walker asked casually.

The servant was silent for a moment.

“Quite a few.”

Henry Walker’s heart tightened.

But his steps didn’t slow as he quickly walked up to his father in this life, Frank Walker.

Frank Walker, courtesy name Quan’an, style name Jinyuanweng.