Chapter one hundred and seventy-four the cannibal god
Two hundred miles south of the capital.
Sui Zhi wore a mask, rode on a horse, and looked at the collapsed hills.
The hill was originally more than 80 feet high (about 200 meters), but now there are only less than 30 hills (less than 70 meters) left.
A masked man next to him said to Sui Zhi: "Da Sima, we were careless."
"So what if you're not careless? I'm just asking you to die," Sui Zhi sighed softly, "Have you seen the face of the person coming?"
The masked man shook his head: "He acted too quickly. When we rushed over, we only saw smoke and dust everywhere, and a white light flashed in the smoke, and the man disappeared."
"How is the condition of the Lord God?"
"I have been waiting for a long time, but there is no response, and I don't know..."
The masked man wanted to say that he did not know whether he was dead or alive, but he was worried about being disrespectful to the God, so he did not dare to say it.
Sui Zhi urged his horse forward and came to the foot of the mountain, where he saw a group of believers kneeling towards the cave.
The masked man said: "I asked people to take blood food, and also asked the inner disciples to set up the altar, but the god never responded. I wonder if I can call more disciples..."
Sui Zhi's eyebrows trembled, and he raised a hand to signal the masked man to silence.
The masked man did not dare to speak, Sui Zhi listened to the sound of wind in the cave.
He leaned down and whispered to the masked man: "Go and call all the inner disciples back. The outer disciples are still far away. Leave some more money for the outer disciples and let them divide it among themselves."
"Da Sima, you know the ethics of heretic disciples. If you let them divide the money among themselves, I'm afraid they will start fighting in front of the Lord God."
"It's best to fight, so do it."
The masked man got two sacks of copper coins, which added up to two or three hundred coins. He placed them at the entrance of the cave and said, "This is a reward from the Great Sima to the disciples of the heretics. You can share it yourself."
A group of non-Taoist disciples looked at each other, but they did not dare to stretch out their hands when there were internal Taoist disciples present.
The masked man said: "Inner Taoist disciples come with me, Da Sima wants to give you a lecture!"
The inner disciples retreated one after another, leaving only more than a hundred outer disciples looking at the two sacks of copper coins.
A middle-aged man reached over, took out a bunch of money from the sack, and hid it in his arms.
A young man also took a bucket.
Others came forward to get it. An old man coughed hard. Everyone thought that the inner disciples were back and stopped.
The old man walked to the sack, suddenly lay down, and struggled to pack more clothes into his clothes. He loaded more than a dozen sacks in one go.
When the others saw this, they came to fight for it. The old man shouted loudly: "You don't know how to respect me? Do you want to squeeze me to death? You guys who are greedy for money will not die well!"
While he was scolding, he was stuffing copper coins into his arms. His clothes were torn, and someone came up to snatch them from him. The old man cursed: "You unscrupulous people, don't touch my money, you will die!"
More than a hundred non-Taoist disciples rushed to one place, and Sui Zhi led a group of internal Taoist disciples to watch quietly from a distance.
"How many of you have seen the God King show his power?"
A group of inner disciples looked at each other in confusion. All they knew was that they sent living people to the cave and never came out again. As for what it means to show one's power, they didn't understand either.
After waiting for a while, the collapsed hill suddenly trembled, and the cave that could originally accommodate the two of them slowly expanded, wrapping up the heretic disciples who were fighting for the copper coins.
A heretic disciple realized something was wrong. He looked up and saw that he had entered the cave entrance at some point.
He exclaimed and ran out of the cave entrance. Many people ran after him, and many people were still grabbing money with red eyes.
The old man was holding the sack and tying the copper coins one by one to his belt. Suddenly he saw a giant python coming in front of him and swept him and the coins deep into the cave.
The giant python flew back and forth, dragging everyone into the cave. The person running at the front finally rushed to the entrance of the cave, and the entrance suddenly tightened, trapping his upper body.
