With the Drilling Mountain Leopard and his gang of bandits wiped out, a joyous atmosphere swept through Qinghe County. From the common folk to the martial artists, everyone felt as if a great stone that had weighed on their hearts for years had finally been lifted.
The villagers living near Baitou Mountain, in particular, were all clapping and cheering.
Upon learning that some bandits were still roaming the mountains, many villages and towns organized their own patrol teams to search the mountains and hunt them down. The county magistrate also sent constables and militia to help.
In just over ten days, several dozen more fugitives were either killed or captured.
Many accomplices who had once served as the bandits' eyes and ears were also reported one by one and thrown into the county jail.
And just like that, the bandit scourge that had plagued Qinghe County for nearly twenty years was finally put to rest.
