"I know something about this matter." The person who spoke was the eldest son He Lei. He was well-read and was a well-known scholar. At the age of thirty, he had a ten-year-old son and an eight-year-old daughter.
As the old saying goes, an elder brother is like a father. When He Wangzu is not at home, his eldest brother takes care of him for a long time.
"Since I gave you up to abandon literature and turn to martial arts, several disappearances have occurred in the villages and towns below Jincheng. Who doesn't know the virtues of our Daqing squires and village chiefs?
There were just a few untouchables on the left and right, and they all pretended that nothing happened. However, I never expected that on the second, third, and fourth days, people disappeared one after another. It was not until the lid could no longer be covered that I had no choice but to report it."
This is the virtue of the Daqing Kingdom, and the behavior of deceiving superiors and hiding from subordinates is by no means a special case. Because there are basically no court officials in each township, but the responsibility is left to the local squires and village chiefs.
When common people have neighborhood conflicts, they usually seek mediation from respected squires instead of going to the county government. Only when major cases occur, they will go to the county government to report the case.
You must understand that the county magistrate is very busy and does not try cases every day. He only opens his office to try cases on March 6 or 9, and he has other work on weekdays.
"The county magistrate naturally did not dare to neglect and sent several detectives to investigate. As a result, just two days later, the local chief came to report and the people who went to the countryside to investigate the case were also missing.
Later, the disappearance case expanded to include counties, villages, and towns around Jincheng, with people disappearing every night. In recent days, it has even spread to the city.
Now, a huge Li family has disappeared out of thin air, and the magistrate should be unable to sit still. It doesn't matter to others. If the squires of this city are not given an explanation as soon as possible, those families will have to unite and join him.
Suddenly, there is a big plan to inspect the capital every three years. I am afraid that if I can't get through it, I will be demoted."
Many high officials of the imperial court have appeared in Jincheng, and now they have retired and returned to their hometown to take care of themselves.
Although they are no longer officials, their disciples and old officials are still there, so it is not difficult to write a note and hand it to the emperor.
The prefect's anxious attitude is understandable.
After all, a person who can become a fourth-grade official is not a fuel-efficient person.
Once it is kicked down, the losses will be huge.
There is an old saying that says, if you clear the prefecture in three years, you will get one hundred thousand snowflakes and silver.
If people are not greedy, they can still make money.
Not to mention anything else, just for the people under your command, the annual Bing Jing and Tan Jing, the three to forty thousand taels of silver collected is not too much, right?
Don't think that tens of thousands of taels of silver is not much. A young girl of this age can take away twenty taels of silver!
"The prefect plans to patrol?"
"Well, although dad is only a seventh-grade city gatekeeper, he has three hundred people in charge. A team of ten patrols can be divided into thirty teams." He Lei nodded, what else can he do?
way.
But if I think about it with my toes, I understand that the key patrol area must be the wealthy squires in Jincheng.
Poor?
Haha, as long as there are not too many deaths and local people are resentful, generally speaking, there is no big problem.
"I'm full." Young Master He put down his chopsticks, turned around, left the dining room, and walked towards his courtyard. He had not rested all night, and coupled with the torture of his talent [Whispers of Unknown Origin], he was really tired.
After returning to the room, two paper figures took the initiative to undress him before lying on the bed and falling asleep.
In the afternoon, He Wangzu came back after a long journey.
He called his wives, concubines, children, and children at home, and gave instructions with a serious face.
"If you have nothing to do recently, don't leave the house at will. The nursing staff should be more diligent and patrol in teams of five. Be vigilant and don't let thieves succeed."
"Yes!" The guards with swords bent down and clasped their fists, responding respectfully.
"Hey, where's the second child?"
"Master, the second master is sleeping in the room."
"..."
I wanted to get angry and curse, but who is in charge of this family?
When he thought of his son, who was as strong as a bear, Mr. He subconsciously swallowed back the curse words.
"Forget it, love is what it is."
If a thief is encountered, both sides may not know who will be unlucky!
"By the way, if you have any doubts, just go out and tell the patrol team. The three hundred people under my command are divided into thirty teams to patrol around our mansion day and night."
"Okay, sir." His wife Wang Lan responded.
After He Wangzu finished speaking, he stood up and left in a hurry.
There is no other way. If you work hard when you are fishing for profit and water, you will get rid of things faster than anyone else, and you will not get any good results afterwards.
The sun sets and the sky becomes dark.
He Zhao in the room woke up from his sleep on time.
"Comfortable!"
I stretched out and felt completely refreshed.
Of course, it may also be because of the talent [Dark Moon Messenger+].