Half of the man's body was hanging outside the hill, shouting with all his strength.
Relax a little at the entrance of the cave and let the man climb out a little.
The hole tightened again and the man was sucked in.
The inner disciples stood behind Sui Zhi, trembling as they watched the scene just now.
Sui Zhi whispered to the masked man: "Open the altar tonight, take the Lord of Gods to the south, walk five hundred miles, and ask the inner disciples to go to nearby villages to collect more people. Everyone will find at least one. If there are even one
When he couldn't find them, he dedicated himself to the Lord God."
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Xu Zhiqiong rubbed his eyes and woke up in the bedroom.
Late at night, there was no candlelight in the house and it was pitch black.
Xu Zhiqiong struggled to get up, feeling that his limbs were limp and his whole body was weak.
This is nothing, the key is that I feel dizzy.
Following his master's instructions, he ate four hundred golden beans. He had no idea what happened next.
But he remembered one thing clearly.
Master was very weak at that time, so weak that he didn't even want to say a word.
He didn't talk about the speed and strength of the sixth level, nor what the sixth level skills were. These are not important. You can know the answer by asking Qian Limu.
What matters is how the master is doing.
Xu Zhiqiong gathered his attention at Baihui and got into the small dark room. He called for a while in the darkness, but there was no response.
Master must have fallen asleep. He said he would rest for a while.
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Xu Zhiqiong returned to the room, felt thirsty, and shouted: "Yang Wu, bring me some water!"
Yang Wu did not move.
This guy is really useless.
Xu Zhiqiong groped for a long time, but could not find the candlestick, and his eyesight had not fully recovered. He could only fumble his way out of the house and walked for a long time before reaching the door.
He thought about the location of the bed. It was in the right direction, but it felt like the room had become a lot bigger.
Pushing open the door and walking out, Xu Zhiqiong almost tripped over the table.
This is the outhouse.
There is also a lot more furniture in the outhouse.
After walking out of the outhouse, Xu Zhiqiong still couldn't see any light. He was still in the house.
There is another hall outside the outhouse.
This is strange.
The room feels bigger, maybe because my steps are slower.
I feel that there are too many furnitures, maybe Yang Wu, a prodigal, bought them.
But why did the architectural pattern change?
After walking out of the hall, Xu Zhiqiong finally arrived at the yard. Looking through the moonlight, he found a pond in front of the door.
Who built the pond so close to me? If I wasn’t careful...
Plop, plop, plop...
Yang Wu swam up from the pond, picked off his head full of water plants, wiped his face and said: "I always forget that there is a pond here. When I heard you calling me, I rushed over. You are finally awake. You
I’ve been sleeping for two whole days.”
Xu Zhiqiong looked around at this gorgeous yard. In addition to the pond, there was also a rockery, and there was a pavilion next to the rockery.
"What is this place?"
Yang Wudao: "I don't know. I was here as soon as I woke up. Anyway, the table and chairs where I slept are still there. It should still be our original yard. I just don't know why it turned into this way."
"This is not the Yilangyuan!"
"It is indeed not called Yilangyuan. The plaque at the door has been changed and it is called Zhonglangyuan."
Xu Zhiqiong followed Yang Wu to the outside of the yard. After walking out of the backyard, there was a garden. After walking out of the garden, he arrived at the main courtyard. Yang Wu made tea for Xu Zhiqiong. Xu Zhiqiong drank tea and ate snacks.
With some strength, he followed Yang Wu and walked out. After walking out of the main courtyard, there was another garden. Yang Wu named it the front garden: "Be careful where you step, there is also a pond here."
We walked through the front garden before arriving at the front yard. After exiting the front yard, we finally arrived at the main entrance. There was a plaque hanging on the main entrance. Under the moonlight, three large characters were eye-catching - Zhonglang Courtyard!
Xu Zhiqiong laughed!
