Zhang Sui followed Dong Kuo and Cheng Di to the study. Dong Kuo and Cheng Di, two people who had not dealt with each other very well, now had a tacit understanding.
The three of them sat down. Dong Kuo and Cheng Di looked at each other. Dong Kuo said, "Brother Cheng, please come and talk to Mr. Zhang."
Cheng Di nodded, looked at Zhang Sui and said: "The secluded place mentioned by Mr. Zhang is within the scope of Kunzhou Prefecture. However, this matter is extremely secretive and is suspected of having strange powers that disturb the gods, so it was blocked by the government.
The information was received, and everyone involved was centrally managed.”
After a pause, Cheng Di continued: "Those assassins most likely came from that strange place. We have dealt with people who came out of there, and most of them were confused and crazy.
There are some crazy people, but there are also some normal people who are just not very friendly to us."
Dong Kuo also nodded and interjected: "And most of the people there have some incredible abilities. How did those assassins sneak into the city lord's palace bypass the guards and stab my father directly in the study?
I don’t even understand it now.”
Upon hearing this, Zhang Sui pondered for a while, raised his head and asked, "When was that secluded place discovered?"
Dong Kuo glanced at Cheng Di and asked him to continue.
Cheng Di looked gloomy and said in a low voice: "If you want to say the time of discovery, it should have been about ten years."
Zhang Sui was moved in his heart and asked tentatively: "Is your father's matter related to this?"
Cheng Di stared at Zhang Sui for a while and sighed: "Master Zhang is indeed extraordinary. I only mentioned the time and he was able to guess the context of the whole thing."
Cheng Di nodded and continued: "The witchcraft disaster ten years ago was the origin of everything."
Cheng Di stood up, looked at the bright moon outside the window, and said: "Ten years ago, an organization called the Lingmu Sect appeared in the Yiyifang of Kunzhou Prefecture. They worshiped a big tree. It is said that the big tree has
He has a pair of spiritual eyes that can distinguish between good and evil, can judge between life and death, and can also impart all kinds of strange powers to those he worships while looking at each other."
Cheng Di turned to look at Zhang Sui and said word by word: "The object of worship is a person's eyes! It doesn't matter if it's your own or someone else's!"
Dong Kuo sighed at the side: "During that time, people in the entire Yiyifang were in panic, and from time to time there would be people whose eyes were gouged out alive. It was so horrible to look at!"
Zhang Sui imagined that scene in his mind, and felt horrified.
Cheng Di said: "At that time, Wuwei Mansion received a report from someone. At first, they thought it was due to a private fight. But as more and more victims began to spread to the noble area, the commander of Wuwei Mansion who was responsible for the investigation at that time reported to Qingyi
Guardian Bulletin.”
Dong Kuo on the side explained to Zhang Sui: "Generally, cases are investigated by the Wuwei Prefecture first, and only when they encounter difficulties are they notified to the Qingyi Prefecture."
Zhang Sui knew clearly that this was the difference between ordinary civilian police and armed police.
Cheng Di glanced at Dong Kuo and said: "When my father received the report, the Wuwei Mansion did not report all the circumstances. It only said that it was suspected that there were ruthless bandits entrenched in Minyi Fang."
Dong Kuo on the side hurriedly defended: "My second brother was also kept in the dark. He believed the report from his subordinates and submitted it directly to Qingyi Mansion. It can only be regarded as an oversight."
Cheng Di ignored him and continued: "My father thought they were just a group of ordinary gangsters. Without making any preparations, he led two teams of green-clad guards to the Yiyi Square."
Cheng Di paused and said, "That was also the first time I fought with my father after joining the Tsing Yi Guards."
Cheng Di's face was full of memories and he said: "When we arrived at Youyi Fang, it was just when the sun was setting. The sunset that day was beautiful, dyeing the entire western sky with blood. When we broke into the secret den of the Lingmu Cult,
, they are holding a sacrifice."
Cheng Di's face gradually turned ferocious: "A group of people wearing long red clothes were worshiping a tree-shaped statue with a pair of black eyes. There was an altar in front of the statue, and there were at least a hundred eyes in it.
