"Let me tell you, they robbed families and poor families. There were many humans and few monsters." Peach Demon Lao Huang said.
They were referring to the martial artists who were deceived by Bai Gaoxing and not only avenged the Rakshasa Bird, but also eventually became enemies of the monsters in Peony City.
They are now wandering around, making a living by robbing homes and homes.
"Are you really ready to recruit them?" Lao Huang asked Bai Gaoxing.
Bai happily nodded, "It's precisely because these people are evil that we have to bring them here for our use. In this way, no matter how hard you try, even if the whole army is annihilated, you won't feel that you can't live with it. Instead, you will feel that it is
We have eliminated harm for the people.”
Lao Huang looked at Bai Gaoxing in disbelief, "You want to win them over just to make them miserable? Who did you learn this from? This is too bad."
Bai happily said: "Of course I learned it from the shopkeeper."
"I don't think the shopkeeper is as bad as you." Lao Huang said.
He must never speak ill of Shopkeeper Yu.
If shopkeeper Yu's spirit occasionally crosses his path, and he hears him saying good things about the shopkeeper, he might praise him.
Bai was happy, "The shopkeeper is much worse than me. The most I can do is use evil people, but it would be better for him to just let the bad people never reincarnate."
He pointed at Lao Huang, "Aren't you just an example?"
"I..." Lao Huang was speechless.
"By the way." Bai Gaoxing asked him, "Have they found Atai?"
Lao Huang shook his head, "I don't know. I guess they fled into the mountains and forests. I didn't know you had come out."
On the second day after they came back, Bai Gaoxing and Rakshasa offered spiritual spring water to them for the rest of their lives. After successfully rescuing Peony, the city lord was released. After coming out, Bai Gaoxing felt that he wanted to enter the Central Plains for the rest of his life.
I made preparations in advance, so I spent all my savings to buy this inn.
"Where's Lao Luo?" Lao Huang looked around. He had been sitting for a while, but no Rakshasa bird came out.
"I went out to find out the news." Bai Gaoxing said.
Rakshasa birds are monsters and can easily move around Peony City.
"What news are you looking for?" Lao Huang wondered.
Is there anything he doesn't know about in Peony City?
"The Chishang Village Massacre Case." Bai Gaoxing said.
Lao Huang knows about this case.
This case happened half a month ago. A village was slaughtered overnight. When people from the neighboring village went in the next day, they found that most of the people in the village died peacefully without any signs of struggle. Only a few people died.
The pupils are dilated and the eyes remain closed.
People from neighboring villages were frightened and reported the case, but the lord of Mudan City just sent a few city guards over to take a look and ignored it.
Who slaughtered the entire village overnight, leaving no chickens or dogs behind? Half a month has passed and there is still no answer.
"I later asked the city lord to find out more about this case. The city lord thought it was probably the murder of a passing monster. There is nothing wrong with this case." Old Huang said.
The people and monsters in the city thought so too.
In the Central Plains, humans are like ants and lives are like grass. If a demon god wants to kill a village of people, it is just a matter of using their brains.
Bai Gaoxing felt that this case was unusual.
If nothing else, "It's easy to kill a village, but it takes a lot of effort to do it so quietly. What do you mean the murderer wanted to go through so much trouble to kill a whole village?" Bai Gaoxing asked.
In addition, Chishang Village is also valuable to the Peony City Lord. The village is close to a valley, and flowers are often blooming in the valley. Chishang Village has provided many famous flowers and exotic herbs to the Peony City Lord. The Peony City Lord cares about flowers and plants, which makes them happy.
It's a personal experience.
In such a village, the owner of Peony City just ignored it and didn't conduct an in-depth investigation?
In short, there are many doubts.
Bai Gaoxing stopped Lao Huang from asking.
"Could it be that this vicious monster has a grudge against our city lord, but he doesn't dare to let us know about it?" Lao Huang guessed.