I chose the right councilor at that time. This is much bigger than the Zhonglangyuan in the Punishment Department.
Yang Wu said from the side: "You just saw that the several courtyards are the main courtyard. You haven't seen the side courtyards and cross courtyards on both sides. They are all grand and beautiful. Please ask Chang Decai to come back quickly. I can't take care of it by myself."
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Xu Zhiqiong slapped his head: "You just said how many days I slept?"
Yang Wudao: "It's been two days since I woke up. I slept all day long that day, and I don't know what you did at that time."
Xu Zhiqiong quickly left Yilangyuan. Chang Decai and Han Chen had been together under the same roof for almost three days. Who can guarantee that nothing will happen to them?
Back home, Xu Zhiqiong saw a scene that he couldn't let go.
Chang Decai was lying on the bed.
Han Chen made a memorial tablet for him and was burning incense for him.
In the past, when he was an Immortal Soul, Chang Decai could find a house at random and inhale a few breaths of essence to survive. If he could occupy a yard, it would be equivalent to finding a long-term meal ticket.
But after becoming Xu Zhiqiong's servant, he could no longer do this kind of business and could only live by incense like Yang Wu.
Ghosts cannot offer incense to themselves. During the days when Xu Zhiqiong was away, he and Yang Wu would offer incense to each other. One piece of fine sandalwood was enough for Yang Wu to last for three to five days, and he lay in Yilangyuan like before.
If it doesn't move inside, it can last for seven or eight days without any problem.
But Chang De was not good enough. He was not a ghost of the same level as Yang Wu. His consumption was much greater. He had to eat two sandalwood pills with each meal, which could last for at most two days.
Previously, he helped Xu Zhiqiong look after Shi Shuangliu and stayed in the mortal world for a whole day without eating. Xu Zhiqiong fell into a coma for two more days. Chang Decai stayed at Xu Zhiqiong's house until he fainted from hunger.
Now Han Chen has prepared the memorial tablet and offered incense to Changdecai. Needless to say, the reason why.
"Brother Han, you know everything."
Han Chen smiled: "I knew Miss Chang's identity from the first day I met her. Han is not a secular person to begin with, so why should Brother Xu be secretive?
Miss Chang hadn't had any incense for three days and was so hungry that she couldn't stand still, but she refused to leave. She said that just because of Brother Xu's instructions, she could starve to death without a single complaint. With such a close friend in life, what else could she ask for?
?”
Chang Decai looked at Xu Zhiqiong and said, "Master, our family has been embarrassed by you."
Xu Zhiqiong shook his head and said: "I was too careless. Brother Han really loves you, otherwise you would just obey..."
"Master!" Chang Decai gritted his teeth and turned away, "Stop talking."
Han Chen smiled and said: "Don't embarrass Miss Chang, Han will never change his infatuation and is willing to wait for her forever!"
Chang Decai was about to cry but had no tears when Shi Shuangliu walked into the room: "Brother Xu, are you hungry? I'll heat up some food for you."
This girl is quite considerate.
And his cooking skills are pretty good.
Xu Zhiqiong ate a few side dishes and two bowls of rice, and then asked an important matter: "Where is your father's body?"
"In the Ministry of Punishment, it has been burned."
"Burned?"
Shi Shuangliu nodded: "The master from the prison of the Ministry of Punishment said that the case has been decided and asked me to pay for the burial of the whole family. I said that the money was all at home and asked them to get it. They said that they did not find the money.
They burned them all, put the ashes in jars, and buried them anywhere. I asked them where they buried them, and they said that I was about to die too, and there was no point in telling me."
The prison head of the Criminal Department was too dark. He swallowed the money, burned the body, and probably even confiscated the ashes.
Shi Fu is the pavilion master of the Nufu Sect and a disciple of the inner Taoist religion. He also planted a very key tree, which proves that he has some important information about the Nufu Sect.
But now that the body has been burned, his clue has been cut off.