A pair of boys and girls, whose eyes have just been gouged out, are wailing in pain."
Cheng Di looked at Dong Kuo and said, "Brother Dong should be familiar with those two children, right?"
Dong Kuo said sadly: "That was the son of my eldest brother's concubine, and he was also my nephew. Unfortunately, after being rescued, he was too seriously injured and too frightened, so he died three days later. The eldest brother also ran away from Hanjiang Road.
well!"
Cheng Di said: "My father met his two nephews. When he saw that scene, he was furious and rushed over to rescue them from the hands of the two priests. However, he did not expect that the two priests had extremely weird abilities.
Use a spell to blind him and then drive the branch into his heart."
As he spoke, he took out a green branch from the dagger scabbard at his waist. It was only a foot long. The branch did not look sharp. What was strange was that there were still a few leaves on it, as if it were still alive.
.
Even from a distance, Zhang Sui could feel the spiritual energy and a hint of doomed power emanating from the branches.
Cheng Di held the branch tightly, and the veins in his hands bulged due to too much force.
Cheng Di gritted his teeth and said: "In just two breaths, all the blood in my father's body was sucked dry by this branch. It's a pity that he has martial arts skills in Kunzhou Prefecture. When faced with such evil things, he has no way to fight back."
Power, instant death!"
When Dong Kuo and Zhang Sui heard this, their faces were heavy.
Cheng Di then said with a sinister smile: "Maybe the priest was not skilled enough. After plotting against my father, he collapsed to the ground. The other priest also tried to grab the branch, but I killed him with an arrow.
The brothers at the back also reacted. The remaining congregants in red were a group of crazy people. Seeing that the priest was killed, they all attacked us. Although their fighting strength was not bad, they were facing our green-clad guards.
It’s just a matter of how long it takes, and in the end we will kill them all.”
Zhang Sui's heart moved and he asked Cheng Di, "Can you show me that branch?"
Cheng Di did not hesitate and handed the branch directly to Zhang Sui's hands.
Zhang Sui took the branch and squeezed it gently. He found that the branch was as hard as iron. When he increased his strength, there was no damage to the branch.
What's even more strange is that Zhang Sui can clearly feel the power of calamity and the power of pure spirit contained in the branches. The two powers seem to be entangled together and are constantly flowing around a place that seems to be the core of the branches.
The branch seemed to have emotions. Zhang Sui could feel it when he took it in his hands, just like the jujube tree at home, but he didn't know if this was the instinct of the branch or something else.
Zhang Sui hesitated for a moment, but did not absorb the power in the branch. He stretched out his hand to return the branch to Cheng Di and said to him: "Commander Cheng, please keep this section of the branch well. It may have some strange powers, but it has not been revealed yet."
come out."
Cheng Di took the branch, nodded, put the branch back into the scabbard, and hung it back on his waist.
Then he said: "Later, I took my father's trusted guards and based on the trajectory of those crazy people, we traced it to a village called Lingguang Village in Weishan Mountain, which is the secluded place that Mr. Zhang said.
At that time, Lingguang Village was not as inaccessible as it is now, but those who entered would be affected to some extent, but it was not a big problem. In that village, the strange big tree was discovered, a big tree with eyes.
!”
Cheng Di paused for a while and then continued: "When we tracked down there, there were two groups of people confronting each other. One was the Lingmu Sect in red clothes, and the other seemed to be a martial arts sect, but we had never seen it before.
The number of people in the Lingmu Sect is far greater than that of that sect, but that sect is not inferior at all, and its skills are quite powerful. When the group of martial arts people saw our arrival, they quickly retreated, leaving only the group of Lingmu Sect facing us.
us.
I wanted to retreat at that time, after all, the number of Tsing Yi Guards I brought with me was too small, but those Lingmu believers seemed to have received some instructions and suddenly fled in all directions when they had the upper hand.
Seeing this opportunity, I pursued them one after another and killed nearly a hundred people with my bodyguards. Unfortunately, I could not find the leader in the end. Since then, I have never seen the Spiritual Eyes cultist again."