Bai happily shook his head, "If it's to take revenge on your city lord, it should make your city lord heartache. What is your city lord's reaction now?"
"That's right." Lao Huang nodded.
The inn became quiet, and the two of them pondered each other.
Suddenly, Lao Huang slammed the table, "I know!"
The monster eating at the door of the inn cast his gaze over again.
"Keep your voice down." Bai Gaoxing glared at him and smiled at the guest, indicating that nothing was wrong.
Lao Huang lowered his voice, "I have been studying the Thirty-six Stratagems written by the shopkeeper recently, and I feel that the monster's trick is called the Empty City Strategy!"
"What's the meaning?"
"It's just to empty the city so that we don't have to worry about others calling us," said Lao Huang.
Bai Gaoxing was stunned. Is this a fucking plan?
"How about it? You must be stunned by the shopkeeper's intelligence." Old Huang said with a smile, "This move is enough to make one invincible."
"What does this have to do with the massacre of the village?" Bai Xingxing asked him curiously.
"Isn't the village all empty?" Lao Huang also felt it was a bit ridiculous. He scratched his head and smiled.
"Idiot." Bai Gaoxing couldn't help but give him two words.
"This is a strategy written in the shopkeeper's book. If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense." Lao Huang despised Bai Gaoxing.
"Okay, okay." Bai Gaoxing was too lazy to tangle with him and ordered: "Go and make some insinuations. I think your city lord may not know who did it. Also, check other cities and see.
Have there been massacres of villages in other places?"
"Okay, you stay at home and wait for my news."
Lao Huang agreed, stood up, and picked up the sword on the table, "Then I'll leave first. I still have to teach them arithmetic."
Bai Gaoxing raised his head and said, "Teach your sister, now I don't even know how to settle the score."
This group of monsters settling scores in Peony City is beyond common sense.
Every day when paying the bills, Bai Gaoxing had to argue with them, which made him very anxious.
Old Huang said: "I am doing this to better complete my undercover mission. Do you think that if I suddenly get better at arithmetic, that won't arouse suspicion?"
"For the sake of the shopkeeper, I am willing to make the same mistake again and again!" Lao Huang finished his sentence and turned to leave.
Bai Gaoxing shook his head, put away the wine glass, suddenly remembered something, ran to the door and shouted: "Commander Huang, you haven't paid yet."
Old Huang didn't even look back, "When the hell did you ever see our city guards pay after eating at a human inn?"
This tone, this self-confidence, this arrogant demeanor can be seen as the attitude of the monsters in the city towards the lower-class humans.
In order not to destroy Lao Huang's undercover, Bai Xingxin returned to the inn angrily.
He comforted himself in his mind: "Never mind it, this inn was paid for by Lao Huang anyway."
Not long after Lao Huang left, Rakshasa returned to the inn.
She grabbed a glass of wine and drank it in one gulp.
Bai Gaoxing handed her another glass, "Have you checked?"
The Rakshasa bird shook his head and lowered his voice and said: "The monsters around the village don't know who committed the murder. But based on their guesses and my observations, I feel that this may not be the hand of a monster or a demon god.
"
"Who did it?"
"Ghost!" said the Rakshasa Bird, "Only ghosts can kill these people silently. Also, those people who were still hanging on to death did not struggle, and there were no wounds or poison on the bodies, so they could only be killed by
Something evil like a ghost is attacking."
Bai nodded happily, which was true.
He himself is a master of catching monsters, and he knows the monsters' habit of doing things, and they will never let people die so peacefully.
"I have asked Lao Huang to investigate again." Bai Gaoxing said.
Whether this is an accident, or there is another conspiracy, or ghosts or demons are at work, it will become clear after a while.
"Have you eaten yet?" Bai Gaoxing asked after regaining consciousness, "Can I get you a bowl of noodles?"
"Don't bother." Rakshasa waved her hands hurriedly, not wanting to compliment Bai Gaoxing's cooking skills.