Two paper figures immediately came forward to help him change his clothes and wash himself.
"Oh, my schedule is completely reversed."
"vomit--"
As he finished speaking, eighty-nine ghosts of the cold knights spewed out from his throat.
"Keep an eye on the whole house for me. If there is a thief or something else that invades, report it to me immediately."
All the wronged souls nodded in unison, and then dragged a long tail of smoke through the roof walls and scattered in all directions.
Head after head, wandering around the huge mansion, monitoring all abnormalities.
It's a good thing that ordinary people can't see them, otherwise they would be scared to death.
"Alchemist: Flying Scenery (8%), it can only increase by 0.1% every night. Compared with riding the light, it decreases ten times. Alas, after all, hard work is not as fast as taking the shortcut of incense and power."
After a month of retreat, I have not fallen behind in the practice of "The Method of Convincing Qi", but the progress is slightly unsatisfactory.
In fact, his Qi refining speed is much faster than that of normal people.
But there is no harm without comparison. I have enjoyed the incense, which progresses like a rocket. The daily 0.1% percentage progress bar feels a bit slow.
"Cheng Huang's strength is too strong, I am no match for the time being."
If Li Feng hadn't suddenly acted like Fa Hai, he would have rolled up his sleeves and rushed into the City God's Temple to snatch the incense.
Gao Dapeng/Gao Damo?
Don't make trouble. After thirty years, you can only save ten years of incense and willpower, and you will probably be very poor at this time.
"Continue to deceive Lord Howling Yuan, sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight?"
When two strong forces fight, one of them will die.
It won't be anyone else who dies, it can only be a person of low strength like him.
"If it really doesn't work, I'll be willing to pay for the tickets..."
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly realized that an innocent soul had lost contact.
"?!"
He Zhao quickly got up and got out of bed and rushed towards the place where he lost contact.
There is indeed something strange about the disappearance case!
If you want the Li family, which dominates the city, and its 123 people to disappear without a trace, it can be done without human power. Even if you are carrying a hundred dead pigs, you have to leave some traces and make some noise, right?
Thinking about it, there are only weird things.
'It will be bad luck for you if you offend me.'
............
Not long ago, a team of five guards with swords were patrolling the eldest young master's yard.
One of the eighty-nine innocent souls followed them, keeping vigilance at all times.
"What do you think the Li family's nurses do for food? There are more than a hundred people, so let someone take advantage of them. Logically speaking, they shouldn't. I can understand if they are left alone and allowed to be taken away by thieves, but you can't leave everyone alone, right?
"
"Hey, maybe I used sweat-inducing medicine or smoke or something like that. All things are done by those who are careful. If you think about it more, if you have calculations in your mind but not in your heart, who can avoid being tricked?"
Maybe they were a little bored while patrolling, so they started chatting.
"I agree. Isn't it easy to take advantage of loopholes? In our Daqing country, there is a saying in the Qing law: Non-officials are not allowed to hold weapons. Otherwise, kill anyone you see. But what are we carrying on our waists?"
The young nurse walking at the back smiled and patted the scabbard.
"Chiliu——"
When they reached the corner, a black shadow suddenly swept down from the sky above the corridor. The young nurse walking at the back could not even call for help and disappeared immediately.
The remaining four people turned around the curve, and the old man leading the way suddenly stopped.
"Old Liu, what's wrong?"
"Something's wrong!"
The three of them looked confused. The journey was uneventful. What was wrong?
The old man surnamed Liu frowned and recalled carefully in his mind. His experience told him that there must be something wrong.
"Sounds...steps! Yes, there is one missing person's footsteps!"
Everyone hurriedly turned around, and the young nurse responsible for the relocation disappeared at some point.
"Blow the whistle."
Hearing this, one of them quickly picked up the whistle hanging on his neck and prepared to blow it to alert his companions patrolling the house.
"puff--"
However, a shocking scene appeared.
I saw Old Liu's face was ferocious, he struggled to take out the steel knife from his waist, and wiped out the guard who picked up the whistle.
"Plop!"
The corpse had a look of confusion on its face and fell to the ground.
"Old Liu, you..."
In the panic of the remaining two people, the steel knife shone coldly under the light of the lantern.
"Poof!" "Poof!"
The sound of the blade cutting into flesh was heard, and there were two more dead bodies.
Immediately afterwards, the old man surnamed Liu raised the knife and slashed his own neck.
"puff--"
A lot of blood spurted out, and he followed his companions on the road to hell.
The process sounds long, but in fact it only takes two or three seconds.
After witnessing everything, the innocent soul subconsciously wanted to return to the courtyard where He Zhao was to report.