Cheng Di picked up a cup of cold tea on the table and drank it in one gulp to moisten his throat.
Then he said: "Later, after the follow-up people arrived, we returned to the Lingguang Village and found their village chief, and then we learned something about the situation.
The strange tree in the village suddenly appeared on a night of thunder and lightning, followed immediately by the appearance of the Lingmu believers. At first, the villagers were just curious and ignored them, but later some people in the village also joined them inexplicably.
The people who joined seemed to have changed and their behavior became strange, and then the people in the village stayed away from that group of people."
When Cheng Di said this, he stopped, turned to Dong Kuo and said, "It's up to you to tell Mr. Zhang what's next."
Dong Kuo nodded helplessly and said: "Later, we reported the situation of the strange tree to the court, and the court quickly sent several Taoist priests to take over the matter. Those two Taoist priests didn't know what they did to the tree.
Soon the tree began to bear fruit. Two Taoist priests took away the fruits and asked my father to send someone to guard it.
But that village became more and more strange. There were always people secretly throwing sacrifices, fruits, livestock, and even human trunks into the big tree, but the person who threw them was never caught.
The people living there would always go crazy without warning, and even the soldiers guarding there were no exception. Some had drastically changed their temperaments and became extremely bloodthirsty. In the end, there was no other way but to move out the entire village.
, find another place to settle.
We just sent people to guard the perimeter and sent people in to pick the fruits once a year, but nothing happened afterwards."
Dong Kuo took a breath and said, "It's just since the year before last that things started to go wrong. The village became extremely weird, the whole village became dark and gloomy, and even the day looked like night.
People who go in feel like they have been inside for a long time, but people outside just see them coming out immediately after entering. Since last year, no one can go in to pick the fruits of that strange tree, because they can't find them after entering.
Arrive at the tree.
Later, the imperial court sent people over to check, but in the end it was nothing. They just ordered that they should be strictly guarded and no one should be let in casually. At the same time, the information should be sealed so that ordinary people should not know about it. "
Cheng Di interjected from the side: "But you still let people in, and finally caused a big disaster."
When Dong Kuo heard this, he became a little angry and said angrily: "Then what do you want me to do? That guy's father is the imperial censor. Don't you know his virtues, that old guy? He is famous for protecting his shortcomings. I
My father is not willing to offend him easily, so it would be better for you to just scare his precious son crazy. If my father hadn't shamed himself and stepped forward, do you think you could have easily passed the test and firmly secured your position as commander?"
Cheng Di was silent when he heard this. For a long time, he said bitterly: "If the same thing happens again, I will never hold back!"
Dong Kuo raised his forehead and sighed: "Okay, I know you are a ruthless Commander Cheng, so you don't have to show it to me!"
Zhang Sui was itching to listen and couldn't help but ask: "I see that you two have a very good relationship in private. What is it that makes you constantly fight with each other?"
Dong Kuo snorted coldly and said, "Let him speak for himself!"
Cheng Di said expressionlessly: "Tong Xiao, the son of Tong Yushi, came to Kunzhou with a few guards. I didn't know who told him about the Youli Land, so he wanted to go and see it.
Dong Kuo let them in. When they came out, everything seemed normal at first. But as soon as they returned to Kunzhou, two of his guards went crazy and injured more than a dozen innocent passers-by. I led the green-clad guards and killed them in the street.
Kill him, blood splattered all over Tong Xiao, and he went crazy with fear on the spot."
Dong Kuo said helplessly on the side: "Can't you capture them and punish them? Even if you take Tong Xiao away and then kill the two guards, it will be fine! I know that guy has a bad mouth, but I have to
Does it feel good to splatter him with blood? The result is good, people are crazy!"
Cheng Di argued: "First of all, the situation was urgent at that time, and the situation of the two people became more and more cruel and fierce. Secondly, I didn't expect that bratty boy to be so cowardly. And who knows whether the guy went crazy because he was scared or because he was frightened.
It was affected by the secluded land. Didn’t it recover in the end?”
He said to Zhang Sui: "He is the guy who I told you was slapped awake by a Taoist."