"Junior brother Jiang Li, please don't be angry. This is all a misunderstanding. We are all from the same sect. How can we fight each other with swords? It's better to put away the magic weapon quickly."
Guo An, who regarded himself as the "Senior Brother of the Outer Sect", also walked over from a distance at this time. He was accompanied by several other disciples who were in the later stages of Qi training.
He said empty and kind words, but it could be regarded as easing the conflict between the two parties.
Of course, the fact is that although both sides look fierce on the outside, in fact, they both believe that they will definitely not be able to fight, and neither of them wants to actually fight.
Then Guo An gave everyone a step up, so he naturally reduced the major issue to a trivial matter and put away his weapons.
"Those fellow apprentices, please move aside so as not to scare my guests. There are quite a few of them, and their efficiency in finding people can be compared to fifty fellow apprentices."
Jiang Li said so, and they couldn't say much.
Because the purpose of this "Outer Sect Competition" is different, in addition to the competitive relationship, the more critical thing is to find the defecting monks.
If they sabotage each other and engage in vicious competition, they may be beaten to death.
Jiang Li let them sit in the inn, and gave some words of comfort to the little monsters present, and compensated them with some gold and silver, making these monsters enthusiastic again.
"Senior brothers, please tell me what's going on?"
We sat together and had a cup of tea, and a few of them had a pair of messages in their hands.
It was discovered that eleven people had disappeared last night, and most of them had witnesses who said they were summoned away in public.
And the most horrifying thing is that the people who called them away were all among these eleven people. They were like a solitaire, deceiving people one by one out of the sight of others, and then disappeared.
"They won't all rebel, right?"
Someone speculated so.
"How is it possible? The entire Yunxi City is now surrounded by the sect elders. Isn't rebelling now just asking for death?"
In fact, let alone now, the behavior of the twelve people who defected before, led by Elder Duan Shuang, was not much different from seeking death.
How long can we escape with such a dragnet?
"That's also possible. It's controlled."
There are many methods in the world of cultivating immortals. It is not a strange thing to control several Qi-refining stage disciples. This statement was quickly accepted by everyone.
But this fact also made the outer disciples panic even more.
It turns out that they are not only hunting the defecting disciples, but the defecting disciples are also hunting them in an organized and planned way!
This is terrifying. Among the defecting disciples, except for one Yu Banxia, all the others have a crushing level of combat power against the outer disciples like them.
Normally, there is no chance of winning in a collision. All we can do is pray for a cloud-piercing arrow and thousands of troops to meet us.
But at this time, if you also add the prerequisite of being attacked by surprise, then the difficulty will have to jump up a few steps.
"Then what should we do? Are we just going to wait here to die?"
"They have the means to control the monks. Then we won't even be able to trust the brothers around us!"
"Why don't we report it to the sect and ask the sect to let us out? We won't be able to find them at all."
"Hmph, did the sect leave us a messenger spirit stone? And it was originally meant for us to come in and deliver... to carry out the task. How could it be interrupted just for a small loss?"
The conversation between the outer disciples was full of negative connotations.
Jiang Li sat aside and didn't speak for a long time.
Because from the time we sat at the table until now, no one has ever mentioned the massive death of the population in the city.
Since early this morning, Jiang Li and the others have exchanged a large amount of silver and property. According to this conversion, the number of souls he has received in the past few hours has at least exceeded one hundred thousand!
That means the death of 100,000 people in a short period of time!
The death population of this kind of data directly accounts for a quarter of the entire city's population.
The whole city is covered with plain paper money, which is all light. Even if the whole city is now under martial law, and the doors and windows of every house are closed, no one can move around.
But the more than five hundred monks in the Qi Refining Stage are not fools. Their search cannot be just walking on the street. Searching door to door is the most basic operation.
One hundred thousand corpses... Even if they were all buried in the ground, the large area of vacant buildings was quite suspicious. There was no way it could be hidden from the monks' eyes.
But now, no one has mentioned such a big thing on the table, which is strange.
Then there is only one explanation... The outer disciples here are all fools!
Jiang Li immediately asked them a few indirect questions, but quickly overturned the conclusion that was finally reached.
It seems that there are no large-scale empty houses in this city, and there are basically living people living in them.
He looked at the running water table outside and felt a little unbelievable.
Everyone in the city is still alive, so where did these souls come from? Did they fall from the sky?
"Brothers, look at these three people. They are different from the other eight people. They all went out alone and then disappeared. Maybe we should start investigating them."
Jiang Li rubbed his head and put aside his thoughts, pointed out the three people on the missing list, and said so.