Unfortunately, a black shadow emerged from Lao Liu's body and passed by the innocent soul with a whooshing sound. It continued unabated and ran towards the courtyard where He Lei lived.
After a dozen breaths, a figure fell into the corridor.
"Bang!"
The person who came was none other than Young Master He, who had lost contact with his innocent soul and came immediately.
He glanced at the bodies on the ground and saw that all the fatal injuries were throat cuts.
At the same time, I roughly simulated the scene in my mind.
One person suddenly drew a knife to kill, and the other two were shocked. Before the two of them could recover, they stabbed their lives twice in succession. Finally, the murderer committed suicide.
He looked at Gu Yuan who was maintaining a suicidal posture, his brows furrowed tightly.
The other party's face was ferocious, and bursts of cold air gushed out from the corpse, making people shudder involuntarily. What gushes out from the wound on the neck is not red blood, but a black liquid with a smell.
"Beep——"
The man surnamed He pulled a whistle from the neck of the dead body, put it in his mouth and blew it.
The people patrolling the house heard it and responded immediately.
Madam, the young master's courtyard was immediately surrounded by guards. The main courtyard gates and important roads were guarded by people. The rest rushed to the whistle with all their strength.
After reminding his family, He Zhao vomited.
Nine hundred innocent souls are densely packed together, quite like a hundred ghosts walking at night.
"try to find!"
All the vengeful souls dispersed in a rush, pouring out overwhelmingly, searching the surroundings with wide eyes, unwilling to let go of any anomaly, and spread out of the corridor.
Of course, it's just a game.
But there are things that a real man does and things he doesn't do. If he is really cold-blooded, how could he be willing to meddle in so many other things in the first few simulation scenes?
"Tai Sui is making trouble!"
"Um?"
He turned to look at Brother Cheap Brother's yard, where he lost contact with a few innocent souls.
"rub--"
He Lei heard the whistle, quickly put on his clothes, opened the door and walked out.
"Ping'er?!"
As soon as he took a step forward, he saw a black shadow holding his ten-year-old son under his arm. He was moving around in mid-air, making swallowing gestures, as if he was fighting something invisible.
The eldest young master of He Mansion stood in front of the door with an anxious look on his face.
"boom--"
The courtyard door shattered, and a tall and burly figure smashed two mahogany doors and rushed in.
"How brave!"
He Zhao looked at the strange black figure, holding his eldest nephew in his arms, fighting with the ghosts of injustice, and shouted angrily.
The uncle and nephew hadn't seen each other for a month, but when they first met, it was because of the evil spirit that caused their anger to rise.
[Spiritual Messenger], activate!
I want to see what you are.
[Six Desire Demons: Neither strange nor evil, servants of the Lord of All Evils.]
A lonely message pops up from the upper left corner of the line of sight.
"..."
No matter, let’s do it first!
"rub--"
A light blue spirit emerged from the top of the head and hit the body of the Six Desire Demon at lightning speed.
"Spiritual Silence Technique"!
The next second, waves of disgusting, twisted, and crazy howls resounded through his head.
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"
It's as if countless people are beating an invisible drum, shaking people's internal organs and making their souls want to split.
[You are under spiritual attack...]
【Start judgment!】
"???"
[Judgment failed]
[Rule-based attacks...not immune]
"snort!"
A huge tearing force crushed the soul to pieces.
[Personality cancelling...]
[Personality remaining: 1]
[You have been exempted from this attack]
Before he could take a breath, the surface of the so-called indestructible spirit body actually had cracks like spider webs.
"Kakakaka...kakacha!"
The spirit body collapsed and turned into fragments scattered in all directions.
[Talent - One life is activated, you are exempted from death once. 】
The lifeless body standing in front of the broken door opened its eyes again.
What a weird Six Desire Demon. He only cast the "Spiritual Silence Technique" once and almost ended the game.
"boom--"
A large amount of evil energy surged out from He Zhao's mouth and nose, and behind him condensed three malevolent Dharma images.
Resentful corpses, foolish souls, and evil spirits, the three major Dharma signs descended, and the courtyard suddenly became gloomy.
"drink--"
"Kakakaka!!"
The Qi Qi in the body surged, and half of the Qi in Fei Jingjing was consumed in an instant.
Then I saw that his height increased from two meters to four meters.
The muscles all over his body were knotted, and he exuded a ferocious aura from the inside out.
Great supernatural power - "Dharma, Heaven, Elephant and Earth"!
"Buzz!"
A touch of gold quickly rendered the entire body, making it golden, like a golden giant.
The secret method of the City God - "Golden Body of Six Zhangs"!