"Oh? Tell me in detail, what kind of strange thing it is."
Qin Shaoyou subconsciously sat up straight.
He originally just asked a routine question, but he didn't expect that something strange actually happened during his absence.
Monk Ma accepted the offer, but did not directly explain the situation of the strange thing. Instead, he asked: "Sir, I wonder if you have noticed after coming back that the number of wandering souls in our Demon Suppression Department has decreased significantly compared to before.
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"I noticed it." Qin Shaoyou nodded.
He discovered this situation after he finished putting incense on the statue of Jiutiandang Demon Patriarch.
Originally, he thought that those wandering souls were sent to various places in the city by Monk Ma and others. Although the wandering souls could not wander around under the sun like Qiurong, they could live in locust trees and willows and act as supernatural beings.
version of surveillance cameras.
But now it seems that the situation is not what he thought?
Fortunately, Monk Ma did not continue to lie, and quickly said: "Just a few days after you left, the number of wandering souls taken in by our Demon Suppression Department began to show signs of decreasing. At first, we thought it was the county town.
Demons or evil cultivators slipped in, kidnapped these wandering souls, and used them to refine ghosts or evil weapons. However, after some investigation, it was discovered that the wandering souls were not abducted and enslaved, but were converted into slaves.
It led to the underworld."
Tu Huang added: "That's true. After the wandering souls disappeared, we tried to summon them, and found that they all went to the underworld."
"This is a good thing. Who did it? But we have a famous monk here?"
Qin Shaoyou was very happy.
He initially kept these wandering souls in the Demon Suppression Department, partly to prevent them from being enslaved by bad people, or from absorbing the yang energy and blood of living people, becoming greedy, and then turning into evil ghosts that harm people.
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On the other hand, he also wanted to help these wandering souls find a way to return to the underworld.
He never expected that when he came back from a patrol, these wandering souls had been transformed a lot.
It was an unexpected surprise.
Monk Ma shook his head and said, "No eminent monks have come to Mianyuan County recently, and we don't yet know who saved these wandering souls."
Qin Shaoyou was stunned for a moment, then looked at Tuhuang, Qiu Shi and Zeng Cong: "Didn't you summon souls? The wandering souls you summoned did not say who saved them?"
Still Tuhuang answered: "Those wandering souls can't explain how they were saved. From the beginning to the end, they have never seen the person who saved them. However, we initially suspect that it has something to do with the City God's Temple."
"City God's Temple? Is it the City God's Temple that was occupied by Diao Ke before?"
"right."
Qin Shaoyou thought thoughtfully: "I remember that the City God's Temple was destroyed when the pilgrims were arrested. There were many damages. Even the statue of the City God was incomplete. What is the situation there now?"
Monk Ma replied: "It's strange to say that the City God's Temple, which was supposed to be dilapidated, was restored by someone. Although it is not intact as before, at least it is no longer a dilapidated building. There is also the dilapidated temple.
The incomplete statue of the City God has also been repaired. But the strange thing is that it has no face."
"What does it mean to have no face?" Qin Shaoyou couldn't help but interrupt.
Monk Ma explained: "Every other part of the statue is finished, except that the face is not molded. The whole head is still a clay."
Qin Shaoyou already had a guess in his mind, so he asked again: "When did the changes in the City God's Temple and the salvation of wandering souls happen?"
"It should be around the seventh day of this month."
The seventh day of the lunar month?
Qin Shaoyou recalled for a moment in his mind, and then remembered that on the seventh day of the lunar month, they happened to be in the City God's Temple outside Lingjie Town and witnessed the death of the previous City God.
So you are back?
Qin Shaoyou glanced in the direction of Lingjie Town.
Monk Ma continued to report: "After we discovered the anomaly in the City God's Temple, we visited the surrounding residents, but no one knew who repaired the City God's Temple, and no one knew when the repairs were carried out. It seems that the City God's Temple
, was repaired overnight. However, Qingji, who was patrolling at night, reported that he found a human figure in the City God's Temple. However, we investigated the City God's Temple and found no vicious ghosts, and there was nothing to follow.
Discover"
"I see."
After listening to the report, Qin Shaoyou nodded, pondered for a while, and then ordered: "You will send someone to the City God's Temple later to put a stick of incense on the faceless City God statue and tell it that I am back."
When Monk Ma heard this order, he looked surprised. He couldn't help but murmur in his heart: Listening to the Lord's words, why does it feel like he knows the statue of the City God? When he comes back from going out, he has to send someone to inform him. But there is no way to do this.
What's the significance? Could it be that the City God statue will come to visit you after receiving the news?
Although he was confused, this was an order given by Qin Shaoyou after all. Not only did Monk Ma comply, he also planned to personally help Qin Shaoyou burn incense and see how the statue of the City God would react.
After Qin Shaoyou asked about the situation in Mianyuan County, he suddenly mentioned the people who were spying on him.
"I came back today and found some strangers with malicious intentions in the county. Do you know?"
"Know."
Monk Ma quickly stopped thinking and replied: "Those people came to our Mianyuan County on the pretext of being businessmen and building warehouses. Judging from the procedures they brought with them, there was nothing wrong with them. However,
They were secretly spying on our Demon Suppression Department. Although they did these things very covertly, they were still discovered and targeted by the Gu insects sent by Daoist Qiu to various parts of the city. In the past few days, their every move has been
Every movement will be monitored by Taoist Master Qiu using Gu insects."
Qiu Shi turned his hand, and several flies and mosquitoes appeared in his palm.
He teased these flies and mosquitoes with his fingers, and introduced with a smile: "I have newly cultivated a batch of flies and mosquitoes to make Gu. Here, they are very cute, right? Although they don't have much fighting power, they are used for exploration.
It’s still very good to provide news and monitor the enemy’s situation.”
It’s really hard for Qin Shaoyou to associate flies and mosquitoes with cuteness
Sure enough, the people who raise voodoo insects have very special aesthetics.
At the same time, he mourned in his heart for those uninvited guests.
These people probably never imagined that their whereabouts would be exposed because of flies and mosquitoes that can be seen everywhere, right?
After Qiu Shi introduced his new little cutie, he added: "Maybe it's because you didn't come back, Mr. Qin. Although those people were secretly monitoring and inquiring about our Demon Suppression Division, they didn't do much.
It’s not too much. At the same time, they acted very cautiously and never revealed their true identities and origins even when no outsiders were present, so we didn’t take any further action and just kept an eye on them.”
Monk Ma took the words, raised his hands and asked, "Sir, what should we do next? Should we continue to stare at these people, or should we directly arrest them and torture them?"