"Oh? Junior Brother Jiang Li, what do you say?"
Others were also giving up on themselves, but when they heard Jiang Li had an opinion, they all looked over.
"If you look at the order in which they disappeared, the former deceived the latter. But these three are different. They were the beginning of the missing group, and no one saw anyone calling them away."
"According to Senior Brother Guo An, these three people suddenly disappeared while on patrol. So is it possible that the place where the three of them were patrolling and searching was the hiding place of the defecting disciples?"
"Perhaps they were captured accidentally because they bumped into a defecting disciple."
Jiang Li gave this guess.
"It's worth a try."
Everyone's expressions were a little excited and a little solemn.
After all, even if you find your target, whether it is a good thing or a bad thing remains to be determined.
The locations of the three missing targets were not the same, so they began to discuss distribution matters.
But Jiang Li didn't intend to explore with them. He had his own plans.
"Junior Brother Jiang Li, are you really not going with us?"
Before leaving, Guo An still made a pretentious invitation, expressing his regret that Jiang Li could not come with him.
Jiang Li bowed his hands and sent them away.
After getting their information, Jiang Li felt that it was still necessary for him to go out and investigate for himself.
Before he left, he once again explained what was going on at the Flowing Seat. Since the gold and silver exchange office was not qualified for ordinary people, and because one of his subordinates was missing, the manpower was now stretched thin.
Jiang Li spent a "heavy sum of money" to invite a rat in a red coat who could only talk and asked him to help "cash the cashier".
After making sure that the place was running well and nothing would happen for the time being, Jiang Li left and jumped into a nearby residential courtyard.
Jiang Li pushed open the door. The solid wood door bolt was like paper. It broke easily and did not have any blocking effect.
"Master Immortal, have mercy on me! Master Immortal, have mercy on me!"
"Young man, you don't know anything!"
Then Jiang Li saw two people in the room quickly getting up from the bed, squatting together with their heads in their hands, shouting for mercy.
Is the Immortal Master so terrifying? It seems that his group of fellow disciples are quite domineering in this city.
Jiang Li complained here, as if he had forgotten what he had done, and it was not much better at all.
[Name: Wang Darong, gender: male, age 61, occupation: none, level: none, risk level: none]
Jiang Li was stunned for a moment as he threw away two identification techniques.
These two people were clearly sleeping together just now. Sixty-one and sixteen, this is really a heinous crime.
"Hey, get up and answer a few questions for me."
Jiang Li asked happily.
"Little old man, I don't know anything! Little old man, I don't know anything! Master Immortal Master, have mercy on me! Master Immortal Master, have mercy on me!"
However, those who responded to him still had the same two sentences. It seemed that nothing could be learned from them.
Jiang Li had no choice but to leave, and jumped directly onto the roof, flying over eaves and walls for several blocks, and found another house to drop down at.
This time, he was afraid of scaring others again, so he didn't break in directly, but knocked on the door politely.
After a while, someone came to open the door, but as soon as the door opened, when the person saw Jiang Li, he immediately ran to the corner, squatted down, held his head, and kept repeating that sentence.
"Master Immortal, have mercy on me! Master Immortal, have mercy on me!"
Maybe some people are just timid, Jiang Li thought.
He looked around for a few more people nearby, and finally met someone who dared to talk to him.
As soon as the door opens.
When an old lady saw Jiang Li's clothes, she roared angrily, picked up the broom on the side, and hit Jiang Li.
"You damn beast, I'll fight you!"
What kind of person is Jiang Li? How could he be hit by a broom?
He jumped past the old lady and rushed directly into the door, only to see a young girl covering her broken clothes, kneeling on the ground and covering her face, crying.
No need for them to explain what happened, Jiang Li already understood.
Without saying anything else, he left a silver ingot on the table and left the courtyard.
Jiang Li ran around in the city, randomly selecting a house to check in.
But it is true that, as other outer disciples said, there was no widespread death or emptiness in this city.
The development of things made Jiang Li even more worried.
until...
"Master Immortal Master, have mercy on me! Master Immortal Master, please have mercy on me!"
"Father! Mom! It's Lian'er! Don't you know Lian'er?"
"We know nothing! We know nothing!"
Jiang Li's figure landed on a courtyard wall, and before he appeared, such a voice could already be heard in his ears.
He raised his eyebrows and chose to continue watching calmly.
In the courtyard below, two middle-aged couples and a servant were squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands, begging for mercy.
But the people in front of them were not the outer disciples of the Sutra Valley, but a young woman in a red dress and a maidservant beside her.