Then we can only check it from another clue.
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After midnight, Xu Zhiqiong bought some wine and food at Dieying Tower in the west of the city, and went to the city gate to see Wu Shanxing.
Wu Shanxing was very happy: "I heard that you were promoted to a red lantern man. I thought you had forgotten my poor brother."
"What are you talking about? How could I forget you, brother? If you hadn't come to save me that day, I would have died in the hands of King Huai."
The two drank a few drinks together, and Wu Shanxing lowered his voice and said, "I don't know if I should ask, how did you come back to life?"
Xu Zhiqiong gave a wry smile and said: "These days, everyone I meet asks about this. Brother, I really don't hide it from you. I really don't know. I just fell asleep for a while, and then I woke up and found that I
Lying in a coffin, the lid of the coffin was dug open by King Huai!"
Wu Shanxing laughed when he heard this. After laughing, he sighed repeatedly: "Zhiqiong, I admire you from the bottom of my heart. You killed that beast Liang Yuming and sought justice for Minister Wu and for the 20,000 people in the capital.
On the night of the Hanako Festival, thousands of people dressed as beggars went to Baihu Mountain to worship you. The whole city lit up lanterns to see you off. I guess the true God was moved by sincerity and made you come back to life. A good man will stand upright and live like you.
This is called a life worth living."
Xu Zhiqiong laughed: "Senior Brother Wu, you have given me a prize, you really have given me a prize...wait a minute!"
His smile solidified, Xu Zhiqiong asked: "Senior Brother Wu, did you just say how many people went to Baihu Mountain to worship me?"
"If there is not a thousand, there are eight hundred! I guard this city gate every day, can I still see it wrong?"
Xu Zhiqiong remained silent.
There were almost a hundred beggars who came to worship him that day, and Xu Zhiqiong would never be wrong about this.
There is an order of magnitude difference between a hundred people and a thousand people.
Xu Zhiqiong smiled and said: "Aren't they all going to worship me for the Flower Festival? They must have gone out to make flowers!"
Wu Shanxing shook his head and said: "What are you hiding from me? Those beggars were picked up by carriages when they went out. If it wasn't to worship you, who would use the carriage to pick up the beggars?"
Xu Zhiqiong was stunned.
Where did the carriage come from?
No carriage was seen that night.
It’s not convenient to go up the mountain in a horse-drawn carriage!
Where were these beggars taken?
While he was thinking about it, a soldier brought a jar of wine and handed it to Wu Shanxing: "Sir, the wine is here."
Wu Shanxing opened the seal and said with a smile: "I can't buy any good wine with my small salary. Don't be dissatisfied. Let us brothers have a good time!"
Xu Zhiqiong took the jar and smelled it: "The Milu from Liangzhaoyuanzi, I dare to say that this is not a good wine. Senior brother, you are too polite."
Wu Shanxing laughed and said: "The wine is too bad to be worthy of Xu Hongdeng!"
"Don't just let us two drink. Come on, brother, come and sit down together!" Xu Zhiqiong called the sergeant who bought the wine over.
The sergeant didn't dare to sit down. Xu Zhiqiong frowned and said, "Why, why don't you give me face?"
Wu Shanxing said: "Xu Qianhu asks you to sit down, so you sit down!"
The sergeant wanted to sit next to Wu Shanxing, but Xu Zhiqiong pulled him over: "Brother, sit next to me. I have noticed you for a long time."
After saying that, Xu Zhiqiong hugged the sergeant's shoulder.
Wu Shanxing was startled: "Zhiqiong, are you... drinking too much?"
Xu Zhiqiong smiled and said, "I didn't drink too much. I have always liked this brother. Look how fair his little face is."
After saying that, Xu Zhiqiong touched the sergeant's face, and the sergeant's face turned red with embarrassment.
Xu Zhiqiong stroked his hair again and took the opportunity to pull out two hairs.